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Difference between true and false Gospel Galatians 1 vs 6-10
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So we continue our study with the Galatians Chapter 1 and
Galatians 1 chapter mention
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hope, I hope I'm not chasing the rabbit horse, but it's great
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study. It is just I never done this
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kind of study before. So praise God for the
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revelation. So we talked about how people
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were deserting the gospel, how they were exchanging for a
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different kind of a gospel. And yeah, so this week we see
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how the gospel is very unique. Everybody say unique.
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It is not only unique, it is there's no parallel to it,
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nothing similar to it. It is just so distinct, so
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peculiar and so outstanding. I don't know how to, I don't
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have words to describe it. It's just the gospel and nothing
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can compare to it and if we dilute it then we are going to
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be under a great curse of God. Basically that's what this
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Scripture is talking about. South here we see in verse 6, I
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am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the One who
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called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a
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different gospel. So what is happening here is the
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people are turning to a different gospel.
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So what is a different gospel? What is the real gospel?
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That's what we need to understand.
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So here he is astonished. So why he is astonished?
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Was there anyone else who was astonished?
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In the Scripture we see Jesus himself was astonished.
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Where? When He went to Nazareth, there
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he could not perform any miracles, just except laying
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hands on some and heal some people.
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And he was astonished at their unbelief.
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He was astonished at their unbelief.
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Was he astonished at the faith and belief?
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Yes, he did. When the centurion came and
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said, don't come to my home. You just say the word.
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That's enough. My surrounding will be healed.
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And he was astonished again, amazed that such kind of faith
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is available in a a Gentile man rather than there's no, nobody
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in the whole of Israel. There's no one in the whole of
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Israel who have this kind of a faith.
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So that kind of a faith is what Jesus is looking for this
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morning in our hearts. That kind of faith is what is
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looking into your heart. Yes, that kind of faith is
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there. He's going to do something in
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your life. Something is going to happen.
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See, preaching is not just some information transfer from me to
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you. No, I believe the preaching has
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to be. It is the Spirit of God who is
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inspiring and communicating and imparting life to the listeners
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that is preaching. So here we see that he was
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astonished and the faith of the man, and it was the same thing
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with two other people, as if there was another lady who was a
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Cyraphoenician lady. And she goes on begging him for
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healing for the daughter. And he says no, no, I can't give
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this bread that belongs to children and toss it to the
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dogs. Dogs eat the crumbs from the
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table for such a statement as this.
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Go home, your daughter is healed.
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See, without the faith part, gospel makes no sense.
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The one way that gospel comes alive to people is by faith.
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You receive it. There's no other agency, there's
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no other method, there's no other truth by which that gospel
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is going to take root in your heart and impart life to you.
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It is by faith, not by works. So what was happening in
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Galatia, The churches of Galatia, they were listening to
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other a gospel, this other than this one.
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The gospel they heard was by faith in Jesus who died for them
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and to believe that he was crucified for their sin.
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And now they are deserting the gospel and they're going back to
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circumcision, they're going back to following the Jewish rites.
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And he said, no, no, no, no, you have to believe in Jesus.
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That's all, nothing more. That's the gospel.
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Anything you add to it, it is not the gospel anymore.
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It's not the gospel anymore. So now what is happening here is
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he was amazed. He was astonished.
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You know, this is having a reference to a story in the Old
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Testament. How quickly he was astonished
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that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you
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is gospel is when you change the gospel, you are actually walking
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away from the one who's calling you.
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You are walking away from the one God who loves you and died
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for you. You're walking away from him by
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twisting it. So that's the reason why he is
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so much astonished. But then this has a reference to
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Exodus chapter 32, verse 8. They have been quick to turn
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away from what I commanded them, and have made themselves an idle
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cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and
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sacrificed to it, and have said, these are your gods, Israel, who
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brought you up out of Egypt. How long did it take for them to
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turn away from the true God, God who spoke to them from the Mount
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Sinai? And the whole mountain was set
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on fire and nobody was allowed to go up.
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And they were quaking with fear when God himself spoke.
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And that fear just left in 40 days.
