Live Out the Gospel, Leave Out the Rest - Titus 3:8-11

As you guys are turning to Titus Chapter 3, I, I will give you

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kind of a preview of, of where we're going up front.

We're going to cover some things that have already come up in our

study of Titus and really have come up numerous times, not only

in our study of Titus, but also if you can think back to the

beginning of the year in our study of First Timothy.

And this is a, a, a good thing. As I, as I began to study for,

for this moment, I thought to myself, well, well, we've

covered some of these topics, some of these warnings, some of

these encouragements. But what, what I have found and

encourage you in is that oftentimes the word will cover

things that are really important.

It reminds me of a reference point I have as a parent, not

only of parenting children, but also thinking back to my own

mother. She used to say this phrase to

me. Maybe you can relate to it.

Something you are hearing actively as a as a, a young

person or a parent. How many of you remember the

phrase? How many times do I have to tell

you? You know, you've got those

reoccurring lessons that need to come up in your household.

I know for, for us in our household right now, I, I've

heard my wife say to the kids, how many times do I have to tell

you to close the door when you leave?

And during the summer, it was like, close the door.

You're letting flies in. Now we're getting season change.

Doors are still staying open. You're, you're letting the heat

out as there's all sorts of reasons to just be bothered by

these, the instincts of children to to leave without closing the

door. And so I hear her say it.

How many times I have to tell you, Well, there's going to be a

how many times do I have to tell you moment in Paul giving Titus

some instruction for the church. I'm going to tell you again,

it's actually going to come to the end of how many times he's

going to tell them. And we're not going to just look

at a warning or, or, or a moment that's happening that needs to

be addressed so it doesn't happen anymore.

But Paul is also going to tell Titus one of the other things

you have to do as a parent, which is say things repeatedly

all the time and forever. So you don't just have to have

how many times I'm going to tell you moments that are lessons to

be learned because they they need to be instructed away from.

But parents, friends, husbands, wives, there, there are things

you have to say all the time and forever.

There are things that you have to tell your kids, I love you.

I, I, I, I want to encourage you and husbands to wives, I love

you. I want to serve you.

Those things have to be said all of the time.

And today we're going to look at really two categories.

Paul reminding Titus that he needs to say things to the

church. One of the categories things you

got to say all the time as a believer, you're going to have

to hear it all the time in a good way.

In the second category, another thing he says, how many times I

have to tell you, I don't want you to do this anymore.

So with with that lens, I want you to read along with me in

Titus chapter 3, starting in verse 8.

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He says this is a faithful saying and these things I want

to affirm constantly. In other words, I want to say

this a lot. Here's what he wants to say all

the time in and through Titus, that those who have believed in

God should be careful to maintain good works.

These are good and profitable to men.

So this is the first category. This is something you're going

to say all the time, Paul to Titus, Titus to this church

region of Crete. For us as believers, there's

things that we need to remind each other of all of the time.

Affirm them constantly. And then in verse 9, we have the

second category. How many times I have to tell

you this, Verse 9. But avoid foolish disputes,

genealogies, contentions and strivings about the law, for

they are unprofitable and useless.

And now he's going to come to the end of the warning.

After all of our study in Titus and overlaying the study in

Timothy, he says in verse 10 reject the divisive man after

the 1st and 2nd admonition, knowing that such a person is

warped and sinning being self condemned.

And we'll stop there. We'll leave the rest of the the

close of this letter to next week.

But here are your categories. They they they can fit and

overlay over the year that we've been studying these pastoral

epistles, first Timothy and Titus.

And if you could just remember these two phrases for things you

need to be continually reminded of and things that have a shelf

life of warning. Timothy, Titus, this is what

Paul has been saying. Live out the gospel and leave

out the rest. We've looked at so many times

where where Paul is trying to focus the church on what is the

most important, affirm it constantly remind these people

live out the gospel and over and over again, he's had to to to

pastor them away from distracting things, things that

are not essential to to loving God, knowing Jesus, celebrating

salvation, expressing the the, the the life you have in Christ

and the way that you love one another.

Leave all of that stuff out. So if, if just the framework of

where we're going and really where we've been and studying

these letters for the last year is, is we're going to look at

how we live out the gospel and how we leave out the rest.

