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Speaker 1: studying today. This is the new series, the Prison Letters

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Speaker 1: from the Apostle Paul. We are in Ephesians and we

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Speaker 1: are in chapter five today. We've completed one through four.

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Speaker 1: You can get that on the archives if you missed it,

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Speaker 1: and today we will start in chapter five and we'll

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Speaker 1: go verses one through twenty one today. So let's open

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Speaker 1: up in a word of prayer. Lord, thank you for today.

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Speaker 1: Thank You for the men that are in the room

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Speaker 1: with us today. I'm just so grateful for them that

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Speaker 1: have made this a priority, and those that have been

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Speaker 1: coming from the entire eleven years, those that have been

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Speaker 1: coming for the first time today. We're glad that they're

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Speaker 1: hearing everything in between. So Lord, prepare our hearts to

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Speaker 1: hear from you. And for those men and women that

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Speaker 1: on their own time for the archive, may this be

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Speaker 1: a blessing to them as well. Lord, continue to mold

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Speaker 1: us into the people you've called us to be. As

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Speaker 1: face value, and it will exhort us, it will affirm us,

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Speaker 1: it will refine us. And today, Lord, we are prepared

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Speaker 1: to hear from you, not from a teacher, not from

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Speaker 1: You and your holy name. We pray, Amen. So let's

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Speaker 1: let's do that. Let's let's go to Ephesians chapter five.

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Speaker 1: This is a chapter that's probably pretty familiar to most

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Speaker 1: of God in chapter six. So we're familiar with this

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Speaker 2: Because this is this is one thing that I've done it.

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Speaker 1: of the problems that we have are spiritual problems. And

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Speaker 1: I was not as interested as getting into the scriptures

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Speaker 1: it is very straightforward. Today will not be difficult to understand.

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Speaker 1: I was not the first person to say this. C. S.

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Speaker 1: was said by others too. It's not the things in

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Speaker 1: It's the things that I perfectly understand.

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Speaker 1: And today will be one of those these. We may

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Speaker 1: not like what the Bible says today, but it will

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Speaker 1: But verse one is a bit of an exhortation, as

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Speaker 1: I mentioned that we're now in a new family. Okay,

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Speaker 1: We're in God's family, and let me tell you what

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Speaker 1: I wrote an entire book about that just recently, and

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful that I had a good relationship with my

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Speaker 1: If you're now in God's family, ultimately we should act

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Speaker 1: Therefore that means all the stuff we talked about last week,

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Speaker 1: imitators of God as beloved children. You are children of God,

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Speaker 1: so act like your father, who is perfect. By the way,

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Speaker 1: all saying that's impossible. Well, in our fallen state, you

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Speaker 1: then you should be transformed into something that looks more

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Speaker 2: And my earthly father was not the first person to

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Speaker 1: I want you to know, as we're preparing, it is

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Speaker 1: you know, he says, what you also should do is

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Speaker 1: to take the conversation and it probably would be more

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Speaker 1: God honoring if you concentrated less on goof and off

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Speaker 1: all the time, and you concentrated more on giving thanks

439
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Speaker 1: for what God has done for you and.

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Speaker 2: Who he is.

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Speaker 1: You want to get in a conversation that would mean something.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you sit around with your brothers and sisters

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Speaker 1: of the faith, or even if you're talking to someone

444
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Speaker 1: you just met, that conversation would probably be better served

445
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Speaker 1: if it concentrated more on what God had done for

446
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Speaker 1: you and who he is. Those are conversations of value.

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Speaker 1: And I will tell you this, and I have these

448
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Speaker 1: kind of friends, and they are a breath of fresh

449
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Speaker 1: air when I have friends that honestly, when we sit down,

450
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Speaker 1: it's the opposite now in the old days, it took

451
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Speaker 1: me some time to want to get in a conversation

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Speaker 1: about scripture and a conversation about God. I now have

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Speaker 1: in my inner circle. I have my wife who is one.

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Speaker 1: I have men friends obviously, and they're the kind of

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Speaker 1: people that when we sit down, our first thought isn't buffoonery.

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Speaker 1: Our first thought is, let's talk, let's talk about Jesus,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about scripture. What did you learn this week?

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Speaker 1: What did you what are you teaching this week? It

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Speaker 1: wasn't you Because we most of us teach small groups

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Speaker 1: in some way shape or form, and we really and

461
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Speaker 1: it's funny.

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Speaker 2: It's the opposite. In the old days, I would have

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Speaker 2: pretended to.

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Speaker 1: Care about talking about scripture and would have preferred the buffoonery.

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Speaker 1: Now we do a little bit of small talk and

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Speaker 1: goofy stuff like sports and all that, and then finally

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Speaker 1: we look at your other girl says, everybody tired of

468
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Speaker 1: this hit?

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Speaker 2: Can we get onto what we really want to talk about?

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Speaker 1: I mean, and now we do know how to talk

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Speaker 1: about things that don't matter, just so we can have

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Speaker 1: other friends. But when we're together, we honestly spend more time.

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Speaker 1: We now talk about Jesus, one of my dearest friends,

474
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Speaker 1: so much, and we both love to hunt that we

475
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Speaker 1: have talked about Jesus and missed the hunt, like looked.

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Speaker 2: Around and realized, my goodness is almost dark.

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Speaker 1: We missed it. We didn't even go out, And there

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Speaker 1: was a time where that would have never happened. If

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Speaker 1: you want to talk to me, you better talk to

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Speaker 1: me before it's time for me to get out in

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Speaker 1: that tree or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But but we were.

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Speaker 1: So engrossed in being together and talking about Jesus that

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Speaker 1: was superior to even hunting. Even though there's nothing wrong

485
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Speaker 1: with hunting if you keep it in the proper perspective.

