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Episode 73 - The Fighting Sheep · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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God, You are great, and you are greatly to be praised. Thank
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you for being the all knowing, all powerful, almighty, ever present,
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omnipotent God, the God who cares, to, God who sees, the
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God who knows, the God who understands that we are dust. You know
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our frame, and you came down in your mercy to save us, to
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keep us, to deliver us, or God, from this fallenness, from
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this frailty. God, we thank you for your mercy knew this morning.
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We thank you for your great faithfulness to us. We thank you for the
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love, the greater love that no one, no one could have even a
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magic, that the God of Glory would come down from heaven, Amen,
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and be made in the likeness of men, Amen, And to humble himself,
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to become obedient to death, even the death of the cross. But
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this is what you did, because you loved us, and you gave yourself
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for us to redeem us from all iniquity, from all unrighteousness. Thank you
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for this great sacrifice. Thank you for this great salvation. Thank you for
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calling us to become more and more like you. God, Help us today
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to stand in the gap, to stand on your word, to stand on
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your promises to stand in this evil day to fight the good fight of faith
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as you get the glory out of our lives. In Jesus name, we
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pray and give thanks for all things. A man and a man. All
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right, God bless you again. We welcome you once again to this another
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edition of In Time Revival ministers you as a broadcast and podcast. I am
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your host, Pastor al Zachary, and again on today we are going to
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continue with encouraging the people of God. Amen. This is what this is
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all about. A man encouraging the people of God. A man with the
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word of God. The word of God gives us strength. A man gives
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us encouragement, gives us wisdom and knowledge. A man and the boldness and
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the confidence that we need. A man to persevere. A man in this
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present fallen world. A man, and of course a man we thank God
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for the holy ghosts that he has sent down. A man to fill our
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hearts, a man to lead us and to guide us into all truth.
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A man without the power of the Holy Spirit. As Jesus said, apart
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from me, without me, you can do nothing. And he said,
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I will be in you a man, a will of water. I will
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come a man to you, a man. I will make my abode with
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you and in you. That's why a man, the Holy Spirit has been
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sent, a man in the person of Jesus Christ, in the work of
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Jesus Christ. A man to complete, to perfect, a man to do
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that which Jesus started A man when he came down from glory in his earthly
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mission. A man to build his church, to call sinners to repentance,
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a man to save the laws. A man. And that's what we are
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here to do, to continue in the commission that Jesus has given to his
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church. A man, and we are the Church of the Living God,
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a man. And we are here a man, by the grace and help
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of God, to continue this good fight of faith. This broadcast, for
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A man. I do this because I am constrained, as the apostle Paul
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said, Amen, I do this out of the calling that God has placed
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upon me. A man. I preached the gospel freely and without charge a
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man. That's what God put on me, put in me, and that's
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what I'm here to do, to just simply share the word of the Lord
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and trust the Holy Spirit to do the rest. A man, and so
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we, a man, continue this fight, the good fight of faith,
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A man speaking the truth in love, with compromise, without charge, A
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man, a not for profit, not for gain, A man. I
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am a man committed to a man fighting this fight of faith. And let
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me just say from the outset here and doing today, by the way,
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we're going to continue from our thought on last week, fighting the good fight
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a man, and today we want to talk about the fighting sheep. Yes,
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you heard it correctly, fighting sheep, fighting sheep. That's what we
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are called to do. And we get to that in just a few minutes.
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But please understand that the continuous growth of the Church of Jesus Christ has
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been ordained of God. Amen for us, the Church, the Church.
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A man to be, a cooperating a man people of God, a man
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with the Holy Spirit, the work of true believers, a man carrying forth
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and passing on the mantle the baton, if you will, of the great
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commission that Jesus gave to his church. Amen. That's how the Church continues
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to grow. That's how the Church of Jesus Christ will continue to be.