And the, the first part of this was really verse 8.

So we read it again. He says this is a faithful

statement. He he uses this this phrase

faithful saying or trustworthy saying, which was the the title

of our entire time in first Timothy as a way to say this is

the stuff that is good helpful that you can bank on.

And he says for the faithful saying, for the trustworthy

parts of doctrine and the things we study and the things you need

to go out and do, I want you to affirm them all the time.

It's really important as we get together to remember the why we

open the Bible every week. And the main take away every

week is to highlight the faithful truth that is good and

profitable. He says for that, I want you to

affirm, to preach it, to remind them constantly.

And what is the faithful thing that he's supposed to, to remind

Titus, to remind the believers. It says this that those who have

believed in God should be careful to maintain good works.

There is a point to your doctrine.

Those of you who have believed it is not so that you can simply

have good theology and assurance of heaven starts there, but it's

also that you would cling to or in other translations where it

says maintain good works, it says devote yourself to doing

good. Your life between salvation and

heaven has a purpose. The Word says that you were

saved not by works, but by grace to walk in the good works that

God has prepared for you beforehand.

And that is the faithful saying that Titus is supposed to remind

the church in Crete of and that we as believers in 21st century

Boise ID United States of America, we need to remind

ourselves what is the trustworthy and faithful point

of everything that we do. He says.

It's a faithful saying to hold, hold on to doing good.

And I, I just want to pause one moment because he's saying all

of this on the heels of what we read last week.

And so there's nothing more faithful, nothing more true,

nothing more worth your time than the gospel.

And this is what all of this is an overflow from.

So remember where we left off last week, Chapter 3, verse 3.

Read it with me. This is the a constant reminder

of why we open the book and why we exhort one another to leave

these doors and do good. It is all on standing on the

gospel truth, starting in verse 3 of chapter 3, he says.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived,

serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and

envy, hateful and hating one another.

This is the beginning of that trustworthy saying that he's

reminding Titus of that we looked at this morning, and that

is faithful. That is a trustworthy moment of

the gospel message that hangs over all of your heads, whether

you are here as a believer saved by the grace of God, or here

listening to the message that Christians believe.

It starts with the trustworthy fact that everybody is a Sinner,

that we have all done things to be disobedient to the perfect

goodwill of God to our, of, of our lives.

And and it's turned into evil and hateful malice in our hearts

that the gospel good news starts with the faithful bad news that

we need a savior. We're supposed to remind each

other of that all the time. Why?

So that we have a reference point of where all of this good

flows from. It flows from our need for God's

goodness to invade our lives first and foremost.

And this is what it says, verse 4 going on.

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward

man appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we have

done, but by according to His mercy, not because of our

goodness, not by works of righteousness.

It starts with us in desperate need of a Savior.

And because God is good, He saved us through the washing of

regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured

out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.

That having been justified by works, by good works that we

have to remind each other to do all the time by coming to church

and sitting and listening to the pastor and leaving and doing and

doing and doing. No, it starts with the faithful

trustworthy saying that we've been justified.

We've been brought into a good relationship with God by his

grace, that we should be come heirs according to the hope of

eternal life. Here's why this is so important.

We are supposed to remind each other with laser focus of what

we're supposed to be about. And Paul says to Titus, I say to

you now we are supposed to be about good.

We're supposed to be do gooders in the world that we live in.

God has prepared all of you who believe with some sort of way to

give him glory, shine the light of his goodness in your life by

doing good to others. But that is not the beginning of

the message. The message starts with this

faithful saying that every good in your life is moved into your

hearts and your minds and your even ability to do it.

By the grace of God, you are saved to do good works in that

order, and it's very important to keep it in that order lest

some of us think that, you know, we get constantly reminded that

your salvation is up to you. We are standing on the good news

gospel message that Jesus has done everything to save us.

And because of that, we now have a desire to live that out.

And this is what, before we go into this category of the

distractions that sometimes believers or churches can get

involved in, let us just affirm constantly, we were made to do

good by the power of God's Spirit in us.

He gives us the strength to do good.

And there is no good in your life.

