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Sowing and reaping Galatians 6 6-18
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So we come to verse 6, Anyone who receives instruction in the
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world must share all good things, which is instructor.
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Now basically we started off in chapter 6 initially that we are
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to help each other to carry the burden.
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Somebody has a need, you go out of the way and help them so that
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they can bear that whatever they are going through, the situation
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they are going through, they will be supported in that.
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And now he comes to verse 2 says carry each other's burdens and
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in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
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So in the same way he is now coming to a practical situation
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where you have evangelist, you have pastors who are caring for
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the people. And he says if anyone who
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receives instruction in the world must share all good things
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with his instructor, what he means is that you care for their
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needs. What they do not spend their
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time working hard to make their bread and also pray and serve
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you and study the word you know. So if they care for you, they
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are ministering to you. You take care of them.
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That's what he means. I really don't want to talk
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about it much, basically because we here don't want to pass the
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basket around. We don't want to raise the kind
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of a make that as an issue, but instead we believe in
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responsible partnership with God and to receive a blessing.
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As you saw, that's how we what we believe.
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But I have a funny story to tell you.
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This is not applicable to Omega, but I'm telling you beforehand,
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the funny story is a village. The pastor died and the people
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of the church, they wanted a new pastor.
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So they wrote to a seminary, a Bible college and they gave a
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description of what kind of man they want to be sent.
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As a pastor. He must know Bible very well.
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He must be a man who is kind and compassionate.
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He must be able to help everybody, go out of his way and
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help people and all the good things they wanted in the pastor
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they made made a huge list, said if you find somebody like that,
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please send it to our church. We need a pastor.
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By the way, we used to pay £70 to the one who used to be pastor
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before and if you find a man like that we may increase it by
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10 more pounds. This is how they wrote the
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letter. So they got a reply from the
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head of the seminary. You will better, you will do
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well to call the man who died. He has been in heaven for quite
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some time, so he won't need food and the £70 will take care of
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him. So this is a very funny story I
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read, but I said OK you should have some entertainment.
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So. But more than that, we believe
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in responsible partnership. You partnered with God, you are
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sowing into the field of God, you are becoming one with Gods
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call and purpose and then you receive your own blessing.
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Sowing and reaping. Everybody says sowing and
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reaping is a divine law. It is a divine law.
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You go back as far as even the book of Genesis, you will see
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the people sowing and reaping. And you look at the man Abraham.
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He did so and he did reap, and he was the richest man of his
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time. And you will see in the book of
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Job, he was a man completely blessed.
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There's no one more richer than Job.
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And so many times you see that God blesses those who partner
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with him, who enter into covenant relationship with him.
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He is not giving money. It is not giving money.
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Money is a very small part of what you are going to do.
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It's a hard posture. Your heart has to be in
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alignment with the will of God, mind of God, purpose of God, His
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Kingdom, His rule, and then every blessing will come.
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Money is in the small part as a token that you are in covenant
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with God. You partner with Him by sowing
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and you reap you. You don't sow wheat.
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And you know we have a favorite expression in New Zealand, you
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hear? Fingers crossed.
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We'll see what is going to come out.
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Are you going to do that? If you sow wheat?
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What are you going to get wheat? I'm not saying you sow money.
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You'll get money. I'm not saying that that is the
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prosperity gospel. But what I'm trying to say here
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is you sow and you reap. It is a spiritual law and you
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don't sow, you don't reap. And elsewhere, elsewhere, he, I
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mean Paul also talks about many other things.
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I will read the scripture from his letter to Corinthians
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chapter, first Corinthians chapter 911 onwards.
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If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if you
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reap a material harvest from you?
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If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we
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have it all the more? But we did not use this right.
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On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the
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gospel of Christ. Do not He know that those who
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serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and those
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who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?
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In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach
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the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
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This is a biblical principle. I had to teach it, but we are
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not going to make it compulsory or anything like that.
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We believe in a different way of accomplishing things.
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So this is Paul. Stand up on it.
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And Christian life is compared to a farmer who sows and who
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reaps. Everybody say sow and reap.
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So what is the kind of a what do you sow and what do you reap?
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There is a question. So here he says do not be
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deceived. God cannot be mocked.
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The word mocked. If you want to translate in a,
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in a, in a, in a different way, it will say turning up your
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nose. I don't know what exactly it
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means. I read it and try to understand
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it. I am not going to do this to
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God, but that is what he is saying.
