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Episode 59: No Looking Back · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Lord Jesus Christ, we bless and magnify your great and marvelous name that is
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above every name. If every need bows, every tongue confesses that you are
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Lord, we thank you for this glorious day that you have made. We
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shall rejoice and we gladden you, the God of our salvation. We thank
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you for your many blessings that you've bestowed upon us. We thank you for
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the joy that feels our souls. That living water. Lord, you promise
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to be in us a well of water springing up to everlasting life. And
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we thank you for the refreshing. We thank you for the cleansing. We
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thank you for washing away our sins and making us new creations. In Christ
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Jesus, bless now your word on today. Lord, we prayed it somewhere
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somebody we'll hear the voice crying out to them, or God calling to them,
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a man to come and taste and see that the Lord is good.
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Save. Lord is only you can redeem and set free by your mighty power.
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This day we give you the praise, the glory, and the honor
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in Jesus name. Amen and Amen, all right, God bless you again.
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Thank God again for a man his many blessings that He has bestowed upon
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us. We are the recipients of many, many, many, many benefits.
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Amen, more than we can number. Amen, at the a man
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hand of the One who made us a man. Not we are ourselves,
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as the Psalmon said, we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
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And today we enter in a man, into all of the blessings that
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God has in store for us. So so again we thank God for a
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man, another opportunity to a man, proclaim the truth of God, to
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stand a man in such a time as this, a man, to speak,
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a man the oracles of God. It is a privilege, It is
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a privilege. It is a calling a man, the highest of callings,
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a man in this earth, because a man, we are dealing with the
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eternal destination of the souls of men. A man in nothing else is more
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important a man. And that is why certainly we are in this particular series
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asking this very important question. Are you saved? Amen? Are you saved
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a man? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Amen?
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Have you a man repented and received the precious gift of the Holy Spirit?
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A man? John said, I baptize with water. But there is one
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coming after me, a man who who is mightier than I. Amen,
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I can't even tie his shoes. A man he will baptize you with the
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Holy Ghost and fire. Amen. In the Lord Jesus is the one who
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is the savior, who is the redeemer. Amen. So the very very
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important question is are you saved? Amen? Are you saved? Amen?
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That's what we're dealing with in this particular series. Amen. In today we're
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going to be in the Gospel of Luke and also in First John and closing
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with a passage from Matthew chapter number thirteen. So if you have your Bibles,
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somebody can answer the question are you saved? Amen? We want to be
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saved. We want to be ready when Jesus returns. We are looking for
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him. Amen. So again we thank all of you who pray for and
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support the work of this ministry as well, and we pray God's blessings upon
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you and yours always all right to the word of the Lord today. The
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Gospel of Luke chapter number nine, and the title of our amen's session for
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today is no looking back, Amen, No looking back Amen number fifty seven,
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Verse number fifty seven of Luke chapter number nine. These words are recorded.
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I'm reading from the New King James version. Now. It happened as
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they journey it on the road that someone said to him, Lord, I
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will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, foxes have
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holes and birds of the air have nest, but the son of man has
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nowhere to lay his head. Then he said to another follow me. But
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he said, Lord, let me first go and bury my father. Jesus
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said to him, let the dead bury their own dead, But you go
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and preach the kingdom of God verse sixty one. And another also said,
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Lord, I will follow you, but let me first go and bid them
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farewell, who are at my house. But Jesus said to him, very
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important, first number sixty two. No one having put his hand to the
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plow and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God, Church of
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the Living God, People of God. Amen, there is no looking back.
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We don't look back. Amen, We do not look back, no
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looking back. If you are saved, you're on a path. Amen.
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The Lord has placed you on a path. It is the path of righteousness.
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And we walk in this path of righteousness for his namesake, as the
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psalmon said, he leads me in the path of righteousness for his namesake.
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So, if you are saved, you're on a path a man, a
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straight and narrow a man. Jesus said said, straight is the way,
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Amen. An arrow is the way that leads to life. And that is
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the path a man, that we are on. And also you are in
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a race. If you are saved, you're in a race. The race
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has already been set before you a man, the forerunner has gone before us.
