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Thank you for joining us at Key 
Life Fellowship for her Pulpit 

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Ministry, podcast. 
Each sermon on this podcast is 

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from our 11 a.m. 
Sunday service. 

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We are glad that you have joined
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see you in person on Sunday 
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a.m. 
Now, let's open God's word and 

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ask him to reveal his truths for
our lives. 

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If you have your Bibles, I want 
you to turn with me and I am 

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excited about being back here to
the Gospel of John. 

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We have been traveling through 
the Gospel of John for some time

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And I can tell you this to me 

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the Gospel of John just 
continually gets better and 

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better and better with every 
verse that you look at. 

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And today, in our journey in the
Gospel of John, we are going to 

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look at just one verse and I 
don't like to do that without 

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contextualizing where we are so 
that you kind of have an idea. 

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I know that we have had the 
break during Christmas, where we

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observe the Lord's birth and 
reminded you that he didn't stay

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that babe in a Manger as the 
world wanted him to and wants 

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him to. 
But then he grew to be the 

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savior of all who would believe 
and trust in him where he died 

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upon the cross. 
He was buried. 

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He rose again. 
But we see in John's 14th 

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chapter here, after our break. 
Is that our before I break? 

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Excuse me, we looked at the 
promise that Jesus made to his 

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disciples, after telling them 
that Peter was going to deny 

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Christ. 
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Betrayal of Judas, and after 
Jesus telling his disciples in 

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chapter 12, that he was going to
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in an 13, he washed their feet 
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them do not let your hearts be 
troubled and we looked At a 

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message concerning our troubled 
hearts and to know and to 

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understand that it's trust in 
Christ that frees us from the 

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Troubles of our hearts in this 
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And he gave them great 
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Those true believers who were 
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on the night, that Jesus was 
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And Jesus is going to continue 
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he's going to teach a very 
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In very few words, just before 
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Holy Spirit. 
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speaking to only his true 
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He's going to say this to them. 
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He says this and I want you to 
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He says, if you love me, you 
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here in this one. 
Verse is speaking of love, not 

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just spoken. 
But love shown as we look at a 

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message entitled, true love's 
for Christ, expressed by 

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obedience, I assure you. 
This Jesus is saying just as 

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that title has indicated. 
He is saying if you have true 

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love for me, it will be 
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obedience to the commands of 
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It is action-based love. 
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that a People claim to love 
Christ with no action in your 

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life. 
To back that up is just empty. 

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Talk it is the equivalent of you
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wife that you love them verbally
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love you but then making them 
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that you do you show? 
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It won't Glowing I assure you 
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tell that you love and you show 
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long for them to figure out. 
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saying one thing but denying 
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because we know this That the 
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Us by our actions, aren't they? 
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very clear to his disciples that
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Christ are inseparable. 
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They are in separable. 
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repentance. 
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You can't have one without the 
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You can't have faith without 
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without true Faith. 
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of a coin. 
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side of a quarter and the tail 
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splitting them into and we all 
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you don't have a quarter. 
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metal that is useless. 
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obedience toward and love for 
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are inseparable. 
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indicated and we will reiterate 
many times today, the gauged, by

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which you measure your love for 
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Is what comes out of your life. 
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commands. 
And so we come to this difficult

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verse in this difficult section 
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Because what it does, it quickly
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There's never been a time in my 
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or and preparing a sermon, like 
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When I came to this verse and I 
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And examine my own life. 
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empty claim without any proof. 
When I would ask that you would 

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do today, is that you would do 
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As we hear these words, if you 
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commands now so that we have 
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it would mean to obey the 
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I want us to go all the way back
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And I want us to go back to 
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Where many people remove this 
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From the Bible, we remove it 
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from classrooms. 
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decalogue are the Ten 
Commandments deck up, meaning 10

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and the ten laws that God gave 
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things, revealing God's 
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Perfection. 
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Well, I assure you this, if you 
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for any amount of time, you 
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John 1:1 was the word and the 
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was God, we know 1:14, the word 
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Fish and dwelt Among Us. 
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commands to Moses there on 
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I assure you, this was the word 
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And so, when we look at the 
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We see that the Lord's commands 
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We can't just remove the Ten 
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We can't just erase the 
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We must see. 
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Testament follower of Christ? 
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to speed because we live in a 
culture where many of This would

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be embarrassed if we were asked 
to name maybe perhaps six out of