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You don't turn up your nose against God.
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You don't mock God, whatever you sow, that is what you reap and
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God is looking at everything you do, your heart posture, he knows
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you are sitting down, you're getting up, He knows and that's
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why you don't play with God. And then he says the one who
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sows to please his sinful nature from that nature will reap
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destruction. The one who sows to please to
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the Spirit from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
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So what is he trying to say here is life is like a farm, life is
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like a agricultural land. So you sow and you reap.
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So these things he has already mentioned in chapter 5 he talked
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about OK, how do I know whether I am sowing the right seed or
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wrong seed? Do you get any doubt about it?
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Do you evaluate your life sometime and sit back and think
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with a cup of coffee in your hand, sit down and ask yourself
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am I sowing the right seed in my life?
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This is an important question everyone of us must answer
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honestly before God. You have to take time.
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So the best way that you can know whether you are sowing the
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right kind of a seed in your life is to see outcome of your
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life. The actions you do, the things
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that you do, they reflect what you are sowing into your life.
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So Chapter 5, he says the acts of sinful nature are obvious.
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What is obvious? Hidden?
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No, it stands out. Plain sight.
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You can see it. You do not do not have to think
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about. Does it mean this?
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You know, No, it is all very, very clear.
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So he says this is this is all very clear.
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Sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry,
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witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish
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ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies and
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the like and the like. That means the list is unending.
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So if we indulge in any of these things, we know that we are
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sowing the wrong seed. If we sow the wrong seed, you
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are going to reap wrong stuff. So he says those who sow through
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the flesh will reap destruction. It is very, very plain.
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And you may say, OK, what is a good seed?
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But the fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, patience,
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kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and
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self-control. Against such things there is no
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law. If we are doing those things,
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then you are sowing the right seed.
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Does your life show Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness,
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goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control?
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If you demonstrate these things, you are sowing the right seed in
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your life and that is going to end in a harvest of eternal
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life. Eternal life.
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So is there any guess work to do here after let us say another
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5-10 years we die. Will I go to heaven?
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Will I end up in hell? I do not know anything like
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that. You decide now.
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Your life, your future is decided now and that is in your
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hands. Your future lies in your hand
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now. Do not your neighbor, give him a
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high 5. Say your future lies in your
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hand now. So Paul is not leaving anything
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for guesswork. No guesswork whether you are
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going to go to heaven, whether you're going to go to hell.
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You don't need to do any guesswork.
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Look at what you're doing and you will know where you're going
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to end up. It's as simple as that.
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So there were two farmers, you know, the one farmer says I want
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to cheat the land, the ground. So he went and bought some seed
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which is substandard. Some were rotten seed in it
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mixed with rotten seed. And he went and liberally
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sprinkled everywhere on the field.
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But that next his friend who was another farmer, he went and
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bought the good seed and he sold in his farm.
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Then after some time, the first farmer looks at the second one.
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Hey, why is your field looking better than my field?
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He's comparing and is jealous of the good thing that is happening
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in the other man's field and he said the land does not lie.
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You have sown rotten seed and gives you back the rotten
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output. You say I sowed the good seed,
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so now I am having the good crop coming up.
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So your life is like the land that will not lie.
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You cannot do wrong stuff and expect good thing to come out of
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your life. Just not possible.
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Sometimes we may see somebody flourishing, somebody who is
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wicked. He may flourish for a while.
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Maybe he will make some money, extra money.
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Maybe he will make $1,000,000, but a time comes when you will
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be exposed. Do you see in the press in
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America there is a one guy who has ruined hundreds of
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millionaires and people in power in politics.
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Its all being exposed now and some people are being arrested
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because of that, what they did with them.
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So you cannot hide it your our life.
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We may think nobody is watching. I am making sure nobody is
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watching me. I am doing these things and I am
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going to get away with it. No, we cannot get away with it.
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That is the reason why Paul says do not think that you can mock
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God. You cannot mock God.
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Whatever you sow, that is what you are going to reap.
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So the how do you, how do you sow?
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That's another question. OK, you, you know, you have to
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sow the good seed and but how do you do it?
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He talks about elsewhere in one Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 9.
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Remember this, whoever sows sparingly will also reap
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sparingly and whoever sows generously will also reap
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generously. So I wanted to experiment with
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beans. So I went to my hotel and got a
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packet of seeds and I said how many seeds in this packet may be
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40 seeds, But I said I'm not going to use all of them, I'll
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use a dozen of them. So I planted the 12 of them and
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I think the ten of them have come out.
