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Hey, man, Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We do
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Chapter two. Amen, I really don't know what's going on.
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Feeling a little lightheaded this morning for some reason, but
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I do think and praise God. I'm here today. I
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don't know it came on during Sunday school, but it
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be God's strength. I'll standing here and do what I
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gotta do it. Man, aymen, just bury with me this morning. Amen.
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I'm moving kind of cautious. Cautious, cautious. Been in a
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lot of heat this week. Hot out there. Amen, let
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us go before the Lord. Father. We want to thank
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you Lord for yet another day. Thank you for your
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grace and mercy, your loving kindness. Thank you God for
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watching over us as we slept last night and bringing
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us on to another wonderful day that you have made. Truly,
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there's purpose that you have for us that they God. Yes,
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you had a plan for us, so we wouldn't be here.
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Some didn't make it God. So we're gracious. Yes, Lord,
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we appreciate you God for bringing us on. God, we
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could have went on last night, but yet you saw
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fit to bring us to see another day. Give us opportunity,
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give us chance, Yes, give us choice to make to
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serve you and live right before your Lord. Because of
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what our redeemer did. We thank you, Father, God. We
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thank you for rebuking the devour for our sake. Thank
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you for covering us with your divine protection. Father, in
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the name of Jesus. Thank you for the angels that
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you dispatch on a daily ben't camp around us, keeping
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us safe from all heard, harm and danger. In the
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name of Jesus. Thank you for the unseen and seeing
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God that you protected us from. Thank you, Lord, we're
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here again another Sunday love with Thank you for this Sunday.
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Thank you, Thank your Lord. And we're gonna rest in
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you today because you said on the seventh day you rested,
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and so we're gonna rest in you today. God. We're
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gonna rest in you this morning, and we're gonna arrest
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in you God in the name of Jesus Christ. Now, Lord,
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as you used me this morning, open the years and
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the eyes of your people. God, those on the on
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the internet, those on the radio waves, reach out, God
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and touch the unsaved, bring back the backslider, and continue
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to uphold your righteous ones that are still fighting the
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good fight of faith. Strengthen them even the more God,
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that they'll continue to hold on Lord with your unfailing
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hands in the name of Jesus, and will continuously give
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you the glowys and the honor that's due unto thee.
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And it is in Jesus' name I pray, and the
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whole church says, thank God. Amen and Amen, Amen, thank
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you Jesus, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you Jesus. Amen. Today
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we're gonna come out of the Book of Ephesians, chapter two,
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starting in verse sixteen. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Galatians, You're right.
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I told you I was dizzy. Galations absolutely, Galations, chapter two,
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starting in verse sixteen. Amen, that's exactly where I wanna be.
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Let's start at verse fifteen. Amen. These this, these verses
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that I will be expounding on, are a mirror to
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your soul, Amen, because it's gonna suggest to you, uh,
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how you were justified by Jesus Christ, Amen, and how
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you was redeemed. And it's gonna speak to you that
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He has justified you and redeemed you. But now how
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are you living? Amen? Are you living by the justification
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and the redemption of what He did? Are you doing
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like the world says it don't matter what he did.
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I don't care. I'm gonna live my life the way
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I want to. But here Paul is telling us how
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he lived his life now versus the way he used
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to live his life. We understanding this. He's talking about
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how he's living in now versus how he used to
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live it. Amen, And it said, who are Jews by nature? Who?
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It says, we who are jewsed by nature? We who
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are jewsed by nature. There's a significance of that. And
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not centers of the gentiles, knowing that a man is
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not justified by the works of the law, not justified
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by the it's impossible, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.
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Even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might
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be justified by the faith of Christ and not by
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the works of the law. For by the works of
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the law shall no flesh be justified. But let me
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read that again. Something here the spirit hit me right there.
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It says that we might be justified by the faith
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of Christ, justified by the faith of Christ, and not
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by the works of the law. For by the works
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of the law shall no flesh be justified. No flesh,
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no flesh. But if But if while we seek to
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be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners.
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Is there therefore is therefore Christ the minister of sin.
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God forbid, I'm gonna break I'm gonna come back and
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break this down. For if I build again the things
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which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For through
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the law am dead to the Law, that I might
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live unto God. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yes,
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yet not I, but Christ that lives in me, and
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the life which I now live in the flesh, and
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the life which I now live in the flesh. I
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live by the faith of the Son of God, who
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loved me and gave himself for me. I do not
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frustrate the grace of God, he says in verse twenty twenty.
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I now live in faith. I live by the faith
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of the Son of God, who love me, who loved
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me and gave himself for me. So what so now,
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since all that's relevant to me, I do not frustrate
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the grace of God. For if righteousness came by the law,
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then Christ is dead in vain. Amen may be seated
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in the house of the Lord. I'm gonna try not
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to be to LinkedIn it. But I want to break
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this down. Aymen, we who verse fifteen, are you with me,
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We who are Jews by nature, in other words, with
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Paul is saying, we out of know better, We ought
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to know better, we who are Jews by nature, and
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not centers of the gentile. See, the Gentiles only knew
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what the Jews told them. You understand, they only knew
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what the Jews told them because they was not privileged
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to have the law as the Jews did. And you're listening,
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they wasn't privileged, so and not centers of the gentile,
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as the verse says, we who are Jews by nature,
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we aret to know better. But just because the gentiles
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don't know better, don't give him a free by You
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don't hear what I'm saying, knowing that a man is
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not justified by the works of the law, knowing the
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Jews are saying, we know because we know the law that,
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but we are not justified by the works of the law,
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because they're saying, it's impossible to be justified by the
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works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ.
