Sermon
True Worshiper - Kingdom Worship
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Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast
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from St. Augustine, FL.
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Now enjoy this message. All right, so John chapter 4,
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verse 23 to 24 says this. But an hour is coming and now is
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when the true worshippers say true worshippers say true
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worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.
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For such people the Father what seeks to be his to be his what
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God is spirit verse 24 And those who worship him must must
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worship in spirit. And truth not, can, not, should,
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but must. Amen.
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Now who's talking in this passage of scripture?
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Jesus is. And he's actually talking to a
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woman that's obviously not living a very good life right
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now. This particular woman has come
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to get her some water from a well, and Jesus is hanging out
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there while his disciples have gone to get him some food.
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And so he's having a conversation with.
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And what's brought this conversation to the point that
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we're at is that, you know, he begins to engage her and he
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technically in the natural should not because he is Jewish
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and she's a Samaritan. So by all rights, he is
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destroying A racial issue right here.
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Not only is he speaking to a woman, but he's speaking to a
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Samaritan woman. And so, you know, they have a
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little bit of a discourse and he's basically letting her know
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what he has because she's like, well, how you going to get some
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water? He said whatever, woman, if you
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knew who I was and you'd be asking me for the living water
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and you would never thirst again, right.
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So he ends up going in and telling her her life story a
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little bit. Well, you have had five husbands
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actually, right? And the one you would now is not
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the one I see. You're a prophet, right?
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So then she begets spiritual on him and starts talking about
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worship, where to worship at and what the people are saying.
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You know the religious will say a lot about worship.
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There's a lot to say in religion about worship.
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But then Jesus makes this statement here in John chapter 4
John 4 chapter mention
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and he says in hours coming in is now when true worshippers,
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which implies there are false ones.
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All right, so if there's true worshippers, then there must be
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false ones. Because again, Jesus saying true
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is letting us know there are faults, which then tells us the
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Bible must be able to reveal to us what false worship is.
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Okay. If he reveals us there are true
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ones. True worshippers will worship
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the Father in spirit and truth. Not just in spirit, but in what
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in truth. Which then tells us a false
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worshipper will worship the Father in spirit and in false.
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Because there are evil spirits, you can be led by an evil
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spirit. You can be in the spirit with
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the wrong spirits, with familiar spirits.
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So you can worship the Father in the spirit, meaning your spirit
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hearing from other spirits and it be false.
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Hallelujah, OK, all right. God is spirit and those who
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worship him must this is how we do it.
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OK, we must worship him in spirit and true notice it
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doesn't say worship him in soul. So whether you feel it or not,
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whether you're emotionally attached is not necessary.
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Because when you worship in spirit, you can actually do it
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in an emotion opposite of how you feel once you engage in
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worship. And if you'll do that, then the
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actual soul realm can catch up to the spirit realm.
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I don't worship him because I'm happy.
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I don't worship him cause I'm glad.
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I worship him in spirit and what's going on in my soul is
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irrelevant and it will need to change to get in line with the
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spirit. Hallelujah.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying? Amen.
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So I'm. I'm ministering out of this line
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because there is false worship in the churches, OK?
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And so I need to dress a little bit because there's a problem in
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churches in general, OK? And it's really in religion.
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Can I just say it that way? There's a problem in religion
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because if you're religious, then words in the Bible have
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religious meanings. But when you're in the Kingdom,
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then words are defined according to the king.
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Why do I say that? We've said this before in the.
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Again, John 11 in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
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with God, and the Word was verse 14 of that same chapter one.
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And the Word became what's his name, Jesus.
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So Jesus is the Word. Well, if Jesus is the Word, he
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is the author of all words, which means he has the right to
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define them. So it's it's up to us to get in
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scripture to see how God's defining words, not how man's
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defining words, Because if man will define the word, the man
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will define it religiously. And once you take one of God's
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words and makes it a religious word, then it has no power.
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But when you let the king define what he means by word, then you
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get the full context. Like Lord, Lord is not a
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religious word. It means supreme in authority.
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So when we say Jesus Christ is Lord, that means He's supreme in
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authority. What does that mean supreme in
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authority? Who's the one in authority?
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He is. And he is he the first one, the
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supreme one. So then why are you making the
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decisions without him? Now religion will let you
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continue to do what you want to do and still call him Lord.
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Because the only thing that he has supremacy over is keeping
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you out of hell. Because he died on the cross,
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his blood was shed for the forgiveness of your sins.
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You called on the name of the Lord.
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His name is Jesus and you were saved and he can do nothing else
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for you, but he definitely keeps you out of hell and you get to
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do your life like you want to. Cause by all rights religion has
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defined grace as the the the unmerited favor of God that
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allows you to continue to sin because you couldn't do anything
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to get right. So you can't do anything to
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stay, right? All right, I'm preaching better
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than y'all saying Amen, but that's all right.
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Hallelujah. You understand, some of y'all
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been here for some decades, OK? And what you're failing to
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recognize is that not everyone in the room has been here for
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decades, which means some people in the room are like, I have
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never heard this before in my life.
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And your lack of enthusiasm makes them think you don't know
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nothing either. That you're like, I've never
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heard this before. Because, you know, when you
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first started hearing things about the king and you became
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speechless. But when you know something, you
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should say Amen to it. When you're like, praise God,
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yes, I remember that truth. That's awesome.
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You should have some kind of engagement.
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Hallelujah. So can we do a little bit
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better? Amen.
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Praise the Lord. I mean, no coach is gonna let
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their team play flat. They finish a play, they walk
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all right. Offense is in.
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How many games do y'all play? Well, we played a lot of games.
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Coach been doing this for a Little League.
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Just just just tell us to play man, right?
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I mean, if y'all watching Y'all's team do that, y'all be
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screaming at the TV, throwing things at it, tearing your
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shirts off, Find another team. I got to be around teams, got
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passion. I mean, Pastor Mike totally did
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repentance because of that. He was so sick and tired of the
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mediocrity of Michigan. They says I'm going back to my
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roots. Is that not true?
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He said. I'm tired of mediocrity.
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There's no passion in their game and I was born in Ohio anyway.
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I'm going back to Ohio. And there he is.
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Total repentance. That's repentance.
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From Michigan to Ohio State. He has repented.
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Are you? Hearing me now, he'll get to
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heaven when he makes the Gators. His team?
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I'm just kidding. We're in mediocrity.
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I might be coming somewhere else myself.
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My point is, is why do we get into mediocrity and services
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when we're hearing truths, when we're hearing things?
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Hallelujah. Because again, the more we
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desire to know, the more we will know.
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And The thing is, is that a religion can sneak in anywhere.
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I said religion can sneak in anywhere.
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Because religion starts to redefine God's word.
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And that's what the devil did in the garden.
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Well, God said it, but his deception, 'cause?
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That's what religion is. Religion is the deception that
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you're right with God, although you know something, right?
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But you're doing what you're supposed to do religiously.