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The cooperating a man I mean, I mean the unstoppable entity that it is
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in the earth, and that is by us, the people of God,
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cooperating with the Holy Spirit, a man, as we carry forth a man,
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the great commission that Jesus gave to us. And although he ordained the
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work of the ministry to be carried upon the shoulders of men, please understand
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that the thriving and the surviving of the Church is not left entirely upon the
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shoulders of fallen and fallible men. Never forget what Jesus said about the building
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of his church. He said, upon this rock, I will build my
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church, and the gates of Hell. Amen. The gates of Hell shall
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not prevail against the Church of Jesus Christ. The Church winds. The Church
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is triumphant a man. God always causes us to triumph, as the apostle
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Paul says, And it is the Lord, a man himself, who adds
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to his church, as we see in the book of the Acts of the
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Apostles, when the Church first began, it is the Lord who adds to
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the Church daily, such as should be saved a man. Please never forget
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amen the Church for those of you who may have been misled. The Church
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was not built upon Peter. The Church was not built upon Paul or any
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of the other apostles. The Church was not built upon popes and bishops and
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priests or pastors, who are all mere mortal men appointed to death, as
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we all are. The Church is built upon the rock Christ Jesus. And
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the Church is the one and the only true, unshakable, immovable entity in
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this world. Because it is not of this world. The Church is not
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of this world, and it is not made by man. What did Jesus
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testify before Pilots? He said, my kingdom is not of this world.
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It is not of this world. It is not a religion, it is
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not man made. It is the Church of the Living God. It is
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the body of Christ. It is his body, his body. What did
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he say to Saul, who was so named before he became the apostle?
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Paul a man when he was persecuting the church, A man and the Lord.
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You know, you know the story Acts chapter number nine. A man
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when the Lord stopped him on his road, A man on this road of
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destruction a man, as he was already wreaking havoc in the church. The
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Bible says, the Lord spoke to him and said, Saul, Saul,
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why are you persecuting me when you're coming after the church, attacking the church,
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singing, seeking to a man destroy a man calls harm, a disunity
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or whatever. In the Church of Jesus Christ. You are against Jesus Christ
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himself. The Church is his, it is his body. It belongs to
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him. He is the chief shepherd, he's the builder, he's the maker,
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he is the house. Amen. And we are all by one spirit,
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as the Bible says, baptized into his body. Amen. It's built
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upon him. Amen. The Church of the Living God, which the apostle
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Paul wrote to Timothy, which is the pillar and ground of the truth.
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Amen. And Jesus said, you'll know the truth and truth it is that
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will set you free. And he, by the way, is the very
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embodiment of truth. And he alone is the Savior. He alone is the
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Savior. And he has appointed us. He has called us, amen,
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to be fishers of men. And that's what he told you, its disciples.
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Is he said, follow me, and I will make you fishers of
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men. Amen. But he alone, never forget it. He alone is
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the redeemer. He alone is the one mediated between God and man. He
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alone is the shepherd, the chief shepherd, Amen, the chief apostle.
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If you will, amen, of the church. Amen. And again,
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we are all sheep that belong to his pasture. He is the door,
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he is the way, He is the truth, He is the light.
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Amen. He is the light of the world. No one can come,
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no one can be saved but by him. Amen. And so I want
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you to hear these words. By the way, if you have your Bible's,
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turn with me quickly to the Gospel of John chapter number ten. And
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then I want you to later be prepared to go to first Timothy chapter number
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six. Read the Word of God for yourself. Amen. Read the Word
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of God for your self. Amen. I'm gonna be reading from the New
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King James version. I want you to hear these words that Jesus spoke,
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Amen, concerning his sheep, a man who comprised his church. Aman.
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I'm gonna to begin reading with verse number seven the Gospel of John, chapter
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number ten. Then Jesus said to them again most assuredly, I say to
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you. I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before
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me are thieves and robbers. But I love this. Listen what Jesus says.
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But the sheep did not hear them. The sheep did not hear them.
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There's a there's a wonderful phenomenon between a shepherd and the sheep of his
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fold or pasture. They know the voice, the sound of their shepherd uniquely,
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and they will not adhere to heed the call of any other shepherd.
