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Living Waters of Grace 01-27-2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis
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  Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland
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  County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  You do witness betrayal. You do witness people who will
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  turn their backs on you. Everyone is not going to be in
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  favor of the way that we walk before the Lord.
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  Everyone's not going to be in favor of that.
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  And we have to be prepared for that and just know that we are
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  protected by Him. We are with Him, He's with us as
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  we go through these things, He is with us.
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  So he says yes, and all who will who desire to live godly in
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  Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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  I think most people just want to live their lives.
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  I really do. For some people that means a
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  white picket fence, while for others it means chasing their
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  dreams, whatever they may be. But I don't think anyone ever
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  asks to live a life full of trouble and difficulty.
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  In Pastor Lewis's message today, he warns you that when you
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  choose to live for Jesus, you're going to experience difficulty.
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  The. Reward is worth it, but the
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  challenges are fierce. This life will be filled with
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  trouble, but heaven is waiting on the other side now.
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  Here's Pastor Lewis in the book of Romans Chapter 9 with today's
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  edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  So Paul does love. In fact, he loves so much that
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  in Romans Chapter 9 Paul said of his brethren.
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  He said, I wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my
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  brethren, for my brethren. And then the 1st Thessalonians 2
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  and 8. He says we not only imparted the
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  gospel to you, but also our own lives because you became dear to
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  us. So Paul understood love, and he
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  definitely understood that it was necessary to have that agape
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  love that can only come through the Holy Spirit in order for him
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  to do what it is that God had called him to do.
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  And that's the same for us as well.
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  It's the mark of a Christian. That's why Jesus said that.
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  This is how you'll know that we're all Christians because we
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  have love one for another. When people come in this house,
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  I love the fact that people will say that, man, you know, you can
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  tell that they love each other and they should be able to say
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  that. They should be able to say that
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  and I know that I feel love when I come into this house.
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  I feel love. Thank God for that.
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  He goes on and he talks about the perseverance, you know,
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  being steadfast. Verse 11, he says the
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  persecutions, afflictions which happened to me at Antioch.
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  Paul was very clear about the fact that he did go through a
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  number of persecutions and sufferings that he did at
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  different places where he would preach the gospel.
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  When he went to Antioch, he taught the gospel there.
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  When he went into the synagogue's for a number of
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  people who believed. And as a result of that, the
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  unbelieving Jews, they wanted to stir up the people, stir up the
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  Gentiles that were there, and they ended up rising up in
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  persecution against Paul and his companions and they had to
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  leave. And they went into Iconium.
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  And when they went to Iconium, the very same thing.
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  He taught the Scriptures and Iconium, he taught the word of
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  God and he preached the gospel and there were many people who
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  heard the gospel and they listened and they became, and,
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  and they put their faith in Jesus Christ.
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  And as a result of putting their faith in Jesus Christ, they
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  began to gather together and, and, and, and, and have an
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  assembly themselves. Well, the people who lived there
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  who were not believers didn't like that either.
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  So they persecuted Paul and wanted to stone him and ran him
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  out of Iconium, Iconium. And then when Paul got the
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  Lystra, it was so bad that when Paul preached the gospel there
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  and I and Lystra, which is probably where Timothy heard the
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  gospel from Paul the first time, we understand that there was the
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  people from Antioch that got together with the people from
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  Iconium and all of them came down to Lystra and they began to
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  want to persecute Paul. That's how bad it was for Paul.
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  But in every situation, he continued to put his life on the
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  line to share the gospel because he believed that the one that he
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  believed in was able to keep him, was able to keep him, and
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  so he did what God called him to do.
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  It may be sometimes where it seems hairy or seems dangerous
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  for us to share the gospel or seem that it may cost us
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  something if we share the gospel.
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  But we have to believe that the one that we're serving is
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  greater than anyone else. And He's able to keep us.
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  He's able to protect us. He's able to deliver us from any
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  situation that we may run into as a result of being faithful to
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  him. So he gets to Lystra and there
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  he is stoned. So Paul witnessed that.