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And the faith in Jesus Christ is the faith of
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the Cross. That's the faith of Jesus Christ. The Cross.
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Without the cross, none of this could be what it's
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gonna be. And without the cross, when Jesus walked the earth,
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if he didn't go to the if we didn't have
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the cross, that means Jesus told a lie Amen, knowing
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that a man is not justified by the works of
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the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even
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we Jews have believed in Jesus Christ. The object of
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the faith of every Christian should be the Cross. The
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object of our faith should be in the cross. It
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said that we might be justified by the faith of Christ,
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and not by the works of the law, by Jesus Christ,
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not by the works of the law. For by the
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works of the law shall no flesh be justified. It
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can't be done. But if we but if while we
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seek to be justified by the cross. In other words,
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if you seeking to be justified by the cross, that
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means you are seeking the trust in what Jesus Christ
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did at the cross. But if while we seek to
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be justified by Christ, then we're seeking the faith of
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what Jesus Christ did at the cross. Ay man, we
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ourselves also are found sinners. But we're supposed to be
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trusting in what Christ did at the Cross, We ourselves
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also are found sinners if we fail thereby sinning in
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some way, if we fail by sinning in some way,
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And it goes on saying so, then it goes on
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to say, we found because of the Cross, sin was abolished.
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But if we found ourselves sinning by some way, then
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it goes on to say, is therefore Christ the minister
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of sining? God forbid? So, so it's saying, is are
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you blaming Christ for your failure? That's what it's saying.
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Christ ain't failed you did. That's what it's saying. Right
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here is there It says, is therefore Christ the minister
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of sining? Christ is not the minister of sining. If
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that be so, we are Is Christ to be blamed
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for a sinning? No, he adbotish sin. You got a choice,
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and you got power that God gave you with the choice,
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And he says, God forbid. See the crosshidn't failed. We did.
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Cross didn't fail. I remember you. I remember a while
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years ago, I appreciate a message talking about faith and
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all this and people I got faith in it. Well,
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faith ain't fail you did faith. Don't fail you fail
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in your faith. Jesus Christ is not the minister of saying.
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You can't blame him for it. He ad botised the sin.
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You all you gotta do is walk behind him? Is it?
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Eighteen says? For if I build again, if I build again,
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if I build again, if I build a again again again,
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I'm gonna build it all again the things which I destroyed.
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Going back to the law, you're gonna revert back to
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the law. When Jesus fulfilled the law already, But you're
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gonna revert back to the law. Okay, I make myself
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a transgressor if you do that, Bible, that's not y'all tompkins.
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If I build again, you make yourself a transgression. You're
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reverting back to the law. Watch this reverting back to
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the law, and you depart from God when you do that,
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I make myself a transgressor. So if you revert back
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to any type of the law, any type. Are y'all
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hearing me? That's very important? Now, any type type type
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very important. If you revert back to any type, any
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type of the law, it's a departure from God. For
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I through the law, for I through the law Christ.
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Christ perfectly perfected and kept the law and suffered it's
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just penalties. Christ did that for you and for me.
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Listen to this. For I through the law Christ, he
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has perfectly kept the law when he walked the earth
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and suffered its penalties. He did that all on our behalf.
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Watch the rest of it. So for I am, for
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I through the law, am dead to the law. Okay,
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watch this. The law is not dead, but I am
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dead to the law. Listen. The law is not dead,
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but I'm dead to the law. Why because Jesus Christ
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perfected it and finished it. The law is not dead,
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but I am dead through the law a man. Why
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because I've died with Christ. That's why. See, if you
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can get it in your spirit to understand the last
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days of Jesus and what he did.
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For us, it involved us, It involved us totally, totality,
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with totality, From the moment that they pressed that crown
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on his head, the crown was pressed on our head.
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Y'all not hearing what I'm saying. From the moment he
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was tied to the whooping post, our backs were being whipped, y'all,
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hear what I'm saying. Listen, listen, this is what this
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is speaking to you. If you got you gotta visualize,
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you gotta spiritually understand what he's saying. Get passed the
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words and get into the word. Aymen. So he says,
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I am crucified with Christ. Let me go back to
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nineteen five through the law am dead to the law.
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So the law is not dead, but I am dead
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to the law because of Jesus Christ. Now, because of
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Jesus Christ. Let me help y'all out. Let's call the
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Romans chapter six, Romans chapter six. Get that said. Man,
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I want you to see this. There's gonna be some verses.
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I'ma read y'all just gonna have to write them down.
