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Episode 61: Saved People Get Along · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence comes my help.
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My help comes from the Lord, the Lord who made the heavens and earth.
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He will not suffer my foot to be moved. He that keeps Israel
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neither slumbers nor sleeps. The Lord is our keeper, He is our shade
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upon the right hand. The sun will not smite us by day, nor
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the moon by night. The Lord will preserve us from all evil. He
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will preserve our souls. Father, we thank you for this great salvation to
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which you have called us. We thank you for the love of God that
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is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy ghost that is given unto
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us. We thank you for being the light in the darkness, Lord,
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shining the light of glory in our hearts, that we might be changed,
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renewed, restored, revived and made new creations in you, sons of God.
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Now now, now, we are the children of God, the sons
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of God. Doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know,
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and we have this great hope that when you shall appear, we are
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going to be like you. We're going to see you as you are in
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all of your glory. Father, help us today to finish this race with
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the patience that we need or God, keeping our eyes on you as the
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author and the finisher of our faith. If you bless us, we shall
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be blessed. If you keep us, we shall be kept. We give
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you the glory of the honor, the praise that is due only to you,
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both now and for evermore. In the name of Jesus Christ. We
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pray and give thanks for all things. Amen and Amen. All right,
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God bless you again. We thank you, Amen again for tuning in those
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of you who faithfully they've been tune into this radio broadcasts, and for those
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of you who are perhaps listening for the first time. Amen. This is
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the In Time Revival Ministries USA broadcast and podcast. I am your host,
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Pastor al Zachary, And today certainly we are grateful to the Lord again for
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boldly, Amen, with love, in such a time as this. This
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is our endeavor to faithfully a man declare a man the word of the Living
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God. We need God's truth a man. We need the truth that sets
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us free. Amen. We are set free by the truth of the Living
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God, through the power of God, the power of the Holy Spirit.
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A man that breathes life into our dead souls. Amen. We are dead
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in our trespasses and sins. But God, but God, a man because
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of and through his great love, he quickens us and makes us alive a
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man to the things of God. So we are grateful a man to be
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partakers of this great hope. Amen, we certainly pray that those of you
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who are still outside of the ark of safety, we pray that the Lord
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will a man, open your eyes, open your ears, open your hearts,
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open your understanding to receive Jesus Christ, to know that he is the
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only way Amen for any of us to be saved. We are praying for
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your soul salvation a man. What does the prophet a man Jesus asks to
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gain the whole world and to lose his soul. What can a man give
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in exchange for his soul? There is nothing that we can give in exchange
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for our souls. The soul of man is precious, It is precious,
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it is eternal, and it is precious a man. And so today we
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are continuing in our series a man on this question are you saved? And
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today I want to visit a man something pertaining primarily to the church, a
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man. To those of you who are in the church, a man,
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we are asking this question, are you saved? If you are in the
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church but we want to emphasize a man emphatically something that is and must be
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a hallmark of those who are saved, and that is we must have unity.
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In other words, need to be able to get along with each other.
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Amen. This is troubling. This is troubling, Amen, in our
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churches today, Amen, we need to be able to get along. So
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today our emphasis is on saved people. Get along. Save people, get
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along, y'all. Amen. We gotta get along with one another. I'm
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talking about with one another in this world. And sadly, sadly, I
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have heard it said by Amen, some people, a man who professed to
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be saved. I'm not questioning anyone's salvation, Amen, But they profess to
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be saved, and they say that they have more friends in the world than
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they have in the church. Now, there can be a host of possibilities
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why this would be true, and I'm not again not questioning, Amen,
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And I don't want to go into all the reasons or the possible abilities why
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this may be true. One of them, perhaps may be the fact that
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they just a man recently came into the faith, and therefore they haven't had
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the time a man. Perhaps they travel a great deal and don't have the
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fellowship within the church a man as much to establish a man lasting friendships and
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relationships. I mean, again, to a host of possibilities why this would
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be true. But I want to believe that it is not because and I
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pray that it is not because of unforgiveness, because of bitterness, a man
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being at the root cause for this kind of unbalanced First and foremost, let
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me say this, if I can add this, the experience and the most
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common testimony of those who have been delivered a man from the sinfulness of this
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world a man. Remember, remember what the Bible teaches, love not the
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world that's not sinners. Now, of course we love and we want sinners
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to be saved. But the world, the world system. Amen, We're
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not. We can have friends in the world, but now not not be
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a friend of the world. Please understand the difference. We can have friends
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in the world, but might be a friend of the world. So but
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but but but The experience and the most common testimony of those a man who
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have been delivered from the sinfulness of this world is that their friends that they
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had were were their friends. Amen, they leave them. Amen. For
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the most part, For the most part, your friends will leave you.