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Speaker 1: But there was a time when it wasn't in the

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Speaker 1: proper place. It certainly is now, and I enjoy it

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Speaker 1: more than I ever have. So so that's what he's

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Speaker 1: talking about. Then he goes into five. He goes into five.

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Speaker 1: I want you to be thinking about if you live

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Speaker 1: like this, for you may be sure of this. So

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Speaker 1: what is he telling us in five? You can ignore

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Y'all can laugh at what I

494
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Speaker 1: just talked about. You can say I don't want to

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Speaker 1: hear Paul. I don't want to hear you tell me

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Speaker 1: all the things I shouldn't be doing.

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Speaker 2: He said.

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Speaker 1: You can disregard that if you want to, but let

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Speaker 1: me tell you what the result will be. Look at this,

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Speaker 1: for you may be sure of this, that everyone who

501
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Speaker 1: is sexually immoral, are impure, or who is covetous, that

502
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Speaker 1: is an idolator, has no inheritance in the Kingdom of

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Speaker 1: Christ and God.

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Speaker 2: How about him doubling down. You can disregard me if

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Speaker 2: you want to.

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Speaker 1: You can think I being sanctimonious and holier than thou.

507
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Speaker 1: You can think that, But let me assure you if

508
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Speaker 1: you continue to live like this and you continue to

509
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Speaker 1: practice sin. Not talking about a stumble or a bad moment.

510
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Speaker 1: First John chapter three talks about this. If you continue

511
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Speaker 1: to practice sin, and you continue to live a life

512
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Speaker 1: of sin, let me be crystal clear, you will never

513
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Speaker 1: inherit the Kingdom of God and you have no part

514
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Speaker 1: in Christ. Pretty strong statement. You may live the way

515
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Speaker 1: you want to live, but you'll pay horrible prist. So

516
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Speaker 1: let's let's let's look at that. When's the last time

517
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Speaker 1: you looked at First John chapter three, boll. This is

518
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Speaker 1: a convicting little epistle here from John. Now remember if

519
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Speaker 1: you go back to the history. Here, John is taking

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Speaker 1: on the Gnostics. Okay, they've come in and they're already

521
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Speaker 1: teaching false teachings in the church. John's a much older

522
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Speaker 1: man now. Uh. He's telling them the things that he

523
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Speaker 1: learned from Jesus. He's also saying, you gonna listen to

524
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Speaker 1: these strangers? Are you gonna listen to somebody that actually

525
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Speaker 1: was with Jesus. I touched him, Okay.

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Speaker 2: I walked with him.

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Speaker 1: I know what he taught and I know what he

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Speaker 1: didn't take teach. And the Gnostics were saying sins, no

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Speaker 1: big deal, and they would even they even question the

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Speaker 1: full righteousness of Jesus if he took on human nature

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Speaker 1: then he sent and they were teaching all this and

532
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Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Uh, you know, Jesus doesn't expect

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Speaker 1: you to just get rid of all the sin in

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Speaker 1: your life. And John's coming and said no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: But they're called the universalists. Now that just a different name,

536
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Speaker 1: new marketing. And this is the everybody's going to heaven, okay,

537
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Speaker 1: because Jesus paid the price for everybody. There's no repentance.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about any of that because

539
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Speaker 1: you have to ignore how many times Jesus said that.

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Speaker 1: And you also have to ignore that Peter said it

541
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Speaker 1: the first time he got the gospel right at Pentecosts.

542
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Speaker 1: But other than that, and so then listen to this.

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Speaker 1: John has already talked about it in chapter two. He

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Speaker 1: goes further in chapter three and he says this in

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Speaker 1: verse four. This is John exactly what Paul's talking about.

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Speaker 1: Everyone who makes a practice of sinning. That's important. Who

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Speaker 1: makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

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Speaker 1: You know that he appeared in order to take away

549
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Speaker 1: sins and in him he's correct in the gnostics. In him,

550
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Speaker 1: there is no one. There is no sin. Look at six.

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Speaker 1: No one who abides in him. See John heard that

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Speaker 1: in what we call John chapter fifteen. No one who

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Speaker 1: abides in him keeps on sinning. No one who keeps

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Speaker 1: on sinning has ever seen him or known him. Little children,

555
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Speaker 1: let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous

556
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Speaker 1: as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice that's key

557
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Speaker 1: of sinning is of the devil. For the devil has

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Speaker 1: been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of

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Speaker 1: God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

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Speaker 2: Verse nine.

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Speaker 1: No one born of God makes a practice of sinning.

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Speaker 1: For God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep

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Speaker 1: on sinning because he has been born of God. By

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Speaker 1: this it is evident who are the children of God?

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Speaker 1: Who are the children of the devil. Whoever does not

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Speaker 1: practice righteousness is not of God? Nor is the one

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Speaker 1: who does not love his brother. Is that hard to understand,

568
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Speaker 1: but is it difficult to apply? So that's exactly what

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Speaker 1: Paul is saying here. You can keep on sinning if

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Speaker 1: you want to, But let me be perfectly clear, you'll

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Speaker 1: pay a price for it, because if God seed is

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Speaker 1: in your life, that should not be so easy for you.

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Speaker 1: We certainly we stumble, But he says, if I have

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Speaker 1: the seed of God, when I stumble, I'm convicted I

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Speaker 1: correct it because the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 2: Won't have it.

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Speaker 1: And I can tell you when I was lost, and

578
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Speaker 1: I've told you this before, my conscience was not enough.

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Speaker 2: They didn't do a very good job at all.