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That's Jesus. The Bible tells us who is the author finisher of our
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faith. He has us in the race. And now please keep in mind,
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as we may mention of this before. The race is not given to
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the swift. The battle is not to the strong. This is a race
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of endurance. Amen. So we persevere. We've talked about that already.
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We endure, We persevere. This is a race of in endurance. Amen.
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So if you're saved, you're on a path a man, the path
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of righteousness. If you're saved, you're in a race. You're also on
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a destination. Your destination, ladies and gentlemen. I've said this before.
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Nation is not heaven, Amen. If the Lord will, we're saving people
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just to take them to heaven. There's no need for Amen, for us
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to even Amen, live live life, out through our lives, out through
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through the through the all of the stuff we have to go through in this
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world. He can simply just save us and take us out, Amen,
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Just just just save people in and take them to heaven. Amen. But
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that's not what this is all about. This salvation is not only about Amen,
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seeing Jesus one day, and we certainly are looking forward to that,
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Amen. We certainly want to walk those streets of gold Jesus said, I
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have a place prepared for you in my father's house, and many matches.
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We're certainly looking forward to that. Amen. But our destination, ladies and
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gentlemen, Church of the Living God, is to be more like Jesus.
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Every day. We are to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ.
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So again, if you are saved first and foremost, you're on a path,
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the path of righteousness. You are in a race. We have to
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run this race with patience. The Bible says, keeping your eyes on Jesus,
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who is the author and the finnisher of your faith. And we are
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certainly on a destination. And again that destination is to be like Jesus more
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and more every day of your life. Now we're going to see again also
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in the Gospel of Luke that one of the sternest warnings Luke seventeen, verse
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thirty two, one of the sternest warnings in the Word of God, came
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from Jesus himself. It is one of the shortest verses in the Bible.
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Also just three words. But this warning came from Jesus with these three words,
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Remember Lot's wife, Amen, Remember Lot's wife. Amen. You know
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what happened. If you know the story. Amen, she looked back.
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Amen, she looked back because her soul a man was tied to. She
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was longing for. She wanted to And the Lord warned, when you,
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amen, come out, when God bring you out. And that's what he
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did. He brought them out, brought them out of the city, brought
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them out of the danger. Amen, brought them away from the destruction.
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Amen, the judgment of God that fell upon Sodom and Gamara. But she
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looked back, and the warning was do not look back. Amen, Amen,
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do not look back. We are not to look back, ladies and
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gentlemen. So Jesus issued this warning. Amen to amen, this generation,
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any generation, anyone who says they want to follow Jesus. Amen, why
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I will follow you? These these three individuals I just read from Luke Amen,
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chapter number nine. I will follow you, but let me do this
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first. But but but but Amen. With there there is no butts.
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Amen. And Jesus replied to the third individual, was no one having put
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his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the Kingdom of God.
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Amen. And so again Jesus issues this warning about looking back, and
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he says to all of us remember Lot's wife. Amen. Looking back is
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detrimental. Amen. Looking back is not what Amen. We've been called to
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do. Amen. And and and and if you'll say you are saved to
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the utmost, that's what Jesus does. Amen. Jesus saves to the utmost.
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No one is partially saved. There's no such thing as half saved.
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Amen. There's no such thing as incrementally saved. Amen. Those who are
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saved are delivered. Amen. We have been delivered. That's what it means.
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That's the very definition of saved. I have been delivered again. Too
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many people are so focused only on being saved, meaning that they go to
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heaven one day. Amen. No, no, no, Jesus saved us
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from our sins. That's what the Bible tells us. Matthew, Amen,
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the Gospel of Matthew. When you know when the announcement came from Heaven concerning
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the Savior coming into the world by way of the virgin birth, he shall
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will save his people from their sins. Amen. Jesus did not save us
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again just to take us to heaven. Amen. We are saved to be
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holy, righteous, and live godly right here in this present where we are
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saved to be living epistles known and read A men were saved, to be
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that city set up on a hill with the salt in the light of the
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earth. We are saved and and and and delivered to be ambassadors Amen for
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Christ witnesses. Amen, proclaiming showing forth. Amen. The Bible says,
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the praises of him who has brought you out of the darkness. And so
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there is no incremental Amen. Partial. So either you're saved or you're not.