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Hallelujah. But in the Kingdom, you have a
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daddy who sits on the throne. He's the creator of heaven and
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earth, and he's raised you up and seated you in heavenly
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places in Christ Jesus, where you're on the throne with him.
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You're a child of the king, and dad says that he looks for those
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who will worship him and they'll be true worshippers.
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OK, so in the majority of churches based upon religion,
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and I say this, I'm not just eliminated to the United States.
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When we hear worship, we typically think of singing
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because we have a phrase, we say praise.
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And why do we say this? See, we really don't even
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question ourselves half the time.
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And it's habit we get into habit.
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Well, we're having. Well, we're doing a praise and
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worship service. Well, praise can include
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worship, but worship doesn't always include praise.
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Hallelujah. It doesn't always include it.
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So when Jesus is saying here, he's looking for true
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worshippers, what he's not saying and what a lot of people
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will say, and you've probably heard this in your religious
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circles, we were created to worship.
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Now when they say that, you know, they saying we gonna sing.
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And what's bad is if you were created to worship, how come you
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sing so bad? Why would God create someone
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who's supposed to sing all the time?
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They Can't Sing a lick. I mean, that's cruel and unusual
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for dad to say. I want you to sing to me.
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You are created to worship me, to worship and meaning singing.
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And you Can't Sing and you're like Dad loves him.
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Better listen to that voice and here's mine.
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But it's amazing we say this. We're creating worship.
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We just can't wait to get there. Now, are we going to sing?
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Yes. But were we created to sing?
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No, no. Genesis 126 tells us what we
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were created to do. Let us make man in our image
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according to our likeness and let them have a good voice who
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can sing to me all the time, praises to my name only and
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sing, sing, sing. They going to worship me,
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worship me, worship me. So it can't be that worship is
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singing and it's not slow songs praise and so we're praising him
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when it's fast. We are worshipping him when it's
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slow. Or we went to the worship set,
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went to the worship set. Right, went to the worship, said
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Oh, I just really love to worship God.
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And here's the thing, what brought this conversation to me
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as a 23 year old minister in Moundville, AL And he was about
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to introduce me and he says my generation, all they want to do
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is getting praise services. They love to sing.
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He said, but singing along won't change them permanently.
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And then he uses a scripture for that.
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And I'm like, that's good, that's good.
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Because what happens is when we are religious then we will begin
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to worship aspects of God are things that can you can do
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towards God. Ask the only thing.
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The reason why we wrote the Force was because we tend to
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find places that we want to stop and hug, and God never intended
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us to have an expression to stop us, and all we want to do is
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that. Period.
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We are going. To let the word define what
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worship is so you can understand what a true worshipper is.
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Then are you hearing me? Because the king is looking for
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true. In fact, he seeks them.
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I said he seeks them. I said he seeks them.
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And we're going to see how he sought after one and what it
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really means to worship which. Can include singing All right
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Y'all with me now, okay. So man was created in God's
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image, in the image of God. According to Genesis 126, to
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have dominion or rule, man was to have dominion, to have
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rulership ruling can require him to sing to the supreme ruler.
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No problem there But it does not mean that's all they do.
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In fact, if we see let us make man in our image, turn it, put
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it up there real quick guys. Genesis 126 and let's find the
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singing in it. OK?
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Genesis 126. Then God said, let us make man
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in our image according to our license, and let them rule over
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the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the
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cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
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creeps on the earth. God next verse God created man
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right in his image, both male and female.
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He created them so both male and female has dominion.
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He tells them to be fruitful. To multiply, to subdue.
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To keep five things he mentions to them on the 28th verse for
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them to do. Never does he say man was
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created to worship. Where worship means singing, it
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doesn't say. Let us make men in our image
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corner our lives and let them sing to the fish, sing to the
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birds, sing to the cattle. Now you sing all you want to to
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your pets. I don't care.
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But you weren't created right. Nowhere in there does it say
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that our sole reason for existing if we're defining
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worship as. Singing is the sing doesn't say
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that at all. So you understand why a lot of
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people sometimes don't want to make a relationship with Jesus
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because number one, they Can't Sing #2.
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It just doesn't make sense to them that they would sing for
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eternity. You understand?
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God has taken care of the singing for eternity.
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He has created beings. They are not humans that are
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around his throne and they have one song they sing what not like
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this that we do up here. One song they singing, they
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singing one song and they have not worn out that song nor has
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that song gotten worn out in the ears of the Lord.
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They are singing holy, holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty
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come on. And they keep singing it and
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they keep singing it and they keep singing it cause they were
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created to sing that song around the throne.
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But man was not created to go around the throne singing.
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So religions got people believing that they accept Jesus
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into their heart so they die. They can go to heaven where he
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currently resides to sing for eternity.
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To him it is one massive choir, right?
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But the Bible doesn't say that religion does Hallelujah.
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Which means then if you are saying and all you're trying to
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do is be in praise services, again, according to their
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definition, praise and worship. I just love praise and worship
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services. Oh, I just love to be in praise
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and worship. I just love to get in the
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presence of God and praise and worship.
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I just love to be. That's all I want to do is be in
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the praise and worship service. Well, they can't be a true.
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They'll start running themselves to becoming a false worshipper.
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Are you hearing me? So let's see what happens when
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music plays first time in chapter 16, verse 14 to 23.
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Yeah, I know. Now y'all going to have to let
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me explain a couple things. OK, y'all going to be all right
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with me. Because the minute we read this
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first couple verses, they're very problematic.
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But again, This is why you have to read the Bible in context.
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This is again, This is why we say at Anchor Faith Church you
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need to read it from. Cover to cover Genesis 11 to
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Revelations 2221 because and again you have to interpret it
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based upon the covenants we're in, OK, the dispensations we're
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in because we're in a new and better covenant now in a
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different dispensation that things that were happening in
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this particular time don't have to happen like that.
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And you can't be act like it's still happening that way when
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you're born of God. OK now it says now the spirit of
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the Lord departed from Saul. He was king of Israel and an
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evil spirit from the Lord terrorized him.
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Saul servants then said to him, Behold, now an evil spirit from
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God is terrorizing you now. Is this is problematic because
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at this point you would have to conclude reading that, that God
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has evil spirits on his payroll, And that's troubling, right?
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This is troubling. So again, this is one of those
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verses that typically everybody wants to stay away from because
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we're like can't explain that one.
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Well, we can when we go to job. But when we go to Job because
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you understand there's a spiritual world out there.
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Besides God's heavenly spirits are righteous ones, there is
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another realm of spirit or fallen spirits.
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We can find this in Isaiah chapter 14 in Ezekiel.
Isaiah 14 chapter mention
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We are aware and we know of Satan himself.
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But you understand Satan's not alone.
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The Bible tells us that a third of the heavenly hosts were cast
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down. Right now.
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I'm not going to get into some other debates concerning some
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other context where people talk about it Preadamic race and that
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because of that, there's some things there of some disembodied
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spirits out of humans. That is subjective and there's
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not enough evidence for you to build doctrines on.
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But when you don't know it entirely, you should keep
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yourself open to be able to be taught.
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That's all I'm saying. We do know there is a devil.
