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Our Union in Christ pt. 4 · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  Alright, so last Sunday we stopped at identity, right?
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  We came from Mphaniso, we started talking about the fact that the identity of the believer
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  is first of all spiritual, right?
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  Spiritual because the kingdom itself is spiritual because we've previously from different pastors,
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  the kingdom has been explained to us, we've understood that this matter is not a location
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  somewhere but spiritual power, spiritual dominance, spiritual authority, spiritual kingdom of
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  God.
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  I proceeded into explaining that it's actually part of the character of the believer, that
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  the believer himself, him or herself is spiritual and we checked a whole number of scriptures,
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  also checking from Genesis, we found out that God himself is spirit, right?
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  So the spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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  I don't know if it would be good to run through that particular scripture again just to add
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  some more, some more light to it.
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  John chapter 4, John chapter 4, the gospel of John chapter 4, the gospel of John chapter
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  4, just see a little bit of certain things there then we will be able to proceed, John
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  chapter 4, from verse 21, and Jesus said to the woman, believe me, the hour is coming
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  when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
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  You worship what you do not know, we worship what we know for salvation is from the Jews.
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  But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers must worship in spirit
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  and in truth for the Father is seeking such people to worship him, right?
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  He's seeking such people to worship him.
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  For God is spirit and those who worship him in spirit must worship him in spirit and in
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  truth, right?
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  And in truth.
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  So one of the further explanation we can add to it is that the believer, right?
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  I think I made a statement that the believer, the kingdom is spiritual, therefore the believer
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  is also spiritual, right?
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  And this spiritual kingdom comes as a result of what Christ did, right?
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  The barrier, the death, the death, the burial and resurrection of Christ.
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  Now in this context too, right, is also referring to similar thing, right?
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  Or almost exactly the same thing, saying that the most worshiping in spirit and in truth.
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  So it's going to the worship that comes right from the direction of what Christ has done.
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  Okay, the spirit and truth there is not a sincere heart or sincere spirit.
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  Spirit is actually referring to the spirit and truth in the sense of the context of the
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  spiritual achievements, right?
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  Spiritual fulfillment of what Christ has actually done, right?
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  So that is what he means there.
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  So the death, the burial and the resurrection of Christ in the understanding of that, the
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  spiritual people will worship.
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  Okay, so it's not sincerity.
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  Why do I say that?
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  If you pay attention to the context of it, right, to understand what our spirit and truth
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  is, if you pay attention to the context of it, it's a woman.
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  Believe me, the hour is coming when neither this will worship in this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
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  So two things are involved, right?
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  A matter of worship and a type of worship, one that takes place in Jerusalem and one
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  that takes place on this mount, right?
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  You say your father worshiped what you know, but we do not worship, right?
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  But we worship what we know because salvation is of the Jews.
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  Then the hour is coming now when the true worshipers, right, worship him in spirit and
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  in truth.
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  It definitely means no longer in Jerusalem, no longer on this mountain, right, but in
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  spirit and in truth.
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  So it's not going to be in types and shadows or in places and location, right, to believe
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  that God is in temples, right, as this would believe, right, or going to the mountain.
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  The concept of the mountain is actually something you would find from Israel's departure from
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  Egypt, right, Israel's departure from Egypt.
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  It's the same thing in Romans that say, do not say in your mouth that who would ascend,
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  right, who would go like Moses would do to bring the law or to bring the explanation
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  of the gospel to us, right?
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  So they understand this concept of going to the mountain and, you know, kind of it means
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  to get access to what is spiritual, get access to what is spiritual.
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  They also believe that Jerusalem is also spiritual, right?
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  Jerusalem is where God stays, is the capital of the kingdom of Israel, all that context,
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  right?
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  So Jesus is trying to point the focus of worship, right, to be something that takes place in
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  spirit and in truth and not in location, right?
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  It's collaborate much more with the fact that we say the kingdom of God is spiritual, is
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  not a location, is not a mountain, neither is it in Jerusalem, right?
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  So it's also not a particular location in the sky.
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  We said that.
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  Now, how do these worship take place?
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  It will take place in a spirit and truth in accordance or in the understanding of the
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  death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
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  So look at how God is spirit and those who worship him was doing in spirit and in truth.
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  So there's a way in which God explains us to worship, right, which is to worship our
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  worship stems from all that Christ has done, right?
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  All that Christ has done.
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  So it means it's in the spirit, right?
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  Worship is in the spirit.
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  Verse 5, you know, Father says, so the woman said to him, I know that the Messiah is coming,
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  who is called Christ.
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  When he comes, he will tell us all things.
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  Jesus said to her, I am right.
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  I, I who speak to you, I'm here.
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  So what we see again is that worship is going to be spiritual.
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  Worship is spiritual, right?
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  Because we do it in spirit and in truth.
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  So another word referring to or in addition to what I taught on on Sunday, we can also
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  go to first Corinthians two, first Corinthians two, verse nine, first Corinthians two, verse
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  nine, it said, but as it is written, what no eye has seen, nor any ear heard, nor the
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  heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.
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  Right?
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  These things God has revealed to us through the spirit.
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  The spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
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  Right?
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  The spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
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  If you go to verse 15, verse 14, said the natural man does not accept the things of
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  the spirit of God.