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You don't have to leave them, they will leave you. Amen. And
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the place of friendship in some cases, and again not all cases, there
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is hostility. There's hatred on their part because you are no longer one of
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them in the things that you're doing. Again, that is dependent upon whatever
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kind of lifestyle you may have lived before a man, and the things that
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you were engaging in before a man. The Lord saves you, and this,
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Peter, is something that Peter writes about. By the way, I
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just want to read a couple of verses here in first Peter, this is
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chapter number four a man, verses three and four. Look what he says
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for the time past, In other words, when we were in the world
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a man, when we were in the darkness, and the time past of
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our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the gentiles when we
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walked in lasciviousness, LUs excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable
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idolatries. Wherein verse number four they think it's strange that you run not with
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them. See no more, because now you're a new creation. Now you've
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been saved, now you've been delivered. So you don't do the things that
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you used to do. You don't go to places you used to go.
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Amen. And so they think it's strange the Bible says that you run not
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with them to the same excess of riot. And subsequently, listen what the
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Bible says, they speak evil of you. So the friends that you had,
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the things that you used to do, the places you used to go,
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all of the aman wickedness and evil and sinfulness that you engaged in and
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indulged in a man, you no longer do those things. And so they
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think it's strange that you don't run with them anymore. Amen. And they
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therefore speak evil of you. But verse number twelve, listening and move on,
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he says, verse number twelve. But beloved, think it not strange
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concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you as though some strange thing
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happened to you for the most part, for the most part. Again,
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for the most part, we're not saying this is not a blanket. But
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for the most part, when you are truly saved, you will have few,
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very few friends in the world. The Bible says, how can to
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walk together except they be what agreed? Amen? Amen, Amen, and
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listen listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, and then
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it's not again, as though you can't. And I think sometimes we use
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the word friend and and and and and in some cases, really these people
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are more or less acquaintances. I have plenty of acquaintances, and I have
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I will even call them friends in the world. Amen. But there is
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a difference in my lifestyle and their lifestyle because they are not yet in the
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knowledge of the truth. Amen, they are not yet saved. And those
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of these who are acquaintances of minds, friends of mine, co workers and
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so forth. So long, Amen, people that I know in the world
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and nice people. Amen. I'm not then disparaging and to prey and we
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pray for people again people, And this is why we are out in the
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world. By the way, Amen. We want to be the lightness what
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we're gonna be talking about, also, wanting to be the light, wanting
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to be the salt, wanting to be the difference a man so that we
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can draw them. Jesus said, let your light shine before men, that
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they may see your good works and glorify the Father which is in heaven.
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Other words, we are to not amen, and we are not going to
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be. The Bible makes it clear. Taken out of the world. I
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mean, God's not going to just save us and take us out of here.
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No, we have to live amongst the world being an example a man,
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a man in the world, harmless, doves in the midst of a
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man, snake and vipers and wolves. Amen. But listen, for the
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most part, Amen, we're going to have fewer, much fewer friends in
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the world than we are in the Church. And so if we're going to
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be in the church as we are uniquely called out to be, Amen,
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the church is those who are called out of the world. We have to
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get along with each other. Amen. So listen. There's a situation I
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want to just bring to your attention in the Book of Philippians, and this
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one DEVI into this Amen, because you know, little problems and difficulties and
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challenges as we're going to talk about that in just a little bit that happened
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in the church. There's nothing new. There's nothing new under the sun,
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period. Amen. But say people get along. I mean, we have
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to get along with each other. And Book of Philippians, let me just
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take you there very quickly versus one into him just gonna read the first verses
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there set up this scenario of something that was happening. A man in the
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church at Philippi. A man listen with the Paul, the apostle rights to
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the church. He says, therefore, version number one of Chapter four Philippians.
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Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved, see the brethren other dearly beloved
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and longed for, he said, my joy and crown. So stand fast
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in the Lord, my dearly beloved. I beseech listen what he says.