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the ten. 
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look at them briefly and then we
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to look at today. 
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Christ expressed by obedience. 
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20 he says you shall have no 
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because he is the one true. 
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adoration and worship. 
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He goes on to say you shall make
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Don't make any Graven. 
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yourself to worship them. 
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Because they're not real at all.
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They are not truly gods. 
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shall and not take the name of 
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God, the Lord your God in vain. 
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That could be an abbreviation on
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Right? 
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I'm talking about where you use 
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could be a little attachment. 
Your curse word that you find 

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yourself doing from time to 
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could be you using the lord's 
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Many people do this. 
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they say God told me to tell you
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God didn't tell you to tell 
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Let me assure you that his word 
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that they need for life and 
godliness. 

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Stop telling people that That's 
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You want that person to be unit 
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So you blame God for it stop 
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That's using the lord's name in 
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there is another command next to
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Holy and how do we keep the 
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Holy as a new testament body of 
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How do we keep the Sabbath day? 
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Saturday, when the Sabbath was, 
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Christ. 
He is the one who is that 

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Sabbath rest? 
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in himself. 
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me, all you who are weary and 
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what rest. 
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So honor Christ and abide in 
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Command 5, he said, honor your 
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your father, and your mother. 
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is not a big deal. 
In today's time that it's even 

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actually optional from a lot of 
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children. 
Obedience was never an option 

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around my house. 
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You is ever an option. 
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father and if you didn't obey 
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by your father. 
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Many people think. 
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deal. 
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deal. 
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Timothy and saying, the last 
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disobedient to their parents. 
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What's a big deal? 
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Does not obey my parents, why? 
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god-given Authority in my life, 
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Was my parents. 
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My life that God has given me. 
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I was graced with them. 
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fathers and mothers and you 
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Commit murder and everybody in 
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Says, well, I'm good with that 
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the scripture confirms this, 
that if we hold anger and 

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animosity and hatred in our 
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the same thing, It's the same 
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away from it. 
You're just one step away from 

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committing that action. 
That's why we are to forgive as 

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we've been forgiven. 
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not hold those grudges hold on 
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You shall not commit adultery. 
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area or are you because did you 
know this every time you look at

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that pornographic image, that's 
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You are actually in your mind 
lusting after a woman at Jesus 

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himself said this if you look 
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you've committed, adultery in 
your heart, you've already taken

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all of the steps except for the 
physical act, please pay 

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attention to that. 
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that is inundated by pornography
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That is bringing in billions 
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dollars each year because men 
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pretending like it's no big 
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It goes on to say, you shall not
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That is. 
It means from the IRS since it's

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tax time. 
I'll just throw that out there. 

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Fudge on your taxes. 
Don't steal. 

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Don't take something that 
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This is basic. 
He goes on and he says, you 

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shall not bear false witness 
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Don't slander, don't gossip. 
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And he says, you shall not 
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Even when you go to someone's 
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And they have better decorations
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that? 
Well why can't you just Rejoice 

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that day have it? 
And be thankful that God blessed

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them with it and you be content 
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That seems like that's the 
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find ourselves Coveting. 
Whether that's Someone else's 

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home their possession, their 
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Well, their wives their husbands
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children. 
Would behave like their children

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to make them behave? 
Pretty simple. 

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And they would know since 
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who are obedient So we look at 
the Ten Commandments and we look

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at the Ten Commandments not to 
say, of course that this is some

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standard, by which we are to 
live because as you were looking

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at that. 
So was I and I realized I failed

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commands. 
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And so what we have to do, in 
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us fulfilling them that greater 
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Of course, we know is Christ 
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simplified things for us in 
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time that we have together. 
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verse 37, says, Jesus replied. 
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your heart. 
And with all your soul, and with

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all your mind, this is the first
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and then he says this all the 
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these two commands, all the law,
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these two commands, love the 
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heart, soul and mind, and love 
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So we see this, The law in the 
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Is not corrected, right? 
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useless and throw it out, but in
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It so what I'm saying when I say
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for others because Christ, first
loved you does everybody 

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understand how that works. 
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this and I won't go back and 
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that before but he says this 
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We loved God. 
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What loved us. 
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know what true love really is. 
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I want us to examine Our Lives 
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love for Christ in light of 
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Because I assure you of this, 
the perfect law of God, how many

