Sermon
“One Way or the Other" (Matthew 7:13-29)
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Aleppo, Haley and happy Lord's Day to everyone.
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And for this morning or for for today, we will be hearing a
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sermon delivery that was originally preached and written
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by Pastor Keith Davis. Hit the bull.
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I've been reached the vessel United Reformed Church in
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Calgary, AB and this was originally preached last July
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2021. And we are allowed to present it
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to you and to contextualise it and translate it into Filipino.
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Some of it barraport sating needs capital.
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As we start. I think on everyday of our
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lives, we make series of choices.
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Bubba it's it's an arrow Palam or and I think choices or
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decisions now you know, or penile for example, an uncool
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lane and dammit. And I think you should sorting a
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young Lord's Day looking forward to Adornato or Colonial and
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among some training just to make sure that as we celebrate the
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Lord's Day, we are filled and sanded and just the emails
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Sankey Nima traffic and make sure 99 matraffic that's all
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unsafe at some of the decisions scenario, for example, similar
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decisions then Mabuti choices, Naito I baggy lemon.
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These are choices now in the United motoring apparent life
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changing decisions. Not necessarily Marlene and the
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midnight and going to suit 19 not necessarily in apparent life
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make life changing decision. Cilla Parramatta naman satin
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Malibu choices or decisions were in Maryhill masma begat
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continent and compared like for example annoying corso and
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honing Coca-Cola here. Those are serious decisions that
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we make annoying career path that people in goes opportunity
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in America. Yeah, Senatobia Billingham bai
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Ling and property or for good Malaga considerations now Mahal
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Hindi basta basta the guy go out.
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I bust up that definitely consignment church.
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It's a serious decision for each and everyone of us.
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We consider this as more significant choices that we make
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at Maryhill Pedina. Think my eczema some serious
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decisions in life parodying Dada answer is some crossroads or so
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the Galaxy Samsung opportunities decisions and paths Nakailang
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nothing that I NE Daniela contact laying back up Rachael
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Bennett goes up and young aspect of making choices young aspect
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of choosing their path and I want us to think about this
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passage from Matthew 7 in that perspective in prima Halligan at
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midnight in Sebagai NATO combat scripture reading nothing arena
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in which elder Charlie have has read for us.
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Jesus describes 2 roads that we had two very different paths to
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take, two very different directions and leading to two
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very different destinations such andito, the one passage small,
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it is narrow and it is called difficult.
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That's the one pass and there's another path that was provided
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and that is a path that is broad, that is wide and that is
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easy. In Panasonic and Kanina at Napa
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Chalegana Mahita natin dito nahin they described them Hindi
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language in explained classic. This are two different choices
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and very important choices. Constantina Tower really sad is
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sad. We are to make a choice.
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We are to acknowledge that this is a decision.
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And Christ wants you and me to envision ourselves standing at
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that crossroads. And we must choose.
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That's what we are to see here. And we must walk one path or the
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other. And which one will we take?
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That's why the Tory tale of our sermon this morning is one way
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or the other in batting title. And in this passage, Jesus calls
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his people to choose the narrow path.
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Indiana just now. It depends on how you could
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choose anything in that's good. But no, he encouraged us and he
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commands us to choose the narrow path.
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And we have two points for the ceremony.
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The first point is the choice that Jesus presents.
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And secondly, the pathways that Jesus describes in promoting the
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long headings for this morning. And before we proceed, they
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encourage everyone to to bow down their heads and let us pray
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before our God. Heavenly Father, we submit
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ourselves to you and to Your very word.
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We have read, we have heard, and we desire, ohh Lord, to learn
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from Your very word. We acknowledge that we can't
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understand it on our own. We need your God.
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We need Your Holy Spirit to enlighten us, to open our hearts
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and allow your words to grant power in our lives and to mold
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us to be more like your Son. Guide us today, ohh Lord, and
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lead us more to Christ and this we pray in Jesus name, Amen.
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Amen. And for the first point that we
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have that choice that Jesus presents.
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I think first heading and as we begin with this point Malaguena
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Babalikan 18 or context scripture that vaccinating and
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as we know this is part of the sermon series that we have
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pertaining to the sermon series of Christ in the Sermon on the
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Mount simulator Samathu 5 Matthew chapter 5 don't think
Matthew 5 chapter mention
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series, but don't close the ceremony of the mount at night,
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but details of Chapter 7 and he's already drawing the sermon
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to a close. He's already leading us towards
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the conclusion. I don't know, I don't want to
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act in the section at all. That is the section at all.