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But I want you to see this. Romans chapter six,
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verse three. Romans Chapter six and verse three. No, it
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says now you it says, no, you're not that so
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many of us as were baptized into Christ. So this
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is not a baptism of water. Okay, just ain't with
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them men, kick it down, bring it up. This is
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a baptism into Christ and not water. We're baptized until
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his death. That's the important part right there, know you?
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Not?
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For so many of us were baptized into Christ, were
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baptized into his death. When Christ died on the cross,
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in the mind of God, we did too. Are you
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with me? Let me say again, when Jesus Christ died
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on the cross, in the mind of God, we did too.
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Are you with me? He became our substitute, Amen, and
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our identification. He didn't just become our substitute, he became
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our identification. Amen. We identified with him in his death. Amen. Amen.
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So when he died in God's mind, we die. And
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the death of Christ, because he was our substitute and
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we identified with him, death gave us all the benefits
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as well, for which he died. Is to sink it in. In
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other words, he did it for us so that we
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can have the benefits of death to life. Amen. Therefore
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we are burying with him verse four by baptism into death.
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This ain't why of baptism baptism into him. See, we
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ain't only died with him, but we was also buried
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with him. This is spiritually deserned. Now not only did
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we die when he died, but we was also buried
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when he was buried. We had to be so when
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he was buried, we were buried. Therefore we are buried
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with him by baptism into death. So when he was buried,
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we were buried with him as well, which means that
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all the sin somebody say, sin and trusgression of stay
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with me, of our past were buried. Let's say that again. Therefore,
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all of our sin, trustgrassion, trusgrasson were buried also secause
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when they put him in the tomb. When they put
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him in the tomb, they put all of our sins
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in that tomb too. And the rest of the verse
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says that like as Christ was risen from the day,
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y'all better hear this, that like as Christ was risen
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up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
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by he was risen up by the glory of the Father.
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Even so we also, somebody say, we also should walk
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in newness of life. So we died with him, and
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we were buried with him, And the resurrection was our
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resurrection to newness of life. See, when we died with him,
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we were buried with him. We resurrected with him, and
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when he resurrected it was a new life. So when
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we died, when we were buried, when we resurrected, we
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ain't had an old life. No more. We got a
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new life. We got a new look. We got a
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new way of walking, We got a new way of talking,
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we got a new wab of hearing. We got a
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new way of dealing with things. Because we brand new,
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we now who we are used to be. Your name
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ain't Lisa no More's Lisha. Amen, your name is still Lisa,
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you say, amen. Amen, Let me see when I'm gonna
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stop right there? Oh, I'm back here. First chapter in Romans,
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Chapter six, seple. I want to elaborate on some more
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of this. So to live this life, we gotta understand
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the likeness of his death. See, we gotta understand the
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likeness of his death, which is the same as we
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died when he died. Understand the likeness of his death
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about which all of this was done. Amen, Verse twenty.
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It's powerful. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live
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Yet not. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live
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yet not. I see it's not I, it's not you
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no more. But Christ lives in me and the life
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which I now live in the flesh, in my other words,
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my daily walk before God. I live by faith of
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the Son of God, which is the cross The faith
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is the cross of what Jesus Christ did for us.
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I live by the faith of the Son of God.
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The cross is our objective amen of our faith. Who
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loved me and gave himself for me. This is the
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only way we were gonna be saved, that the fact
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that He gave himself for us. So what Paul was
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saying in verse twenty is this is when he says,
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I am crucified with Christ. This is his foundation of
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all his victory. You are crucified with Christ. That's the
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foundation of your victory. You are crucifile with Christ. So
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that's the foundation of your victory. But nevertheless, I live,
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you have a new life. Yet not I but Christ. See.
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In other words, we don't live by our own strength
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and our own abilities anymore. We shouldn't be. If we are,
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then we need to go back to the cross. Hey man,
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we're not living by our own strength and our own abilities. Now. Ah,
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thank you Jesus, thank you Lord. We're not living by
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our own strength and our own abilities anymore. But Christ
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lives in me. Uh huh. Twenty one. I do not
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frustrate the grace of God. Why God, who loved me
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and gave himself for me. Is the only way that
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I could be saved is that God died for me.
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That's the only way that I and lived again. He
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didn't just die, he lived again by the glory of
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God's power raised him up. So I do not frustrate
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the grace of God. So if we make anything other
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than Jesus Christ and the Cross our faith, we frustrate God.
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We frustrate in God. I do not frustrate the grace
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of God. We can't make anything other than Christ of
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the Cross, the objective of our faith. Nothing. And they
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tell you something different when you go to AA. You
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can make anything saith long you just believe in it
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and it can help you put drink and it can't.
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It can't. I know classes. I wouldn't alcoholic either, but
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I taught those classes. I got a little little backlash
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folks telling me, how can you tell us where we are?
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You ain't being where we be in I say, I
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ain't got to go where you go. I ain't got
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to drink to see that your food for putting something
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in your body that don't belong in your body. Alcohol.
