Sermon
Take Heed Lest Ye Fall - Allen Bailey
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Transcript
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Jesus on the board. Tonight, we would like to study
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with you, on, take heed, lest he fall.
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It was the Apostle Paul, who wrote, First Corinthian the 10th
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chapter and verse 12, where he said, wherefore Brethren, let
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him that thinketh. He standeth, take heed lest he
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fall. I do not believe for one moment
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that Paul the Apostle. Warned us about doing something.
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We could not possibly do. He did not warn us.
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Take heed lest you fall if you could not fall.
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One of the most popular Doctrine then they denominational world
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is you cannot fall what saved always saved yet.
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These verses in the Holy scriptures, they say the same
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thing. Take heed, lest he fall and our
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lesson today, we're going to divide it into two categories.
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The first category, we're going to hit it very briefly.
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And the second category, it will be for the balance of our time.
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It is simply the possibility of falling and I'm giving you half
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dozen versus to support that. There are many.
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Many more could be supplied The majority of our lesson would be
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spent on the prevention from falling.
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This is a very, very important part of our lesson and I'll
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explain to you why when we get to the point that we start our
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second division of the lesson, but let us take a look right now
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at the possibility of falling. The very first.
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First we have listed as First Corinthian the 10th chapter and
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verse 12, take heed lest As she fall, it is up to every new
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testament, Christian to stand firm and proud in a positive way
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and be faithful to the Lord. If you fall, then it's up to you
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to come back. Many will help you there.
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Gladly, help you, they want to help you, but you've got to have
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the heart, the mind, the determination to come back and
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do the things, you know, you ought to do.
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What concerns me is sometimes, when people fall, they stay away
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so long, that they lose their grip on really what they have
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believed in. They believe some of them know,
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some of them, but they don't remember everything.
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And and gradually, they a step further and further away.
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And then when they have a spiritual awakening somewhat,
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and their mind, and they decide, you know, I need to take care of
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myself, spiritually. Sometimes they've gotten so
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much, they'll go to the street on the corner there.
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Go to the biggest, the biggest church in town, and they were
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do, whatever that will satisfy their yearnings.
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We today need to understand that the Church of Christ, the maids
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right here on plans Road and Bakersville, California is a
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congregation devoted to serving God in spirit.
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And in truth, we're not going to have all the bells and the
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whistles. The denominational world has.
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But what we do have, we can tell you why we worship by looking in
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the scriptures. We can tell you what We Believe
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by showing you, but job, Converse, we can show you.
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How to be saved by giving you a scripture for that?
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This is so very important and you and our audience today, who
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may not be a member of the Lord's Church, the Church of
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Christ. Then you can take a good look at
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what you have here because what you have in this congregation
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his weekly convenient. Once you have in this current
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gation is singing acapella without any instruments and
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music whatsoever. What you have here is Sound
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Doctrine, been taught in Sunday morning, Sunday, evening, and
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Wednesday night. And during gospel meeting what
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you have here is men and women, determined to follow the Bible,
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for what it says, we're not here to please man.
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We're here to please God. And that's what's important.
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Because I'll tell you what there's a lot of people that
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don't want it, they don't want it.
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You know why? Because they want to be happy.
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They want to be tickled that. What you tickle their ears.
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We want today to stay true to God's word as men and women of
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old who were by faith and Hebrew 11 faithful to the Lord as the
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set of Abraham by faith. Abraham a few words later obeyed
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we want to be those who obey so in order to take you less to
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fall, just remember, you can but you don't have to and if you do
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fall, there is a way back. There is a way, huh?
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Home and Galatians, five and four.
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Paul Roble decisions and he said he said, Christ has no effect
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unto you. If you're justified by the law,
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That's the Law Moses. Then you are.
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If you have justified by the law of Moses, you fallen from Grace
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say you can't go by the Mosaic law and the law of Christ the
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same time, if you just thought by the law of Moses, your fallen
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from Grace, you see Fallen from Grace.