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  The natural man does not accept the things of the, now this, this is telling us that
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  there is a way in which this things of God is received.
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  Right?
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  So as a spiritual man, there's a way the things of God is received.
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  So the natural man does not accept things of God.
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  Now he said, for they are fully to him and he's not able to understand them because they
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  are spiritually discerned.
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  The spiritual person judges all things.
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  Right?
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  He can understand all things, but he himself to be judged, but he's himself to be judged
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  by no one for who has understand the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him.
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  For we have the mind of Christ.
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  We have the mind of Christ.
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  So what we see here is first of all, right?
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  That the spiritual things, these things God has revealed to us through the spirit.
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  So in continuation of what we started on Sunday, it's the revelation, right?
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  Is given to us by the spirit of God.
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  So we are spiritual, we are spirits and we receive revelation by the spirit of God.
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  Okay.
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  We receive revelation by the spirit of God.
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  So we've seen that our worship is by the spirit, right?
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  Our worship is not by what's trained.
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  Our worship is not from, it doesn't stem from what's trending.
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  It doesn't stem from, from what is invoke.
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  It's not stem from popular culture.
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  Our worship does not stem from what we see other people do, but it stands from the spirits,
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  right?
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  That's why I said the spirit and truth.
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  So what about we want to do as worship must stay within the context of what Christ has
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  done, right?
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  What Christ has done in spirit and in truth.
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  And here we also see that the pains that are in the spirit, right?
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  They are revealed to us.
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  So we are in spirit, in the spirit, right?
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  But worship in the spirit, right?
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  The spiritual and he said also verse, progressive verse says that for the spirit suggest everything,
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  even the depths of the soul.
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  We are taught, right?
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  Through the spirit of God.
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  We are taught through the spirit of God.
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  Now if we continue to see from verse, from verse 14, he says, the natural man does not
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  accept things of the spirit, but they are fully what the spiritual person judges.
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  So we're going to move to something that is next, right?
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  So there are things that are reviewed to us by the spirit of God, right?
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  And those things are actually reviewed by the word of God, right?
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  So the point we are going is that the word of God, right?
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  Explains, right?
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  Reviews things to us.
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  So the spirit then, the fact that these things are reviewed to us through the spirit does
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  not mean something out of what we can control.
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  Does not mean what we don't understand, but means through the word of God, we receive
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  understanding, right?
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  We receive understanding by what is written.
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  We understand, he said, for the spirit such everything, even the depth of the soul, we
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  understand God by the spirit of God and through his word.
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  So these things that are given to us by the spirit, right?
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  These things that are given to us by the spirit that are reviewed to us by the spirit, it
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  is received by faith.
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  Okay?
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  The things that are given to us by the spirit, the things that are received, that are reviewed,
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  right?
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  To us is received by faith, right?
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  I'm saying that again.
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  What is reviewed by the spirit of God unto us through his spirit, right?
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  What he has not heard before, what eyes have not seen before, what the heart of men had
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  not imagined before, what God has prepared for those who love him before, is reviewed
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  to us by the spirit now.
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  And that is received by faith.
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  Okay?
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  That is received by faith.
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  Therefore, faith becomes the second or another identity that we can see that is of the believer.
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  So the next identity we'll talk about, right?
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  You know, is faith.
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  Is faith.
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  Because it will take faith to, you know, to manifest the kingdom of God, right?
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  So you're spiritual, you believe these things are not physical, right?
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  The next thing is to understand faith.
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  You have to understand faith, right?
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  You have to understand faith because it is true faith, right, that we also function in
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  the manifestation of the things of the spirit of the manifestation of the kingdom of God,
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  right?
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  In the essence of fear, in the essence of doubts, right?
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  We are not able to function even when you are spiritual, right?
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  So the spiritual man is a man of faith and must not allow fear or doubts to step in.
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  So faith becomes something that we should talk about, we should discuss.
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  Actually, when they were praying, I think Sister Christine led a prayer and said that
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  which is ours in the spirit might be made, probably made manifest or that we might be
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  able to walk in that which is ours in the spirit, right?
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  So that means that we need to be able to function in all the revelation that is granted to us
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  by the spirit of God, right?
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  So the spirit of God reveals salvation to us, it reveals our positions to us.
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  The spirit of God reveals all that is found in Christ to us, right?
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  So we need to be able to walk in all of that, right?
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  All of that and it takes faith, right?
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  It takes faith and faith is something that is an identity of every believer, right?
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  I'm saying that over and over because we must know it, we must know it.
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  Now faith is actually also what distinguishes the Christian faith from every other religion
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  or every other faction.
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  So even when we see people, they say they are believers or even when someone carries
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  the Bible, right?
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  One of the things you ask the person is, what do you believe, right?
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  What do you believe?
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  It's not just about using the same book, right?
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  But what do you believe?
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  You know, what do you believe in?
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  Because that subject of faith is crucial to know if the person is spiritual, the person
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  is really on the same page with you.
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  So faith becomes another common identity that we have, right?
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  It's a common identity that we have and it helps us to manifest the kingdom of God, it
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  helps us to function, right?
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  And the spiritual realm, right, it helps us to function from that spiritual realm, from
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  that spiritual position.
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  So we start with faith and we start with John chapter 1 verse 9 to 13.
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  John chapter 1 from verse 9 to 13.
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  All right.