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Speaker 1: But the Holy Spirit has so the fruit of our

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Speaker 1: lives tells the story. Bottom line, do we see the

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Speaker 1: fruit of Jesus for those of us that abide in him?

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Speaker 1: If we abide in Him, then we should John fifteen.

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Speaker 1: God's demands are not to be undermined. Let's look at

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Speaker 1: this in the next few verses. So let's go to

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Speaker 1: verse six. Now, let no one to see deceive you

587
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Speaker 1: with empty words, for because of these things, the wrath

588
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Speaker 1: of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Recognize deception.

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Speaker 1: Don't let people teach you false doctrine, don't let people

590
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Speaker 1: teach you bad theology. And as Adrian Rogers, who has

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Speaker 1: gone on to glory, often says, whenever you're looking for

592
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Speaker 1: the devil or his demons, don't.

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Speaker 2: Ever be afraid to check the pullpit.

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Speaker 1: I think right now, in my lifetime, I know there's

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Speaker 1: been false teachers from the very beginning. Bible makes that clear.

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Speaker 1: But in my time in the Western Church, I probably

597
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Speaker 1: see some of the worst theology I've seen in my lifetime.

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Speaker 1: There's some bad theology out there. And I was told

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Speaker 1: this by one of my mentors. If you can really

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Speaker 1: really play on people's emotions, you can.

601
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Speaker 2: Get away with a lot of bad theology.

602
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Speaker 1: As long as it's really emotional, as long as the

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Speaker 1: music's like really good, it can have bad theology in it,

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Speaker 1: and you can get away with it. As long as

605
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Speaker 1: the speaker is really gifted and you seem to really

606
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Speaker 1: connect to them, they can get.

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Speaker 2: Away with a lot of stretching of bad theology.

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Speaker 1: But you got to Reckonie, don't believe this garbage that

609
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Speaker 1: people can be redeemed and still remain un generated, That

610
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Speaker 1: you can be redeemed and not be transformed. Don't be

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Speaker 1: deceived into a false sense of security. That's what he's saying,

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Speaker 1: because the wrath of God's going to come on these

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Speaker 1: sons of disobedience, and you're going to go down with them.

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Speaker 1: Seven Therefore, do not become partners with them. Push back

615
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Speaker 1: on the deception.

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Speaker 2: You know better.

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Speaker 1: Now you've been redeemed, I've been teaching, You're being discipled.

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Speaker 1: The light has lit up the darkness for you. You should

619
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Speaker 1: see clearly, now you have the Holy Spirit, you should

620
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Speaker 1: not keep falling victim to these false teachers in their deception.

621
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Speaker 1: And have you noticed that the more the more you

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Speaker 1: grow in Christ, the less you're fooled by bad theology.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: I can remember sitting there and I just had to

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Speaker 1: trust the preacher because I didn't know. But I can

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Speaker 1: tell you that There's been times that I've been in

627
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Speaker 1: a place and I'm like, I remember remember sitting next

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Speaker 1: to a brother one time and the speaker told us

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Speaker 1: that it wasn't like Jesus makes us fully righteous, to

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Speaker 1: which my brother leaned over to me and he goes,

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Speaker 1: I think that's the gospel, And I was like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it is too. That was a that was

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Speaker 1: a big swing and miss there. So so you have

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Speaker 1: to be careful, but you can people can get away

635
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Speaker 1: with it if you don't know. If you don't know, right,

636
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Speaker 1: if you don't know and uh and be able to

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Speaker 1: defend the faith.

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Speaker 2: And that's what Paul is saying.

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Speaker 1: Next a convicting distinction, verses eight through fourteen, Paul is

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Speaker 1: going to start going down a different road. Here, he says,

641
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Speaker 1: for at one time you were darkness, but now you

642
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Speaker 1: are light in the Lord walk as children of light.

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Speaker 1: So in and verse eight he says, it brings a change,

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Speaker 1: redemption does. It's the light radiate. It brings a change

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Speaker 1: of character. You don't look the same, you don't act

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Speaker 1: the same. Before you were in darkness and you didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Now you have the light, and you need to understand

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Speaker 1: that if you truly have the light that is Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Light and darkness don't go together. That's where they don't

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Speaker 1: go together. That's back to me walking back into that bar.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Once I, once I had the illumination of the light

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Speaker 1: of Christ, I walked into the darkness of that bar

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Speaker 1: and could not stay there, couldn't do it. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: so that he said, this is what you This is

656
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Speaker 1: the power that you now have. So at one time

657
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Speaker 1: you're in the darkness, but you're not. Now you are

658
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Speaker 1: the light of the Lord walk as children of light.

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Speaker 2: Nine.

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Speaker 1: It brings a change. Look what he says in nine,

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Speaker 1: for the fruit of light is found in all that

662
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Speaker 1: is good and right and true. He's trying to double down.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. He says, it brings

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Speaker 1: a change of of conduct. If we're children of light,

665
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Speaker 1: then we don't display darkness. We don't act like we're

666
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Speaker 1: still children of darkness. Has there been a major change

667
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: in your life that if you have the true redemption

668
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Speaker 1: power of Jesus, it is impossible for us to remain

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Speaker 1: the same. And you've heard me say this, you've heard

670
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Speaker 1: me teach this. But for those that have never heard it,

671
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say this again because it's important. Sometimes

672
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: if we word this a little differently, it's kind of

673
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Speaker 1: a wake up. You do understand. And Paul is saying this.

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Speaker 1: If we claim that Jesus has come into our life

675
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Speaker 1: and has redeemed us, and he has not changed us,

676
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: we are still in the darkness. We still practice sin,

677
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: nothing has changed. That doesn't say much about Jesus. He's

678
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Speaker 1: that insignificant. Be careful with that kind of conversation. That's blasphemy.

