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Galatians chapter 6 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Galatians chapter 6, let us pray.
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  Our God and our King and our Lord Jesus Christ, we worship
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  you today in spirit and truth. We are your laid down lovers.
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  Marcus. Today, with your goodness and
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  grace and love and mercy, fill us today, overflowing with the
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  Holy Ghost. God, I pray that you'll give us
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  the mind of Christ. Give us sound doctrine and sound
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  theology. God, remove any rock of a fence.
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  Today, God, remove any stumbling block as we stand upon the chief
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  cornerstone. Lord, I pray that these words
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  will become precious to us. Let them be sweet like honey in
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  our mouth. Lord, I pray that our time
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  together with You Father, will be pleasing aroma unto your
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  nostrils. God, I pray that you will help
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  us today to understand more of who you are.
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  Lord, I pray for healing today from on.
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  High. Lord, I pray that you'll drive
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  out any unclean, impure spirit from off of our lives and
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  houses, off of our spouses, God and children.
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  God, I pray for a place of peace today in our workplace.
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  Lord, I pray that someone today will get saved.
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  God, I pray that you'll lead many into repentance today.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus for one life that is completely
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  sold out to you and not entangled with all the cares of
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  this world. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you will raise up missionaries, raise up those
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  that will take the whole word to the whole world.
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  Father, I thank you, Lord Jesus, for the inspired word, the
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  infallible, inerrant word of God.
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  That is Jesus Christ. He became flesh and He is God.
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  And I thank you, Father, that the entirety of Scripture is
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  profitable for the salvation of mankind.
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  Thank you, Father God, we build our lives upon it.
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  Lord, let it become congruence in our minds.
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  Lord, let it all work together. Lord, let it all build upon
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  itself. Father, line upon line and
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  precept upon precept. Father, Scripture interpreting
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  Scripture today. God, I thank you, Lord, for this
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  time together. Holy Spirit, fill us today,
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  teach us today. Holy Spirit, correct and
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  discipline us today. Holy Spirit, we love you.
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  King Jesus, the Spirit and the bride says, come, Maranatha, we
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  cry out, we see the leaves on the fig tree, we feel the
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  contractions today, the birth pains today.
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  We see that the head is crowning and we know that summer is near.
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  And we look up and see our redemption is drawing near.
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  And your rewards are with you. So we thank you, Lord Jesus,
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  keep us from the hour of temptation that is coming upon
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  the entire world to test all of the inhabitants.
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  We love you Father, we worship you, ABBA El Shaddai, El Elian.
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  You are our everything. Yahweh, Yeshua, Amasiya, we love
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  you, and it's in your holy and precious and powerful worthy
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  name that I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one brothers.
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  If a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual
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  restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering
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  yourself, unless you also be tempted.
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  So Paul here is referencing something that we got to see
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  actually fleshed out in Second Corinthians, which started back
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  in First Corinthians, which is where someone in the church was
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  involved in a sinful lifestyle that they were not repentant of.
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  But this individual came to their senses because they were
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  put out of the church and then they repented.
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  They confessed that it was wrong.
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  They turned from it and they actually started living the
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  right way and desired to come back into the fold.
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  And the Corinthians were not willing to allow him, and Paul
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  had to correct them on that. And here we see the same thought
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  processes revisited here in the churches of Galatia.
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  And Paul tells them that they need to restore such a one, and
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  they need to do it in meekness, which is power under control.
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  Friends, think of a gallant steed that is under control, a
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  mighty beast of magnificent proportion which is under
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  control. Think of a canine dog who has
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  been well trained and he sits and it is such power under
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  control and he waits for the call of his master to attack.
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  But he has the ability to attack but he chooses to obey his
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  master and that is meekness. Friends, we are called to exude
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  meekness. There's such power in a blood
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  bought born again believer who's going to bust heaven wide open.
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  There's more power in one St. than all the nuclear bombs on
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  planet earth all put together. And what magnificent power on
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  display. And what you need to understand
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  is meekness is when you bridle that steed, when you're able to
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  control and have self-control friends and be quick to listen,
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  be slow to speak and slow to anger.
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  Such magnificent power under control.