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So I'm watering it regularly and the cycle is in three months I
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will have beans is going to be pardon, I looked into all that
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beforehand. Before I put the seed, I did all
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the Googling and things. So in three months I'm going to
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have some beans. So that is what is going to give
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me courage to put more beans next time.
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So this is how in spiritual life also, you need to do it.
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You need to experiment. Somebody asked me for a big sum
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of money, something like 4000 New Zealand dollars.
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I need 4000 New Zealand dollars. I just laughed at him and he
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said why do you laugh? I didn't give any answer but I
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was thinking about should I really help this man or not.
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I said he didn't give me any reason.
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He didn't tell me why he needs the money.
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He simply said give me money. I said no, I am not giving the
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money I have given 3/4 times in the past to the tune of 4005
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thousand New Zealand dollars and I have not got them back.
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All are fine believers, very good believers.
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So now I am thinking should I sow here?
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I am little worried about it. But still this morning also I
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asked myself God should I really bother about losing money?
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Should I really help him? You tell me what you want me to
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do, I will do it. If I have to lose it, I will
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lose it, but I will do your will.
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See that it should be. That should be our attitude.
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You do not cling to money, you do not cling to what belongs to
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you. Do not say this is mine, this is
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very Western thinking. This is my money, my food, my
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breakfast, My lunch is Western thinking.
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Eastern people, they do not think like that.
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If I am opening my lunch and if you are sitting there, I push my
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box. Take some from here and I may
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not put my hand and take from somebody, but I will share what
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I have. That's the Eastern thinking.
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So when I was working in a factory, I there was a one guy
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by name Shannon. I said, Shannon, what did you
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bring for lunch? It looks very interesting.
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You think I can pinch a little bit of it to taste, He said.
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He pulled the food towards him and this is my lunch, he said.
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I laughed at that man. Then another day there was
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another guy who was from Cambodia and he looked at my
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food and said that is very interesting.
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I said have some and he ate some of it.
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It's very nice. He said why do you eat your food
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which is not tasty every day? That was not right for me to do
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that. But so sometimes we need to.
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This is all about attitude, how you sow, how you reap.
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First you change the mind how to think rightly and you will not
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be possessive about money, you will not be possible about your
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things. You will be open to share
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because when you share it is going to bring back fruit
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multiplied many times more. Sometimes you know it is just a
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cup of tea you offer to somebody, but it will transform
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somebodies life. There was a guy who was staying
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with me who said I want to quit study, I want to go home.
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I took him out offered him a cup of tea and told him see you have
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worked hard for three years, put some more work I will help you.
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I sent him to a couple of people to get extra coaching and he
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finished the course and I not not seen him for next 20 plus
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years. But then he passed that exam and
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he went and found a job, got married, has children, and he
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contacted me after 20 and I said, you remember how you took
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me out and offered me a cup of tea?
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That changed my life. So do whatever you do, do as
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unto the Lord, don't look at, oh, I want to help so and so A
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or B or C what you do, do unto the Lord and it will never go
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waste. Never go waste what you sow in
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the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
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And whatever help you give, even a cup of water, it will not go
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waste. That's his promise.
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He himself told it next. How do you do it?
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You have to do it patiently, consistently.
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Everybody say patiently and consistently.
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The reward comes in its season because sometimes it is just not
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going to happen quickly. How many of us know?
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I didn't know until yesterday. When you want to sow bamboo, how
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long does it take for it to sprout?
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Pardon. Yeah, it takes one year is a
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better answer than no answer Nearly takes three years for it
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to sprout. You pour water.
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You are pouring water and pouring water and pouring water.
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Nothing is seen. The guy who is next to you will
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say, hey, what are you doing? Since three years you're pouring
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water, nothing is happening. And he in this three years he
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must have ripped 6 or 8 crops the other guy, but when it
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started sprouting after three years, bang, it starts growing.
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And how much does it grow? 91 centimetres a day, that's a
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lot. It's about four or five inches
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everyone hour and then shoots up.
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It grows the maximum height in 60 or 70 days.
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It doesn't grow after that, but doesn't become mature.
