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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to today's Daily Prayer for more

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Speaker 1: inspiration and an incredible message from our feature pastor stay

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to jump in a message. We're in

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Speaker 2: a series called Inside the Tomb. If any of you

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Speaker 2: That's where we're gonna be at today, and we're doing

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Speaker 2: If you joined us for Christmas, we called it Inside

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Speaker 2: None of us came here this morning to hear the

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Speaker 2: quality defining individual's values. Care show is a showing place

435
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 2: of empathy and compassion, actively attending to others well needs,

436
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 2: which Judas didn't do. Conduct behavior in line with godly actions,

437
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,440
Speaker 2: involving integrity, respect, and responsibility for one's action. I want

438
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 2: you to look at character for just a moment. Billy

439
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 2: Graham says this when it comes to character. When wealth

440
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 2: is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something

441
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 2: is lost. When character is low lost.

442
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 3: All is lost.

443
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 2: Someone who loses their character has lost it all. Judas

444
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 2: was one of those individuals. Want you to look at

445
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,199
Speaker 2: Judas's statement when a woman comes to worship Jesus with

446
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 2: a year's worth of her wage of HERFW Many of

447
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 2: us know this verse ourselves, but it says this in

448
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,439
Speaker 2: John twelve, verse four. But one of the disciples Judas

449
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 2: is Scariot, who was later to betray him, ejected, why

450
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 2: wasn't this perfume sold and the money given.

451
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 3: To the poor?

452
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 2: It was a worth a year's wage. He did not

453
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 2: say this because he cared about the poor, but because

454
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 2: he was a thief, and as keeper of the money bag,

455
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 2: he used to help himself to what was put in it.

456
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 2: But guess what, John, by the inspirational Holy Spirit, he

457
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,320
Speaker 2: fills that in for us.

458
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 3: So we can read it and we can go, oh,

459
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 3: that dog, Judas.

460
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 2: But if you were around Judas, you actually would have

461
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 2: thought he was very righteous. So when Judas is there

462
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 2: and there's a woman breaking perfume that's worth a year's

463
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 2: wage on Jesus's feet, and Judas goes, this woman could

464
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 2: do so we could our ministry could do so much

465
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 2: more for the poor if she just sold this perfume.

466
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 2: How dare she? You know Jesus is just gonna go

467
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 2: wash his feet after such a waste of perfume. We

468
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 2: could have resold that. You know how many people that

469
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 2: could have fed, and there would have been other people

470
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 2: and disciples there going you so right, Judas, I can't

471
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 2: believe her. Why would Jesus even let her do that?

472
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 3: That's ridiculous.

473
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 2: Oh while his words say one thing, but his heart

474
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 2: says another, because what his heart is really saying because

475
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 2: he's the treasurer. So if she gave that to Jesus

476
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 2: for the ministry, Jesus would have said, God, bless you,

477
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,120
Speaker 2: thank you so much.

478
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,400
Speaker 3: Here, Judas, can you go sell that for the work

479
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 3: of the ministry.

480
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,040
Speaker 2: And Judas would have been like, God, yeah, I got you, Jesus.

481
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 2: That's fifty k right there. They'll never miss five k missing.

482
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 2: Judas knows that in his heart, but his words and

483
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 2: what society hears has made Judas you so right. But

484
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 2: God knows his heart. So where we have to recognize

485
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 2: is a self centered faith produces a self righteous attitude.

486
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 2: Self centered faith, the me, me me faith. Guess what,

487
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 2: you will be consistently trying to show everyone around you

488
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 2: how much you have figured it out. When your faith

489
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 2: is centered around you, your own development, your own joy,

490
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 2: your own purpose, your own happiness, and nothing about anyone else,

491
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 2: then you will begin to have a self righteous attitude,

492
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 2: and you will make comments about everything. You will make

493
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 2: comments about people around you, You will make comments about church.

494
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 2: You'll make it just will come out. It just could

495
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 2: come out of you easy. Can you believe she said that?