There's not one thing that you could do in a service to God or

others that is not standing on the theology and the power of

the gospel. In other words, all good work is

gospel work. It has to be received healthy in

your hearts, renewed in your mind, and whatever calls God

calls you to do good. After you've received the free

gift, it's because it has been done to you.

So just join me on a thought experiment of all the great ways

that you might find yourself walking in some opportunities to

do good this week. And we we just, you know, get a

reminder every time we go into the sometimes the darkness of

the season, it it's holidays and there's all sorts of people who

just need help. There's not one charitable gift

that you can do to someone else that should not come from an A

flow of God's goodness in your life.

So you think about the goodness of serving others.

It all flows from God serving you.

First, look what Jesus says to his disciples in John chapter

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13, that the final hours before he does the great work of the

cross to pay for the sins of humanity.

In his final hours, he gives them an object lesson and washes

their feet. And he says to them, If then

your Lord and Teacher have washed your feet, you also ought

to wash one another's feet. For I've given you an example

that you should do as I have done to you, all of your service

to one another and the specific roles and offices we often talk

about husband to wife, parent to child, neighbor to neighbor.

It all flows first from Jesus modeling what it means to wash

your feet. We can just use the example of

husbands right now. Husbands, how many times have

you heard to love your wife like Christ loves the church and gave

himself for her? If you try to lift a finger of

serving and sacrificing your life for your wife without the

reference point of Jesus doing it for you, it will turn into

self-righteous pride or you will do it begrudgingly.

And same with parents, You love your children, teach them the

way they should go. And how is that modeled?

Well Jesus taught us to pray. He said pray like this, Heavenly

Father. The whole reference point is

that you have now a Father that is perfect.

That is the best picture of a father you could ever imagine.

And now when you love your kids, you're thinking I want to love

you like the Heavenly Father has loved me.

There is no service that can be done to God's glory that doesn't

start with God's goodness. You think also of the great

work. Some of the works we think of is

like serving the homeless and reaching out to the those in

prison and caring for people. But what about the work, the,

the, the power of forgiveness? You don't think that requires

work on your part? We've spent a whole summer

looking on the, the, the sermon on the plane.

And Jesus is giving this radical vision for how his people are

going to love. And it culminates in love

turning into forgiveness of enemies.

You didn't leave the, the sanctuary on those Sundays

thinking how on earth can I forgive that person?

Because forgiveness requires a great work on your part, but it

does not require you to start the work or complete the work.

Look what Paul says to the church in Ephesus.

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hearted, forgiving one another. How?

Even as Christ forgave you, whoever has wronged you, as you

struggle to think through what it means to offer them

forgiveness. Here's your reference point.

Yet while you were still a Sinner, hardened your heart

toward God. He's hanging on the cross for

your sin, and He cries out. Father, forgive them.

Forgiveness for others starts with you receiving forgiveness

for your own life. And as a side where you struggle

to do good, you are struggling with a good area of the gospel

that needs to be revived in your life.

We can continue. Think about the good of

generosity. We already said we pray for our

tithes and offerings. There are some of you who need

to be generous to people in your life to show them the gift of

hospitality, to share resources. We can continue the Sermon on

the Mount message where Jesus says someone asks, give them

double Jesus. People are extremely generous.

Why? It's because we want people to

see how awesome and good we are. We're extremely generous people

because we come into this sanctuary receiving generosity

from God that we can't even fathom in full.

Look what Paul says to the church in Rome.

He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us

all. How shall he not with him also

freely give us all things? When you have a view of the

power of the gospel that God so loved the world that He sent his

Son to hang on a cross for your sins, how can you cling to

material goods? How can you not hear the command

in the sermon on the plane that says if someone asks for your

cloak, give them your tunic? Also, when you have a view of

what God has given you, you can become a generous person and if

you try to be generous without receiving God's favor in your

life as a gift of grace, it will turn into self-righteous

religion where God owes you something or other people are

supposed to be in debt to you. How about the work of just

loving and encouraging one another?

When you leave this place and you hear someone needs a helping

hand or just prayer for the hard time that they're going through,

someone comes to you heartbroken with tears in their eyes.

They've got a situation in their life that is so desperate and

hard that it's hard to make sense of, and you need to give

them a word of encouragement to keep them trusting in God.