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It takes three to five years for the bamboo to mature, and then
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you cut it and use it. Christian life is more closer to
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sowing bamboo than sowing wheat. I'm not saying sowing wheat is
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wrong. I'm not going to sow bamboo.
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The point I'm trying to make is it requires patience and you
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have to do things consistently. You cannot give up on people.
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You cannot help the man. He did not benefit from it.
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I don't want to help him anymore.
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It is possible we can become negative after trying for a
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while, but what we have to do is do it consistently.
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That is, do it all the time until you see the result you
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want to see. Some relationships are like
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that. They take long, hard work.
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But we will see the fruit if we do it consistently with faith in
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the one who is going to change the situation.
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We had to have the faith in God who is going to change the
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situation. And then Paul talks about many
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other things, very short, short things.
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I want to conclude it with one major idea in verse 14 in verse
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14 says May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus
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Christ through which the world has been crucified to me, I to
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the world. Sometimes we read and we think
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we understand it, but sometimes you have to read again and again
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until the light comes. So here, what is he trying to
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say? Here is Paul is saying, when I
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look at my my life, I look at myself crucified with Christ,
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that cross that Jesus went on, my life is put there and when
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the world is competing with me, the world wants to get into me.
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When the worldly disaster wanted to conquer me, I see at the same
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cross and see the world is on. The cross is crucified to me.
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Am I communicating here? The same cross, the same cross
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you are crucified to the world and the same cross the world is
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crucified to you. Basically it simply means the
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world has no power over you and me.
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Lust of the flesh, lust of eyes, pride of life has no power over
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us because it is dealt with the on the cross already.
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It is nothing new he's writing. He already talked about in
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Galatians 220 where he says I don't live any longer, but I
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live not, not I which Christ Jesus who lives in me and reigns
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in me. That means his contribution, he
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says, is 0. I am a zero.
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I want Christ to live in me, through me.
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I desire things because Christ wants to desire.
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I do things because Christ wants to do those things.
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I say things because Christ wants to say those things.
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And Jesus himself modeled it. And he said the words I speak
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are not my words, they are my Father's words.
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The things that I do, I do because I see my Father doing.
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That is the pattern for each Christian to live.
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And he says because of his preaching the gospel, people are
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persecuting him and they're trying to distort his ministry.
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He they wanted to take away people back to the Jewish way of
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lifestyle, circumcision and all kinds of things.
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And he was fighting it tooth and nail.
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And then he says because of the persecutions that were coming
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against him, he says, don't persecute me anymore.
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Now the circumcision, he says, OK, where is it?
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Oh yeah, in verse 12, those who want to make a good impression
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outwardly are trying to compel it to be circumcised.
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The only reason they do is to avoid being persecuted for the
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cross of Christ. Oh, not that I bear the marks of
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Christ, he says. Can somebody help me quickly?
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Oh yeah, verse 17 I didn't highlight it.
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That's why finally let no one Causeway me trouble, for I bear
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on my body the marks of Jesus. Everybody say mark, you know
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this marking is nothing new. You see in the book of Exodus,
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they mark their houses with the blood of Passover lamp.
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They put the blood on top, on the on the sides.
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When the Angel of death passed through and saw the blood, no
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one died in that house because they put the blood on it.
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So it is something that you do. You have to believe that
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instruction, put that blood and the Angel of death passes over
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it. It's very simple.
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And you see again in the book of Ezekiel, God gives him the in
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the in the vision he is telling 1 Angel to go and destroy the
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people, punish them. And he says beginning from the
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House of God, judgment begins where House of God the church
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will be. The beginning of judgment begins
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with the church. But he said don't do it until
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there is another Angel who is going around putting a mark on
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their forests of the people. And if you see the mark, don't
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touch them, do not touch them. You know what is the mark that
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is talked about? The mark talked about is in the
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book of physically he says put Tau.
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Tau is the last alphabet of Hebrew alphabet Tau.
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And how does it look like a cross?
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In our logo we have a cross which is like a wood fire
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burning wood is basically stands for the Tau.
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Just you know, Omega logo Tau. So Tau is like a cross.
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So the Angel puts Tau on the forehead so that the destroying
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Angel will not touch those people who are marked in the New
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Testament. You see, when you believe in
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Jesus Christ, you are marked by the Holy Spirit which come comes
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into your life. How are you marked now with Holy
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Spirit? So that mark on your forehead is
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symbolic of the mark of the Holy Spirit that's in your heart.
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If you have the Holy Spirit, you are saved.