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God didn't make your body for alcohol. He didn't make
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your body for smoking. He didn't make your body for
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the wrong drugs. Amen. He didn't even make your body
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for alcohol drugs period. It was because of the fall
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that we needed drugs, because of the imperfections of the
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body system. Amen. Amen. So I do not frustrate the
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grace of God. We can't frustrate the grace of God,
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which means when you frustrate the grace of God, you
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don't want to do that because it stops the favor
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in your life. Amen, in unmerited favor of God. The
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grace of God is the favor of God, and when
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you frustrate it, no favor, it stops the actions of
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the favor, and the Holy goes. Oh my God, somebody say,
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the Holy ghost when you frustrate the grace of God. Yeah,
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better hear this is important to your life. The Holy
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Ghost will not help you anymore. When you frustrate the
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grace of God, the Holy Ghost won't help you. You
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need the Holy Ghost. Don't frustrate the grace. See all
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them people frustrating the grace of God believing in anything
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other than the Cross, and believe in anything that the
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hope that we have is in the Cross. Because of
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Jesus Christ. It's in Jesus Christ Cross, Jesus Christ. Same thing.
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They frustrate the grace of God. All the folks run
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around believing in Mary. That's some Catholics, all of them
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believing in Buddha. They frustrate the grace of God because
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they don't believe in the cross. All them Jews, they
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don't even believe Jesus Christ has come. They frustrate the
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grace of God. Glory to God, Hallelujah, Glory to God. Glory.
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You don't want to frustrate the grace of God. I
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do not frustrate the grace of God. For if righteousness
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came by the law, any type of law, then Christ
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is dead in vain. If I can successfully live by
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I live for the Lord by any means other than
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faith in Christ, then Jesus Christ was murdered and the
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cross was a waste. The death of Jesus was in vain.
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So you can't live by any other thing. Aymen, now
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you've heard what Paul had said. Amen, you heard it.
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So I pray that this word of God will enhance
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our faith. Amen, it will enhance the faith walk. See faith,
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there's a faith walk. In other words, the walk part
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of faith is that we walk in belief of the Cross,
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which is not a literal walking like this, it's a living.
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That's the walk. It's the way we live. And the
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way you live will implicate the faith you got in
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Jesus Christ. The way you live, what you believe, how
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you react, and how you respond, how you respond better
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than how you react. Amen. So I pray that this
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enhances our faith walk in our daily living, and that
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it will exemplify the Christian life that we perfessed as
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we professor as Christians. Everybody professing to be a Christian,
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it's mind bothering, nerve racking. They ain't bit more a
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Christian than a man on the moon. Ain't no man
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on the moon. So that means they ain't no Christian.
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But everybody's a Christian. You a Christian? Yeah, I've been baptized. Yeah,
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dry devil down in a what demon came up? You
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ain't a Christian because some idiot baptized you. First of all,
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you don't baptize folks without teaching. You don't baptize folks
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without counsel. You don't marry folks without counsel. Folks marry
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anybody me and the mean women and women heathens back
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getting baptized. Baptism is the outwit showing of anything happened.
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If you ain't been baptized in Jesus Christ, you ain't
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got no business being baptized in the water. Y'all, hear
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what I'm saying. Baptism isn't out. We'll showing off anyone happening.
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You baptized the heat and he's gonna be in worship
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shape than he was before he went down. He gonna
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come up even more evil than before. And what we are,
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the disciples and representatives of Jesus Christ, how are you
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representing them? How are you walking in this world? See?
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Because these these these passes of scripture from Paul is
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he's dealing with perversion of the attack of the enemy
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to divide the people of God. It's working. It's working.
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Somebody says, working among themselves by division, we our own enemy.
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We don't need the devil. Right, he done work it out.
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Saints of God are their own enemies. See. The devil
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will do anything to separate people's people of God's people.
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He'll do anything to separate us from the love of
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God and what God has. He definitely definitely. Somebody say
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definitely wants to separate us from what God has for us.
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You know what God has for us eternity. Ain't talking
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about no houses and cars, ain't talking about no money,
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no husband, no wife, no children. I'm talking about eternity
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in heaven when our Lord and say to Jesus Christ,
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and he'll do anything to separate us from the love
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of God and what God has for us. Anything. He's
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approached the church, he's gotten into the church. He gotten
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into the church. Church ain't come about the building some
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of the people, and we have divided ourselves. We have
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divided ourselves. Go we call ourselves Catholic, we call ourselves Baptists,
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we call ourselves seven day of ventis we call ourselves
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Church and God in Christ we call ourselves fifteen percenters.
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We call ourselves five percenters. We have separated ourselves. We
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call ourselves seven day of ventisies. He has got in
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the church and cause division.
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M hm.
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This is why we must value the Word of God
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like air. We breathe, lungs, that work, heart that beats.
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Because the Bible is the mind of God. It is
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the word strictly giving us to us from God. Amen.
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God has given us what we need and luck ain't
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gonna do it. We're blessed. Yeah, up to us to
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get it. Thank you, brother, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Sounded like something like that. We understand that the Word
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of God is infallible. It's infallible and it's authority. Let
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me say that again. It is infallible in its authority.
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It is also universal in interest because people are interested
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in the Bible all over the world. All over the world.
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The most sold and the most famous book of all
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times is the Bible.