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And that's what Jesus is, Amen teaching. Here my sheep, Amen,
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hear my voice, and everybody, everyone who came before me, and by
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the way, all who have come after him, a man, Charlatan's false
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prophets, false teachers, a man the Satan himself, a man dressed up
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as an angel of light. Amen, the sheep don't hear them, No,
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no, no, amen. Jesus said again in verse n nine,
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I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved,
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and we'll go in and out and find passion. Now please understand also
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that if you try to enter, not by Jesus, you will not be
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saved. Because again he says and reiterates I am the door. And remember
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when the Lord commission Amen Noah to build the arc, it was only one
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door, only one way into the arc, and you had to come through
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the door in order to be saved. It was a picture, it was
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a type. Amen. It was a foreshadowing of the way Jesus Christ,
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who was to come. Amen. When the wrath of God is poured out,
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Amen, the Bible tells us already the wrath of God is revealed from
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heaven against all ungodlands and unrighteous. Is a man who suppressed the truth.
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Amen. If you don't come by the door, if you don't come through
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the door, the door by the way that is open, that is still
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open right now. And if you don't come by the door that's Jesus,
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you cannot. You will not be saved. You cannot, and you will
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not be saved. He says, if anyone enters by me, he will
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be saved. Now. The opposite of the converse, if you will,
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or the reverse of that is that if you try to come another way,
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you cannot be saved. Amen. The thief, who is the devil version
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of a ten satan, that old serpent. The thief does not come except
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to steal and to kill and to destroy. Jesus says, but I have
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come that they may have life, who the sheep, and that they may
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have it more abundantly. You know that Jesus came to give you life,
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because the Bible tells us we were dead in our trestpasses and sin. But
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God, who is rich in mercy, Oh, greater love hath no man
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than this, that a man would lay down his life. That's what Jesus
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did. Amen. He came to give us life. And the life is
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through him. It is by him. Amen. The thief comes to steal
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from you, the thief comes to kill you, the thief comes to destroy
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you. But Jesus came to give you life, Amen, to provide the
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way of life liberty. Amen. Oh yeah. And by the way,
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not just living. It's about natural he's talking about. This is eternal life,
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by the way, and and and and and and and this is not
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just a living an ordinary mundane kind of existence in this world. Amen.
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But he said, I've come that you might have it more abundantly. And
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that's and that's by the way, uh evident in the fruit of the spirit,
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which is love, joy, peace, Amen, contentment, all of
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these things uh gentleness, meekness, faith, temperance, all of the all
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of the amen, the attributes of the spirit amen enables us to have life
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in this present world more abundantly. Jesus said, I am the good shepherd,
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and the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. That's what Jesus
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did. He gave his life for the sheep, his sheep, all who
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would be saved, all who will be saved. Jesus gave his life for
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us to save us. Amen. But listen what he says, But the
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hireling Verse No. Twelve, Gospel of John, Chapter ten. The hireling,
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he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep.
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This, of course, implies that Jesus is the owner. That Jesus
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owns all of us. He made us, and not we ourselves. In
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him. We live, move and have our being. Amen. He says,
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But the hireling, he's not the shepherd. He does not own the
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sheep. He sees the wolf coming, he sees the devil, he sees
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demonic forces, he sees evil, evil, he sees danger. And what
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does he do? Jesus says, he sees the wolf coming and leaves the
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sheep and he flees. God help us, God help us, God help
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us. And this is why we need shepherds with boldness, with confidence.
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Amen. With with with with the calling, Amen, the true calling of
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a shepherd. Amen, These are under shepherds. Jesus is the chief shepherd.
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And this is this is by the way, this is also something that
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the shepherd here on this earth must always never never, never, never never
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always remember it, never forget that it is not his church. It belongs
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to God. Jesus Christ said, upon this rock, I build my church.
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Amen. And all of us collectively are the sheep of his pastor.
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Jesus says, I am the good shepherd, and the good shepherd gives his
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life for the sheep. But the hireling who is not the shepherd, Which
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also certainly implies that they are not true to the sheep, they are not
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truly called of God. It certainly implies that they are ministers of the devil.