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We do know there are evil spirits.
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The Bible tells we know there are unclean spirits.
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The Bible tells us this. We understand that these demonic
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spirits, they can possess people.
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We know this. This is clear doctrine.
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In scripture across the board and we know that the devil,
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Satan is what Jesus called him is the Prince of the power of
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the air. Now why is he?
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That is because he held dominion.
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Where did he get the dominion from Luke chapter 4 in the
Luke 4 chapter mention
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Temptation of Christ. Remember he takes Jesus up to
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high Pentacle, shows him all the kingdoms in a moment of time,
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not religions. But all kingdoms.
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And he says all these domains, that means the territory that I
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have authority over, I'll give to you, he said.
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All these domains I'll give to you.
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Cause they've been what? Hand it over to me.
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Where did the devil gain the possession of rulership at Adam?
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Because God told Adam, don't eat the fruit of the tree of the
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knowledge of good and evil, for the day you eat you will surely.
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Died when Adam ate the fruit based upon the words of Satan
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through the serpent who deceived his wife.
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He heard that conversation, watched her eat, then took it
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himself bit into the fruit. The Bible says he immediately
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died and a transfer of power. Now Paul says in 2nd 2nd
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Corinthians 4 four that he is the God of this world.
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He doesn't own planet Earth, but he has dominion over systems
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that function on the planet, and up until the time of Jesus he
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was controlling it all. Now he still has control based
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upon the fall and sin nature of man.
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There are kids that are still apart associated with him.
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Because remember Jesus said you are of your father the devil.
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So again, everyone on planet earth is not God's loving
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children. In fact, just to let you know,
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all of us are the minority because more are with the devil
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than with God. There are more unbelievers than
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there are believers. There are more children of the
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devil or children of darkness, children of wrath.
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Then there are children of light, children of God, children
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of righteousness. Because they've not come through
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the blood. Are you hearing me?
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So this is King Saul, this is the old covenant, this is before
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the death bear on resurrection of Jesus.
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And Joe gives us an insight of how the devil was trying to
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determine what did he get from Adam.
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So when he goes up before the Lord, cause he's the accuser of
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the brethren because again, he can devour you if you are in his
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territory. And his territory is where he
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steals, kills and destroy is death.
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It is sin. His territory is anything that's
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disobedient. Adam got underneath the devil's
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authority the minute he disobeyed God.
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He became a slave to the devil. The day he just the the second
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he disobeyed God, right? Which made him supreme in
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authority on the earth. Now God has given man dominion
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and he can't take it from the devil because, again, God can do
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whatever he wants to do. That's what religion says.
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Well, if that's the case, why didn't God come down the
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gardens? Slap the serpent?
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Take this invisible dominion that we can't see anyway?
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And give it and say I forgive you Adam.
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And give it back to Adam because the King's bound by his word.
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So when God the Father says, Let man have dominion on the earth
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to rule now it requires a man to come back and get the dominion.
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This is why God has to come as a man.
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He has to put himself in a flesh suit.
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Because it's legal entry. And God is a legal God.
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He does not go against his own word.
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And when Adam sinned, death came.
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And death has a price. Sin has a price.
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It's called death. It has to be paid.
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The wages of sin is well did Jesus pay that price?
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Yes he did. He died and his blood was more
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precious than silver and gold, which paid a debt.
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That's why we're called redeemed.
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So the Death Bear on resurrection of Jesus is a
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financial transaction between two kingdoms where the Lord now
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has the legal right. To deliver anyone who will call
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him Lord because he's paid the price for them, but now He will
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not deliver them unless they acknowledge him although he's
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already paid the price which means they have to denounce the
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Devil is Lord supreme authority telling me what to do, and now
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Jesus is supreme authority who I yield to and tells me what to do
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because His words are love in life anyway, you do not keep
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following this one. Expecting to go to heaven with
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that one. Are you hearing me?
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So the devil goes up and the Lord says, have you considered
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my servant job you. He said.
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What? He asked first.
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First thing he says to me, he says, he said Where you been?
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He said, well, you know, just roaming the earth.
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Why is he roaming the earth? That's where his kingship is.
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You're not in your kingship if you're not where Within the
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territory of your domain. President Biden is the president
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of the United States. He is not the president of
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China. Oh, y'all want to hear this?
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He can go to China all day long, but he has no authority in
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China. The only authority he has in
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China is what's in the home country.
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He only has protection from a land that he's not in.
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But at the end of the day, could China take him mean?
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I mean, capture him. He could.
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It could happen. I mean, plenty of presidents
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have been taken over before. He could go in for a summit and
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they capture him, throw him in prison, hold him ransom.
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Now, what takes place then? Anybody.
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Well, you assume war number one. What happens is the vice
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president assumes the role. That's what happens.
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Kamala Harris becomes president while he's in jail to negotiate
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with the country, to determine how they going to try to get him
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out, whether that's by brute force or through some form of
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negotiation or whatever. But she'll become.
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That's how that works. No problem.
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That's just how that works. My point is, is that the devil
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is not going to heaven to take dominion.
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The devil went up to heaven in the realm of the Spirit, you
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understand in the heavenlies and the Lord's like what do you been
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doing? Well, I'm roaming my domain
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because they all my people down there, he said.
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Why have you considered my servant Joe?
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Because ain't nobody like him. He's righteous now.
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He's righteous based upon the knowledge that's available of
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God on the earth that day at that time, and based upon what
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is known about God at that time. He is living righteous.
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And so he says, well, it's only cause you got him protected.
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Well, guess what God does to the righteous?
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He protects them. But then he says this, he says.
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Now listen, you take his stuff, he would curse you.
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In essence, He's only righteous because of the benefits that
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come with righteousness. If trouble actually came to him,
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ain't know what the Lord says. He says, well, he's in your
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power, which means he's already in your authority.
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It wasn't God authorizing Satan. It was him saying, well, his
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stuff is already in your authority because you have
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dominion over cattle. You all don't want to hear this
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you. Have dominion over the cattle.
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You have the dominion over his stuff.
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Now obviously he can't appeal to me, but in the end, you do have
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dominion over this. You're the God of this world and
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the kids that came from his loins.
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How was man made out of the dust of the earth?
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Now here's the problem. Daddy is doing sacrifices for
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kids because he's concerned that every night they having a party.
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They may be doing things and saying stuff that is not
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righteous to the king, and keeping themselves in the edge
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of protection of which apparently they were not.
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Because the Satan was able to do something to their skin suits
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which was of the earth. And they all died.
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They died, the cattle died, the plants died.
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It was his dominion. Did he curse him?
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No. So he shows back up, which,
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well, I'm just roaming my domain, He said.
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Well, you you're still thinking about Job.
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There ain't nobody, right? Just like the guy.
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And he did not do what you said he would do.
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Because again, when the Bible says you move me to go against
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him, basically all he is saying is you moved.
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To take his stuff that was technically near your dominion,
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but by right of righteousness I could defend him, he says.
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Well, you touch the man's skin, he's going to curse you.
