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Remember - Kingdom Reward
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Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith.
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Message podcast from st. Augustine Florida.
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Now enjoyed this message. What if you have your Bibles
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today turn over to Revelation chapter 22 Revelations chapter.
Revelation 22 chapter mention
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22. I was thinking back Wednesday
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night when I wasn't in service and I was you know, having some
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massive withdrawals Anybody have withdrawals like me on Wednesday
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night, you're like, man, I'm not in church.
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I'm like struggling right now. Now, you know that may sound
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silly but you know, I love to come together.
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I love it. I love and I understand that God
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didn't leave me, I didn't go to hell because of it, right?
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But at the end of the day, I love assembly, I love the
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command. The Lord said do not forsake the
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assembling of yourselves together and I love it and so,
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but I I said, you know, probably an 18 years, we've probably only
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not done to services at the end of the day only to so that's
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pretty good track record across the board.
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I mean, if every 18 years you only miss to, you know, your
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your your together then man, we're doing something right now
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is God in the assembly? Yes.
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Yes. He is.
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For anyone to think he's not, is a liar.
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He is in the assembly because he is the head of the church.
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Church, which are many members fitted and jointed together in
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the same location. Hallelujah.
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So he's definitely in the assembly and the anointing is
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greater in the assembly, than in your own personal life.
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Because he says, one can send a thousand to will send 10,000.
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So, there's Anna multiplying effect of anointing in numbers,
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so don't ever let the devil to deceive.
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A view that you by yourselves. Good enough.
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You by yourself is a sheep waiting to get eaten by a wolf
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as what you really are, and you think that you've got it
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together, but you need to come together because that's where
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safety is. Let me just say it this way.
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The father in this Parable, he will leave the 99.
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The shepherd will leave the 99 and go van.
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Think about this now, because we never preach this.
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What does the shepherd see in the 99 that he's willing to
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leavel? We always talk and focus on the
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one. I'll look how I came and ran the
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one down. Well, first of all, the one was
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lost. I mean, it's not like the one
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should be celebrated. Although we celebrate them once,
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he brings them, that's where the celebration happens.
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The celebration doesn't happen while they're lost the
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celebration happens. When he gets them back to the,
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the 99 and the 99 was able to be strong enough to say, go ahead
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and find them. We only want to preach about the
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one and not see the strengths in the 99 that the shepherd will
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leave. The 99, is there only one wolf?
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Are you want to hear this? I'm not going to preach it,
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though. I'll just stay off at now.
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I might start preaching it revelation. 22 verse 12.
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Jesus says this behold, I am coming quickly.
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Now his clinic in your quickly or two different quick leaves,
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but he is quickly coming. He said, behold, I am coming
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quickly and my what, my, what my, what?
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Come on, say it loud. My.
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What you get, louder, I'll preach shorter.
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My reward is with me to render to every man according to what
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he has done. This is a New Testament
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scripture that is in the Book of Revelation.
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The last chapter And he's coming to give an award reward to those
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that are doing something I said doing something, okay?
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So just being in the house isn't enough, we've got to be doing,
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how's business? All right, and he says I'm
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coming quickly. My reward is with me.
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So does Jesus have a reward to bring?
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Are you expecting your reward? Most people are Only expecting
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to just be in heaven when they die.
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They're not ready for a reward, nor they were expecting one.
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In fact, they would almost be considered arrogant or prideful
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to think. God would have a reward for
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them. They should just be thankful
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that they're not going to hell. Yet Jesus says I'm coming
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quickly and I have a reward with me to give to what how many men
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every man to render to every man.
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So as Believers we should have this for understanding, there's
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a reward to gain and it's not just Heaven, it's not just
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heaven. He has a reward so if he's
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bringing a reward, how does he know who gets what?
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Because he's going to render it to every man, how according,
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which means, it's not the same reward, so it can't be heaven.
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It can't be Heaven because is render to every man, according
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to what he has done and what have you done to earn Heaven.
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You not done anything to earn Heaven because by All rights,
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when you call on the name of Jesus and became a new child of
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God, a new creature in Christ. If you would have dropped dead,
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right? Then you're going to be present
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with the Lord and you've done nothing to earn heaven.
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So there's something else in this life that we're doing that
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God. Must be recording.