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They are ministers of Satan. They are false prophets, false teachers,
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and they are hirelings. They are in it for themselves. They're in it
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for the money. They're in it to get ungotly gain access to the sheep,
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access to the blessings. Amen. They see the wolf coming, they
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leave the sheep. They flee. The wolf catches the sheep and scatters them,
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and the hireling flees. Why does he flee, Jesus says, because
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he is a hireling. See, he's not true. He's not called,
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he's not been appointed, he was implanted by the enemy, he was sawn
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in. He's a tear among the wheat, that's who he is. And
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he flees because he's a hireling. And he does not care about the sheep.
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You see, he's not called of God. Amen, he's not one
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of us. As John wrote in this one of his h letters, if
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they had been of us, they would have continued with us. Amen.
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But Jesus says, listen, I am the good shepherd, and I know
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my sheep, and am known by my own Oh. I take for I
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tell you what, Listen, I take confidence in this. This is,
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this is This is the kind of stuff that gives me so much confidence about
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the Church, about the Kingdom, about what God is doing in this world.
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Even now, in the midst of all of this evil and calamity and
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uphevil, as we see it from our narrow perspective, I take confidence I
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get my confidence and boldness and faith building. Amen, from the very words
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such as these. Amen. Jesus says, I am the good shepherd.
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I know my sheep. I know them that belonged to me. I know
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them that are true. I know them that are the wheat and not the
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tears. Amen. I know them, and they know me. Oh,
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thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. That's why he's gonna say,
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too many in that day depart from me, you workers of iniquity.
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I never knew you. I never knew you. You never knew me.
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Amen, as the Father knows me. Even so I know the Father,
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and I listen with Jesus says, lay down my life for the sheep.
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I lay down my life for the sheep, the sheep of my pasture,
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and other sheep, he says, I have. He's speaking, by the
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way in this verse of the gentiles who would be brought into the church.
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And that's who we are, the other sheep who were not of the Jews.
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Amen. Amen. The church began, It began with the Jews.
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Amen, and it went. And that's why Jesus COMMISSI them to go into
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all the world preach the Gospel beginning at Jerusalem, preach the Gospel to every
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creature. Now we are the other sheep, a man, which were not
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originally of this full. Romans chapter nine, ten and eleven speaks about this,
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how we were grafted into Amen, the olive tree. Amen. But
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we were brought into the full. That's what Jesus says here telling about teaching
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about what he was going to do and has now already done and is still
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doing with the Church, with the sheep. He was going to bring them
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a man into the full, and he said they will. Oh. I
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like that listening to that confidence that Jesus has. He knows I and I
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listen. I told you already. I said this before, that the future
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for us is history with God. He knows all things, he has decreed
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all things, he has ordained all things. Amen, He's in control of
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all things. And Jesus says, they will see he knows his sheep before
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they know that they're gonna be one of his sheep. Oh help us,
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Jesus. Oh, I wish I had the time. I wish I had
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the time. Oh, that's what he says, other sheep I have.
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That means that they have already been given to him. We were already in
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him before we were born. As He spoke to Jeremiah, the prophet,
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before you were formed, I knew you. I ordained you to be a
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prophet to the nations. Amen, other sheep, you and me. Jesus
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says, I have not will have I have them also. I must bring
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and they will hear my voice. Oh, when he calls, you gotta
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answer. When he knocks at the door, you gotta open. Amen.
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They will hear my voice. And there will be one flock and one shepherd.
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There's only one church. There's only one Lord, one faith, one
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baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, through
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all, and in you all. Amen. One flock, one flock,
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one shepherd, one church, one church, by one spirit. We are
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all baptizing to one body, the body of Jesus Christ. Oh, I
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take comfortable. Oh, That's why I get my That's why I get my
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confidence. That's where this is where I get my boldness. Amen, this
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is where I get my assurance. Amen, from what Jesus. Faith comes
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by hearing, hearing, by the word of God. Let me finish up
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in here, John chapter ten. Let me go down to verse number twenty
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seven, because because Jesus reiterates it again. He reiterates it again. I
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want you to hear these words of Jesus, he says, my sheep,
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Verse twenty seven. Hear my voice, and I know them, and they
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follow me. Following Jesus is more than walking behind him, as it were.
