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You Will Be With Me - Kingdom Salvation
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I've already mentioned this message to you last week, I
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think it was, but I could not get away from going to it in
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depth. And so I am, but I want to start
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off in Matthew chapter 15. We'll start in verse one.
Matthew 15 chapter mention
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It's very important say this with me, say I desire to know
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truth. God is truth, His Word is truth,
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and I receive his word and not another.
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Now this is important because it's very important for us to
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see God's Word as truth. All right, Jesus said I am not a
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the way, the truth and the life, no other way to the Father.
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So he's not a way, he's not a truth.
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It's not his truth, your truth. They're all truth.
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So just pick a truth and it's not his life and you can have
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life another way. No, there's only one way, only
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one. And again, that is not narrow
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minded, although that is narrow and I'm glad it's narrow because
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broad or wide is the gateway that leads to death and
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destruction, but narrow is the way that leads to life.
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So it's not narrow minded. What it is is God was so
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strategic. He's like, I know in a fallen
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state, there's going to seem like a lot of ways and it will
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be confusing. So you know what?
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I'm just going to show the way. Get rid of confusion.
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Get rid of confusion. This is it.
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This is the only way. So in essence, he said, let me
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just erase this idea. That way you do not have to go
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around trying to figure that. I'm just going to tell you the
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straight and narrow. It's easily identifiable.
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I mean, again, if you were to walk into a maze, the purpose of
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a maze is to get you to turn and you don't know where you're
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going. You have to figure it out.
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But if you went into a maze, let's say hypothetically you,
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you got to the entrance, you could go this way and you know
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there's going to be some curves. You can, you can't see the end.
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You could go this way. Same thing.
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But then if? You're standing at the end.
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You see the end, a straight path.
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Now which way you going to go? Unfortunately, some are turning
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to the right and some are turning to the left because they
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want the challenge. Well, there's no challenge to
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die. Amen.
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Wisdom says go straight through Hallelujah.
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Amen. And so that what you don't
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realize is those mazes never actually end where you are
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looking in the straight line. They keep you in the maze.
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I said they keep you in the maze.
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Well one of the ways that you get in a maze is based upon
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Matthew chapter 15 starting in verse one.
Matthew 15 chapter mention
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It says it this way. Matthew 15 verse one it says
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then some of the Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from
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Jerusalem and said, why do your disciples break the traditions
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of the elders? For they do not wash their hands
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when they eat bread. Keep this up.
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I need you to understand this verse.
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This is saying the majority of the religious world has accepted
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this statement as a truth and we all by a majority agree that
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this is how God functions. Yet you do something that we who
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all of us religious groups have agreed is a way is the way of
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God, and your disciples are not following it.
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In essence, Jesus was the minority and not the majority.
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And in our society there can be a majority of a belief that
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could not be a belief but be a tradition.
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He goes on to say, and he answered and said to them, why
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do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake
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of your tradition? In essence, I'm glad that you
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have a majority consensus that this is what God would do, but
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I'm here to tell you it's not what God's saying and this is
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the command. In essence, you worked so hard
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to try to get people in a position that's away from God's
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command, and I'm just here to show God's command.
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He goes on to say again, why do you transgress the commandment
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of God for the sake of your tradition?
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What I want to speak on today has developed a tradition and it
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is the IT is the foundational most elementary truth in
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Scripture. Yet by the majority, it really
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is a tradition and not a truth anymore.
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Hallelujah, Amen. Now I need my, you know, people
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who've been here a while that understand Scripture to help
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this process. Do not get caught up in just
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your eyes gazing, OK? Because when we say a few
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things, some people are going to be like, huh?
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And you need to go, Yep, all right, because you're wiser than
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this. But we're going to let the
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Scripture take care of itself. All right?
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This is not a personal opinion. In order for me, well, let me
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just jump into it. Let me just give you what it is.
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This foundational truth is that we, most religions are saying,
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most churches are saying, and that is you must be born again.
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That is true. The question is, is are you born
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again? That's the question.
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Because what they consider the first step, I'm going to show
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you it is the fifth step in salvation because there are four
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things that have to take place and it happens in the unseen
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before the scene of a confession that Jesus is Lord for you to be
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saved. Are you hearing me all right, So
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what we would consider the first step is actually the fifth step
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and that is you must confess Jesus has Lord over your life.
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Well, we know the Scripture, Romans chapter 10 verse 9 and
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10. It says this that if you confess
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with your mouth, Jesus says Lord and believe in your heart that
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God raised him from the dead, you will be four with a heart, a
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person what believes resulting in and with the mouth he
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confesses resulting in and man, we're out and about trying to
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tell people, look, you need to make Jesus word of your life.
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You need to get right. He's paid the price.
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It doesn't matter what you've done.
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Just just call on the name of Jesus.
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And we're trying to do this first before the other four are
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even in play. It goes on to say down in verse
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13. For whoever will call on the
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name of the Lord will be saved. Now the word Lord is not even a
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religious word. It means supreme and authority.
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It's actually a direct result of his kingship.
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Jesus is the King. He is the Lamb that was slain.
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He took on our sin so that we could take on His righteousness.
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He became everything, the payment that we needed in order
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to have life. Because again, God made man to
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have dominion and to rule like him.
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But Adam fell from dominion, not heaven.
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He lost a Kingdom, not a religion.
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And as a result of that, Jesus came to give back what Adam
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lost. Adam lost position.