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In order to render a reward, you receive rewards because of
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something accomplished. Well, how many are doing the
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Bible reading plan? And aren't you excited?
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Because we're in the chronological, you get to go to
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the New Testament, finally, right?
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You get to get to the New Covenant, your life.
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Praise God. Luke we're in Luke.
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What that means? You just read malecha, which
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means you just read this in Malachi chapter 3.
Malachi 3 chapter mention
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Look at this. How many you this kind of popped
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in? And I'm going to have Amplified
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classic cause that's the translation I'm reading this.
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Says, then those who fear the lord talked often to one another
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and the Lord, listened and heard it.
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And a book of now notice this is not the book of life.
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There's another book. I said there's another book.
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And a book of remembrance was written before him of those who
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reverenced and worship worshipfully fear the lord, and
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who thought on his name and it shall be.
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Mine says the Lord are scuse me and they shall be mine, says the
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Lord of hosts in that day when I publicly recognized and openly
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declare them to be my Jewels, my special possession, my peculiar
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Treasure. I will spare them as a man,
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spares his own son, who, what serves him?
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So there comes a day that this book of remembrance, is going to
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get opened. Now, Joe Psalms verse 56.
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Verse 8 says, this is says, you have taken account of my misery
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put my tears in your bottle, are they not in your book?
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Now crime doesn't get you to heaven.
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Even so crying and misery, does it put you in the Book of Life?
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The Lamb's Book of Life is not obtained or you're not written
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there because you cried out to God to, you know, remember all
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the troubles you've had down here.
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So this is obviously a different book yet when you go through
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various trials and tribulations, and you are fearful of the Lord
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and your call. On his name and any suffering
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you're doing for his sake, they're going to be recorded in
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a book of remembrance. There's nothing going on in your
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life. God is Not documenting.
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Now I said this a couple Services ago I don't remember
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which one whether it was a Wednesday or Sunday, but it's
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going to bear repeating at this point because not everybody was
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in there. I often has a, you know, a
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person who oversees individuals that there's this term
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especially in the business world that is considered very negative
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and very negative. And if you are in a position of
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oversight and you seem to be doing Are are overseeing the
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people in this capacity, you're considered - like, you don't
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have good leadership and that is a micro manager.
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Right people don't micromanage me like if you if you're an
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overseer that's micromanaging then by all rights.
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The the context is you don't trust them.
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You're not giving them their ability to lead and to flourish
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and allow their own gift to come out.
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Well, the problem is God is a micromanager And I'm going to
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show you that here in a second because even job new of a book
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job said in the 19th, Chapter, verse 23 and 25, he says, oh,
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that my words were written all that, they were recorded in a
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book that with an iron stylist, and, and led, they were engraved
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in the rock forever yet, as for me, I know that my redeemer
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lives, man. Even before Jesus came.
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They knew the Gamers coming. He said at last, he will take
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his stand on the earth. He knew man.
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If if how I am following and honoring, if they could just
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write it down, I mean this is Joe who's being accused of his
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best friends that he's got to have this gross sin in his life
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for all this bad stuff to be happening to him and they're
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just Railing at him constant. He's like man if only somebody
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could have Accorded, how I was living my life.
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Not like these guys say, But at the end of the day, I know my
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redeemer lives and that in essence, he's going to give an
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account. Of my life before others look
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what it says in Matthew chapter 12 Jesus says this himself.
Matthew 12 chapter mention
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He says but I tell you that for every careless word that people
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speak, they will give an account of it when On the day of
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judgment. Now, some would say, wait a
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minute. Now we're not destined for
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judgment. Well, you are destined for the
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Judgment seat of Christ. You are destined for that.
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It's a reward ceremony. I said it's a reward ceremony
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and it's not you go to heaven ceremony?
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No, it's a book opening ceremony.
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It's a record of your life. Verse 37, for by you.
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Words, you will be what Justified and by your words you
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will be and we're talking about Believers.
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Now ultimately, we know this is the case with the great white
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Throne judgment and the very last days, right?
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That there's going to be judgment sent out to those
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who've never called on the name of the Lord.
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But Jesus himself, says, listen books are coming.
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Books are coming and you're going to give an account for
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every word, which tells us Jesus.
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Is Matt micromanaging. Everything about your life right
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now. How do we know this?