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When Moses went up to get the tablets, they said we don't know
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what happened to this man. We just don't know what happened
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to this Moses who brought us from Egypt until here.
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So they go to Aaron and say, make us gods that will go before
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us. And he said, OK, everybody take
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off a earring from your ears. So they took off the earring,
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they put it there, and you have more than a million adults
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there. So how much gold would have been
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collected? Just one earring, kilos and
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kilos of it. And he just melted it and shaved
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it into a calf. And he said, what did he say?
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He said to them like this, these are your gods, Israel, who
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brought you up out of Egypt, making one calf and saying
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you're your guards plural. He's applying plural crazy.
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And it is the same thing that Jeroboam did when he became king
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of the northern tribes. He didn't want them to go down
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to Judah anymore. So he makes 2 calves, golden
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calves, one at dawn, another at Vaishaba.
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And he says you don't have to go to Jerusalem anymore.
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I have made for you Golden crops, golden cops.
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I tell you everybody, I was just trying to see how many wrong
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cuts are there in the world. There are more than 1200 cuts
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which claim Bible as a source book, Bible as a source book.
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But what? What will happen to all the
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followers of the 1200 plus? May be 1500, whatever number.
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What will happen to all the followers of cuts?
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We will wait for it. I will tell you what's going to
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happen to them. I won't send you without telling
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it. But there are so many people who
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are quick to twist the gospel according to their own likes,
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according to their own thinking, according to their own emotional
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thing. We cannot afford to do it.
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Gospel is simple and we should not twist it.
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It is straightforward that God sold out the world, that he gave
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his only begotten Son, that who, Sir, believes in him, shall not
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perish but have eternal life. That's the gospel.
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So here we see that they were making like they did the golden
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God, so quickly forgetting the mighty presence of God, voice of
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God, quaking fire, smoke, everything is forgotten in just
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one day. After 40 days, I said no, we
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will make our own godson. Go go ahead.
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You want to take position of the land.
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You cannot do it. That land will you'll never
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possess it if you deviate from the way God prescribes.
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The way God prescribes is the way you follow for your healing
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is the way you follow for your salvation is the way for you to
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prosper is the way you follow for your protection and your
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guidance. There's no other way except
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Jesus himself. That's why he said I am the way,
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the truth and the life you cannot find anywhere else.
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Cool. So disserting the one who called
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you so again, disserting is the Greek word is metathete main.
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Where is that metastrepho metathete main?
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Yeah, you are deserting metathete me in Greek, deserting
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pictures. A soldier abandoning post.
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It is not a minor mistake. Its a volitional or a conscious
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shift of allegiance. You are you are following.
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You are a soldier, you are following a commander.
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And when you leave the post you don't do your duty and walk
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away. You are shifting your allegiance
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to someone else. There are no middle ground.
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Either you love Jesus, you follow Jesus, or you love the
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world and the devil and follow the devil and the world.
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There's no middle ground. Many Christians think there is a
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middle ground, and that is the bad news.
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I want to give you to those people.
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There's no middle ground either in God's camp or in the devil's
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camp. No middle ground.
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You cannot please the world and also please God at the same
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time. That's that's how it is.
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And then walking away from the gospel truth is walking away
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from Christ himself. When you turn away from the
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gospel, you're turning away from Christ.
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So we have to make sure we are right, right, right there in
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that place. And then what are they doing is
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they are disserting the one who called you.
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The initiative of your salvation is in gospel.
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He calls you John chapter 15. He says I have chosen you.
John 15 chapter mention
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You did not choose me. The right to call you is with
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Him, but the responsibility lies with you to respond.
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He calls you, but you respond. So if you don't respond, then
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that call goes waste. That's the reason why many are
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called but few are chosen. When his call and your volition
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coincide and interact, and that's when the conversion
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happens, the gospel is reached to the whole world.
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But not everybody believes. You've got only a handful of
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people who are going to believe, and those are the people who are
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going to be safe, the one who called you by the grace of
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Christ. See, the grace is the ground.
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Christ is the giver. Any teaching that adds human
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effort diminishes grace. No, there's no other way.
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You cannot get circumcised. You cannot see one thing as I
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was thinking about, you know, that came powerfully.