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And guess what God does? He says, well, he's in your
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power. Meaning your is is true.
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I form man out of the dust of the and you have dominion over
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all the so you can put sickness on him, but you can't put a
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sickness that will cause his spirit to leave his body because
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he's done nothing deserving of death, so he limits how much
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sickness can be on him. Cause it's it's in your power
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now. You can't go.
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Well, I guess the Lord's letting the devil mess with my body
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today, because it's no, he's not in your power.
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He's been stripped and whipped of his power in this covenant.
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He has been whipped of his by the stripes of Jesus Christ.
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You've been healed. You don't have to wait one
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moment. You don't have to take one
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symptom because you're a child of the king.
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And the healthcare system of the king, is it by his stripes he
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were healed. So you don't put up with that.
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So you can't be pulling job over here.
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Job is even before the law, OK, just so we're clear, so, he
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says. It's in your power now what
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happens? He still doesn't curse him and
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in the end most scholars believe that was about a nine month
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period. The the Max is 18 months.
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Most say it's probably about nine months that the Lord says
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he did not do what you said. He maintained his righteousness
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and I have the legal right I do because of what he knows about
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me. He's following by faith.
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I always deliver the righteous out of all their trouble, so
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don't touch him no more. And when he couldn't touch him,
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what happened? He got double for his.
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Double the flock, double the farms, double the kids.
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Now he didn't have 14 kids on the planet.
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He had seven more because the other seven were with the Lord.
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Are you hearing me? Okay, y'all doing.
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All right. So then when we say an evil
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spirit from the Lord, then you have to understand, according to
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the scripture says, that the devil is the accuser of the
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brethren. In essence, Satan has come up at
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the time of King Saw and he says, you know, I got a legal
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right to this man. You know he didn't do what you.
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That's right, that's. Right.
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You know he was disobedient and you've put the anointing that
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was on him on somebody else already.
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And I I'm going to torment him. And the Lord, he's in your
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power, Okay. Just so we understand that this
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is functioning now. It's not God doing it, It's the
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devil going up. To that realm and saying I have
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a legal right under this dispensation that he was in.
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Now he can still do that with people that are that are #1
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lost. Number two, he can do it to the
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believer who is Baxlidden. Make no mistake about it.
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You can't go out under grace and do a bunch of sin and the devil
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can't touch you. No, he's knocking out your door
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and he's letting the devil know I'll be talking to your son.
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I'll be visiting your daughter's house this weekend.
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And you tie his hands because you are living up underneath
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that domain again. And you're crying for grace to
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protect you. When grace that can't even be
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activated unless you're in faith.
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It's by grace through through what you know, how many people
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aren't in faith. So then you're not in grace.
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All right. Amen.
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But religion lets you do the least instead of the Kingdom.
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God clearly defines. This is what I can do and only I
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can do. And this is what you do.
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And when you do yours and I do mine, nobody can stop us.
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That's how the Kingdom functions.
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Are you hearing me? Because Adams without sin and
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the Creator could not stop it. Oh y'all, He could not stop it.
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All he could do was empower him to not do it.
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And he did with the word son. Don't eat from the tree of the
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knowledge of good and evil for the day you eat it, you will.
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Surely he empowered him, but he couldn't stop him and some of
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your parents if you don't watch out with you.
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Why you need to come to our parenting conference is that you
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are trying to stop things in your kids.
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You can't stop it. All you can do is empower them
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to make the right choices, and then hold them accountable to
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make those choices all right. So do we understand where the
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evil spirits come from now? They petitioned, they went to
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the courtroom, they went up to the Kingdom and says, hey, I got
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a write to this guy because he's in disobedience and you pulled
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the annoying. Anyway, there's no protection on
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that king. All right, he goes on and says
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this verse 16, let the Lord now command your servant.
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This is his servants now King Saul's servant saying to him,
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let our Lord now command your servants who are before you.
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Let them seek a man who was skillfully A skillful player on
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the harp, and he shall come about when the evil spirit from
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God again that legally went to God, says, I got a right to go
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to terrorize this guy on is on you.
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Then he shall play the heart with his hand and you will be
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well. So Saul said to the servant,
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provide me a man who can play well and bring him to me.
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So there must have been something that it was known in
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the land that when someone played evil spirits would get
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off people. Are you hearing me?
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Then one man, then one of them young men said, Behold, I know
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the son of Jesse. Who is a skillful musician,
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mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent speech, a handsome
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man, and the Lord is with him. So Saul sent message, Jesse and
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said, send me your son David, who was with the flock.
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Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine, cause
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you do not come to a king empty handed, and a young goat, and
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sent them to Saul by David his son.
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Then David came to, saw and attended him, and David and Saul
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loved him greatly. And he became his armor bearer.
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Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David now stand before me, for
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he has found favor of my sight. Verse 23 And and it came about
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whenever, say whenever, whenever.
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So that's not one time, it's whenever.
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Whenever the evil spirit from God came to Saul, David would
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play the harp and play it with what his hand, and Saul would be
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what? Refreshed and be well and the
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evil spirit would depart from him.
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And when we religiously define worship as singing, what happens
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is is the devil will accommodate environments.
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So you come to church, you're oppressed from the whole week,
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heavy burdened, and you just want to worship him.
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I mean, you want to dance before him.
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I mean, you want to give him your all.
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You're going to dance like David Dance.
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You're going to sing like David saying.
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You're going to just pour it all out every time and the you sense
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the president and all that heavyweight and it lifts and
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you're like, I wish they would let us do praise longer.
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I wish they would let it go longer.
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I just wish we could have more, You know, I just worship all the
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time in my house. I've got music.
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Going 24/7 all the time. I'm just singing praises all the
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time. Why?
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Because it lifts. And yet the Bible does say it'll
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lift. But you know what?
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That's not permanent, because why are those same people having
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to come in to get stuff off? Because whenever I said
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whenever, which means apparently the evil spirit had access.
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So what was going on in Saul's life obviously, or what's going
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on on these Christians lives, that there's always a heaviness
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that shows up that they need to get somewhere and sing to get it
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off. They got to get in the praise
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service. They got to go to the Hillsong
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concert or to the Gateway concert or to the Elevation
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concert, or they got to go down to the amphitheater or some
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other kind of Christian concert. They got to go to all these
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performances and get up and into all this music because why would
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it pulled up all my impression and it will for season, but it's
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not permanent and this is what that 23 old minister of
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Moundsville said. He said that my generation, the
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guys my age, all they want to do is get in the singing, in the
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worship conferences and all that.
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And he says it's no permanent change because David's music did
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not permanently change Saul. I don't care how much Pastor
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Marcus is worshipping up here, jumping, dancing, pouring his
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heart out towards the Lord, that is not permanent change going to
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happen for you. Will this environment lift the
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room? Yes.
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Will it be able to pull things off you?
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Yes. And why is it designed so that
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you can become a true worshipper?
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Because when it's lifted, you're supposed to then move into what
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causes you to be a tree worshipper.
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And it's has nothing to do with singing, although it may require
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it. At Tom's.