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And adding unknown sermon and just we might expect from the
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greatest evangelical minister on earth, he calls his listener to
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make a decision. The 19 Nakita Nakita 19 Sermon
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of the Mountain Ito in Compania de Nella Young ceremony to mine
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you should be in Mullah situation where in his preaching
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and his teaching to those who are just merely like passively
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listening to him passively listening to whatever it is that
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he's teaching. Starting from Matthew 5 young
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people might Jesus he does a Chapter 7 Papunta NASA direction
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in which he's already guiding them towards this active
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response. The servant that he has.
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He's not anymore just allowing them to just listen, but he
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wants them to see this reality that they and even us today
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should make a choice. Panchina think combination again
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engaged the crowd and it's not just anymore just telling them
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those things but commanding and allowing them to be engaged with
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the preaching that is telling here.
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Did the benefit Tanya Young belong?
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And each one of them must choose which way to go.
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I think the fact that we that there are only two paths three
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years we could see here is very significant for us to
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understand. The fact that there are only two
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choices here is very significant and very important for us to
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point here. It follows that same framework,
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the same kind of comparisons and contrast between two sides.
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And I think as we have read our our matches 7 earlier, we could
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notice that there are there is this framework of choices upon
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choices and upon comparisons from one aspect or one object to
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another. For example, so verse 15 and 16
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Mahita Nathan of how Jesus speaks about a false prophet,
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you know good profit company Malalaman Concino Ontoto at
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Concino and Bulang Profeta and Jesus says by their fruit the
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rest by their fruit that you should know them.
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And even in verse 17 to 20, Ganon din Emmanuel parallelism
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dito now made the long puno down Makabayan Bunga 1 is a good tree
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that produces good fruit and one is and the other is a bad tree
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that produces bad food. And then in verses 21 to 23,
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Jesus mentions two kinds of people.
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Those who claim that they know God they believe in and they
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proclaim that they believe in Jesus, but in reality they
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don't. In addition, I think and then
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there are those who really do know God because they do the
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will of the Father in heaven. And finally, in the last section
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of Chapter 7, Jesus describes 2 houses built on 2 very different
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foundations. Youngster, I go ASA Bohan and I
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think it's a I go out sabato adito banging on satin go.
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I know, Mangyari said. The long Bai, NATO and the Lube
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or Baggio? How are you?
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Sheena Punda son indole akait dimanum Whelan at Baguio at
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kahit baa baa Indian problem NATO.
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Yeah, Mahina opened the Sonnet alumna, then topic The Thing and
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then Baggio me and then I've been eating and preaching this
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passage in this section Ganito Yun framework or back at
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janitorial again consistent examples and set up the
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Ginuwine. So Chapter 7 And in showing us
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this side by side comparison, Jesus is emphasising the fact in
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this life that there are only two directions.
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Thank you Janet and detain Guinto in emphasised that there
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are only two directions in this life.
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There are only two paths, there are only two options and there
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are only two destinations that we are to acknowledge and to be
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reminded of. Sarong ito wala pong, middle
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ground. So choice is NATO.
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Well, I'm well, I'm well. I'm third option time Mariquita.
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There is no or there are no other pathway to choose, but
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rather choose one or the other. On that very point, author John
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Stott points out that what Jesus says here is not very popular in
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the day of age and an age that we have right now.
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Okay, Amanda, just preaching at Jesus Jumper.
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I've been up when Patton calls Samana Reading syncretism and I
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know how being syncretism, but I know be in or I know you know
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syncretism is and Oregon paniniwala concern Cilla I Hindi
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sila in Hindi lamang yes and syncretism marami radios
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naniwala and marami Rd. Religions that depending on
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people at Constance, Maniniwala, even the Philippines period.
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The distinct aspect of syncretism is this.
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Now Kahitna IBA IBA and Paniniwala Napili 2.1 Dina mando
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itos is One Direction Lama the Google app, Skype or Google Maps
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scanner directions assurance don't even pass.
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And Billy IMO is some direction long though at.