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I will, I will very soon going to tell you is that we cannot
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change the gospel. If we do it, we are going to
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lose everything. So here Paul later reminds them,
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if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for
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nothing. Galatians 221.
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If it is not, if it is through the law, He died for nothing.
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So now what? What I want to focus on is one
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more word that we see here in verse 7, which is really no
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gospel at all. So now I want you to focus on
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verse six and seven. In verse 6 you see the grace of
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Christ are turning to a different gospel, the word, the
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word in Greek you have got two different words for different.
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One is hetero, hetero is other, another are different and the
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another is aloes. So I have got 2 tissues here.
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So if I want to say where is the other tissue which is like the
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one that I am holding is aloes but if I am holding something
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different where is the other thing hetero there?
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There is nothing common there. So what Paul was trying to say
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here is what he's trying to say here is that the gospel they are
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talking about is a hetero gospel.
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That's different in nature, different.
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It doesn't share anything in common with the true gospel that
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is a hetero gospel. But what what he's trying to say
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is that we need to have the arrows kind of a gospel.
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That is, you have to agree with the original gospel.
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You cannot change it. So their faith is hetero.
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You're turning to a different gospel, which is really no
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gospel at all. My NIV says no gospel at all,
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but it is some other versions. They say the other gospel, the
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another gospel, yeah, another gospel.
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So we really no gospel at all. So we need to know how this
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gospel changes and when it becomes the other gospel that's
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not accepted by God, we need to know it.
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But before that he says here, evidently some people are
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throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel
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of Christ. What are they trying to do?
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They are trying to do is they are trying to throw you into
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confusion. They were trying to confuse you,
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trying to destabilize you to it is like you know you want to go
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this way to Lincoln. They change your mind, they
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confuse you. You end up going to Christ this
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side to city center. That is how they are trying to
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confuse you, changing your destination.
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They are confusing you to change your destination where you are
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bound to go. That's what they are trying to
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change and that's what he's trying to say, confusion.
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They are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
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The word used for pervert is the metastrepho.
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Now this word is what I got totally engaged with.
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Two days I was stuck on that word metastrepho.
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What exactly it says is metastaphor.
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This verb portrays a decisive change of condition or
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orientation, whether physical, moral, or emotional.
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It is not a mild adjustment, but a reversal so marked that the
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final state is recognizably different from the first.
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Pervert is you begin with something nice and then you
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crush it. Like let's say this is very nice
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tissue and then you end up with something completely crumpled.
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You know, it's completely different.
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They are not the same product. They are not the same product
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anymore. It's so different.
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So that is what he is trying to say.
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But now the same word, pervert, metastaphor is a word used for
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describing a change in the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
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Everybody says change in priesthood of Jesus.
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Now what? What am I trying to say here?
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This is if you catch it, I believe it will do something in
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your life to change your spiritual life, to change your
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thinking, to put you in a different sphere, to walk with
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God in power. It is going to happen.
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Why? Because this world we need to
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understand in its fullness. We think of Aaron, the high
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priest, you know, he was given a robe or he was given a dress
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made with gold, silver, precious stones, and all is the most
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glorious thing anybody can wear. Why?
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God told Moses, I want to put honor on him.
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I want to put honor on him. So make his robe like this.
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And when that man is wearing that robe, he becomes a high
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priest, and that high has a great responsibility of
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mediating between God and man. Go once a year into the Holy of
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Holies to carry the blood and sprinkle on the mercy seat.
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Cannot go without the incense in his hand.
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One hand he has got this big, big thing that is hanging on
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three golden chains and there's fire in it.
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And you put incense on it and the smoke comes.
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And that smoke is what is between the high priest and the
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Shekinah glory on the on the ark of God.
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If he looks at the Shekinah glory, he's going to fall dead.
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So he preserves himself by putting this incense that stands
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for worship, the stands for praise, the stands for
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Thanksgiving. And when we go to God, we need
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to be the same way. Go to God with praise, worship
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and Thanksgiving. Then you encounter the second of
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glory. And then when the time came for
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him to die, what did Moses do? He said, let's go up the
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mountain. You know, sometimes some bosses,
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they say, let's go to the for a walk in the car park.
