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  1. The Lord for meeting with us already, then you will for the pastor for

  2. given me the opportunity behind his sacred guests. We'll be turning to UH John

  3. thirteen and fifteen. UH. If I were to title this message, I

  4. would title U examine your examples expectations. UH. John thirteen fifteen says,

  5. for I have given you an examples that you should do as I have done

  6. to you one of the verses. The other verses in the seconds thirteen and

  7. five says, examine yourself, whether you be in the faith your own selves

  8. know you not your own selves know that Jesus Christ is in you, except

  9. but I trust that you shall know that we are not rep A mind went

  10. to the definition of examine. It's to inspect someone or something in detail,

  11. to determine their nature or condition, investigate thoroughly. And by reading this scripture,

  12. we are to examine ourselves. Yes, we're to look at ourselves,

  13. see or where we're supposed to be. But then we are to look at

  14. our examples, whether that be astor or maybe somebody else. We are to

  15. examine what their lives are like, what their expectations for us are, what

  16. they want us to become above all. We're supposed to look at Jesus Christ

  17. as an exact. We're supposed to pattern our life after his. I believe

  18. that the twelve disciples all started out when they said, guests, i'll follow

  19. you. They saw an example, they saw something they wanted to pattern as.

  20. Not all of them stuck with it, but we see that they did.

  21. They first off, they saw something. They saw something in Jesus that

  22. they saw nobody else. And I see something in my pastor that I don't

  23. see. I go to all these other churches country wide. I don't see

  24. this. I don't see or hear the anointing that is supposed to be.

  25. We see that pastor sees something in us that we don't even see in ourselves.

  26. We see that he sees future missionaries, preachers, singers, musicians,

  27. He sees something that's worth preaching for. And I believe every sermon he puts

  28. at least four hours in, if not more. And he dedicates his life,

  29. he dedicates his health, he dedicates every being that he has to us.

  30. And I believe he hears from God. He is a prophet. And

  31. when he says that the Lord's told him something, that's God speaking to you.

  32. He's just using the oracle of Pastor. We are not to look out

  33. in the world for examples. I have a strong burden for at least one.

  34. I believe someone in here's looking out. They want to leave, they're

  35. looking for a reason. Don't do it. Pastors put too much into you.

  36. You don't want to see you leave. Just because he steps on your

  37. toes don't mean he's trying to get you gone. He's trying to show you

  38. where you're you're failing, where you need to do better. He don't want

  39. you to leave. I don't want to see nobody leave. If you backslide,

  40. it said that it's harder to get back in my mind. Went to

  41. the prodigal son. He thought there was something out there for the world didn't

  42. meet his expectations. That he didn't get what he was expecting. But thankfully

  43. he found his way home. He found his way back to the father's house.

  44. So don't go out in the world. You won't find nothing out there

  45. that you are wanting that you'll enjoy. Look look for examples in the house

  46. of God. Go through the bi well, there's tons of examples that you

  47. can pattern after. I just don't want nobody to go back. I did

  48. once, thankful, I did come back at some point, but it was

  49. bad. It was definitely way harder to get back. Stay strong in the

  50. faith. Don't don't look. Don't look outside of this church or the Bible

  51. for your examples, and look at what your examples want you to come.

  52. Look at where they want you to go. Pastor, he cares about us

  53. a lot. He puts so much time and effort into us, and then

  54. some of us are just gonna turn away. I don't do it. He

  55. cared too much, he put too much work into it. Yea, even

  56. if we thank the Lord for the Word of God, grace God tonight for

  57. the stair, as you would get ready and then come on around, I'll

  58. stretch your hands forward heaven and ask God to help him to stare at the

  59. severess the word to us, to leave a thank you where He's God.

  60. I appreciate that burden. I appreciate influence the title my son with a wonderful

  61. title and good preaching on the word. I'm thankful for Pastor. How truly

  62. he is a man of God and a prophet. It is it is an

  63. honor and privilege to stay behind the secret that it's a blessing to have pastor

  64. how even sister, how their testimony, their their teaching, their everything that