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  It is the true light which gives light to everyone who was coming into the world, right?
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  Was in the world and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
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  He came to his own and people did not receive him.
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  But to all who received him, right, and believed in his name, he gave the rights to become
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  the children of God, gave the rights to become the children of God, right?
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  Give them the right to become children of God.
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  So what we see here, right, is actually expressing faith, right?
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  So faith and belief, there's no doctrine that says they are different.
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  There's nothing like faith is a belief.
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  Faith is basically a noun, right?
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  You have faith, it means it's a noun, just use that in that context.
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  And belief is actually your exercise of faith.
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  Believing is your exercise of faith in something, right?
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  Believing is exercise of faith in something.
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  So what we see is that they believe in his name, they exercise faith in his name, right?
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  Don't forget John writes in all Revelation from John chapter 1, right?
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  So believe in his name, don't forget our name, the name we talk about is what God will do
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  and has done, right?
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  So but to all who receive him and believe in means exercise faith in what God has done
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  he gave because this is passing right, he gave the rights to become the children of
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  God.
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  So everyone who exercise faith became the children of God.
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  So it means that faith is our common faith, right?
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  Faith is our common faith.
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  They're going to see that because that is very important, right?
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  Faith is our common faith.
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  The reason why I'm emphasizing that all of us as the children of God, we have faith is
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  that it helps us to know that the manifestation of the kingdom of God is not for some people,
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  right?
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  Manifestation of the kingdom of God is not for some people, right?
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  Is not for some people who have achieved, you know, certain level of spirituality, right?
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  But it is through faith, right?
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  Through faith for all who has believed.
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  So we see that faith is something that is common to all the children of God.
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  Faith is common to all the children of God and therefore the manifestation of the kingdom
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  is common to all the children of God.
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  John chapter 3 verse 1 to 8.
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  John chapter 3 verse 1 to 8.
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  I think I'll just read from verse 5.
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  Jesus answered, truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born of the spirit, you cannot
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  enter into the kingdom of God, right?
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  That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
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  For no matter what I say to you, you must be born again, right?
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  The wind blows everywhere it wishes and you hear its sound but you do not know where it
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  comes from or where it goes.
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  So it is with everyone who is born of God.
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  Okay verse 9.
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  Nicodemus said to him, how can these things be?
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  Jesus answered him, I shoe the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these
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  things.
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  Truly, truly I say, we speak of what we know and peer witness to that which we have seen.
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  But you do not receive our testimony.
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  If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you
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  heavenly things?
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  No one has ascended into the heaven except He who descended from heaven, the Son of Man
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  and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness.
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  So the Son of Man must be lifted up that whosoever believes in Him may have eternal life.
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  So we see this believing again, coming into play as something Jesus was preaching and
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  explaining to Nicodemus saying that you must believe, you must have faith.
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  Now we are starting within the context of salvation but it is the main place where faith starts
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  from.
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  So faith starts from salvation.
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  Then we find it in the Christian living.
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  Faith starts from salvation.
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  So we can say that, just to backtrack, we can say that in the context of a phonies or
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  emphanies, the two words that I have used in previous teachings, emphanies or emphanies
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  that talks about proof of God's salvation or that relates to God's salvation, faith
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  is needed.
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  Faith is needed.
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  Faith is what brings us into that salvation that God has provided for us.
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  So in the context of emphanies, the root word for emphanies is faith is founded.
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  Faith is founded.
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  Also in the context of the canal, which is presenting a proof by teaching or by science
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  and wonders, faith is also founded.
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  Faith is also founded.
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  So I've said two things.
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  In the context of emphanies, which talks about relating to the salvation that God has provided,
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  that brings us into that identity, faith is founded.
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  And in the context of the canal, which is to present proof, to show thoughts by science
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  and wonders or by teachings or by explanation, by preaching, there's also faith in that.
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  So I just quickly put those two together.
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  And that's why we actually are coming to pay attention to faith a little bit and to show
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  that it is actually common.
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  And it is the same that carries us through, right?
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  It's still the same faith that carries us through our work.
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  So we find that it's common to everyone that believes we found it in the context of Jesus
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  and as Moses lifted up the serpent.
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  Now one thing is to ask, this faith, right, is it in Christ being nailed to the cross?
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  Because when we read it, that's why I say when somebody carries Bible, you have to ask
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  them what do they believe, right?
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  Even if somebody calls them, you're a believer, really?
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  Okay, yeah, what do you believe this person can share?
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  You can share.
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  The reason is because first you can help the person to develop much more in faith, to align
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  their faith properly, right?
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  You can have faith in the scriptures in many aspects of the world with not an accurate
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  understanding, right?
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  With not an accurate, if you remember the case of Apollos, right, he had faith in something,
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  right?
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  But it was not in, it was not aligning perfectly, right?
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  It was not aligning perfectly.
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  Say, what do you believe, right?
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  We can go to that scripture, we can go to that scripture and just quickly see.
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  They ask him, what did you believe, right?
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  He said he had believed the baptism of John, he had believed the baptism of John.
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  So you can write in Acts chapter 18 verse 24 to 28.
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  He was an eloquent man, competent in the scriptures.
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  He had been instructed in the will of the Lord and fervently spoke, right?
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  Fervently in the spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of Jesus, though he
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  knew only the baptism of John, right?