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You know how many people are obsessed?
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They are worshipping, singing to the Lord.
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They worship the music. They worship it so much they
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don't even listen to the context.
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You know what I mean? We you know what I mean?
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Songs we change. I can't even sing have to stuff
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this out there. It's full of doubt, unbelief,
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old covenant doctrine that it has no place in the new
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Covenant. But you know what it is, it's
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emotions. So what it is, is create an
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environment where they're worshipping him and again cause
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they define worship as singing in soul and scripture.
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That's how I'm gonna say it. Cause just cause you're using
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scripture don't mean you're speaking truth.
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Oh, you don't hear this. You can use scripture to
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manipulate. You can use scripture to bring a
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false doctrine. I mean even the devil quoted
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scripture with Jesus. So just cause they're using
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scripture in their song doesn't mean it's scripts role or it's
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truth. The Lord giveth and the Lord
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taketh away If you read Job. God took nothing from Job.
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The devil did. So why are we singing Job's
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misunderstanding? Because he has no context
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concerning the devil. You understand Job doesn't have
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our Bible. God himself didn't even tell
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Adam about the devil. He comes down the cooler day.
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That's how he communicates with him in the garden.
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He didn't say, Son, I just want you to know where I'm living.
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We had a little problem. I mean, it didn't take long
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because your daddy's powerful, you know?
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So I had this creative being that I had.
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He went rogue, got about 1/3 of some angels to go with him, you
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know. So they came against the Kingdom
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up there and came against Michael.
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Man. They were fighting some stuff,
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but I took care of that with the word right.
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Jesus said I saw Satan fall like Latin from heaven, so I've sent
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him down here. You need to be looking out for
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him. His name is never said that.
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He gave him one word that it doesn't matter if the devil
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showed up, walked around. Don't eat the fruit, son.
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You need everything else. Don't eat the fruit.
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So we're assuming Job has this context of the devil and Satan
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and what he's doing mean. Scholars believe that is
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Genesis. I think up to chapter 22, the
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whole book of Job is there is considered the oldest book of
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the Bible because it's the complete book before Genesis.
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He actually finishes being pinned of its history.
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So Joe doesn't have the the the five, the Torah.
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He didn't have this. He has the conversations and
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testimonies of things that God has done.
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There's some knowledge that has been passed on through Adam
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somehow in the earth and his son somehow.
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Something's through to some degree that Job is able to have
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some context of God. Although we do know that Romans
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themselves says just through creation, God's invisible people
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are without excuse. No, there's a God.
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So there's something that he knew that kept him in this
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position of righteousness with the Lord, but he has no contest
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and everyone knows that God's all powerful.
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So at the end of the day, he's assuming then well, God, who am
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I to complain if God takes away what I have because I'm just
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going to worship him anyway? You know we should just worship
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him anyway, But God's giving us a whole scripture lets us know
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that's not my character. If something's being stripped
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from you and I'm a cause, it's cause you're in gross
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disobedience and I've done a lot to try to talk you out of the
-
stuff you're in. I'm going to say that again, if
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the. Lord is personally involved.
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With the dismantling of stuff that you have, it's because
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you're in gross disobedience and he has been extremely
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long-suffering to talk you out of what you're in.
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So people want to just come to the singing stuff.
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I mean, most churches, the singing is longer than the
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preaching. Well, let's just feel better
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when they're really worshipping because of their definition of
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worship in soul and scriptures. That's how it makes them feel.
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And the more the song makes them feel good.
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Look, you know as well as I do, I could throw out some secular
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stuff. Right now, I'm talking stuff
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that's straight from the pit of hell.
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I'm talking stuff that. I mean, if I would have been in
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high school with some of the songs that come out today, man,
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it had been rough. Deal.
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It'd been rough. I mean, lyrically, there was
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some stuff in when I was in high school anyway.
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I mean, but it's become mainstream pop stuff.
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I mean, it's very descriptive. I remember when I was youth
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pastor. Now you understand this was 20
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something years ago. And this guy by the name of
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Nellie. Anybody know who Nellie is?
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OK, it got hot in here. I mean, you know that song.
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OK, some of y'all. Now you understand what happens
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when it gets hot. There is no way I wouldn't be
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going out and playing that with a girl in the car with the
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heater on. It's getting hot here.
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And I bet you there's a lot of girls that did that song.
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But I'm saying right now, you don't have to hear the words,
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but this, the beat starts going, you can't help but I see y'all
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y'all at the stadium. You'll be at the mall somewhere,
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you know, out and about. And if something's playing you
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can't be be like. Catching yourself working, that
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thing. UNICEF So Christian music, I'm
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talking about your shoulders. Working your shoulders.
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We are no longer at Nelly's song, so get your mind right.
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Y'all should be able to recover faster now.
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We're in church, people. But I'm just saying, I mean you,
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you can't help but be like you. I mean, we participate.
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We have no problem with moving with rhythm.
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I mean, OK, that is debatable, that is.
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Some do, but they still try, is what I'm saying.
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You know, you can't watch some of the people clap.
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You know you can't. You're like, I can't even sing
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this song now, but it's soul. And emotionally, I mean, you're
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screaming, you got veins popping, you're sweating, you're
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putting your whole soul in it. But your spirit may not even be
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close. In fact, most it's not.
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In fact, with some of the lyrics, it can't be.
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It can't even be. Again, I had teenagers before
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the Depot when I was in Florida that came to me and wanted me to
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sing a song with the worship team called Heaven Let Your
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Light Shine down by Collective Soul.
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Collective Soul, Is that what? Yeah, Collective Soul.
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It's secular. But why they want me to sing it?
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Because they have the word heaven in it.
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Yeah. Pastor Vanessa's youth group.
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I think she was the one who suggested it.
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Are you going to say it's Jimmy James?
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I see how it is. You're going to throw him.
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I saw Vanessa be over there. Yeah, I'm like, no, we are.
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No, no. Just cause it says heaven don't
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mean it's heaven. I mean it could be the first or
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second heaven where there's principalities out.
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But we ain't talking about the 3rd heaven people.
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Then I found out later that the guy wrote the song while in a
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strip bar and while I was watching the girl dance.
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This came to his mind. OK, just so y'all know, my point
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is, is that the enemy's doing a good job of keeping you in your
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soul realm and not in your spirit because he's redefined
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worship as singing and he wants you to be emotionally all in.
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Because he even knows that music has the potential and you can't
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get in atmospheres where it can pull things off.
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But here's the problem. If you do not do what's
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necessary, then even that environment.
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Will fail. And again we minister that you
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can get into worship and and things that are on you can begin
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to lift and they will. And I believe that you can come
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in Anchor Faith Church and we can do stuff here and things
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begin to rise. And it will rise.
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But the reason it's coming up off you is because of what you
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need to do to become a true worshipper.
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Because if you don't then you get First Samuel chapter 18.
1 Samuel 18 chapter mention
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First time in chapter 18, verse 10 says this.