  65. they do, and a lot of things that we don't see, that they

  66. are doing the prayers, in the studying, and and you know, behind

  67. closed schools. I'm thankful to put out. And that is for a lot

  68. of churches don't have that, they have sermonettes, and and just it's just

  69. not right. It's to me, it's not it's not biblical. It's not

  70. a house of guys. They're not truly men or women of God. But

  71. pastor house sister, how are cruiant men and women of God. And in

  72. their family, what a blessing, children and grand even their grand babies,

  73. what a blessing. As I was praying and seeking the Lord on this message,

  74. I'm again to wonder, so have got confirmation by the Holy Ghost.

  75. A change of title for this message. Let's let's turn to Acts twenty eight.

  76. We'll be reading from verse twenty four through twenty seven, and then we'll

  77. be turning to Luke twenty four, verses twenty five and thirty two, and

  78. some of these you may have heard these verses recently. Baking baron lud you

  79. stand for the reason of the word message. Some believe the things which were

  80. spoken, and some believed not. And when they agreed not among themselves,

  81. they departed. After the call had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy

  82. Ghost by Isaiah the prophet unto her father's saying go into this people, and

  83. saying, hearing, ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing

  84. ye shall see, and not proceed for the heart of this people, as

  85. wax grows, and their ears are dull of hearing. Now their eyes have

  86. they closed. Least they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,

  87. and understand what their hearts and should be converted, and I should heal

  88. them twenty four Verses twenty four through five. Twenty four Versus twenty five says.

  89. Then he said, under them, old fools and slow of heart to

  90. believe all that the prophets have spoken thirty two says. And they said with

  91. one to another, that not our heart burn within us. While he yet

  92. talk with us by the way, and while he opened to us, while

  93. hoping to us descriptions. And you see it, several things that stuck out

  94. to me there in these passages, and going back to Acts twenty eight.

  95. As we as we read that, and some believe in verse twenty four,

  96. and some believe the things which were spoken, and some believe not. I

  97. know, as holy as Christians, we should probably be the most believing people

  98. more than anyone, because you know, the according to His Holy Word,

  99. to live holy, to be holy, and it's it's And as I thought

  100. about the title was gonna make it believe it or not? But I felt

  101. the Holy Ghost changed that today to the burning begotten, bold and believing.

  102. Wow. And in that there was the man that said, Lord, I

  103. believe, help my unbelief. And how many times the disciples told Jesus,

  104. we believe, and we know and we are certain that thou in Christ,

  105. the Son of God. And yet they would have fear, they would they

  106. would do things that displease the Lord, and he had to rebuke them and

  107. correct them. Praise God. I'm thankful for rebuking and corrected. And we

  108. know that we have a heavenly Father that chastises those he loves. And we

  109. know that we have a loving pastor that corrects us. Amen steps on our

  110. toes when they need steps off where heise God. I'd rather any step on

  111. my toes that that I walk into hell fire. You know, a lot

  112. of a lot of churches, a lot of pastors will love their congregation to

  113. hell because they're that they're not concerned about their soul. They don't have a

  114. burden more even for that one lost sheep. And I appreciate that burden.

  115. And maybe this is for that one cheat to believe. And I'm gonna turn

  116. there to second test loanings. But on the subject of believing, we know

  117. that people believe in many things. And I was looking up to definition just

  118. to be certain that I hadn't messed something about believing. And they're in Webster's

  119. Unabridged Dictionary. It says to credit upon authority or testimony, to be persuaded

  120. of the truth of upon declaration, or upon the evidence furnished confidence, hope,

  121. and trust. And if any of you got those great big Websters Underbridged

  122. English Dictionary, I love how they. Noah Webster, he was a Christian

  123. man. He would always include Bible verses with that definition. And he gives

  124. Psalms twenty seven thirteen says I had fainted unless I believe to see the goodness

  125. of the Lord in the land of the living. Amen, you better not

  126. be faith you don't want to be part of the fallen away as God.

  127. I'm there. In a little note in that dictionary said in theology, one

  128. who gives credit to the truth of description, Amen, Jesus is the Way,

  129. the truth, and the life. Yes, And if no name comes

  130. into the Father but by him, and it says as a revelation from God.

  131. Man. The Greek word says to have faith, respect, to trust,

  132. to commit, So when we believe in something, we have faith towards

  133. it, respect, trust, and we commit to what we believe in.

  134. And it was looking at the Hebrew word for belief, and it almost looks

  135. like the word amen. When the pastor is preaching, I believe, Amen,

  136. Holy Raised God. But he needs to render the firm faithful, trust,

  137. assurance, steadfast and just knowing. A lot of people look at the

  138. word amen, and and some believe it to means certainly or it is so,

  139. so be it truly. But it's just an agreement. So when we

  140. stand behind the freaker and we amenam, we're believing what he says, in

  141. agreement with what he says. And you know, so we want to to

  142. believe and we do believe in what he's saying, or we wouldn't be coming

  143. here, right, We wouldn't want And it's not like Ripley's believe it or

  144. not. You know who deals in the bizarre events, strange and unusual.