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Oh yes, because he's not physically here anymore. Following him is continuing.
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This is what we're gonna be talking about in just a few minutes,
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continuing in the doctrine, in the teachings of Jesus. And that's what he
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said, a seppler man and deny himself, take a bit of cross and
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follow me daily cannot be my disciple. This is not for everybody, y'all.
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This is not for everybody. There are people who are not willing to
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surrender, and that's the problem. For that's the hindrance, the main hindrance
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for people not being saved. They will not surrender. Pride, amen,
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haughtiness, hardness of heart amen, lovers of pleasure amen, preferring the darkness
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rather than the light. It hinders people from following Jesus. But he said,
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my sheet, They hear my voice, my sheet, I know them,
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my sheet. They will follow me. And this is what Oh,
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I love this. Well, you're talking about a confidence builder, he says,
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And I give them eternal life. See that. That's why he said
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later to La about the death of Lazarreth, at the death of Lazareth the
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resurrection of Lazarus. Amen, he that believeth in me never dies, Amen,
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said in that conversation with Nicodemus, Amen, godsil of the world that
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he gave is only what begotten son. Whosoever believes in him should not perish,
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but have everlasting life. And that's what he says. He I give
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them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone snatched them
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out of my hand. Oh, my God, do y'all hear that security.
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Do y'all hear that eternal security that you have in Jesus, that He's
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not gonna lose you. No one can take you away, no one can
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snatch you away. That's why the apostle Paul again had the confidence at the
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end of the Roman's chapter in the eight nothing, we'll be able to separate
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us. God so loves us. Amen, he saves to the utmost.
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Oh, I wish I had the time to deal with that neither shall anyone
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snatch them out of my hand when you are in Jesus and I'm talking about
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I'm not talking about the tears. And I'm not talking about professors of the
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faith. I'm not talking about Charlatan's I'm not talking about wolves dressed up in
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sheep's clothing. We know all of that is in the church, in churches,
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but not in the true Church, because they're not in the true Shepherd.
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They're not truly of him. Again, as John said, had they
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been of us, they would continue with us. Amen, And Jesus said,
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by their fruit, you will know them. A good tree brings forth
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good fruit. Good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit, bad fruit, spoiled
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fruit, rotten fruit. Nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Amen,
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my sheep, they hear my voice. I know them, They follow
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me. I give them eternal life. They shall never perish. We win.
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We win not because of anything that we've done. All of this is
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what Jesus is doing. I give them. I give you eternal life.
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You're not gonna perish because of him. You're not gonna be snatched out of
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the hand of Jesus because of him, because he's holding you not so much.
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You're holding on to him because we go astray. Oh yes we do,
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Oh yes we do, Oh yes we do. Amen. But thank
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God, he will put no more on us than we can bear. And
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then he's holding us. He's holding us up. He got us, He
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got us. Y'all amen. Neither shall anyone snatched them out of my hand.
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My father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,
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and no one is able to snatch them out of my father's hand.
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Now first he said out of my hand, And now he says, out
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of my father's hand. Oh, are you confused? Don't be, because
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verse thirty, Jesus says, I and my father are one, And boy
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do I wish I had to tell Oh, I gotta move on very quickly.