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All these preachers and wrote books, and actors and all
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these people in wrote books, but this book is the
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most sold book in the world. Believe it or not,
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it's the most famous book in all the world. So
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it is universal in interest. And you got to understand
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it's personal in application. It's personal, and it is inspiring
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in its totality because it inspires me a man. So
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we should read it. We should read it through. We
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let me say it again. We should read it through.
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We should write it down. We should do the most
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important thing is pray it in. And what's most important too,
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we should work it out. And then somebody saying, then
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pass it on pass it on. See Paul's minister the
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Church of got Latent. These churches, I said, these churches
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had received the word of God and had started to
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walk in the way of the Lord and the gospel
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of Jesus Christ. They had allowed the old tactics of
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divide and conquer to creep into and cause a division
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about lod law caused circumcision. Look that cause of division,
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the cause of prophet. You gotta understand, Paul, came about
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after the death of Jesus Christ. What does it say
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to you? It says what I was saying to you
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in no scriptures that God said the law is abolished,
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not dead. But the law is dead in us. Why
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because Jesus Christ perfected it right right? Thank you? What
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am I saying? Paul's ministry came after Jesus already died,
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So that means the law was already perfected. So that's
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why they had division. They still trying to keep the law.
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Circumcision was abolished. It was the circumcision and not of
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the false skin of your firstborn son or your sons.
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But now when Jesus Christ died and on the cross
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in the veil was writ and the law was perfected
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in his walk in this earth. The man didn't have
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to be circumcision of the of the of the flesh
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of the male wasn't. So it's the circumcision of everybody's heart. Now,
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you're right. And they were fighting over circumcisions, over the law.
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You gotta understand something. Circumcision of the false skin of
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the male was the law. It was a physical thing.
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But the circumcision after Jesus Christ came died resurrection, that
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were born, and we were born again with spiritual We
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ain't under the law. We ain't under the law. The
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Bible says no type of the law. Uh. For those
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of y'allity still see a little guilty by paying ties.
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That was part of the law too. That's part of
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the law. That's part of the law. That's part of
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the law that was before Jesus was manifested. It is
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in Malachi that was before the law. All the law
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was a polished Paul writes in this New Testament, prepared
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offering for the House of God. I'm coming. I'll take
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it to the city, the Holy City. And if by
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chance he don't make it, he told us to do
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something else. I can't remember what he said, But he said,
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hold on to it. See you're supposed to prepare your
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offering before you ever get here, not try to figure
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it out once you get here. I don't know what
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everybody else do. I don't I know what I do,
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and I know what he do because he told me so.
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He already got his offering prepared before he ever get here.
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My friend's already prepared before I get here. And the
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Bible says to give according to your heart. Ten people
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out there that are gonna give a hundred dollars, hown, y'all,
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don't give a hundred dollars. That ain't your heart, that's
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his heart. And that's ten more people that're gonna give
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fifty fifty. A lady walked up, and I don't know
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why lightning didn't come from heaven. I do know why,
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because God has grace and mercy. But the lady walked
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up here. They got all these gimmicks and games for
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you in these different churches. She was taking up the offer.
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She called the people with one hundred dollars, whoever had
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a hundred, they always coming up and throwing it. She
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came up with twenty threw it and she said, hey, baby,
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come back here. We ain't got to the twenties yet.
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Y'all didn't get that dish. You ain't get that. If
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I was that woman that dropped that twenty, what what
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I did, what I had done? I picked it up.
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I would have picked it up.
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Because she gave according to her heart.
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If she walked up to the hundred dollar line, she
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ain't have a hundred she had to give according to
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her heart. I'm not sure, but I would like to
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believe that, and she would collect the money according to heart.
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Greedy heart. So they were conversing over the circumcision between
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the Jews and the Gentiles. So they removed from the
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call into the Grace of Christ into another gospel. They
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moved the vision set in because of the Law to
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another gospel. Another gospel ain't Jesus. So what Paul did
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was he came and he was using his you know,
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he was using his personal life, his personal life is
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personal experience to show them the principles he used to
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govern his life as a Christian. That's why he said
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follow me as I follow him, him being Jesus Christ. Yeah,
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so he was showing them his personal life that he
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governed his life as a Christian. Now this is very
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important to all of us, Amen, because as you may know,
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that before Paul met Jesus on his way to arrest
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and persecute, he was on his way to arrest and
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persecute Christians, on his way to persecute anyone who he
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found in the way. Anybody he found in the way,
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in other words, anybody he found living the life is
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a Christian, he came to persecute him, Amen, anybody. And
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from that experience, Paul said he had a change in
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his life. Paul recognized that there were he recognized they
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were causing division by not accepting the Gentiles because of
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being uncircumcised. Wait a minute, the foolishness and that is this,
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the law was given to the Jews, but you're not
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accepting the Gentiles because they ain't dealing with the uncircumsan
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because of the uncircumcisions of them. But the law was
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given to the Jews. So Paul began to explain to
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them that after his conversion his life changed, and he
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speaks of it in verse twenty. Now, after his conversion,
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his life changed. Remember, Paul was not walking with Jesus
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physically like the other disciples he came after Jesus died.