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Look at Hebrews chapter 4. Now, this should get you
Hebrews 4 chapter mention
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excited. It shouldn't get you in pain or
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worried or upset. I mean unless you doing stuff in
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secret that you think since secret, which is just a lie,
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because look what it says here in Hebrews 4:12, he stopped in
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verse 12. But there's a verse 13 says, for
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the word of God, is what living and active sharper than any
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two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of Soul and
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Spirit of both joints and Marrow.
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That's the threefold nature of man and able to judge the
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thoughts and intentions of the heart verse 13.
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And there is no creature hidden from his sight.
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But all things, how many things come on?
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How many things? All things are open and laid
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bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do meaning
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there's nothing going on in the planet that he's not seeing from
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a faith perspective. I'm like thank God that
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everything I'm doing for the Lord as not unnoticed.
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It's not like I'll Stand before God one day and say he'll save
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you know I Forgot you did that. See we understand God, forgets
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our sin. He throws it into the sea of
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forgetfulness. He removes our sin as far as the
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East is from the west, but he is recording everything.
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We're doing in faith, according to his word.
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He's recording it all. And I'm so excited because
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anything I'm doing when nobody else is watching.
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When no one gives me a thank you.
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Well, no, one even knows that I was intercede and stand and
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believe in going through the trial and tribulation because I
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came out not with a gloomy face but with a face of Joy, when I
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was going through the worst trial of my life but everybody
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thought I was having the greatest time of my life, he saw
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it all. I said he saw it all and wants
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so awesome. Is that his word is able to
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judge my And so when we make this statement but God knows my
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heart, you bet he does and he never gets it wrong.
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Now you can lie to somebody about your intentions, but
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you'll never ever lie to whom you going to have to deal with
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about your intentions. Ever because he knows the
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intentions of your heart. God is a recorder because he's
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coming quickly and he has a reward for you.
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Aren't you glad I'm telling you right now?
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If I realized at this very moment that everything I was
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doing was being recorded by God and if I could look at my life
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in Christ, I say man I don't know that I'm really living for
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real. I don't know that he's recording
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things. Good.
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I mean, maybe I'm not living as I should.
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Well, you know what? I could repent.
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Ask God to forgive me. Get that written off my books so
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that I could get something different on the books because I
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don't want God on that day. When he stands before me, and
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the fire comes, the Bible says, will be tested with fire.
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And when the fire comes, he said, if we've got any works,
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that are wood, hay, and stubble, they'll be burned up, which
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means I did it so that you could like me.
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And man, are we not living in a generation of wanting to get
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likes? So for every one, it says all I
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appreciate you. You're so awesome.
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I'm so thankful for you. There's nothing wrong with
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saying that and I'm not saying you shouldn't give people that,
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but if the intent of why I do it is so that I can hear that.
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Then the Lord is say you've got your reward on Earth.
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That's all you were trying to do get there like and did you get
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it? Did they tell you?
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They liked you did they tell you?
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They appreciated you. Did they tell you how awesome
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you were? You got it but it didn't
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transfer. I said it didn't see.
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We preach messages. You're not going to see.
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U-Haul going to the funeral. Well, you won't see a physical
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U-Haul, but there is a spiritual U-Haul.
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I said there is a spiritual U-Haul of what you're doing in
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Christ today by faith, according to his word and the intentions
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of your heart to glorify him. It will make it to your grave
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and out of your grave and out of judgment.
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You have cry where he'll pull out a book and say, look what
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came over from the natural. Not only did they see your
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effort and acknowledge your effort but it made it over into
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eternity and it's now been tried as gold and silver and it is
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still here in remains and I've got my reward and I'm giving you
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a reward as a result of what you did.
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Not only did you get it in the natural.
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Now some of us we receive the reward from the which is just
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receiving something from someone, some rewards can be -
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they can be persecuting us but all the while God Like I got
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silver and gold laid up for you. I have a Crown of Glory, a crown
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of righteousness for you because you withstood, they may not have
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acknowledged, but there are times, they will acknowledge.
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They will give Thanksgiving. They will tell you how much they
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appreciate. All that you did in obedience to
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God, although they didn't realize that's your heart motive
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and that you're not asking them to thank you.
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Although that effort as far as the world's concerned, some
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would be considered worthy of thanks but you've done it for a
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higher purpose and man he sees it.