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Speaker 1: And Paul saying he's bringing the light. You can't stop it,

680
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Speaker 1: you can't refuse to be changed.

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Speaker 2: By Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Now you can refuse Jesus. I know some of you

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Speaker 1: disagree with that in your theology. Uh I think where

684
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Speaker 1: you where I where I where where I would disagree

685
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: is I think you think that we're stronger than God.

686
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Speaker 2: And I think that's that's a misnomer.

687
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Speaker 1: Know. What we're saying is God allows us to reject him.

688
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Speaker 1: He allows us to make choices. He allows it.

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Speaker 2: Could he could could? Is he stronger than us?

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Speaker 1: Of course he is, But but he allows it because

691
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Speaker 1: that's how he's glorified. He could have made us all

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Speaker 1: robots from the very beginning, and we wouldn't have had

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Speaker 1: this situation in the garden of et. I mean, I

694
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Speaker 1: can't even get out of the garden without him allowing

695
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Speaker 1: the choice.

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Speaker 2: He allowed.

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Speaker 1: He allows one right out of the gate. So uh

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Speaker 1: so that he certainly could have said, now we're not

699
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Speaker 1: gonna do that. So so here, here's what we got next,

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Speaker 1: he says, So, so that's the point he's making. Then

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Speaker 1: he gets to verse ten, he says, and try to

702
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Speaker 1: discern I love this. Try to discern what is pleasing

703
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Speaker 1: to the Lord. That's back to me talking about searching

704
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Speaker 1: scripture for what's allowed as opposed to searching scripture for

705
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Speaker 1: what pleases the Lord. You know, I have been guilty

706
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Speaker 1: of this, and it changed in my life out of

707
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Speaker 1: the sanctification and the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

708
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 2: When when I went into redemption.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I was consciously thinking it, but

710
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Speaker 1: I remember acting this way. Let me go into this

711
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: new world and let me see if I can go

712
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Speaker 1: make God something I'm more comfortable with, and which I

713
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Speaker 1: just what I discovered is know he's now a lord

714
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Speaker 1: of my life. I'm under his authority. And what he's

715
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Speaker 1: going to do is make me something he's more comfortable

716
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Speaker 1: with by redeeming me and sanctifying me into something more

717
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Speaker 1: like him. I don't make him something more like me.

718
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Speaker 1: He makes me something more like him.

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Speaker 2: Uh. And I'm the one that's nauseating. He's the one that's.

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Speaker 1: Perfect and uh. And so that's what Paul is saying.

721
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Speaker 1: Get to the point where you start caring about what

722
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Speaker 1: is pleasing to the Lord.

723
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Speaker 2: Now think about that.

724
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Speaker 1: What he's telling us right there is change the way

725
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: you see sin. Stop looking at sin like that God

726
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: is some kill joy. Stop looking at sin like that's

727
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Speaker 1: something you would rather do. But God won't let you

728
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Speaker 1: change that and say no, what I want to do

729
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: because He's redeemed me. I want to live a life

730
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Speaker 1: that's pleasing to the Lord. And I want to be

731
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Speaker 1: able to discern in my life when I'm pleasing the

732
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Speaker 1: Lord or when I am blaspheming or disappointing the Lord. Uh,

733
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Speaker 1: that's he said. You should get to what that that

734
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Speaker 1: should be the goal be moving to. You know, is

735
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Speaker 1: your behavior acceptable and pleasing to God. It's not personal preference.

736
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Speaker 1: It's whether or not the Lord approves of it. I'm

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Speaker 1: not doing that today. How come because the God want?

738
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Speaker 2: God want to leave it?

739
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Speaker 1: God forbids it. Well, we all are fine with it.

740
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Speaker 1: We don't care. We don't get carried away. You're just

741
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Speaker 1: with us now. No, No, I have to please the Lord.

742
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Speaker 1: I'm not pleasing you also have to look in the

743
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Speaker 1: mirror and tell that face in the mirror I'm not

744
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Speaker 1: here to please you. I'm here to please the Lord

745
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Speaker 1: because I'm flawed and God's not. I'm not the standard.

746
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Speaker 1: I might allow you to do all kinds of things,

747
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Speaker 1: but I'm not the standard. That's the reason why when

748
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Speaker 1: we reject the world and the world is raging against us,

749
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Speaker 1: and I've been there where some of the toughest movements

750
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Speaker 1: in this country have put me in the crosshairs, and

751
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 1: they're coming. I've dealt with it, even to my own family,

752
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: and I make it clear, y'all got this all wrong.

753
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: I didn't come up with this. I'm not against you.

754
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: I'm just for him. I'm for him, and you should

755
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: be too. I'm telling you what pleases him. I'm not

756
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Speaker 1: telling you what pleases me. Honestly, if it was me,

757
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Speaker 1: i'd rather not be in this fight with you. I

758
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: like for us just to be able to go out

759
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: and just have a good old time, and you do

760
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do, and I'll do whatever I

761
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Speaker 1: want to do. Now, unfortunately that's going to lead to

762
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: our eternal death, but at least while we're alive, I

763
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Speaker 1: guess we'll just do what we want.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not standing here standing up because Rick doesn't

766
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: like the way you act. I'm standing here because the

767
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 1: Lord hates it. I want you to do what's pleasing

768
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Speaker 1: to the Lord, just like I've got to. I'm not

769
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Speaker 1: against you, I'm for him, and that's exactly what Paul

770
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Speaker 1: is telling us. Try to discern what's pleasing to the Lord.

771
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Speaker 1: And if we would, if we would make these stands

772
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Speaker 1: even as a church, and stand on that a little better.

