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Living Waters of Grace 09.02.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is living. Waters of Grace, the teaching
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  ministry of Lewis Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary
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  Chapel of Westmoreland County in Greensburg, PA.
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  Now here's Pastor Lewis as he continues teaching through God's
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  Word. I pray that somebody will say,
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  you know what? Enough of this lying to myself,
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  enough of this living this life of sin, enough of being in
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  bondage to something that I will never ever be able to pull
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  myself out of. Freedom only comes through Jesus
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  Christ, Jesus says in John 8. He said that if the sun sets you
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  free, you will be free. Indeed, He's the only one that
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  can set us free. Sometimes, when the struggles of
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  our daily lives become overwhelming, we forget that
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  we're not alone. We often overlook the fact that
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  there's someone with open arms who wants us to know that this
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  battle doesn't have to be so hard.
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  In today's message, Pastor Lewis encourages you to give your life
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  to Jesus. Allow him to be your strong
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  tower, your rock, your shoulder to lean on in the Lord of your
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  life. Trust that with his guidance,
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  you can navigate through life's challenges with renewed hope and
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  purpose. Now here's Pastor Lewis in Jude
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  chapter one with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  This is the point of example. He delivered them all.
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  All of them, and they all went into the wilderness on their
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  way, going to the promised land. They all did.
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  But while they were in the wilderness he destroyed those
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  who did not believe because of unbelief.
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  They were judged and they were destroyed and because of their
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  and it came in a lot of different ways.
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  It came in rejection, it came in rebellion, it came in sexual
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  morality, all kind of ways of just not trusting the those
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  Caleb and and Joshua, when they went in to spy out the land.
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  And when they went to spy out the land, they came back and
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  gave a report and said, look, we can go in and take it.
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  The other people that was there said, no, we can't take it
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  because they're too much for us. And because of their unbelief,
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  they didn't go in. So the first generation of that
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  group in Egypt, none of them went in besides Joshua and
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  Caleb. It was their children who ended
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  up going into the promised land. Their children.
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  None of them went in because they were judged because of
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  unbelief. Let's not have unbelief in our
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  hearts to miss what it is God wants to do for us.
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  Even as the the centurion said one day, he said, look, I
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  believe, but help my unbelief. And we all have some areas of
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  unbelief, if we're honest with ourselves.
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  And you find out those areas of unbelief whenever adversity hits
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  US and it hits US hard sometimes and it's hard for us to believe
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  that God will pull us out of this or even can pull us out of
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  this like, oh, I'm doomed. This is not going to end right?
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  And we take our eyes off of him and we started looking at people
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  who can help me with this. What can I do for myself to pull
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  myself out of this? Let's not be caught in unbelief.
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  And then the next example he uses, he uses the example of the
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  angels. And he said then the angels who
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  did not keep their proper domain, but left their own
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  abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under
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  darkness. So you went from the children of
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  Israel to now he and, and how they were judged because of
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  their unbelief. And now he goes to the angels,
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  these angels and, and, and what we have to understand is that
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  angels have free will. Angels have free will and, and
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  Satan himself have free will. And he chose to rebel against
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  God, to rebelled against God. And because of that, he and the
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  angels who rebelled with him, which was 1/3 the Bible tells us
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  we're cast out of heaven. We're cast out of heaven.
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  They decided that they wanted their will and not God's will.
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  They wanted to do what they wanted to do and not do what God
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  wanted them to do. Oh, they had a proper domain.
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  They had a place in heaven. They were there, but they turned
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  away from them, turned away from God to follow their own will, to
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  follow their own heart. And the Bible says as a result
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  of that, He now has them reserved in everlasting chains
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  under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
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  Just think about that. Because they were looking to
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  have a life of freedom to do what they wanted to do, to live
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  their own free will and not surrender to the will of God.
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  They still end up in bondage. They still don't have any
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  freedom. They're in the darkness, chained
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  darkness because of their decisions to live their own life
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  the way they want to live it. But you know what?
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  That's no different than what we have and where we are when we
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  lived according to our own desires, when we lived according
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  to our own will, and we thought we have, we were having freedom.