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And I hope and pray that we would be reminded that this is
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not true and this is not right and this is not what the
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Scripture says about this matter.
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So what Jesus says here would be considered highly insensitive
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and offensive to many people today if we would be hearing
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this preaching or throughout this world.
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Indeed politically correct but and Kenyan Prince and acceptable
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Buchanan indeed saying Totoro pero play safe Lang just to make
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sure now while his preaching is while I'm off in the heightened
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sino. That's not how we see it here.
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Here's only concerned. His only concern is the state of
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man's soul. That's it.
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And that is why he is preaching is so direct and deliberate.
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Well, I'm Gray area. Well, I'm play safe and straight
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to the point of what is important for us to understand.
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Ama papansinin dito. Also is that Whelan making
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provision and acting on Paris? She Sai well religion antinoro
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on that perspective as well. Cause you've been apparel
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against someone for me feeling and specifically religion sub 8
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Parasol and Dion annually Religion or discussion.
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Vito will passage passage about that don't okay Jesus silane
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Manhattan Hindi naniniwala my language.
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In other words, what we could learn here is that not choosing
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a path, as we know that there are two paths to take.
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Not choosing a path is not an option.
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You either you are either for Jesus here or you are against
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Jesus. And this aspect, it picks up.
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Hello Chemo Papakinggan Catalani sus while Toro my lung it at my
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infierno. It is basically the same thing
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as rejecting Jesus himself and unwillingness to believe
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anything is still a choice and it leads directly towards the
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pathway of hell. You may choose or not.
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If you may say. It depends on what I believe in,
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if you may say. But still not making a choice.
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It's still a direct path towards destruction and health as John
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14 verse 6 says and as Jesus declared.
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Jesus said to him, I am the way and the truth and the life.
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No one comes to the Father except through me.
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That is what Jesus is continuously teaching us right
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now. And that is essentially the same
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message, the same gospel that Jesus is preaching here in the
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verses that we have here in Matthew 7.
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Apple Mango and this aspect of us being reminded of what Christ
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is truly and perfectly portraying here.
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Like anything Bandana my booting Balita and acting Epping a bad
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time minor matanda patuli na pina pina payag Josh it did not
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booting balita in another wagon salahat namani wala at
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magtiwala. Jesus, paras thing, what's going
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on? And I'm dapat satin simula
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palamang but rather unclick. Doesn't Supermama Geet and
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Lamang Kamatayan at Mulling Bristol?
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That's a very gospel of God. And just as Jesus presented the
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gospel to the people in his day, so he presents it continuously
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to us right now here. Mayaro Patuli parents Tayo
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Nothing really new company Wagon and Solitaire and Natalya
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Maniwala at Motivala Summer booting Balita at the bar to put
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our faith and trust in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Okay, you win and Dylan come back doing Binabasa the night
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and nothing Pastor Young preparatory form during Lord's
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table. No Marine igniting next next
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Lord's Day from Union. In addition, parking on Taylor
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malapit mismo in Jesus we are coming to eat and drink of the
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gracious provision that He has made to us and for us through
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His body and blood. And that gospel demands a
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choice. The gospel demands a verdict.
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Tai patulin tinatawag para pumili Sahara hai.
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Participant in on Julie Lamont Nama Bubu hai para Sajil
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Naganathan Let us always practice the discipline of
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continuous self examination. My friends, we need to pray to
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the Lord to reveal us our sin, the deep sorrow that we have,
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and to be mindful of how sinful we are and to show us all the
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ways in which we are to be commended.
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To follow Him, for us to be led towards that path that pleases
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God, to turn away from our sin and to submit ourselves to
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Christ as sums 139. Verse 23 to 24 says Search me
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ohh God and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts and see
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if there would be any grievous way in me and lead me in the way
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everlasting. That's our first point, the
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story and the message of our sport.
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Our first point is always this. It's always a choice.
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There is no neutral ground in this life.
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It is Christ, it is Him. It's all or nothing happened.
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What happened? Even the so it's either you
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choose Him, it's either we submit to Him or we accept that
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reality that if we reject Him, we are doomed towards that
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everlasting wrath of God towards us.
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Mean by that would lead us to the second point now in the 1919
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that there's only two points that there are there's only two
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paths for us to consider. Second point we are to discuss
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the pathways that Jesus describes here.