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So Jesus had already died, was buried and resurrected. So
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the law was not alive like that in them anymore.
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Because Jesus had done away with the sin. He came
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and redeemed us from sin. He came and gave us
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a new nature. So Paul said in verse twenty, I
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am crucifible Christ. He said, I am crucis fable Christ.
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That's his foundation all the victory that Paul here takes
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us back to. And when I read in Roma sixty
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three and five, he said, I was crucifibil Christ. That's
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my victory. I'm good, I'm good now, I'm holy. I'm
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holy said the life which I now live in the flesh,
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I live by the faith of the Son of God,
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who loved me and gave me for himself, and gave
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himself for me. See, their problem was trying to understand justification.
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Paul found out in verse sixteen man is not justified
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by the works of the law. Sixteen says, knowing that
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a man is not justified by the works of the law,
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that's what he said. It's impossible to be justified by
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the works of the law, because if you could be
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justified by working the law keeping the law, the law
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never came to save. It came to make you recognize
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and realize. That's what it came. Came to let you
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recognize your wrong and rights. Ay Man, he said, knowing
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that a man is not justified by the works of
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the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Faith
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is the faith is what Jesus did at the cross,
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even we have believed in Jesus Christ. In other words,
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our objective of faith must always be the Cross, that
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we might be justified, because if we believe in that,
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that we might be justified by the faith of Christ
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and not by the works of the law. For the
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works of the law shall no flesh justified. But look
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at this, where's this thing that nineteen? For I, through
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the law Christ has perfectly kept the law and suffered
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it's just penalty. Christ did that, and all of it
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was done on our behalf for our health. For I
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through the law am dead to the law. For I
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through the law, I you me dead to the law.
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The law is not dead, amen, But I am dead
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to the law by virtue of having died with Jesus Christ. Heymen,
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man is not justified by the works of the law,
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but by the faith of Jesus Christ. And if we
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cannot understand it that way, then simply it says, for
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by the works of the law shall no what thing,
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no wisdom, no man, no I mean, no man, no
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flesh be justified, no flesh, no man can be justified
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by the law. And then he shares with us verse nineteen,
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that I just read, for I, through the law am
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dead to the law that I might live. You dead
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to You gotta be dead to the law, because he says,
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for I may if I gotta be dead to the law,
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for me to live by the Lord is Christ, that
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I may live unto God. So you got to be
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dead unto the law, that you may live unto God.
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Our faith is in the cross of Jesus Christ, not
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the law. For the law came to show us, didn't
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come to save. He said, through the law, I am
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dead to the law that I might live with the God.
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All right, all right, Paul, that should shift us, hey man,
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shift us to a higher revelation. We are to be
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shifted to a higher revelation in this teaching of Jesus Christ.
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In living this Christian life. For these scriptures teach us
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that was Christ who was crucified, and he died, like
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Paul says in verse twenty, by the unction in the
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spirit of God. He was crucified with Christ. And as
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believer us and blood bought saints of God, we were
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crucified with Christ also, And the Bible says that Christ
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rose up with all power in his hand. I'm confused
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sometimes because Jesus Christ, he died, was buried, resurrected, but
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he ain't just resurrect. He didn't just resurrect. He ain't
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just come back. He came back with all power. And
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if he live in us, we don't have limited power.
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He said, all powers. You know what I'm saying. De
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He said, he was raised up with all power. And
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if he live in us, because we have died and
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now he lives. And where Paul said, I don't live
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his life no more, he live in me. And if
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he lived in us, where's all the power? All power?
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He lived in us? Is No, we didn't live anymore.
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But he didn't live in us, where's all the power?
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Paul saysn't because he lives. Nevertheless, I live yet not
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I but Christ liveth in me. So I have to
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ask you, we need to embrace this. We need to
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hold onto this like it's breathing our lungs, heart that
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beats in our chest, blood that flows through our veins.
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We need to hold on. We need to embrace this.
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In living the Christian life, you must embrace it because
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it means victory. I don't care what comes in your life.
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You got victory. That's what the Bible say. What do
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you have faith in and trust in? Because Christ lives
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in us and we must surrender to Him that we
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might live in him. Let me close with this. I
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want to submit to each and every I want you to.
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You might want to write these down because I'm gonna
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go through them and look fast you might be to
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catch up with me. I want to submit this to you.
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Live that life, live that life of Christ, and this
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is how you do it. See God don't never tell
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us to do something without telling us how to do it.
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He tell us how to do it. He don't just
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tell to live the life. He tell us how to
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live the life. Hey man, so how much we live
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this life? Well? He tells us. In the Book of Titus,
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Titus Chapter three and verse eight. And what he tells
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us and Titus is live it constantly. That's how we're
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supposed to live it. Live it constantly. Titus three and
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eight tells us this is a faithful singing, and these
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things I will that you affirm constantly constantly? What's that
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proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ, that they which have
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believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.
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The greatest work that you can do is to spread
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the gospel to all people. These things are good and
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profitable unto men. That's how you live it. That ain't
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all Psalms eighty four. Oh God got some instruction for us,
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and they basically really come in conjunction with one another.