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Now let me tell you, there are things in the Bible that we read
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and we think they're only a moment of time, but this is why
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I encourage us to read the Bible cover-to-cover Genesis 1:1 to
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Revelations, 22, 21, 20 to 21. The reason that is is because it
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gives context and God actually gives us a context.
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Of the book of remembrance. In a particular natural Kingdom
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that was on the earth and you read about it in the Book of
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Esther. Remember in the Book of Esther
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start in chapter 2 verse 23. It says this, then when the plot
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was investigated Mordecai, found out a couple guys wanted to kill
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the king who was Esther's husband, and when he found out
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about this, he reported it says. And when the plot was
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investigated and found it to be so that they were both hang on a
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wooden gallo. And it was what written in the
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book of Chronicles in the Kings present.
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So, the King was there And rode it out.
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It was in the page. Well, Mordecai was the guy who
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discovered it and reported it and saved the King's life from
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an attempted assassination. But the king didn't actually do
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anything about it at the time. All of a sudden Mordecai has an
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enemy show up that hates him cause he won't bow down at him.
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And so he's decided that he's gonna kill this guy now.
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What he doesn't know is not only is when he killed a guy and kill
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all of his, you know, nation of people the Jewish people, he is
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hit, the queen has found out about it.
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She's in prayer and fasting. She goes to the king when not
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called puts her own life on the line, for the nation, for an
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ancient. And because he extends a scepter
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and says come on, she throws a party for the Enemy.
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So, that the enemy of Mordecai. Her uncle could come with her
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husband, the king. Now, when he leaves that he's
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like, I'm the only one that she embodied.
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He's thinking, I got it, but he's so depressed.
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When he leaves that first party for and the invited to come the
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next day. Remember, is that because
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Mordecai won't bow down? So they're like your built.
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This Gallo in your backyard. Go ahead and tomorrow request of
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the king too. To kill Mordecai on the galleys.
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Like that's a great idea. I'm going to do it.
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Then I'll go to the party right? Because I'm the greatest guy
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ever. Well what does the Lord do?
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The Lord causes the king to not to be able to sleep.
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And we see in the sixth chapter of Esther verse 1.
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It says during that night, the king could not sleep.
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So he gave an order to bring the book of records the Chronicles
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and they read it before the king.
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And when they were reading it, when the king couldn't sleep, it
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came across a section in the book of remembrance.
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It says, there's a guy by the name Immortal cob and man, he
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found out that there was an assassination on you.
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We investigated it. It was so and we hung those guys
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and the King says, what did we do for Mordecai?
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What was his reward? And they're like King, you
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didn't do anything. He says, well this can't be, we
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must reward. He says, who's in the court.
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Oh Heyman has showed up. Now, Heyman has showed up to
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talk to the king and say I want you to give me more to kind
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killing, but the King was so Sly.
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And Haman was so prideful that it just met together and sew and
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haman's pride and in the Kings real concern to reward.
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Someone he says, what shall be done to the man who has honored
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the king and what it Heyman think?
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Is Honore more than me, which we know that's a lie.
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Because he's not honored the king at all.
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In fact, his asking of what would be done, reveals the heart
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of Haman because he's like, get a robe.
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That was on the king, get a donkey that the King has wrote
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in essence, he saying, let that person out like, they're you,
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that's haman's heart. I wish I was King.
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I'll in fact, if Heyman would have kept a sending in power,
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Make no mistake about it. The Book of Esther would have
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read this and Heyman, says, assassinated the king and took
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the throne. But the king said, this is a
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great idea. Mordecai is the guy I want to
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do. You're going to parade him
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through the street and say these things.
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And what does that tell us? It tells us it's New Testament
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that the weapon formed against the church won't Prosper.
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That God will take what the devil meant for bad and turn it
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for good. Are you hearing me?
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Because God will remember all that you have done my mama.
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See Daniel says it this way, he said a river of fire was flowing
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and coming out from before him. Daniel Seven, Ten thousands upon
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thousands worse, Having him and a myriad upon married were
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standing before him and the court convened and the books
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were opened. Look what it says in
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Revelations, 20. Now we know this way the end it
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says this and I saw the dead and that's a great white Throne
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judgment the Great and the small standing Before the Throne and
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the books were opened. So there are some books guys not
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only is there a book of remembrance but there's also the
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next one which says and another book was opened which is The
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Book of Life. So we have to name Ames.