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So I Lili Patna dunsany understanding a Maryland Dalung
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decisions adding buhai my own importance or young situations
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and within those two directions that we are talking about here,
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Ama papansin attended to in the Long Diana.
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Nothing in Hindi has Hindi shows same path.
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Jesus says here that there is a narrow and small path, and there
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is also a broad and wide path to take.
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At least Chapada Ankonde, Pathiyum Gate, Nandanam missus,
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Young gate events have been a toy.
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I'm starting point, no direction.
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I'm starting point now pass have been open, for example, goes up
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and attended to you young wide gate that we are talking about
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here. This is described as the easy
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way of life. That's the path that is being
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described here. It is described as the easy way.
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It is the road that many find and many choose to travel in and
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out. Simply Lambo now explanation of
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Jesus me to come back at the top easy pass and the path that many
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choose and it is because it is the path that we are born to
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take as fallen sinners. It's as simple as that.
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The reason why it is easy. The reason why is it is broad
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and easy and many take it. It is because we are born to
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take that path because of our sin.
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The Bible teaches us that we are conceived and born of sin.
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It makes have been sobrang at home ties at the island natural
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pussy into diets A sinful nature in American tayo the anatomy
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pattern sobran familiarisation ahead then I think maybe hai
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aduma andito sadanand item. This is where we by nature
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desire to walk. This is where we by nature love
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to walk. The parents arena Senate and
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demanded I think Bahai Cristiano all of us here are proclaiming
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and professing that we are Christians and I'm nothing to
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tell you don't aspect of broad path Natal.
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We feel this in within our hearts and within our our flesh
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that we know this path is indeed easy to take.
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Now must modelling bombing guy at some and the Lebanon among
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kasalanan meron tayo. Indulging our lustful desires
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always seem to be easier and not just easier.
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Indulging our lustful desires and sinful desires seems more
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pleasurable than doing what is right before our God.
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That's the reality that we are seeing here.
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Because of our sin, it is not just easier but also pleasurable
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in our sinful flesh to go against the path that Christ
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points us to go. Okay, Makita da patinating
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alalahanin patum calls direction ito namala waggot malaking Dan
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pero alumna Tina Hindi maganda is he pinpointed entire?
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For example, even mature back at Bago Pattaya exposed on Monday
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to someone. Do I know how much Madeley at
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must mobilise to go in Nagaland at impact?
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For example, I think kapatid rating Kalaro or Pinson.
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I mean I go against us in a Sir or Canary.
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I think I know on natural tendency in America by nature by
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natural tendency and gusto nating goen as gusto nating
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automatically in the Bumawi Nathan Kate Babawiin at Insula
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when you're in Hampstead going at 10 and gusto naten Bavarian
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but not insulated at India was natangap 19 Gunde marshmallow
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Hasna Hampas Anguston going 19 compared to Nottingham pass
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because we want to take revenge and that's the problem.
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And that's the natural tendency that we had because that's the
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easy way to do it, because that's the sinful and natural
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tendency that we have to do with the broadcast that Jesus is
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talking about in our lives. Backup time my exposure.
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This is natural to us. This is the natural direction
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that we were having and we were taking had the broad path is a
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pathway of least resistance was muddling my iron someone doing
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American Pie on my own. Yeah.
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Squandermania Dito. It is the pathway of human
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indulgences. Okay, how are you?
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My businesses thrive. Trigger sin and they will
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succeed. Eat all you can and it will
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trigger gluttony. Nearby people wants great beauty
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and outside beauty and they will invest on that desire.
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People once lost people with desire and have those sexual
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tendencies. That's why everything is tinted
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or hinted with that kind of images, to seduce and to attract
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the natural tendencies of men. This is the pathway of human
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indulgences, a pathway of no loss, no rules, and no restrain.
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Hello Nathan. Applicable Lam Batasan manga?
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Ohh no applicable to person eBay.
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They getaway with it. That's a problem in this world.
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It is a pathway of sinful pride, the pathway of selfishness, of
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decadence and self satisfaction That it's all about being
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satisfied in this life. I told Dana I love this and
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earthly pleasures, earthly riches.
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It's all about self fulfillment, of achieving something for
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myself, for myself, because of myself, seeking for happiness
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and satisfaction, even if it's whether it's right or wrong.