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I beseech you odious, and beseech syentickie, that they be of the same
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mind in the Lord. Now, obviously Paul had a lot of personal references
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and directives and comments and all of those kinds of things throughout his amen epistles
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that he wrote to the different churches and to certain individuals, And in this
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particular instance, it is believed that there was some kind of contention or strife
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or difference or faction or something of that sort between these two women. These
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were two women, and perhaps some believe they were prominent women who perhaps joined
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the church a man when Paul was on his mission every journey a man,
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and these two women, perhaps again prominent women in the church had some kind
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of division or strife a man, differences of whatever, a man that was
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causing a problem to the point that the apostle Paul had to address it in
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this letter to the Philippian Church. So he says, in version number two,
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I beseech you odious, and beseech synthikey. I urge you a man,
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I urge you to be of the same mind, the same mind in
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the Lord, in the Lord. In other words, let's get along,
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because save people get along. And in order for the church listen, in
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order for the Church of Jesus Christ to be the most effective and to be
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the most unstoppable, which it is entity on earth, as it is designed
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to be. Those of us who are the true believers, those of us
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who are the true worshipers, those of us who are the truly saved saints
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of the most High God, we must work in cohesion with the same mind,
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that is the same mindset. Again, there will be differences of opinions,
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there would be differences in approaches, that we have different personalities. We're
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not talking about that. We're talking about having the same mind that is the
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same mission, the same goal that we are to fulfill and that mission,
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ladies and gentlemen, that goal has been given to the Church by Jesus Christ.
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Go into all the world to preach the Gospel to every creature, making
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disciples of nations of people everywhere. That is our primary mission. And nothing
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else inside of the church should interfere with that. Nothing else inside the church
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should interfere with that. The Bible makes it clear that we are the salt.
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This is the words of Jesus. We are the salt. We are
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the light. We are that city, that visible city up on the hill.
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Amen. We have been set up. That's how Jesus has set us
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up. He has set us up. We are above, we are we
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are lifted up. Amen. Not in this and not in something of pride
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of anything of that sort. But this is the fact that He's lifted us
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up out of the dungeon, out of the pit, out of the dunghill,
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from out of the muck and the mire. Amen, from out of
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the darkness into the light. Amen. So that's who we are called out.
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Amen. The Church and the Bible tells us we are a peculiar people.
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We are the sanctified ones. That is again, we have been set
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apart. That's what sanctification. We are set apart, set apart for what
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for the purpose, Amen, for the cause, for the mission, for
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what the Lord has called us to do, called us to be. Amen,
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we are sanctified, set apart for the purpose of holiness and sanctification.
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A man in Christ, Jesus called out of this world, a holy people,
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a man a kings and priests, a man living epistles the Bible says
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known and read of men. Amen, we are the lights that are to
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be shining in the darkness. As I said earlier, let your light shine.
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Jesus said that men may see. I mean, how can the world
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see? How can they know that there's a difference. We are the difference
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makers. That's what we've been called to be. A man, the difference
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makers in this world. And how can we attract the last souls in the
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darkness? A man who are in the darkness of this world? A man?
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If our lights are not shining, how are we going to attract?
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Amen, people, A man to Jesus, Amen, how are they going
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to see? Amen? As Jesus said that they may see, how are
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they going to see a man? If we are in the darkness, as
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they are. If we are acting as they are, we are a man
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no different from them. Amen. So that the light that is in us,
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the difference that is in us, the salt that is in us a
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man, the holiness of God that is in us, the spirit of the
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Living God that is in us, the love of God that is in us.
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A man has to come out, has to be on this play,
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has to work, a man in us, working out of the working out
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the cardinality, working out of the you know, all of the worldliness,
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all of that has to be worked out of us. It is a process.
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We understand this. We're undergoing a process of sanctification. And it calls
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for us. Amen. The Bible is clear about this. It calls for
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us. Amen. As Paul wrote to Corinthian Church, also there there will
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be times where you will have to suffer the wrong, that you should suffer
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the wrong. Be willing to suffer the wrong when it comes to your brother
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and your sister in the Lord. Amen. You you give up some things
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that you want to do or you want to have your way? Amen,
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Why would you do that? For the betterment? Amen? For the growth,
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for the development, for the purpose, for the mission. Amen.