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Now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from
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God, and we've already explained this, was mightily upon saw and
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he raved in the midst of the house while David was what
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playing the harp. And remember, whenever it came
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on, he played the harp and what took place.
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It would go away. He would be refreshed.
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He was playing the harp with his hands as.
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Usual. And a spear was in Saul's hand.
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Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, I will pin David to the
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wall, But David escaped from his presence.
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Twice. So this time, when singing went
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instead of them Saul come being refreshed, Saul got more angry.
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This is important because again, if you don't do what you need to
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do to become a true worshipper, then all the worship of Anchor
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Faith Church is going to do is make you mad because that's why
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you'll stand in the back like this.
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And Pastor Mars said, well lift your hands and you're hurling
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Spears in your mind because you're saying this is stupid.
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I wish they'd go on. Man, so dumb.
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I don't understand why there's people up there acting like
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that. It's just so idiotic, which they
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just shut up, sit down and let them preach.
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Well, the preacher is doing nothing for you, although it
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would do something for you if you actually would listen.
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Because there is a time to raise your hand.
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There's a time to dance. There's a time to shout.
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There's a time. I get it.
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There's there's a time when it's time to praise.
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Let's praise him, let's praise him, Let's lift our hands, let's
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clap. Let's do it all.
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I mean, the scripture says we should praise the Lord.
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But if you're having a hard time praising us because you've got
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more souls at. Because when things were lifted,
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you didn't do what you supposed to do to be a tree worshipper,
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and now you're mad in it. And it's ain't the only
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occasion. First Same year, chapter 19.
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Very next chapter, Chapter 9, a verse 9 and 10.
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Now there was an evil spear from the Lord on Saul as he was
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sitting in his house and his spear was in his hand.
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And Dave was playing the harp with his hand.
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And Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he
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slipped out of the Saul's presence so that he stuck the
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spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that
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night, that night because in this account, he sent the guys
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over to his house because at this point now he's married to
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his daughter, the first one. He wasn't married to his
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daughter. So he sends him off to the
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Philistines to get killed. And the reason he said, I'll let
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you know, you need to marry my daughter.
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And he said, look, I'm just a guy from the, you know, out in
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the field. I I have nothing to be able to
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do a dowry for your daughter. I can't even, you know, he's
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already rejected being his son once.
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Now he's like, what do you, what do I do?
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He said. Look, you just kill me.
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It's 100 Philistines and you know, basically circus size them
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and bring that, that, that, that piece of skin back.
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And David did it. He was hoping that David was
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going to die, but he did. And when David came to town
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after that one, they said Saul kills his thousands and David is
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10s of thousands and the worship service didn't lift him anymore.
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In fact, he was never in another musical session with David ever
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again because music could soothe him no more.
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And there's a lot of people in churches that music does not
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soothe them anymore. And now we're at a problem
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because you've been told religiously you were created to
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worship and you can't. In fact, that makes you mad.
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I'm preaching better than you're saying.
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Amen. But I appreciate the 1:00
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because we are in a culture right now that our praise and
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worship has gone so secular. I can name bands right now and
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y'all listening to them. You're watching them on YouTube.
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You're singing to the top of your lungs, and most of you're
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not even examining whether or not what they're saying is
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scriptural at all. Now, I'm not telling you to
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abandon singing. Please do not, please sing.
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I'm not telling you to never listen to anyone.
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I'm not saying that. I'm just saying be more
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understanding. As you grow.
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There's probably some things that you were singing you're
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probably not going to sing. And if the Lord's not dealt with
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you about a. Particular song Sing Away.
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But the minute you begin to realize, man, I don't know if
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that's right, then you need to make an adjustment because God
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wants you to be accurate. Are you hearing me Now?
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How can we determine what a true worshipper is?
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Well, we picked up this whole context about David showing up
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in first time. You're 16 in the 14th verse.
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If we go back to that chapter, verse seven, it says.
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But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance or at
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the height of his statue, because I have rejected him.
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For God sees not as man sees, but man looks at the outward
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appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
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What kind of heart is God going? After he tells us 3 chapters
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earlier in First Samuel 13 go to First Samuel 13 versus 13 to 14
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Samuel said to Saul, You have acted foolishly.
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You have not. What?
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Oh, come on. You have not kept the
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commandment of the Lord your God, which you which he
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commanded you. For now the Lord would have
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established your Kingdom over Israel forever.
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But now your Kingdom shall not endure, for the Lord has sought.
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He's looking now. Sought out for himself a man
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after his own heart, and the man and the Lord has appointed him
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as ruler over his people, because you have what not kept
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what the Lord commanded. You.
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Now what took place here? This here.
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The Lord said, hey, Samuel said show up.
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We're going to do a sacrifice. I'll be there to do the
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sacrifice. The people started to leave, so
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he wanted to please the people. Samuel's not there.
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He's not being patient. He doesn't do what Samuel says
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that the Lord said, so he doesn't sacrifice himself.
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And now the Lord says you didn't know, baby.
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Now he did a sacrifice to the Lord.
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But the Lord didn't say him to do the sacrifice, the prophets
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coming to do the sacrifice. So the Lord says I'm looking for
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somebody, but he gives him another opportunity or at least
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he again tries to come back to him and say, listen, if you're
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going to be a true worshipper, this how it works.
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So we go to the 15th chapter for Samuel, and he says now, so
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you're going to go into battle and this group of people right
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here, you keeping nothing? You destroy it all.
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You're not. You don't keep a thing.
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I understand that these past battles, you guys have taken the
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best. You've done a sacrifice.
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You've honored me with that because I helped you win the
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battle You've done. But with this group right here,
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I've already judged them. None of them are good.
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No one will ever be good out of this breed.
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No one will ever be good. God knows the end from the
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beginning. They'll nobody will ever turn to
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me out of this race here, this nation of people.
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Destroy it all. He kills everyone but keeps the
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best. And the Lord says I regret.
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I regret that I have made Sal king.
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And so Samuel all night contends with the Lord about this deal
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shows up and he says what in the world, John?
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He said I only obeyed the command of God and I love
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Samuel's response. Then what is the sound of sheep
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that I'm hearing right now? So he goes on and says, look, I
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mean, I did what God said we could have, But you know what?
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At the end of the day, some people came to me and we talked
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about how we should go ahead and sacrifice to God for this great
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win. And so we kept the best stuff to
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do a sacrifice. And here it comes in the 22nd
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verse of First Samuel. 15 Samuel said, has the Lord as much
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delight and burn, offerings and sacrifice as in obeying the
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voice of the Lord. Behold, to obey is better.
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Then sacrifice and to heed. Then the fat of Rams.
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For rebellion is is as the sin of divination and insombornation
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is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the
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word of the Lord, He has also rejected you from being king.
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A true worshipper. Bible definition of worship.
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Worship means obey God. If the Lord says give obey,
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that's worship. If the Lord says run obey,
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that's worship. If the Lord says be quiet, obey,
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that's worship. If the Lord says read the word
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obey, that's worship. If the Lord says pray, pray,
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that's worship. The Lord says forgive your
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brother, forgive him. That's worship.