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You don't have the Holy Spirit, you are not saved.
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There is no two ways of talking about it.
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You need everybody who believes in Jesus will receive the Holy
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Spirit. And if there is no symptom of
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the Holy Spirit living in you, we had to question whether you
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really repented and believed and received Jesus.
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If the Holy Spirit is there, you will not sow in the wrong place.
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You will not do the wrong stuff. And then in the Book of
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Revelation you see again the mark being put on the forests of
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people, and the devil does the same thing.
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Devil also puts the mark on the people's forehead or on the
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hand. And you see in the Book of
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Revelation that Angel was given instruction.
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If you see the mark of the beast on their forests or on their
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hand, they will be thrown into the lake of fire.
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But if you have the mark of God, the bread of Jesus upon your for
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it, and if His name is written upon your for it, the name of
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His Father, there is Father of Father of Jesus Christ, there is
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the Father God. His name will be written, and
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the name of Jesus will be written on your forehead.
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And when the Angel of destruction comes, the judgment
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comes, He looks at the name of the Father and the Son on your
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forehead, and you are spared from being thrown into the lake
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of fire. There are only two kinds of
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marks in the world. You will be marked by God or by
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Satan. You will be marked either by God
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or by Satan. You are marked by God.
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You have eternal life. You will go to heaven.
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You will reign with Christ, you will live in his Kingdom.
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If you are marked by Satan, you will be thrown into the lake of
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fire. But what is Paul saying is I
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have marks on my body for suffering for Jesus, for
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suffering for Jesus. He gives a big list of all the
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suffering he has gone through. I think in Second Corinthians
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somewhere he writes a long list of what he has gone through.
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Shipwreck and being beaten 3 * 39 lashes.
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And once he was considered dead, they thought he's dead and they
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left his body and go away. And the disciples gathered
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around him. And when they gather around him
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with this man sits up and he goes to the next town to preach
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the gospel next day. That is that passage has always
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puzzled me where he they stoned him, they dragged his body, they
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dragged his bodies. You, you, you stone him inside
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the city and they don't want him to die in the city.
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Why? If the he dies in the city, they
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are these Jewish people think that they are going to be cursed
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because of the death of this man.
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So they don't want him to die in the city.
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They don't want the curse that comes by the death.
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So they drag his body. I'm sure his legs would have
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been worn out, some flesh gone out and he's dumped outside.
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The guys must have come and put hand near his nose.
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Look at his chest, is it going up and down?
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No, I think he's dead 100%. Put the hand near the nose.
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Any breath, no breath, I think he's dead.
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So they leave the body and walk away, and the disciples come
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around, stand around him, and he gets up.
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You know, what is the desire of Paul?
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Paul says that I may know Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that I may
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know his suffering, that I may partake in his suffering, that I
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may rise up with him as he rose up from the dead.
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I may partake in the resurrection of Jesus.
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Did he experience it on that day?
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I believe he did. He came back from, they killed
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him in one second. He stood up on the same place,
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and next day he walked to another city to preach the
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gospel. Again.
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He carries the marks. I'm telling you, we have the
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mark of being born again. I believe in Jesus.
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I confess my sin. God puts the mark.
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I have a seat reserved in heaven.
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Angels of God will come and take me in a special flight when I
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die. That's not the point.
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The point is when you are sold out to God, you are willing to
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bear the marks on your body for Christ, suffering for Christ,
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suffering for the gospel. And I tell you, this is going to
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come more in these end times. We already have stepped into the
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end times. We are in the end times.
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Christ is coming back very soon, but my, my, all that I am trying
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to say is what are we sowing and where are we sowing and what are
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we going to reap? This question we need to decide
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today. If you decide today the answer
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to that question, you will not be the same.
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You will not be the same. What are you sowing?
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Where are you sowing? What are you going to reap?
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Have you been marked by the Holy Spirit?
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Have been marked by God? I am not using the word mocked.
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It is marked, marked by God because if you are marked by
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God, you will have a place in heaven, in his Kingdom.
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You are going to reign with Christ.
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It always puzzles me, if everybody is going to reign, who
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are they going to reign over? I have no answer to that
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question. But we all will reign with
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Christ. It all begins with faith.
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I'm telling you guys, there's no other way we can ever know it.
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In my own life, I just don't know why I believe in Jesus.
