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Develop Your New Spirit Part 2
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Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
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You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
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We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
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cross. Now let's join the service.
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Have your bibles tonight. I'm going to be in the same
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scripture I've been for about four services now.
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Can't get off of it. Second Corinthians chapter 5,
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verse 17. We ought to know this by now,
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huh? Anybody, everybody can quote it,
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right? I'm going to back up a few
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verses here to 12 and read, been a while since I've read the the
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first part of this and you know, this is setting here in Second
2 Corinthians 5 chapter mention
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Corinthians chapter 5, just after the apostle Paul declares
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that we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ and
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give an account for things done in the body, whether it's good
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or bad. A lot of people forget that.
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I think, I think a lot of preachers today are forgetting
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that if we're going to give an account for what we did in the
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body, how much more we're going to give an account for what we
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put over the Airways or we put in people's ear.
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That's not the truth. And I, yeah, I'm, I'm seeing it
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every day, every day. But in Second Corinthians
2 Corinthians 5 chapter mention
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chapter 5 and verse 12, I'm going to be reading through 17,
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but I'm going to try to finish this up tonight.
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I know some of y'all's missed some services and it's, it's,
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it's hard to get 3 or 4, three or four series in a sermon and
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everybody here everything. So I am going to recap a little
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bit. But we've been talking about
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developing our new spirit. We have a new spirit or we
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should Amen when we come to Christ because 2nd Corinthians 5
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and 17, we're going to back up to 12.
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But it says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new
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creation. Old things have passed away and
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behold, all things have become new.
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That's hard to find a life that all things become new.
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It doesn't mean the situation necessarily has changed and it's
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a new situation. We'll be waiting till Christ
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comes until we have our glorified body and we're in
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heaven for those some situations to change because people refuse
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to change. But it does say that that
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situation, somebody needs this tonight, that that situation
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that you're in or whatever that phase of life you're in right
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now, it can still become new to you.
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Amen. Because God can give you a new
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way to defeat that enemy. He can give you a new way to
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overcome that trial at that particular time in your life.
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And then it can become new very fast.
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Being new doesn't always mean it goes away.
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But in 2nd Corinthians 5 and 12, let's get what this says.
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It says, for we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give
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you opportunity to boast on our behalf that you may have an
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answer for those who boast in appearance.
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And I begin to read that and the Holy Spirit just begin to to
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flood me. There's a lot of people today,
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There's a lot of Christians today, There's a lot of churches
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today that focus on appearance and not in the heart.
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He says for if we are beside ourselves, it is for God.
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Really get what this means right here.
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Or if we are a sound mind, it is for you.
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For the love of Christ compels us.
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When you think about how much he loves you, and when you think
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about where he what, where you were when he came and got you,
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it should compel you. He says, because we judge thus,
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that if one man died talking about Christ for all men, I love
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what this says here, then all died.
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If one man died, he's saying we all should die right to the
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flesh. And he who died for all that,
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those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for
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him who died for them. And Rose again, what a powerful
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statement. It's very hard to find those
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today that aren't living for themselves.
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You don't believe me going to restaurant and just said it by
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yourself. You know, some people don't like
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to eat by their self. Anybody like that.
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They, you know, my wife, she doesn't like to go in and eat by
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herself. She just never has it.
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It's never bothered me. I can go in and if I'm hungry, I
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eat and it does and I listen, you know, and you going to
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places today and you just begin to listen.
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You hear boasting, you hear of the things that are going on in
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this life. And you man, I said across and
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the guy, I wasn't trying to listen in, but he was so loud
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and boisterous, I couldn't help but hear him and what he was
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talking about the, the $1,000,000 deals he was making
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today at lunch and the things that he was going into and, and,
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and the work they were going to do.
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And then all of a sudden right after he begins to talk about, I
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don't know if it's his current wife or his ex-wife, but he's
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giving one of them a lot of money and it's never enough.
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And he's doing all the man. I, I could barely sit there.
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I started saying, won't you try giving her Jesus, but you got to
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have Jesus for you can give Jesus Amen.
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But we we hear just it's interesting to hear the things
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and to hear the conversation. You'll hear some godly stuff
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every now and then. I'm not denying that.
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But on the most part, you're going to hear what he said.
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They're going to boast about appearance and not have not
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things of the heart. But he says here in verse 17.
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation.
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Old things have passed away. Behold, all things become new
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and I explained last Wednesday night, I'm going to recap a
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little bit. We are to be in Christ.