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Either you're delivered or you're not. Either you're free or you're not.
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Amen. And he whom the sun sets free, the Bible says, I'm
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in the word, y'all. He whom the sun sets free is free indeed.
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Amen. And this is what we've been stressing throughout this series and in
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the very outset. Amen. We certainly and I'm going to re emphasize this,
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let you know again, Remind you again, if you will, what
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we are saved, what we are delivered from. Amen. And we need
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to understand that what have we been saved from. Number One, we talked
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about the fact that we are saved from self. Amen, from self,
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that old man, the carnal man, Amen, the man that that is
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against God by nature. We are, the Bible say, enemies of God.
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Amen. And then, of course we are saved from sin. The
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Bible says, Sin shall no longer have dull minion over you. And when
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you're when you are saved, what that means, you're delivered. You are
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delivered from the power of sin. Sin has no longer has to mean.
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You know your number three. You are delivered from Satan. A man,
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Satan nor any of his demons. A man again, have no more power
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or authority over you in your life. A man. And now that doesn't
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mean he's not going to attack, doesn't mean he's not going to try to
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persuade you to come back a man. That doesn't mean he's not going to
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throw everything in his arsenal at you. Of course he is a man.
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He is your adversary, and the Bible tells us that your adversary, the
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devil, goes about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
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He's not going to stop attacking. But know this, understand this, that
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God has given you the power. He's equipped you with the authority over all
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of the works of the darkness of the devils. A man of Satan himself.
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And then, of course we've been delivered from death. Amen. We've
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been delivered from death. He who lives and believes in me Jesus said,
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never dies. Amen. Jesus died to death. We die with him.
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Amen. And we will not taste of the second death. Amen. So
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in Christ Jesus we amen, live and have eternal life. And then,
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of course, amen, we've been delivered from the darkness. Amen. I've
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already made mention of that. Amen. We've in the light. We walk
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in the light, we live in the light. Jesus is the light.
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God is light, the Bible says, and in Him there is no darkness
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at all. So we are living am in the light and not in the
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darkness. Amen. We don't grope around and a madness being toast to and
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fraud in this world, a man with blindness a man because we are not
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in the darkness. We are not of those who not of those who are
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of the night, but we are of those who are of the day,
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a man. And the light has come. God commanded the light to shine
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into our hearts, and that is why we are no longer in the darkness.
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And then, of course number six, we have been delivered from the
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condemnation. There is therefore now Romans eight one, no condemnation to those who
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are in Christ Jesus a man, those who walk not after the flesh,
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but after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ
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Jesus. The Bible deaths us know has made us free from the law of
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sin and death. We are not under the condemnation a man, because we
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have been again delivered our sins forgiven. We have been washed, a man,
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made new, a man. Partakers, heirs, joint heirs, kings,
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priests, you name it. All of the benefits, all of what
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God has promised a man for his people, we are partakers of that.
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We are not under the condemnation. And final certainly, we are saved.
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We are delivered from the wrath to come. The Bible tells us that God
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is not appointing us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus
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Christ. Or again, these things are very important for us to understand,
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as the people of God. Amen, so that we can have this assurance.
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Amen. Those of us who are saved have this assurance those of us
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who are saved. The Bible also lets us know, lets us know that
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we are sealed unto the day of redemption. Those who are saved have the
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Holy Spirit living inside of them, the witness. Amen, the witness of
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the Holy Spirit is inside of you. How can you not know that you
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are saved a man, If you are saved, you have the Holy Spirit.
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The Bible says, he does not have the Spirit of Christ, is
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none of his. You don't belong to him. And certainly, if you
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have the Holy Spirit, there's no way that you cannot know that you have
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the spirit of the Living God, because he said the Spirit bears witness with
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our spirit that we are the children of God. Amen. So those who
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are saved have the Holy Spirit inside of them. And there is again no
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looking back, Amen, Absolutely no looking back. For the people of God,
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there is no turning back. There is no going back. Amen.
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Again. Every person that Jesus saves, is saved, is delivered, is
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set free. Amen. And he does not leave us. Amen. He
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does not leave us. Ever, he said, I'll never leave you,
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I'll never forsake you. Amen. God doesn't save us and then leave us
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alone to do the best that we can, to hang on and hope that
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we can. Amen. Just scrape by and get into the Kingdom of heaven.