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  So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him,
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  they took him aside and explained to him the word of God more accurately.
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  What you see there is that someone has faith, but needs to be aligned very well, right?
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  Needs to be aligned very well to understand.
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  So in this context of John chapter 3, what we will see there is that faith, right, as
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  Moses lifted up the serpent.
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  So faith is not only in the depths, right?
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  It's not only in the depths of Christ, but it's in the depths, the barrier and the resurrection
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  of Christ, right?
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  And the ascension, because we now understand that Christ in us is the ascension now.
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  So we have faith in his death, his burial, his resurrection and his ascension into us,
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  which is his presence in our lives.
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  So here, as Moses lifted up, he's not talking about the cross because the way you could
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  miss this quickly is to appropriate the cross and a snake to Christ on the cross.
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  And you say, okay, I believe in his death, right?
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  That's actually not what the scripture is saying, right?
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  Also I think some professions have actually adopted that as a symbol of life too, right?
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  To actually put snake on a tree, right?
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  Quite interesting.
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  But I wish they can show an empty tomb.
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  Maybe that could give us more revelation, right?
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  They can use an empty tomb for one of these medical fields.
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  Now to be lifted up is actually talking about the resurrection of Christ, right?
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  We've used this word several times, right?
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  To be lifted up, to be exalted, right?
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  These are words that are used to explain Christ's resurrection, Christ's resurrection, right?
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  To be lifted up, to be exalted, right?
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  To be given a name above every name, right?
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  So all this really explains resurrection.
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  They're in connection with resurrection.
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  These lifted up is not the cross, a sea, as Christ is on the cross, right?
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  Which some of us have said, okay, who is this that the son of man must be lifted up, right?
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  So that also Eva believes in him, so he's about his death as well.
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  More or less the resurrection of Christ and not just the death.
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  Because if you stop at the death and you believe the cross and he is still on the cross, right?
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  Like some people use cross, your fate is not aligning.
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  Are you getting it?
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  Your fate is not aligning because most of the things when it comes to manifesting the
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  kingdom of God is resurrection, right?
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  Is what we call the post-resurrection and things that we through the spirit understood
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  after the resurrection of Christ, right?
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  So eternal life is after the resurrection of Christ, right?
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  We receive eternal life after the resurrection of Christ.
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  If Christ had not been risen, then our faith, right?
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  Our first Corinthians 15.
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  If Christ has not been risen, then our faith, right, is a lie, right?
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  Is false.
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  Our faith is in vain.
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  So we can go to first Corinthians 15.
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  Let's add that to it because that is the context that would help us to explain this verse.
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  Verse 14.
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  So just add that scripture to it.
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  So it helps us very well to know that the rise of Christ, right?
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  The resurrection of Christ is crucial.
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  First Corinthians 15 verse 19.
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  Verse 19, they said, if in Christ we have hope in this life only, then we are all of
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  all people most pitied, right?
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  But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruit from those who have
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  fallen asleep.
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  Verse 17 says, and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, right?
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  And you are still in your sins, right?
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  So bringing that here, right, tells you that to be lifted up is to be raised, right?
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  To be exalted, lifted up, raised, exalted, right?
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  These are the words that I use.
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  So when you're reading the New Testament, you are reading the epistles, right?
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  Pay attention to these words and check the context, right?
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  It should mostly refer to the resurrection, right?
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  So the belief here is to believe in the resurrection of Christ, to believe in his resurrection,
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  because it's talking about being lifted up here, not just his death.
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  So you see the element of faith here as well.
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  Okay, so we go to Ephesians.
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  Let's go to Ephesians, let's go to Ephesians, let's go to Ephesians chapter 1 and from there
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  we'll pick up some things again.
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  Ephesians chapter 1, right?
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  Ephesians chapter 1 verse 1.
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  It says, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints who are
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  in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ.
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  Did you see the description of them?
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  They are faithful in Christ.
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  So it tells you that's their identity, they are saints and they are faithful, right?
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  They are saints, they are faithful, they are committed to the faith, to the word of God,
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  they are believed, right?
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  They are believed in Christ.
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  So Paul used the word faithful to describe believers, right?
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  To the saints, right?
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  Those who have been cleansed and worshiped in Christ, the new creation man is a saint
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  and faithful, right?
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  They are faithful in Christ.
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  So we see that word describing them as faithful in Christ.
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  So we'll go to Ephesians 2 verse 8 as well and we see that when this thing is being described,
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  he's using it for a people.
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  He's using it for a people.
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  He's not using it just randomly.
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  Most of the context is for a people that have believed.
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  Ephesians 2 verse 8, we see this very clearly.
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  He said, for by faith you have been saved.
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  Sorry, for by grace you have been saved through faith.
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  Faith is not your own doing and is the gift of God, right?
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  It is not your own doing.
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  So we see faith there, faith there again as something very, very common.
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  So faith is an identity of a believer.
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  You are faithful.
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  They call you faithful.
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  They call you saints.
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  Don't say, oh, no, I'm not a saint.
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  No, I'm not a saint.
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  No, don't say that, right?
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  You are a saint.
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  You are faithful because you have believed the message of Christ.
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  So we see that now we can go to one more, one more before we begin to check Hebrews
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  and begin to see what this faith is holding on to, right?