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at does? 
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Somehow flawed, can I assure you
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weren't flawed, you are The 
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law of God, it is God's perfect 
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There's nothing wrong with it at
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is the perfect law of God and 
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couldn't Is God, never fails. 
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Love by God as he loved us and 
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God demonstrates his love for us
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While we were sinners Christ 
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And so what Christ is teaching, 
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Now, when we apply the law of 
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That we despise him. 
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We hated his statutes. 
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enmity with God. 
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but that he loved us and in 
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Love of Jesus Christ? 
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with all your heart, soul and 
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yourself. 
That's exactly what Jesus is 

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teaching us here. 
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14, where we will spend our time
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before we go into it. he is not 
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you obey the commands, Then that
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righteousness. 
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because that would be legalism 
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being a legalists that's 
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works of obedience. 
I'm not I fall short, I assure 

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you But what Jesus is teaching 
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this very clear because if a 
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holy living these days, he's 
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category of legalist or Saya, 
say it is said about him that he

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preaches legalism. 
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to you. 
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I am an advocate and I believe, 
scripture declares that it is by

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grace alone, through faith alone
in Christ alone. 

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If you haven't heard me, say 
that 42 million times. 

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You've not been here much. 
But what Jesus is preaching and 

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what I am going to speak on 
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this? 
Though, we can't be made 

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righteous by. 
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If we have been made righteous, 
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that we obey God's commands. 
So we're not promoting obedience

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to the law to be saved. 
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are promoting obedience to the 
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Does everybody understand that? 
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I know that was a long intro, 
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misled about what I am. 
Preaching today, I'm not 

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preaching to you morality and 
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legalism. 
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Believers and I'm saying this 
examine your life. 

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You claim to truly love Christ 
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what we're going to look at 
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Do you do you really love Christ
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14:15 as we've already said, if 
you love me if oh Jesus teaching

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concerning true love expressed 
by obedience, watch his right 

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Leigh provides Assurance. 
It rightly provides Assurance of

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Salvation. 
If you love me, What a big word,

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only consisting of two letters. 
If If you love me. 

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In that one statement. he is 
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you evidence and Assurance of 
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word if Obedience to Christ 
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I want you to understand as 
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don't care what anyone else 
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We're looking at what Christ 
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commands. 
Proves it proves your true love 

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for him and in that you can have
great assurance that you have 

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true. 
Saving Faith, you can't nor. 

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Should you ever have Assurance 
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Vision Without obedience to 
Christ, let me say that again 

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you can't nor. 
Should you ever have Assurance 

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of true salvation without 
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It is what true faith is going 
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James himself said this faith 
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It's dead. 
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true, love expressed by 
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Assurance for who why? 
I promise you. 

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This you don't have to assure 
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those of you who are foolishly 
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trick him by some type of 
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You're sadly mistaken. 
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phony. 
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Assurance for yourself as a True
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Now, I'm going to do this and I 
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Anyone have any of you as 
Believers ever doubted 

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salvation? 
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Maybe that was for a season. 
Have you ever doubted salvation?

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Just do it real fast? 
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yourself? 
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Why because your human mind can 
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are absolutely positively, true 
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It rightly provides Assurance. 
He says if you're going to know 

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that you're truly saved, you can
examine your own life and how do

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you examine your own life? 
What areas should I look at a? 

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My obedient to the commands of 
Christ pretty plain and simple. 

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I love that Jesus. 
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understand it a, my obedient to 
the commands of Christ. 

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And if I am obedient to the 
commands of Christ, that brings 

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great assurance. 
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obedient to those commands won't
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But what they are, is they are 
proof that I am truly saved 

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first. 
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that we have come to know him if
we obey his commands, you want 

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to know if you truly know 
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Christ, are you actively 
Desiring and fulfilling 

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obedience to his commands. 
That's plain and simple verse 5 

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of that. 
Same text. 

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I don't intentionally jump over 
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and grab it later and first John
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it says but if anyone obeys his 
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complete in him. 
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Oh, isn't it? 
The love of God, that propels us

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to obedience and Christ for 
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It is. 
This is how we know we are in 

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him. 
How do we know that we are in 

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him? 
If we obey his what is word? 

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If you obey the teachings of 
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confidence that you're in 
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To let me say this, if you have 
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claim to love Christ, truly But 
you're yet, you're not obedient 

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to the things that his word 
commands. 

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You're attempting to deceive 
your own self. 