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No, no, no, no, just just maybe we can get
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the victory over the devil man. Or maybe maybe if I you know,
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I can. I think I got enough strengthen me. No no no,
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no no no no no no no no no no no no, no no
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no. Please read your Bible. Amen. Those whom God saves, Amen,
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Those whom He saves, he preserves them, and he keeps them from
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falling. Amen. This is this is This is the Bible. This is
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scripture, y'all. This is why it's so important that we know the word
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of the Living God, and we are in the word a man. The
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Word is in us. Amen. God saves to the utmost. Amen.
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He saves us, he preserves us. The Bible says, he keeps us
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from falling. Amen. Because his ultimate purpose a man is to present us
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faultless before his presence with exceeding joy. That's what the Bible says. And
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so the God works in us to do a man of his good pleasure,
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a man. He is the author and the finisher of our faith. And
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the Bible tells us also, this is the assurance that we have that the
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Lord Jesus himself spoke of in the Gospel of John, chapter number ten.
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His sheep a man. All of his sheep are safe and secure in the
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Father's hand, and no one can pluck them out. These are the words
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of Jesus. He said, my sheep hear my voice, and a stranger,
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they will not follow. They will flee from a stranger. So those
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who are following strangers, those who are following hirings, those hirelings, those
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who are following false prophets, those who are following false teachings, are not
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of the sheep a man. They are not of the sheep. Because God's
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people saved people the sheep. Amen, who belong to Jesus. They follow
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him, they hear him, they know him, and he knows them.
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Amen. That's why I always take comfort in this scripture. Amen. The
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foundation stands assure. The Lord knows them. That are his. Amen.
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God knows everyone who belongs to him. Amen. He knows who's saved and
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who's not. That's not my it's not my calling. I'm not called to
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Amen be the judge and the discerner of who's saved and who's not. Amen.
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Although although the scriptures we've talked about this briefly in the previous session.
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Although the Bible is and we talked about this, especially particularly when we dealt
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with fruitfulness, because God desires from those of us who are saved fruitfulness.
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Amen. That we should go and bear fruit. Amening, that our fruit
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should remain Amen. He said, a good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit,
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and a bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit. You will know them
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by their fruit. Amen. And so again we ought to be productive fruit
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bearing Amen, people of God. Amen. And that is one of the
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telltale signs of a person, whether or not they are saved. Amen.
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Fruitfulness Amen, the fruit of the spirit working inside of them. Amen.
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Again, God working in us, both to will and to do of his
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good pleasure. Amen. We're not seeking to please others, We're seeking to
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please Him. Amen. And we don't look back. Amen. We don't
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turn back. We don't go back. Amen, no looking back. Let
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me take you the First John, chapter number one, and I'm going to
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read verses five through seven, and then I'm gonna go to first John.
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You stay right there into chapter number two. This apostle John, of course,
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was one of the apostles, one of the disciples, a man who
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was with Jesus. Amen. Peter James John. He was one of those
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that John who was in the inner circle. Amen. And so he wrote,
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Amen to the church, and I want you to hear what he has
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to say. Amen about Amen, the children of God. Amen. The
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difference, Amen, is that it is clear, that is manifest, that
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that is to be known. Amen. This is someone again again who was
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an eyewitness, who was there with Jesus, who heard a man who traveled
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with him, who was again in that inner circle. Amen. This is
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the message First John, chapter one, verse five, which we have heard
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from him. He's talking about Jesus, and declare to you that God is
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light and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we
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have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice
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the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the
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light, listen what the Bible says. We have fellowship with one another,
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and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
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Oh, thank you Jesus. Amen. Now let me go to chapter
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number two of First John. Amen, because he said this is the message.
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Amen, this is the message. We're walking in the light and nod
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the darkness. See, we were in the darkness. So again, if
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you're turning back, if you're looking back, what are you looking back?