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Yes there's a definite possibility but not only did the
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Corinthians said not only to that Galatians said but the
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Hebrew Brethren did in Hebrew 3 and 12 and Hebrews 6 4 through 6
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and Hebrew 10 and 26. We have three passages from the
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writer of the book of Hebrews. Who warns you about falling?
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He lets, you know, he does not want you to depart and Henry 312
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from the Living. God, a person departs one step
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at a time. People drift just slowly down
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the river. What further and further, and
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further away from the Lord, and away from the church.
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We yet he wrote here to the Hebrew Christians. the Hebrews
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and Christians lived in a very difficult time, just not the
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relation Christian did The Hebrew Christians were born
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under the Mosaic law. But they died under the
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Christian law. Now automatically that had to be
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a transition during their life. They were born on the Mosaic
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law. They they knew, and I have the
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back of their hand and then all of a sudden, it came along that
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the Old Law was taken out of the way.
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The new laws come into effect, they didn't want it, they did
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not want the knee law. They wanted to go back to the
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law. They knew so well, And Paul the
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Apostle and all through these chapters he'll ever be made
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known, you cannot go back to the Mosaic law, he even said in
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Hebrews. 10:26, if you go back to the Mosaic law, there is no
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more sacrifice for your sin. You can sacrifice.
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You make all those weekly monthly yearly sacrifices for,
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that means nothing anymore. There's no more sacrifice for
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sin, and with that being the case, Asia Mega set up and tell
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you know because we've got to follow the word is stay true to
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God's word, the Hebrews, they wanted to abandon the law of
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Christ and unfortunately Fall From Grace.
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And embrace him has Erica law. However, the Galatians They kind
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of want to have one hand of the law of Moses.
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One hand of the law of Christ and try to ride it out, honored
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to have Paul safe. You can't do that.
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And then in June, the book, right before Revelation 1, only
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one chapter chapter 1 24. The Bible said that who keep you
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from falling, if you will yourself to his will, you'll be
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kept from falling. You've got to make the right
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decision. in the right choices and you got to be who you ought
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to be and if you are then you won't be falling away.
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Well I'm going to stay with you now.
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The thrust of the lesson prevention from falling our
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lesson, take heed, lest he fall, you know, For many years, I
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preached a lesson can a child of God.
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So saying, as to be lost And for years, I preach it and did not
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have a conscience about it in bother me.
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But then some reason, all of a sudden it got the bothering me.
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There are not believe what it I was preaching.
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No, no, I believe one of preaching.
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Did I feel like I wasn't making the point?
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Clear, well, I fell out. The outline was clear enough and
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I asked a few people that, you know, we're understanding in and
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our struggling, so I shall get it.
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And I didn't understand what is it.
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That is bothering me. So I just it was immolated back.
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I said I've got to lay it back because I can't preach it with
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definite conviction. Even though I did, I was
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convicted. But I had to figure out what it
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was. That bothered me before I could
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justifiably preacher, at least for own conscience, sake, and
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for my heart sake, Something's bothering me and then one day I
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was reading the book. I can remember very well, I was
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reading a book and all of a sudden, it hit me.
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Hilda practical book is one of those self improvement books,
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there was a how-to book. And you know what I learned, I
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learned what it was is bothering me.
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I did not like preaching, for 30, 45 minutes, You can follow.
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You can follow. You can follow this first
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diverse. This is a that is a this
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illustration that illustration, these people that fail.
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And those people fail it and all of that without Telling them how
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to keep from falling. Once I realize that I can dig it
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off the shelf and dusted off and get ready to preach it and I'm
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just simply added a segment. How to take heed, lest he fall?
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Can a child of God, so seem to be lost.
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Absolutely, but I want to show you how to prevent from falling.
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So in this lesson today, you could look at it as how to Keep
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from falling. How to prevent from falling?
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I don't want you to fall. You don't want me to fall.
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We want to walk in that straight and narrow pathway together and
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be successful. You're living a Christian Life.
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when I first began to preach, To some of you you were not alive.