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  We do not need to be tempted by our pride and arrogance.
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  And that is what causes someone not to want to restore a
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  repentant brother or sister back into the fold.
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  Verse 2 bear you one another's burdens and so fulfill the law
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  of Christ. That is what Christ told us.
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  He says, I give you a new commandment.
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  And he tells us to love one another.
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  And we need to know that we are to bear the burdens of someone
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  who is truly repentant and truly desire is to be restored.
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  And that is what Paul is referencing here, is to not just
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  think of ourselves as pious and self-righteous and holier than
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  thou, but we all one another, one another, we all fall short,
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  friends of the glory of God. And there was only one perfect
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  person who has ever walked this planet, and that is who we
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  serve. 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something, he's
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  nothing, and he deceives himself.
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  So here we know that the word of God tells us to think of others
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  as better than ourselves. And what a hard concept that is.
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  It's easier to look down the nose.
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  It's easier to measure our righteousness against someone
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  else's. And we say, yeah, I guess I'm
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  better than they are because I'm not doing all of those outward
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  sins, not realizing that the inward sins are just as damaging
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  to the Christian walk, friends. And that is what you need to
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  understand is that we bear one another's burdens by edifying
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  each other and by coming alongside and doing life with
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  others and not just being being self seeking and not just
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  thinking that we are better than those who have less or that we
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  are better than those that have more.
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  Christ was never afraid to keep community with all socio
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  economic classes. He never tried to shy away from
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  the poor and he never tried to shy away from the rich.
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  He had the worst things to say towards the religious people,
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  who thought of themselves as better than others.
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  Do not be wise in your own eyes, for but let every man prove his
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  own work and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone and
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  not in another. So he's saying, don't try to
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  ride in on the coattails of the pastor.
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  Don't try to ride in on the coattails of your grandparents
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  or your mother or your father. Don't try to ride in on the
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  coattails of another St. You have got to have a personal
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  relationship with God Almighty through His Son Jesus Christ.
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  You cannot come in the same way that another does.
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  We all must put on the blood of Jesus Christ, the righteousness
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  of Jesus Christ, the purity of Jesus Christ.
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  That is the only way that we'll ever make it there.
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  You cannot rely on someone else to get you into the fold. 5 For
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  every man shall bear his own burden.
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  We're going to have to give a personal account for our lives,
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  friends, and that is what you need to understand.
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  You're not going to be able to get before Almighty God and try
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  to claim someone else's walk, someone else's righteousness,
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  someone else's purity. You're not going to be able to
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  stand before Almighty God and tell Him what church you went
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  to, what denomination you were part of, what version of the
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  Bible you were reading. You're not going to be able to
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  stand before Almighty God and tell Him what kind of worship
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  music you preferred while you were on planet earth.
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  You must be clothed in the blood of Jesus Christ from the soles
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  of your feet to the top of your head, from your palms to your
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  back. You need to be covered and
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  washed in the blood and put on His righteousness, and that is
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  the only way that you will be made holy before a holy God.
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  You'll have to bear your own burden, Friends. 6 Let him that
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  is taught in the Word communicate unto him that
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  teaches in all good things. So what is he trying to say?
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  This is the case of a teaching brother, and we need to
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  understand that some of us have been on the spiritual milk for
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  way too long. We have not even graduated to
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  the spiritual meat yet. We're still wanting to be taught
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  when there are things that the Lord Jesus Christ has given us
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  to teach. And that is where I see so many
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  people go wrong in their Christian walk, is they desire
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  to farm out the responsibility to the professionalized pulpit.
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  And that has been the greatest tragedy that the world has ever
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  seen is when we professionalized the pulpit and we gave people
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  the idea that only the learned class should be those that are
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  teaching. If you have access to the Word
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  of God and you are indwelled with the Holy Spirit, you have
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  the mind of Christ. And everything that we teach has
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  to line up with God's revealed will from Genesis to Revelation.
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  And that is what you need to understand.
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  It's not some new doctrine and new theology.
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  It's not some new ideas that we we need to put down.