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He creates that this idea, this ideal world, this perfect world
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that it is setting, in which the direct basis of all our goals
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and all our ambitions is towards self.
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That's the problem of this world.
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Meaning all desires should primarily cater to self and no
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one else. That's the reality that we have
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in this world. But in the reality of this, in
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the light of the Scriptures and the truths that we're seeing
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right now, the broadcast, the wide pass that we see here is
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the pathway of the foolish and self deceived.
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It is the first three of those who think they're doing what is
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right, but in reality they're doing something that is against
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the design and the will of God for us.
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It is the pathway of the spiritually blind.
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It is the pathway where Satan himself is leading everyone who
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will follow him right to the very peak of hell and the wrath
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of God. This is our world, my friends.
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This is the darkness and the reality of this wide path that
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God is explaining in the Scriptures.
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Panama, Panamanian Tinuturo, now I think Duos, the narrow paths.
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Jesus says that there is also this narrow path, the small gate
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that few would find and few would take.
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I think barking at Maryland really to come back at me about
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Ganon and description again. Dan Patton and to and
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description nagging, laminating duos.
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To have it narrow, to have it, to have it set in a very small
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gate, and to being as being described that only few people
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will find it. And to answer that we have to
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remember that Jesus is comparing these two paths requirement as
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you go back to the Broadgate medical requirement Paramacharya
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and Magadan Tayo Mahal abroad path 19 scriptures meron bataya
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matandaan requirement Paramakudi Andy just easy pass.
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Actually we know and we could read in scriptures now what will
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happen requirement Parramatta and doing some locking gate
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number Madali Malapad. There is no requirement at all
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and all we have to do actually, it's to remain who we are and we
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are there already. There's no requirement because
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you just have to be who you are to be true with yourself, to
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live this life the way we want to live and to do the things the
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way we want to do without any laws, without following any
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instruction, seeking to find autonomy and everything that we
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have in life. Isabella so small gate and
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narrow pass the path that leads to salvation.
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What is the requirement? What is God's requirement for
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this? It requires change.
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It requires transformation. It requires regeneration.
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Protect a pattern. Is there parking 97 paraguana
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mangano requirement? I don't want to annoy Indians of
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passage then in the tournament message specifically said
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Matthew 7 but the whole of the Bible says it so koala lanahan
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punati nasina been Cristo Nicodemus John chapter 3.
John 3 chapter mention
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It says here unless a man is born again, he cannot see, or
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rather he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
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And that's the very point. Unless we are born again, my
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friends. Combat Balikan attended quote
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Kayhan at Indiana thankya such as really not nothing.
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Nabuhay Namuli to be born again. We can't be born again but with
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ourselves or by ourselves. Being born again is something
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that God must do for us, not us for our own sake.
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Do you not think I improves as a really not annihilating it on
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our own? It means that God must do it in
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our hearts and in our souls by the working of His Holy Spirit.
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So in order to walk the narrow path, one must first of all turn
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to the one true God, who alone can put our feet on the narrow
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pathway. This setting for us.
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That means, as we said earlier, that we must come to Christ and
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believe in Him, saving any Peterson Acts chapter 4.
Acts 4 chapter mention
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And there is salvation and no one else.
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Again, there is no salvation. There is salvation and no one
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else. For there is no other name under
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heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
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And we know what that name is. That name is Jesus Christ and no
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one else. That name is His name alone and
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nothing else. Dipoto Sepang Island in Mama
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Mary, Dipoto said they put away Buddha Nipo Zapalenie, Mohammed
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Hindi sa Pangalan Nikki Boloi. He needs a concina montao had
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indeed in possessory Lang natin kondisa pangala mang Jesus at
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walang IBA sania lambo is nothing to maintain or do or
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Mahan. Nothing.
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I said sad, and I think I mean in the tie you I Masalan and at
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Mutangana is Sang Kahi Bagan and Mabuhay.
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It is foolishness and folly to think that we are to live for
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ourselves and for our own desires alone.
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For we are to be reminded that we are here not for our own
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sake, but for the glory of God who created us and has given us
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this life. It is to have that desire to
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belong to Christ and to live our lives for His glory and for His
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purposes. It is to die unto ourselves and
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to live and to Him. That's the first reason.