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What does it mean? He's going to lose the job?
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So he says to Aaron, let's go for a walk up the mountain.
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It simply means you're going to die.
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And he took his son. God is ready.
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And there he took off his clothes and put them on the sun.
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And he got he died and he was buried there.
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No one knows where Aaron was buried.
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Best people want to commit idolatry by going to the two.
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No one knows where he is buried. So now that robe is taken and
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put on him. God's methods keep changing even
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in the Old Testament. I want you to capture this.
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It is no longer connected with the 12 tribes of Israel.
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It is no longer coming with 12 tribes of Israel.
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If it was connected to 12 tribes of Israel, God would have chosen
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everybody of the 12 disciples from each tribe.
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But look at them, we don't even know which tribe they belong to.
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We are only making a wild guess because they were Galileans and
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the Galilee is populated or repopulated by Jabutar Nazar by
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carrying people from southern Joda and put them in Galilee
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area. So probably they think they
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belong to Judah. Or they belong to God or
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Goddess, the tribe God or Gibrun or some other tribe.
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Very few had stranded people. But does it belong to Levi?
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No, he chose people who were Israelites but not particularly
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belong to the 12 tribes. Even if you have other kind of a
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logic, you have a Simon and Andrew brothers and you got John
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and James. They are brothers who are
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related to them. So they are one family, four
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people. So where are the 12 tribes?
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Is not there at all. What am I trying to say?
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Now? Listen carefully.
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God chooses another man in the Old Testament, Elijah.
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Elijah is simply known as a Tishbite.
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He is from a place called Tishbite.
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So that's all you know about him, nothing more.
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Because what tribe he belongs to no one knows.
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And you have to go back to Tishbay, where is it?
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And recall that area allotted by Joshua to so and so tribe.
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So he may belong to that tribe. And then you come to his, the
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successor Elisha and Elisha, when he was chosen by God.
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That's what it is. First.
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First you should be chosen by God.
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Then he speaks to Elijah. Go and make that man your
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decision because he's going to take over your place.
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And he goes and finds Elijah and throws a robe on him, his
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Mandela upon him, and he comes running after him.
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Please let me say goodbye. And then you know all the story.
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You know what I am trying to hear is it is shifted from the
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tribe of Levi. It shifted from the tribe of
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Jodha to another tribe which is not known.
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And God had chosen Elijah so powerfully.
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He ministered, He stopped the rain from falling, he stopped,
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he again prayed and again in rain He raised the dead ladies,
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dead boy of the lady when he was dead, and he caused food to
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multiply for months and months together.
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Many miracles he did, which are representing Jesus himself.
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And he was caught up in chariot sapphire without seeing death,
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which is again standing for the resurrection of Jesus.
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But he shifted from the tribe that's supposed to carry or
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treasure the call of God, from the tribe of Levi, from the
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tribe of Judah is gone to somebody else.
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Elisha, same thing. You only know his fathers name
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and from where he is nothing more than that.
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Now you again come back to Jesus himself.
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The 12 disciples don't belong to all the 12 tribes.
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The glorious court, you call it. The mantle that Aaron had was
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transferred to his son. Just an ordinary mantle that
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belonged to Elijah was put on Elijah so that he can move in
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the double portion of the anointing that he had.
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Now when Jesus turn, turn came, he was disrobed for you on the
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cross. He became naked, hanging on the
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cross for you so that you may be clothed and I may be clothed.
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Now this is the revelation. When there is a change in the
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priesthood, the original thing is completely changed to
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something new, different. It is heterog, not alloy allos.
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It is hetero, So Jesus himself, he was exposed on the cross so
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that you may receive his robe that you see him again in the in
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the Book of Revelation. Now he's glorious.
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His head and hair ice like grazing fire, face burn on
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midday sun. You know his clothes from the
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neck to the floor. You hardly see his feet, which
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are like burnished bronze. But I tell you the secret, the
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secret to getting the rope is becoming like Ruth, who goes to
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boils and says spread your government on me, spread your
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government on me. We are not worthy.