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  It is the Rhema, the spoken word of God that goes out and it
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  saves people's lives. It goes out and people are
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  radically changed and all we need to do is be faithful to
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  speak God's word. That's all it is.
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  It's that simple, friends. We do not muddle it, we do not
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  add anything to it, We do not take anything from it.
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  It is the complete authority which is profitable for the
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  salvation of mankind. And that is what you need to
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  understand. And there are too many people
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  who have farmed out this responsibility to the
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  professionalized pulpit for those that have a degree hanging
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  on the wall and they themselves are not even saved.
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  What a tragedy we are witnessing at an alarming rate.
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  And that is where the apostasy comes in.
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  Friends is these people have never truly been indwelled with
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  the Holy Spirit, but they have the accreditation to speak and
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  they're leading people away in droves, Friends.
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  And you see it in our day and our hour, you see all of these
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  garbage sex start popping up all over the place.
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  And they're teaching heresy and they're teaching things that are
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  unbiblical. And they don't believe the
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  infallibility of God's word. They don't believe in the
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  inerrancy of God's Word. And they're calling scriptures
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  into question. And it's resulting in such
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  confusion and it's resulting in people becoming twice the sons
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  of hell as the teachers themselves are. 7 Be not
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  deceived. God is not mocked.
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  For whatsoever a man sews that shall he also reap.
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  Do not be deceived. God will not be mocked.
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  And you see it in our culture, you see it in our day, you see
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  it all around us. This blaspheming that is
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  happening at an alarming rate on every major channel, every major
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  publication, everything that is mainstream, you see the
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  blasphemy at the highest levels. But we do not need to be
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  deceived that God will not be mocked.
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  And these who do such things will have to pay because it is
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  written and it stands the test of time.
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  This is the way of God, that He will share His glory with no
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  one, and we will have no other gods but God Almighty.
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  And that is a tragedy as well. And you see it happening in our
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  day and our hour. And it crept up, and the mouse
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  got his head in the door, and now the whole body has come in
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  and reared its ugly head, and now we're seeing it all played
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  out. But the Bible told us that it
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  would be so. But just know that you cannot
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  put a watermelon seed in the ground and get a Peachtree.
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  What you put in the ground naturally is what you will get
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  out. So if you sow in righteousness,
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  you will reap righteousness, and if you sow in evil, you will
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  reap evil. And that is just the way that it
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  works, friends. But aren't you thankful for
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  Jesus Christ who came in? And if you will place your faith
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  in Him today, then He will cover all of the things that you have
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  done. But if you will not come to Him
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  honestly and if you will not put your faith in Him completely and
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  wholeheartedly, the sad reality is there is a judgment for all
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  those who refuse the Lord Jesus Christ, and they will have to
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  reap what they have sown. If you have breath in your lungs
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  today, it's not too late for you.
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  His mercies are new every day. And we do not have to get stuck
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  in sin. We do not have to get stuck in
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  eternal damnation. We can if we have life today.
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  And if you have, if you're listening to the sound of my
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  voice, there is another chance for you.
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  God has given you one more chance to put your faith in the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. Authentically, wholeheartedly,
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  100% not compartmentalized, not Jesus plus anything.
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  It is only Jesus Christ that can keep you from having to reap
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  what you have sown. 8 For he that sows to his flesh shall of
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  the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows to the Spirit shall
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  of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be
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  weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we
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  faint. Not so many people have started
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  off on the good path, but because of offense and because
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  God doesn't work in the way that they think that He should and
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  the timing that they had hoped for, they fall away.
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  They grew weary, friends, but the Bible here is telling us, do
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  not grow weary of doing good. Keep it up and in due time, in
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  God's perfect timing, you will see all of what you have sown
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  into the Kingdom be revealed to you, and it will be far better
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  than any manufacturing on your own part, any kind of
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  manipulation of God and twisting God's arm to get your way.
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  It does not work that way. God has a proper time for
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  everything. Just like whenever you sow seeds
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  into the ground, they do not just spring up overnight, they
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  have to take time. You must water them, you must
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  care for them, and it's the same thing with the spiritual seeds
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  that we sow But God is the one who gives the increase.
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  Never forget that. Do not faint when you don't see
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  growth. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto
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  all men, especially to them who are of the household of faith.