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So in Psalms eighty four and verse eleven, for the
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Lord God is a son and shield, the Lord will
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give us grace and glory. No good thing will be
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with hell from them who walk upright. So that's the thing.
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Live it uprightly, live it uprightly, live it violently, which
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is in First Chronicles nineteen and thirteen. He talks about
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that First Chronicles. I don't know if y'all can find that.
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You probably never turn to that book. First Chronicles, chapter
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nineteen and verse thirteen. Wait a minute, First Chronicles, Chapter
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nineteen and verse thirteen. Wait a minute, Now, I must
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be looking at the wrong thing. Oh I am looking
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at the wrong thing. I'm a Second Chronicles. No, I won't,
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I won't, I won't First Chronicles nineteen and thirteen. I
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was looking at First Chronicles. I was looking at Second Chronicles.
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But I want you in First Chronicles. In verse nineteen
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and when the service of I'm reading the wrong thing,
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he said, be of good, be of a good curve.
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Because what he's saying here is lived violently. He says,
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be of good courage. And let us behave ourselves violently
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for our people and for the cities of our God.
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And let the Lord do that which is good in
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his sight. Amen. Amen, now that I got back on
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the right track, Amen, live your life patiently as well, Hebrews,
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and make sure I get this right. Chapter six and
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verse fifteen. Live your life patiently, so you want to
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know live that life. This is how you live that life.
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Chapter six and verse fifteen. And so after he had
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patiently endured. See, there's always a distance, everybody. I told
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you before. There's always a distance between the promise and
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the possession. The promise, all this in the middle, the possession.
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But there's always something in the middle. But you gotta
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have patience in the middle to get to the possession.
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So we got to live our life patience, so it said.
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And so after he had patiently endured, he waited, he waited.
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There's a distance between that patience and and the and
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the possession of it and that and that possessed and that. Yeah,
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and the distance is never uneventful. He obtained the promise,
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why because he endured patiently, That's why. And then live
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it prudently, Live it prudently Isaiah fifty two. In thirteen
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Isaiah fifty two and verse thirteen, live it prudently. Thirteen says, behold,
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my servant shall deal prudently. He shall be exalted and trilled,
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and be very high. My servant, Jesus Christ, will be
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lifted up high. Jesus Christ. The servant is the Lord
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Jesus Christ. He's gonna live it be prudently. He shall
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be exalted and axtralled a troll. He's going to be
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lifted up, he's gonna be honored, he's gonna be set
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on high. And if he is, we are, We're gonna
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have to live it fervently. Colossians four. Y'all right down
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if you can't keep up. Colossians Chapter four and verse twelve. Amen, Eparess,
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who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes
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you always up boarding fervently for you in prayer. So
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he was always in intercessory prayer, strong, inncessory prayer, fervently
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in incestry prayer, that ye may stand perfect and complete
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in all that will of God, in all your spiritual maturity.
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Pay that in all your spiritual maturity, livid, patiently, livid, prudently,
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lived fervently. Amen. And in one Peter Chapter one, I
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don't want to go there yet. I wanna yeah, I
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just got yeah, lived uh. Titus go back to Titus two.
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Titus chapter two. Tays Uh chases Chapter two in verse thirteen,
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looking and what he's talking about here, And Titus is livid,
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unexpectedly looking for the blessed hope, looking for the blessed
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hope and the glorious appearance of the Great God in
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our savior Jesus Christ. That's living it unexpectedly a man,
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but he wants to live it fervently, he wants to
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live it unexpectedly. And as we look at the aspect
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of Jesus life, as we look at the aspects of
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Jesus life here, we should do everything we can to
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live the Christian life. Why because why? Somebody say, because
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there is a because why we should live the Christian life.
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When we look at Jesus Christ's life, we should look
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at the life that he lived, and we should want
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to We should, as we claim in Jesus Christ lived
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that Christian life the way he lived it. Why, somebody say,
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because because in living it he loved us. Dying he
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saved us, and burying he carried us. He carried our
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sins far far away. Rising up, he justified us, freed
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us forever. And one day somebody say, one day he's coming,
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and oh, what a glorious day that's going to be.
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I trust in pray. I trust in pray, I said,
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I trust in prayer that the power of the Holy Ghost,
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and by the grace of the amazing God, the amazing
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grace of God, we will continue to empower and be
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in power by Lord, and say to Jesus Christ, as
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we look forward to better things and all that God
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has and stored for us. Amen, that we walk the walk,
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talk the talk here the words of God. Amen, that
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we understand that it's crucial that our faith stays in
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the cross of Jesus Christ. And walked as he walked.
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He didn't walk that walk just to show that he
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could do it. He walked that walked the show that
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we could do it. He walked that walked the show
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that we could do it if we believe in him.
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I said that Jesus Christ came here to redeem us
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from our sin and redeemerus. He did do He was
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the ultimate lamb of God. He was the ultimate sacrifice,
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the ultimate redeemer. He wasn't a he wasn't a bar
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assmen on our taler k now. He was not some
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mental mechnesia. He was not a Tipperary fix. He was
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a total fix. You don't hear what I'm saying, hey man.
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He came to clear it all up. It ain't coming back.