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Darkness? You're going back to the darkness. You can't walk into light and
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be in the darkness at the same time. Amen. And so if you
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are walking in the light, you are in fellowship with everyone else who is
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in the light. Amen. The Bible says, we have fellowship with one
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another. Amen. We have fellowship one with another. First John, Chapter
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two, verse number one, My little children, these things I write to
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you so that you may not sin. Amen. And if anyone sins,
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we Now he's talking about the Church, the people of God, Amen,
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the children of God, the sheep of His pastor, saints Christians, Amen,
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those who are saved, those who have the Holy Spirit. Now he
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writes to us so that we may not sin. We are not to practice
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sin. We're not to engage in sin of any kind at any time.
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We are too, as Jesus told us to be. Ye. Therefore perfect
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even at your Father and Heaven is perfect. However, we are all prone
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a man to sinning and falling short of the glory of God. And John
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the Apostle certainly was very aware of this himself. A man. So this
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is why he writes these words. This is not an excuse. This is
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not a license. Grace is not a license for sin. Forgiveness, it's
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not a license for sin. A man, But he says, I write
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these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins,
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listen what he says. We the Church of the Living God. Oh
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man, Oh, thank you ge oh, thank you for your forgiveness,
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thank you for deliverance, thank you for amen. This this, this,
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this privilege we have amen to come to you when we sin and falls short
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of your glory. And so he says, if anyone sins, he's talking
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about the people of God. We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
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Christ, the Righteous. He is our advocate. Amen. He makes intercession
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for us. He's the one who a man will a man stand and plead
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our case. That's what he does. And this is what the Bible says
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verse number two. And he himself is the propitiation for our sins. He
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himself is Amen. He paid the price the penalty. Amen, he is
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the p propitiation for our sins. And so not for ours only, but
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also for the whole world. Now by this we know. This is what
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the Bible says, that we know him if we keep his commandments. By
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this, we know that we know it. See, this is what we
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just We just did a whole Amen. Seven eight weeks sessions on these biblical
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proofs. Amen, of our salvation. Salvation again is not just simply lip
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service. I mean a lot of people giving lip service. But the proof
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is in our as we talked about obedience. Amen, By this, John
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writes, we know that we know him if we keep his commandments. He
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who says I know him, I know Jesus. I'm a Christian, I'm
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saved. Amen. He who says and does not keep his commandments, this
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is what the Bible says, is a liar, and the truth is not
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in him. And if the truth is not in you, you're in bundage.
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Amen. The truth, Jesus says, you'll know the truth. Truth
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make you free. He whom the Son says free free indeed. And so
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if you're a liar, the Bible says, the truth is not in you.
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And the liar is the one who says that, who professes that he
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is a Christian, a believer. Amen, saved a man but does not
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keep the commandments of Jesus. Amen. That that's incongruent with salvation. Again
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again, all of these people, everybody want to holler and say that I'm
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saved, you know, because say everybody wants their ticket to heaven. So
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they make that you know that that that confession, so to speak with their
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mouth. But in works in their obedience. A man, where is the
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obedience? By this we know that we know him if we keep his commandments.
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He who says I know him and does not keep his commandments, this
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is a word of Living God is a liar, the Bible says, and
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the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word, thank you
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Jesus. Truly, the love of God is perfected in him. See there's
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a perfection of sanctification. That's what we talked about, a man's sanctification process.
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That happens. The word of God cleanses us. The word of God
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purifies us. The word of God brings conviction. Amen. And so this
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is why it's important that we have and know the word of the Living God.
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By this we know that we are in him. Amen. Word of
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God, this is it. This is it. But he who says,
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he who says Verse number six. He abides in him, aught himself also
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to walk just as he walked. If you say that you are in Jesus,
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then you walk like Jesus, you act like Jesus, You do like
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Jesus did. Amen. That's what the Bible says. Y'all amen. Look
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at verse number seven, brethren, John says, I write no new commandment
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to you, but in old commandment, which you have had from the beginning.