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He lost sonship and position as a result of this.
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You have to acknowledge him as Lord.
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In essence, you bow because it's what you do to kings.
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And again, we are in the United States.
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We are in a constitutional Republic that democratically
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elects its officials. But in the Kingdom, there's no
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elections. We didn't vote Jesus in power.
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We can't vote Jesus out of power.
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Jesus was in power before Adam fell.
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He stayed in power after Adam fell.
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He became a man so he could get back what Adam released as a man
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so that man could have that back.
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He's king and he's the King of and the Lord of.
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Who are those kings we are? So as a result of that, when we
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say we're confessing Him as Lord, we're bowing our knee, our
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will, our intent to Him. Yet tradition tells us all we
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have to do is call on the name to be saved.
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But is that all we did? It better not have been.
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It goes on to tell us, though, if we had done this correctly.
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2nd Corinthians 517 let's us know therefore, if anyone is in
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Christ, if it's a conditional statement.
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So not everyone is in Christ. Even some who say they are in
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Christ may not be in Christ. OK.
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If therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature.
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The old things what passed away, Behold, new things have come.
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I do not live an old life in a new as a new creation.
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I do not live an old life as a new creation.
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So here's the problem. If step one to salvation is
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confessing Christ as Lord to be saved and that's all that's
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required, then what's the problem with Matthew Chapter 7
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verses 21 to 23? Matthew Chapter 7 verse 21 to
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23. Not everyone who says to me,
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Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but but but
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but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven will
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enter, many will say to me on that day.
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Lord, Lord, didn't we prophecy in your name and in your name
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cast out demons and in your name perform miracles?
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But and then I will declare Jesus is talking.
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I'm not talking. This is not my words.
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Jesus says, then I will declare to them, I never knew you depart
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from me, you who? What's that word practice?
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What's that word? What's that word?
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Lawlessness. Lawlessness is simply doing
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something contrary than what God is saying.
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That's lawlessness because if you're doing something other
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than what the King has said, it's called lawlessness.
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It's called lawlessness. But here's the thing, are you
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practicing it? We're not talking about
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accidentally, you know, every once in a while doing something
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God's not told you. And you get quick to say, Lord,
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forgive me, I should not have done that.
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I'm talking about your living life after a confession that
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Jesus is Lord. Like you never left the life you
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just said you didn't want to be a part of.
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And Jesus saying the mere confession that I am Lord does
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not save you alone. It is not just a word without
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being enforced from something in the unseen.
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There must be something in the unseen.
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And Romans chapter 10 does let us know.
Romans 10 chapter mention
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It gives us this insight. It says very specifically that
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for with the heart a person believes confession does not
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make, does not bring salvation. It must start first in an unseen
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place. And there are some things that
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must take place in the unseen for this confession to actually
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have roots so that you become a new creature and put away the
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old way for good. For good, I said for good.
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Amen. So we then can learn this from
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the day Jesus was crucified. Really, that day is the greatest
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example of salvation. And I'm not talking about
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Jesus's blood, I'm talking about the conversation that occurred
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at the cross. Because Romans does not go into
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the detail. It doesn't give us the detail.
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Even Acts on the day of Pentecost alludes to some things
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but doesn't give us the details. But Luke gives us the details of
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four steps that occur in the heart before a confession is
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made. Now I preached this in 7 minutes
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at Saint Paul AME. It deserved way more than 7
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minutes and you're going to get way more, at least 7 * 7 at
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least. Luke chapter 23 starting in
Luke 23 chapter mention
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verse 39 to 43. Let's bring the account.
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It says and one of the criminals hanging there was blaspheming
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him saying are you not the Christ?
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Meaning are you the king? Are you this king?
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Are you the anointed one that's supposed to come and establish
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his Kingdom that has no end. He goes on to say save yourself
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and us. Now let me just stop there for a
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moment. Please leave the scripture up.
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This criminal hates Christ but wants self preservation.
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This criminal has no desire to bow to him.
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Now he's saying, are you the Christ?
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Are you the one that's supposed to be called Lord?
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In essence, I'll believe it if you save yourself and me.
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Now this is no place where I want to bow to you.
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I'm not submitting myself. I just don't want to die.
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Here. Like this?
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Are you hearing me now? The reason this is a problem is
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because in today's society, especially in the Western
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church, is that we have glossed over the heart of man to get to
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a quick confession. And what we're doing is we're
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telling this criminal, I hate church.
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I don't want to go to church. I don't want to be under pastor
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or five fold ministry. I don't want to have to be told
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when to go and do this. And you know, I just want to go
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to heaven when I die. That's what the criminal on the
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other side sounds like. Well, you know what?
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It's not about going to church. You know what it's not about?
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I mean, you don't even know what you're talking about when you
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say that anyway. However, I mean, we're like,
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listen, all that matters is that you ask Jesus to come into your
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heart. That's what we're saying about
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the heart instead of you need to deal with your heart.
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Why? And why is this?
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Because listen, there's a way that seems right to a man, but
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in the end lies death. Guess what?
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Everyone outside the Kingdom is going to try to find a way
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that's right to be with God, yet still be able to do what they
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want to do. And God forbid you judge them on
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that account, so much so that the church has picked up this
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tradition. Well, now, you know, be careful.
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They said that they they're saved.
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OK, so I'll just take you at your word.
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Well, is that what the Bible tells us?
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Because Jesus said there's people said, Lord, Lord to me.