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The problem or problems, if you will, to whatever the degree or
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extent of what we may call ineffectiveness or deficiency in the functioning of the church,
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again as we may perceive it to be, certainly is not on the
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behalf of the church founder Jesus Christ. But it is on the basis of
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our failure, ladies and gentlemen, Church of a Living God, people of
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God, to cooperate as we ought to with the Holy Spirit. But yet,
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ladies and gentlemen, please understand this. In spite of our multiple failures,
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God, in his incomfortable wisdom, knowledge and understanding, he ordained and
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he designed it the Church to be just as it is. There is no
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flaw in what God predestined to be. There is nothing that is happening,
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has happened, or will happen with the Church. I'm talking about the true
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Church. Again. When I say the Church, I'm talking about capitalcy,
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the true Church. Nothing past, present of future can take God by surprise
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Jesus. By the way, if you've read your Bible, and if you've
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read the multiple parables of the Kingdom, for example, he told us what
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it would be like and what it would be comprised of. I've already alluded
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to the parable of the wheat and the tears. How the enemy, the
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devil, he has crept in again, I said, on multiple occasions he
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saw that he could not defeat the church. That was his first strategy,
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to try to intimidate them, to try to make them quit. Teach no
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more, preach no more, speak no more in the name of Jesus,
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Amen. And when he could not defeat them, because again, as Jesus
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had already said, the gates of pears shall not prevail. He decided to
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join the church. And that's all that it is, ladies and gentlemen,
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And that's why the Church seemingly, again from our perspective, has deficiency,
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has in effectiveness, has flaws, and all of that. But ladies and
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gentlemen, please understand, God not only knew all of these things, he
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ordained it. That's why Jesus gave us the parable, for example, of
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the wheat and the tears. And they said, to the Lord, in
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this parable, what do you want us to go and root out those tears
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from among the wheat? What did Jesus know? Let them alone, let
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them grow together, let them, let them be, Let them be among
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the sheep, among the wheat, Let them be the pretenders that they are,
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Let them be the professors that they are. Because again, in that
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day, I'm going to say to them, even though they will declare they
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were bulls, they were brag they will say that we prophesied in your name,
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we preached, we taught, we discipleed, we did this, We
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did that, We cast out devils. I gave I sacrifice, I did
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I I that's what they're gonna say. What is it that Jesus is going
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to say to them, the professors who, by the way Paul said in
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works, they deny him being abominable and disobedient. Amen, He's going to
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say to them, depart from me. I never knew you, I know
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my sheep, they know me, Foundation of God. I heard me say
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this a multiple times. I continued to say it again. Another one of
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those confidents building scriptures in the Word of God concerning the Church. The Foundation
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of God sayings, you are having this seal. The Lord knows them that
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are his. Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity in
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a great house, the Kingdom, the Church, if you will, all
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kinds of vessels, some to honor, some to dishonor. But the foundation
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stands sure. God knows the true believers, the true sheep, the true
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disciples, disciples, the true believers. God knows who they are. Amen.
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And in spite of our multiple failures. Again, God, in his
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incomparable wisdom, knowledge and understanding, he ordained, and he designed, and
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he decreed, if you will for the Church to be just as it is.
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Amen, on the basis of what Jesus has spoken. And by the
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way, let me just say this for it very quickly. God is saving
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whomever he has determined to say, and not one of us, not one
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of his sheep, will be lost. That's what Jesus is saying. That's
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what he said. Not he is saying, that's what he said. No
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one can snatch my sheet. I know who my sheep bar I give to
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them eternal life. There are many sheep that are not yet saved, that
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are not yet in the fold. They don't even know that they're going to
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be saved. They don't know it. But he knows. He knows all
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who will come to him. Amen. He knows all who will hear his
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voice. He knows all who will obey. He knows all who will repent.
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Oh, yes he does. And on the basis of what Jesus has
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spoken, what he has revealed to us, not only during his ministry earthly
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ministry, but also through his holy prophets and apostles, no one, ladies
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and gentlemen, will have an excuse on the word of Jesus Christ. On
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the words of Jesus Christ, there will be not one individual who will have
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an excuse. All mouths will be stopped, and all who have not obeyed
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his voice and his word and his doctrine. If you will, they will
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be guilty, and they will be condemned his truth. Sheep. On the
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other hand, hear his voice, and they do follow him, and they
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do obey his word. They do cooperate with the working of His Holy Spirit,
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the Holy Ghost, in the mission of end, of making disciples of
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men in this fallen world. That is what the good fight of faith,
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for the faith it's all about. For us, the apostle Paul understood this
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very well. I mean, he understood the importance of it, the necessity
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of it, of discipling the next generations of the Church of Jesus Christ,
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who would continue the good fight of faith. We're not called to be dormant
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sheep led astray by the error of the wicked. No. No, we
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have been commanded, on the other hand, to do something that is,
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by the way, contrary to the very nature of sheep. We, ladies
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and gentlemen, Church of the Living God, have been called to be fighting
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sheep, fighting sheep, called to fight the good fight of faith again.
