Sermon
Reigning Faith p.2 with Ap. Marci Glisson
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Hallelujah, glory to God. Well, we've been starting a
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journey on talking about reigning faith.
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How many of you were here last Wednesday?
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Amen. And we started out of second
2 Peter 1 chapter mention
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Peter chapter 1 and verse 11 or one through 11.
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Hallelujah, the Lord is good. Amen.
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Haha y'all need to get a smile on your face.
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Everybody just smile. Don't turn your head.
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Smile. Smile on a brother and a sister.
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Look to somebody else and smile. Amen.
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Hallelujah. There's nothing to be sad about.
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Not when we know what he's given us, Amen.
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Hallelujah. Not when we know and we have to
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remind ourselves of these things.
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Amen. And so just as Paul was
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reminding them in second Peter, was it Peter or Paul that
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reminded them Anyway? One of them reminded them, said,
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it doesn't bother me to remind you of these things.
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Amen. We have to be reminded of things
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so that we don't forget what's been given to us.
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Amen, What's been given to us because there's there's times
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that, you know, things talk so loud that those things start
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getting real and you have to start reminding yourself, wait a
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minute here. We don't have to deal with this
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because we know who we are in Christ.
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Amen. Hallelujah in second Peter
2 Peter 1 chapter mention
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chapter 1. I want to read it and we're
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going to remind you of some things we talked about.
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You know, if we are going to be a reigning church, then we're
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going to have to operate, operate in reigning faith.
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And so in Second Peter chapter one, it says this Simon Peter, a
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bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ to those who have
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received a faith of the same kind of ours, say the same kind
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of faith. Any person that's born again,
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come on, who's called on the name of Jesus Christ will have
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the same kind of faith. And so he said, you've received
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a faith of the same kind of ours.
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By what? The righteousness of our God and
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Savior Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to
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you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
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Verse 3. Seeing that His divine power has
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granted to us everything pertaining to life and
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godliness, Amen. And we said that last week.
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This divine power that's been granted to us is dunamis,
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Dunamis working power, which is where they get the word dynamite
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from, right? And so this dunamis working
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power's been granted to us, this dunamis power, and it literally
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means absolutely everything necessary.
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You need to live a dynamic spiritual life in him.
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Hallelujah, everything. The minute you got born again,
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you received the same faith, come on, the faith of God, and
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you've been given the measure of faith.
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Every single one of us that got born again.
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And when we got born again, everything, everything that we
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would ever need in this life, come on to live in this life and
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to live a godly life. I don't want to just live life.
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I want to live a godly life. It's already been put inside of
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you to be able to do with His divine power and His divine
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nature that He put within us everything to be successful, to
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do exactly what He wants us to do.
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We began a journey with Him and He put everything in us to be
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able to walk it out according to Scripture, according to
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godliness. Amen.
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Hallelujah. He put it in and said, He put it
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in me. Oh, He put it in me.
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Say He put it in me. Hallelujah.
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Don't let me get Mama on you. You know when you tell your
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child to say something and they now you say what I just said and
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then they and then you say no, say it again.
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So I know you heard me. That wasn't good enough. 3 * a
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charm always. You get 3 strikes, that's it,
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right? Hallelujah.
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So remember, we're engaging our faith as we sit here to hear.
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Amen. Say hearing is good for me.
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Yes, it's good for me. So everything he's already put
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within us that we're going to need to walk out this dynamic
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spiritual life in him. And we've been given dynamite
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power. Come on, supernatural ability.
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Come on. That power is residing on the
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inside of us. Amen.
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It's residing on the inside of us, and all we have to do is
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pull it up. Hallelujah, you are a well.
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Just think of yourself, as does any does.
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Y'all new school people in here know what a real well was where
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they had to go out in the freezing cold water with snow on
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the ground and pump up the well to get water to boil to put in a
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hot tub. Does anybody know what I'm
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talking about? Raise your hand.
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Now, if you've never seen one, raise your hand, all right?
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See, there's a few people that's never seen one anyway, you have
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to go out there and prime that. What?
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That pump, You have to prime it. You have to.
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There's water in there somewhere.
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Come on, There's power in you somewhere, inherent power, and
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we have to go prime that pop to pull up the whale of power so
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that it can flow. And the more you pop it, what
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happens? The more it will flow.
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You let it sit. What happens if you let that
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sit? Even in the natural with a
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whale, it could what, dry up? Come on.
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So we have to constantly prime the pump of the on the inside of
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us with the power that is dwelling within Hallelujah, so
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that we can walk out this dynamic life of faith.