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The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. Again,
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a new commandment. I write to you, which thing is true in
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him and in you. Because listen to what he says. The darkness is
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passing away, and the true light is already shining. That's Jesus who came
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into the world, this world world of darkness, a man. Jesus made
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that declaration one of the seven I am sayings in the book in the Gospel
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of John. I am the light of the world. I am the light
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of the world. So the true light is Jesus Christ, a man,
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the light of the world. And he who says he is in the light
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and hates his brother Verse No. Nine. Listen what the Bible says,
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he who says he is in the light, and hates his brother. It's
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in darkness. Unto now, he who loves his brother abides in the light,
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and there's no cause for stumbling in him. But he who hates his
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brother is in darkness, the Bible says, And walks in darkness and does
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not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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A man hatred, hatred a man. And Amen, come on, come
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on, y'all, somebody, somebody got to tell the truth. Amen,
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somebody got to be truthful. Amen. The truth will set you free.
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Amen. You cannot hate amen. And and and you can't hate your brother
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and say you're in the light. You're not. That's what the Bible says.
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He says, I write to you Verse number twelve, little children,
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because your sins are forgiving you for his name's sake. I write to you
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father's because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to
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you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write
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to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I have
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written to you fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning.
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Amen. I have written to you, young men, because you are
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strong in the word of God abides and you and you have overcome. Oh,
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thank you Jesus, overcome the wicked one. Amen. That's what the
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Bible speaks of us being overcomers. Well overcome, We overcome, we overcome.
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That's all in our perseverance. Amen, we overcome. Listen what the
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Bible says, very important, very important verse of scripture, verse fifteen.
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Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves
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the world, what is Jesus three letter three word rather warning, three word
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warning Luke seventeen thirty two. Remember Lot's wife, don't look back. Do
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not love the world. Don't don't don't don't. Don't. You gotta these
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things, hold them loosely, y'all. Amen. These are temporary treasures,
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temporary things, temporary possessions. Amen. Do not love the world or the
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thing in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Bible says,
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the love of the Father is not in him. Now, somebody ain't telling
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the truth, y'all. Amen. You cannot love this world and call yourself
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a Christian, a believer, one who is saved, a saint. Amen.
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And again we're not talking about people, We're talking about this world system.
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Amen. That's the distinction here. He's talking about this world system that
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is against God, that is anti Christ. Amen. This world is a
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man against God at enmity with God. And if you love the world,
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amen, this is what the Bible says. If you love the world,
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the love of the Father is not in you. Amen. For all that
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is in the world again, this world, this whole world system, all
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that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of
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the eyes, and the pride of life. That's all Amen. That's all
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the whole system is all about. Amen, those three things. Lust of
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the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life. None of it
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is of the Father, but is of the world. And if you find
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yourself attached to that, drawn to that, seduced by that, taken by
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that, there is something missing. There's something wrong, Amen, Because the
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Bible says, if anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is
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not in him. Amen. The world is passing away Verse No. Seventeen.
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And the lust of it. But he who does the will of God
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abides for ever. Listen to these verses, say, especially the last verse.
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And I'm going to read from this particular chapter, verse number nineteen verse
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eighteen. First, this isn't what the Bible says. First John, Chapter
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two, verse eighteen, Little children, it is the last hour. Na.
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John wrote this, Amen, almost two thousand years ago. And certainly,
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Amen, we were already in the last days, because when Jesus came
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back, I'm sorry, when Jesus came the first time in the incarnation and
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did his earthly ministry and paid the price, Amen for our sins. Amen,
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died to death that we deserved. Die, was laid in the grave,
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resurrected, and amen, Amen, send it back to heaven. Amen,
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the last days begin. Amen. At that time, we are in
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the latter end of the last day. So when John wrote amen, these
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amen urged, I mean we were already in the last days. So listen
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what he says, little children. It is the last hour. And as
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you have heard that the anti Christ is coming, even now many Antichrists,
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little, Amen, those who are against that's a small a. The first
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one is the capitol a anti Christ, the anti Christ. Amen, devil
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incarnate. Amen, the anti Christ is coming. And even now many small
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antichrist, that is in the sense that they are against God. Amen,
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against Christ. Amen, many anti Christs have come by which we know that
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it is the last hour. Remember, the Bible tells us a book relation.
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The devil knows he has a short time. He already knows that.