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  He witnessed being stoned in. And it's possibility, don't know
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  for sure because the Bible never really says so, but it's a
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  possibility that when he was there in Lystra and when they
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  stoned him and they thought he was dead, then they took him
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  outside of the city and their disciples gathered around him
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  and they suppose that he was dead, That it was a possibility
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  that maybe he was truly dead at that particular time.
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  And maybe we don't. Again, we don't know because the
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  Bible doesn't say that. But that could have been where
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  he actually had the experience of the 3rd heaven during that
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  particular time. He could have had that
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  experience at that particular time where he went into the 3rd
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  heaven and witnessed the things that he was not even able to
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  talk about, but he was stoned. He was thought to be dead.
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  But then he got up. And again, because of his
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  steadfastness or his perseverance, because of his
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  love and because of his faithfulness, Paul got up and
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  went right back into the same city that they had actually
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  stoned him and continued to do the work that God had called him
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  to do. What an example of
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  steadfastness. What an example of someone who's
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  just relentless to do what it is that God has called him to do.
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  Lord, give me that steadfastness.
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  Give me that relentlessness, that fearlessness in you,
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  Father, so that I can, under any circumstance, do your will.
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  And then in verse 12, Paul makes it clear to Timothy, I mean,
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  this is this is not something that you probably want to put on
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  your mirror or your refrigerator when you get up in the morning.
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  Verse 12, yes, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will
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  suffer persecution. That's probably not a good
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  motivation speech for those who you know or want to serve the
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  Lord. I mean, he you probably would
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  have thought that Paul or you know, will want to say something
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  a little bit more encouraging, but Paul was a straight shooter
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  and his attitude was I'm going to give you the truth because
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  you know what? Jesus Christ gave us the truth
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  when he talked about, you know, following him.
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  And if you go to the 10th chapter of Matthew just for a
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  2nd 10th chapter of Matthew, Jesus makes a very interesting
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  statement over here, Tim chapter over here in verse 16, He says,
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  behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.
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  Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, but
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  beware of men for they will deliver you up.
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  And this is his rallying speech to get them to be motivated to
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  go out and serve him. They're going to deliver you up
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  to councils. They're going to scourge you in
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  the synagogues. You will be brought before
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  governors and and kings for my name's sake.
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  He goes on and say you'll be delivered up, but don't worry
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  because we'll give you what to speak at that particular time
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  for it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak
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  for it is not you who will speak, but the spirit of your
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  father who speaks in you. And then in 21, he says, now
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  your brother will deliver you up to death or your father is going
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  to deliver his children up and children's going to rise up
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  against their parents. I mean, that's not what you
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  would call a real motivational speech, you know, to get someone
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  to serve you. But however, that is what
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  serving the Lord is about. You do witness portrayal.
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  You do witness people who will turn their backs on you.
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  Everyone is not going to be in favor of the way that we walk
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  before the Lord. Everyone's not going to be in
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  favor of that and we have to be prepared for that and just know
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  that we are protected by him. We are with him, He's with us as
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  we go through these things, He is with us.
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  So he says yes, and all who will, who desire to live godly
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  in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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  But he also says, if you look at the verse before that, he says
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  and out of them all the Lord delivered me.
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  So even through all those things that Paul went through at the
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  bottom there at verse 11, he says out of them all the Lord
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  delivered me. So in spite of the fact that
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  we're going to suffer persecution, we serve the one
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  who was able and who will deliver us out of all of those
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  situations. And yeah, Paul came out of
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  almost every situation until the Lord was ready for him to come
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  home. And then in verse 13 we change
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  gears again and Paul says, but evil men and imposters will go
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  worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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  And that is the reason why everyone who will live godly
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  will suffer persecution because men are evil, men are wicked and
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  they are imposters and they will.
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  And those imposters mean that they are swindlers or sorcerers
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  or, or they are men under demonic influence.
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  And, and they are going to grow worse and worse, deceiving and
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  being deceived. I mean, that's what we're going
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  to have to deal with. So we're going to feel
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  persecution to some degree. We're going to feel it.
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  Now there are countries, as Clark has talked about several
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  times, there are countries where people are being killed,
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  beheaded almost every day, you know, for their faith, for their
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  faith, imprisoned for their faith.