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This is what we're calling reigning faith.
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Reigning faith. If we're going to reign in life,
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if we're going to reign over circumstances, over situations,
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over our problems, over our finances, over our rebellious
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teenagers, oh, come on. If we're going to rub, you know,
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reign over these things, then we're going to have to realize
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that we're going to have to reign in our faith.
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Hallelujah. We're going to have to reign in
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our faith. We cannot do this without faith.
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We cannot do it and fall back. Who so easily bewitched you?
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You started this thing out by the Spirit, but you've gone back
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to the what flesh, the works, trying to work it out yourself.
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And believers can't do that. And so you have to remind
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yourself, wait a minute, I have the Spirit of God, the power of
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God on the inside of me, and I'm going to have to pump and prime
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that well. Come on to be able to overcome
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these situations and circumstances that we are
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encountering. And then he lets us know that
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we've been given this divine life of God.
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Zoway life flows through your veins.
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Amen Zoway life, eternal life. And so in that it will produce
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everything that we need. There is a full supply.
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None of us who are born again and spirit filled are lacking
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anything. We're not lacking anything.
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We may not have knowledge of some things, but guess what?
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He lets us know. We're supposed to get knowledge.
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You may not know what all belong, what all is on the
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inside of you yet, but He's always going to lead you to
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where you will discover those things and you'll discover them.
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If you're hungry, He says what those that hunger and thirst
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after righteousness will be what?
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Filled or satisfied. If you're not satisfied with
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your wall, go get in. Come on, go get in to the
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knowledge of God's Word, Amen. Go get into the knowledge of
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God's word. And so we talked about faith.
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You know, we have been taught faith.
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I mean, there are some we set up underneath the best faith
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teachers in our lifetime, in my lifetime, and I've heard a lot
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of faith teaching, but I don't believe there's been very much
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faith teaching in the direction of Second Peter.
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There's lots of faith teaching in confession for what finances
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believing God for this and for that, for that.
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But I don't hear much faith teaching talking about adding to
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our faith, the principles and qualities of character.
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The only one character that I ever hear preached about with
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great faith teachers is love, because see, your faith won't
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work outside of love. But do you know there's other
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things that this scripture says that are to be a supply to our
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faith? And this is what we're talking
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about today. We know that faith is a firm
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persuasion, a confident expectation.
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According to Hebrews 11, right now, faith is the substance of
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things. What hope for the evidence of
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things not seen. And we'll quote that scripture
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all day long for our bill to be paid.
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Come on now. We'll quote that scripture all
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day long for that vehicle, that jet, that house, all the things.
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But I don't hear a lot of people quoting that scripture for them
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to have self-control, for them to have perseverance, for hit
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them to actually have knowledge and wisdom.
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According to scripture, for all the other qualities, there's
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seven qualities that he talks about here in second Peter, one
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through 11. Let's look at these because I
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believe that we're going to have to take our faith and shift it
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to these qualities that are going to be a supply to my faith
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so that when I'm having to stand to believe God for something,
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self-control is going to be there.
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Perseverance is going to be there.
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Knowledge is going to be there on how to believe for and call
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those things. OK, and so much of this is
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lacking here and we see that we're going to have to get some
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adjustments here because again, the scripture says when I when
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he returns, will he find faith in the earth.
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So how in the world US that's been taught through the Word of
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Faith and been taught by great faith teachers, think to myself,
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how in the world would he not return and find faith in the
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world because they've not supplied their faith with the
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qualities of the character that's going to keep them in
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faith? We're talking about reigning
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faith, reigning faith. And I came up with this because
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of what I've, I was reminding myself of what I was taught
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faith was from one of our faith instructors.
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And he said this, that faith is a what firm persuasion, a
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confident expectation, but not just a confident expectation.
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It is a confident expectation that is acted upon because
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without action, you can say it all day long, but it's not your
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reality unless you act upon it. That means you're going to have
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to step out when you see nothing.
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You're going to have to believe God when you see that your
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marriage is on the verge of divorce.
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Why don't you call those things that be not Come on and use your
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confession to create your reality of what you want
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according to the word of God. You see what I'm saying, Amen.
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And so I like to read it like this.
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Reigning faith is the substance or the assurance.
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And we've heard it said the title deed of the things hoped
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for and the evidence of proof or conviction of the reality of
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things not seen by the physical senses, the title deed.
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We've been taught that faith is the title deed.
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It's as if you already own it. It's already yours.
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A person that is in faith knows that it already belongs to me.