  145. You know that that would cause you to question, you know, you believe

  146. that this person who's like ten foot calm. I don't know what the record

  147. is on Hyathan. If there's these great achievements, these rarities, in these

  148. things that people believe in, and you know, we might ask what determines

  149. what we believe? Now, I'm Kinlata foundation here because I know we believe,

  150. but I don't want there to be help my unbelief. We've got to

  151. believe, but it's a variety of factors included in our upbringing. Parents,

  152. what your children are brought up with, the believing is what they're going to

  153. believe. Amen. I don't want to leave my children to the things of

  154. the world, the music, the entertainment, and that's what a lot of

  155. parents in the world do. They set their kids in front of the TV.

  156. They let the TV, the computer, the video games and the mews

  157. that teach their children all these ungodly things. And then we wonder, and

  158. then they wonder why they come up the way they do. It's education.

  159. The second one personal experience. Praise God for miracles and testimonies. The personal

  160. education the education that we get from our Sunday school teacher, our pastor,

  161. personal experience and exposures to different perspectives. But it's based on the knowledge.

  162. And Pastor had a message recently about the vision twenty twenty. Your belief is

  163. based on your vision, amen, intuition, and attitude. What makes something

  164. a belief, something that you believe or accept is true. Now a lot

  165. of people believe in things that are not true. They believe in a lie

  166. God forbid. Some people believe in opinions and assumptions or facts. But ultimately

  167. we better believe in what God says, what the pastor says. Man,

  168. and I know that He believes in each and every one of us that he

  169. puts into us, or he wouldn't put his time and energy his and his

  170. brother Samuel said, his health, you know, his his life is you

  171. know everything that he does. So and then the one other thing here before

  172. we get back into the scriptures, things that people believe in, and these

  173. are these are things that maybe and some of you believe in this. There's

  174. an altharer. People believe in aliens and big launchless monsters. The pastor mentioned

  175. about it by the Grinch that got in trouble because parents wanted their children to

  176. believe in six sent a lie and even to get upset and and get ira

  177. because they wanted their children to believe in a lie. You got the Easter

  178. Buddy and tooth faery lf on the shelf. Some would say the earth being

  179. flat nine to eleven didn't happen, the Holocaust didn't happen. And even some

  180. have been kicked out of school or college or even some problems in in their

  181. office of government for not accepting more than one gender. And they I can't

  182. even believe that. At one point, either in the House or the Senate,

  183. they were they were arguing over the fact that need could have babies and

  184. then don't have babies. The right, sister, Grace Rcius don't lay eggs.

  185. And but you know, some people will believe that they believe in certain

  186. political science and drugs and use media, et cetera. And there's so much

  187. garbage out there that people are willing to believe in. But when it comes

  188. to the truth of God's word right now and then, and they don't.

  189. They don't believe, not all, but some the Bible here says, and

  190. some believe the things which were spoken, and some believe. Time gonna turn

  191. here at the John read some more verses here, turn into John three,

  192. very popular verse. We're gonna start at verse fifteen. A lot of people

  193. like they love John three sixteen. We're gonna start with John three fifteen.

  194. He says that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  195. For God's loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that

  196. whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God

  197. sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the

  198. world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned,

  199. but he that believeth not is condemned already because he had not believed in

  200. the name of the only begotten Son of God. The man Jesus is begotten.

  201. And I felt the Holygos in that kit of saying burning begotten boldness and

  202. believing, And in verse thirty six have also reconfirms that he that believeth on

  203. the Son hath everlasting life. And he that believeth not the son not see

  204. life, but the wrath of God abide is on him. Now, I

  205. don't want anyone to get confused about the the false doctrine and teaching of easy

  206. believe, believed, believe is the all right, They believe that all you

  207. got to do is believe. We know that the devils believe, and they

  208. fear and tremble, but they're not going to heaven. That's because you believe

  209. in something. And one of the things that the modern Bibles, it's probably

  210. my second biggest pet heave of these false Bibles. The first one is they

  211. removed the Holy Ghost, spirit of truth, the comfort. You won't find

  212. the word holy ghost, and just about no. I've never seen any modern

  213. Bible, but here in John three point sixteen it says for God to love

  214. the world that he gave is only begotten son, that whosoever believing in him

  215. they put shall not perish, instead of should not perish. If you look

  216. at John fifteen three fifteen, it also says should not. God is not

  217. willing that any should perish. But there's more than disbelieving we know the Gospel.