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But here's the problem. If I'm Lord, then they're going
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to do what I say. Because that's.
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A natural that is evidence that he's Lord.
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That's evidence that he's Lord. So there are many that are
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calling on the Christ for self preservation because what are we
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saying? There's nothing you can do to
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earn it, deserve it, right? You can't do it yourself, so
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just accept it that way. All that you're doing wrong
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right now doesn't matter because Jesus has already paid the
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price. And when someone says, well,
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I'll take that, you mean I can basically do really what I want
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to do anyway. Well, you know, you're not
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supposed to. But here's the thing.
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And what that seems right sounds good.
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But is that what the Scripture actually says?
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It is not what it says at all. So we've made coming into the
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Kingdom of God a tradition. So much so then I'm not even
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sure if those that are confessing are actually in
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because here's one of the things that we would say about religion
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that doesn't know Jesus at all, that they are being deceived and
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we can name religions right now. In fact, I know of one
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particular religion that I won't name.
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But a person was in it and they said I thought I was going to be
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with God when I died the whole time, only to find out they lied
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to me. Now if you take man's word for
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it only, it's going to be deceived.
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This is why we say don't take my word for it.
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You go into the scripture yourself to find it.
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So This is why I'm going to use a lot of scripture.
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Are you hearing me? Hallelujah.
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OK, verse 40. But the other answered, rebuking
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him. The other wasn't.
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You tell them I know how you feel.
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Oh, I know how you feel, brother.
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I can identify with you right now.
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But I can identify. I mean, we got sinners and
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carnal Christians running around all over the place identifying
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with one another and the hurts and pains.
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Instead of identifying with Christ, let's just identify with
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him. OK, let's go on he says.
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And the other answer rebuking him, saying, do you not even
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fear God since you are under the same sentence of condemnation
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Jesus? And we indeed are suffering
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justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for what we have
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done. But this man has done nothing
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wrong. And he was saying, Jesus,
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Remember Me when you come into your Kingdom.
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And Jesus said to that thief or criminal, truly I say to you
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today you shall be with me in paradise.
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How can you know that you know you will be with him?
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I'm telling you what I'm appreciate that you can know
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that you will be with him, no doubt, no anxiety, that on that
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great day or a day when the trumpet sounds, you would hear
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something like I just didn't know you because you were just
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doing what seemed right to you. Even with my scripture, the
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reason why Jesus rebukes the religious, He says you've
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developed a tradition around my word so that you could live
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life, which seems right to you. And we've got to be honest.
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When we come into this place right here, we have to ask
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ourselves, am I wanting to hear what allows me to do what I want
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to do? Or am I coming to hear what God
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wants to tell me? And it's probably going to
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require me to have to change my thinking in order to line up
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with what he's doing. I mean, the the amount of
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immediate pride that transitioned supposedly from the
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domain of darkness into the Kingdom of his beloved son that
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a person would recognize that they have a need of the blood of
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Jesus. And the minute they asked Jesus
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to be Lord, God forbid you tell them you're going to have to do
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something different now in this life.
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Oh, don't tell me. Don't judge me.
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What you've done is you've carried over what you think's
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going to be right now here, well over here in the domain of
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darkness. You're right was wrong.
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Hopefully you realize that. And for many, I don't even know
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if they realize. I believe that our society's
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running into the same problem. That we have in India.
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In India there are so many gods, so many gods, so many idols.
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Some are huge, some are small, they're everywhere.
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They are everywhere. And when you minister in India,
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if I minister that Jesus Christ died for them, rose from the
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grave, His blood has forgiven them of their sin.
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Who wants to receive Jesus for the forgiveness of sin?
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Everyone will raise their hand and run, no problem.
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Why? Because they'll just take a
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little figurine that you can find of a Jesus and purchase it
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and put it in their house and put Jesus with every other God.
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In essence, I'm covered. Look at all of them.
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How in the world can I not go? I am following them all.
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But what we have to say is you have to denounce the rest.
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You can't serve him and them. You can't keep them.
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We have a whole history book of of the nation of Israel.
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Keeping other gods and the Lord's like I'm a jealous God.
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I am the only God that's your man made, made-up gods.
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I mean, you think I'm going to sit here and bow down to your
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will that you've construed or made-up from that God that
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you're Sir Fine, you won't That God let him deliver you then.
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No, he's the only one. I mean, when did we lose
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emphatic, absolute truth? This is not social media
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opinion. It's not open for opinion.
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It's. Actually not open for debate,
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though you can debate it if you. Want so the first.
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Thing that you have to do step one in the heart that gets you
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to Step 5 to confess Christ as Lord is that you must fear God.
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If a person does not have the fear of God, it will not lead
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them to salvation. Say Amen.
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Anyway, Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verses 12 to 13.
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Ecclesiastes got this right. Look what it says.
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Although a Sinner does evil 100 times and many length lengthens
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his life, still I know that it will be well for those who fear
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God, who fear him openly. Verse 13 But it will not be well
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for the evil man, and he will not lengthen his days like a
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shadow, because he does not fear God.
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Now I could preach on the fear of God the rest of the year.
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And this is something that doesn't even resonate in most
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churches anymore is the fear of God.
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Do you understand you can stand in the presence?
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Of God without fear. And justify everything you're
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doing. That's what the one criminal
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was. Come on, take yourself down.
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Come on, stay. Look, I want to be.
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I don't want to die like this. You don't want to die like this.