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You have no insurance at all. 
But when we have that true love 

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expressed by obedience we can 
have Assurance for ourselves is 

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in that moment that we examine 
our lives and we confirm our own

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salvation. 
It is in that moment that we do 

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is scriptures as we work it out.
We work out our own salvation 

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with fear and trembling, what 
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We hash through it, we live it, 
we see am. 

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I really living in obedient life
unto Christ or am I just 

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claiming to love Christ and my 
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Just as that husband, who would 
say I love you honey and then He

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would turn around and abused her
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There's no true love there at 
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In fact, John says in his 
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John, who's writing, the gospel 
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He says in chapter 3 verse 23 
and this is his command to 

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believe in the name of his son. 
Jesus Christ. 

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That's Grace alone, through 
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but watch this and to love one. 
Another, as he has commanded us,

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those who obey his commands live
in him, and he in them. 

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And this is how we know that he 
lives in us. 

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We know it by the spirit he gave
us now. 

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I promise you this, at the end 
dwelling, Holy Spirit lives in 

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you, he is not leading you to 
disobedience in Christ. 

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Is constantly leading you to 
obedience in Christ confirming 

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and giving you the assurance 
that you are truly in Christ. 

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You can say, then that I truly 
love Christ. 

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And how do I know this? 
Because I can't sin anymore 

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because I know this, I know that
when I do sin, when I doosan, I 

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find myself grieving over that. 
I can't send comfortably as I 

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once did. 
I find myself grieving knowing 

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this that it is, that's in, it 
is, that's in that nail. 

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My Savior to the cross. 
It is that's in that bore pain 

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and Agony upon his body that's 
in that belonged to me was 

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pressed upon him and I don't 
want to see the fact that my 

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savior who loved me so much 
suffered for me. 

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And so what I do is this, I 
Repent of it and I turned from 

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it and I confess it Lord that 
sin is to send that nailed you 

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to the cross and I desire 
obedience. 

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Why? 
Because you're pleased with 

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obedience. 
You're pleased with obedience 

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through faith. 
It gives great Assurance for the

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believer to realize that 
obedience is required by Christ,

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philo's Christ. 
It's going to come forth out of 

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my life. 
If I don't, the opposite is 

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going to come forth out of my 
life. 

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Now, let me tell you what, I'm 
not preaching to you today. 

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I'm not preaching to you 
sinless, perfection. what I am 

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preaching to you, is this, there
is no True Believer who can 

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enjoy sin and any amount Any 
dose of sin offends, the True 

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Believer in your life and in the
lives of others. 

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Why? 
Because the Holy Spirit Bears 

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witness to the opposite of that,
he Bears witness to 

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righteousness and Holiness, and 
obedience to the commands of God

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for the believer to hold onto 
sin in their life is to be a 

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miserable, miserable person in 
my prayer today is that you 

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would trust Christ to free you 
from that misery today as you 

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confess, that thing, whatever it
may be. 

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As you walk in the assurance, 
that Christ wants us to have 

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that Assurance comes as he said,
if you love me, you will obey. 

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If you love me Assurance for 
yourself, but not only insurance

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for yourself. 
Did you notice as Christians, we

450
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,800
all live in some type of fish 
bowl, don't we? 

451
00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:17,300
Right. 
The moment that the Lost World 

452
00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:22,100
Hears, someone say I'm a 
Christian You know what they're 

453
00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:25,700
looking for? 
That time where you mess up so 

454
00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:27,500
that they can throw it right 
back in your face. 

455
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,600
They're looking for that time. 
What I would say to you is 

456
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,200
Christians, why do we give them 
so many excuses? 

457
00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:37,600
Why do we not see the importance
of living a holy and obedient 

458
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,600
life to the commands of the word
of God? 

459
00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:42,800
And I know what you said but I 
can't you couldn't apart from 

460
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:47,100
Christ but the indwelling Holy 
Spirit who lives in you as you 

461
00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:50,600
yield to him I assure you of 
this he is going to lead you 

462
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,300
into loving the Lord, your God 
with all your heart, soul and 

463
00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:55,300
mind, and love. 
Your neighbor as yourself and in

464
00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:59,100
doing that, you will obey the 
commands of God. 

465
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,200
It will bring great Assurance, 
not only to you but to others. 

466
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,800
I just yesterday preached, a 
funeral of a man that I dearly 

467
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:16,300
loved as a child and I love the 
testimony that many gave of him.

468
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,900
He was no preacher at all. 
He was an example of Christ in 

469
00:27:20,900 --> 00:27:24,000
his life. 
Here's example by the life that 

470
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,500
he lived. 
Was it a perfect life know. 