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We talked about that last week. I asked what are you walking in?
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We have to be walking in the spirit and to walk in the Spirit
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you must abide in the spirit that's to sit to dwell or to
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remain in the spirit. See develop this to to develop
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the new spirit that the apostle Paul talks about here to be the
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new creation. It starts out in the Spirit
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because the the Spirit has to has to get control of us and we
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have to walk in the spirit for the flesh to change.
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The church has become very good at changing the flesh and not
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ever changing the Spirit, right? So therefore we have to we can
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kind of make the flesh do right, But yet people and the Holy
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Spirit connect with the Spirit more than than than the flesh.
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So we must abide, we must to sit, we must dwell, and we must
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remain in the Spirit to develop this new spirit and this new
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creation that we're called to be in Christ Jesus.
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And I preached this Sunday on three ways that this happens.
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And number one was to walk in love.
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We have to walk in love in this Christian walk.
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If we do not walk in love, then we're not going to reach anybody
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because without love we're just a clanging cymbal that's just
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going to make a lot of racket and not bear much fruit.
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We have to walk in love. Number one, Write that down and
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#2 if you're that's the best way to be recreated is to walk in
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love. The second thing I talked about
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Sunday was to give the word first place in our life, first
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place and final authority. He said I'm the alpha and the
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Omega, Omega, I'm the 1st and the last.
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Give the word first place in your life and give it final
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authority in your life. Jesus knew what he was talking
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about there, right? Which he always does.
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But Proverbs 3 five and six, it says trust in the Lord, say
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trust with me, trust in the Lord with all your heart.
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Lean not on your own understanding and all your ways
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acknowledge Him and he shall direct your path.
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So we're walking in love for giving the word first place in
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our life. And then the third thing I
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talked about was obey the voice of the Spirit.
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And the voice of the Spirit is the written word of God.
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He speaks to us through his word.
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So when we're doing these three things, our spirit will begin to
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be renewed. We will begin to develop our new
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spirit. We will begin to be a new
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creation in Christ Jesus. But we have to read the word
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that is the voice of God and and then we will be his sheep and
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we'll begin to know His voice. In John chapter 4 and 24, I
John 4 chapter mention
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shared this, that God is a spirit and those that worship
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Him must worship Him in the flesh.
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That ain't what it says in the spirit and in truth.
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So that's kind of what I've shared in this series in a
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nutshell. A whole lot more but but kind of
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close. But I've added a four thing to
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it and I'm going to close this out.
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Maybe get off the scripture. I don't know tonight, but #4I
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prayed about this, and God give me this.
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But quit waiting for a better life through someone else.
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A lot of people do that. We wait for a better life.
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We think we'll be a better person when we get a better
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life. But with a better life comes
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bigger problems, right? With a different life would come
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different problems. But the Holy Spirit give me
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these exact words. I'm going to read some of this.
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But a better life started when you were born again.
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If you're born again, you have a better life, you're going to
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heaven and you're not going to hell.
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You have a better life, right, because you're born again.
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And and we should think about that.
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You know, as I was sitting there in that cafe today by myself, I
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just closed my eyes while I was eating and I said I was there
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one time, I love God. Maybe this guy didn't take it
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that he knew who God was, but I was in there trying to please
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the flesh and try to trying to work all the time and, and meet
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the demands of what this life says and yet hold on to God and
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love him a little bit. Amen.
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But I was getting there today. I was thinking so greatly that
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that that God has created something in me that doesn't
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care about the world anymore. And I can honestly say I can.
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I just let it pass away because it's going to anyway.
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But quit looking for that better life and start living the life
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that God has give you, right? But we want that better life.
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But a better life started. Write this down when you were
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born again. It will start it.
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But here's the problem, God, give me this whole passage right
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here. I'm going to read to you in the
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parking lot. I was waiting and it just hit me
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and I began to talk on my phone. I didn't want to forget it
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because I knew it was from God. A better life started when you
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were born again. But the willingness in our
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spirit to become a new creation in Christ must be stirred.
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We have to stir it. God does not always stir it.
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Amen. You're probably not going to
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feel the same feeling you felt the night that you walk the owl,
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that God reach way down for you and he delivered you from that
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pit that you were in. It was a great feeling, and we
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long to feel that feeling again. But we have to be willing in our
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spirit to become a new creation. It must be stirred.