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Look, let's just get off this cross.
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If you're the guy, get down. Let's go.
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Let's leave. Because again, I'm not following
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you. I just don't want to die.
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And there's many people that I just don't want to go to hell.
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I'm not following you. I just don't want to go to hell.
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I don't want to go to hell. I mean, who wants to go to the
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Lake of fire? Nobody in her right mind wants
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to go to the lake of fire and be tormented forever.
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So if Jesus is the way out, great, Let me take that, put it
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here in my pocket, and I'll live life the best way I can know.
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It. That on that day I'm gonna pull
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right out here in my pocket. Remember.
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Remember when I? Said come into my heart and save
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me and he's like, let me go check the records.
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The fear of the Lord. Look what it says.
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Also in Ecclesiastes 12, he ends this whole book this way.
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It's powerful. He says the conclusion when all
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has been heard is fear God and keep his commandments, because
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this applies to every person, for God will bring every act to
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judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or
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evil. And I hear it right now by the
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religious. Well, that's the old covenant.
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No, that's just. Written in our.
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History books it's not under old covenant.
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Those truths are applicable today for.
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Even in the, even in the new. Testament Peter says that Jesus
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Christ is the judge of the living and the dead.
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It says in Paul's writings to the Church, we all as believers
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will stand before the judgment seat.
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Of Christ. And those that have never called
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on his name, that have died without him as Lord, the grave
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will give up the dead, and they will go to the great white
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throne, where they will be judged, and then later cast into
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the Lake of fire. So this Ecclesiastes is a
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revelation beyond. This dispensation.
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Every person. That's why I have coined this
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pray phrase, because God is not making you do anything because
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God's not controlling you. God wants you to want him.
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He wants you to want to serve Him.
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He wants you to want life. He wants you to willfully
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submit, and that's why I say you can do.
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God will let you do whatever you want to do, but He will hold you
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accountable to whatever you do. And there's nothing you're doing
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he's not taking in account. Do you understand our modern day
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salvation is fellowship without responsibility?
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Everybody wants to have fellowship with the Lord, yet no
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responsibility to Him. And that's why they don't come
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to church anymore, why they want to fellowship with you without
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having to be in church. We want fellowship without
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accountability and responsibility.
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It's the new. Trend You can get what you want.
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You know what you get what you want.
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You can listen to whatever you want to listen to, whomever you
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want to listen to, whenever you want to listen to and it seems
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right to you. Don't tell me that I can't have
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a relationship with God. I'm not telling you.
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I'm telling you what he says. Where is the fear of the Lord?
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I said, Where is the fear of the Lord?
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Where is the fear of the Lord? Because if you don't have the
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fear of the Lord, then the next step can't even get in play,
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because those who do not have the fear of the Lord will
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continually do evil. Although in their eyes they
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think it's right. In fact, Ezekiel, I believe it
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was prophesied, he said now there's coming a day that what
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they call good, they'll call what's good according to God,
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evil, and they'll call what's evil according to God good.
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And we're in that land today. We're in that global set mindset
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right now. The second thing is that when
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you develop the fear of God, then the next thing #2 that the
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criminal can teach us. You're learning from prison
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today, really from the one about to be executed.
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All right, You, you, you have to.
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And once you get the fear of God, then you will know that you
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are guilty of deserve judgment, guilty, guilty as charged.
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Look, it's all through scripture.
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In fact, the Father is so holy that a human cannot stand in His
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presence. The only one who?
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Did was listen? Adam and Eve because they were
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without sin at a time. Even Moses was in his glory, but
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not in the same as Adam and Eve. Before the fall.
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Before the fall. If you can, go to church and
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feel no guilt for living wrong. Then you've moved to a place
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that's teaching tradition. Now I'll tell you what those.
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Traditional people will say after they leave that church
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where guilt starts to show up. You know what I felt?
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I felt condemned when I was there.
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Guilt condemns. You.
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Oh. Come on, put that passage back
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up with a criminal. What did that criminal say to
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them? To him?
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He said. Do you not fear God?
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He said. Do you not fear God since you
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are under the same sentence of condemnation?
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The Holy Spirit will convict. You of sin, it's one of his
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assignments to convict the world of their sin.
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When you are convicted of your sin, you know what a convict is.
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They've been convicted of a crime.
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And when the Holy Ghost comes through by the Spirit and says.
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How are you? What are you living right now?
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This is not justifiable in front of me.
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I this can't be in my presence. This is not in my family.
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And then all of a sudden you feel condemned because he
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convicts. You we don't even want to use
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these terms in the traditional salvation churches today because
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God forbid we offend you. You're already living an
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offended life. Your life is offensive to God.
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Your whole life is offensive to God because you're not living
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holy, because you don't get to pick how you get to live for
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him. You don't get the you do not get
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to declare to the King of kings and the Lord of Lords, the
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creator of heaven enough. This is how I'm going to live.
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And you're going to have to accept it.
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It doesn't work like that. But when the fear of God comes
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in your life, you're like man now I'm talking pre born again.
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You're like I'm filthy rags. This is horrible.
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I am guilty. This is not looking for.
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A way out. You understand many people are
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guilty. We see it in every.
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Sector of society today, do you understand we would need no refs
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if people self govern? And I even say this with anchor
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faith in a mural varsity league because if you bump a person on
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flag football too hard, you say you know what I was wrong.
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You should be able to self govern in righteousness.