How on earth can you do that? Well, I'll show you how Paul did

it to the to the church in Rome, he says, and we know that all

things work together for good to those who love God, to those who

are called according to his purpose.

And how can he say we know that even difficult things can become

good things if you know and believe in the power of God

because of the gospel. Because there is no greater

tragedy that turned into the greatest glory than the one

person who never sinned paying the penalty of sin for all of

us. The greatest seemingly in just

moment, is when the perfect Son of God hung on the cross between

two common criminals and was rejected by all.

That seems like a pretty impossible circumstance to look

at and say, well, it worked out together for pretty good.

And yet with the cross in view, the perfect one becoming sin so

that we could become righteousness with the the power

of that first Easter morning in our theology and hearts, we know

that death turns into life. We know that tragedy can turn

into glory. We know that if you keep

trusting God, He will not abandon you.

He will bring you to the perfect place of his good and perfect

will for your life. And we can encourage each other

in that because we have the gospel as a faithful and

truthful, trustworthy word in our lives.

So that is why those who believe, those who sang the

songs this morning about the holiness and goodness of God,

those who come and say, I've put my faith in the power of Jesus

to forgive my sins and write my name in the book of heaven.

May your life live that out as a way to show others that you do

believe in forgiveness. You do believe in radical

generosity and service, and you believe in it because you've

received it. And that is why that is the

laser focus. That should not be just a

distraction that we allow anything to pull us from.

Live out the gospel. That is the overarching theme of

all of the reasons that Paul is telling Titus and Timothy to

have sound doctrine to defend good teaching so that when you

have good and healthy view of Jesus in your life, your life

will become a good and healthy view of Jesus to others.

So this first section is to live out the gospel.

That is the focus of our time in the word.

That is the focus of you devoting your life to Jesus is

to receive and to live. Live out the gospel.

And now we get to the part that is another reminder.

How many times do I have to tell you, leave out the rest.

Leave out all of the things that now that you've got the gospel

and now that you understand heaven and you've sins have been

forgiven. Let's get to the nitty gritty

weird stuff. And and it's been happening for

2000 years. It happened in Ephesus with

Timothy. It happened in Crete with Titus.

It happens in 21st century America where the gospel gets

layer upon layer of all of these distractions that don't actually

help us become more like Jesus. Verse 9 of void foolish

disputes, genealogies, contentions, strivings about the

law, why they are unprofitable and useless.

They do not profit your life in a way to bring you closer to the

God that saved you and to bring you closer into reflection of

Him to those that he has you as a light in the dark. 4 And I

think all of this can be summed up in that one simple phrase, a

foolish dispute. You know, as we've taught this a

number of times throughout the year of going through these

pastor epistles, there's so many ways that we could try to

understand it in their context and try to understand it in our

context. But here's the context.

The human heart 2000 years ago and now for whatever reason,

loves to debate. It likes to center arguments

around topics that seem to go on forever.

You know, I've, I've heard it said we live in a split screen

culture. How many of you ever turned on

the news or seen in the digital algorithm two people dividing

opposite sides in a way that seemingly goes on forever?

You can turn on Fox to get the opinions that you like, or CNN

to get the opinions you like. But here's the breaking news,

the actual breaking news. When you tune in tomorrow, the

debate rages on. After the commercial break,

they're going to come right back with the next guest to pick up

where the last ones left off. And they're going to continually

argue a foolish debate that doesn't profit your life.

And it's not just something that you can see in the news channels

and in the the feeds of your phone.

It's something that can happen over the topic of doctrine in

theology. Meaning just because you're

arguing over what the Bible's saying or meaning or how the

church should function or the Christian view on certain things

does not mean you are saved from it turning into something that

is useless. The Bible can become something

that distracts you from the gospel if you hyper focus on

things that are endless in their dispute.

And he says it's unprofitable. Well reference once again what

he told Timothy in first Timothy chapter 6.

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He says if anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent

to wholesome words, even the words of the Lord Jesus Christ,

and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, he's

proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and

arguments over words from which come.

And here's the danger of this It isn't just a waste of time.

It's actually bad fruit, he says, from which come envy and

strife and reviling evil suspicions, useless wranglings

of men, of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who

suppose that godliness is a means of game.