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We must exercise it. We must long to be the
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righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
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And as we do that, we give the Holy Spirit free reign to work
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in our life. A lot of people are saying I
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don't want the Holy Spirit, I want to live this way.
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But we can only go this far. We can't go past this point in
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my life. I can't give up some of those
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things. You know, I got 2 buddies I hunt
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when they claimed they were having these bad headaches like
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I haven't. And they said they give up sugar
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and they drink gallons of coffee.
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And my wife said gallons of coffee can cause headaches and
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rebound headaches. And they said they quit the
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sugar and, and, and and the headache stopped.
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And I said what about the coffee?
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They said you're meddling now. That's the way we are sometimes.
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We think we know what the problem is and there's certain
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things we want to give God, but do we really give Him free reign
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to work in our life and to perform the changes that must
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take place to be this new creation?
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There has to be some changes to be a new creation.
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I know some people that that got saved and they had a big
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mouthful. They got saved.
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They've still got a big mouth, right?
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I know some people that didn't love nobody.
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They talked about everybody and and before they get out of the
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parking lot, they're talking about somebody else's business.
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That did not change. God will not drop down and
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change that. But you have to create and stir
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the Spirit and give the Holy Spirit reign to do that right,
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to perform the changes that must take place to be this new
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creation that Paul talks about so that all things can become
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new. But so many times, and yes, even
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in the life of Christians and believers that know God, that
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love God, we still look for happiness in the changes.
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You ready for this? In the changes of others, we get
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hung up on what others do. And we think if others would
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change. Hello.
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You got somebody at work that when you go to work, you're in a
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bad mood because of them and you think if they would change, you
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would be better. If the kids didn't act like they
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did, you would be better. And that's probably true.
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But there would be something else that, you know, we wanted
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rain, we wanted cool weather. And then the wind blows and we
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fuss about it, right? It's human nature.
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But quit waiting for people to change.
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We're still look for happiness in the changes of others or in
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the changes of a career or maybe in retirement.
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Retirement's a great thing, I guess, for some people.
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But when you get retired, things hurt.
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You don't feel like you want, I want to get to retirement.
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Why? You're going to be old.
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You're going to hurt. You may not have to go to work,
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but you're going to hurt. You're going to be old.
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You're not going to have as good a life as you do now.
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You may have a check coming in every week that you're not
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having to get up and go to work for, right?
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But you ain't going to be able to get up and go nowhere.
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But I want to retire. We live for retirement so we can
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be crippled and talk about all the days we clocked in.
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Money's no good if you can't walk around and spend it.
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Hey, man, they'll spend it. But we do look for those
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changes. Oh, if I could just retire.
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I can't wait. I hate this place I've spent 40
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years hating. Find a new job you love.
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Quit living for the day of retirement.
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You may die before you retire. Jesus is probably going to come
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back before a lot of people retire.
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The way it looks to me, right? But we think, and the Lord give
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me this, write this down. We think if they would change,
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it would change me. Not true, not true.
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If they didn't do this, I wouldn't do that.
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That starts at a young age, right?
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Somebody made me do it. If they wouldn't do this, I
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wouldn't do that. But the truth is that it
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wouldn't change us at all because this gets deep right
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here. Because we wouldn't be a new
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creation in Christ Jesus. We would be depending on
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something that was created outside the realm of the spirit,
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a someones other spirit that depended upon the outside world
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or something else that someone has done for me to be a new
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creation. Therefore, what I've been
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preaching on for four weeks now is all things wouldn't become
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new because all things Paul wasn't saying that everything's
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going to be new in your life and everything's going to change,
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but he said you're the new creation.
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So the way that your eyes now look at what's happening to you
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in this life become different. And at the at the point of being
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born again, you realize that this world is not your home.
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You realize that seasons don't come to stay, they come to pass.
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You realize that that eternity is your home and what happens in
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this life now does not dominate your thought process and who you
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are because I find my identity in the born again creation that
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I am now. See, we would be we would be a
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creation for the other person if this happened.
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Quit believing that lie as a child of God because the truth
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is you have something on the inside of you that the world
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didn't give you and the world can't take it away.
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We read about this in second Corinthians chapter 4.
2 Corinthians 4 chapter mention
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We back up just a little bit in 11 and 12.
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He let's go to verse 7. I always back up.