773
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Speaker 1: If you ever sit there and watch somebody get on

774
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Speaker 1: some cable news channel or on a network news channel

775
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,919
Speaker 1: and they find some idiot that's gonna represent our views

776
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Speaker 1: of the church, and you're just sitting there screaming at the.

777
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Speaker 2: TV or the radio.

778
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Speaker 1: Oh, I always say they found somebody else. This person

779
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Speaker 1: does not know how to communicate our faith. Raise your

780
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Speaker 1: head if you've been there. It drives me crazy. They're

781
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: not gonna find anybody communicate it well because they want

782
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,240
Speaker 1: somebody to get tripped up or whatever. And there's always

783
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: they almost bring on someone who apologizes for God or

784
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: something and they make it or either they make it

785
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Speaker 1: sound like we're a bunch of you know, legalistic, heartless,

786
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: unloving people. And why don't we just say that we

787
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 1: do this because is what pleases the Lord. We're not

788
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: against we're not against anybody. We're just for God. This

789
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: is what God said. I didn't come up with it.

790
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: I want I love you enough to tell you though,

791
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to deal with him, and I'm not

792
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: going to compromise him. Because he I owe him a

793
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: lot for what he did for me, and I can

794
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: never repay it. But the best way I can tell

795
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: him thank you is with my obedience, And that obedience

796
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 1: is not earning me redemption.

797
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 2: It is my response to what he did when he

798
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 2: justified me. Amen.

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Speaker 1: So going to to verse eleven, Verse eleven, take no

800
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Speaker 1: part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead exposed him.

801
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: I don't really have anything to add to that. I

802
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 1: think is what we just said. You know, what does

803
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: the light reject? Well, what's done in darkness isn't something

804
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: that we can compromise. We point to what's a moral,

805
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: we don't embrace it. For example. Now this may cost you.

806
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: And I've been I just told you. I've been in

807
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: the crosshairs before, anybody know, John the Baptist. John says,

808
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Speaker 1: I cannot accept what Herod's doing here. Now he could

809
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: have just kept his mouth shut, but he pointed and said,

810
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 1: what you've done to your brother here, taking his wife

811
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Speaker 1: from him? Uh, And he's pointing you're in sin. You

812
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be a Hebrew, and look what you're doing.

813
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: And you took your brother's wife and you made her

814
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Speaker 1: your own wife, and you that's clearly what God said

815
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: not to do. Now he's saying this to Herod, and

816
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: and he did the ultimates. He upset Herod's wife, he

817
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: embarrassed her. And once she was embarrassed, guess what she said.

818
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make your life miserable until you kill that man.

819
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: By the way, you don't want to be on that side.

820
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: You'd rather just the guy be upset with you. But

821
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: if his wife's upset with you, you've got no shot,

822
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 1: because she can make his life miserable until you're dead. Okay,

823
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: And so so John the Baptist he got his head

824
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: cut off wine because he wouldn't compromise God and not

825
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: just kept it to hisself. He declared it to society

826
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: and even to the person. Now that cost him. But

827
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: when he stood before the Lord God Almighty, you know

828
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: what he heard. Thank you for having some zeal for me.

829
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Speaker 1: You know you've heard me talk about Pheneus many times.

830
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: That's a rough one, you know, when all of a sudden,

831
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 1: even Moses is letting us go on, and all these

832
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,879
Speaker 1: men are laying with all these pagan women, and they're

833
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: doing it in the open, All these Hebrew men and

834
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,959
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, one of the Hebrew guys comes

835
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: in with another harlot from the pagan bunch, takes him,

836
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: takes her in the tent, starts doing what people do

837
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Speaker 1: when they're being sexually immoral, where everybody can hear it,

838
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 1: and right there in the camp, and Phineas says, that's it,

839
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,439
Speaker 1: and he gets up with a spear and he puts

840
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: it right through her, right through him, and makes them

841
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:08,760
Speaker 1: the human shish kebob. In God's response, Finally, finally somebody

842
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: has zeal for me. Finally somebody defended me. Finally somebody said,

843
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: you're not gonna blaspheme God anymore. By the way, Moses

844
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: didn't even do it. So I'm not calling for us

845
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: to do that, but i am calling for us to

846
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: look at the zeal that he had for God, and

847
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: the zeal John.

848
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:28,479
Speaker 2: The Baptist had for God.

849
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Speaker 1: So what I would say that if you're going to

850
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 1: stand up and defend God against an angry society, they

851
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: may not like it, but God will.

852
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: Because I'm worried about what's pleasing to him. So that's

853
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 2: what he's saying.

854
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: So you have to sometimes when we're light, we have

855
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 1: to say publicly. This is not God's standard. We have

856
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 1: to defend God verse twelve. And we've seen example after example,

857
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: for it is shameful to even speak of the things

858
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: they do in secret. We don't even speak of the

859
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: things that are done in the dark. And you are

860
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: living in a time right now, and this has been

861
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 1: the state of the world since the fall, but we're

862
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,760
Speaker 1: back to it again where honestly, I don't think shame

863
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: exists in our society at all. Shame has has packed

864
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: up and shame is gone. But you know what Paul says,

865
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Speaker 1: if shame leaves society, you don't take part in that.

866
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: You don't even speak of the things they do. Don't

867
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: be okay with it, don't become numb to it. Don't

868
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: sit here and let your TV continue to numb you

869
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: to the things that are grotesque, the things that are

870
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: nasty and filthy, that should not even be spoke of.