  218. There is repentance. There is a turning from the things in this world

  219. are turning to God. So there must be repentance. And I'm gonna turn

  220. to another place here. We're gonna go rap through John here a little bit.

  221. Let's turn to John twelve, read verses thirty seven through fifteen. But

  222. though he done so many miracles before them, yet they believe not on him.

  223. I'm gonna stop there for a moment. I remember one image and I'll

  224. never get it out of my head. Was a atheist man, and I

  225. was justifying, trying to witness to him and win him over to the Lord.

  226. And I was just a young Christian and anybody that just drives their vehicle.

  227. Now as you see a deer, the deer sees the headlights and just

  228. kind of stop and stare. You know, That's where this atheist was.

  229. He just had that stare like a deer in headlights. And it was because

  230. his mind wasn't working. It was, but it wasn't. And when I

  231. say that, I mean he believed my testimony, but he didn't believe in

  232. God. So he's believing and he's not believing. He's trying to he's not

  233. registering, so he said, he's just had a stare in a trance.

  234. And it scared me. As a young Christian. I couldn't I didn't understand

  235. it at the time, and even to this day, I still have a

  236. hard time. I was telling him Pastor recently, there's a few men in

  237. our Bible study that are very carn only mind you, and I believe they

  238. would actually ask the very things that was asked there. And John three,

  239. you know, can can a person climb back into their mother's booming? When

  240. I've read that the first time in God's Word, I scratched my head.

  241. Surely there's somebody not that messed up. You know, if people they're messed

  242. up like that, they really are. And uh, but what scared me

  243. was the fact that they should. They can't even eat the milk of the

  244. word. They choking on the milk all the churches, that's all they give

  245. the milk. They don't even get into spiritual me and and I believe it's

  246. because these modern perversion Bibles that are out there, and they can't even swallow

  247. the milk. But Paul Warren, Timothy, they'll come that day when they

  248. won't be able to endure some doctrine will heat to themselves teachers having engineers,

  249. and so we definitely want to believe and to study to show ourself to proof.

  250. I'm here, I'm going to continue reading here, that the saint of

  251. Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which he spake, Lord, who hath believed

  252. our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord been revealed?

  253. Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said again he had blinded their

  254. eyes, he had hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their

  255. eyes, nor understand with their hearts, and be converted. And I should

  256. heal them. These things said Isaiah when he saw his glory, and he

  257. spake of him. Nevertheless, among the chief rulers also many believed on him,

  258. but because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him. These they

  259. should be put out as synagogues. Now that's pretty many stuff he believed and

  260. gets put out of church. Or they love the praises of men more than

  261. the praises of God. Amen, I don't want to be one of these,

  262. to be seen of men, or have the praises of men. You

  263. know, they were talking about this in Bible study. You know, what

  264. will people say when you're dad, Well, I hope they don't remember me,

  265. but I hope they remember the way of salvation. I hope they remember

  266. Jesus Christ, because I nobody. All I want to hear is enter end

  267. our good and faithful servant. It's not about you know, creating a legacy

  268. or some of these other things, and not saying that those things happen.

  269. Because there's great men of God or women of God. But we're not in

  270. it for that. And Jesus Christ and said, he that believeth on me,

  271. believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he

  272. that seeth me sees him that I am come alighted to the world, that

  273. whosover believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear

  274. my words and believe not, I judge him not, for I'm come not

  275. to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejected me

  276. and received not my words, that's one that judges him. The word I

  277. have spoken the same shall judge him in the last days. For I'm not

  278. spoken of myself, but the Father which sent me, He gave me a

  279. commandment that I should say and what I should speak, that I know that

  280. His commandment his life everlasting, whatsoever I speak. Therefore, even as the

  281. fathers said unto me, so as meek. Now these letters are all and

  282. read, and Christ spoke. He's talking about believing about those that you know