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But also there's a second reason why Jesus is explaining it like
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this. A second reason why Jesus
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described the gate as small and a pathway so narrow for us to
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take. And it is because it is an
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accurate description of the Kingdom of God as seen to the
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eyes of men. I think Patulin Pinapaalala sat
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in And this is the description of the Kingdom of God, that
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there is this smallness in it, that there is this hidden
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quality in the Kingdom of God. In a man's eyes, the Kingdom of
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God seems small and seems undetectable.
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That's why only few would find it.
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For example, Mapapansin. Well, it's.
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Yeah. As we recall, some of the
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parables of Christ Jesus describes his Kingdom as being
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as tiny as a mustard seed, or even as a hidden treasure that
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is buried in the field. That's what we could see here.
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Marita Dinah and 2nd paranoid about donating and I think on
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someone in the smallness of the reality of it, the meekness and
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the humility of God when he came to this world, coming in a human
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flesh, coming in a very tiny infant being born of a virgin.
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I could consider the 19 and it should and even his presence,
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his outward appearance. Will I tell you my Papa and
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Sinner, my Papa song anything remarkable about his physical
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appearance at all in this smallness and humility that he
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has something as Isaiah 53 verse 2 for he grew up before him like
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a young plant and like a root out of a dry ground.
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He had no form or majesty that we should look at him and know
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beauty that we should desire for him.
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If it's a pain management Sabbe Parkside domain Sahara Pasta
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since I've been alive Ganondorf is he being my name Common Nandi
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muna Papan Singh most common Padoan Sai.
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There is no beauty, no form or majesty that we could see in his
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physical appearance. But also description at the
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images in Africa bro, similar pictures, similar movies about
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him, Young Guapo Magandang Mata Mata along now perfect not
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perfect you symmetry at Mugabe. This is not the biblical
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description of who Christ is, my friends and even some of my
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disciples there. If we could still see that
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smallness and humility. Initially, people manga pantas
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intending scholars during their time, but rather he chose those
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people who are simple. The highs?
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Most of them are indeed Nakatapos barrel.
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Most of them are fishermen's. Focus on their craft.
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Not well learned, not well thought in terms of thinking and
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intelligence and philosophy or anything during their time.
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And even in his ministry, Jesus identified himself among tax
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collectors and sinners. And it was this Jesus who came
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to save his people in a most unusual, in a very scandalous
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way of saving them, by becoming sin for his people, by bearing
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the curse of sin for our sake, by suffering and dying a
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shameful and a cursed death at the cross.
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Never was there a man so badly shamed and humiliated as Jesus
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was, someone who claimed to be the Son of God being crucified,
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naked and beaten. Shameful and scandalous.
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Okay, I see Natalie close who would put their faith in a man
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like this who claimed to be the Saviour and King if he is in the
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state of humiliation. For this reason, Jesus was a
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stumbling block to the Jews who sought or who looks for more
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glorious Messiah, who looks for that great King image like the
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one in King and the King David and Jesus.
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Jesus was foolishness to the creeks, to the Greeks who sought
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a higher wisdom. But the reality is, it's just
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that they don't see Christ the way people should see him
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because there is this smallness that there is this hidden image
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that can only be seen by the people who are made to see Him
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and His glory and beauty and majesty.
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It's just that they don't see it that that's why they consider it
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foolishness that they could. That's why they consider Christ
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as a stumbling block for those people.
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But As for Apostle point, as as Apostle point, Paul pointed out
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that those whom God has called Christ is both the power and the
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wisdom of God. Akmali ban saree sonam.
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And there's also a third reason, and this is the last reason.
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This pathway is called narrow and the path as difficult and it
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is because the way of Christ is the pathway of suffering.
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It is a pathway of sacrifice. It is a pathway of self denial.
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While following Jesus will ultimately lead us to great gain
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in heaven and and indeed we would gain everything if we
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follow Him, it will it will almost assuredly cost us
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something here on earth. And not just something, but
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everything in order for us to truly follow Him.
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Sacrificial pinagusapan attend dito a Hindi basta basta at
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kahit na umama nagsasabi na silaha Cristiano she learning
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missmalini wasson nappanee wala and it's a pathway of suffering,
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pathway of selflessness, selflessness and self denial.