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I was an idolator, going to temples, going around and
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worshipping temples. But I heard about Jesus Christ,
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I said this makes sense to me and I wanted to believe in
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Jesus. And people came and asked me,
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what do you not find in our books, in the Hindu books that
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you want to believe in Jesus and believe in the Bible?
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I didn't have an answer at that time.
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It took me years to have an answer to that question.
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But I believed against all challenges.
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People look down on me sometimes if they, if I eat in a plate in
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their house, they will put that plate away because it is defiled
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by a Christian eating in the plate.
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And if they gave me water, they would give me a different cup.
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I have gone through it, but I'm glad I've gone through it.
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But I thank the Holy Spirit who has given me the ability not to
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look at the insult, not to look at being put down, but to keep
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believing in Jesus. And in his right time, He
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visited me, He gave me he, he made me hear his voice, He spoke
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to me, He spoke to me. But that is later.
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First you believe and then comes the proof.
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It's never the other way around. You don't go to God and
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challenge him and say, hey, are you there?
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I want you to appear here in front of me.
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Now he's not going to do it. Whole of the book of the Bible,
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it never tries to prove God. It assumes God exists and the
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only way you can know him is believing that he exists.
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He exists and he is the unmoved mover.
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He is the beginning without being created.
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He doesn't belong to this category at all.
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People ask the question, oh who? Who created God?
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God doesn't need to be created because he is not a thing.
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He is a different class. He is a spirit, eternal spirit
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who has neither beginning or end.
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There are two different words. Yesterday I was thinking about
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it. One is the word eternal and the
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other word is eternity. We will live into eternity means
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we have a beginning but no ending.
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But God is eternal, He neither has beginning nor ending.
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Are we together? So for us to have eternal life,
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we have a beginning, but God has no beginning, He is eternal, He
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has no beginning, no ending. That one big straight line.
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The creation has a beginning and creation of that ending.
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This earth will disappear, it will be recreated, it will be
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made new, and the new heavenly Jerusalem is going to come down
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from heaven, and we belong to that heavenly Jerusalem.
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That's what book Our Revelation talks about.
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So this world is the passage through which you go through to
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enter into that heavenly Jerusalem.
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He says this is not where you are going to get stuck up.
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You are going to end up in a different world created by God,
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by his power. But the way to that place is
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faith. Where to the eternal life is
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faith. Now and forever Shall we pray?
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Father God, we thank you again. You are the eternal one.
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No beginning, no ending. But we thank you for making us
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with a beginning and a no ending.
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This resurrection. What we sow now is going to what
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we are going to reap is what we sow.
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And those people who sow into wickedness will reap judgment
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and destruction, and we are all going to be raised with a
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heavenly body. Those who are going to be saved
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and reigned with Christ, and those who are going to go to
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eternal Hellfire, both will be raised with the supernatural
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body. But one will be in bliss, but
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other one will be in torment. So in the name of Jesus, we
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thank you for all the things that you're teaching us.
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We thank you for you have ordained everything, and thank
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you for the grace that you marked us with that mark on our
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forehead. You put that mark of cross upon
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our forehead, and you have put the bread of us and Jesus upon
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us, and you have put the Holy Spirit in us to mark us as
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belonging to you. We praise you with all our heart
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because of all that you have done for us.
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We cannot do any other things you have done.
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We receive it by faith as a gift from your hand.
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We love you Jesus, we love your Father, we love you Holy Spirit.
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And now I pray for some people here of my father who are yet to
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make a decision. In the name of Jesus, I bind the
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power of state and upon the lives of people who are yet to
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be marked by the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus I pray.
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Now, Oh my God, I pray may angels be released to minister
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to the people and remove what they should be removed, plant
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what they should be planted and write it upon their forests.
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That mark you put it now in Jesus mighty name I am calling
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upon you. I am asking you, do you visit
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us? Touch us and those who believe
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in you. I pray, Father, that they may
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know that they're sowing into the right field, the right seed,
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and let them do it generously and let them do consistently
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with patience because the crop is coming, because the reward is
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coming. And you do not fail.
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And we praise you. You are a God who rewards
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faithfulness. You are a God who rewards faith.
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You are a God who rewards. Oh my God, we worship, we honor
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you. Bless every child here who has
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committed their life to you and are sowing by faith.
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May the reap also by faith to the glory of your name.
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Thank you again for speaking to us in Jesus mighty name.
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We have asked. And everybody says Amen, Amen.
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