From such, withdraw yourselves. We'll come back to that because

we actually just read. He gave even more concrete

details to Titus. Don't just withdraw.

But here's how many times you should put up with someone who

is distracting the gospel and how to live it out with endless

disputes that turn into all this bad fruit.

And that's what we need to look for in some of the ways we try

to understand what's worth our time and what isn't worth our

time. What is the result of some of

the debates that you can find yourself in in a culture of

disputing? And here's the fundamental

question that underlies that one Does this bring you closer in

love with what God has done for you on the cross?

Does this bring you more hope with what was accomplished on

that first Easter morning when death was defeated?

Does this give you more confidence that you are awaiting

a a return of Jesus for the day that will will usher in a new

heaven and a new earth where the light and momentary afflictions

are far outweighed by the weight of the glory of eternity.

And if the answer is, you know, this is all stuff that kind of

just stirs up my heart and bothers me and makes me dislike

people, then it's probably a foolish argument.

When we were looking at the faithful and trustworthy section

of this whole passage of Scripture, he says that some

things are good and profitable, and now we're coming to the

place of arguing, disputing, and he says it's useless and

unprofitable. And the underlying theme for

both categories is the gospel. Is this helping us build our

confidence in Jesus for doctrine and Jesus for life?

And if you find yourself or if we find ourselves in some of

these sacred places, a church service where we want to preach

the gospel and encourage one another.

A community group of Calvary Boise.

We want to get into the word to to to encourage each other with

hope and confidence in Jesus so we can live it out more.

If we find someone who continually goes into the sacred

places and makes it about something that seems to be an

issue that has no end and is profiting no one.

This is the answer to how many times we should tell you.

It says in chapter 3, verse 10, reject A divisive man after the

1st and 2nd admonition. So there's a little bit of a

blueprint for what to do. It says you reject the divisive

person after one or two admonitions or warnings.

And So what does it mean to reject someone?

You can overlay this with some of what he gave Timothy as a a

reference point to what to do when the topic goes off the

rails. In first Timothy chapter 6, he

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says withdraw yourself. Second Timothy says from such

turn away and now in Titus, he says have nothing to do with

them. So I think just on a personal

level, as we think about the algorithm in the news feed and

the people that are part of your life that just seem to to

trouble your heart with nonsense.

The big idea is to remove the influence.

Some of you might have to hit unsubscribe and change the

channel. Maybe take a break from the

Internet and television for a minute and get back to the

things in your life that actually bring you closer to the

love of God. So that you can be closer to the

love of people and in the sacred place of getting together to

break bread and worship and open the Word.

If you have that at the dinner table, If you have that in homes

of Calvary communities, If you have that in prayer circles and

Bible studies. If you have that with a circle

of friends. Here's what this is saying.

When, when you find the person and if you've been around church

long enough, you've probably all interacted with the person that

comes in. And no matter what you're

looking at, the topic always diverts to their pet interest or

that one thing that they can't Unsee.

It is OK to pull them aside and say, hey, I want to let you know

that you're distracting the group from loving Jesus a little

bit more. And I don't want you to do that

anymore. And that means that you have to

be willing and courageous to do that.

And it says that you can do that twice.

Now, I don't think this is a law like 2 strikes and you're out

and you have one year in between your strikes.

But this is the heart of it. You want to pull somebody aside

and say, hey, for the sake of everybody else, we're here just

to stir each other up, to love God and love one another more.

I'm going to ask you to put that topic on hold, to study it on

your own time. And if that person is willing,

then you've won The person and the group is good.

And if they're not, then you do need to, for the sake of the

group, say hey. Until you figure that thing out,

please. We're just going to focus our

time on the gospel and how to live it out.

And I want to encourage you because most of you, at least

right now, are portraying yourselves as people who want to

listen quietly and kindly. And it's probably not your

favorite idea on how to to organize a group with the the

the troublemakers actually getting talked to.

So here's the encouragement. It says, here's what you need to

know. People like this, it says in

verse 11, know that such a person is warped and sinning and

they're self condemned. So I know in my heart when it's

time to tell someone that they need to, you know, sit on the

sidelines until they can figure it out.