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That's worship. And the Lord says I'm looking
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for true worshippers. I'm looking for people who obey
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me. And if the Lord says sing, sing.
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If he says shout, shout. But he did not take every town
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with a shout. Why do we go to churches and we
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want to shout every service? God didn't take every city with
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a shout. So it doesn't mean that we
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should have to shout every service.
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God didn't have expressions of joy in everything, so that that
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mean every service you got to be laughing and rolling on the
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floor. What you have to do is obey some
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of God's most powerful services, like.
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But because we're religiously worse.
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Oh Lord God, oh God, God, everybody else is quiet and
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you're screaming and Lord, I love you, Lord, Lord.
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And we're like God's not in your song at all.
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You are emotionally responding right now because if you were in
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the spirit, obedience would be be quiet.
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But now if everybody is like, glory to God, glory to God, and
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you're like, you're definitely not in the spirit.
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But I don't feel like shouting. But he says to shout.
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And I am do it by the Spirit, not by my emotions anyway.
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Because again, we all those little religious Christians,
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what do they do? Well, you know, we're supposed
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to be led by faith, but I don't feel like, well, you're not
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supposed to feel faith, right? You're just supposed to obey
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God. I don't feel like singing.
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Who cares? Sing and there.
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And since you're not created to sing all of us forever in
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eternity, although we will sing, you can make a joyful noise.
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So God did include. You right.
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So again, it should be easy. If people are truly worshipping,
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they come to church. Because he said, oh, forsake the
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assembly and you can't, you cannot interpret that any other
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way. And they are trying, but they
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are already. I mean, it's like they, you
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know, you don't have to go to church.
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They use this scripture all the time, assemble.
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But they didn't actually go to church that they assembled.
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They did assemble, and God says assemble and you can't assemble
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by yourself. Can't happen.
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I mean, it's just crazy doctrine out there, but it's because the
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devil's really good at keeping people separated and not true
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worshippers. Are you hearing me?
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Well, How relevant is this to today?
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Well, Mark chapter 12. Mark chapter 12, verse 28 to 34.
Mark 12 chapter mention Mark 12:28–34
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One of the scribes came and heard them argue, and
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recognizing that he had answered them well, asked him what
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commandment is the foremost of all.
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Jesus said the foremost is here. Sing to the Lord.
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Sing to the Lord with all your heart.
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Sing, sing, sing because you were created to worship.
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Now if you define worship like God, then you could say we were
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created to worship because I was created to always obey my
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Father. So it is true we were created to
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worship when worship means to obey God whatever he says.
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So if God says sing, I worship him singing because I obey.
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If God says to lay down and be still, I worship him.
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If the Lord says go to this place and pay for this person's
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meal, I go do it. I'm worshipping him.
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You know you can worship God that way.
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We say worship God with your giving.
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Well the reason we worship God with the giving because he says
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give worship then means not because we're singing it out of
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our hands, but it's because we're obeying the command of
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God. So Jesus says, well, they asked
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what's the form? Jesus answered the foremost.
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It says here on Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord, and you shall
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love the Lord with all your there's your spirit, all your
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there's your soul Round that's your mind, will, emotion.
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And with all your mind that's your intellect and with all your
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that's your body. Your body's not your.
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OK, the 2nd is this. You shall love your neighbor as
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yourself. There is no other commandment
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greater than these, the scribe said to him.
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Right, Teacher, you have truly stated that he is 1 and there is
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no one else beside him. Now look where this guy goes,
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and that you shall love him with all your heart, with all your
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understanding, with all your strength, and love your
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neighbors and himself in so much more, is much more than all
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burnt offerings and sacrifices. Didn't we just read this that
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Samuel tells Saul you get no more Kingdom God stripping you
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of your King's anointing because you are coming and giving a
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sacrifice of praise? Oh, you don't want to hear this.
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That's fine. You going to come and bring a
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sacrifice of praise, but you're not going to actually obey me.
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I mean, you gonna sweat more than anybody.
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You gonna dance more than anybody.
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You gonna shout more than anybody.
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You gonna run more than anybody. Unless you in the house that
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teaches this stuff and then you don't move at all.
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But then you go to places that nobody knows you and you're all
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over the place and he says all that burn off rings.
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The second he said when Jesus saw, look what he says.
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When Jesus saw that he answered intelligent.
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Look what he responds, he said to him, look what he said.
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You are not far from you want to get into Kingdom.
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You got to obey. It's not you're not singing your
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way in. You're singing is not making you
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more Kingdom. Your obedience is what makes you
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Kingdom, and sometimes the Kingdom says you need to sing, I
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said you need to sing, you need to sing.
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Because if the Lord tells me just to dance, or if He tells me
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to run, I'll run if he tells. Me to shout, I'll shout and you
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understand. I'll praise period.
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And a lot of times, you know, you get in some places where
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there's a lot of ministers. They don't do nothing, but I get
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around a lot of Saints that all they do is sing and they ain't
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obedient, which means they're not a true worshipper because
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they don't put down the flesh, they don't crucify it, they
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don't walk wholly, meaning they don't keep themselves separated
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unto God. All right, it's getting getting
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nice and loud up in this place right here who love it.
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Well then we got to define love, right?
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Because if God's looking for true worshippers and worship
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means to obey him, he said Now like he seeks.
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What was he seeking when he went after David?
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A man after his own heart. And what was David?
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A man who obeyed? There are only three accounts.
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I believe it is 3 accounts of David of his failures.
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But yet we act like, you know, they're right there.
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Especially the you know the Bathsheba one right there.
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You know what? He did so many more obedient
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things. I mean, it just compels in
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comparison his obedience to God compared to his three documented
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disobedient things. He was a man after Gaza.
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This wasn't. And most people say a man after
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Gaza. Heart is a man who's quick to
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repent. God was after his after this
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guy, before he ever became king. So his repentance to Nathan
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didn't mean it was a man after his own heart.
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It was because he was already a guy that recognized worship is
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obeying God. And since you've called me out
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and you're right, who am I to kill the prophet?
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Because other kings did that to make them continue to look good,
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he said. I'm going to obey God because
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that's what a true worshipper does.
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They obey. And you can't obey God in spirit
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and in truth unless you're connected to truth.
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Hallelujah. Cause worship means you love
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him. How do we know this?
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John 1415 says it this way if you love me.
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Who's saying this? So you can't just sing?
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I love you, I love you. I love you.
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I mean we sing these songs about how much we love God, but he's
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like, I don't care you're, I mean, you know, half this half.
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So many people are married and they're here and I love you.
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And most don't believe it because it's a word without
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action. And you know you're not duping
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the Lord. The Lord's not a man that he
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should lie, number one, nor is the Lord mocked.
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So you can't say out of your mouth, I love you.
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And he don't know in your heart that it's a lot to your actions
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if you love me. Jesus the King defines how he
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knows you love him. Oh my gosh.
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Guys, I've already told you this in the bears repeating today.
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God creates Adam in his image. He's just like God, no sin.
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But how does God even know Adam loves him?