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You're looking at the hole. It's not about me, it's no longer I
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mean. Amen. So by the love you have one for another, by
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the way, by the love that you have one for another, Jesus says,
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shall all men know that you are my disciples? Indeed, this is
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how men are going to know that you belong to me. Amen. Not
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because of your attendance, your church attendance, your your your white collar that
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you have on, amen. Not not not because of amen, the walk
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that you walk in in in uh, you know, uh, in a
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pious kind of way, kind of like the Pharisees. Did you know the
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way they dressed and the way they walked in and the way they presented themselves
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before men? No, no, no, no, there's not not in
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no things. Amen. It is not in your giving even if. But
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you're living how you live. This is what Jesus has called us to live
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the life. By this, Shall all me know that you are my disciples
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in need by the love, and love is something that has to be on
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display. I reference you to First Cornians chapter thirteen. You can do all
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of these things even give. Paul said, my body to be burned,
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and it will profit me nothing if I don't have the true love of God.
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It's not our talking, but our walking in Christ. Not talking about
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it, but walking it out, walking it out, working it out.
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The Bible tells us charity begins at home, Amen, and this spreads abroad.
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So we have to love one another first in the church. How can
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we love our enemies? How can we love the people in the world that
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are lost? And we can't even love our own brother in the church?
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Amen? How this just John called that into question. How can a man
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say he loves God who he has not seen it doesn't love his own brother,
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whom he has seen. Amen. Charity begins at home and its spreads
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are broad saved people get along. Amen. We have to strive for this.
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Now we understand again problems and difficulties they've always been and will always be
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with us in this world, Amen, and subsequently also in the churches.
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Amen. The world. The Church is in the world. Are we are
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in the world. We are in this world. We have to occupy him.
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We have to abide in this place a man until Jesus comes back for
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us. And he made it that way again. He could save us and
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snatch us away, but that's not what he does. He wants us to
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be lights, salt cities, Amen, Amen, of beacons of light.
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He wants us to be living epistles and testimonies and martyrs and examples to the
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unbelievers. These are the things what the Bible calls for us, Amen to
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be. So we are always gonna have problems. We're always gonna have difficulties
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in this world, and these things are going to be in the church churches
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also. But we should also be fully aware of the challenges that we are
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contending with from the outside. Yes, we should be aware of these challenges
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that come from the outside. Amen, But that, ladies and gentlemen,
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I will submit to you, is not our main problem. The church faced
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challenges right from the very start. The difference for them was that, of
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course the apostles the leadership of the church. Amen, they committed themselves to
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the Word of God and prayer. You remember what happened in Acts chapter number
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six. I don't have time to go through it now, Amen, But
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they're a problem of roles in the church. We're gonna have problems, We're
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gonna have contentions, we're gonna have disagreements, We're gonna have issues that we
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face, and we have to. We have to have the answer to we
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have to have we may have to we have to come up with a solution.
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We may have to come up with us. Some things we may have
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to just leave be amen and let the Lord do it. Amen. But
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those things that we have to face and solve, we need to, as
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the apostles did, go to the Word of God and give ourselves to prayer.
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Those things we don't know. The astitude don't have a solution to a
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man that the Word of God does not address directly. Guess what God would
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give us the wisdom. He'll give a word of wisdom. He will speak
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to us, he would direct us, he would lead us and guide us
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into what is right and what is truth. Amen. Amen. That's what
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he does by his spirit. Amen. So the difference for them was when
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they face this problem, that's one of the one of the problems and one
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of the issues that they faced earlier on one of the tests that threatened to
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divide the church, a man that threatened to cause all kinds of disunity in
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the church. They committed themselves to the Word of God and prayer. They
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would not leave the Word. And this was a problem that a lot of
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churches are facing a man. The leadership leaves the Word of God, they
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leave off with prayer, Amen, and resort to all kinds of other things
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a man instead of in the place of the Word of God and prayer,
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and these things will not solve the problems and the issues that we're going to
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face a man. Commitment to the Word of God and prayer is prerequisite,
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prerequisite number one if we're going to be overcomers, if we're going to overcome
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the challenges from within the church itself. And Jesus is already to listen,
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please understand this. This is what we need to understand first and foremost.
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I've talked about this at nauseam. Jesus has already defeated all of our enemies,
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all of the externals. Satan has been defeated, Sin has been defeated,
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Death has been defeated. Amen, all of those, all of those,
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all of those outside entities. Jesus upon this rock I've build my church.
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The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. I mean, we
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are more than conquerence. He's already given that we have that, I've overcome
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the world. I've made you overcomerce Amen, So he's done all of the
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the as it were, heavy lifting concerning our enemies without But the the enemy
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that we are facing is the eye and the me that is lurking within us.