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  I mean, they have to hide to do what we're doing right now.
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  They got to put themselves in underground to do the things
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  that we're doing right now that we can do freely.
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  There will come a time where we will be suffering persecution.
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  In fact, the attack is on right now, particularly against our
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  kids. There's an attack on kids,
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  parents. There's an attack on parents
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  because you, if you do not take on the world's view of the
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  LGBTQ, transgender and all those things, if you don't take on the
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  world view, there are people who are putting bills in place that
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  will give consequences to parents who will not back that
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  ungodly stance. Let me read something to you.
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  Just did a little research on that and this came out just
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  recently. This is back in November of this
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  year. There was a woman who put
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  together a bill, a delegate from out of Virginia, Elizabeth
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  Gunsman of Prince William County, and she intended parents
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  to face abuse charges for not affirming their LGBTQ child.
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  And her bill would expand. Her bill would actually expand
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  the state's definition of child abuse and neglect to include
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  listen to this, to include parents who do not affirm their
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  child's gender identity or sexual orientation.
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  Here's the chilling part. One of the most crucial moments
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  of the interview. They interviewed this woman.
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  It came when a man by the name of Minoc posed this question to
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  Guzman. What could be the penalties of
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  the investigation or what penalties what the investigation
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  includes? If a parent is not affirming of
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  their LGBTQ child, what could be the consequence?
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  This is what she said. Well, first we would have to
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  complete an investigation. It could be a felony, it could
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  be a misdemeanor. But we know that ACPS and I had
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  to look up what that was Child Protective Services.
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  I guess if a person put on a child protective service,
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  anything inquiry into anybody, it's on your record, regardless
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  of whether it's founded or not, it's on your record.
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  So a Child Protective Services could mean or could harm your
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  employment, it could harm their education because nowadays many
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  people do a CPS database search before offering employment.
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  So what is based what they're basically saying is this, if Big
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  Brother or this LGBTQ or the government, if they can't find a
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  way to charge conservative parents with a felony, at the
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  very least the government and its partners in the professions
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  that mean social work counselors, psychologists and
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  all people who work with kids, those advocates between kids and
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  parents will see to it that you never work again.
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  Note clearly the threat of using even Acps investigation to ruin
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  parents. So that is exactly the attitude
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  right now. They are Rooney.
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  They want to scare parents into capitulating or into being
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  resigned to just follow whatever it is that their kids are
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  saying. And that's why Paul's saying,
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  look, you've watched me, you have seen me, you have heard my
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  doctrine. Don't sway from those things.
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  And he's saying it to us. He's encouraging us.
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  Don't sway from the word of God. He who is in US is greater than
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  He that is in the world, right? He that is in you is greater
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  than He that is in the world. He that is in you is greater
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  than He that is in the world. He that is in you and in you is
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  greater than He that is in the world.
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  We don't have to fall to that. God will keep us.
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  He will keep us. And he goes on and he says, but
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  you must continue. Paul's encouraging him now, but
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  you must continue on the things that you have heard and things
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  that you have learned and been assured of knowing from whom you
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  have learned them, knowing what you've learned, Timothy.
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  And it wasn't just Paul that Timothy has learned the word of
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  God from. Timothy has learned the word of
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  God from Paul. He's learned it first of all
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  from his grandmother Lois, from his mother Eunice.
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  He's learned the word of God. He's learned it from Paul and
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  from seeing it in action with Paul and silence and being able
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  to see other believers as well. Verse 15.
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  And that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures which
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  are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which
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  is in Christ Jesus, the Holy Scriptures, or in other words,
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  the sacred writings, Timothy, you have known them from the
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  time that you were a child, and they're able to make you wise.
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  They're able to make you wise for salvation.
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  James. James chapter 1 in verse 2021
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  says simply this. Therefore, lay aside all
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  filthiness and overflow wickedness, and receive with
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  meekness the implanted word which is able to save your
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  souls. There's power in the Word of
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  God. Now also keep in mind that as
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  he's talking to Timothy, Timothy only had the Old Testament
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  scriptures. They only had the Old Testament.