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If I'll stay in a position, come on, of calling those things that
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be not as though they if I'll stay firmly persuaded, if I'll
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stay in a position and act upon what it is that I'm hearing by
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faith, come on, it will be done. It will be done.
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Hallelujah. OK, here's a good one.
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You need to write this down. Y'all should be taking notes.
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I don't even know. Reigning faith anchors itself in
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God's reliable promises, not circumstances, making it a
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powerful force to manifest the unseen.
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Remember, we said faith is the currency of the Kingdom, and
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it's faith that brings what the unseen into the scene.
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So remember, faith is to be that tangible reality in your life.
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That means you're going to you're going to see what he says
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in his word come to pass in your life.
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If you'll stay in a position firmly sweat persuaded, come on,
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you'll see it come to pass in your life.
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So let me read that again because I saw some of you taking
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a note. I mean, I went back and read my
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notes from 20 years ago. Come on.
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This is reality to me. This is what I live by and this
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is what God wants everyone that has his faith to live by.
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He says the righteous say what? Live by faith and we're to go
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from faith to faith. So it's perpetual, perpetual
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faith, perpetual reigning faith. Come on to reign over.
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Let me read it again. Reigning faith anchors, aren't
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you thankful that we have anchor faith?
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Hallelujah. I'm anchored in my faith,
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Hallelujah. It is my anchor and my anchor
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holds. Come on when the winds and the
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waves and the everything's blowing and and going against,
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you know, my anchor is holding because I have faith,
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Hallelujah, in the word of God and who he is, His anchor holds
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and he is the anchor of my soul. Hebrews.
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It's the anchor of my soul. You better have an anchor on
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your soul or either your soul's going to go everywhere, and
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that's what the word will do. It will keep you anchored when
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all the world's going crazy. No, I have an anchor.
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I have faith. Hallelujah.
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So reigning faith anchors itself in God's reliable promises, not
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circumstances, making it a powerful force to manifest the
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unseen, Hallelujah, to manifest the unseen in your life.
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So we're supposed to live by this faith, Amen.
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We are supposed to be people that know how to operate in
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faith and have a reigning faith. Amen.
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If we are going to be the reigning church.
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Now let's go to back to the qualities of the scripture that
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he's talking about here that needs to be added to our faith.
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I hear a lot of people talk about Romans.
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Faith comes from what hearing and from hearing from the word
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of God and and you won't have faith outside of the word, but
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faith alone is not just all that is going to get you over outside
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of these qualities that he talks about here in second Peter
2 Peter 2 chapter mention
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chapter 2. So let's read them.
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It says this now verse 5 for this very reason.
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Also apply all diligence in your what faith?
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He doesn't say. Now just sit there and confess
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and confess and confess and confess and confess.
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No, there's some things that need to be added to your faith
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that needs to be put together with your firm persuasion, your
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confident expectation. So this word add says applying
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all diligence. First, let me tell you what
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diligence is. Diligence is something.
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Diligence is something that you make an effort to do.
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To be diligent, then you are making an effort to supply my
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faith with some things. I'm going to make an effort,
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right? I'm going to.
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It also means to exert oneself. That means it's going to take
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you putting the effort or putting the work in.
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Just like we hear teachers tell their students, you need to be
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diligent to do this and to do that to get your homework done.
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You're not being diligent. You're not putting any effort in
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it. And he says, listen, you are
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going to have to be diligent by applying some things to your
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faith, not just your confession, not just reading the word cause
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faith comes from hearing. But actually he says here, exert
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yourself also strive after make an effort endeavor.
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It also means this to be diligent to be prompt to study,
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to be prompt to study, and to labor.
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See, everybody just thinks faith just happens.
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No, it doesn't. The only way it just happens is
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when you call on the name of the Lord, faith.
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The mustard seed of faith gets deposited within your spirit and
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from there it's up to you if it will remain just a little bitty
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seed or if that seed is going to grow and going to blossom and
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going to come to its fullness. Come on, it's up to you.
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It's up to you if you are going to be like the centurion that
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says just speak the word only and my servant will be healed.
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And Jesus, what he marveled at his what great faith, his great
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faith. And so to walk into great faith,
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reigning faith, there's going to be some things that we are going
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to have to be diligent to put to work in our life.
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Amen. And so he says, add this to your
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faith. What does it mean to add?
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It says applying all diligence in your faith.
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One translation says add to your faith.
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One translation says supply your faith.
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So all of these have that same context, context that we are
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going to have to bring something to supply to our faith.