496
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: Can you believe she dressed this way? You know, don't

497
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 2: mind how I talk to my husband. The way that

498
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 2: girl dress is ridiculous. It's a self righteous attitude. Look

499
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 2: at this person all while I'm not being obedient in

500
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 2: this space myself and so immediately self centered faith, the

501
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: me me me mentality, the me me me faith that

502
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 2: Judas was living. The more that Jesus's ministry grew, the

503
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: more that Judas's pockets grew, and the moment that he

504
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 2: sees Jesus's ministry probably not gonna grow no more, the

505
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,479
Speaker 2: moment he tried to get one more big payday because

506
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 2: the clearer you start to think about you, the actually

507
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 2: more disfigured life begins to be. And so for Judas,

508
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 2: he fell for these lives because he kept looking at

509
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: himself for so long, he stopped fixing his eyes on

510
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 2: Jesus and the work of Jesus, that he started to

511
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: only view himself. You know, Papulo Picasso is one of

512
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: the world's greatest pain definitely in our day in the

513
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 2: nineteen hundreds, and a Picasso is.

514
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 3: A euphemism for a great artist.

515
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: We say someone's a regular Pablo Picasso when they're a

516
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 2: great artist. Well, Pablo Picasso, over his years he did

517
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 2: a set of around ten to eleven self portraits. And

518
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,239
Speaker 2: what's amazing is most art historians think it's incredible that

519
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 2: you'll see when Picasso was fifteen years old, he used

520
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 2: to draw himself really clearly. But you get all the

521
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 2: way towards the bottom right. That was his last self

522
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 2: portrait he ever did of himself at the age ninety

523
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 2: years old. And so he went from a point where

524
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 2: when he was younger he saw himself very clearly, very innocently,

525
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 2: but as he got older, he actually towards his nineties

526
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 2: and some of this went with his abstract painting, but

527
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 2: it was really as he stepped more and more into

528
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 2: older age and realized his mortality. Most art historians believe

529
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 2: that as he got older he saw himself less clearly,

530
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 2: because as he would paint himself, he'd in at fifteen

531
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,719
Speaker 2: and twenty, he was very innocent, so he saw himself

532
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 2: very clearly. But as he got older, he added all

533
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,479
Speaker 2: his memories and all his stories, and it was so

534
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 2: much so that all he could do is kind of

535
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 2: just draw himself into a rock. Because the longer that

536
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 2: we fixate on ourselves, the less clear it becomes, and

537
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 2: the more that line is fudged, and the more that

538
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 2: line is tott And the point of the Gospel and

539
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 2: the point of the Cross is for us to fix

540
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 2: our eyes on Jesus and the work of the Cross

541
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 2: and the work of his resurrection. You want to see

542
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 2: your life more clearly, you have to stop looking at

543
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 2: your life and start looking.

544
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 3: At Jesus's life. Judas didn't do that.

545
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 2: He looked at Jesus's life and thought everything that would

546
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 2: benefit him, and.

547
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 3: So he lacks character in it shows.

548
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 2: And Satan can see that. Satan sees what his morals

549
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: are Satan was around when he saw Judas pocket those coins,

550
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: and he's saying to himself, Okay, wonder what I could

551
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 2: do with that second thing that we can see the

552
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 2: enemy sees is Judas lacks care. Judas lacks care. Corey

553
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 2: ten Boom, a Dutch author but also a Holocaust survivor

554
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 2: someone who survived concentration camps as a Christian, said, you

555
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 2: can never learn that Christ is all you need until

556
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: Christ is all you have. A lot of times we

557
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 2: want Jesus and Jesus and Jesus, and but the reality

558
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 2: is is if you want Christ to be all you need,

559
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 2: then he has to become all that we have, all

560
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 2: that we hold, and all that we trust. Because then

561
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 2: when we see Jesus with clarity in that way, then

562
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 2: that is the place where Satan has no foothold, and

563
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 2: you can actually live a life where Satan is in

564
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 2: behind you, not in front of you, that Satan is

565
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: under your foot and not over your head. It's when

566
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 2: we start living in that space. Matthew chapter twenty six

567
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 2: to fourteen to sixty says this about Judas. Says, though

568
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 2: then one of the disciples, who was called Judas is Scariot,

569
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 2: went to the chief priest and said, what are you

570
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 2: willing to give me if I hand over Jesus. At

571
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 2: this time, he doesn't even know if he's going to

572
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 2: hand over Jesus. He wants to see how sweet the

573
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 2: deal is going to be first, so he says, what

574
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: are you gonna give me if I give Jesus to

575
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 2: And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver, and from

576
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 2: that moment, Judas began looking for an opportune time to

577
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 2: betray Jesus.