  283. whosover believed in me. Should not abide in darkness, those that hear his

  284. words. You not to reject him, those that have received him. A

  285. man, I want to be one that receives the word of God. And

  286. if you're not believing, how you're gonna receive? Amen. We know Romans

  287. ten ten. For with the heart a man believeth unto righteousness, and with

  288. the mouth confession is made in the salvation. But sadly we live in a

  289. world, as we are familiar with Second Corinthians. But if the Gospel be

  290. hid, it's hid under them that are lost, in whom the God of

  291. this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe God. Least a lot

  292. of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should

  293. shine unto them. But we know that the devils believe. Thou Is James

  294. two nineteen thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well. The

  295. devils also believe in Trimble and we know and also that the evil spirits they're

  296. in Acts nineteen fifty. They knew who Jesus was and who Paul was a

  297. man. And yet people claim they don't believe in God, claim to be

  298. an atheist. And sometimes you don't realize that you backslade. I've seen some

  299. backsliders go so far back they just they forget God, they give up on

  300. God. They go back into the world, and it's to their own destruction

  301. through the whole demise. But you say, well, a Christian, I

  302. believe and praise God. You guess we better believe. But we're read here,

  303. and most of you are familiar with Thomas of the twelfth Gnamus read here

  304. in John twenty. He was not with them when Jesus came, and the

  305. other disciples said, of it, unto him, we have seen the Lord.

  306. But he said, out of them, except I shall see in his

  307. hands the print of the nalls, and put my finger into the print of

  308. the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

  309. Now here was a disciple, And you know here have denied Christ for

  310. times. I'm always blown away by that, because you know, Jesus allowed

  311. him to walk on water. That'd be hard to forget. But yet here

  312. is Thomas and he's doing the same things. I will not believe. Let

  313. the words never come out of any of our mount And after eight days the

  314. disciples were with him again, and Thomas with him. And then came Jesus

  315. through the doors being shut and stood in the midst amen and said, peace

  316. be unto you. And the brother was talking about we're two or three together

  317. Jesus in the midst and you believed Jesus. Maybe he's sitting back here by

  318. brother Kyler. Oh yeah, he's sitting there by sister Crazy brother john Or

  319. and he's waving aback and he's watching, he's listening. You know, are

  320. they really believing? I'm saying, man, I don't want him to the

  321. question me and say someone that's slow the heart. And he's talking about going

  322. back here to Luke. He says, old fools of slow of heart to

  323. believe all that the prophets have spoken. Man, when the pastor's preaching,

  324. and as a pastor or a prophet, and we don't believe what he says

  325. I mean, are we looking are we being seen as fools? Right?

  326. Because if we can't believe the pastor or the prophet, and if he's in

  327. line with the Holy Ghost, what God's saying, and you're not just you're

  328. not just doubting the pastor, but you've gotting God a man. And so

  329. we do have to be careful about things like that, because when I see

  330. that word fools, that's strong, yes, Because when you read in Songs

  331. nineteen and one and Psalms fifty three of the one it says looks fool,

  332. it's said in his heart that there is no God. They are corrupt,

  333. we men have done, vominable, and one place says it works. The

  334. other one says iniquity, my God, and there's nothing to do with good.

  335. Amen. So there there's there's things that are going with that. A

  336. fool, corrupt, abominable, I don't want to, I don't And that's

  337. that's associated with the sin of unbelieve. And then and there's it reminds me

  338. also the two places there in Matthew twenty three and says woe to you fools

  339. and the blind Verses seventeen and nineteen again to be associated with these fools.

  340. I don't I want to be associated with a fool or an atheist or slab

  341. and like. And then that one other place there in Luke twelve twenty,

  342. where he says, thou, fool thy soul shall be required of these?

  343. Those are those are very I don't. I don't want any appointing here here

  344. enter in thou good and faithful. I don't he go away that foolish you

  345. know, I never knew you. You work are iniquity. I forbid any

  346. of us here those things. But a lot of them said, Lord,

  347. did we do these things in your name? Asking out devils? And these

  348. miracles and signs and wonders. And a lot of times people think they're the

  349. ones doing it, and it's not. That's not the case, you know,

  350. it's God uses us us, you know, to reach out to people,

  351. to laying of hands, you know, the further prayer of the righteous

  352. of Elisimus. And I remember retired at work as a young Christian witness into

  353. a last center, and he wanted his eyes and me. His eyes were

  354. messed up, but he had he believed. He says, pray for me.