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But what do we do? We want to get away with stuff
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so we can win. Even though we know.
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We're violating. Oh yeah, I'm preaching way
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better than you shout but that's OK.
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I thought I at least have 5 people stand up but that's fine.
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Yeah, I mean, we're to kick over sacred cows today.
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You understand, God's placing us the ability to rightly judge.
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I mean, if the game's on the line and the ref misses the call
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and you know. Many will walk away with a
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trophy and in their heart they know he missed it.
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Well, that's just comes with the game.
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But righteous and integrity is saying we lost.
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You were wrong. Come on, you all know it.
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Yeah, we all know it. It's theirs.
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How can we go out? How can we say we're champion
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knowing the only reason is because you missed the call?
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But it has seemed right to us. Well, you know, cuz it let me
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tell you. Let me tell you how this goes.
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Well, you know, they missed a couple on us too.
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Oh, you know, I'm preaching good now.
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You know I'm preaching better than you're shouting.
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That's why you will allow lawlessness to manifest and see
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it as righteous. Because it's.
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Only do me because of the way they treat it.
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But Jesus is like I'm righteous all the time. 100% of the time.
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Never. Not now.
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Unfortunately, Jesus is not calling your games.
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Because he would never miss the call.
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But he is calling your life, and he's never missing the call.
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Because Jesus goes beyond. Your words.
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He penetrates your heart inside you.
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He knows your motive. He knows why you slithered
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yourself down the aisle up to the altar to do a confession and
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cry and ask God to forgive you. Much like Esau.
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Only because you're a guy in church trying to get in the
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pants of a girl that you've been dating.
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And she says unless. You follow God and you're like,
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fine, so you slithered your way down.
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Same thing. People come into church to try
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to exploit the church in all kinds of ways, slithing yourself
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all over the place. You're doing this outward, but
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God's like, I know why you. Just did that.
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Oh, let me write that one down. Oh, I got that.
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Oh yeah, no, I got it. It's in the book.
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It's in the books. It's in the books, See, we don't
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think it's in the books, people. It's in the books.
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It's in the books. Even for believers, it's in the
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books. Now I'm not saying the books
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God's caring for true believers is going to cause you to go into
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the lake of fire, but I'm telling you it does hinder this
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reward system and that which is carrying over to an everlasting
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eternity beyond what we are currently living in.
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It's in the books. The only way you get it out of
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the books is by the blood. The blood is the great eraser.
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Whoa, I said. The blood is the great eraser,
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but you do not get the blood's erasing power by a word only.
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It must come with a heart deep conviction of I fear God.
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And anything I do outside of God, I'm guilty.
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I'm not making excuses here. I am.
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Come take me. I I willfully surrender.
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I mean, do you? Understand, if we could go into
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the spirit, I would venture to say, and I almost wish I would
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have had somebody. Now, Declan, you can help me.
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Come on, Declan, help me. Come on, Declan.
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Come on, Declan, Help me. Declan, won't you just come
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right here? Won't you, Alec, you're going to
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get born again, OK. All right, Come.
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Sit down now. Declan, I'm Jesus.
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I'm going to come to you. Come.
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I'm going to come to you because he comes to us.
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The Spirit comes to us and draws us to Jesus.
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OK? I'm going to come to you to
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bring you to the altar, but do whatever you can do to resist,
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OK? All right.
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Wow, that's a very strong foot. Now we would call this resisting
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arrest because when the POPO comes because you are guilty and
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they come to arrest you and then you resist the arrest.
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Problem is enough of them typically show up and you go to
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jail anyway. Are you hearing me?
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And I believe many in the spirits, this is what they look
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like when they come to give their lives to.
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Jesus, thank you Declan, you were amazing.
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We are resisting in the Spirit. In the outside we looking like
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calm cucumbers, but on the inside we're resisting arrest.
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We don't want our lives submitted, committed, where
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we're cleaning out the garbage, cleaning out the mess, cleaning
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out the bad relationships, cleaning out the formal way of
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living. No, we want to say, you better
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remember I didn't have to do nothing to get here, so sure
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don't require me to do something after.
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Hallelujah. Second Peter chapter 3, verse
2 Peter 3 chapter mention
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seven. I may have to take this into
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next week. It's getting so good.
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Second, Peter 37 says this, but by his word, the present
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heavens. And.
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Earth are being reserved for fire.
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Kept for the day of. Judgment and destruction of
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ungodly men. It is not an entire.
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Truth. When we tell people today God's
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not mad at you, God is storing up wrath for the ungodly.
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Just because God's not demonstrating his wrath towards
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you now doesn't mean he's like, well, I hate that happened.
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Well, really don't like they did that.
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Who not really excited about that?
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You think, well, why would he get upset?
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Why? Because he sends Thaddeus by you
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to tell you, hey, you know, there's another way of living.
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And then you hear it and you're confronted with it.
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And then God gets behind those words and talks to your heart
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and you're like, no, I'm not going to do any.
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And you harden your heart and you go out and he goes.
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And then he sends a doctor fatigue by and pays your
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mortgage because he's kind to you, because it's the kindness
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of God that leads you to repentance.
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And then he demonstrates himself.
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You know, when Nick comes by and lays hands on you and you get
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healed, but then you still snub your nose at him.
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He's like. Storing up wrath now, as long as
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you're here, every opportunity could be because it will be in
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God. 'S book, he'll be able to say,
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oh, let me as if it was going down there.