871
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: And then they become normal and every day accepted, when

872
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: at one time no one would even come into the

873
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: light with this kind of behavior. And he says, you

874
00:45:56,160 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: don't even speak of it. These things are shameful. It

875
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: should be treated as shameful. And you've heard me say

876
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: this again, but to have an update for you about

877
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 1: the things that we watch and hear where we get

878
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: numb to this stuff. It's so influential. This last season,

879
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: the rate went up on the Super Bowl for thirty

880
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: seconds ten million dollars. Now, does anybody think that people

881
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: pay ten million dollars for thirty seconds of our attention

882
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: because it doesn't influence us, That has no impact on us.

883
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: People just take ten million dollars and throw it around

884
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: for thirty thirty seconds. I mean, you might even be

885
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: in the bathroom and they missed you, but there's so

886
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: many people they influenced it was still worth it ten

887
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: million dollars for thirty seconds.

888
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:43,959
Speaker 2: Wow.

889
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:49,399
Speaker 1: So be careful and always keep that attitude of how

890
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: does God see this and be see sin and hate

891
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: it the way that God does. The light does regenerate.

892
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: So let's look at verses thirteen and fourteen. Thirteen says,

893
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 1: but when anything's exposed by the light, it becomes visible

894
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: the work of the spirit.

895
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 2: And the light.

896
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: It doesn't just expose what's happening. It convicts. It doesn't

897
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: dis expose. It also convicts. And I hope that everybody

898
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: in this room and everyone listening and watching that you

899
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: have that conviction of the Holy Spirit fourteen the work

900
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,959
Speaker 1: of our Savior. For anything that becomes visible is light.

901
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: Therefore it says, awake, oh sleeper, and arise from the dead,

902
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: and Christ will shine on you. So what's Paul doing here.

903
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: He's paraphrasing Isaiah sixty one and two. He's not saying exactly,

904
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:51,240
Speaker 1: but he's paraphrasing it. Isaiah sixty one and two says, arise, shine,

905
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: for your light has come, and the glory of the

906
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,919
Speaker 1: Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover

907
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: the earth in thick darkness people's but the Lord will

908
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,919
Speaker 1: rise upon you. So Paul's taking that from the Old

909
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,760
Speaker 1: Testament that he knew very well, and he's saying, awake,

910
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: o sleeper, and arise from the dead. You were dead

911
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: in your sins, but Jesus has made you alive. And

912
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: when Jesus made you alive, his light Christ himself will

913
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 1: shine on you. The rising of Actually, when you look

914
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: at some of the Greek uses of this Isaiah verse

915
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: and verses, it's a word that means the rising of

916
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: the actual sun, as you in Christ is the light

917
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: that shines and wakes the dead and sin to alive

918
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: and forgiveness. He illuminates the new life, old life of

919
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: darkness is swallowed up by his light. Has that happened

920
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 1: to you? Paul has written to us in the letters

921
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: to the Church at Corinth. What he say, before the

922
00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: old has passed away? Behold, the new has come, Not

923
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: it might come. It has come, not that the illumination

924
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: might happen for the redeemed. It should happen. The old

925
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 1: life of darkness should be swallowed up by the light

926
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: of Jesus. And the question is has it so? Next,

927
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: Paul says, well, then let's make some conscious decisions. Then

928
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: as we ponder these truths. Look carefully, then how you walk,

929
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:34,879
Speaker 1: not as unwise, but as wise, making the best use. Well,

930
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: this is a good one, the best use of the time,

931
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: because the days they're evil. So wise concerning what how

932
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: we live Verse fifteen, the Greek says, we walk carefully, precisely,

933
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: exactly with wisdom. It really means one step behind the other.

934
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 2: You know what?

935
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: That reminds me of Matthew seven? Does it you enter

936
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 1: by a narrow gate? For the way it's hard. The

937
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: way is hard to eternal life, and only a few

938
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 1: ever find it. You know what Jesus is saying, you

939
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: better take a step and being step with me.

940
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 2: We better walk.

941
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:19,919
Speaker 1: Carefully, we better walk exactly, and we better walk precisely.

942
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 1: I had an older man come up to me, and

943
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: I think I've told some of you this, but it's

944
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: worth again. After I had the honor of teaching somewhere

945
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: and he walked up to me when it was over,

946
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: and it's the way I kind of feel about what

947
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: we're studying right now. He said, well, I tell you

948
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: one thing. You walked all over my feet tonight, young man.

949
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: You stomped on my feet. And I was sitting there

950
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: trying to respect the older gentleman, and he didn't even

951
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: leave me in the discomfort long He said, but let

952
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 1: me go ahead and tell you when my feet.

953
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 2: Hurt, I'm a lot more careful how I walk and

954
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 2: where I walk. And I thought, well, that, thank you.

955
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: That was an affirmation, that was an encouragement, because this

956
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: is what Paul say. Be careful how you walk, Be

957
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 1: sure you're in step with Jesus, because the call he's

958
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: called you to is a narrow gate and it's not

959
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: that easy to navigate, and you'll never navigate it without him.

960
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,959
Speaker 1: So walk exactly like him and walk with him. Don't

961
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 1: get out ahead of him, don't stand off to the

962
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: side of him, be right behind him, taking step by

963
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: step as a follower of Jesus.

964
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 2: Sixteen. Redeeming time.

965
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: Don't let the world plant bad seeds. What are you

966
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: doing with your time? Be smart with your time? Oh

967
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: oh oh, how we waste precious time. Do something that matters.

968
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 2: Now.

969
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,720
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we all don't need rest. My goodness,

970
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: I've been running so hard and I'm gonna rest this weekend.

971
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: I have been doing my day job Monday through Friday.