It almost feels unloving or unwelcoming, but it's actually

not. It says what you've found is the

person is actually sinning. It's actually a sin that needs

to be confronted, just as stealing and lying would be

confronted. A person who is gossiping or is

continually stirring the pot and distracting people and turning

conversations into envy and strife, that should be dealt

with as someone who's in sin. And it's not bad to confront

someone when they're in the midst of sinning.

It also says that they've condemned themselves, that

they've chosen to be such a person after one and two

warnings that they are condemning themselves.

You're just acknowledging the path that they've chosen and so

I encourage you to be open to caring for a group by talking to

a person and how that is understood in your doing.

Just remember this. It also says they're warped,

someone who has a warped mind and they can't Unsee the thing

that they look at every topic through the lens of.

I once heard a quote that said is if everything you touch makes

your finger hurt, it's not that you're surrounded by dangerous

objects, it's that your finger is broken.

And I think the same can be true of the way that we view the

world is if everything is making your brain hurt and your heart

race, it's not that the world is broken or the Bible study is

broken or the church is broken. Your mind in the way of your

thinking might be amiss. And so take a break and we'll

pray for you, but we're not going to allow the circle of

people who want to pray and seek Jesus and love him and love one

another be distracted. They're they're condemning

themselves in their warped mind and their sin.

And here's what I'll say as we, as we close this, even this is a

picture of the Gospel confronting someone who is, is

disruptive and in sin and even condemning themselves to do

that. You stand on the gospel because

it says that God sent his son into the world, that whoever

would believe on him, John chapter 3, verse 16, would not

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perish, would but would be saved.

And then he says in verse 17, he did not send his son to condemn

the, the, the mission of Jesus coming into the world was not to

take all of the sinners and say, what were you thinking?

It was to love people and the kindness leading to repentance.

It was not a condemning mission. It was a loving mission.

And yet it goes on to say John chapter 3, verse 19, this is

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condemnation, that light has come into the world and men love

darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil.

And when people are obsessed not with the gospel, but with

peripheral ideas about God or about the things that they're

thinking about, they, they've got the wrong focus and they're

until the heart change and the mind change, they are choosing

their own path. And so we do this as a way to

protect people, protect our time, our sacred time and the

word, and also allow people to have a moment with God where

their heart can be worked on. And so let's put it all together

very simply. The focus of preaching and

studying the word and your devotional time is to live out

the gospel. And as you do that, you live in

a world that has so many distractions and so many side

conversations. And the goal for our gathering

and and our time in such a place as this is to leave out the rest

is to be undistracted from the simple truth that we stand on

God's love saving sinners like we once were renewing our hearts

so that we can be lights in the dark.

Live for that and leave out the rest and and he says remind you

guys of this all the time. Titus remind Crete in our time

in the word for the last year. This is the focus of good

doctrine and how do we affirm it constantly.

What a great picture of why we do what we do every Sunday.

Is there a greater way to constantly remember what we need

to be all about than by ending every time in the Word, by

passing out the bread and the cup?

Lest any message that is ever preached from behind this pulpit

is ever received as some good work that you need to figure

out. And until you can do better,

just don't come back. Every time we open the word and

every message that is preached ends by saying, and it all

started right here. God so loved the world that He

sent His Son to hang on a cross. And we remember His body and His

blood given for us so that our sin could be washed clean.

Remember this as often as you gather and it says, whenever we

take this, we proclaim His death until he returns.

Built into every time we end our service.

We are remembering that death did not hold him.

He now sits at the right hand of the Father.

He is now coming again. We leave this place with

whatever good work that God has for us to serve someone, to

forgive someone, to love someone.

We remember that it is all flowing from the confidence that

we have that death has been defeated, that we are going to

the the perfect heavens and earth.

Jesus is coming again, and whatever he has for us, we do in

his name because it was done first to us.

And so I'll just ask the question one more time.

How many times do I have to tell you that God loves you, that

your debt has been paid, your sins are forgiven, It is by

grace and not works. Your name is written in the book

of life. You are going to heaven and he's

coming again. The dead who are in Christ will

raise 1st and then we'll all meet Him in the clouds.

There is nothing that this world can throw at us that we cannot

overcome by the power of Jesus, because death itself has lost

its sting. And that is something that I

will tell you every time we gather.

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