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I'll show you all the ways I demonstrated my love towards you
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so that you wouldn't be where you're at today.
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But they said you weren't going to be mad at me.
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Well, they lied. Come on.
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See, kindness is not acceptance. Kindness is to bring you to
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repentance and let me help you out.
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Believers, some people you know that are like, man, they don't
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deserve it. You're right, we didn't deserve
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it. They don't deserve it.
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But be kind when God tells you to be kind because it's the
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kindness of God that leads them to repentance.
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Revelations Oh, I like this book.
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Revelations 212 says it this way.
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And I saw the. Dead great and small, standing
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before the throne. Thrones are in kingdoms, not
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religions and the books were opened.
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Listen, we are in a Kingdom. God does not fail to keep his
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word In our modern day religions about Jesus, you would think he
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may not do it. It just depends on any given
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day. But in the Kingdom that does not
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occur. He said, then another.
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Book was open, which was the Book of Life, which is the book
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of Life. And the dead were judged by what
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was written in the books according to what they had done,
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according to what they had done. Jump down to verse 15.
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And if anyone's name was not found in the Book of Life, he
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was thrown into the lake of fire.
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Now if we read this in its full account, it would be Great White
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Throne. The dead has come up who's never
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confessed Jesus totally been in rebellion to him and living life
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what seems right to them. He'll pull out the book called
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the Lamb's Book of Life. He'll look.
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For their name, ah, this is the citizenship of heaven.
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Just as when you're born anywhere naturally, here your
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name is written in that nation that you are citizen.
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The Lamb's Book of Life is our. Citizens Registry.
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It's your. It's your birth certificate in
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the spirit. He'll look names not there
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close. Then he'll pull out books.
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It says why books 'cause he has recorded everything you've ever
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done and he will judge you justly because of it.
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On September 3rd, 1973, did you or did you not?
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Oh, but now, Lord, you know, I said, oh, let me go into your
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heart. Let's turn that on and He'll
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wire that hidden speaker within your spirit, OK?
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Sure, honey, we'll do that. I hate her.
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God, I hate her so much. I hate she did that to me.
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I hate she's doing that. Oh, I can't wait to get back to
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her. I can't wait.
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This is just going to. I'm going to find a way.
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And that's all being recorded, all being transcribed.
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Oh, you went on the trip with your wife?
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But you hated it. The charges you didn't you love
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your lot, your wife like Christ loved the church.
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Oh, did I not give her stuff? Did not.
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Oh, let me let's open up your hearts recording.
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I hate that she's taking my money and stealing all the time
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and doing what she wants to do with it.
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I can't believe she OK. See, we think this is fairy.
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Tale. Why?
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Because it seems better to us to justify our secrets, but the
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fear of the Lord won't let you have secrets.
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Even what you speak inside, you'll go, oh, I shouldn't do
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that. When you hear the have the fear
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of the Lord and you start to speak those things inside,
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you'll say, I am not going to release that.
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That will not honor God. No.
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What? What does your word say?
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It is written. Let me say that instead.
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Are you hearing me? Thank you Jesus.
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So thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.
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So so far we've seen according to this criminal that before you
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can get to a place where the Lord's going to say today you'll
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be with me, you have to 1st fear God.
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I'm going to be honest with you. I hope today you're questioning
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the day you asked him now, because I would hate for you to
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keep going through life thinking that because you came down one
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time trying to avoid the lake of fire, you're good when you may
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have deceived yourself. You are because the minute.
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The fear of. God, you'll say.
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Guilty as charged. I'm not fighting it.
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You turn yourself in. You turn yourself in.
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You willfully submit. You don't.
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Fight it. I mean, people going to come
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down. I mean, I've they'll come down
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and then you never see them again.
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You'll pray for them in a place of business.
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You know they're not going to church.
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Because they were lost and then you say.
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You need to come to church with me.
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Never see them again. Do they even fear God?
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Or are they just sorry they're called?
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Or is going to try to figure out a better way to do it.
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So maybe next time they're not. And we judged the actual
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convicts. PCI last night.
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We went in there and ministered. Our team did. 25 people were
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there and 25 people are there are guilty as charged.
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And some of them are repeat offenders.
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They think when they get out, they can do it a different way
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without being caught because they've never really changed
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from what they were doing. And yet believers are doing the
-
same thing. You know how we know?
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Because they'll come to this church, then it surfed, so then
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they leave this one and go to another one.
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But then it surfaces because eventually somebody shows up to
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preach that and then they go to another one until they land in
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the one that doesn't even preach about it.
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And the fear that God's not there.
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And then everybody else is doing the same crimes against the
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throne, all. Right.
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I got 2 minutes to 12. I got two more points I could
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close or we could go. All right, let's drive on then.
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All right. You all right with that, Zach?
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Is that OK? Looks like I'm fine.
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I'm a little. Hungry.
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But that's OK, I can hold it. The third thing that has to
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happen that the criminal taught us is that you must acknowledge
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your wrongdoing and repent. He said do you not fear God?
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We're here and sentenced and condemned rightly.
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He says put that verse passes back up.
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He said we. Are only getting what we have
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done, which means he's acknowledging I know what I did
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and all indication is since Barabbas was the one released,
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most likely these two thieves were a part of Barabbas's
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rebellion and instead of Barabbas being the one in the
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middle, the ringleader of this rebellion, they put Jesus as the
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substitute. But the two on the side,
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scholars believe, most likely were a part of his.