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We have the book of life, we have a book of remembrance but
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then there's other books. Now, those books are the records
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of every wrong done to the kingdom.
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That if the blood of Jesus, If that name has not been
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transferred into the book of life, then all of those books
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are legal binding charges of which a righteous judge will
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sentence. Those created beings humans into
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Eternal damnation forever and it be rightly judged. and it says
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in the dead were judged from the things which were written in the
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books according Today, their deeds, we live in a time where
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God wants to reward us and he's coming to give us a reward
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because there's a book of remembrance everything you're
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doing right now. God's writing it down,
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everything you're doing, God knows whether you're in his will
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or not. Let's look at this.
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God wants to reward you according to your Works in
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Christ. Meaning your faith in doing
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God's will for your life now that you're a child of God.
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Romans Chapter 2 Verse 6 says, who will render to each person?
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Notice, you're not going to get skipped.
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Nobody in this room. Nobody on planet.
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Earth is getting skipped. Each person is going to be
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rendered a reward according to his deeds, every one of us, look
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what it says in Proverbs 2412 again a little insight on how
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God is able to reward you through his book of remembrance.
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If you say see, we do not know this, does he not consider Do
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it, who weighs the heart. One translation says this says,
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look, we didn't know about dressing and Essence.
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We're trying to play ignorant like I didn't know, well sambo,
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I mean II didn't know, I had to do that, look what he goes on.
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And says, does he not consider who weighs the heart?
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He knows whether you just can't go to God and play ignorant.
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And does he not know and does he not know it who keeps your soul?
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And he will not rent and will he not render to each man?
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According to his work meaning that day we stand he'll know you
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inside and out he will have documentation.
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Of it all. Now, this is good for the
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righteous when our hearts are pure and our minds are pure and
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we just want to seek God with all the heart.
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I'm like, wow there's a reward. I mean I will not be cheated out
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of my reward. There will not be an injustice,
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that will not come to Justice. My gosh, my king is so great,
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but it also tells me don't think you're going to dupe the king.
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Oh, don't think that he This stuff down here, don't really
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matter. All that matters is that you
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asked Jesus to come into your heart, so that when you die, you
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go to heaven, that's all that matters.
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No, that ain't all that matters. No, in essence, what you do is
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you deprive your king, the pleasure.
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Why would we as kids? And we have we been around our
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own children and you want to reward them and they deprive you
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the pleasure. When they disobey you're like,
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well I can't reward your disobedience.
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I'm the one that's not keeping you from this event, or from
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having this or doing that. Look what you did, you've
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deprived me the pleasure. And let me tell you you training
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your kids wrong, if you reward them for their disobedience.
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Because the Lord is not going to do that.
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The Lord is rewarding us for our obedience to his word and
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keeping it by faith. So he's going to judge us.
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Look what it says here in Jeremiah 1710.
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This is the Amplified classic. It says this, the Lord search.
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He said I the Lord search the mind.
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I try the heart even to give to every man, according to his ways
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according to the fruit of his doing.
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I mean this is what I love about my king so much.
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That's what I love about my savior.
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Jesus is that This the king, the righteous one and the spirit of
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God, that's within me and moves around, on the planet is going
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into my innermost being my heart, my thinking, my soul
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round and is judging every part of my motive, why I do what I do
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when I do what I do for what purpose that I do it.
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And when they say, man, they're doing it for me.
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They're writing it down and they're like not only will they
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reap a benefit now because our faith can pull things in today
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and we can walk in the blessings of God now, but it also will
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then carry over Into eternity to wear.
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When the king comes and begins to hand out rewards.
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He says because you did it this way while you were here
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naturally. Separated from me, where we
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didn't look at each other face-to-face.
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But by my spirit, you did my bidding, you obeyed my word,
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here's your reward. Make no mistake about it.
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God is not a respecter of person.
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What that means is is God, doesn't respect.
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One of us more than the other but he will reward us
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differently. Everyone of us has the ability
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to believe God to live righteous to live, holy to live Sanctified
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to live with a pure motive to live selflessly to live in the
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love of God to believe God, nobody can hinder that But if
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you're not doing that, make no mistake, the rewards will not be
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the same. On that day, when he publicly
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announces us and declares that we are his special ones.