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And when you look up that word supply in the Greek, it means to
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furnish, oh, I love this, to minister to, to minister,
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nourishment to. So your faith needs minister to
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and nourished. Wow.
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So when he's saying you be diligent to minister, bring
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nourishment to your faith, furnish, it means to furnish
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your faith. Hallelujah.
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So he's saying there's this. Listen, your faith needs to be
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nourished. It needs to be ministered to.
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And what did he say here? Number one, there were 7
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qualities that he listed here, Godly qualities.
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And let me just make this before we get into the qualities, I
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want to talk about what he said. When you continue to read that
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verse, If we will add and do all these things that He tells us to
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do, and he tells us that it should be, these things should
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be growing and increasing in our life #1 He says that they will
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keep you from being idle and fruitless.
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So people that are fruitless, maybe it's because they've not
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nourished their faith, people that are idle, maybe it's
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because they haven't nourished their faith, they haven't
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brought a supply to their faith in these qualities in their
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life. So it says this it, it will keep
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them from stumbling. We talked about this.
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Oh, you just think you never make a mistake.
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Oh, you just think you're better than everybody.
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No, I actually believe the Scripture that if I'll increase
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in some qualities that God listed here, I can be assured
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that I will never stumble. That's not prideful, that's not
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arrogant. That's actually having faith,
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trusting, relying in God's Word, that if he said that if I do
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these things and that to my faith and continue to grow and
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increase these qualities in my life, that I can be assured I
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will never stumble. What does this word stumble
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mean? When you look it up in the
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Greek, it means to error. It means to make a mistake.
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Yeah, I never have to make a mistake.
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I'm not saying that I can do it, but me adding to my faith, doing
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what the word says, Come on, then I can be assured that I'm
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not going to make a mistake. I'm not going to error.
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I'm not going to stumble. It means to fall.
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I'm not going to fall. It means to, you know, fall into
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sin. I'm not going to fall into sin.
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Amen. That's what it means.
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Look it up, dare ya. It also means listen to this,
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which I believe is one of the greatest things, that it's not
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going to cause me to offend someone else to sin, because
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what we do matters. What we say matters, how we live
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matters. And I don't care.
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You can say you have faith to move these mountains and faith
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to do all these things. And yet I've seen people that
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fall on their face because they have not brought a supply of
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nourishment to these qualities and this character in their life
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and they're falling left and right.
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So, oh, and if you actually, I'll get over onto the side
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note, if you actually look up that word stumble, it brings you
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over to James where he actually talks about if you've matured
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enough to where your words, you don't stumble by your words.
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So God's concerned actually about every idle word.
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He's concerned about every word and he don't want you even
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stumbling there. But I'll move on.
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So he says 7 qualities that he wants us to.
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I'm glad I have another week to teach this.
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Not this Wednesday but the next one when we come back from the
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holidays. He says this supply moral
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excellence. What is moral excellence or one
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translation virtue? Right virtue means moral
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excellence. What are we doing?
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This literally is talking about aligning your thoughts, your
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feelings, and your actions with the righteousness of God or
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right living. So we are supposed to supply our
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faith in our thoughts, our actions, our behaviors, our
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emotions. All of those need to be in
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alignment with righteousness. Moral excellence, right?
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It means choosing His way of doing things instead of ours.
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So if someone does you wrong and you want to lash out, what are
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you going to do? I'm going to choose to do it his
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way. I'm going to choose to let them
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slap me in the face and turn the cheek. 7 * 70 So see, that's
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choosing his way of doing it, His moral excellencies, no
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matter what people are saying, you choose to do it his way,
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right? Because these qualities matter
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to my faith and I'm not going to be able to operate fully in the
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faith of God that he tells us to have in Mark 1123 and 24.
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Because I do still teach faith out of Mark 1123 and 24, Have
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faith in God or what translation and have the God kind of faith.
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And I'm not going to have the God kind of faith outside of
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these qualities operating in my life and adding a supply to my
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faith, right? So I'm going to choose his way
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of doing things instead of my ways.
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And it means to actually practice living by what the Word
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says instead of how you want to do things or how you feel about
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things. Because it all has to do about
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your thoughts, your actions, your emotions, all your be, all
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of these things. And he wants them all in
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alignment to the way he responds and the way he does things.
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And that's going to bring a supply or nourishment to my
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faith. Hallelujah.
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Look at Second Peter chapter 3 and verse 14 and then in verse
2 Peter 3 chapter mention
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18 it says this. So beloved, since you are
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looking forward to these things, be diligent.