  355. He said, I know God can heal them. And I knew it

  356. was nothing in me. But as I'm praying for him, I'm praying inside

  357. my head or please help him because I've been witnessing them. I'm praying that

  358. prayer in my head and I'm praying verbally, Lord, he'll in't touch,

  359. you know, bringing heal into his eyes. And instantly his eyes were healed,

  360. and I praised God for that praise. Could I really believe nothing that

  361. I did? But he had enough believe in faith? And how many times

  362. has Jesus come to those says does I believe that I can? He's always

  363. questioning where our belief is, and so where is our belief? And it's

  364. important that as holiness, you know, I know that I don't want us

  365. to get overconfident in our beliefs. But the have we do have confidence praise

  366. God, and we can't have that boldness to come to the Throne of God

  367. for our needs. And I'm painful for that. But at the same time,

  368. I don't want our belief to be so familiar that we be like Thomas

  369. and we say, you know, I will not believe just because Jesus isn't

  370. there at them at the time. And sometimes when we're going through a battle

  371. or try or trouble. You know, if we're not careful, we may

  372. be praying that we believe, we're seeking God for things that we want to

  373. have, but we're doubting. We're praying on help, Lord, please do

  374. this need or meet this need. And yes, he hurt us day one.

  375. But you know, sometimes we don't get that answer. We start to

  376. doubt. In the back of our head. God forbid one of us ever

  377. die, whether God heal us or not. To believe that he's gonna do

  378. what he said. He's gonna heal us. And even if he don't,

  379. praise God, you get that healing in heaven. You're gonna get it eventually,

  380. right, and then if you stay faithful and true to God. So

  381. but I'm thankful here going on here RIKL Thomas Verse twenty seven, Reach hill

  382. thy finger and behold my hands. Yes, and reach hiller thy hand and

  383. thrust it into my side, and be not faithless, but believe me.

  384. And Thomas answered, and set under him, my Lord and my God.

  385. And Jesus said, under him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me,

  386. thou hast believed. Bless are they that have not seen and yet have believed,

  387. and I thought about using that word bless but holy burning begotten boldness and

  388. believing. We're gonna have to have some boldness in our believing. I think

  389. for who we are gonna be afflicted and we are gonna be tried. This

  390. a good year, bad year, it doesn't matter. We need to be

  391. ready. We need to be burning fire with the holy ghost fire within us,

  392. and to have that forgotten boldness in believing, the boldness in believing and

  393. knowing that God is faithful to his word, because without with all these doubts

  394. and unbelieving, that's sin. And he said, I said there in John

  395. A twenty four, I said, therefore, unto you that He shall die

  396. your sins, or if you believe not that I am He, you shall

  397. die in your sins. I can't imagine any holiness Christian, basically this church

  398. doubting in Christ and to die in their sins. But I know they've been

  399. warning and prophecy and things, and God forbid. You know, I wouldn't

  400. want any brother or sister. I believe in all those I've lived in everyone,

  401. all examples and graces, and definitely we belong to a strong believing church

  402. here in second Thessalonians two ten midway through ten through twelve and says, because

  403. they receive not the love of the truth, truth, that they might be

  404. saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they

  405. should believe alive, that they all might beat damn too, believe not the

  406. truth, but had pleasure and unrighteousness. And then that might reminds me of

  407. that verse in Romans won. You know, they had pleasure in sin,

  408. knowing the judgment of God God will did, and not you know, not

  409. believe what not to believe or eat the warnings of God, knowing that the

  410. judgment could come. You ray best be ready because I know that. You

  411. know the pastor already said. You know the judgment begins in the house of

  412. God. And we know that the simple believe every word there in Proverbs fourteen

  413. fifteen. You know there's people that are believing in all kinds of stuff on

  414. the on the news of the You know again, these things that are on

  415. the radio, and there's so many things of the world, and they're not

  416. the truth of God's word. I'm no criminal. One last close much longer

  417. here. The first John five one through fifteen says whosoever believeth that Jesus is

  418. Christ, is born of God. And everyone that loveth Him that beget loveth

  419. him also that is the begotten of Him, that begotten word. That I

  420. know. The Holy girls hit on that by this we know that we love

  421. the that we love the children of God. When we love God and keep

  422. his commandments. This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments,

  423. and his commandments are not grievous. Or whatsoever is born of God overcometh

  424. the world. And this is the victory. Praise God. Yes, and

  425. overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world,

  426. That he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God. This is

  427. he that came by the water and the blood, even Jesus Christ. Not

  428. by water only, but by water and blood. It is the Spirit that

  429. bears witness, because the Spirit is true. For there are three that bear

  430. record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost.