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  They had the New Testament this time.
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  So when he's talking about the Word of God that is able to save
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  your souls, he's talking about Old Testament scriptures.
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  Well, we know from history that people have been saved by just
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  listening to Old Testament scriptures.
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  In the book of Acts chapter 8, Philip left a huge revival in
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  Samaria and was called by the Holy Spirit down to a lonely Rd.
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  going down from Jerusalem to Gaza where he found there a
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  eunuch, an Ethiopian eunuch. He gets up in the cart with this
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  Ethiopian eunuch who was reading the book of Isaiah that he
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  didn't even understand. Philip began to preach to him
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  right from the 53rd chapter of the book of Isaiah and preach
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  the gospel to this man and he got saved.
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  I also know another situation where the Old Testament was
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  preached and people got saved. Back in 1998, a pat, my late
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  pastor by the name of Reverend Archie Dennis Junior, he
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  preached A sermon from the book of Proverbs, chapter 6, and he
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  began to preach on the strange woman or the unvirtuous woman,
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  the adulterous woman. And as he's preaching this
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  sermon, the Lord opened the eyes of not only myself, but also my
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  wife's eyes, opened our eyes, and we both stood up in
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  repentance. After hearing a sermon preached
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  on the book of Proverbs, chapter 6, God used those scriptures to
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  open our eyes and to cause us to see that we were sinners in need
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  of a Savior. We put our trust in Jesus Christ
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  that day and we've never looked back.
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  And that was from the Old Testament Scriptures.
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  There is power not just in the New Testament, not just in the
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  Old Testament, but in the whole council of God.
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  In the whole council of God, all Scripture is given by
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  inspiration of God. That means all Scripture is God
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  breathed. It actually means all scriptures
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  God breathed. It's breathed out by God.
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  This is not just an ordinary book that some men got together
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  and wrote. This is a book that was breathed
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  out by God himself. That's why it's so powerful and
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  it is profitable for doctrine, for correction, for instruction
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  and righteousness, that the man of God may be complete and
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  thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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  What he is saying is that the Word of God, this powerful,
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  powerful book, and I'll never forget when I heard of a friend
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  of mine who was a pastor and his father is a pastor.
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  This man threw the Bible out on the table and asked the young
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  preacher. He said, does that contain the
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  word of God or is that the word of God?
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  And everyone who said that it contains the word of God was not
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  ordained. It was only those who said that
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  this is the word of God that was ordained.
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  And that's exactly what this is. This is the word of God.
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  So when people try to convince you or anyone else in your
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  circle that, well, this is just a book that's written by men,
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  this is just a book that's written by, we don't know if the
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  interpretations are right. We don't know if this is right.
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  If that's right, this is God breathed.
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  It's God breathed. I don't care who he used to to
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  pen the Bible. I don't care who he used to pen.
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  He used the donkey to speak to a prophet.
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  So I don't care who he uses to pen this Bible.
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  This Bible is God breathed. The Bible has been written over
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  1600 years by 40 different men, 40 different men, 66 books.
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  And none of these books contradict each other.
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  None of them. And if people try to come up and
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  say, well, wait a minute, this contradicts that.
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  It's not the book that's the problem.
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  It's the understanding of the person that's reading is the
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  problem. Everything in the Word of God
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  can be explained through Scripture.
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  Now, there's some things we don't know.
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  There's some things we don't know about the word of God, and
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  I'm fine with that. We'll know when we see him.
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  But the word of God there is no contradictions.
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  It's written over 3 languages in three different continents.
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  This word is powerful. There's been many of people who
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  have tried to get rid of the Bible over many years.
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  No one has ever been able to do it because this word is living.
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  This is a powerful word of God itself, and it's good for, for,
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  for, for doctrine. That means it's good for
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  teaching. Teaching the true gospel is good
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  for reproof. It's good for pointing out error
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  or being able to refute error. It's good for correction.
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  It's good for fixing the error and being able to get us back on
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  the right path. And it's also good for
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  instruction and righteousness. That means it's good for us to
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  keep it right, to keep our lives in order to help us to do that.