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Forty-three years ago, I began to preach and I received a book
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from a friend of mine, honk sermons, and writings of Homer
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Elle King. I think that's the name of the
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book. The little blue sermon outline,
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but for brother home, rail King, and I started reading it, I love
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reading. And so, I started reading that
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book and I don't remember what sermon it was hand, but he made
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a statement. He said the Christian life is to
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be alive. If of successes non-locking
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failures. I was just 17 when it started
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for a child, probably not 10, 20 by 9 that stuck in this brain.
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I don't think I've ever forgot it.
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The Christian life is to be a life of success and not lots of
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failures and we need to help each other the brother home,
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real King Kong. Most of you know who in the
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church. You know that he was a dog
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King's father, he was an older preacher.
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He is an old preacher from now who is deceased and by my
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grandfather Rob Miller, he preached long, and hard, and
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four years all across this country.
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Well, brother King did to it, and I really enjoyed that book,
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but some way that phrase stuck in my mind among many other
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things I read in his book and then I was in a meeting in
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Manteca. Oh, I think it was a median, two
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times ago. And I told brother dies if you
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are, you can come back to the meeting.
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He said, yeah, planter does if you have any more of your dad's
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books, he the, yeah. I've got some dad's books as a
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break, Only 400 one for each of my kids and Don signed them Farm
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in addressing to Levi and Luke Logan and Olivia and they all
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got their own copy of one of brother homeric King bugs and I
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told them that story, as I want y'all to read that whenever you
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find opportunity and, you know, today, there's so much to be
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learned, you know, from reading the Bible and then reading men
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that you can have confidence in their understanding of their
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teaching about the Bible. Well, what we can learn.
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Day Revenge of the Fallen is beautiful here at condoms first
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year in the 1012, what we use to introduce our lesson, wherefore
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Brethren take heed, lest he fall, and then look at verse 13,
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the very next verse. There is no temptation taken
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you, but such as is common to man, but God is faithful who
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will not allow you to be tempted with more than what you can
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bear. But will with that Temptation
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also, make a way to escape Escape.
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I love this verse. This to me is one of my favorite
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passages of scripture. I love to share this verse with
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people who are coming back, he's been out in the world for a few
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months, few weeks, few years. And I love to share them that
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passage. This verse does me a lot of good
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when I read it. There is no temptation, taken
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you, but such as is common to man and Island, And you will
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never be faced with the temptation of the what a plain
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old ordinary generic temptation. You every one of you you will
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not be faced with temptation, but one of those generic ones,
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common Temptation. Oh, I know, I know I've heard it
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and I problem said it sometime or another, oh, I was hit with a
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big one. I mean it was that big it was
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huge. Everything Mark, stir everything
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Temptation, like nobody's ever been tended to with before and
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it got me wrong. God said through his word.
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There's no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man.
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Don't go blaming God when you're attempted.
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The Bible said, God cannot be tempted.
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Never will he tempt any man? But here's what it said, God is
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faithful, he will monitor, that's my word.
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English word. Today, he will monitor the
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Temptation and he'll always makes you an Escape Route.
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You never have to sin. You never have to sin.
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God will provide you a way to escape situations.
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He'll give you teaching in the scripture if you live by that.
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You can always have a way to escape.
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So, therefore, as we analyze further in 1913 every temptation
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is common, God is faithful to us.
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I wish I was faithful to God as God is to us.
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And I wish all of us was that way.
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God will monitor every Temptation.
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He make sure you're not tempted with more than you can bear.
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You can never say I couldn't do anything about it.
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Yes, you could. That's a cop-out when you said
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oh it was humongous. Don't know.
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You're copping out here. You're blaming other people.
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You're blaming God. You're blaming everybody.
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Except the one who's really do the wrong you and me, when I sin
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is my fault, I chose to sin and when you said, I want you to get
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ahold of this, it's your fault. You chose to sin.
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God said, I'm going to give you an Escape Route.
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I'm going to monitor your Temptation.
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I don't be faithful to you. Every Temptation me.
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The common generic plain old ordinary Temptation and if you
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neglect all over them you said is because you chose to sin.
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Ouch. That's the truth.