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  So this is what you need to understand is that when you are
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  operating in the Spirit, walking in the Spirit.
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  You will be a blessing to unbelievers and believers, but
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  you will especially bless those who truly know our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. They will see Jesus all over you
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  in deep calls to deep, and your Spirit will confirm with their
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  spirit, and it will be a blessing to them.
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  If we will walk in the Spirit, then you will see so many of the
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  problems in your life fade away. There's so many of the
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  contentions and the strife and the anger and the fits of rage
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  and the arguments and the altercations will start to
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  dissipate. 11 You see how large a letter I've written unto you
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  with my own hand? So a lot of people, a lot of
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  scholars have speculated that the thorn in Paul's flesh was
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  some kind of ophthalmology, some kind of problem with his
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  eyesight. And here they're trying to say
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  from previous chapters where he said he told the Galatians they
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  would they would have plucked their own eyes out for them and
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  hear the large letters point towards some kind of problem
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  with Paul's eyes. But we can only speculate and
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  such in the Bible is silent on things for a reason.
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  There's nothing missed here but Paul interestingly enough writes
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  this section and he says look at how large letters I'm writing
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  and this could be for emphasis could be in a bold all caps
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  underline italics to say pay attention lock in to what I'm
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  about to write you 12 as many as desire to make a fair show in
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  the flesh. They constrain you to be
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  circumcised only less they should suffer persecution for
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  the cross of Christ. He's saying the reason that
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  these Judaizers are coming in wanting you to come under the
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  law is so that you don't have to suffer the persecution of being
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  a Christian. You can outwardly look like a
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  Jew and if you look like a Jew you will not suffer persecution
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  for the cross of Christ, which is is an offense to those who
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  are in the Jewish faith. So he's saying just follow us.
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  This is what the Judaizers say to the churches in Galatia.
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  Follow the law of Moses and you won't have to suffer
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  persecution. 13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised
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  keep the law, but desire to have you circumcised, that they make
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  glory in your flesh. So this is some kind of merit
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  badge. And they're saying, look at all
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  of the ones that I've got to circumcise themselves and to
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  come under the law of Moses. And Paul is saying that this is
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  despicable and this is not the way that Jesus Christ wants us
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  to live our lives. We need to be marked by grace
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  and not by legalistic law keeping.
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  And if you're going to try to keep the law, then you have to
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  keep every single bit of it to be made right with God.
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  And no man ever could or never has, except for Jesus Christ. 14
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  But God forbid that I should glory except in the cross of our
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  Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and
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  I unto the world. So Paul here saying, The world
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  is dead to me, and I'm dead to the world.
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  He's telling these Galatians that he does not have to operate
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  in the same manner as the rest of the world.
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  He is not worried about what the world thinks about him.
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  And that is where we must get to.
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  Friends, you have to get to a place where you're not concerned
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  with how the world views you. You are only accountable to God
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  Almighty and you have an audience of one that we please.
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  Friends, we are not self seeking and we are also not pleasers of
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  man. We seek to be pleasing to God
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  with all of our words, with all of our actions, with all of our
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  thoughts, with our emotions, with the very life that we live.
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  We seek God's approval and not man's, and it is found in the
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  blood of Christ and what He did on the cross.
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  That is the thing that makes us at one with God, and we can have
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  the peace of God knowing that we're in right standing with
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  him. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails
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  anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
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  If any man is in Christ, he's a new creation.
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  The old things have passed away. Behold, all things are new, and
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  Jesus Christ makes all things new.
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  And we know that when we are regenerated and born again, He
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  gives us a new mind and a new heart, friends.
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  And we do not see the world around us the way that we used
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  to. And that is how you can know if
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  you're filled with the Holy Ghost or not.
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  That is how you can know if you are marked with the Holy Ghost
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  or not. You should have conviction for
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  the things that you had no conviction of prior.
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  And if you do not have that conviction and something is awry
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  and something is amiss, but today is the day of salvation,
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  recommit resurrender, give your life, perhaps for the first time
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  over to the Lord God Almighty and let Him give you the Holy
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  Spirit by faith. And watch how all the things
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  that you used to not see anything wrong with all of a
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  sudden become very deplorable and very destitute and very
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  offensive to the Spirit of God Almighty.