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Let's go to First Timothy, chapter number six. I'm going to begin at
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the very first verse, a man, the apostle Paul, writing to his
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son in the Gospel. Again, Paul, understanding the necessity of that next
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generation of disciples carrying on contending for the doctrine the faith, as you wrote
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that was wanting for all delivered to the saints. We have a responsibility,
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Church of the Living God. Those of you who are certainly much older and
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mature in the Church of Jesus Christ, we have a responsibility. That's what
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the church is all about, to make disciples. Go and make disciples,
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teaching them what did Jesus say, teaching them to observe all things that I
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have commanded you. That's our responsibility. That's our first and foremost responsibility as
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the Church of the Living God. Paul understood it. Amen, And that's
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why he gave this charge to the Timothyes, and the Tituses, and the
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elders and all Amen that he encountered that he a man spoke with. And
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Amen also those whom he had amen brought into, as it were, the
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church through his ministry, through his preaching, through his teaching, as he
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amen wrote in all of these epistles that he wrote to the churches. Amen.
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But particularly Amen again the charge that he gives to those who are in
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the ministry of the Word of Jesus Christ. Amen. And to Timothy first
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Timothy, Chapter six, first number one. He writes these words, Let
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as many bond servants, Amen under the yoke, count their masters, their
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own masters, worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and
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his doctrine may not be blasphemed. And those who have believing masters, let
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them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather serve them, because
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those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
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And I really wish I had the time to deal with this particular passage,
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but I must move on. But this is a part of our discipline as
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a man's soldiers, good soldiers, believers, no matter what position, no
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matter what condition, we find ourselves, and we are first and foremost servants
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of Jesus Christ. And wherever and again whatever we find ourselves in, however
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He has placed us, and in whatever position a man that we find ourselves,
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and we learn first and foremost to be obedient to God a man,
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and obedient in our present day to whatever calling, occupation, profession, that
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God has a lotted for us or to us a man. That's what this
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is all about. But let me move on very quickly verse number three.
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If anyone teaches otherwise, does not consent to hold some words, even the
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words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine, there's that word,
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doctrine, a man which accords with godliness a man. That's what the
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teachings of Jesus is all about, godliness a man. If anyone does otherwise,
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this is what Paul is. A man making sure that Timothy understands.
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Anyone who is contrary, anyone who teaches in contradiction to what Jesus Christ has
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taught us. He is such a person is proud version number four, knowing
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nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words from which come envy,
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strife, reviling, evil, suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt
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minds, and destitute of the truth. Listen. Paul is very vivid in
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the description of these kinds of people who are Charlatans, who again are in
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this for them, for their own selves, for their own belly, Amen,
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for their own profit. Amen. Again, they are hirings they don't
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care about the sheep. They're full of pride. They know nothing, they
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think they do. And they are obsessed with disputing, with arguing over words,
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producing envy, producing strife, reviling evil suspicions, and useless wranglings of
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men of corrupt minds. The Bible tells us, who are destitute of the
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truth. See, they don't have the truth. They don't know the truth,
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they don't love the truth, they don't speak the truth. Amen,
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they are destitute of the truth. And they suppose that godliness is a means
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of gain. There it is hirelings. That's what they're in it for.
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It's all about them, it's all for them. It's for their profit,
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for their benefit. And Paul tells Timothy, and he tells you, and
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he tells me. From such withdrawal yourself. Get away from these Charlatans,
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these false prophets, these amen, ministers of Satan. That's who they are.