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  We were living freedom. Oh my, I want to do what I want
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  to do. I don't want nobody giving me
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  rules and telling me what to do. Come in when I want to come in,
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  go where I want to go and do what I want to do.
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  We thought we had freedom, but we were in bondage to the very
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  sin that we gave ourselves to. And today I just want to say
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  that maybe someone can hear this.
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  You know, we think it's freedom to live in our own free will,
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  but God gives us His word that we obey for our protection.
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  Obedience is for the purpose of our protection.
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  That's why we want our kids to obey us, because it protects
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  them. Because we know, we've seen,
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  we've experienced, and we want to protect our kids.
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  So we give them structure, we give them guidelines, we give
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  them dare say it rules, but it's for the purpose of protecting
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  them. It's not to harm them.
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  It's not to stop them from having fun.
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  It's to protect them. God gives them to us, and it's
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  when we reject that protection, it's when we reject His will for
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  our lives, that we find ourselves in bondage to the very
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  sin that we give ourselves to. That's what happened with these
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  angels. And then in verse 7, it says
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  that Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in a similar
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  manner to these, having giving themselves over to sexual
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  immorality and going after strange flesh, are set forth as
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  an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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  The vengeance of eternal fire. Very interesting.
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  And he says that these the Sodom and Gomorrah, Sodom and Gomorrah
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  very interesting because what Sodom and Gomorrah was actually
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  destroyed for was their immoral, sexual, immoral lifestyles and
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  their, their desire to go after what it calls here in in my
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  version says strange flesh. Other versions may say unnatural
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  desire. Some may even say perversion.
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  They, they, they, they sought perversion, strange flesh, same
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  sex relationships and so forth. And you know it, it talks about
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  it back in Leviticus. You know it, it gives a number
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  of scriptures concerning God's attitude and his position on
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  sexual immorality, particularly homosexuality specifically talks
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  about that. I'm not going to read all of
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  those all of those scriptures, but I am going to read the
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  verses because and the reason why is because I want you to arm
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  yourself is because there's a lot a lot of people in society
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  today isn't an interesting thing that God destroys Sodom and
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  Gomorrah from We actually this country actually embraces today.
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  Try to normalize it and God is saying no, it's an abomination
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  to me. Don't go in and do what the
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  inhabitants of this land did. It's an abomination.
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  It's sin. This country embraces it, even
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  celebrates it and call it pride, which is exactly what it is.
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  Because they're so prideful that they won't humble themselves.
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  We're so prideful sometimes that we don't humble ourselves before
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  the Lord. Thank you, thank God for grace,
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  Amen. Because the truth is, is that
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  even if they would turn and repent, if the children of
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  Israel would have turned and repented, God would have
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  forgiven them. If the people in Sodom and
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  Gomorrah would have repented, God would have forgiven them.
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  He told Abraham, he said, look, if I find Ted, they started at
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  50. He said, I'll tell you what, if
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  I find 1010 righteous people in the cities of Sodom and
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  Gomorrah, I won't destroy it. There wasn't 10 people in Sodom
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  and Gomorrah that did not pray that would repent does not
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  wasn't 10 and it was destroyed by fire.
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  So I want to read these verses so you can have them if you want
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  to write them down, put them in your phone however you want to
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  do it. But the first one is Leviticus
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  chapter 18 and verse 22. Also in Leviticus chapter 20 and
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  verse 13, also in the and then in Romans chapter 1 and verse 26
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  and 27, First Timothy chapter 1 and verse 10, and even in the
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  book of Revelations chapter 21 and verse 8.
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  But then there's another scripture that I actually want
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  to read, this one because not only does it shows God's
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  righteousness, but it also shows His grace.
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  It shows His grace. And this is First Corinthians
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  chapter 6 beginning at verse 9. And he says this.
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  Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the
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  Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
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  Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers.
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  Here we go. Nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
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  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkers, nor revilers, nor
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  extortioners will inherit the Kingdom of God.
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  Cannot make it any clearer of what God feels about that sexual
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  and moral sin. Not only that one, but it's not,
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  not not only when they listed you listed others, but that one
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  was listed as well. But this is the part that gives
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  me hope. This is the part that should
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  give us all hope. In verse 11 he says, and such
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  were some of you and search were some of you.