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  I've shown in the epistles that faith is attached to what Christ has done, the resurrection
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  of Christ, not just his death.
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  We have seen that he's believing in his reputation, his name, John chapter 1, downwards.
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  And in Hebrews, we will see some other explanation of what Jesus did as his resurrection, right?
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  What the resurrection of Christ or the message that he is presented.
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  Let's go to Titus 1 verse 4.
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  Titus 1 verse 4, right?
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  You must hear into us that we are the faithful in Christ.
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  Titus 1 verse 4.
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  Let's read from verse 1.
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  Paul, a servant of God, an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's
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  elect and the knowledge of truth, which accords with godliness in hope of eternal life, which
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  God who never lies, right?
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  Promised right before the age began and at the proper time manifested in his word through
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  the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God, Ascibio, to Titus,
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  my true child in a common faith, grace and peace from God the father and Christ our Savior.
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  So first we see expression of the faith of God's elect, right?
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  The faith of God's elect.
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  We see that expressed as the knowledge of the truth, right?
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  The knowledge of the truth, right?
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  That is why we are making sure that anybody who says they have faith are in the knowledge
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  of the truth.
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  Okay, they are in the knowledge of the truth.
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  They are in the spirit and in the truth.
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  They are in the knowledge of the truth, right?
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  They understand the resurrection of Christ and his sanction into us.
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  So what we see there, he says the knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,
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  I mean, it comes with godliness in hope of eternal life, which God promised and he has
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  made manifest in verse 4, he concludes, he said, to Titus, my true child in a common
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  faith, right?
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  In a common faith, that is our common faith.
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  What we have together, right?
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  Something that identifies us together is common.
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  Faith is common, right?
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  Faith is common.
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  It's something we share.
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  It's talking about something we share, like in the faith that we share.
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  So faith is an idea of belief, right?
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  You have to therefore, right, know that when there is fear, right?
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  When there is fear, when there is doubt, then there's a challenge, right?
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  When there is fear, when there is doubt, especially one to the word of God, right?
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  When there's fear, when there is doubt towards the word of God, right?
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  Then you need to check it again because a believer will believe the word of God, a believer
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  will ask the word of God out.
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  The believer is to be free from fear and anxiety and all of that, to always exercise faith.
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  That's all that brought you into the fold and through faith we also continue.
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  So we say that this is a common faith.
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  Now let's check Hebrews.
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  Actually, the whole of Hebrews 1, like we know, is an expression of faith, right?
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  It's an expression of, an explanation of faith that we find, that we found, right?
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  That we found.
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  So let's check Hebrews 11, 1-6 because it's the scripture that actually tries to combine
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  the word, the use of the word faith and the use of the word belief, right?
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  To help us to understand that really there's no really doctrinal differences there.
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  It's just faith and a verb, right?
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  And now on a verb.
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  Now faith is the assurance of things, hoped for.
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  The conviction of things not seen.
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  So it's defined like as a noun, right?
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  It's not defined.
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  The way it's defined there.
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  So for by it, right?
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  So describing it as the subject.
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  For by it, the people of old receive the accommodation, right?
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  They receive the accommodation.
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  It means they receive the fact that they are faithful.
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  That's another way we say it.
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  They receive the fact that they are faithful.
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  By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, right?
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  So that what is seen is not made out of things that are visible, right?
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  What is seen is not made out of things that are visible.
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  By faith, it was offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than came through which it was commanded
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  as righteous, God commanding him by accepting his gift and through his faith, though he
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  died, he speaks.
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  By faith, Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death and was not found because by
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  God had taken him.
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  Now before he was, God had taken him.
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  Now before he was taken, he was commanded as having pleased God, right?
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  So he means he had exercised faith, is a man of faith, his identity.
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  Faith, we can call him the faithful.
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  Now there are six masses and without faith, it's impossible to please God.
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  For whosoever will draw near to God must believe that he exists and he rewards all those who
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  seek him, right?
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  Without faith it is impossible to please God for whosoever draws near to God must believe
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  and rewards those who seek him.
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  So we can say the action of faith is believing or the instrumentation of faith is believing.
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  Instrumentation, the expression of faith, right, is actually believing.
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  The expression of the fact that you are faith is to believe, right?
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  So no one wakes up being born again, right, I wrote it here, no one wakes up being born
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  again.
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  No one without faith can receive salvation, right?
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  No one because being born again.
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  No one without faith can receive salvation.
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  No one can receive salvation, you know, even through a vision.
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  A message must be preached to you, right?
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  A message must be preached to you.
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  Oh, I was just in a vision and I became born again.
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  When you wake up, you would express that belief in the message, right, when it's preached
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  to you.
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  So you can be led, you can receive a word by vision and you can say, go and meet so,
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  so and so person or someone will come to your house.
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  You can have such kind of revelations of you being connected.
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  However, the faith, right, that you receive, right, is something you believe, right, is
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  something you believe.
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  The faith that you have is expressed through believing.
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  So without faith, no one can actually please God, means no one can come into salvation,
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  right?
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  That is what it means.
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  No one can come into salvation.
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  So therefore, one of the identity we have is faith and we talked about that.
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  Again, our response to the gospel is faith, right?
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  You can write down our response to the gospel is faith.
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  Our response to the gospel is faith, is believing, is believing.
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  Our response to the gospel is believing.
