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2nd Corinthians chapter one. Let us pray.
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You are holy, You are worthy, You are awesome indeed.
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And in might, Father God, we come to you today expectant.
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We know that you can, Father. So we ask.
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We are asking that you will heal us today.
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God, heal our bodies today. Father, in the mighty name of
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Jesus Christ, take out disease, take out cancer.
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God, take out diabetes. God, take out hypertension and
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heart disease. God, take away epilepsy in the
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name of Jesus Christ. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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that you will take away disease, Father, from out of our bodies.
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Anything that is caused by an unclean, foul spirit, God cast
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it out. Father, cast it as far as the
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east is from the West. God cast it into the judgment,
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Father, that you have awaiting for it In the name of Jesus
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Christ is the only power Lord. So we pray in that name, in the
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name of Jesus, God, get rid of any that does not belong.
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God, I pray for sound minds. God, I pray against mental
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illness, Lord, and addiction. God, I pray against the spirit
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of alcoholism and drug addiction.
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God, I pray against the abuse of narcotics, Lord, and I pray
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right now, Lord, that you will give us sound bodies and sound
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minds. God, I pray that you will give
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us ministries and use the misery that we have gone through for
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your glory, Father, and your glory alone.
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Lord, open up our eyes to your wonderful words.
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Open up our minds and our hearts, God, as we open up your
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word, God, I pray that we'll hide it in our hearts so that we
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might not sin against you. Lord Jesus Christ, you are our
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everything. You are our All in all.
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You're the very breath in our lungs.
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And we are sold out to you. And we're asking that you,
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Father, will father us and father us well, God, be the one
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that we think of when we wake up.
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Help us to fall in love with you more.
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God. Let us be.
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Let you be the last thing on our minds, God.
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We want to be your laid down, sold out lovers.
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We want to be the bride. We want to make ourselves ready.
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We fill up our oil, God. We fill up our lamps, God, We're
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asking for the Holy Spirit to fill us today in the mighty name
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of Jesus Christ. Overflowing today.
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God, power from on high. God, fresh wind and fresh fire
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in this camp, God, for you are holy and you are worthy and you
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are everything. Yahweh, Yeshua the Hamasiah is
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spirit to Santos. We love you, King Jesus, and
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it's in your holy and precious name that I pray, Amen.
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Let's start in verse one, Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by
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the will of God and Timothy our brother unto the Church of God
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which is at Corinth with all the Saints which are in all Achaea.
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So here Paul is introducing himself along with his Co worker
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old Timothy who was like a son to him.
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And you can see here that God called Paul to be an apostle.
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Paul didn't choose to be an apostle.
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He was on his way persecuting the early church, murdering them
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and causing them to blasphemy God.
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And then all of a sudden God got a hold of him and God chose him
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to be an apostle and he walked in that calling and in the
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identity. This was not a self-made
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proclamation. This was not a title that he
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would have chosen. He was fine being a Pharisee of
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the Pharisees, friends in the school of Gamaliel and he was a
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learned educated man. And here he is.
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He is now deemed to be ignorant because he is trying to push a
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beaten, murdered, crucified man who claimed to be the Son of God
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to grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the
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Lord Jesus Christ. So that is what Jesus is.
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It's grace and grace that abounds.
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When you come to the Lord Jesus Christ, you will get showered
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with grace and you can never outpace His grace.
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Friends three, blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord
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Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all
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comfort. That is what you find when you
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come to God Almighty as He comforts you friends, and it is
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knowing that you are in right standing with Him and that if
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you were to die today that you would spend eternity with Him is
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the greatest comfort that a human being could ever receive.
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And that is a picture of grace. And it is not by works that we
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are saved, but it is by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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And He chose us. Before the foundations of the
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earth. We were predestined friends, and
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He knows who belongs to Him, and He is going to get us and win us
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over to Himself, and we are already seated with Him in
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heavenly places. Friends, it is comfort and it is
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grace and it is blessings, for who comforts us in all of our
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tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any
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trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of
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God. Do you see it, friends?
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Comfort, comfort and more comfort.
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And a lot of the persecutions and a lot of the things, the
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trials and tribulations and a lot of the situations that we
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are placed in, God allows in our lives so that when we're on the
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other side of it, we can look back.
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And as others are going through the same situations, we have the
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ability to comfort them. Look at how the Lord works.
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We are His hands and feet. And how would we know how to
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comfort those who are grieving? If we have not grieved, how
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would we know how to go through the things that other people go
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through if we have not gone through them, friends, if we
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cannot give them any kind of advice?