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I know I do, but I have to right here because in 2nd Corinthians
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4 and seven, it says, but we have this treasure in an earthen
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vessel. Do you ever think about the
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treasure that you have? Do you ever think about the
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person that you are? Now when the person pulls out in
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front of and you don't flip them off, you don't curse them and
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you don't have to run to the liquor store after work to cope
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with the problems that you couldn't cope with.
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But now you just have to close your eyes and reach out to
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heaven and say a little prayer because you're a new creation in
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Christ Jesus, because you have this treasure that's hidden on
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the inside of you that the blood of Jesus placed there.
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And he says that the excellence of power may be of God and not
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of us. And he didn't say that all this
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had changed. He said, yes, we are still hard
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pressed on every side, yet we're not crushed.
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Remember when you were hard pressed in the former life BC
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before Christ when you got a little hard pressed, it seems
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that life just fell apart. But now you get hard pressed,
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but yet you're not crushed. And that's something to praise
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God about. We're perplexed but not in
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despair. We're persecuted but not
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forsaken. And yes, we may be struck down,
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but we're not destroyed. Why?
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Because we're always carrying about in the body the dying of
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the Lord Jesus Christ. That the life of Jesus also may
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be manifested in our bodies. For we who live, I love what he
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says right here. For we who live are always
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delivered to death for Jesus sake, that the life of Jesus
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also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
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So then death is working in us, but life in you.
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And since we have the same spirit of faith according to
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what is written, I believed and therefore I spoke, we also
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believe and therefore speak, knowing that he who raised up
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the Lord Jesus will also. Isn't that powerful to know that
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I will also raise us up with Jesus and will present us with
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you for all things or for our your sakes.
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That grace having spread through many calls Thanksgiving to a
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bound to the glory of God. Therefore, he says do not lose
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heart even though our outward man is perishing yet inward the
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inward man is being renewed day by day.
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See, we realize this because we're a new creation that are a
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lot of afflictions, which is but for a moment is working for us a
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far more excellent and eternal weight of glory, while we do not
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look at the things which are seen.
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You want something to work on this week, Go look at the thing.
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Go, go, go not. Look at the things which you
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see. Stop believing your eyes, but at
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the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen
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are temporary. That's mind boggling.
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They're only temporary. They're not going to last and
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they're going to melt with forever and heat and be
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destroyed. But the things which are not
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seen, the things which we cannot see are eternal.
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They're going to last forever. And the only way we're going to
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see it is by faith. See, our worship, our happiness
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doesn't depend on the outside circumstance.
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You know, if, if pastoring a church has taught me anything, I
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have learned this. I have learned this.
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Have you, Sister Linda, all the times you had to go to church
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and step behind the pulpit and all hell was breaking loose in
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your life and you got to get up there and you got to preach, you
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got to smile, you got to worship God.
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I didn't before I started pastoring, I really I'd, I'd
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kind of, I'd kind of take a little break from worshiping God
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when things went wrong in life sometime.
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Anybody ever did that? But see that it doesn't depend
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on the outside circumstances or what's going on around us.
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Most Christians never reached that point.
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That knowing that no, they're just up if things are good and
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if God didn't meet it, they're down.
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But I know it's about to change. We know it's about to change
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because on the inside, because on the outside we're wasting
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away, but on the inside we're being renewed.
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I love where I love that word He put in there daily.
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It's not a long time from now I can be renewed daily.
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Philippians 4 and 11 and 12 is another great one to go to.
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As we read on, it says not that I speak in regard to need, for I
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have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.
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That'd be a great characteristic to have, wouldn't it?
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He goes on to say. I know how to.
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I know how to be a base, and I know how to abound everywhere in
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all things. I've learned both to be full and
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to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
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Most people don't. You know, there's a lot of
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people right now not getting a paycheck due to people that's
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getting paid not doing their job, right?
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Surely somebody could figure out a way to get along, to get the
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same things done. But there's people going crazy
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because they don't get a paycheck.
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And it's rightfully so. But I've been in that situation
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all my life, rodeoing, contracting.
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But but the thing of it is we got to know where the paycheck
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comes from. God, it says that he's the one
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that gives us the power to get wealth.
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Sure, it takes a job, but he's the one that gives you the power
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to get that. Aren't you glad you're a new
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creation tonight and you can go on as apostle, as apostle Paul
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said, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens
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me. Do you remember where you were
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when the Savior reached down for you?