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I I I me me me. That's our main problem. And the
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apostle John wrote about this sort of problem in the church, for example,
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Amen, in his third epistle, Amen, look at look at look at
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verse number nine. Mark that in your bible. And again, this is
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nothing unique. This is nothing unique in the church. Amen, I I
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I me me me. Amen, Look what John the Baptist said, I
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must decrease, he must increase. It ain't about us, it ain't about
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me, it ain't about the pastor. It's about Jesus. Amen. He
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is the one to be lifted up. He is the one who has been
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lifted up. Remember what the apostle Paul said to the Amen, the elders
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Ephesian elders, I believe, when he was about to depart, Amen,
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he said, remember he gave him this charge to feed the Church of God,
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feed the flock, feed the people. It ain't about you, feed
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the flock of God. Listen what he says, which he has purchased with
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his own blood. He is the chief shepherd. Amen, it's his church.
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It doesn't belong to any of us. Jesus said upon this rock,
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I will build my church. Amen. He increases, we decrease, So
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the eye and the me my way or the highway. Oh no, no,
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no, no. See that's that's a problem. That's a problem in
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the church. The selfishness, the self centeredness. Amen, it cannot it's
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no longer I, it's no longer me. Amen. Unity of the same
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mind. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ.
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Jesus, who made himself of no reputation, took on the form of a
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servant, was found in the likeness of men. He umbled himself and became
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obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. And the Bible tells
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us charges us to umble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, and he
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will exalt us in due time. See it's about humility, folks. We've
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got to umble ourselves. We've got to umble ourselves under the mighty hand of
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God. Amen. Listen, Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen,
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listen. The apostle John wrote in for Third John chapter number one,
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Verses nine to three eleven. Listen, listen, he says, I wrote
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to the church, but diatra Fees, who loves to have the pre eminence
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among them, does not receive us. Therefore, if I come, I
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will call to mind his deeds, which he does prating against us with malicious
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words, and not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren,
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and forbids those who wish to putting them out of the church. Beloved,
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listen what he says. Do not imitate what is evil, but what
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is good. He who does good is of God. But he who does
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evil has not seen God. Oh man, this fellow, who is perhaps
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the pastor the bishop biotrophies the Bible, says he loved to have the pre
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eminence. It was about him, about him, It was his church,
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it was his congregation, it was his people. And so John says,
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I wrote to the church. But this man, who loves for it to
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be all about him, he did not reset the apostle. John, this
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man, this man who who was in the church because of the blood,
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because of the sacrifice, first and foremost of Jesus, but also of the
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apostles, a man who were all martyred, A man who gave themselves also
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as Paul said, we are set forth last as the apostles of Christ,
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these who gave themselves a man for the church. Here comes someone who is
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a beneficiary of their labor, of their persecutions, of their amen toil.
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And now he wants to have the pre eminence. And would not even receive
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the apostle John, and and and and and and listen what he says.
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He would not even receive the brethren, and for bad those who wish to
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receive them, and he put them out of the church. So when John
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sent the brethren there, he kicked him out. Why did he do it?
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Because it was I I, I ME, ME me. So John
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says, beloved, those of you who are truly saved, and they are
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always going to be. There's always a remnant, there's always somebody amen,
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even in churches like that a man, he says, do not imitate what
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is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God.
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But he who does evil has not seen God. And again, we're
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gonna have these kinds of issues. We're gonna have these kinds of circumstances and
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situations that will arise in the church. And I'm gonna get to that in
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just a minute, and as I can remind you again. As another example,
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Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement and it was concerning John Mark going with
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them on their next missionary journey. Barnabas wanted John to go with them,
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and Paul's pausing, No, he left us. He left us on the
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last one. But listen, please understand this if you know your Bible.
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Later on, Amen, Paul addressed this situation sort of. Oh, he
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addressed John Mark, let's put it that way, and he asked for him
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by name, Amen, and commended him as being profitable for the ministry.
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So they made up. Listen, we're gonna have disagree, mints, but
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you cannot allow bitterness and unforgiveness and rancor and strife, Amen, to fester,
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and to a man continue in your first of all, in your soul
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and your mind and your heart, and not being willing to forgive. Paul,
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a man came to understand. Perhaps he didn't know what the situation was
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with John Mark, and why he had to leave, why he did lead.