578
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 3: Started with one thought.

579
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 2: Here was the thought for Judas, I wonder how much

580
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 2: they would give me if I turned Jesus in. He

581
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 2: was undecided whether he would do it or not. But wooh,

582
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 2: when that deal was sweet, he couldn't resist it. And

583
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 2: Satan was working through every crevice of that deal. He

584
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 2: was working through every Pharisee, he was working through every Sadducey,

585
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 2: He's working through every conversation of Judas, looking for a

586
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 2: moment when Satan could say I can enter him and

587
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 2: now it's my game time.

588
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 3: And it just started with one.

589
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 2: Thought, I have a question for you'all. Got this beautiful

590
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 2: self portrait of mine? See this, Look at that handsome man.

591
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 2: That's a good looking guy.

592
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 3: Look, look, look, let me ask you.

593
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 2: Guys a question. You think you think if I took

594
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 2: this piece right here, would you say that I'm still

595
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 2: all there? Yeah?

596
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 3: Okay? What if I took this piece right here? Would

597
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 3: you still say that I'm all there? Okay?

598
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 2: What if I took this piece right here? Would you

599
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 2: say I'm all there?

600
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 3: Oh? So it's fifty to fifty.

601
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: Now let's see if I took let's just take the tattoos, right,

602
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 2: let's just remove the tattoos.

603
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 3: Would you still say that I'm pretty much there?

604
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 2: Yeah?

605
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 3: Okay? Here, yeahs and knows? Okay. Now, well, what if.

606
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: I start taking like this right here, like my eyes,

607
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: let's remove I got great eyes, but let's remove those.

608
00:32:59,040 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 3: Now I just got this?

609
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 2: Would you start?

610
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 3: Am I all there?

611
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 2: Oh? It's getting clear now right. A lot of us

612
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 2: tend to think that sin and the time to turn

613
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 2: around is at this point, But really it all started

614
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 2: downhill with one white piece, one piece, just one piece

615
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 2: of me, was enough to say that was not bad.

616
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 3: I still feel like me.

617
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 2: Just one night out, just one drip, just one smoke,

618
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,479
Speaker 2: just one relationship, just one time, just one thought. Nobody's around,

619
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 2: nobody's here. It won't hurt nobody, it won't affect nobody.

620
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 2: And we wonder what happens Why we say, well, that

621
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 2: wasn't all bad, and how about another piece?

622
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 3: How about another piece?

623
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 2: And then at some point, when you've revealed enough of

624
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: your say itself, didn't satan and the enemy can come

625
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 2: and say, let's start taking some bigger pieces.

626
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 3: And you've already showed the enemy you don't know how

627
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 3: to stop.

628
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 2: You've already showed the enemy that you don't know to

629
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 2: put these pieces back together, because only Jesus could.

630
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 3: Put these back together.

631
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: Peter went back to Jesus to put his pieces back together.

632
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 2: Judas did it. Judas hung himself after he did what

633
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 2: he did because he couldn't live with the guilt, not

634
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 2: because he had repentance, but because he didn't want to

635
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 2: face anybody for what he did. And so there's a

636
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 2: difference between regret and repentance, just like there's difference between

637
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry and it will you forgive me. We've

638
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 2: all heard it before. Okay, I'm sorry. You don't mean that.

639
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 2: We know you don't mean that, you're just saying it.

640
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 2: There's a difference between repentance and forgiveness than just regret

641
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 2: and sorrow.

642
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 3: Hey my bad, I see I hurt you. It's my fault.

643
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 2: Would you ever do it again? What does it matter? Like, oh,

644
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 2: what does it matter? Because it's not coming from a

645
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 2: place of repentance. And so for Judas, what started with

646
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 2: one piece, which was just a dollar or two from

647
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: Jesus's bag was enough that as he kept it consistently.

648
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 2: And now Satan is hearing his words about what these

649
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 2: wom and his other comments.

650
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 3: He's going, oh, this is a guy I can use.

651
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 3: So I want to encourage you to be careful.

652
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 2: If you've ever heard this statement before, if you ever

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Speaker 2: said this statement before the enemy made me or Satan's

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Speaker 2: all involved in this, you maybe have said it or

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Speaker 2: heard it before. It's actually a very dangerous statement to make,

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Speaker 2: because what you're saying is that the Satan saw something

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Speaker 2: in you that he felt.