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Which means the criminal could say, I know what you've done, I
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was there. You can't lie to me and tell me
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it didn't happen. It happened.
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I was there. And you and I on this thing.
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Is because we deserve to be on this thing so you have to
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acknowledge it's not enough to fear God and feel guilty.
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Then you have to start taking personal responsibility and say
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I am wrong and there's nothing that's happened in life that I
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can justify this because here's the thing, no matter what's
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ever. Been done to you?
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Prior to knowing Christ, you were trying to figure it out and
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you never actually asked God how to overcome.
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He wasn't in your relationship. God has a way of delivering the
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righteous from all their trouble.
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Hallelujah. But we were poor.
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We didn't have anything, you know, I had to steal how to feed
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my babies. But see with the Lord, the Lord
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can cause your food that you have what little bit you have in
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a cupboard to multiply till the next time you're paid.
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Because he's done that for a widow woman that didn't have any
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food for their kids and there wasn't even anything to steal.
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Jesus is not limited in resource, and His way is always
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a way of life. Not resulting in doing something
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wrong, justifying it as right. So you have.
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To acknowledge I'm wrong. I'm making no excuse.
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I make no excuse and I made no excuse.
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None. I'm this, I'm that.
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I did that, I did this, I did that.
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I couldn't name them all, but I knew I was in the category of it
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all. And what I didn't know, I said
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something. Ezekiel, look at this chapter 18
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verses 3032. Therefore I will judge you, O
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House of Israel. Each according to his conduct.
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Declare the Lord God, repent and turn away from all your
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transgression, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block
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to you. Castaway from you all your
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transgression which you have committed, and make yourself a
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new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, O House of
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Israel? For I have no pleasure in the
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death of anyone who dies, declares the Lord.
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Before repent and live. So living cannot come before
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repenting, and you cannot repent until you acknowledge you're
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wrong. No more justification.
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I'm wrong? And I repent.
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Repent is not even a religious word.
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We know it means just change your thinking.
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You need to change your thing. You need to quit thinking that
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these things you're doing is OK with God.
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They are not. And it required the blood of
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Jesus because of those things. And so just acknowledge they are
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not and say, Lord forgive me. And I am going to start thinking
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your thoughts your way so that I'm not over here doing wrong.
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Stuff. Acts 2620.
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The latter part. Acts 2620.
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Just the latter part of that verse says this, that they
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should repent and turn to God. Here it is performing deeds
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appropriate to repentance. You will not find in Scripture.
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You will not find in scripture that you can ask Jesus to be
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Lord of your life. And have no corresponding
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actions. You cannot that salvation does
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not exist. Even John before Jesus started
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preaching said repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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Then when the. Pharisees, the religious, the
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ones who say we have the word of God, we teach the word of God,
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we are the ones who instruct the word of God.
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He looks at them and says, why don't you live a life in keeping
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with repentance? How come I see no fruit from the
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things you're saying? In fact, Jesus even rebuked
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them. He says yeah, they're out there
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touting my words. Things that I've written through
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Moses, the Law, and the prophets.
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You need to do what they say, but do not do what they do
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because their deeds are not in keeping with their words.
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And do we think that Jesus is fooled with a modern day
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salvation of coming down and asking God to come in our heart,
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save us, say he's Lord by mouth only and never had the fear of
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God, never felt guilty for the life we LED prior.
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Profound guilt, guilt so much that we know we are really
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punishable forever. And then and having that
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acknowledgement, I'm not even going to make an excuse.
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I won't do it. I am going to change and I'm
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going to let him change me and when I get up I am not going to
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be the same person and I will not let anyone change me.
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Back. I'm not going to make an excuse.
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I am going to go 100% all in following God.
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You know, it's amazing how many people even now, and I do
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believe obviously once they watch things online, are going
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to really resist this teaching. And it's only because you want
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God at your thoughts, not His. And here's the thing, and I get
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it. Listen, do you?
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Really think this is new. Everyone on the planet thinks
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they're good enough at some point.
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We all thought we were good enough.
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That's why the Bible says there's a way that seems right
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to a man. In fact, a whole dispensation
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was around when men live based upon what they thought was
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right. And that time period was the
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time just before Noah and when God said man thinks he's right
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and there's enough evidence of me and I've left enough about me
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down there that people knew the sacrifice.
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People knew that I was the creator of heaven and earth.
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People understood that I'm going to let them live and see if they
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can figure it out all by this. Can they be right by themselves
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that the Lord steps out, looks over, He says I regret I.
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Even made man. That's what the society will
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look like because your right is so right to you, it actually
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will lift you up in pride to the Father you actually have.
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He is the devil and he is a liar and he was lifted up in pride
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because he thought my way is better than God's way, but his
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way is better. Are you hearing me?
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His way is life #4 these all have to occur in your heart
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before you can confess. This is true salvation.
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This is a real relationship with God.
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How can you say you have a relationship with God and have
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no, no guilt, shame, no remorse for anything you've done?
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How can you say you've been in the presence of God yet you
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could say you're born again, but live life and do things that you
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know are outside his word. Now, if you're like, well, I
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really don't know. Well, why don't you know?
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Well, because I don't read. Well, why don't you read?
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Well, I don't have time. Well, is that OK with God?
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I mean, we could go down this road forever, right?
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Because now it's OK. God doesn't really care that you
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read his word. I mean, he says seek.