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Aren't you glad to know that who you are tonight because you know
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who he is and Psalms chapter 51. I want to do a little reading
Psalms 51 chapter mention
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here. It's a great passage of
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Scripture. But the reason we we need to
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keep this new spirit about us. We have to keep this new spirit
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about us is because I've never we we look to the returning of
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Christ, but in the returning of Christ there's going to be a
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great falling away. The Bible speaks of, I hear it
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every, it seems like every few weeks I hear of it churches
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closing. That's been around longer than
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this one pastor and his wife getting a divorce after 30 years
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and having to shut the church down.
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And you know the thing that always rings, I've always kept
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this at the top of my Christian walk.
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And I was sharing on the phone yesterday.
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A guy told me he said I like a church, but we, we, we disagree
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on on being once saved, always saved.
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He said you can't lose your salvation.
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I said we don't disagree on that.
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I said you word it differently because you think they weren't
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saved if they weren't truly if they there, if there wasn't a
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change in their life, they weren't truly saved.
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And I said I don't discourage people with telling them when
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they prayed the sinner's prayer that God didn't move in their
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life and there was something different.
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But I but, but I said, if you want to sit down and look at the
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scripture, I can show you that we don't agree, disagree because
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I know you know what the word says.
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And if you let me show you, you will, you will see it like I see
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it. And I really believe that.
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But it's a bad place to live in to think that you're all, you're
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sealed for eternity. And no matter what you do on
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this earth, it's really prideful because I know without God, I
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can do nothing. And I know if I turn my back on
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God and walk over, walk the other way, there's no telling
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what I would be. And I think that's what keeps us
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going. I think that's what fuels the
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fire of the believer. And I believe if David could
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come back today, and I'm talking about being a a new creation in
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Christ Jesus, I used to hear Charles Stanley and Jared, you
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might not put this on there tonight.
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I don't care if you do. But if I save me some phone
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calls, pick you another one to put on the deal, but I really
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don't care anymore. The truth's the truth.
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I love Charles Stanley, I loved a lot of his teachings.
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I think he was a great man of God, but he believed in the
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Calvinistic belief of once saved, always saved.
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He believed that no matter what you did in this life, you would
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not lose your salvation. You would suffer repercussions
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in this life. The devil could attack you more
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if you send more in this life and and you would you know, you
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would have to deal with some of the repercussions of the sin.
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What reap what you sowed in this life, but it was never going to
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affect your eternal destiny. But when we read about the
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judgement seat of Christ that we're going to give an account
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of those things and they will be rewarded.
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But but I think of David when I think of that because I don't
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see how you could have a new created spirit because he would
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preach against sin. He would preach all these things
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against sin and and then I was listening one day and then he
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said, but no matter what you do, nothing can separate you from
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God. You have an eternal home in
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heaven. You will suffer that.
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And I thought, why try, Why pray?
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Why overcome all these and all these things?
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It just kind of takes the, the, the glory out of it.
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But I think a David, David was a king.
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David was anointed by God. He was appointed king.
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We know that, right? And the Bible teaches that David
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was a man after God's own heart. He was the apple of his eye.
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And and we know those things. But in Psalms chapter 51, David
Psalms 51 chapter mention
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wrote a lot of the Psalms. But this Psalm 51 is very
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different that David wrote because David wrote the Psalm.
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It's believed to be when Nathan the prophet had went to him
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after he had had a a marital extramarital affair with
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Bathsheba and he had had her husband killed by placing him on
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the front battle line so he could take her as his wife and
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had a child with her. And we know the story.
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The child did not live. God did not allow that to
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happen. But David had come to the place
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that that I think maybe he, you know, maybe was feeling like he
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was OK, but he wrote this Psalm after that happened.
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He wrote these things I'm going to read to you in closing
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tonight because David now knew how important the new created
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spirit that I've been preaching for four weeks about was.
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We have to have a new spirit. And he starts out in verse one
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of Psalms 51. It says, Have mercy upon me, O
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God, according to your love and kindness, and according to your
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tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions, wash
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me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
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And I begin to think about that David was praying something
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there that he really had not seen.
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He was asking for forgiveness. But let's keep in mind, the
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blood of Jesus had not been shed yet.
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There had been no nothing that could wipe it away forever.
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And David was yet crying out for men.
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I this guy beside me when I read this today, he was crying out
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for that which we now have. He was crying out that all this
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thing that I've done could just be forgotten and and be wiped
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away and never I wish I'd have never done.
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Can you imagine being a king and being in that place and and, and
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having this? I begin to think men of standing
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behind the pulpit preaching the gospel every week.