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What we've done here, are either going to burn up and be gone
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because that's all we got. Or we're going to have something
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that carries over into eternity, where the crown of
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righteousness, Crown of Glory, things are fashion for us,
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because we are the King of Kings.
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We are a king of the king. We will cast our crowns before
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the Lord. But just because you cast your
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crowned up me, he collects it, you never get to wear it.
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We acknowledge that. Yes, you're the great king.
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I mean at the end of the day, you're the ruler of everything
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but he's also says that's right. And I calls you to rule and for
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you to Reign and I'm the king of kings.
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So when you cast a crown before the Lord, it's not because
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you're releasing your kingship. Are you hearing me?
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The last scripture today is Psalm 62 12.
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I hope I'm encouraging to today that man, we have a God that
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doesn't forget a God. That remembers what I'm saying
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is, is you should never take the thought, you know, living for
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God. What's the big deal?
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It's a big deal. You know, how many people right
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now, naturally, or putting money away and 401, K's in some type
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of retirement? They're doing why?
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Cuz when they finally quit working, they can retire.
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And receive a reward, they put it into stocks, they do
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Investments for what a reward so that they have more than what
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they currently have. So they have a sustainable, not
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just sustainable but a better life In fact, we act like people
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are foolish if they're not thinking about their retirement
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yet. Many Believers have no context
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of the book of remembrance They all think through wishful
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thinking and fantasy that all of a sudden we're going to be out
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of our bodies be up in heaven. We're all going to have the
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exact same house like God is going to have cooker Cuddy, cut
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her homes. Like some of these neighborhoods
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we going to, you know, I'm saying, one style.
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They just kind of move the windows around.
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Right. There's only about three models
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and because God is not a respecter of person, he's gonna
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have one model where I and we're all going to be satisfied with
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this. He's too creative to have the
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same thing. It's just not going to happen.
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No. He's going to reward us
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according to our faithfulness. Because we love him so much and
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because we, he's like you listen.
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The king is like you can't out, give me, you cannot do it.
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I mean, the more you continue to lay down your life to do, my
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will for your life, in this natural now, man.
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It has great dividends. In the life to come and guys we
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still have to go through a millennial reign of Christ here.
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How does God determine who judges the cities?
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What is preordained? It can be preordained by the
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fact of, he knows who's going to do the work necessary to get the
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assignment. Not because whether you did it
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work, or not, it doesn't matter. You're going.
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See people take predestination as if I don't have time, I
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didn't do nothing. I mean, I laid around.
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I was lazy. I just, you know, set around.
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I asked you to come to my heart when I was just a little kid,
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but I never lived for my live for the world, you know?
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But I lied, I went to heaven and he gave me 15 cities, you cannot
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find that scripture that It's not true.
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Grace. Empowered us to live a life of
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Faith. So strong.
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In fact, when faith is in operation, it activates the
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grace in our life so that we can do the assignment God has for
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us. And then God rewards us.
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I mean, listen, I agree. If heaven was all, we got,
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that'd be pretty awesome but it's not.
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I mean, it's like God is let me try to get me to get you to
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understand like one of those commercials but there's more As
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if this dealing good enough but there's more and if you actually
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read the Bible you realize but there's more.
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Because how do you out give a giving God?
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I mean we're at like God sitting upon his throne and kind of has
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this attitude you just ought to be glad I gave you my blood.
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Because that's how we all treat our own kids we'll just be
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thankful. We got a roof over your head.
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just be thankful because you have a roof over your head, you
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should be thankful because you have a roof, but there's more
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Because there's food on the table, but there's more, there's
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clothes for you but there's more if you fall I'll pick you up but
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there's more I'll have trained you but there's more I'm gonna
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help invest in your next life and where you're going and what
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you're doing, I mean there's more.
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I mean seriously, it's not just because they have a roof over
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their head. And do you think you can outgive
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God? And all of a sudden, now, it's
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prideful for your kids to expect that you would help them.
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I mean, most of you is parents be like, son, why didn't you
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call me when you fail or whatever?
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Why don't you ask? Well, you just gave us a roof
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over our head. That's good enough.
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You be like you better shut up and get up in this house.
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And let me teach y'all something because I mean, it's more than
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just a house people. That's how you act in your
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natural. How much more our heavenly
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father Psalm 62, 12 says, also To You.
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O, Lord, belonging mercy and loving-kindness for you render
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to every man according to his work.