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  And you will not be able to continue to listen to all of the
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  garbage, all the satanic worship, all of the horror
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  movies, all of the tarot cards, and all of the new age garbage.
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  It will become offensive to the Spirit of God and we will not
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  satisfy all the lusts of our flesh.
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  And we will not be trying to please man by giving in to all
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  of the garbage that is being propagated.
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  Even at the highest levels of office.
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  We are under the law, we are under the grace of God and not
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  under the law, Friends, we are above it.
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  And so that is what you need to understand.
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  It is that Jesus Christ alone is our chief cornerstone.
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  He is our everything. He is the leader and we follow
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  Him. We do not follow after this
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  world. We do not love the world or
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  anything in the world, Friends. We are called out of the world,
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  friends. We're in it, but we're not of it
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  anymore. We are just pilgrims passing
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  through a strange land. 16 and as many as walk according to
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  this rule. Peace be on them, and mercy and
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  upon the Israel of God. What an interesting little
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  passage here. And this is where you get the
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  replacement theology. This is where you get the new
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  covenant, where the Church becomes the new Israel.
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  And we know that the meaning of this passage is very simple,
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  that when you come to the Lord Jesus Christ and you place your
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  faith in him, all the promises of Abraham are attached to you
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  and all the blessings of that nation are attached to you.
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  And it's the same for the ethnic Jews.
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  They have to come in the same way that the Gentiles do, and
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  they do not just get to go to heaven because they are of the
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  genealogy of Abraham, which was being taught during this time.
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  That Abraham stood at the gates and that he made sure none of
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  his descendants had to go to hell, and that all the
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  descendants of Abraham automatically got to go to
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  heaven. And we know that that is
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  heretical teaching. And so the Jews had a false
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  sense of salvation. And here Paul is wanting us to
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  know, and he's wanting them to know, and he's wanting the
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  Judaizers to know that they must come in through Jesus Christ.
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  He is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes unto
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  the Father except through Him. And we are the wild branches
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  grafted in to the natural. But do not forget that the
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  Romans 11/12/13, you're going to see where the Jews, the ethnic
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  Jews are the natural. And yes, they are cut off for
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  now so that the Gentiles can come in into the full number,
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  but it will be much easier for the natural branch that was cut
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  off to be grafted back in to the natural tree.
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  God is not done with that nation Israel.
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  He is not done with that geographical place on planet
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  earth, in Jerusalem. Jesus Christ will rule and reign
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  from that literal geographical place on planet earth.
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  And the Jews, the ethnic Jews, will come to a saving knowledge
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  of their Lord Jesus Christ eventually, friends, and that is
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  why the Jews as a whole are not exterminated and they have not
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  been swept away. They have not been intermingled
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  into different nations. They are set apart and they are
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  God's chosen people. And we would do well to bless
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  them, and we would do well to not curse them and not turn our
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  backs on them. So we cannot have this
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  replacement theology that says God's done with the Jews and
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  they are of no more and that we are the new Israel that is not
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  congruent with the entirety of God's scripture.
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  That is cherry picking verses to try to make us feel better about
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  turning our backs on the Jews so that we do not suffer the
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  persecution of standing with the most persecuted people group on
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  planet earth. And that's sphere of man friends
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  as a whole. And far be it from Christians to
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  ever be the ones to persecute any people group, much less the
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  natural tree that we were grafted into.
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  And that is what is referenced here. 17 From now on let no man
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  trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord
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  Jesus. Paul could rightfully say this.
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  He could rightfully say that he is won their affection by all of
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  the stripes, by all of the persecutions, by the stoning
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  that he had, the shipwrecks, the Knights of hunger fasting.
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  Paul could rightfully say that he has run the race.
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  He is finished. Well, we'll end on 18 brothers,
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  the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, be with your spirit,
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  Amen. That's what we need.
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  We need Christ, we need grace and we know that suffering is on
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  the table. We do not shrink back from it.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. No, I sure have.
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  I'm praying for you. Love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.