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What if I stumbled for a minute? What if I failed?
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And what if this was me? And it could be, it could be
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you. You could be the one that
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they're talking about next week at church that that used to go
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to church. Man, they were in tune.
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They knew Christ, they knew God and they love God.
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But but I don't know what happened to him.
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Look at what they're doing now. We could be, you could be the
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very next one and never saying you can't come back.
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But you, you kill your witness, nobody's going to listen to you.
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And all the good that we that we've done for people, it would
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just be, it would just be vanished because they look at
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the one time you fail. That's why I think about Jimmy
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Swaggart many times. What a great, what a great man
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to come back. I don't know that I could have
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come back from that. Most preachers sit down and say,
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well, I failed and I'm done. Yet he went on to do mighty
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things of work, work for God. We call it blasphemy.
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I've heard people do that because he, he once fell and now
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I did that. But I think it's better to get
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up and keep going and still leading people to Jesus because
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now you can tell somebody, you can take that filthy rag that's
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in your life and you can say, look what God did to it.
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Look what he made of it because it says that our greatest
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righteousness before God is but what filthy rags.
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But think about David, how he wrote this.
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Go home and read it. I'm not going to read it all,
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but I want to go back up here to verse 5.
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It said, behold, I was brought forth in iniquity.
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He begins to think about his life and in sin my mother
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conceived me. Behold, you desire truth and
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inward parts and in the hidden part you will make me to know
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wisdom. And he said in verse 7, he said,
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he said, purge me with hasop. See, David was begging for
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cleansing. He was begging forgiveness.
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Hasop was a it was a, an Evergreen plant that they use
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for purity, kind of like germ X today.
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I guess it they would use hasop and they had in their mind that
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it would clean. And Davis just pour the hasop
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all over me that I shall be cleansed.
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Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
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Make me hear joy and gladness that the bones you have broken
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may rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and
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blot out all of my iniquities. He was pleading for the blood
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right here. He knew what the blood was
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before the blood was shed. But I love what he said right
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here. He realized his heart wasn't
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clean. See, we have to realize our
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heart is not clean apart from Jesus Christ and he's the only
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one that can create this in us. He said created me a clean
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heart. O God, can you think about David
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this this prayer really meant something to David right here.
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I failed you. I committed adultery.
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I had a man murdered in I was the king.
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I'm supposed to know God. I'm supposed to be close to God
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and yet this is happening. And look what he said right
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here. He said, just create a clean
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heart in me, oh God, and renew a steadfast spirit.
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David knew the importance right here now, after he had fell,
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after his life was about to be in shambles, after he had prayed
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for God not to take his child, he said, renewing me a
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steadfastness. See, there's an importance in
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staying steadfast with God. There's importance in coming and
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hearing the word of God when you don't feel like it.
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Hey, man, there's an importance in staying steadfastness because
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when God, when the enemy is trying to keep you from hearing
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the word of God, he's trying to keep you from getting faith to
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overcome the struggles and the battles that you're facing.
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Do not cast me away from your presence, man.
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Look what he said right here. Do not take your Holy Spirit
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from me. Restore to me the joy of your
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salvation. Do you think David thought he
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had lost something right here? Sounds like it.
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He said restore. I know before I did that there
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was something that was wrong in my spirit.
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That's why I'm preaching to y'all.
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I'm preaching to all these people every week about create
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this new thing. You got to stir it.
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God will do the work, but you got to stir it and you got to
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give the Holy Spirit free reign in your life.
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Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your
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Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your
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salvation and uphold me by Your generous Spirit as you stand
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Your feet tonight. This one really got me, he says.
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Then I will teach transgressors, transgressors your ways, and
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sinners shall be converted to you.
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And then awesome. So you after you've had that
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clean heart created in you, after you've had that
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steadfastness of that new created spirit that we're
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talking about, and after you realize that the Holy Spirit has
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left you, but it's returned, you got something to to joy about,
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but it's a whole lot easier. It's a whole lot easier if we
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would do that first, if we would do that first.
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Thank God, he loves us where we were at.
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Thank God he reached way down. I love to tell young people, you
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know, testimonies are great, but you don't have to have one.
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You don't have to go through all those bad things if you're just
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asking to come into your life. As this song plays.
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Would you gather around tonight and thank Him that He reach way
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down for you? Would you say God just clean,
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Create a clean heart in me tonight?
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Thanks for listening to the Cross Powered Church podcast.
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