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I'm so glad that he's merciful that he has loving kindness,
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that he is taking time, he has in his Heaven realm, those, not
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himself, but those who are ever right?
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Trevor and he's got your name. Trevor stand up to everybody
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knows who I'm talking about the way.
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I'm not talking behind his back. I'm talking to his face Trevor.
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This is how he treated his wife and why he did that.
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This is how he treated his coworker and why he did that.
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This is how he gave in the offering.
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This is how he's recording at all.
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Everything every bit of it, Trevor.
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Was so full of the flesh this day.
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But he didn't yield instead, he crucified it.
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There's a reward for that. Not an action.
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Nothing. Do I believe that he said,
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Trevor was full of the Flesh and acted on it today, but then all
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of a sudden when we got up there you can't find that one.
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Why? Because Trevor repented the next
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day or five hours later and the blood came in and wrote that one
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out. Come on.
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Are you hearing me? But there are those, you know
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again he did it for his own, Merit did it for his own.
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Merit did it for his own Merit. When the fire comes, it burns
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up. I'm just using one, I could pick
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out anybody's name right here. Your name.
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You have a book. Every person.
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Ever Birth has a book. It's an autobiography.
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And you're not writing it angels are riding on your behalf in
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heaven. God before you ever came into
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your mother's womb, the psalmist says before.
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It one day of my life, was you already wrote out all the days
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of my life. He has a printed copy of what
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your life should be. But the angels are recording
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your life. As it is, And God is going to
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match those books up. Then he'll pull out the book of
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remembrance that in, it's going to even have tears in a bottle
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of your troubles and trials. And when you cried out to God
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and stayed in faith and believed him to vindicate you and you
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didn't defend yourself. You said.
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Vengeance is mine. Thus saith the Lord.
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I will repay. I'm not going to defend myself.
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That doesn't mean they're in times.
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You have to say things. Paul said, well if we don't
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boast In the Flesh, I'm gonna go ahead and go there.
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I mean, if that's what you're looking for, if you want a job
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description of how much I've laid out, I've laid out way more
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than half the people you trying to call apostles I mean if you
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want to go there, I'll give you my resume.
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I've been in Trials, more often. I've been Shipwrecked left for
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dead. I've done more than all these
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people that you putting on a pedestal and honoring because
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only reason, they're not correcting you and I am.
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I mean that really just summarizes his whole
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description. I only have to do this because I
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actually love you and correct you they come and tell you stuff
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that make you feel good in order to get a following.
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So, if we want to compare lives, what if they actually done?
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But most of the time it is. I'm not talking about it.
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God will vindicate me? He'll do it.
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I'll leave room for the Lord to show.
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Mike it. Why?
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Because he's recording it anyway.
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And don't think anyone who's back biting you who's running
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off at behind your back, talking about you and saying things
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about you and you find out that someone so is saying so on.
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So that all of a sudden, you don't need it.
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God's got it written down. And they'll come a time that if
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the blood is not there, it is show up because he's righteous
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and he's just and he'll know. Well So April found out that
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these girls in the youth ministry are talking about her
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all the time and instead of correcting them she just let it
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go and began to pray and intercede for them.
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I remember that you're going to get a reward.
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What a great God we have. And guess what?
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This reward that he's bringing moss.
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Cannot eat, Russ cannot destroy. Thieves cannot steal.
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No, it can't be at loss. It is guaranteed.
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Is it worth living for God? Sacrificing for God, putting
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down your flesh for God? Walking In Love for God, is it
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worth walking in love with a brother?
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Is it worth doing? Are you bet it is?
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Cuz the king is coming. He's coming quickly and he has a
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reward for you. because when he opens up the book of life, he
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says Simon You're in. Now let's find out what you've
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done and pull out the book of remembrance.
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Let's bring your reward. Oh what a day that would be now,
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you know how we all going to be? He's going to give us all those
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rewards are going to be like Lord.
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You can keep them but Lord's like I can but I'm giving them
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to you. I'm giving them to you.
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How do we know this is true? Again?
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Documented history, the Queen of Sheba came with more gifts than
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King Solomon ever had in his life blew him.
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Oh, I mean, just more stuff than he had ever received from anyone
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else, but she's blown away at his kingdom realm.
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And he gave her more than she brought him when she left
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because you cannot out give the king.
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