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Came to clear it up for good. And if you
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just believe in it, and if you just walk with him,
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you will have it all cleared up. Because if you
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walk in him, if you walk in him, he'll walk
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in you. And when he walks in you. It's not
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your life you live anymore. Aymen, it's not your depression anymore.
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That depression don't belong to you no more. That hopelessness
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does not belong to you no more. That broken ness
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does not belong to you no more. It belongs to
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the one that wants you to believe you got it,
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the devil and the people that surround you. It's not mine. Oh,
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you need to get on the way from over here,
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because see peace over here. You ain't peace, You disruption.
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So you can't come over here and mess with this.
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When you clear your head and you can come back,
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because see that peace don't belong to you, belong to me. Amen. Amen,
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give God a handclapping praiser. Amen. Amen. If you don't
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believe Jesus can fix it, you better believe he already
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fixed it. If you don't believe he can fix it,
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don't believe he already fixed it. I said. If you
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don't believe he can fix it, believe he already fix it. See,
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I don't like to sing them songs. Brother, I know
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Jesus he'll fix it after a while. Now he already
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fixed it. He's an on time god. Now he ain't.
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He's already here. Y'all hear what I'm saying. What you
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believe in? I will singing the songs. When I sang them,
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I change the words. Y'all hear what I'm saying. He's
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God and God alone. Heymen, heymen, we're standing in this house.
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We're standing. God is good. Amen, Lord, God is good.
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I guy this morning, I'm feeling all right. I got
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this minutes to Sunday school. I started feeling faint, real bad.
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I needed to set down, but I wanted to hold on.
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I was asking myself, well, I being foolish. Do I
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need to set down? But the strength came into my weakness.
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I feel all right. You can't tell me my good
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God ain't good. My Jesus is real. I feel my
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strength in his house. Amen. The brothers tried to get
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me to set down to minutes. I said, I'm a
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stand now ill. No, I'm standing up. He's a healer.
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Bible says, bad stripes. We work here. I'm already here.
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Just the symptom messing with my faith.
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Hallelujah, hallelu hallelujah, Lord God, I thank you, yeah, halleluen,
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hallelujah hallelujah.
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He is an long time God because you're already here.
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Because he'll never leave you. Enough for safe you. So
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if he'll never leave you, it ain't a matter if
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him getting here. He's already here. Amen. I know you
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hear God, So do what you do because I needed done.
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You don't hear what I'm saying. I'll elusion. Oh we
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gotta get that air on faster next time. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen, Who.
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He's ready, I'm so glad he stays ready. I'm glad
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he stays ready. I'm glad he stays ready.
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When I called him, I got to wait to him
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for him to a rid. He already here. He's standing
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right beside me, waiting on me. Y'all better him quite
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believing that you waiting on the Lord. You better believe
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that he's waiting on you, standing right there, and do
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it like this. You're gonna call me. Amen. Let us
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pray Father, Oor, Lord, We thank you Lord. Thank you.
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You're an old time God because you're always there. God.
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Thank you never leave us, nor for sake us. Thank
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you for strength and our weakness. God in the name
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of Jesus, Thank you God for the victory of the Cross.
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In the name of Jesus. Thank you that you made
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it possible that we can walk the wall. That our Lord,
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you save your watch if we just hold on to
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the cross, hold on to our hope in Jesus Christ,
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hold on to his sayings, hold on to the word
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that speaks to our minds our spirit. Help us God
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that a holy ghost. Thank you, help us not to
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frustrate your grace. Lord, in the name of Jesus, for
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we need your Lord each and every day, God, each
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and every minute of the day. Us, each and every
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hour of the day, every second of the day, God
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would need your Lord. And God. If there's anyone here
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that has a personal request, God, do it right now,
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fix it. God, attend to it. Lord in the name
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of Jesus. Increase God our faith. God, forgive us of
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a hunbelief in the name of Jesus, and help us
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along this way. God, Help us along this way. God,
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help us along this way. God, in the name of Jesus,
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in the way of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Touch right now, those that are hurting in their bodies,
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those that are hurting in their spirit, those that are
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hurting in their peace, those that need the joy, restore
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the peace those that even hurt in their finances. Help
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God you in all time. Help on. There's nothing too
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hard for you, nothing too small for you. Help God.
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Touch right now, stretch forth your arms. Never is it
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too short or too long, but it can touch right
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where it needs to touch. God, do it right now.
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We have God in the name of Jesus, and we'll
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be mindful to give you the praise, to give you
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the glory. Help us in our relationship God, with you
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and with others. God in the name of Jesus, help
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us with our forgiveness. God. Oh Hallelujah, Oh hallelujah, Thank
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you Jesus, and we believe you for God, because there's
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no help like your help. There's no hand like your hand.
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We thank you. Touch right now, God, Touch Touch in
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the name of Jesus, and we believe you God. We
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believe you God. We believe you. We believe. All our
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hope is in you, All our life is in you,
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all our being is in You, Lord, and is in
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Jesus' name. We praise and the church that thank God.
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Thank God, Amen and Amen. Give God a hand count
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the heap glory. Hallelujah. RM.