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  So we can just read Hebrews 4, 1 to 2.
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  We have some scriptures there, some people who received the word.
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  I'm going to come back to Hebrews chapter 6 and I'm going to experience some things.
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  So let's go to Hebrews chapter 4, verse 1 to 2.
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  Therefore, while the promise of entering is rest still standing, let us fear lest any
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  of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
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  For the good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit
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  them because they were not united by faith, right?
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  It means that they did not exercise faith, united by faith or united in faith with what
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  was preached to them, with those who listened, right?
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  He says here, he says it with those who listen.
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  For we who have believed have entered into the rests, right?
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  I've entered that rest.
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  As I said, I say, swore in my mouth they shall not enter in my rest.
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  So what we see there is that they did not mix it with faith, right?
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  But some people believed, right?
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  So we see faith and believe in there as nothing different, but simply exercise in just the
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  use of words, right?
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  For goodness came to us just as came to them, but it did not mix it with faith.
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  It means they were not united with faith, with those who listened.
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  So they didn't have the same faith as they basically want to sing.
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  They didn't have the same faith, right?
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  With those who listened, for we who have believed, so we who have the faith have entered into
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  the rest of God.
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  So we see that believing there as an action, right, to believe a word.
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  So we go to Mark 16 verse 17.
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  Mark 16 verse 17.
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  Mark 16 verse 17, just to exercise, Mark 16 verse 17.
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  So going to the world and proclaim the gospel, right, from verse 15, to the whole nation,
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  whosoever believes, right, is baptized, and whosoever believes is baptized and will be
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  saved, but whosoever does not believe will be condemned.
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  And these signs shall follow them who believe in my name.
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  They shall cast out demons, they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues,
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  they will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will
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  not hurt them, right?
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  They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
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  Now what this path really helps us to do, right, is to bring, right, is to bring something
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  together.
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  And what is it bringing together?
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  It's bringing those who believe the gospel, right?
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  Those who believe the gospel as being saved.
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  We see there that they will come into salvation by believing.
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  We see that there.
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  And the second thing, he also said that verse 17, and these signs will follow them that
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  believe.
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  The same faith, right, is not like, oh, they need another believing, right, they need another
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  believing to do signs and wonders.
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  After they have believed salvation, they will now have to, another type of faith will have
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  to come, or another type of belief will have to come for them to manifest.
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  No, it's still the same, it's just a continuation of it, right?
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  It's just a continuation.
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  So it means that those that believe, right, in salvation, and they are saved, and they
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  are not condemned, right, in continuation of the work they will be doing, these signs
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  will follow them.
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  The only thing that makes a believer not to be able to exercise these signs, right, is
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  ignorance.
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  Not that the signs cannot follow them, not that the signs are not even following them,
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  right?
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  It's ignorance and the, what we call the desire not to, right, the desire not to.
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  So there is no like, okay, the faith that brought you to salvation, or what made you
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  to believe, right, that identity is different.
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  Then you need another believing, right?
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  You need another believing, right, another type of faith, now you now begin to manifest.
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  That one is different.
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  So if you say that, it therefore differentiates believers and says, oh, one believer is saved,
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  but he has not been saved to cast out demons, right?
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  He has not been saved to heal the sin, he has not been saved, no, no, no.
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  If talking about this part of the scripture really helps us to unite it very well, to
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  say that the same faith that we are coming to, right, we continue in that faith, right,
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  to manifest all that is said, these signs, we follow them that believe, right, still
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  in the context of those who have believed and have been saved.
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  In my name they will cast out demons.
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  So for us to manifest the kingdom, therefore, we do not need, right, a particular, we do
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  not need to go into a new faith or another areas of faith or another levels of faith,
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  right?
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  Then we can be able to now say, oh, I've gotten to the level of faith where I can cast out
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  demons, just as you have believed and you have come into salvation, therefore, you can
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  manifest the kingdom of God, just as you believe that you have come into salvation, you can
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  manifest the kingdom of God.
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  So that's what we see here, which I tried to explain that while the faith that brings
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  you in, which is what I use, and the other one that determines your manifestation is the
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  same, right, is the same.
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  You just believe you have faith, the same way John 3 says, then it's preached to someone,
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  right?
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  And the person believes, right?
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  When it comes to the manifestation of the Spirit, the scriptures are also open, the
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  same way you believe that you continue in faith, it's just the continuation of faith,
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  right?
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  You continue in faith and manifest, right, manifestation.
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  That's what we see in these scriptures, right?
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  And they believe these signs shall follow them, these signs shall follow them.
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  So we just go a little bit back to Genesis a little bit, right, and see how the gospel
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  has been described, right?
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  What this believing, right, the object or the subject of faith, the subject of faith,
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  by the way it has been described, right?
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  So that when we read the Old Testament, we also know that faith is also what God is demanding,
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  right?
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  Faith is what God desires.
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  So without faith, you can't please God.
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  So we want to see from Genesis, right, how this faith has been explained, right?
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  How God has acquired faith.
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  So we can see that it's not something that faith is not a post-resurrection thing.
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  No, it's not.
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  I mean, you should know that it's not.
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  Faith is not after Jesus died, then people begin to believe, right?
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  Faith has been something that actually binds, faith is something that binds both those who
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  believe in the promise of God before it was fulfilled in Christ on earth, right, and manifested
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  in resurrection.