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He was young, very very young at the time. First and foremost,
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and so Paul later Amen, of course, a man addressed and and
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and and and obviously, according to the text, he had a very high
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amen uh attitude or a sense of of of respect for John Mark. Amen.
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Even though again there was an early disagreement. So you get you learn
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how to get along. We're all human, we're all fallen, we all
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have our a man different amen of personalities. Amen. And sometime we're going
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to amen, not agree with each other the way that this is all to
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be done or the path that we should take. And again, this is
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why prayer and the Word of God needs to be pre eminent. It needs
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to be pre eminent. Amen, because if it's not in the word,
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we need to pray. And even if it's in the word, we still
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need to pray. Amen. Prayer and the Word of God. Amen.
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And again, what our main problem, ladies and gentlemen. It's not these
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little disagreements that that can be solved. It's when we don't solve them.
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It's when we don't The problem is within. Our main problem is within.
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We should also be aware that not everyone, let me may hasten to say
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this again to remind you of this again, not everyone who names the name
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of Christ is one of us. We've already dealt with that at nauseum again.
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Amen, This truly is the greatest source of confusion, I believe,
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and strife that is in the church. These are the tears that have been
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sown among the weak by the devil. I referenced you to the parable of
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the sword that Jesus gave. Amen. So so these are tears. So
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in the church you have tears. The devil has his own ministers, his
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own heretics, his own teachers, his own false prophets, false apostles,
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the Bible teachers who have crept into the church. And it started right from
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the beginning. Seeing when the devil saw that he couldn't defeat the church,
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that was his first strategy. His first strategy was to persecute them. Amen,
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and tried to defeat them, try to overthrow them, Amen, discourage
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them. Amen. But the Bible says, when the apostles were beaten early
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on and commanded not to teach or preach in the name of Jesus Christ,
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this this is persecution from without. This is an outside issue, outside problem,
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outside entity, harassing the church. And again they've already been defeated.
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What did the apostles do? The Bible says, they went away from the
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council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of
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Jesus Christ. And they went back to their own reported everything that had happened.
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The Bible says, and the Bible says, Oh my God. They
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had a prayer meeting, and the place was shaken. The enemy on the
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outside has already been defeated. Our main problem is inside the church, inside
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the church, and primarily, I believe, and I will say this,
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it comes from the tears that have been sown among the wheat. Amen.
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And even though this is and has always been an obstacle and obstruction for the
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true Church of Jesus Christ, nevertheless, again I will say these tears,
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and I mean these ministers of Satan, these heretics, these false prophets,
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these false teachers, I still will contend. This is my opinion. I'll
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state my opinion here, and this is my opinion that they are not the
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main problem, the main problem for the church, because I believe the main
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problem for the church is just as it was in the Old Testament. It
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was applicable then, it's applicable now. If my people, the hey,
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those who are truly in the Kingdom, those who are truly a man of
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the household of faith. If my people, who are called by my name,
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would humble themselves in pray, turn, learn from their wicked ways and
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seek my face. Listen what the Lord says. He says, I will
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hear, I will forgive, I will heal. That's what we need.
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We need for the Lord to hear. We need the Lord to forgive.
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We need the Lord especially to heal. God will heal your hurt. God
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will heal, Amen the hurt. And I know a lot of you,
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many people have suffered church hurt, as we called it. I've been hurt
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in the church. If my people would humble them, you have a umble.
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Sometimes again, you have to take the wrong, You have to take
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the loss. You have to suffer yourself to be defaulted. Amen. Why
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why? Why? Because you are being just like Jesus, who suffered the
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greatest, the greatest in fraction of defamation, of fraud of character, assassination
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of blasphemy against him than anyone, and of course dying the death that he
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deserved, his eye to die. I mean, my God Man, some
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of the little stuff, and I'm not minimizing anybody's pain or hurt or loss
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or anything of that nature. I've been through it. I've been in the
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church of long time decades. Amen, I've experienced it and I've seen it.
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And I'm not minimizing anything. But what I'm emphasizing is this, there
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is nothing that you have experienced that, certainly, My God, especially those
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again in the early Church, experience far more then the little some of the
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little stuff again that we and Paul caught they puzzle. Apaul referred to these
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light afflictions, light afflictions, Amen, And sometimes again this is from people
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who are not truly saved. And we have to recognize this, Amen,
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against not trying to judge and discern Jesus that let them along, let the
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wheat and the tads grow together until the harvest. Is not trying to discern,
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not trying to root out. But just please understand, and also let
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me say this, hasten to say it in just in case I don't get
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to it. We've got to understand that there are people who are not yet
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matured. We're all striving for perfection. We are to all be perfect.