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All wrapped up in one verse that's why I love reading.
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Scripture 1 versus mm, you can think about it all day long,
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comprehend in think about it and pray about it.
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Where does sin come from anyway? All right, the brother, my lord
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said in James 1, 12 through 16. Here's what he said.
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Every man is drawn away of his own lust and you can look at it
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and verses 12 to 16. If you would like And then when
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lust has conceived, it bringeth forth Sin Sin when it is
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finished, bringeth forth death. So every man is drawn away of
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his own lust and he is enticed the word enticed me to entrap
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you too alluring. You That's why it works.
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This is the process James 1 verse 12 through 16 would run
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away. Look here, don't you get a hold
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of this of his own lust? Wow.
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Yuneisia, I want to point of view, but it's me when I sin is
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my fault. I've grown web, my own lust and
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enticed. And when his conceived to bring
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forth sin and finally finished bringeth forth death.
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It's really important for us to realize furthering the 1013 and
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understand James 1:12 16. When we do, we understand how
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Temptation Works, how God will monitor your Tation always
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provide a way to escape it. And then when we sin we sin
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because we chose to sin, we've drawn away of our own lust.
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I'm not knowing how things work. I may never understand how some
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things work, but spiritually I want understand how Temptation
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Works. Only said house in works.
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I want to understand how to keep from falling.
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And then we find a number three under our second or third
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division of our lesson day. This is detective, our second
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division. I first in is the possibility of
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falling. Our second division is
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prevention from falling. We need to watch out what we're
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doing. Matthew 26:41.
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Now you can give looters and gobs of verses here, but I'll
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give you one Matthew 26 and 41 the Bible said watch.
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And pray. That ye enter not into
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temptation the spirit. Indeed is willing but the flesh
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is weak. Watch out.
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How are you were doing? Watch out what neighborhood you
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move your family in to watch out what school district you put
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your kids into. One child, whose friends are you
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associated with? Are they going to help you or
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hurt you and you're living a Christian Life?
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Although going to be continuing to bum barbecue, and try to get
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you to the wrong thing? Watch out.
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Watch watch. Watch.
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The Bible says, watch and pray that you will not enter
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Temptation and Luke, 11 13 for the disciples.
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Come running to Jesus, and they saw him praying, so they waited
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patiently until he finishes the prayer.
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And then, when he finished his prayer, they said, Lord, would
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you teach us how to pray? And that sweet Lord.
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Would you teach us how to pray? And Jesus said, pray this way
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Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, thy
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kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day, our daily bread, forgive us our sins.
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As we forgive those who sin against us leaders, not into
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temptation, but Deliver Us from Evil.
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For thine is the glory and the honor and the praise
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forevermore. Amen.
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Wow. Jesus taught his disciples.
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How to pray. Don't you wish?
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Today a little bit of you. Wish you could live without
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first century when Jesus lived here, they'll be very dangerous
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time because of the persecution but you can run up Jesus.
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A Jew teach us how to bring. Don't you believe your prayer?
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Dice would be more important and be used in more consideration of
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your Christian life than ever before until what he talked
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shit. Do that in Luke 11, 13 for your
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prayer life to be so wonderful. That praying is something nobody
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can take from you. You can pray with the eyes,
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open, with the eyes closed. You can pray when you're laying
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down the bed when you are up and running around.
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You can pray, nobody can stop you.
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I love what the part of my spiritual life that nobody can
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interfere with and prayers one. Apple.
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Oh, Jesus taught his disciples to pray and that, the disciples
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knew just how important it was, and they were learning how to
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take heed, lest they fall, and they learn the prayers part of
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that. I love preaching on prayer.
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And this whole meeting I'm going to get through that breaking a
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whole lesson or two or three or four or five on prayer.
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Prayers good valuable lesson. When you pray, you pray to God.
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The Father. He hears your prayer, he will
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answer your prayer according to his will every time you pray,
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you pray, according to his will Lord not my will but thy will be
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done. Y'all went, right?