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  Those who believe before and those who believe after, it is faith that binds us together,
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  right?
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  It is faith that Hebrews 11 tells us that.
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  But we'll come to that.
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  Let's just go to Genesis chapter two and just see Genesis chapter two and just see how that
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  word, because it was faith.
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  God has always demanded, God has demanded nothing from man, right, without faith.
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  He has always wanted men to believe in his promise, right?
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  God's demand.
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  So it becomes part of our identity when we believe, right?
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  It becomes part of us when we believe.
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  So Genesis two verse 16, it says, and God commanded, and the Lord God commanded the
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  man saying, you may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of knowledge
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  of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day you eat it, you shall surely die,
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  right?
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  You shall surely die.
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  And so on is asking, right, how is, how is faith here, right?
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  What is the expression of faith?
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  What is God requiring here?
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  First, the way to understand that God is actually asking, God is actually asking Adam to believe
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  in his message, the way to understand it is to first note a couple of things.
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  First, the person that is writing Genesis is Moses.
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  Okay?
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  So the person that is writing Genesis is Moses.
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  That's the first thing, because you have to note who the author is.
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  It's the one that communicated this thing in this way.
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  It would mean that we need to pick some words that he used and check other books and understand
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  how he used those words altogether.
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  Then we will understand what he means here.
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  So he said, and the Lord commanded man saying, you may surely eat of the fruit.
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  That word commanded is an intentional word, right?
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  By Moses.
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  Okay, that word is intentional, is intentional by Moses.
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  Why?
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  Because the author is writing to a people, right?
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  Is documenting this for a people who knows their hearts, right?
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  First, a people who knows their hearts.
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  And if we also check his communication to these same people, Moses always used command,
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  the word command, and it's a commandment, right, for them to believe.
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  So we can just go to Exodus.
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  Let's go to Exodus.
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  Let's go to Exodus.
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  After Exodus 20, right, we actually have a couple of them, written everywhere, scattered
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  around in his communication.
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  We have most of these commands scattered around in Moses' communication through Israel.
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  We can start with Exodus 20, right?
• 47:43
  We can start with Exodus 20 because Exodus 20 actually directly links to what we are
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  teaching.
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  So he used the word command, right?
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  Used the word command.
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  So when you see, and God spoke this word saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out
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  of Egypt, right?
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  Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery?
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  You shall have no God, right?
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  You shall have no God before me.
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  You shall have no God before me.
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  If you go to verse 6, right, if you go to verse 6, it says, but showing the first law
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  to thousands of those who love him and keep his commandment, right?
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  Who love him and keep his commandment.
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  You shall not take the Lord your God, and it continued the commandment, the statement
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  about the commandment here.
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  You can go to Exodus 19 verse 7.
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  It also said something there.
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  So Moses came and called the elders of the people and said before them all these words
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  that the Lord had commanded, right?
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  The Lord had commanded all these words that the Lord had commanded.
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  If you read up from Exodus 19 from verse 4, it's a universal sin that I did not, sorry,
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  that I did, what I did to Egyptians and how I bore you on egos winds and brought you to
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  myself, salvation.
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  Now, therefore, if you indeed obey my voice and keep my commandments, sorry, and keep
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  my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all people.
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  For all the earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of grace.
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  And these are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.
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  So Moses came and called the elders of the people and said before them all these words
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  as the Lord had commanded him.
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  And all the people answered together, all that the Lord has spoken we will do.
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  And Moses reported the words of the Lord to the people and the Lord said, Behold, I am
• 49:53
  coming in a thick cloud and I will speak.
• 49:55
  So from here, right, from here, the moment they came out, we started seeing the introduction
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  of the words of the Lord to be seen as commandments.
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  Okay, the words of the Lord, right, from Exodus towards Israel, we started seeing it as commandments,
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  right, we started seeing it as commandments.
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  So we'll come to the Ten Commandments, what we'll call the Ten Commandments as well, right,
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  what we see and is written as the Ten Commandments as well.
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  It's also the words of the Lord, okay, the words of the Lord using the word commandment,
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  right.
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  So the word of the Lord is the word of the Lord in Ten Commandments as well.
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  So therefore, just with this and subsequent readings of Moses' writings, we can see that
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  the commandments can be said or can be referred to as the words of the Lord.
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  And the words of the Lord is the gospel, okay.
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  The commandment is the words of the Lord and it is the gospel message.
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  What God spoke to Israel, what God spoke to them when they were in the desert, what God
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  gave to Moses.
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  So what Moses is communicating here, right, of course, these people are used to this word,
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  right, so they should be able to understand that his commandment, right, his instruction
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  is actually the gospel because it is the word of the Lord and it is what is coming.
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  So the gospel is a commandment, we can say that, right, the gospel is a commandment.
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  So we're connecting Genesis to Exodus 20 and Exodus 19.
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  Also when we repeat Exodus 20 and look at Jesus' reiteration of Exodus 20, right, Jesus'
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  explanation of Exodus 20, right, let's go to Mark 12 verse 28.
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  We will see that he summarized it as believing God, or Mark 12 verse 28.
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  He said, oh, okay, this is Luke's for real, Mark 12 verse 28.