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He didn't say last. When you're in trouble on Easter
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Sunday. Come on, help me.
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Reverend Randy. Right.
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It's not once a month, twice a year, you know, Christmas and
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Easter, here we go. It's not that now I hear, I hear
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the ones that seem right. I just can't believe he's saying
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stuff like this. Wow.
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You know, that seems so judgmental.
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I'm not judging. I'm just preaching the word.
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And the word does not allow, does not accommodate for this
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kind of silly thinking. That's worldly thinking, trying
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to get in the church. Oh man, thank you, Jesus.
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So #4 the last one is this. Let's put that scripture back up
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with a criminal. He's teaching us so many things
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today because this guy really got born again.
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How do we know? Because Jesus told him.
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This is not subjective, so if there's ever been an example of
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how you know you will be with him, this is the example.
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Do you not fear God? We deserve this.
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Judgment. We are wrong and we are not
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making an excuse. And I don't know about you.
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In fact, apparently I know about you.
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You. Just stay on your side.
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But for me? I'm changing my thinking.
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This guy is the Christ. I don't need to see any other
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evidence. I don't need him to come down.
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He doesn't have to prove anything.
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His words and actions are enough.
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I was just like you, a blasphemer.
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I was yelling at him while we were coming.
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I was yelling at him when he was getting put on.
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I was yelling at him when I was being put on.
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But now I see his response. I see his.
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Demeanor. I'm in his presence, I'm around
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his atmosphere. And I realized that.
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My God, man, God is real and I'm guilty and I'm wrong in the
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audacity of you to talk to the. King like that I repent because.
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He's goes on to say he says. We indeed are suffering justly,
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for we receive what we've done. But this man has done nothing
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wrong. This is righteousness.
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I am by absolute righteousness, absolute justice, absolute
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holiness, absolute truth. I'm by absolute life.
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And so I'm asking, you know, I'm going to, I'm not going to ask
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this Roman centurion down here. I'm not going to ask him to pull
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pilot up here. I'm going to look to the one who
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actually has the ability to determine life for me.
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Jesus, when you enter into your Kingdom, will you Remember Me?
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Because when he acknowledges his Kingdom, he acknowledges his
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kingship. He says when you Jesus Remember
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Me, when you, when you, that's you come into your who's his
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Kingdom, King's dominion. Since you're the king, you're
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the Christ, you're the king. Will you Remember Me?
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Because I want you to be my king.
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2nd Corinthians 521 says He made him who knew no sin to be sent
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on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God
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in him. The last verse is this Isaiah
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4524. It says this.
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And they will say to me, only in the Lord are righteousness and
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strength. Men will come to him, and all
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who are angry at him will be put to shame.
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Once we acknowledge the fear of God, it will produce in us a
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guilt that is we're unable to bear.
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And we will know we are rightly condemned.
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And then because of that, we'll recognize my own actions have
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done this. I can blame no one.
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I'm guilty as charged, and I'm wrong.
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I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But I'm going to change.
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I want to repent. I want to be different.
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I don't want this anymore. And what I hear is that he took
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on me so I could take on him. Hallelujah.
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Which means if His righteousness allowed him to live as a man in
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the earth, anointed of the Holy Ghost, and not sin until He took
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it on at the cross, then if I yield my life to Him, then I can
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take on His righteousness. I'll be a new creature in
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Christ. My spirit will be like His
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spirit. Then He will give me his spirit
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to come and bear witness with my spirit that I'm a child of God.
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Then He will endue me with that spirit so that I have power from
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on high. And that same anointing that
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came on Him will come on me in a measure that then by me
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following the leading of the Spirit, as He followed the
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leading of the Spirit while in the earth, then I can be
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victorious, dominate every circumstance.
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No longer will I be under the law of sin and death, but I'll
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be under the law of the Spirit of life.
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In. Christ Jesus.
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And it was not unrighteousness that I did on my own, but it was
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His righteousness that I clothed myself with.
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And how can I walk around and act like and live unrighteous
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when I am His righteousness? How in the world could I not
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live a life in keeping with? This repentance that I have.
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Because I'm a whole new species of being and this new person
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would never for eternity. Be looking for an opportunity to
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live in lawlessness and rebellion and doing things
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contrary to the Kingdom, because when this occurs then we confess
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Jesus. Your Lord, your Lord, I believe.
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And that person cannot get up from their knees.
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Or from that prayer. And be the same person, that
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person. You don't have to beg to be in
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church. You don't have to beg to be
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discipled. You don't have to beg to want to
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live righteous. You don't have to beg to quit.
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Weights and sins that ensnare their life.
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You don't have to beg them to let go of things that God starts
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to reveal. Those are encumbrances.
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They'll mess you up. They'll they won't let you have
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the quality of life that you are now I'm trying to release the
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real you get out of that stuff and that person like get rid of
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it. Lord, thank you for showing.
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It oh, I'm so thankful, dad, that you showed me that I'm want
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that done. I don't want to do that anymore.
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I don't have to do that. In fact, my spirit doesn't
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because I'm alive unto you. I get to do you.
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I get to follow you. I.
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Nobody has to beg me, plead with me.
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I mean, I love God. I want to do your word.
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I want to do your word. I want to yield to you.
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I want to praise you. I want to pray.
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I want to read your word. I want to be involved.
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I want to tell others about you. I'm not hiding out, waiting
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until I die. I want the world to know I'm
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alive with Him. That is true salvation and the
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others.