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Speaker 3: Like he could use. You have to be very cautious.

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Speaker 2: Now we've seen it.

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Speaker 3: There is an opportunity where Satan does try.

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Speaker 2: He attempts, he tries, he attacks, he makes effort, but

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Speaker 2: just like Romans eight says, if you're full of the spirit,

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Speaker 2: he'll have no effect. So therefore, he'll give up and

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Speaker 2: he'll move on. But if you're someone that he likes

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Speaker 2: to tap dance on, then it means you gave him

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Speaker 2: a dance floor. And if he's dancing, then you gotta say, God,

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Speaker 2: I gotta repent. You gotta put these pieces back together,

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Speaker 2: because the only ones that Satan enters and uses are

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Speaker 2: the ones who crack the door open. And the way

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Speaker 2: we find freedom is to say, Jesus, I repent. I

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Speaker 2: need you to carry all of this. I can't do that.

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Speaker 2: You got to rid the self centered faith. I can't

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Speaker 2: do this on my own. And the last point we're

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Speaker 2: gonna share is and he reveals to us what his

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Speaker 2: conduct is like. And we've seen through Judas how he

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Speaker 2: conducts himself as a disciple of Jesus.

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Speaker 3: He did not represent Jesus well, nor did he lead well.

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Speaker 2: Philippian Chapter one twenty seven says, whatever happens, conduct yourselves

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Speaker 2: worthy in a matter of.

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Speaker 3: The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: To conduct ourselves worthy, our actions must be conducted away

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Speaker 2: worthy of the claim that we say that we follow

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Speaker 2: Jesus has to match.

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Speaker 3: Our conduct has to match that call.

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Speaker 2: Francis of an Ec, one of the great Saints says,

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Speaker 2: priest the Gospel in all times, and when necessary, use words,

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Speaker 2: which means your conduct preaches the Gospel, whether you recognize

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Speaker 2: it or not.

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Speaker 3: Your conduct speaks louder than your words.

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Speaker 2: Saint Francis would say, the way you live your life

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Speaker 2: will preach for Jesus or against Jesus. It will rid

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Speaker 2: the enemy of his attempts at thwarting you, or it'll

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Speaker 2: give the enemy encouragement to lean towards you. Because the

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Speaker 2: enemy loves messing with the world, but he sure loves

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Speaker 2: messing with people who claim to follow God because that

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Speaker 2: gives God the worst pr possible. People who call themselves Christians,

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Speaker 2: who don't act like Christians.

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Speaker 3: That's who Satan wants.

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Speaker 2: And that's why Satan used one of Jesus's disciples, not

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Speaker 2: a random person, one of his inner circle, because what

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Speaker 2: better way to stop Jesus than one of his friends.

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Speaker 3: What better way to make Jesus look bad.

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Speaker 2: Than someone who says they follow him, And so that

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Speaker 2: is the person he's looking for.

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Speaker 3: And so that's why Philippians encourage us that we have.

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Speaker 2: To live this life even when it's hard, and when

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Speaker 2: temptation comes. The Bible talks about taking every thought captive,

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Speaker 2: so that you would not give a place for the enemy,

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Speaker 2: so that you would not give a foothold for the enemy.

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Speaker 2: James chapter four says, submit yourselves therefore to God resists

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Speaker 2: the devil, and he will flee. Resist him, and he

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Speaker 2: will flee. In other words, he's gonna attempt.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna try, but if you resist him, he will go.

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Speaker 2: If you don't, he'll set up a base camp, and

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Speaker 2: he'll look for an opportune time, like he did with Judas.

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Speaker 2: And so we need to periodically go. And the Bible

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Speaker 2: talks about when we take community to reflect in our

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Speaker 2: hearts and see what sin exists and confess it so

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Speaker 2: that it could leave. It's a moment of cleansing to

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Speaker 2: allow the spirit at work in our lives. And you

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Speaker 2: never know how much it will bless someone. I'll close

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Speaker 2: you with this before we leave. You know, last week

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Speaker 2: we celebrate a special moment where or of the widows

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Speaker 2: in our church, Nicole, and she was here for service.

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Speaker 2: She was so blessed she heard story for the first time.

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Speaker 2: I thought she heard it this week, but she did it.

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Speaker 2: We featured a story last week if you were with us,

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Speaker 2: and one.