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  He said, the one of the scribes came up and heard him disputing with one another and seeing
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  that he answered them well, he asked him, which commandment is the most important of
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  all, right, so which commandment is the most important of all?
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  And Jesus answered, the most important is, hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord
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  is one and you shall love the Lord your God with all your hearts, with all your soul and
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  with all your mind and with all your strength.
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  And the second is this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself, right, there is no other
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  commandment greater than this, right, there is no other commandment greater than this.
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  Now this is parallel to Deuteronomy 6 verse 5, right, Deuteronomy 6 verse 5, which is
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  the second explanation or the second giving of the law of the same law, the second explanation
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  of what Moses had told them before.
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  Deuteronomy 6 verse 5, the same thing was reiterated there from verse 1.
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  He said, now this is the commandment, the statute and the rules that the Lord God commanded
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  me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over to possess
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  it and that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your sons and your sons' sons by
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  keeping his statutes and his commandments, which I command you all the days of your life
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  and that your days may be long.
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  Henceforth, therefore, O Israel, be careful to do them that it may go well with you and
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  that you may multiply greatly as the Lord the God of your father has promised you in
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  a land flowing with milk and honey.
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  Now we all know these are figurative.
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  Therefore, here O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, you shall love the Lord your
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  God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.
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  And these words that I command you today shall be on your hearts.
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  So we see that the Ten Commandments, right, the commandments given to Israel explained
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  by Christ and the word commandment is actually referring to the message of the gospel, right,
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  the message of the gospel.
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  What Moses is giving them, right, in the Deuteronomy here, right, is demanding faith from them,
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  right, is demanding faith from them, right.
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  Of course, he had given them the Ten Commandments, that is just after he had reiterated the Ten
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  Commandments in chapter five of the Deuteronomy.
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  So if you look here, I reiterated the Ten Commandments, right, and now in six is repeating
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  the same thing.
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  So all along when Moses was giving commandments, right, as he has received, what he was demanding
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  from Israel was faith in God, right, was faith in God.
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  To love the Lord your God is actually to obey, which is the same thing as to have faith in
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  him, to have faith in what he has spoken, to have faith in what he said he will do,
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  right.
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  That is why you see he brought the context of the Lord your God of your Father, what
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  God has promised and the land is taken them to, right.
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  So their job is to believe what God has said, right, to believe what God has said, right,
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  which is to love him, which is to obey him, right.
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  So these three words actually are very similar and are used most especially when Moses is
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  telling them and demanding an action.
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  So the way to communicate it is to say to love, right, to love, which is to obey and
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  to believe.
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  We're going to see that subsequently much explained.
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  But what we see now is that the commandment is the gospel and from Genesis therefore we
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  can say that what God is demanding from Adam when he said, right, he has been commanded
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  not to eat, right, it means that the gospel has been communicated to him, right, which
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  is to love, to obey, right, and to believe or to believe the message of God.
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  Right, that's another way to help us to clarify that what Moses was saying, right, majorly
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  was demanding faith, right, from Adam saying that God was expecting Adam to believe a communication
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  that has been passed on to him, right, to show love or to obey.
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  So he said, the Lord took man and put him in the garden and commanded him saying, you
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  may, right, surely eat surely of the fruit and the garden.
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  We've talked about eating as a way to explain this part and now I'm bringing and revealing
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  some, explaining some things using the word command because when Moses used commandment
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  and this most of the time, it's actually demanding faith from the people of Israel, right, it's
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  demanding faith.
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  So we can apply that and say it's faith that has been demanded.
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  So the identity that Adam would have received is identity of, what I've received in the
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  Bible, is identity of faith, someone who believed the message of God, right, someone who believed
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  the message of God in communication that has been spoken to him, right, from this explanation.
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  So faith therefore becomes an identity that is given to us, right, when the message of
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  the gospel, the commandment of God is preached to us, right, it's preached to us, it's explained
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  to us, it's opened to us, the love of God is shown to us, the instruction of God is
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  shown to us, the commandment of God is shown to us.
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  So we love, we obey and we believe, right, that is what it means to love God with your
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  heart, with your whole mind.
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  Again, you can add Romans chapter 10, we talked about believing with your whole heart and
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  confessing with your mother and believing with your whole heart.
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  He aligns together to explain that the message of God, right, is salvation, right, and this
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  is what it desires all men to believe and come into this faithfulness.
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  Lastly, we can just also see some scriptures that refer to God as a faithful father, right,
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  you see, 1 Thessalonians 5, right, he shows that picture that God himself is faithful,
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  right, God himself is faithful and finite, right.
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  So we can check that scripture and see that God himself is faithful, the one who has called
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  him faithful also, right, home to the fulfillment of it, right, you know what he has said regarding
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  you.
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  So we believe as therefore, we can call ourselves faithful, right, because of the faith that
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  we have in God, right, because of the faith that we have in God and because of Christ's
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  expression of faith.
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  So we can pick up Hebrews 12, Hebrews 12 already established Christ is the author and the finisher
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  of our faith, so it means God himself is the author of our faith and just like I said,
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  the father of spirits is God, the father of faith is Christ, okay, the father of spirits
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  is God, the father of faith is Christ, Hebrews 12 verse 1, the father of spirit is God, is
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  Christ himself, right, the father of faith is still Christ, right.
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  So this is what we see, we can see that what we are calling our identity is birthed Christ
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