471
00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:30,200
We got involved in it it became 
imperfect at that point in time.

472
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,300
I assure you until we are 
glorified, there will be no 

473
00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:36,600
Perfection why he is the author 
and he is the Perfecter of our 

474
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,200
faith. 
He is going to do the whole 

475
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,800
thing. 
But what I loved about this is 

476
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,700
the testimony is were his life. 
Not just the things that came 

477
00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:51,100
off his lips. 
He was consistent in his life. 

478
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,700
If you love me, Jesus said you 
obey me, it brings Assurance for

479
00:27:56,700 --> 00:27:58,200
yourself and insurance for 
others. 

480
00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:02,200
Gives others validity to your 
claim of Faith. 

481
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,000
They look at you and they say, 
you know what, that person is 

482
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,100
not all talk. 
Why? 

483
00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:09,600
Because I saw them do what the 
word of God commands us do. 

484
00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:13,800
I saw them do that when they 
didn't have to do that, I saw 

485
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,700
them. 
Do that knowing full. 

486
00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:17,600
Well, that I knew them before 
they claim. 

487
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,600
To be Christians and they 
wouldn't have done that. 

488
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,800
Gives Assurance to other people 
that you truly are what you say 

489
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,100
that you are. 
Because others are examining Our

490
00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:27,000
Lives. 
I assure you. 

491
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:33,900
And when they examine your life,
They can't see your thought in 

492
00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:38,200
word, love for Christ. 
All they see is what comes out. 

493
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,100
All they see is what comes out, 
they see your outward. 

494
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,900
Either a Disobedience confirming
that you are lost or your 

495
00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:49,300
obedience, conforming that 
confirming that you are truly 

496
00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:55,100
one of his so it brings as it 
rightly should assurance 

497
00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:58,600
insurance for yourself, 
insurance for others. 

498
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,800
So, as I Varley already, clearly
stated, let me say it again. 

499
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,300
Obedience to Christ is not the 
path to Salvation. 

500
00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:11,800
But the proof of Salvation to 
you and to those around you. 

501
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,600
So examine yourself today, 
examine your life today and see 

502
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,900
if there is confirmation that 
you truly do love Christ because

503
00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:23,400
Jesus is teaching here again. 
True love will be expressed by 

504
00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:30,600
our obedience to his commands. 
So love for Christ expressed by 

505
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,600
obedience to his commands. 
Offers hope and Assurance 

506
00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:38,600
ourselves and others. 
The next thing that we see is 

507
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,700
this, as we look at the teaching
of Jesus, here, in this, one 

508
00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:45,400
particular verse Jesus, teaching
concerning true love expressed 

509
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:51,300
by obedience, number 2, rejects 
perverse, antinomianism. 

510
00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:52,600
Now I know what you're going to 
do. 

511
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,600
You're going to say anti no Mia.
What? 

512
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,300
I've told you often, I will tell
you. 

513
00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:02,100
Again, I will not be the pastor 
who dumps things down so that 

514
00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:04,600
you can't come to a clear 
understanding of the truths of 

515
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,600
Theology and scripture, but I 
will be the pastor, who, when we

516
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,600
get to these difficult things in
these new terms. 

517
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,400
I will explain to you exactly 
what they mean. 

518
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,300
So that you can leave here with 
some understanding that you 

519
00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:16,600
didn't have, and some insight 
into scripture. 

520
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,100
And so Jesus, teaching 
concerning love expressed by 

521
00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:24,000
obedience. 
We see rightly proves Assurance 

522
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,300
but it rejects perverse 
antinomianism, and what Is Aunt.

523
00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:32,000
I know me, anism. 
Well, Jesus says this and 14 15.

524
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,200
He says you will. 
Don't you love that? 

525
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,300
Not, you might, or you should or
may I suggest something to you 

526
00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:42,400
and you should take it into 
consideration. 

527
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:48,200
He said you will obey what I 
command. 

528
00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:52,200
Now, what is anti, know me, 
anism anti know me, an ism is a 

529
00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:56,500
term that Is an old dialogical 
term, that many times. 

530
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,600
We don't like to talk about 
because we see it so prevalent 

531
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:05,100
in our Christian culture. 
It is a term meaning no law or 

532
00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:09,500
against law, or the fact that a 
person believes that the 

533
00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:14,500
commands of God, no longer apply
because of Grace, and they use 

534
00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:20,600
Grace as a license to sin. 
We all understand antinomianism.