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Speaker 3: Of our dear members, Nicole.

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Speaker 2: She lost her husband before he even turned forty and

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Speaker 2: she's now raising her three children. And we brought her

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Speaker 2: on stage and she had a great story of faith

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Speaker 2: and trust in God, and we honored her by sowing

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Speaker 2: a seed into her life. But what happened was if

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Speaker 2: you got many of you remember if he didn't. It's

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Speaker 2: on our YouTube channel you can you could.

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Speaker 3: Go rewatch it.

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Speaker 2: But she tells a story on how God showed a

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Speaker 2: moment of goodness in her life where her husband had

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Speaker 2: passed and her car was going to be repossessed because

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Speaker 2: she couldn't make the payments for the vehicle. And so

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Speaker 2: the tow truck driver comes to repossess her vehicle. She

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Speaker 2: falls on her knees and she pleads out to God

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Speaker 2: not for her car to be taken. The man resonates

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Speaker 2: with that. He tells her, you know, my name is Gabriel.

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Speaker 2: I was named after the angel, and so he had

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Speaker 2: compassion on her. And so he said, here's the number

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Speaker 2: to the banker of the bank that's trying to repossess

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Speaker 2: your car. Give him a call to borrow see what

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Speaker 2: they could work out with you. He said, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: get on the horn, and I'm gonna get on dispatch

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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna tell everyone that your house has been

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Speaker 2: taken care of. So if they get another call to

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Speaker 2: leave it alone, it's been taken care of. It's being

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Speaker 2: figured out to leave your car where it is. And

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Speaker 2: so she said, thank you so much. Well, last week,

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Speaker 2: one of our members in our church says, I have

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Speaker 2: a friend named Gabriel who's a tow truck driver, and

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Speaker 2: I think I've heard him say a story like that before.

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Speaker 2: And so he goes on our YouTube channel. He pulls

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Speaker 2: her testimony and he sends it to Gabriel. He says, hey, bro,

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Speaker 2: is this story about you? And Gabriel says, yes, that

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Speaker 2: is me. I remember that night, and he tells his friend,

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Speaker 2: this video has changed me so much because I was

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Speaker 2: just about to give up. I'm going through some things.

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Speaker 2: I'm having such a hard time, and this is just

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Speaker 2: a reminder from God that I have to keep going.

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Speaker 3: I shouldn't give up, and I'm gonna trust.

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Speaker 2: God through it all. What happened over a year ago

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Speaker 2: to one woman who was pleading to God when that

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Speaker 2: very man needed encouragement himself. The Holy Sphere has said

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring it a back around. It's a Uno

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Speaker 2: reverse card, he said, I'm gonna bring.

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Speaker 3: It back to you.

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Speaker 2: The very grace that you showed this woman is gonna

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Speaker 2: be the very grace that I'm gonna show you through

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Speaker 2: her story, that you have impacted someone. What was just

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Speaker 2: a normal night of him towing vehicles, and guess what,

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Speaker 2: when tow truck drivers leave repossessed cars, they lose money.

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Speaker 2: So he also lost out on money as well. What

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Speaker 2: turned out to something that he felt like was gonna

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Speaker 2: be a loss, but he just felt like he was

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Speaker 2: doing a good thing to someone. Over a year later,

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Speaker 2: he'd be sent a video where tens of thousands of

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Speaker 2: people would be in uraged by his story and the

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Speaker 2: story of God's goodness, which was just enough for him

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Speaker 2: to keep going. I don't know about you, but that

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Speaker 2: day when the world said to repossess the car, he said, Satan,

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Speaker 2: get behind me. Quit. When he was in a moment

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Speaker 2: this past week where he was just gonna give I

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Speaker 2: don't know if that was gonna give up hope. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if that was just gonna stop working. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what that was, but that very video was

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Speaker 2: a moment where Jesus said, you said get behind me

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Speaker 2: a year ago. I'm getting him behind you right now

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Speaker 2: where God can interject in his mercy. Are we willing

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Speaker 2: to do like Paul says, which is to say, fight

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Speaker 2: the good fight of faith because it's a fight. Are

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Speaker 2: we willing to resist the devils where he could flee

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Speaker 2: because it's found oftentimes in our character and our care

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Speaker 2: and our conduct where the Satan would try to find

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Speaker 2: a foothold, Or it's enough that your faithfulness to the Cross,

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Speaker 2: your faithfulness to focus on Jesus, then he'll say you resisted,

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Speaker 2: he'll flee. Seasons where Satan feels to be throwing everything

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Speaker 2: at you is only seasons when you're.