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We are not worthy. She was not belonging to the
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tribe of Israel at all. No tribe of Israel she belonged
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to, but yet she dared to go to boys and say, please spread your
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comment on me. We have to come by faith to this
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Jesus. And He is willing to put the
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robe on you. And that robe is a robe of
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power. That robe is a power of robe of
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power. It is going to make you mightier
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than Elisha. It is going to make you mightier
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than Elisha, I tell you. I don't know whether Paul had
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all these thoughts when he wrote this episode, but I when I
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looked at the word change pervert, they were doing it with
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a negative connotation. The perversion was negative.
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It was not a gospel at all. But when I looked at it, the
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same word used elsewhere in the book of Hebrews, that when
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there's a change of priesthood, the rule changes.
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The rule changes, and the rule is by faith.
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You can come to this Jesus, the glorious resurrected one who
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overcame Sydney and Satan, who trampled down snakes talking all
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of our enemy, who has trampled down Prince Charity of Roose
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attackers who made the Republic spected up on the cross, who has
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respoiled them, who has taken away the weapons of the weapons
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the enemy possessed so that you can be a victor, not a victim in
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his name. The rule changes, but that's
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open by faith. It is open by faith.
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Do you want this rope? So people are perverting the
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gospel. They are taking away the power
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in the gospel. This power gospel is not
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something. Oh, OK.
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Yeah. See that you've been drinking.
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Oh, you've been living in a very bad moral way, Jesus, that for
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you. Confess your sin.
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Ask him to come into your life. Father, I repent.
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Please come into my hand. Wash me in your blood.
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Now you are a Sinner. Now you are a child of God.
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Go. It's not not gospel.
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It's gospel, but there is no power in it.
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There is no power in it. So you either have a gospel full
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of power or you get a gospel without power.
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Now people who change the gospel, different kinds of
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things they do, either they meddle with the tree, they say
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God is not three persons. So you have got a Unitarian
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Pentecostalism. So one has Pentecostal Jesus is
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God the Father, Jesus is the Holy Spirit.
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Wrong. And you have the later essence.
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They have the Bible, King James Version, no other King James
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worship, but they also have one more book of Mormons which is
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mediated by an Angel. That's what they claim.
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What did Paul say? Even if an Angel should come and
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preach a gospel other than the one I have preached to you,
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anathema, anathema, and you have all witnesses.
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They say, oh, we don't believe in Trinity.
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Jesus is not equal to God. He is less than God.
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Where will all these people go? 1200 plus cuts and their
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followers. Where will they go?
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Anathema. What is anathema?
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Ask me what is anathema? Anathema is a Greek word which
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says set aside for destruction. It is like the story of Aiken
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when he desired the robe of Babylon, when he coveted the
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gold bar, and when he coveted the silver, he stole it.
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And he hid under the tent, in his heart, in his tent, and he
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became anathema, set aside for destruction.
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So they stoned him with stones, him and the family and
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everything that belonged to him, and they burned him as well.
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I don't know how they did both, but the word says they stoned
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him and burnt. So where will they go?
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If you pervert the gospel, what is the end?
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Another destruction marked for destruction, set aside for
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destruction. That is why in the Old Testament
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you have this concept of setting aside for destruction where King
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Saul was stored. Don't spray the Amalekites, not
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even the animals. You must kill the sheep, the
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goats, and you have to shield. Kill the oxen and the buffaloes
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and camels and every animal. Women, men, children.
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That looks very harsh, isn't it? Why did God set aside Americans
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for destruction like that? Because they were into accord
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and they had this ability to shapeshift.
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Let me say man can become like a sheep, a man can become like a
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camel, or man can become something like an animal, like a
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dog. And you say, oh its only a dog
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and you leave him. The American is going to be
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spared. That's why he said no, you will
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not spare. But yet when Saul, when Samuel
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came, Saul had kept the sheep and goats and he said, what are
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these? What is the breeding of sheep?
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I hear? What is the breeding of shepherd
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here? Almost there for sacrifice for
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God, huh? Does God delight in sacrifices?
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He delights more in obedience than in sacrifice.
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Because of this, your Kingdom is taken away from you and given to
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your knight. You can't play with God.