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That's how Jesus prayed, even in the Garden of Gethsemane, not my
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will, but thine be done. I always pray with the right
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attitude. God is not what I want.
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It's what you all that matters. All right.
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Look at number five here. Submit to God.
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Resist the devil James 4. Verse 7, Samantha God.
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Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
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Now I'm going to camp out right here for a minute so camp out
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with me, please. Take a look.
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You're down submit to God. Resist the devil and he will
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flee from you. That's like your was with Jesus
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down here, Matthew 4:1-11 when Jesus verse it, resists of the
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devil, the Bible said, the devil left him and the angels came and
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worshipped Jesus. But what we find here submit to
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God, resist the devil. He'll flee.
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When is the last time you said no to the devil?
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No, you know. Now, here's the way it works.
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Now, I'm get right down in your face.
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This is the way it works. You a lizard submit to God.
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Are you a submit that the devil, one of the two.
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That's why it works. You live this to resist.
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You will resist God, or you were resisted that you cannot drink.
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This ended a long time ago, in Matthew 16 and 24.
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He's not written on the board. Now, Matthew 16:24, he said you
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cannot serve two masters. You can love one and hate the
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other you and despise one and and clean together.
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You can't serve them both. You can't serve God on the
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devil. You're going to submit the one
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for this. The other, if I submit to the
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devil, I would automatically resist God.
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Now you got to make a choice. You've got to make a choice.
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Who would I submit to who'll? I resist.
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Because if you submit to the devil you automatically, that's
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God. If you resist the devil, you
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automatically submit the god. That's your choice.
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You've got to make that choice, and you can't blame everybody
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else. People love the blame game.
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This won't work. Here, you submit.
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Whoever you choose to you submit.
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We are free, moral agents, and I didn't deal with any of that
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kind of doctrinal, teaching during this lesson, are doing
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this whole meeting. But you today, You choose who
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you want to serve. You are free, moral agent, huge,
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make your own decision out of free.
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Will God gives you the ability to say yes or no and you decide
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what you're going to do? Yes, I will go to church.
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No, I want That's your decision. I want you today to concentrate
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on submitting to God and resisting the devil.
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Realizing the devil will flee from you and point number seven
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ties in with this when we follow the example of Christ.
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And Matthew 4:1-11, I'm not going to read this but I'll
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paraphrase it. The devil took Jesus up into a
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high mountain. And he's shown stones and Jesus
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had just came from the desert land for 40 days, that's nearly
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six weeks without anything to eat.
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I don't hardly ever go. Six hours without anything to
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eat. He was six weeks.
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About and the devil said, hey turn these stones to be made
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red, guess what? There was nothing wrong for
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turning stones to be made bread. But Jesus was not about to lay
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any form of an illustration for you that under certain
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circumstances. You can do what the devil said.
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No, Jesus said it is written. I like this.
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It is written man. Shall not live by bread alone,
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but It's Ford, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth
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of God. Wow.
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So therefore, whenever we're tempted of Satan, you say no.
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And you go to what is written, you reach out to God for help,
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then the devil, take the Jesus up into the high mountain.
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Showed him all the glories, the riches, the wealth of all the
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world, listen here, to the devil, all of this.
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What I Satan give you Jesus. If you fall down and worship me,
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understand the devil. Always have an ulterior motive
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if you fall down and worship me, I give it all to you.
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If you ever wonder who's in charge of the world, you can
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know right here. The devil does, the Bible says
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the devil is the God of this world.
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Don't go to the world, don't live in the world.
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You're living. Like Satan wants you to live.
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Don't do it. Don't do it.
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Jesus said it is written again. Thou shalt not tempt, the Lord,
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thy God verse 7. I love these verses.
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I mean, he's giving you it is written, and he goes to God for
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help when you sing, you say, but chapter verse.
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Go to God for help. That's how you've whipped Satan
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soundly. Well, this time, Satan take, if
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I say to you, I think right here.
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How to give it up, okay. I think I've been deceased out
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and go somewhere else, but no, no, the devil is not a coward.
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He comes bouncing back. He says some other Pinnacle of
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the temple. What do you have there?