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Then Angustown Ibang proclaiming Christians is you would still
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demand prosperity. We would want prosperity in this
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religion that we have Mama town self-proclaimed Christians, but
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their primarily primary purpose of their living is still about
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health, still about wealth, and it's still about prosperity.
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There's no aspect of really giving up everything for Christ.
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There's no aspect of willing to accept challenges and sacrifices
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for the sake of really following him.
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In Matthew 19, Jesus speaks of those who made great sacrifices
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to follow Christ, who gave of things in this life,
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relationships, even in this world, all for the sake of
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believing on Jesus and following him.
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Sabi said Matthew 19, verse 29. And everyone who has left houses
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or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands
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meaning properties, for my sake, for Christ's sake, will receive
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a hundredfold and will inherit it turned a life.
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It picks up in Martin Dee Matt Indian sacrificial Ditto.
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And as we look at the scriptures, Martin didn't him
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sacrifices Nabigay Discipulo, Parachristo, Marami Sakanila
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Kenya Hangang, Sakanila Kamatayan.
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They were marketed martyred for their faith and that goes as
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well to all who follow Christ. Jesus calls us to take up our
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cross and follow Him, to be willing to suffer loss, to
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suffer suffer shame and dignity, position and the status in this
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life, all for the sake of being counted as His disciples.
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And in our day-to-day lives, there are choices, my friends,
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that we make that will show the world and that will show others,
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that will show our friends, that will show our families and even
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our neighbors. Pinapakita nietos.
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Machoism, marantao, concino, concini, nothing.
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So I think, Bohai, are we following Christ or following
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our own selves at all? Jesus calls us to put Him first
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and no one else. To follow His ways as we
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proceed, then, as we hold on to our marriages, to follow His
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words and our friendships in our workplaces and in times of
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temptations, to still follow and obey Him when we are tempted to
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indulge in our sinful desires. And to think of it this way, the
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question is not really what we will choose or what path we will
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take, but the reality is who we will choose in this life.
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We're not talking about path anymore, but we're talking about
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him, whether we choose him or not.
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People in Barnard and Missus or people in Athens, Patula,
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Sarili. People in Banati, Sudan and
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Kenya. The Anakana Young 1802 Satin and
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also need some mondo na patuli namula mala had sadan Napa
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zacapa Hama Khan and make no mistake about it, walking the
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narrow path is difficult. It's hard and it's unpopular.
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Has he said that Kaito Marionette, 15.
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As we acknowledge ourselves to have that desire to walk on this
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path, there will always be times that we can or we might look at
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what's happening in this world. Papatingin ties some Mundo at
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patinating my easy. Did you get a granola?
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Paramus Modelling Magloko. Paramus Modelling Magazine.
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The Paramus Modelling Magnakaw Magsugal, the Casa Comitan and
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Tama Committed and Sapata Padma. Is it not in a bucket?
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Part of my most exciting Dan must Messiah Paramus may thrill
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Sabila, and that's the reality that we could see outside.
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That means inserting Kahina and Petty Panathinaikos in the
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bucket. Pattern must be blessed among a
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Nasaa Bilang side. But pattern was stable by
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imbuing Mamma Samantha Hao too high comfortable Mayaman
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magandang buhay come someone that entire eto naghihirap
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natitiis means Maggie keep it or means in Nowlan park attendant
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in London. I'm at Pangani B had made and at
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maritime padding Mahajan the fact that the island now
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actually I'll make Dylan come back the path no matter entire
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when we are stubborn when we go back and desire for the things
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of this world and all of us have stumbled, my friends and fallen
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and even wandered from the pathway at one time or another.
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But this is the comfort that we have.
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In this reality, God is faithful.
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God is faithful. Our faithful Shepherd has come
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after us and he finds us and he brings us back to the pathway of
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righteousness. It is not us who can do it on
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our own. It is not based on our
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faithfulness, but primarily based on the faithfulness of God
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and not us. Temple.
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I know people in Athens ghetto. Which path will you choose in
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this life Today? The Gospel calls you.
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It calls all of us to choose the narrow path that leads to life.
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And I want to close with a word of encouragement and challenge
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from Hebrews 12 verse one to three.
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Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud
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of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which
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cling so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is
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set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfector of our
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faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the
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cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of
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the throne of God. Consider him who endured from
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from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you may
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not grow weary, are faint hearted, and then.