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Here's that word again. And make every effort to be
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found in Him at His return, spotless and blameless in peace.
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That is the inward calm with a sense of spiritual well-being
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and confidence, having lived a life of obedience to Him, but
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grow spiritually and mature in the grace and the knowledge of
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our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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To Him be the glory, honor, majesty, splendor, but now, both
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now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
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And this should be our our motto as well, that we want to live in
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such a way. Come on.
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That we are spotless and blameless.
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Hallelujah. And confidence that I have lived
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a life of obedience to His word and I have allowed myself to
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grow spiritually and mature. Remember, he says, if these
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things grow and increase in you and that word is active when
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they are actively growing, when they are actively increasing in
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you, come on, then that is going to bring a nourishment to your
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faith, a confidence to your faith.
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Amen. Philippians chapter 2 and verse
Philippians 2 chapter mention
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12. So then, my dear ones, just if
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you have always obeyed my instructions with enthusiasm,
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not only in my presence but now much more in my absence,
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continue to work out your salvation.
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Remember, the minute you get born again doesn't mean you are
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fully mature. No, there's things that you have
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to grow in your faith. You have to grow in your faith.
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You have to increase in your faith.
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You have to mature as a believer.
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You are the one that has to work out your salvation.
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You are the one that are are are now responsible for the journey
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that you are following through with him.
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Not in your own effort, only by the grace and the knowledge of
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God. Come on.
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But there is an effort. There is an effort, but it's not
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the effort for me to be born again.
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I'm already born again, but there is an effort for me to
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work out my salvation and to add to my faith and to mature and to
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grow. What does it mean here in the
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amplified? Work out your salvation that is
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cultivated. Bring it to full effect.
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That means it's a baby seed in you and you have to be the one
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now to nourish it. Feed it.
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Come on you feed your what faith.
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How do you feed your faith on the Word of God, but not just on
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the Word, just hearing the Word, but also what?
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Doing the Word, walking it out, practicing it, that's what
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cultivates it. Bring it to full effect.
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Actively pursue spiritual maturity with fear and
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trembling, using serious caution and critical self evaluation.
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Isn't that interesting? We have to allow the Lord to
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critically evaluate you. A critic, What does he say?
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I mean, you've heard Pastor Angie say it for years.
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Judge my heart, Lord. See if there is anything unclean
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within me. That's what we're saying.
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Allow him to critically look at you and say, hey, you need to
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tweak this and then be willing and obedient to do it.
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And that's when it's real to you.
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But if you resist it and you don't do it, it's not you,
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you're not it's not for you. You're not going to grow, you're
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not going to mature, you're not going to fully have effect of
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this spiritual life, right? Hallelujah.
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Critical self evaluation to avoid anything that might offend
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God or discredit his name in Christ.
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Amen. And I read Philippians 48 to
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you, right? Finally, brethren, whatsoever is
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true, remember all these things you're to think on.
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This is what we are to meditate on.
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And when we are thinking on these things and meditating on
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these things, and when we are acting these things in and
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pursuing these things and acting them out in our life by faith,
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come on then. It is bringing a nourishment to
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our faith. It is supplying our faith.
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We are able to grow in our faith.
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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Kim, do you have time for one more and then we can do the rest
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the next time we come together? What was the next thing he said
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that we need to add to our faith or nourish our faith or minister
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to our faith with knowledge, knowledge, knowledge or moral
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wisdom and application of God's Word, right.
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So outside of His Word, if you're not a person that reads
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the word every day, then guess what's not being applied,
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supplied to your faith? And we wonder why so many
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believers are anorexic. They are not reading the Word.
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They're not meditating in the Word day and night.
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They're not spending time. Come on.
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Feeding their faith, supplying their faith with the nourishment
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that it needs, and then when something happens, you see them
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fall apart. Why do they fall apart?
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Because they have not fed their faith with the proper nutrients
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that they need. The knowledge of God's word,
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right? The moral wisdom and application
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of God's Word. Hallelujah.
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And it means this, that not word knowledge means moral wisdom,
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application of God's Word such as is seen in right living.
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Every one of these qualities, the seven that we're going to
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discuss, must be seen and evident in a person's life.
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Every time you read it and look it up in the Greek, it's about
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it being what there is going to be fruit in your life, there's
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going to be fruit in your life. And I've seen some stinking
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fruit in people's lives that say they're full of faith.
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But the the fruit that I want to see that will become tangible
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and evident in their life are these qualities.
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I don't care if they have a jet, but they have come on no moral
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excellence or they don't live right.