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Amen, and so he is busy at work. Amen. But again,
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when you are in him, when you are truly saved, when you are
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truly delivered, you have the power over all of the works of the darkness,
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over all of the works of the adversary, and all of his demonic
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forces. God has given us power, and he never leaves us, He
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never forsakes us. He who begun this work in us, he will perform
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it until the day of Jesus Christ. Now listen to this. I want
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it is very very very important, very important, because again I made a
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statement on several statements when I first began a man. Because it's very important
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that we understand a man, that those of us who are saved are sealed
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until the day of redemption. Those of us who are saved have blessed assurance.
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Those of us who are truly saved. Amen, we do not look
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back, We do not go back, We do not fall back. Amen.
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No, no, no, no, Those who are truly saved are
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saved. Otherwise, listen, how can you know, God be the savior,
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but he can't save and keep. He can save. He saves us,
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but but but then the rest is up to us. He saves us,
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but then all he can do is hope that we can hold on and
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make it to the end. That's not what this salvation is all about.
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No, God saves us to the utmost. Amen. And So when you
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see people falling away, and I'm sure you're ran in the scriptures saying I'm
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sorry. First John chapter two, verse nineteen, I'm about to read.
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Amen, when you see people falling away, as it were, from the
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faith, there is a reason why. And I'm going to take you to
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Amen, the Gospel of Matthew. Also, But listen what the Bible says.
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Verse John, chapter two, verse nineteen. They went out from us,
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they who these little anti christs? Amen, they went out from us,
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the Bible says, but they were not of us. For if they
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had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went
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out that they might be made manifest that none of them were of us?
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Are you? I mean that needs no explanation, y'all. There really doesn't
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need any explanation. Amen. It is a clear delineation. It is a
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clear and this is clear teaching in the description. I'm gonna take you to
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the Gospel of Matthew, also a man that what we have in the church,
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what we have inside of the kingdom, as it were, a false
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professors of the faith. That's who they are, these who are actually enemies
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of Christ. This is what the Bible says from John. They went out
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from us, but they were never saved, they were never of us.
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Because to you, if you were saved, you're saved, you're delivered,
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you're free. You love Jesus. He loves you, he's called you,
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he's purposed you. But again you have these who infiltrate, who come into
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first not for second Corinthians. I mean, I think it's chapter eleven.
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Paul writes about these false apostles, and no marvel at this, he says,
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because Satan himself is transformed as an angel of light. Therefore it is
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no great minute mystery if his ministers, the devil has his own ministers and
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preachers and his own children, and Jesus excoriated. Amen, the Jews,
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the unbelieving Jews of his day. Amen, He's told them point blank,
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you are of your father, the devil, and the deeds of your father,
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you will do so, John says. Listen, if they had been
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saved, if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.
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Those who are saved stay in the faith. They remain in the faith
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because they are saved. That's what saved means. You're delivered, Amen,
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You He saved you, He rescued you. Amen. The reason they went
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out from us, the Bible says, was to manifest the fact that none
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of them were of us. Let me read that verse one more time.
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They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if
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they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they
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went out that they might be made manifest that none of them were. That
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means they were never were saved. None of them were of us. The
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Church, the people of God, the saints, the true believers, those
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who have truly saved, truly washed in the blood of the land, truly
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redeemed, truly children of God, and the apostle Paul. Paul even woren
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Titus about these unsaved, Amen, heretics, these unsaved professors, Amen,
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that would be amongst the assembly of the saints. They profess to know God,
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he wrote, but in works they deny him. They profess to know
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God, but in works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and
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to every good work reprobate. These are again professors of the faith who were
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never delivered, never purge from their sins. Almost all of these are church
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attendees at some point in their so called profession of faith. And they are
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the tears that Jesus talked about among the weak in this parable. If you
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have your Bibles, you can turn with me to Matthew chapter number thirteen.
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Jesus spoke about this himself a man. This is what the apostles knew and
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understood. And as we're going to see here, they ask for an explanation
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of the parable from Jesus, and he gave it to them and to us.
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Amen. Another parable verse number twenty for Matthew chapter thirteen. He put
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forth to them, saying, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who
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sold good seed in his field. But while men slept, Come on,
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wake up, church, We gotta wake up y'all. Amen. While men
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slept, his enemy came and sold tears among the wheat and went his way.
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But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop. Then the tears
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also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him,
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Sir, did you not sold good seed in your field? How then does
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it have tears? He said to them, an enemy has done this.