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That is why the Lord allows things in our lives to
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strengthen us so that we can turn and comfort others.
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Friends 54 As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
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consolation also abounds by Christ.
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So you can see these two things getting played out, and we saw
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it in the last chapter of First Corinthians.
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You saw how you have these two points of conjecture, you have
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these two opposite extremes, and here you could see the
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sufferings and those with those sufferings.
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You find the tribulations, you find comfort for as the
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sufferings versifies for as the sufferings, our consolation
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abounds. So you can see that we are hard
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pressed, but we are not down and out.
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We might have to feel the pressures of this life, but we
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can take peace and we can have joy in the Lord.
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Friends, no matter if our bodies are riddled with diseases, If
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you have a court case that is coming up, if you have prison
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time, jail time, you can have this peace that the Lord offers
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to you and you can have contentment.
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Regardless of your external situation that you find yourself
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in, if you will come to the Lord Jesus Christ, you will find this
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comfort even in the extremities of persecution and of the
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violence and of death and disease.
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You can have comfort, friends. 6 And whether we be afflicted, it
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is for your consolation and and salvation which is effectual in
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the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
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Or whether we be comforted is for your consolation and
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salvation. Think about it, friends.
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How would we know how to lead others to Christ if we have not
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had our own salvation story of whenever we were in the pit of
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despair, whenever we had no hope and Christ came.
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And now we can use our stories, our testimonies, as a bold
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witness to those that we come in contact with.
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And it is for their great comfort, and it is to lead them
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to the Lord Jesus Christ. 7 And our hope of you is steadfast,
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knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so
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shall you also be of the consolation.
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So he's saying, if you're suffering now, take part,
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because the joy comes in the morning.
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It is coming, and it is riding on the clouds, and all the
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angelic hosts are with him. And we will be comforted whether
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it happens in this life or in the next 8 For we would not,
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brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in
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Asia, that we were pressed out of measure above strength, and
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so much that we despaired even of life.
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He's saying we have gone through some of the hardest things that
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a person could ever go through, and we still have maintained our
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hope. 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we
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should not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raised the
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dead. That's the whole trick, Franz,
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is that you need to count the cost before you ever step into
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the service of God. You need to know that death is
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on the table. You need to understand that if
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you lose your life for His name sake, for the Gospel of Jesus,
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you will gain eternal life. What can mere man do to us if
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God is for us? Do not fear the one that can
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kill the body, but fear the one that can kill the body and cast
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your soul into hell. Friends, that is what you need
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to understand is we fear God and God alone and everything else
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bows to Him. 10 who delivered us from so great a death, and does
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deliver in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us.
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He is our deliverer, He is our Moses.
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We have passed through the Red Sea, we are in the wilderness,
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and we are pressing towards our eternal home, the land flowing
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with milk and honey. We are heading into the Promised
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land. Friends 11 You also helping
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together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by
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the means of many persons, thanks may be giving by many on
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our behalf. He's saying thank you so much
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for praying for us when we were in the lion's den.
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Thank you so much for praying for us when we were in the meat
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grinder. Friends.
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And you need to understand that spiritual work is of a very,
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very weighty measure. It is not just sitting and
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preparing a lesson. You are going into the darkest,
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hardest demonic places and you are being tormented.
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Even whenever you're doing all the things that the Lord has
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required of you. There is this sifting that
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happens that strengthens us, friends, and it is a very, very
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heavy thing. But his yoke is easy.
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His burden is light. If we will allow Him to carry
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the burden, we can go that extra mile. 12 for our rejoicing.
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Is this the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity
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and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace
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of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and
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more abundantly to you Word. So what is He saying here?
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He's rejoicing in the testimony that their conscience is clear,
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their conscience is clean, they have not wronged anybody.
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They have suffered for the name of Jesus Christ, and they know
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their reward is great. He's saying in simplicity, He
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did not yearn for more luxury. He did not yearn for any
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opulence. He did not yearn for any
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extravagance. He was completely content with
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the simplicity of life, the simple things, bread and water,
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friends. He did not have fleshly wisdom.
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He went with godly sincerity. Godly sincerity is much more
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valued than any kind of earthly wisdom.
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And you'll have a lot of people who are trying to push this
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earthly wisdom on you and it's shrouded and clouded in some
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kind of pseudo Christianity. But we need to stiff arm that we
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air and we go towards and move towards godly sincerity will
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take you much further in this life. 13 four.