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They smoke a cigar and drink bourbon.
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Right. So again, these are things that
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when he talks about knowledge, he's talking about the wisdom
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and the application of God's Word being applied to your life
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in such a way that it can be seen and right living, or what
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we like to call the fruits of what righteousness, the fruits
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of righteousness should be able to be seen in your life.
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If you're applying these qualities and you're living this
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out according to His word, not your own opinions, not your own
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thoughts about what the Scripture says, know what his
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word clearly states, right? And so it's not hard, say it's
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not hard 2 scriptures and we'll close Colossians 1 to align with
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this knowledge. Colossians 1 and 9.
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For this reason, since this day we heard about it, we have not
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stopped praying for you, asking specifically that you would be
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filled with the knowledge of His what?
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His will. What is his will?
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The Word, the Word of God is His will for your life.
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It's His will and we call that His general will for every
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believers life. Is that we would align ourselves
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with the qualities of Scripture, the general will of God for
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every believer. And then then and only then as
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you are operating in the general will of God of his Word.
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He will begin to what speaks specific plans and purposes and
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pursuits that he has for you to fulfill his will for your life
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and so many people you still hear as believers.
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I don't know what God wants me to do.
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It tells me then you're not a person of the word.
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You cannot be in the word and not know the will of God can't
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won't happen, can't happen. It's not possible.
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You will know the will of God and many know the will of God
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and just choose not to do it. OK, so the knowledge of His
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will, what in all spiritual wisdom with insight into His
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purposes, you see that and an understanding of spiritual
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things. None of us should be ignorant of
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His Word and of spiritual things as a believer.
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Every single one of us should have the knowledge and wisdom of
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God's Word and God's will flowing and operating in our
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life if we are being students of the Word, if we are being true
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disciples. Amen.
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And last Scripture and we'll close Ephesians chapter 1,
Ephesians 1 chapter mention
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Ephesians chapter one, verse 17 and 18 out of the amplified.
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I always pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
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Father of glory, would grant you a spirit of what wisdom and of
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revelation that gives you a deep and personal and intimate
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insight into the true knowledge of Him.
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For we know the Father through the Son.
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Verse 18. And I pray that the eyes of your
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heart or understanding, the very center and core of your being,
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would be enlightened and flooded with light by the Holy Spirit,
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so that you'll know and cherish the hope, the divine guarantee,
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Hallelujah, the confident expectation to which He has
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called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the
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Saints, God's people, Hallelujah.
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We have been given and granted come on divine power, the divine
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nature of God to live this life fully dynamic spiritual life and
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have a faith come on a faith that is raining and flourishing
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in our life. If every day and we will see
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that happen when we begin to add and bring a supply to our faith
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through these qualities in Second Peter.
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And the same way that we call those things that be not as
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though they are for the resources for our lives needs to
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be the same way you call those things that be not for these
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qualities to flow and to operate in your life every day.
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For moral excellence, Father, I thank you, I thank you.
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I thank you that you said, oh, that I could walk in moral
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excellence and virtue and in my thoughts and in my come on and
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in my actions and in my mind and in my will and in my emotions.
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I thank you, Father, that my thoughts will be your thoughts.
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And I thank you, Lord, that you said that I could take every
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thought captive and line it up to the word of God, to the will
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of God. And so listen, I call that, come
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on, are we being diligent to say, Father, I thank you that I
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have the knowledge of your will, that I have the mind of Christ,
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that I can know and have spiritual insight and revelation
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to the knowledge of your word, to apply it to my life, to line
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myself up to your will and your way of doing things so that I
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walk in the fruits of righteousness in my life to
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bring faith, bring a nourishment to my faith.
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah. And I'm telling you, our faith
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will begin to flourish if we'll nourish, if we'll nourish it
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with these qualities and be diligent to focus on some of
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these things in our lives. Our faith, Hallelujah, is going
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to go to another. Come on from faith to faith.
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And we're going to see us walking out a dynamic spiritual
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life. Oh, Hallelujah.
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Because I still believe that the best is yet to come and I'm
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going to be smack right dab in the middle of it.
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And I'm not going to let anything come on, pull my faith
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so that I, in these last days, would want to fall away from the
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faith. No, I'm going to be fully
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supplied and nourished in my faith to stay focused and
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diligent. Hallelujah.
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And I'm telling you, He wants every single one of us to
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evaluate where we really are, Hallelujah.
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So that we can bring another come on another bit and piece of
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nourishment so that we can have a reigning faith.
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Amen.