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This is what the Bible says, godliness verse number six, with contentment
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is great gain. Godliness with contentment, Lord have mercy, Oh help us
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Jesus, Oh, I wish I had a time I had I've done this,
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I've spoken about this and I'm exhaustively in the past, and listen.
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You want you want, you want. You want to have peace, you
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want to have peace of mind, you want to have joy, you want
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to be satisfied. You want to avoid covetousness in this world. Godliness with
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contentment, Paul said, in whatever state I find myself, I learn to
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be content. I don't murmur, I don't complain. Amen, I understand
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that God has ordained, God has predestined. God has me. He's with
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me, He's for me. And even if I find myself in distress,
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Amen, in prison, Amen, seeming to have been forsaken. Amen,
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I know that I'm not. Even though I'm cast down, I'm not destroyed.
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Amen. God is with me. God is for me. I learned,
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and it's what he's speaking to Timothy. Godliness with contentment is great,
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Gang. Why first number seven, you brought nothing into this world, even
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though you might be living under the delusion that you did. You brought nothing
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into this world, and you carry nothing out and having food and clothing with
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these, Paul says, we shall be content. But those who desire to
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be rich, what will happen? They will fall into temptation and a snare.
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And into many foolish and harmful lust, which drown men in destruction and
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perdition. Because the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil,
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for which some having strayed from the faith in their greediness, because they
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are Charlatans and hirelands, they have pierced themselves. The Bible says, through
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with many sorrows. But you, old man of God, here it is,
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lady and gentlemen, this is the charge. This is the command.
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This is where the discipline. This is where fighting the good fight comes in.
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You, o man of God, flee these things. Flee, get
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away, run from this and pursue righteousness. Pursue godliness, Pursue faith,
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pursue love, pursue patience, pursue gentleness. Sounds like the fruit of the
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spirit to me, Amen, flee these things, Timothy, and pursue after
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righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. First twelve,
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Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which
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you are also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many
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witnesses. I urge you, in the sight of God, who gives life
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to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who witnessed the good confession before
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Ponti spilet that you keep this commandment without spot blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ
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appearing, which he will manifest in his own time and is already appointed,
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is already coming, is already happening, It is done already. We're just
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waiting for the manifestation of it. He knows when Amen, he who is
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the blessed and only potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lord,
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who alone, the Bible says, has immortality. That's Jesus dwelling in unapproachable
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light whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and
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everlasting power. Amen, Listening, Church of the Living God. We are
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called to fight fighting sheep fighting sheep, fighting the good fight of faith.
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Because God is for us, and he is certainly with us. We cannot
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lose what God has already won. What is simply required of us. As
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I've already said, it is for each of us to put on, as
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Paul describing the Ephesian chapter six, the whole armor of God, and engage
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in the battle and contending for the faith, standing in the gap, standing
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in this evil day, and at times even standing still enough to know that
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God is God, that God is sovereignly in control of all things. I'm
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going to close with these words from some number forty six. Be still and
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know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I
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will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of Host is with us.
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The God of Jacob is our refuge. Saints of God, People of God,
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Church of the Living God, sheep of his pasture. You who hear
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his voice, you who obey his voice, You who know his voice,
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You who follow him, You who cannot perish, You who have eternal life,
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know this, Have the confidence, have the assurance that you can not
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lose. You cannot be lost because God is with you. God is for
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you. That's what his affirmative Action program is all about. For his people.
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No one can snatch us out of his hand. He said, I
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give to them eternal life, and they shall never never perish. My sheep
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hear my voice, and a stranger, they will not follow God. Help
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us today, Help your people everywhere, open blinded eyes, deaf ears.
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God, change hearts as only you can do. Call those who are wondering
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a man running away, Call them to repentance. Let them come to see
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and to note a man, that you are the truth of the Living God,
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the only Wise God, our Savior, to whom is the majesty,
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the dominion, and power, both now and forever. A man and a man