972
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,440
Speaker 1: I've been doing these Wednesday Bible studies, and for the

973
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: last set weeks, I have been teaching or preaching six weekends. Okay,

974
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 1: so I need a break. It's not saying that I

975
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: don't ever take a break. It doesn't say that sometimes

976
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: I am redeeming time by resting, because, as we talked about,

977
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 1: Jesus taught us when he was walking with us as

978
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:18,760
Speaker 1: a man, that we should rest.

979
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 2: We need it.

980
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: So I'll rest this weekend. That'll be redeeming time. My

981
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: wife and I will just even though we did a

982
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: marriage conference together last weekend, we were working we tried

983
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: to make the best of it and go to dinner

984
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: during some of that. But this weekend we'll just go

985
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: out into the country and we'll spend time with each other.

986
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 1: We won't do anything but just kind of relax. So

987
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: that's not what he's talking about.

988
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 2: But what he is.

989
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: Talking about is not working yourself into the ground. But

990
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: are you wise and are you smart with your time?

991
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,840
Speaker 1: Which we'd include sleep and rest, But are you smart

992
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: with it? Do you waste time on things that don't matter?

993
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,399
Speaker 2: You know? And I will tell you this. It's sixty one.

994
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 1: I've become a lot better at this because I realized,

995
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,240
Speaker 1: I honestly don't have that much time, not on earth.

996
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: Because when I stand before the one and only living God,

997
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: my opportunities to advance his kingdom, my opportunity to teach

998
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: them to obey all he's commanded, My opportunities to reach

999
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 1: the loss to disciple, the spiritual infants. That's over, and

1000
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: I'll and i'll and we'll still do work in the

1001
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: new Heaven of the new Earth, but that we won't

1002
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: do anymore because it won't be necessary. So and this

1003
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: is what he told me to do until I die.

1004
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: And he returns. So anything that doesn't have eternal value

1005
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: I have, I have placed as a lot less valuable

1006
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:43,839
Speaker 1: with my time. I don't like wasting my time. And

1007
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: and he's saying, yeah, we we shouldn't.

1008
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 2: We should. We should redeem our time.

1009
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: You know, like everything else that needs to be reteine redeemed,

1010
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: our time needs to be redeemed. There was a time

1011
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: when I was lost. The time I had was not

1012
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: being redeemed. It was being completely used for all the

1013
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: wrong reasons. And he says, so you can't live like

1014
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 1: that anymore. Another thing that should be redeemed is what

1015
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,800
Speaker 1: you do with your time. So we walk as the wise.

1016
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 1: We're careful how we walk, and we're all so careful

1017
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 1: with what we do with our time.

1018
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 2: That makes sense seventeen.

1019
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: When we get to seventeen, he says this, Therefore, do

1020
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: not be foolish, but understand what the will of the

1021
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: Lord is. Understand underline that, underline that. All right, if

1022
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: we got just a minute, if I got time, I do,

1023
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go to Matthew seven real quick. Underline

1024
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: the will of the Lord right there. Matthew seven took

1025
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: me for and I've taught this before, but I want

1026
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: to share it again because for so many years I

1027
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: did not catch it. So Jesus is these convicting verses

1028
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: in chapter seven, verse twenty one. Not everyone who says

1029
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: to me, Lord Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven.

1030
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: Hang on with I know y'all all heard this. Hang on,

1031
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: look at this. So not everyone who says, Lord Lord

1032
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: will enter the Kingdom of heaven. He goes on to

1033
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: talk about that they said they prophesied and cast stout demons.

1034
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: Y'all know all that, And I'll shorten it for today.

1035
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 1: And he says, I never knew you. Why did he

1036
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,919
Speaker 1: say he never knew them? What is the key here?

1037
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 2: Look at this.

1038
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:13,839
Speaker 1: It's right there in the be part of twenty one,

1039
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: which I overlooked so many times. So not everyone who

1040
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 1: says to me, Lord Lord will enter the king of Heaven,

1041
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: but the one who does the will of my Father.

1042
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 2: That is in heaven.

1043
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: Look right here in Ephesians, Therefore, do not be foolish

1044
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: but understand what the will of the Lord is. Apparently

1045
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: knowing God's will is really important and actually doing it,

1046
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: because Jesus says that separates the fakes from the real deal.

1047
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: So he's even saying, people say, Lord Lord, we go well,

1048
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,720
Speaker 1: the Paul says, for us to confess him his lord.

1049
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:46,359
Speaker 2: He goes, yeah.

1050
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: But just because she say it doesn't mean that you

1051
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,319
Speaker 1: were sincere, and it doesn't mean you actually do it.

1052
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: Because I can say one thing and do another. But

1053
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: you know what he says, but you can't live one

1054
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 1: thing and believe another. How we live is what we

1055
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 1: really believe. And he says, if about my father's will,

1056
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: they're doing the will of my father. There's no inconsistency

1057
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:06,479
Speaker 1: and what they say and how they live.

1058
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 2: Now, those people, I know, the rest of them just

1059
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 2: stow me around.

1060
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: I don't know who they are. I've never known them.

1061
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: They pretend to have some sort of relationship with me,

1062
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: but I don't see him doing the will of the father.

1063
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 2: Do you know what? One of the things in.

1064
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: Scripture is the will of Father, the will of God.

1065
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 1: It's in the first letter to Tessalonaika. You know what

1066
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: Paul says. Listen to this. He's not even mad with them.

1067
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: They're doing pretty good, which is a rare with with

1068
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: a Paul letter. But he's kind of encouraging. But what

1069
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 1: does he say, don't stop your sanctification because that's the

1070
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: will of God.

1071
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,919
Speaker 2: Your sanctification is the will of God. So if we're

1072
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 2: not if you're not growing, that's one of the things

1073
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 2: that you're doing that is denying the.