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He's made his image. Why would he not know that Adam
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loves him? He can only know one way.
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Adam has to obey to show love. That's why he says you can eat
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of any tree. But if the tree of the knowledge
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of good and evil you shall not eat for the day you eat, you
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die. I just want to know.
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Adam, do you love me? It's the only way.
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Saying I love you doesn't mean it.
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And Jesus reaffirms this now. If you love me, you sometimes,
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but not always, because you understand this is grace.
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Anyway, you don't have to Jack. You will.
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Keep my commandments and there's so many people religiously
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worship in Jesus right now as false worshippers crying out.
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This is why I'll never forget I was in at a particular
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conference and I just teenagers were on this wall just wailing,
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wailing in a in a praise session just, I mean crying everything.
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And I'm like, wow man, these teens are going after it.
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And the Lord told me he said no, they're not.
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He says I don't even hear them. I'm like Lord, he said none of
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them are connected to me in the spirit at all.
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Now that doesn't mean God is not compassionate.
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That doesn't mean that God isn't trying to move them somewhere to
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get them somewhere. See, here's the thing.
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Don't be so arrogant to think God's got accept how I'm doing
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it. I mean, that's the I I I cried
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out and cried out. He had.
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God doesn't have to do anything but what His word says.
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And if you'll do his word, then he has to do that.
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That's why Jesus can be in a crowd.
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It's why people are so crazy and they say, well, if I just get in
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the presence of God, just get in the presence.
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God has been in the presence of all kind of people and did
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nothing. It did not change them
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permanent. You know what miracles sound?
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If we could just get the miracles back, can we just get
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the miracles back? Miracle Signs and Wonders does
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not. Mean permanent change in people
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because Jesus did miracle signs and wanders 3 years into as
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many. She said I ain't doing no more
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miracles in this town. All you do is seek a sign.
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You are a perverse and evil generation.
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All you do is seek a sign. I'm so sick and tired of all the
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signs that are testifying in me. If you if you believe the signs,
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then you would obey me. But you're not obeying me, so
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I'm not going to perform for you.
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So you can't come and make me do what you want, nor can you make
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me respond to you in your flesh. That's good.
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I'm not going to be in your service just because you're
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crying and you got a problem. But I'll be in your presence if
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you'll make a demand on my word and I'll show up.
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I'll show out. I'll stand up, I'll do it and
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I'll deliver you like nobody else.
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But you're crying doesn't do nothing for me.
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He can say I got a whole book of criers that I did nothing.
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Are you hearing me? Because this is how good God is.
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You can be doing so much in the flesh and God to send you a
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spirit man or woman to come by and say no.
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Honey, I can show you some things that help move God, but
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if you want to worship God your way religiously, then you'll get
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that God Well, but he's done stuff for me.
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He's done stuff for the people praying for you while you stay
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ignorant. That's the problem.
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Did God get you out of that? Yeah, but it wasn't your
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prayers. It was someone who knew how to
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tap God on your behalf. There was a Moses in your life
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that was standing up while you were stiff, stubborn and
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hardhearted doing it. Your way and somebody was in the
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gap still for you. And yeah, it was God, but it was
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nothing. You were snotting out.
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Just say Amen. Anyway, this is true deliverance
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right here, people, because this how you tap into God and become
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a true worshipper, because you're like, I'll find out what
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God says. Because he said now if you love
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me, you'll keep my word. Then he goes on down in the 21st
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chat verse of the same chapter and he says he who had, who has
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my commandments and keeps them, is the one who loves me.
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And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will
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love him and will disclose myself to him.
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But what is it that shows that we love him, we have His
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commandments and we keep them? Then he goes down to 23rd verse.
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In case you're confused, he says Jesus answer said that him if
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anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my father will love
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him. Which then implies if you don't
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keep my word, Dad is definitely displeased.
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OK. And we will come to him and make
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our abode with him he who does not.
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Love me now. How do we know who doesn't love
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you? Doesn't keep my word.
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Well, I love the Lord. Where you keeping his word?
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Well, I mean, when you're going to church.
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Well, I go when I want to. But the Lord says don't forsake
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the assembly yourself together. You're supposed to get up
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underneath the pastor man. Become part of a body, you know,
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share, pray. I mean, you know.
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Well, you know, someone so hurt me, I got church her.
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Well, you're just offended, you know?
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Get over it. Forgive.
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Let's go. Well, you don't know what I've
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been. OK, so you don't love him.
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Then? Don't tell me I don't love hell.
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You don't judge me. I'm not judging you.
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The scripture said if you're not keeping his words, you don't
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love him. What do you want me to say?
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I'm not going to believe you're lie.
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I mean you want me to believe you over the word who is saying
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verse 24. He who does not love me does not
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keep. My words and the word which you
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hear is not mine, but the father who sent me and that's what he's
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saying now. I'm not saying this.
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Daddy told me to say this so you don't do what I'm saying and.
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Then you have like you right with dad and your dad are tight.
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I'll go on over to 1st John just so we have no confusion today
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before we leave because God's seeking true worshippers that
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are those listen. This is why heaven will be
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nothing but worshippers. Because everyone who is with God
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in heaven for the time frame we are before we come back to new
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heaven, new earth. At the end of the day they will
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be worshippers because we will obey dad.
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We love to. I mean we just love to obey dad
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because he's life, he's love, he's existence and his ways.
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The only way, and we're so good with that, because it makes us
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discover who we are and all that we can be.
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First John Chapter 2, verse 3 through 6 is this.
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By this we know that we have come to know him.
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By this we know that we have come to know him notice.
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It doesn't say experience him because you can experience
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something about someone without knowing something.
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I've been in plenty of sports or concert experiences or political
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experiences for that and don't know the people.
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But I've been in an experience and I've walked down and go,
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wow, that was some experience and it touched me, it moved me.
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But I don't have a personal relationship with that which
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moved me. But this we know that if we have
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come to know him, if we keep his commands, the one who says I
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have come to know him and does not keep his commandments, is a.
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Is a what? It's a liar and the so God
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seeking after true worshippers and the and he seeks after them.
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Who worship him in spirit. And so if you don't keep his
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word, then you're a liar and the truth's not with you.
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So that means you're really not a true worshipper.
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So you're manipulating God's scripture to worship him the way
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you want to, but he don't hear you.
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But now he wants to be able to have the relationship, but you
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have to have it on his terms. Jesus said I am the way, the
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truth in life. We we don't get in this
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relationship our way. Why do we think then we get to
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love him our way. Okay.
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So I have come to know him. If if one says I have come to
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know him and does not keep his commandments, he's a liar.
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The truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word in
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him, the love of God has truly been perfected by this.
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We know that we are in him. How do we know?
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Because we come to church and sing and we are the most
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passionate singer. We sing more than anyone else.
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Longer. Harder.
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No. By this we know that we are in
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him. The one who says he abides in
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him ought himself to walk in the same manner as he walked.
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And Jesus did not love his will even unto death.
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Not my will, Father, but your will be done.
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I'm only going to do what you say because I'm a true
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