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You cannot play with the gospel. The purity of the gospel has to
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be upheld. We need to believe it with all
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our heart. We cannot dilute it.
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We cannot change it. We cannot twist it.
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We cannot do anything with it. You have to believe in the name
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of Jesus. And salvation is by no other
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name in the name of Jesus except the name of Jesus.
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He is not Paul passionate about the gospel.
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I want you to understand how Paul is passionate about
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preaching the gospel, a simple gospel that is going to change
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the world and how people are trying to twist it and change it
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to their own destruction. Don't let a Jehovah Witness come
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into your house. Don't give him water.
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Don't have him to see. I want to listen to you.
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Come sit here and teach me. And don't do that with the LDS.
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They don't they Saints any of the curse, because when you
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invite them into your home, you are parting in their sin.
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You are parting in their sin. So they are so throwing you to
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confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of rash.
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But even if we or an Angel from heaven should preach a gospel
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other than one will preach to you, let him be eternally
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condemned, anathema, eternally condemned, not just for
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temporary. So purity of doctrine is very
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important and purity of the gospel is very important.
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And I tell you, without it you have no business in this world
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that is so unique, so distinct, that life changing, life
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transforming, you cannot. You have nothing special.
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The gospel is the one given to you.
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Hold on to it, fight for it. Many people have sacrificed
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their life to maintain the purity of the gospel without
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Reformation. Martin Luther striking those
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bronze sheet or metal, whatever metal he has taken and wrote on
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his 95 theses and nailed it to the door in Wittenberg, I think
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in Germany. That brought the Reformation and
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he was persecuted. He had to flee for his life and
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the people who believed him, they had to run for their life
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because they protested against the Catholics.
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They are called Protestants and we are the inheritance of that
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group. Many have died.
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Many have died because they talked about the Trinity of God,
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God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Athanasius is one of them. And Athanasius was put into jail
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because he was preaching the Trinity of the Fathers and the
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Holy Spirit and some one of his friends who goes to the jail and
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says Athanasius, he said yeah, the whole world is against you.
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And Athanasius said go tell the whole world.
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Athanish is against the whole world.
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We need people of courage who will stand for the purity of the
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gospel and the doctrine. So as we have already said, so
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now I say again, if anybody is preaching to the gospel other
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than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned.
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A repetition a second time. Paul goes on to say a second
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time, why does he bother to say same thing a second time?
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Because its the most important thing he's telling.
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And verse 10, AM I now trying to win the approval of men or of
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God, or am I trying to please men?
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If I was still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of
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Christ. There's no two ways of living
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the gospel. Basically.
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That's what he's trying to say here.
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I am not trying to win the approval of men.
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I'm not looking for people to appreciate me.
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Well done, Paul, come and tap on his shoulder.
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Well done, well done. He's not looking for it at all.
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He's not trying to please people.
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That's not his goal. Paul had one goal is to preach
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the gospel and save the world, and we need to capture that
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hunger. That kind of an intention, that
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kind of a purpose that was in the mind of Paul should be our
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purpose for existence as well. There are no no two ways.
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There are no two ways. If I was still trying to please
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men, I would not be servant of Christ.
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You want to be servant of Christ.
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You will not please people. You please the people.
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You cannot be servant of Christ. It is so black and white.
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So now in Ephesians 414 this is happening.
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These people are all being tossed to and fro because of
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there is no depth. There is no depth to their
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faith. You look at Ephesians 414, then
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we all. We will no longer be immature
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like children. We won't be tossed and blown
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about by every wind of new teaching.
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We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with the
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lies so clever they sound like the truth.
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Anybody can come to you and try to give you arguments.
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Once I had an opportunity when I was working in a factory.
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The guy came and he came basically to ah, we had a
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container that needs to be a fumigated.
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So you lock it up and then you put, they will fill it with zinc
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sulfide gas South. That is any rat or any mouse or
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anything is inside it will be dead.
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Basically it is a precondition for exporting.
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When you send a container from New Zealand to any other country
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you need to fumigate it. So this guy who came to do it,
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as I was talking to him, he said he is a Jehovah Witness.
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I said you're right, right candid, let's talk.