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That we're on a journey, Amen, to be more and more like Jesus
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every day, and everybody is not at that level, that level where maybe
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you are, and we need to discern that, we need to understand that,
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we need to give, we need to forbear. Amen. We need
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to get along. Amen. If my people, if you are truly saved,
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if you belong to Him, if you have His Holy Spirit inside of
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you, umble yourselves, as James said again, umble yourselves under the mighty
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hand of God. Amen, and turn from wickedness. It is wickedness,
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y'all. It is sinful. Y'all's sowing the seeds of evil and strife and
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disunity in the church. If we don't forgive, if we don't forgive,
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if we hold and harbor malice and envy in our hearts against our brothers and
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sisters in the Lord. Amen, the Bible says, and I take I
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always take great confidence. The foundation of God stands you're having this seal.
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The Lord knows them that are His. I don't worry about who's saved and
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who's not saved. God knows and those who are saved. As I've said
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and stressed throughout this series, you gotta act like you saved. If there's
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a demonstration, there's a reality, Amen, there's fruitfulness. Amen, there's
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some salt. There's some light, there's I mean, there's something, there's
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some growth, there's development, there's maturity. Amen, there's a sanctification process
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that we're on the journey. It meant growing to be more and more like
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Jesus. The Lord knows them that are his. The Bible says, everyone
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who names the name of Christ is to depart from iniquity. Everyone who names
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the name of Christ is to depart from iniquity. And it is absent.
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I'm gonna repeat this again, this absolute. It is absolutely sinful. It
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is absolutely in disobedience to the commands of the Word of God, to the
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commands of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. When we his people live
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in strife and will not forgive one another, it's sin. The Bible says,
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to him who knows to do good and does it not, it is
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sin. It's sin. Call it what it is. I'm gonna call it
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what it is. When we don't forgive, it's sinful. We're in disobedience.
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And if we want the Lord to hear us, if we want the
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Lord to forgive us, if we want the Lord to heal us, then
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we must be willing. We must be obedient. We have to forgive,
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we have to forbear save people must strive to get along. And I am
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imploring every one who is naming the name of Christ who say that they are
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saved. We've got to learn to be at peace with one another. I'm
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talking about real peace. We must strive to avoid strife in the church.
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I mean, we got people that you can't even speak to each other,
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can't even speak to each other, can't even greet one another wishing harm and
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taking delight. Amen, when something befalls your brother, your sister. We've
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got to avoid strife. The Bible says, a little living, we're living
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the whole lump. It's the little foxes that spoil the vines. A little
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carnality, a little worldliness, will bring in strife and contentions inside of the
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church. Something that's seemingly harmless, for example. It's just an example,
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and I've seen it, I've experienced, I've been there and done that.
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Something as seemingly harmless as an auxiliary in the church can become a festering and
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malignant source of strife and disunity. For example, I'll just say this very
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quickly, in a church that I once was a you know, a part
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of Amen. I was over this, let's say auxiliary. I won't go
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into the naming whatever it is, but anyway, there was another auxiliary in
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the church that was somewhat opposite. But we're all on the same team.
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We're in the same church, Amen, win the same body of Christ.
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And it was brought to my attention what that other auxiliary was doing. And
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I right, I mean I cut it. I cut it. I cut
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it, I cut it at the path. And I'll say it now,
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I said, Then I said it. Then I'll say it again. I
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re emphasize it. Amen, I said, we are not in competition.
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We're not trying to compete against them. I said, we're all on the
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same team here, man, just because they, for example, raised a
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thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars, I mean we're in competition. No,
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No, And and these are the kinds of things that that bring about and
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can easily bring about, discord, disunity, strife, Amen. Comp competition,
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competition, No, we're not in competition. There's there shouldn't been.
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There should be no competition within any church body, nor in the Body of
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Christ as a whole. We are one body, one Lord, one faith,
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one baptism one church, and we aus to be striving together in unity.