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We write none other things unto you that that what you read or
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acknowledge and I trust that you shall acknowledge even to the
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end. So he's saying do not try to
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trust any extra biblical knowledge, any kind of extra
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biblical sayings. We need to trust in the Word of
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God and we need to be rooted and grounded in the complete
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authority of God's Word. More than the self help books,
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more than some kind of life coach.
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We need to be rooted and grounded in the Word of God, and
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that is all that we need to navigate this world to the end.
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14 As also you have acknowledged us in part that we are your
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rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the Lord
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Jesus. So Paul and Timothy are writing
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to the Corinthians, and they're saying, You are our rejoicing,
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as I hope that we are yours. Think about this church that
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Paul himself founded, Friends. 15 And in this confidence I was
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minded to come unto you before, that you might have a second
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benefit, 16 and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come
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again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my
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way toward Judea. 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I
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use lightness, or the things that I purpose?
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Do I purpose according to the flesh that with me there should
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be Yeah, yeah, and no, no. So Paul is saying it was for
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your benefit that I did not come by there and correct you.
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If I would have come by there and corrected you when I had the
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mind to, it would not have been nice.
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And so he opted to not have to go and be the hammer.
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And he's saying that because he did not go when they had
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expected him. They were saying that Paul's
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word was not bond, that he would say yes, but he did not uphold
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the promise. And he would say no, but he did
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not mean what he said. What does he have to say?
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18 But as God is true, our word towards you was not.
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Yeah. And no. 19 For the Son of God,
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Jesus Christ, it was preached among you by us, even by me and
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Sylvanus. And Timothy was not.
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Yeah and no, but in in him was yes.
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So you remember that Jesus told us let your yes be yes and your
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no be no friends. And we need if we make a promise
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to somebody, if we make, if we tell somebody that we're going
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to do something, that is what we do.
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We do not go back on our word. And he's saying that in Christ
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all the promises are yes and Amen. 24 All the promises of God
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in him are yes, and in him Amen unto the glory of God by us.
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So you need to know that all of the promises from Genesis to
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Revelation are yes and Amen. And you can build your life upon
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it. You can bank on it, friends.
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It'll never go out of style. It's not Canon fodder, just
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paper friends. His promises are secure.
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His promises are going to actually happen.
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If he tells you something, that is exactly how it's going to
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happen. 21 Now he which establishes us with you in
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Christ and has anointed us is God.
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So God is the one doing all the establishing of these early
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churches. Friends, it is supernatural,
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miraculous, breakout and we're still here as a church 2000
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years later and the gates of hell will not prevail against
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US. 22 who has also sealed us and given the earnest of the
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Spirit in our hearts. So God gave us the Holy Spirit
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as a down payment. He gave it as a seal upon our
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hearts, friends that we know the Holy Spirit lives inside of us
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and we are going to be resurrected and we're going to
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have eternal bodies and we will be with Him forevermore.
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And right now we only see darkly and dimly, but then we will see
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clear friends and be known. 23 Moreover, I call God for a
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record upon my soul, that to spare you, I came not as yet
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unto Corinth. So Paul here is letting them
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know that it was for their benefit that he did not come to
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them when he had the mind to, because he would tear them
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apart. He would have went and he would
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have said something that he was going to regret perhaps, and he
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would have chastened them friends, and they weren't ready
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for it. And now because he took it light
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on them. Now they are thinking that He is
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someone who does not uphold His word, that He is going back on
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His word and he's saying no. Far be it that that is the case.
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It was for your benefit that I did not come.
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We'll end on 24 not for that. We have dominion over your
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faith, but are helpers of your joy, for by faith you stand.
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A servant either stands or falls by his master.
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And we belong. We are bond servants to Jesus
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Christ. We belong to Him.
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And we were bought with a real high price and we do not ever
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need to ever let man Lord over us.
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There is definitely a hierarchy and there is definitely
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authority that has been placed in our lives as the shepherds
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and if we belong to the flock, we need to place ourselves under
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that. But we do not need to let
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somebody else Lord over our faith.
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We serve God and God alone. Our salvation is is in Christ
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and Christ alone, and no man gets the credit for it.
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If someone refuses to go Jesus's way, we will not follow.
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We will only follow those that we see going in Jesus's way,
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friends, and he is the way. I pray that you've been blessed
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by this amazing chapter here in God's Word.
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I know I sure have. I'm praying for you and I love
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you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.