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The servants said to him, do you want us then to go and gather
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them up? But he said, no, less, while you gather up
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the tears, you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow to
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gather until the harvests. And at the time of harvests, I will say
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to the reapers, first, gather together the tears and bind them in bundles
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to burn them. But gather the wheat into my barn. Amen. And
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those of those of you who are familiar with this parable already know the interpretation.
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The meaning a man is a man pretty much straightforward. But thank you
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Jesus, he didn't leave it for us to a man interpret on our own.
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The disciples did not understand what Jesus was talking about at the time,
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and so they asked Jesus for a man the meaning of this particular parable,
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a man of the tears of the field. So Jesus dutifully a man a
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man gave to us. Thank you Jesus. What this parable means? Amen?
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So the Bible tells us in verse thirty six. When Jesus sent the
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multitude away went to the house, the disciples came to Jesus saying, please,
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Lord, Amen, explain to us the parable of the tears of the
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field. And so Jesus answered and said to them, he who soulds the
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good seed is the son of Man. There you have it. The seed
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that is sown a man is sowned by Jesus himself. Amen, the good
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seed. Amen. He who sows the good seed is the son of man.
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Now where is he sowing the seed, the good seed in the world?
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He says, The field is the world. Look at verse thirty eight.
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The field is the world. So the Lord souls his seed in the
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world, the field, the good seed, the good seed are. Listen
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what he says, the sons of the kingdom. So God, a man
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souls his children his seed good seed in the world. Where in the world,
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But not what of the world. So number one, the sore.
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There's also a parable of the sore, you sir, and you can read
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that one as well. He who solds the good seed is the son of
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man. The field is the world. The good seeds are the sons of
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the kingdom. But the tears, the weeds, amen, are the sons
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of the wicked one. You see that, very clear, very clear,
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crystal clear. Sons of the kingdom, sons of the wicked one. But
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they are all together where in the world. Amen, the field is the
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world. So we're all here together. You have the sons of the kingdom,
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and you have the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sold
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them, who sold the tears, is the devil. Look what Jesus says,
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is it words to him? Amen, the Lord himself. The enemy
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who sold them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age,
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and the reapers are the angels. Therefore, as the tears are gathered
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and burned in the fire, listen what Jesus says. So it will be
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at the end of this age, the son of Man he's speaking of himself,
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will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom
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all things that offend. See, the kingdom belongs to him. Thine is
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the kingdom, Thine is the power, and Thine is the glory. It
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all belongs to him. So he's going to gather out of his kingdom.
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All things that offend. Amen. Sin is offensive. Amen. God hates
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sin. That's why Jesus came. Amen. So all things that offend,
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and those who practice lawlessness. Amen. That's why we do not practice sin.
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If we sin, we have an advocate with the Father, a man.
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If we run, we run to the throne, a man of grace,
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that we may obtain merchant, find grace to help. The Bible says,
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in the time of need, and so those who practice lawlessness, those
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and those who offend, the Bible says, will be cast into the furnace
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of fire, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. These are
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the words of Jesus. Then the righteous, Oh thank you, Lord,
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will shine forth as the son in the kingdom of their father. He who
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has ears to hear Jesus says, let him hear. Church of the Living
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God, people of God. There is no turning back, There is no
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looking back. There is no going back. We do not look back,
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Amen, because those who are of Amen. As John wrote again, those
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who are of us will continue with us. If you are saved, if
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you are truly saved, you don't go back. You don't look back.
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You're not like Lot's wife. Your love is for the world. Your love
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is for the things of the world, the lust of the flesh, the
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lust of the eyes, pride of life. No, no, no,
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no no, not the people of God. Amen. So we are not
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looking back, but we are pressing on towards the mark of the prize of
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the high calling of God in Christ. Jesus Father, help us today to
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stand at such a time as this, Amen, to be an example to
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the unbelievers. Amen, so that somebody somewhere will come to see and know
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that you are the Truth and the Living God, that you are the Savior,
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the redeemer of all of them that call upon your name. In truth
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and sincerity. Blessing, we shall be blessed. Keeping you, we shall
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be kept in the name of Jesus Christ. We pray and give you thanks
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for all things. Amen and Amen.