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Paul again dressed us to the Corinthian Church. Verse number of one of
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chapter three. He said, brother, and could I could not even speak
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to you as into spiritual, but as into carnal, even as unto babes
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in Christ. You've not grown up yet. I couldn't even address you in
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a spiritual manner. I have fed you with milk, not with meat,
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for hitherto you're not able to bear it. And even now he's saying you're
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not able, for you are yet carnal. For whereas there is among you
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envying strife and divisions, he says, are you not carnal and walk as
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men? We can't have that in the church. No, we can't have
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that. And Paul would later write to Timothy second Timothy, Chapter two,
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verses twenty three and twenty four. Timothy, listen, these are some things
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you need to avoid. Avoid foolish and unlearned questions, because listen to what
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he says, they gender strives. All they do is gender. You have
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to avoid foolishness, y'all, foolishness has to be avoided. Foolishness, by
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the way, the Bible said, by the way, the very thought of
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foolishness, the Bible says, is sin. Paul says to Timothy, listen,
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the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle, unto
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all men, apt to teach, and patient. We got to have some
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patience, y'all. To fruit of the spirit. Through the spirit, fruit
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the spirit. Say people get along, say people get along. Let me
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take you to Matthew chapter number five. I'm almost done Matthew chapter number five,
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Verse number nine. Jesus says, these are the words of Jesus.
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Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called
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the children of God. It seems as though we have far too many peace
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breakers, then we have peacemakers. Peace is one of the bedrock hallmarks of
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the faith. Peace. Jesus himself is the prince of peace. When he
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came into the world, peace peace. Amen. He told his disciples when
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he was leaving that he said, my peace I leave with you. My
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peace will be in you. Amen. We have been called ladies and gentlemen,
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Church of the Living God, to follow peace, to be at peace,
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to seek peace, to pursue peace, the fruit of the Spirit again,
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love, joy, peace, Peace, Peace, Amen. Peace.
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If we can't have peace among each other, Amen, no wonder, Oh
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God, help us Jesus, no wonder. We can't attract lost souls when
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we don't, as Jesus said, have the love one for another on display,
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which by the way, must include forgiveness. We've been forgiven. We
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forgive. We talked about that already, and it's been a whole series,
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a whole session. Rather or of save people. Forgive, Amen, the
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fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, Peace. Remember. By the
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way, Also, the Bible teaches us that the Kingdom of God is not
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in meat and drink, Amen, but in righteousness, peace and joy,
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in the Holy Ghost. Save people, get along, Amen, Save people,
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get along. Amen. Romans Chapter twelve, verse seventeen twenty one recommences
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no man even for evil, pride things honest in the sight of all men.
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If it be possible that the Bible tells us as much as life in
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us, we are to live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, he
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says, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath. Amen,
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give place unto wrath, For it is written vengeance is mine. This is
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what the Lord says. Vengeance is mine. I will repay. I will
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repay saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him,
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if he thirst, give him drink, for in so doing heat cold,
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or fire in his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil
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with good. When evil is done against you, even in the church,
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and it can't happen, it with us happen, it will happen. Amen.
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You don't overcome evil with evil, but you overcome evil with good.
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Save people get along. Roman's fourteen nineteen. Let us therefore fall after the
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things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify one another.
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Follow after the things which make for peace. Sat. Corinthians chapter thirteen.
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Finally, brother, and Paul says, farewell, be perfect, be of
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good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God
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of love and peace shall be with you. Ephesians for twenty nine thirty two.
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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is
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good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace into the hearers,
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and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. The spirit of God,
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brother, whereby we are sealed into the day of rejection. Listen what he
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says. Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger, and clamor and evil
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speaking be put away from you with all malice. Put that stuff away.
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Put it away. Forgive, forgive, forgive, be ye kind one to
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another, he says, tender are forgiving one another. This is in the
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church, y'all. This is not outside of the church. This is in
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the church, even as God, for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Hebrews
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Chapter twelve two more, verses fourteen and fifteen follow peace with all men,
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and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord looking diligently, Lest
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any man fail of the grace of God. Listen what happens lest any root
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of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled. And finally
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James three and eighteen, the Bible says, the fruit of righteousness is sown
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in peace. Of them that make peace again the words of Jesus. Blessed
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are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God Father.
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Help us today, people everywhere that are called by your name, to love
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one another, to forgive one another, so that we, in this present
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work can be the salt, the light that city set on the hill that
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you have called for us to be, so that you will get the glory
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out of our lives. In Jesus name, we pray and we thank you
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for all things. Amen and Amen.