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So I engaged you for about 30 minutes and he said I have never
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come up as a man like you. Can I have your number?
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I want to talk to you again. But he never contacted me again.
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But I said you are wrong. You, you cannot be a Jehovah
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Witness and still be believing in the right kind of a God that
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is taught by the Bible. So if we need to seize the
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opportunity, every opportunity, every single opportunity, you
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seize it and talk about Jesus. You know, one of the things that
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I feel bad about not going to work a secular job nowadays
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since last three years, he said I don't get to meet anybody at
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work. I used to talk to people.
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One guy I told him about, I told him about the gospel.
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One day he looked at me and said you need to stop this Ramana.
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He meant he doesn't want to hear anymore, otherwise he is going
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to tell the manager or somebody and say this guy is creating
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problem, you know. So I had to say I honour you,
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will I leave you there? But we need to be seizing every
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opportunity. I think about 3 weeks ago I went
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to the Barber ah. And then as I was talking to
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him, ah, I asked him, why are you changing your profession?
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You don't look very young at this age, why are you doing it?
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And he said, oh, because I have a divorce, I have a son.
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I left him a room. I came here, I want to do
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something new all together. So I chose this profession to
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become a father. I said, I have got something to
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say to you. And he asked me what?
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What do you do? I said, I'm a pastor and I pray
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for people and their life changes when we pray.
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Oh, that's good to hear. I said before I leave, I want to
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pray for you. So in the lounge, we was sitting
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there and took his hand and I prayed for him.
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I said receive Jesus into your heart.
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And I made him say I prayed that Sita's prayer.
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He prayed the prayer and he said it feels awesome.
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And I left the details. This is where we meet.
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Come. I said, I know where you are,
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I'm going to come, but it hasn't come in the last three weeks.
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What I'm trying to say here is this gospel is powerful.
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You need to seize every opportunity to share the gospel.
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I told you this morning two things.
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What God showed me #1 He showed me a bunch of youth standing in
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a circle. I want you to pray about it
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every day. 2 minutes. Father, increase the number of
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youth who will know you in Omega and bring many more people #2
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God showed that this building had also an upstairs in the
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vision, and people are just crammed everywhere up the stairs
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and they're all waiting for the doors to be open so they can
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come in. Pray.
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Father, we thank you for the move that of the Holy Spirit.
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You are going to send revival. Oh, there are going to be an
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empty number of people, unlimited number of people, more
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than this hall can contain. I thank you for the revival.
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I thank you for the revival. I thank you for the revival.
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As you keep thanking him, the holy story is going to send
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people to here. But will you be giving that
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little time If this gospel is unique for you, if this gospel
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is the only hope for Christchurch, if this gospel is
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the only hope for self in district, will you have this
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time to pray? Because when you pray, your
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partner in the Holy Spirit who wants to come and move
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powerfully, he wants to heal people without even laying hands
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upon them. But you need to have that
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passion for God. You have to love God because
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elsewhere in the scripture it says if you don't love Jesus.
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Anathema. Did you hear that voice anytime?
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Hmm, where is it? I have so many scriptures here.
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So Galatians 313 says Christ redeemed us from the curse of
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the law by becoming a curse for us.
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This is an important verse. He became a curse of the law by
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becoming a sorry to redeem us for the curse of the law by
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becoming a curse for us. That is the biggest curse anyone
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can ever carry is the curse that was put upon Jesus.
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So every witchcraft, every witchcraft, every demonic
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influence, every demonic position will be broken because
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he became a curse for you. Everything is less, everything
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is smaller than the curse that Jesus endured on the cross.
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So because you are crucified with him and he died as you, the
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demon cannot have any power over your life anymore.
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You tell the demon, when it comes to you, I have died in
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Christ. Who are you looking for?
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You are coming to the wrong address.
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You're coming to the wrong address.
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I am not the same person. That's how it is.
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Romans 9 Three For I could wish that I myself were cursed and
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cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own kinsmen,
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According to the flesh. Anathema talks about unspeakable
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laws which Paul is willing to go through for the sake of fellow
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Israelites. He says let me become anathema.