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And he said, job the angel shall I give the charge concerning you
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less uShip, stuck a toe. That's your foot on a stone
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chop. When I was a kid, I used to
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think would be so cool if Jesus was drunk.
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I thought man he could have done it.
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Shut him up, he didn't do it. I really wish he did at that
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time. Especially, did you know what?
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Jesus did not want to show you sometime?
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You might want to do what the devil said?
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No, no. He said it is written again.
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Thou shalt not tempt, the Lord thy God verse 4 of Matthew 24,
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verse 47 and 10 are the words, recorded by Jesus.
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Three times. Geez, were tempted by the devil.
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Three time. He said it is written.
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And three times he went to God for help three times, he whipped
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Satan sin and evil and then the devil left and the angels came
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and ministered to him. This is you can breathe a sigh
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of relief for a little season. When you've with say, when you
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whip Satan and the devil, he will leave you.
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Though, for a little while. That here probably bounce back.
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Dear friends. I want you to be like, Jesus,
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live like him. Read the scriptures.
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Read? How he acted under adverse
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circumstances, read how he responded in days of Glory?
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You know, let can I illustrate something to have room on
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illustrate here? Earth.
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Earth. Heaven.
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The way we talk sometime, we leave the wrong impression.
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Sometime, we teach people to heaven the way.
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The heaven is like this from arms of this world.
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A straight course straight line straight to heaven.
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Now, really, that's not the way it works.
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For any, of us. The way to heaven, is generally
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like this. You can have your highs, you can
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have your load came out the stock market.
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You can have your peeps and your valleys, there'll be time to
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your life. You're a strong as your be
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there. Other times of your life that
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you don't want to meet the Lord. But at the end of your lives,
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you want to be right here on the straight and narrow path.
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Way you want to go to heaven even if you got to work your way
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back up to get there. I don't want to ever hear you,
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or anybody else. Complain wine, belly 8, make fun
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of 11th, Hour, confession or 11th, Hour baptism.
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What I want you to do is be thankful to your God, for
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allowing that person. A chance of the eleventh hour.
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They were obvious taken out in a sad, tragic automobile accident
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or something. I hear people make fun of people
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who are making their love with our baptism, our confession,
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shame on them, and shame on you, if you do it.
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People do what they were just afraid of going to die.
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So if you thought you was going to die and you're is not ready
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to meet your maker, what would you do?
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You'd make your life right with God.
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That's what you do. You don't want to go to hell,
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but don't you ever make fun of or talk down to or talk to
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others, about an individual who makes her life, right?
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With the Lord, I've baptized people who died 18 hours later
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because they want to get right with the Lord.
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I've taken people's confession who died just moments after we
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said, amen. I won't tell you this today.
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The thief on the cross was in the 11th Hour.
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He was about to die. You know what?
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Jesus said too late. Now you just afraid you're going
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to die and go to hell. Nope, he didn't do that.
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He said today you are going to be with me in Paradise.
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All right, so when you hear people thump around on people
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who make love the power of confession, I want you to stand
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up for them and say, the thief on the cross stated, we can do
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it and you would do it if you were in their shoes.
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I want us learn to stand out from people, rather than read of
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cheese and put people down. We're one happy family, we
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should be helping each other go to heaven and that's what's
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happening right here. We're learning how to take heed,
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lest you fall. We want to, we want to follow
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the example of Jesus Christ, and we will learn it.
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Our final point will last about five minutes and we'll be
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through Follow the Christian Graces.
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You know, I don't know who think that Christian Graces, it's not
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in the Bible. Tristan, Gracie got fruit of the
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spirit words of the flesh, Christian Gracie's but attrition
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Grace is not there. Okay, The Graces of there, but
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being called Christian, Grayson, I don't have a problem with it,
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don't get me wrong. I'm just saying it's not there.
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It's not named that in the scripture, I don't have a
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problem. Calling them, Christian Grayson,
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I like what second Peter one teacher?