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  One of these in here captures some of all of us at one point.
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  And such were some of you. But that's why I like the butts
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  in the Bible. But you were washed.
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  You were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of
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  our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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  So that is not a permanent condition for you to be a
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  homosexual. I'm sorry that people feel like
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  it is. It's not.
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  You can be delivered because Jesus says, you know, I mean,
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  the Bible says here and such were some of you.
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  So he delivered them, They were delivered, they were washed from
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  it, they were sanctified and they were justified.
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  That means they were declared righteous and that by the Spirit
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  in the name of Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
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  I just pray that we understand that God is serious about sin.
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  He is serious about sin. He desires for us to obey Him,
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  but even more important is that there's grace there for all of
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  us, no matter what our sin is, no matter how long we've been
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  doing the sin, no matter what people call you concerned ought.
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  He ain't going to never change. She ain't going to never change.
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  No, you can. God can change you.
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  The Spirit of the Holy, the Spirit of God can come in and
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  cleanse you and make you new. If any man be in Christ, he is a
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  new creature, a new creation. Old things are passed away.
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  That means to die. They're passed away, passed
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  away, mean and died and now all things are become new, new.
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  It's a new you. And we all have that in Christ
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  Jesus. And the next line says, and all
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  things are of God, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord.
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  But it's because of this sin that the day is so special.
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  Our Palm Sunday, Jude took us back into the history and showed
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  us from the Old Testament God's righteousness and how He will
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  judge sin. He showed us that through the
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  example of the Israelites, the example even of the angels, and
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  the example also of those in Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  And that's why it was so important that Jesus Christ
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  came. If you ever have anybody that
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  tell me that they don't tell you, they don't know the
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  significance of Jesus Christ and him coming, come here, take them
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  here. Because some of these sins we're
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  still doing today. All these sins we're still doing
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  today, we're still rejecting them.
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  We're still living in sexual immorality.
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  We're still dealing with unbelief, but Jesus Christ came
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  so that we be forgiven of our sins and the hostility that we
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  had against God the Father, it's now we now have peace with him
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  because of Jesus Christ. Bible says back in the book of
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  Luke and also in the book of Matthew, when he talked about
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  the triumphant entry and when he talked about the triumphant
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  injury. We, we, you know, we're talking
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  about Jesus Christ who told the disciples that day to go on in
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  to Jerusalem when they got to Beth Fetch.
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  It's going to go over to the city or over or to the village
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  next to you and I want you to find a coat.
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  There's a coat that's going to be tied there.
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  The coat or the the, the the foal of a donkey.
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  No one's ever ridden on this thing.
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  I want you to go bring it to me. They said, wait a minute, we
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  can't go and take somebody's donkey.
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  It's just like you or use Clark's example.
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  You out there looking at his car, you get ready to take his
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  car. He come out and say, hey, what
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  are you trying to do with my car?
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  That's what they were asked, just what Jesus was telling them
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  to do. But see, what they didn't
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  understand is that Jesus had already worked in the heart of
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  the owner of that donkey. So he said, no, go ahead and
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  tell them if anybody asks you why are you taking that donkey,
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  you tell them that the Lord has need of it.
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  Now, I don't know if that's going to work with Clark's car.
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  So, so don't y'all go out there and car his car trying to get in
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  his car and then say, hey, the Lord got need of it because you
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  want to take it on Route 30 and see what it can do.
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  But Jesus had already worked into the heart of the owner of
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  that donkey and said the Lord has need of it.
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  He brought the donkey back to Jesus.
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  They put the coats on the back of the donkey.
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  They set Jesus on the donkey and as they're bringing him down as
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  they can, that that descent that goes into Jerusalem.
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  When the people finally get a chance to look up and see Jesus
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  coming on that donkey, the Bible says they begin to shout, they
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  begin to holler out. Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna in the
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  highest. Save, save us, save me in the
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  highest. Jesus comes down and he's riding
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  on that donkey. And not once did he tell any of
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  them to not worship him. That time he didn't say, no,
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  don't tell anybody because he was presenting himself as the
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  king. He was presenting himself as the
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  true Messiah. David Holland out and said, Son
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  of David, which means that you are the Messiah because we heard
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  about you back in Zechariah. The prophet Zechariah told us
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  that the son of David will come and he's going to be riding on
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  his coat as he's a king. That's you, son of David.