  431. And these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in the

  432. earth, the Spirit and the Water and the Blood. And these three agree

  433. in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God

  434. is greater. For this is the witness of God, that which he hath

  435. testified of his son. He that believeth on the Son of God has witnessed

  436. in himself. And he that believeth by God hath made himself a liar because

  437. he believeth not the record that God gave him his son. There's a lot

  438. of false religions. And this is the record that God hath given to us

  439. eternal life. And this is the life is in his son. And he

  440. that hath the Son hath life. And he that hath not the Son of

  441. God hath not life. These things that are written unto you that believe on

  442. the name of the Son of God, that you may know that he have

  443. eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of

  444. God. And this is the confidence that we have in Him. If we

  445. ask anything according to his will, he hears about man. I'm thankful that

  446. he hears us. More great more we can hear him if we know that

  447. he hears us whatsoever we ask. We know that we have the petitions that

  448. we desire of him. Mannie Man see his brother sin a sin which is

  449. not unto death. He shall ask and he shall give him life for them

  450. that that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death. I

  451. do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin,

  452. and there is a sin not unto death. We know that whosoever is born

  453. of God sin, and not that he that has begotten of God keep of

  454. himself, and the wicked one toucheth him not. And we know that we

  455. are of God and the whole world life and wickedness. And we know the

  456. Son of God has come and have given us understanding that we may know him

  457. that is true, and we are in Him that is true, even in

  458. his son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and the colonel and

  459. eternal life. Man, little children keep themselves from mid just knowing it's not

  460. enough. I mean, I'm glad that we can't. We can't have an

  461. understanding. We're we're believing in God, that we're truly seeking Him, as

  462. you know pastors told us to do again, burning begotten that boldness of believer.

  463. Where is our belief? I hope and pray that we're not that like

  464. the man that says, Lord, I believe. I'm glad he was.

  465. He was crying and man he was. He was he was believing that he

  466. knew that his belief was not enough. So if you don't believe that your

  467. belief is enough, if you're not strong in your belief, maybe you don't

  468. understand your belief. Maybe we have some new converts and and you're still seeking

  469. things of God. I know there's a growing and graces growing on that milk

  470. of the word. Can we get to the spiritual needs? But there should

  471. never be a faith. There should never be a falling away. We should

  472. be steadfast, faithful and true and always believe even when we don't see that

  473. the outcome coming good. But I'm thankful that we can believe and that God

  474. is able to build us up to people in Christ and especially in these latter

  475. times. We're going to be tested and we will believe if we're not.

  476. And as we cloture, everyone can stand just you know, as examing your

  477. faith, as you judge yourself to seek the Lord or your believe. Anyone

  478. doesn't believe. I believe everyone believes, but that belief needs to be strong.

  479. A lot of people have erred in the faith because of unbelieved. A

  480. lot of people have walked away h they've been corrupted, They've been deceived.

  481. And slow is slow, slow heart to believe. We don't want to be

  482. slow and about slow heart to believe. We want to have true believes,

  483. just to seek the Lord. And if you have anything in your your belief

  484. in the walk. I remember one man he said he believed in God,

  485. and then in his next breath and cursed God. You believe in God and

  486. in purse God? Well, just because you say you believe, I mean,

  487. if it's not a heart, there's a lot of people, as the

  488. brother said, they honor him with their lips, but their heart's far from

  489. them from So if we're saved, we believe, it better be in our

  490. hearts. It better be with all our minds, all our soul, our

  491. strength and love of God loving with our all. So and if it's if

  492. you feel you're you're will need to be. I believe it may be that

  493. one too, or river's not right there. Faith is being questioned and shaken.

  494. Their heart's not in it, then they're not believing. You know,

  495. if you really believe in God, you're gonna be willing to die for your

  496. faith. You will be willing to do anything for God. I just pray

  497. that we're all and and if we're not, let's pray for our unbelieving family.

  498. Believe everything right with God, and you're certain. I know we've got

  499. unbelieving family, unbelieving co workers. Let's pray for them. We all could

  500. come and pray. HS S speak son S so S S S yes,

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  503. true of the agents and it has changing people. Lad things to the high

  504. is smiled and it's cool to the load, smile real. It's the blood

  505. that is b Street today. You see small a retred to the heart.

  506. Smile and it's through the low Misai always the time