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Speaker 3: Faithful to Jesus. It's not a lifetime.

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Speaker 2: There's freedom, there's victory, and there's mercy, and there's hope

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Speaker 2: found in the Cross. So I want to encourage you

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Speaker 2: today as we go to close and leave this place together.

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Speaker 2: If you've never confessed Jesus Christ as your personal Lord

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Speaker 2: and savior, if you've never got to a place where

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Speaker 2: you said, God, I'm ridding everything that views me about

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Speaker 2: me and I'm completely surrendering it. I'm giving it all

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Speaker 2: to you God, it's only through Jesus's death and resurrection

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Speaker 2: that you and I can truly find freedom. Why is

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Speaker 2: it found only in Jesus, Because Jesus is the only

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Speaker 2: one on earth who walked this earth, who died on

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Speaker 2: a cross for you and I, who was put in

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Speaker 2: a tomb, suspected to be dead forever, and three days

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Speaker 2: later would resurrect and spend forty days on earth reiterating

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Speaker 2: the resurrection of God and the goodness of God and

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Speaker 2: the forgiveness of God.

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Speaker 3: For you and I.

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Speaker 2: Not to listen to and say, oh, that's nice, but

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Speaker 2: for you and I to receive, for us to receive.

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Speaker 2: The gospel is only there when we receive it. It's

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Speaker 2: not something that exists in making a sign of a

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Speaker 2: cross or wearing a cross. The gospel is those who

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Speaker 2: take it and wear it for themselves. Say Jesus your forgiveness,

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Speaker 2: You're death and resurrection as for me. So I encourage

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Speaker 2: you in this moment. If you've never given your life

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Speaker 2: to Christ, whether you're in the courtyard, cafe or in

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Speaker 2: this room, don't wait another day before you choose Jesus.

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Speaker 2: One day all of us will stand before God. I

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Speaker 2: pray it's a long time till anyone here stands before God.

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Speaker 2: But we do know the reality there will be a day.

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Speaker 2: There's only one thing that's one hundred percent in this world.

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Speaker 2: It's the fact that all of us will die at

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Speaker 2: some point, and all of us will stand before God.

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Speaker 2: The beauty about the work of Jesus is any There's

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Speaker 2: an eternity secure in the hands of the Savior in

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Speaker 2: Jesus's work. And not only will God give us a

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Speaker 2: promise in the future, God gives us a promise here

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Speaker 2: on earth. His work of the Cross is not just

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Speaker 2: for heaven one day. It's also here for life, to

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Speaker 2: give you a peace, a grace, a mercy, and a

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Speaker 2: hope like you never thought was possible. To give you

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Speaker 2: a rest from the work of your life like you

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Speaker 2: never thought was possible.

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Speaker 3: That's the goodness of God. So I encourage you in

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Speaker 3: this place.

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Speaker 2: Don't wait another day before you receive Jesus as your savior.

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Speaker 2: Would you all do me a favor in this moment,

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Speaker 2: Would you bow your head and close your eyes. We're

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Speaker 2: all gonna say a prayer out loud right now, but

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Speaker 2: some people are gonna be saying this for the first

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Speaker 2: time or they're gonna be rededicating their life. So I

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Speaker 2: encourage you as we say this today, We're gonna be

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Speaker 2: affirming the work of God in your life.

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Speaker 3: So would you join me in saying this.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Dear Lord Jesus, in this moment, I confess

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Speaker 2: you as Lord and Savior. I repent to my sins,

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Speaker 2: and I believe in this moment, and I confess in

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Speaker 2: this moment that I'm committed to follow you for the

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Speaker 2: rest of my days in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 4: help you master wisdom from the world's greatest book. In

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Speaker 4: each episode, you'll learn to apply Biblical principles to everyday life.

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Speaker 2: Each cinematic episode is a journey through the Bible's most

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Speaker 2: profound stories that will strengthen your appreciation of the Word

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Speaker 2: and inspire you to keep learning.

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Speaker 4: Listen to The Bible in a Year with Jack Graham

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Speaker 4: on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.