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  It's the Word of God that can do that.
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  I have such a love for the Word of God because it was the word
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  of God that I had to hold on to in so many situations in my
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  life. It was the word of God that
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  helped me. It was the Word of God that
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  comfort me. It was the Word of God that
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  convicts me and will correct me when I'm off.
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  It's the word of God that does it.
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  No one can come to me and give me anything logical that could
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  help me to change, but the Word of God did when I was in my sin.
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  It wasn't my mother, it wasn't my my father, it wasn't my
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  sister who convinced me to turn my life around.
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  It was the Word of God and the power that was with the Word of
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  God when it was preached. And even now, it's the Word of
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  God that keeps me in line and causes me to repent.
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  When the Spirit convicts me of things that I do that are off
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  and I do, there are times that I am off and the word of God is
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  there to help me with those things just like it's there for
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  you. The Word of God, it's powerful.
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  It's powerful and the man of God.
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  Paul talks about the man of God with a man of God.
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  You know, Timothy is the only one that he referred to as the
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  man of God in the New Testament. In the Old Testament, the man of
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  God was always referred to was just the prophets.
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  They called the prophets the man of God.
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  When the prophet came to town, all the man of God is here.
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  It was the prophets, but here twice in the book of first and
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  second Timothy, he refers to Timothy as a man of God.
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  Here in this scripture and also back in first Timothy chapter 6
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  verse 11 refers to as the man of God.
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  And the man of God is a messenger, someone who brings a
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  message of God. And thank God that Paul, man of
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  God, was a good example for Timothy during the time when
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  Timothy needed a good example. Timothy's own father was not a
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  believer. His mother and his grandmother
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  was a believer, but his father wasn't.
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  Paul became his spiritual father, a spiritual father.
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  And that's why it's important for us to be able to have
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  spiritual children in the faith. If we're walking with the Lord
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  as adults, we should have spiritual children in the faith,
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  people that we can pour into. Bible says that from a child
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  Timothy knew the Scriptures because he was given to her from
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  his own mother and his grandmother.
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  It is so important that if you have young children to expose
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  them now to the Scriptures. Expose them now to the
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  Scriptures. Give it to them as often as you
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  can, as much as you can. When they get old, those things
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  don't go anywhere. Regardless of what decisions
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  they make, the Scripture is there.
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  The truth is there, and trust me, they do.
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  They get old and they make their own decisions.
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  And you wonder sometime, did you hear anything that I said to you
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  when you were younger? Did you hear anything?
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  But without a doubt the scriptures are real and they are
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  true and they are good to help one to find salvation, able to
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  make one wise for salvation and can save souls.
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  It's the scriptures that can do that.
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  Thank you for tuning in to Living Waters of Grace with
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  Pastor Lewis Harrell. We're currently in the books of
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  First and Second Timothy. Some of the things included in
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  these New Testament letters from Paul are that the young and
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  newly established Pastor Timothy was being encouraged to hold
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  fast to what was true. He was challenged to confront
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  and address the false teachers that were rising up.
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  He was also reminded to accept his calling to the ministry with
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  gratefulness and to address the happenings going on in the
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  Ephesian church. Paul was imparting his
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  experience and knowledge to the next generation.
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  Timothy was receptive to learning and gleaning what he
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  could from Paul's wisdom. This is how it should be in
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  ministry across multiple generations.
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  Those who have lived a little more life should be open to
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  sharing their successes and also things they've learned along the
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  way. That we're not a win.
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  The younger generations coming up can learn and appreciate much
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  from those ahead of them, and perhaps avoid some of the same
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  pitfalls that their mentors work through mentoring.
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  It's a beautiful relationship when the hearts are in the right
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  place to learn and grow. You trust that you're in a
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  community where this is happening.
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  Older ones providing advice and wisdom, and each side learning
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  and growing from one another. This certainly was the case for
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  Paul and Timothy as they were comrades for the sake of the
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  gospel. For more information on where
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  this teaching came from, go to calvarychapelonline.com.
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  There you can also learn about our service times to join us in
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  person. This has been living waters of
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  grace.