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  He's coming down this hill and the people were seeing him and
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  they're crying out, but unfortunately they're crying out
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  because they're thinking that he's coming to save them from
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  the Roman rule that he's coming to start a revolt against the
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  Roman government. They didn't realize that he was
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  coming in to save them from so much more.
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  He was coming to bring them eternal life.
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  And they're yelling hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.
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  He's the king and the and the Pharisees are saying rebuke your
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  disciples. You hear what they're saying.
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  They're calling you king. They're calling you son of
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  David. That means they're saying that
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  you're the Messiah, the son of the living God.
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  And Jesus just simply said, look, if I if these keep solid,
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  the very rocks will cry out. All of his creation worships
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  him. So he's come in and they're
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  waving palm branches and they're celebrating him.
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  He knew even his disciples didn't know or understand, but
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  he knew then in about 5 or 6 days that many of those same
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  people who are crying out Hosanna who are calling him
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  king. Who are praising Him and
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  worshipping Him? Many of those same people will
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  be crying out, Crucify Him, crucify him.
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  But He did it. He presented himself as a lamb
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  going to the slaughter that day. He presented himself as King.
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  He knew what would happen, but He did it for you.
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  He did it for you. He did it for you and you.
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  He did it for me. He never turned back.
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  And then of course, next Sunday we'll talk a little bit about
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  that cross. But I'm grateful today.
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  Praise and worship, take and come forward, please.
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  But I'm grateful today that Jesus Christ came.
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  Bible says over in the book of Mark that even the Son of Man
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  did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life a
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  ransom for many. I'm one of those many.
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  Bible tells us that He came to seek and save that which is lost
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  and that it's not his will that any should perish, but all will
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  come into repentance. I thank God for that because I
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  was a loss. I am the lost.
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  But now I'm found and I pray today that the message reached
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  someone's heart. I pray that somebody will say,
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  you know what? Enough of this lying to myself,
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  enough of this living this life of sin, enough of being in
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  bondage to something that I will never ever be able to pull
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  myself out of. Freedom only comes through Jesus
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  Christ. Jesus says in John 8, He said
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  that if the sun sets you free, you will be free.
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  Indeed, He's the only one that can set us free.
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  So I pray today that somebody receives His salvation, that
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  somebody understands that it was because of the sin of those
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  examples and the sin that we do today that He had to come.
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  We need a Savior, we need a Savior, and Jesus Christ is that
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  Savior. He is the way, He is the truth,
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  and He is the life. He is that Savior.
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  Nobody comes to God except through Him.
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  He is that Savior. So we need to come to Him.
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  I pray to somebody does that. You can just tell.
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  Lord, look, I confess, I am a Sinner and I am in need of a
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  Savior. You could just tell Him that you
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  believe that He died for your sins.
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  You believe that he was buried in, that he rose again on the
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  third day and asking for forgiveness for your sins and to
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  be your savior and to come into your heart and teach you, show
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  you, lead you in how to live the Christian life.
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  You won't see stars. You won't see any kind of big
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  meteors in the sky or hear fireworks go off.
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  You don't hear any of that, but in your soul, the Bible says
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  when you believe that the Spirit of the Son of God comes to live
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  in your heart and He will change you, He will change you.
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  This has been Living Waters of Grace, a ministry of Calvary
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  Chapel, Westmoreland in Greensburg, PA Pastor Lewis
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  Harrell has been teaching through the book of Jude.
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  This is a book of warning as the audience that Jude was writing
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  to was coming under attack from false teachers.
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  Even in the early days of the church, there were teachers who
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  claimed to have a unique revelation from God that
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  superseded Scripture. Pastor Lewis wants you to be
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  sure to be on your guard against those teachers today as they
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  will try to distract you from following the way of Jesus.
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  By focusing on what God's Word says, you can call out false
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  teachers for what they are and stay on the good path.
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