1074
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: Will of God. It is the will of God that

1075
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 1: we be growing. It's the will of God that our

1076
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:56,959
Speaker 1: sanctification continue. So so this is this is important, he says.

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Speaker 1: So there's one thing you can take away today. You

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Speaker 1: better go in. We even have technology today that you

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Speaker 1: can simply google it or chat GP Grock whatever, and

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Speaker 1: you can say, tell me everything in the Bible that

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Speaker 1: talks about the will of God, you can do it today.

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Speaker 1: And you can set that up and say that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be my next Bible study. I want to know everything

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Speaker 1: in scripture that says what the will of God is. Well,

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Speaker 1: we know what one of them is. What teach people

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Speaker 1: don't obey everything commanded baptism in the name of the Father,

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Speaker 1: Son and the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 2: We know that one.

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Speaker 1: He said, that's what you're supposed to do. Lord, just

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Speaker 1: show me what your will is. What there's one and

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Speaker 1: I will tell you that one takes up most of

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Speaker 1: my time. Okay, So there's one. So then he goes

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Speaker 1: on and he says, And do not get drunk with wine,

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Speaker 1: for that is debauchery, but be filled with the spirit. Well,

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Speaker 1: you talk about somebody that knows how to make an example. Hey,

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Speaker 1: the way y'all like to drink wine, and how y'all

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Speaker 1: fill yourself up with wine and get drunk when you

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Speaker 1: do that, that just leads to all kinds of sin.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you take that same commitment you're making to

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Speaker 1: wine and make it to the Holy Spirit. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you fill up and get drunk on the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 1: not on wine, he said, because when you get drunk

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Speaker 1: on wine, you just sin. When you get drunk on

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, you obey. You don't have any regret.

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Speaker 2: So if you got to have something to fill yourself

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Speaker 2: up with, pick the Holy Spirit over wine. That's right.

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Speaker 1: I can look back over my life, and when I

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Speaker 1: used to fill myself up with alcohol, it led to

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Speaker 1: more regret than anything else I ever did. When you

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Speaker 1: alter your mind, here come the demons, and here comes

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Speaker 1: your sin nature. It's running things, addressing one another in

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Speaker 1: psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody

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Speaker 1: to the Lord with your heart. So be that's one

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Speaker 1: way to be filled with the spirit. He used alcohol

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Speaker 1: as an example. But how about this, he said, one

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Speaker 1: produces the sins of every kind, the other produces the

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Speaker 1: fruit of the spirit in obedience. And if you want

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Speaker 1: to be filled with the spirit, have a joyful acclamation

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Speaker 1: in song. He said, hymns all over history, everywhere you

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Speaker 1: look at the history of the Church, you find him singing,

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Speaker 1: him singing, him, singing hymns. That's one way to be

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Speaker 1: filled with the spirit. Look at twenty and then he

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Speaker 1: goes on to say, and so be singing in the hymns,

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Speaker 1: give thanks always and for everything to God the Father

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Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. How about this,

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Speaker 1: We should be singing worship. We should be singing adoration

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Speaker 1: to God. We should have a joyful acceptance of wrong

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Speaker 1: all things, even when we're in jail. When you saw

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Speaker 1: Paul and Silas still singing, still bringing people to Christ.

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Speaker 1: And he says, so, no matter what you're doing, you

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Speaker 1: give thanks always, not sometimes even for being in jail.

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Speaker 1: Give thanks always and for everything to God the Father.

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Speaker 1: No matter what situation he has you in, be thankful

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Speaker 1: you're there, and find a way to glorify Him there.

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Speaker 1: If you want to be filled with the spirit. That's

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Speaker 1: you're always saying, thank you Lord for whatever situation I'm in,

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful to you always because I know what I deserved.

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Speaker 1: And then what's the last thing? Submitting to one another

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Speaker 1: out of reverence for Christ? Sherry said it this past

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Speaker 1: weekend at the marriage conference. She was so right when

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Speaker 1: talking about submission. She said, we're living in a society

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Speaker 1: where nobody wants to submit to anything or anybody. Nobody

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Speaker 1: wants to submit to authority, nobody want nobody, nobody wants

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Speaker 1: to say anybody can tell them what to do. But

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Speaker 1: you know what he says, No, the redeemed should be

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Speaker 1: submitting to one another. Why only this out of reverence

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Speaker 1: for Christ. I want to treat you the way Jesus

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Speaker 1: taught us how to lead. He didn't consider himself to

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Speaker 1: be above anybody, even washing the feet of the people,

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Speaker 1: that he would be what their lord, even washing the

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Speaker 1: feet of Judas. I might have washed eleven, I don't

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Speaker 1: know about twelve.

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Speaker 2: But but how about how about this? But I'm not Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Jesus did, and he says, if you want to know

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Speaker 1: how to treat each other, then why don't you look

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Speaker 1: at each other and realize that every single person, no

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Speaker 1: matter who you may think you are, you're gonna come

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Speaker 1: to Christ. And that's your only way to be redeemed.

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Speaker 1: And I've said it before, I'll say it again, and

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Speaker 1: Paul saying it verse twenty one.

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Speaker 2: If you want to be equal, remember we're all.

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Speaker 1: Equal at the foot of the cross, an equal need

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Speaker 1: of redemption. Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank

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Speaker 1: you for the men that are here, thank you for

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Speaker 1: the men and women that are participating, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for our brother, the Apostle Paul, for the power of

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit and the incredible lesson that you have

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Speaker 1: shared through him today. May we apply it by the

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Speaker 1: perfection of the Holy Spirit and the wisdom that is

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Speaker 1: You and your name.

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Speaker 2: We pray Amen.