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All of this is found. I'm in second Peter 1 5 through
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7. And if you don't get anything
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else tonight, get this sent me to 15 through seven after your
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faith virtue and to Virtue knowledge to knowledge,
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Temperance to Temperance patience.
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Patience, godliness, godliness, brotherly kindness.
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And to brotherly kindness charity.
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If these things be in you and abound, they make you that
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You're not be bearing, you won't be unfruitful in the knowledge
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of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Barren or unfruitful, you will
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not be unproductive. If you've got these seven, Great
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sting, you, you can be productive for the Lord, for the
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church. For your spiritual life, you're
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going to succeed and live in your personal life, but If you
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like these things, you're blind and you cannot see afar off and
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you forgotten your personally own Sith.
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If you don't have these Seven Christian Grace in your life,
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you can have our time living in Christian Life.
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And tell you something. think back to the last time, you
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committed a sin Think about what?
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That sin was a tease. A you just think about what it
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is. Why did you send?
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Here's why you said no, I wasn't there.
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No, I didn't say it. No, I didn't hear it.
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I'm telling you why you did it. Here's why you said.
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And when I said, here's why I said, we had a weakness, get
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over this. A weakness of one or more of
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virtue, which is, moral Excellence, or knowledge, or
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Temperance, or patience, godliness brotherly, kindness
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and charity. One of these Seven.
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Christian Graces or more of these seven Grace of right here.
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One or more of these seven, it may be five out of seven that
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Adams weekend, no wonder. He said But listen, the Bible
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said, if you have these things you can make your calling and
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your election sure. Now listen, I'm not giving you
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homework once a good time. And the last ten lessons Simon
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through Sunday. I'm giving homework tonight.
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I want you to learn these Seven, Christian Grayson's, Aunt, you
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learn, love them up in a Bible dictionary.
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Let them up in a translation, see what you can learn about
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these. Because the more, you know,
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about these seven, the less likely they will be your commit
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sin, unless you're stubborn and rebellious and you choose to
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sin. Why would I lie?
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Okay, let's look at it. Did I lock?
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Because I just simply immoral. And I just like, did I lie?
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because I Didn't have patience, which is temperance.
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I didn't have patience or hit Temperance and self-control.
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I just didn't have self-control and there's anything there to
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tell that cop. I didn't know what, you know
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what, just for the record, the best way to get a tickets, a lot
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of the cop. He's got you just like uh-huh.
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Admit guilt, when you're okay. Temperature, 7 joke, maybe it's
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like himself in trouble. Maybe the lack of patience are
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godliness. Brotherly kindness, charity.
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You see I live because of find the links to these one or more.
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I'm saying get out of this, every sin in the book from A to
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Z from I often on making every sin in the book is a weakness of
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one or more of these Seven Christian graces.
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Someone everyone, young people, older, people, whatever age
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group, you want to categorize your that van, I want you to
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learn these second, I want you to get ahold of it.
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I was, you know, and have it in your life, so you will not sin.
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The Bible said, make your calling and election.
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Sure in verse 10 of second. Peter one, that's how to do it
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if your add these things to your life.
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Every sin you come in run, don't walk run to Second Peter 1537
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and decide which a one or more of these and my weekend.
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It's just amazing. The Bible says, if you do these
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things you'll never fall. If you want to live a successful
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Christian Life, I'm going to leave these words with you.
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Learn to master These Seven, Christian Graces to you.
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Congregational teachers, this should be a great lesson, maybe
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our lesson on each one of these Seven lesson.
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I'm going to got the lesson for you now.
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Now, you just develop it. Virtue knowledge, Temperance,
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patience godliness, brotherly kindness charity, there they
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are. If you have them, God said you
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would never fall. If you don't have them, you're
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blind. You cannot see.
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Afar off. Dear friends.
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I want you to go to the sauna homework, your gave you and it's
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all for your benefit. I want you to master these
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Seven, Christian Graces second, Peter one is your new best
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friend? It's going to help you succeed.
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He is going to help you enter that grand.
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Abundance and eternal life in heaven.
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May God bless you tonight and the sermon is over.
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