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Let me be cut off from God so that the fellow Israelites can
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be saved. That is the desire, that is the
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passion, that is the all consuming desire of the gospel
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that has taken hold of all of his heart where he says, let me
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be cut off from God, but let the Israelis be safe.
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But unfortunately, during his lifetime, he couldn't see much
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of much of that happened. He was set aside for preaching
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the gospel to the Gentiles, but everywhere he went first he
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spoke to the Jewish people first because that is what is driving
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him. The passion to see the Israel is
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saved. And then you've got one question
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12/3 Paul Contra the spirit spirit read confession.
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Jesus is Lord with the blast bust right?
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Jesus be cursed. What they're saying when they
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say Jesus is cursed, they say Jesus be anathema.
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But that's not what is going to happen.
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The the worst distinguish the regenerating work of the Holy
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Spirit from demonic influence and protects the church from
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contradictory spirituality. You say Jesus is Lord.
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Somebody's demon has a demon. You make them say Jesus is Lord.
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They may say 5-10 times without any problem, but the 11th time
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when they open their mouth, they cannot say it because by then
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the demon in them takes over their mouth and does not allow
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them to say Jesus is Lord. That's how you know whether
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there is a demon inside or not. Make them say Jesus is Lord.
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They once tried. No keep saying it, keep saying
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it, keep saying it until they cannot say it.
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Then you know that the demon is start up now and then you call
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it by name and say coffee. Top one question says 1622 if
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anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse, come
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Lord. That is of course one question.
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1622 If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse,
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Come Lord Jesus. So you have to love Jesus.
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You have no other option. It's not by force, but because
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of his love. He gave himself up for you so
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that you may love him and come out of the curse.
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Come out of the curse. So afterwards we are going to
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stand up and put under your foot every curse you've broken.
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You do it and believe it and walk out free from here because
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Jesus became a curse for you on the cross.
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Galatians 18 to 9, twice. Paul produces anathema on any
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who distort the gospel that we read it already.
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So that's what it is all about. Shall we pray?
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I encourage you to stand up. Thank you Jesus, thank you
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Jesus, now is your time. Every curse, you sample it down
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by the thought of the name of Jesus and disconnect it from
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your life because he became a curse on the cross.
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So you can be a blessing. You may inherit the blessings of
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Abraham, so you will become a blessing.
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So now it is your time to stand, to drown under your feet.
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Every curse coming down your father and mother, 10
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generations or 20 generations, it doesn't matter.
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All is coming down the family line.
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Trample it down. Whatever is coming from any
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witchcraft or spell or sorcery, trample it down.
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And every cusp you broken up on your life.
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And may the whole Spirit release you from every cusp and set you
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free this morning to the glory of His name.
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Take it by faith, call, open your mouth and say it.
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I distract myself from the curse of the law.
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I disturbance from every curse, every every curse coming down my
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father's side, mother's side, for any number of generations.
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I trample it down in the name of Jesus.
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I trample it down in the name of Jesus.
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I am being set free because Jesus became a curse on the on
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the cross. But I may receive his blessing.
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I am blessed this morning. I am blessed.
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Nobody can stop me from being blessed.
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I am blessed, I am blessed. I am blessed in Jesus.
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I am blessed in Jesus Christ. He became a curse so I can go
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free. I am free.
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I am free. I celebrate your freedom in the
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name of Jesus, Amen. Father, in the name of Jesus, we
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thank you for your work, and we thank you for your children who
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have made this confession and go and rampled down every dust
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under their feet that has to be broken.
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In the name of Jesus, be disconnected from the spirit,
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soul and body and let them begin a blessing in Christ Jesus and
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Lord of others. Spread your garment on them.
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You became naked and died upon the cross, that we may be closed
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with your righteousness. We are the righteousness of God.
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He is our redemption. Make the proclamation and be set
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free this morning in the name of Jesus.
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We thank you, for we are free. We are free, we are free.
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We thank you Jesus. You became a customer upon the
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cross so that we can be a blessing.
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We worship you, we honor you, we praise and we thank you.
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We exalt your name, you deserve our worship and pray we love you
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Jesus. We love you with all our heart.
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In Jesus mighty name we ask. Everybody says Amen, Amen.
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