535
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,300
And it's Smaller understanding, 
right? 

536
00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:25,900
It goes like this. 
You're riding with a friend in 

537
00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:27,600
his car. 
You're going through a speed 

538
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,400
zone of 70 miles an hour. 
He's rolling about 85 you say to

539
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,200
your believing friend, you say, 
hey man, it's 70 through here. 

540
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,200
You might want to slow down and 
you're hyper spiritual friend, 

541
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,600
who is anti know me and says to 
you, man I'm not under law. 

542
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:48,500
But under grace about the time, 
the law turns their blue and red

543
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,100
lights on and reminds him. 
You are under the laws of the 

544
00:31:51,108 --> 00:31:54,000
State of Texas and Paul, I'm 
over and writes him. 

545
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,100
A ticket based on that Authority
now. 

546
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,400
We do that. 
And we see that so many times 

547
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,600
and this modern Church age, 
where we abuse Grace by our 

548
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:10,900
sinful Disobedience, that is 
anti, no me anism. 

549
00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:14,100
It's the idea that because I've 
been saved by grace alone, 

550
00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:15,900
through faith alone in Christ 
alone. 

551
00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:19,800
I can ignore the commands of God
and live in any way that I want 

552
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,100
to live and still make it to the
Pearly Gates. 

553
00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:28,500
The fact of the matter is is 
it's heresy, it's not biblical 

554
00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:32,000
and it is abuse of the grace of 
God. 

555
00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:35,400
It is the fact that these anti, 
no means have done this. 

556
00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:38,900
They have confused 
justification, and 

557
00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:41,500
sanctification. 
And let me just tell you this, 

558
00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:45,600
you can't have one without the 
other but his justification that

559
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,500
saves you. 
It is sanctification that proves

560
00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:54,000
as you are being made, holy that
you truly have been saved. 

561
00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:58,400
And so know this. 
If you are here today and you 

562
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,200
have received the grace of God 
by grace alone, through faith 

563
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,400
alone in Christ alone, and you 
are saved. 

564
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,700
That is no excuse for you to 
sin. 

565
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,500
In fact, Paul understood that 
people would think, like this in

566
00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:12,200
Romans chapter 6, he wrote this 
to the Roman Church. 

567
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,400
He says, in verse 15, What then 
shall we sin? 

568
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,700
Because we are not under the 
law, but under grace and he 

569
00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:24,800
answers by no means don't, you 
know that when you offer 

570
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,900
yourself to someone to obey him 
a slaves, you are slaves to the 

571
00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:30,800
one whom you obey, whether you 
are slaves to sin which leads to

572
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,900
death or to obedience which 
leads to righteousness, watch 

573
00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:37,500
what he says next. 
But thanks be to God that. 

574
00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:44,800
Do you used to be slaves to sin 
or he talks about their slavery 

575
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,800
to sin in the past though? 
You used to live any way that 

576
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,200
you wanted to live because you 
were controlled by your own lust

577
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,000
of your flesh and your sin 
nature. 

578
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,800
He says that's the way you used 
to live, but thanks be to God 

579
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,700
that no, you used to be slaves 
to sin, you wholeheartedly 

580
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,500
obeyed. 
The form of teaching to which 

581
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:07,400
you were entrusted. 
You have been Free from sin and 

582
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,100
have become slaves to 
righteousness, so pay attention 

583
00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:13,699
to that church slave to 
righteousness. 

584
00:34:13,699 --> 00:34:16,199
And what does that? 
That is righteous acts, that is 

585
00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:18,900
obedience to the commands of the
Lord Jesus Christ. 

586
00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:21,100
That is loving the Lord, your 
God with all your heart. 

587
00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:24,100
Soul and mind, that is loving 
your neighbor as yourself and 

588
00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:27,800
fulfilling the law of God in 
your very life as you walk in 

589
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,199
the love of Christ verse 19. 
He says, I put this in human 

590
00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:33,500
terms because you are weak in 
your natural selves. 

591
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:35,600
Just as you used to offer the 
parts of your body. 

592
00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:38,500
D and slavery to impurity and 
ever-increasing wickedness. 

593
00:34:38,699 --> 00:34:42,300
So now offer them in slavery to 
righteousness, leading to 

594
00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:44,400
Holiness. 
When you were slaves to sin, you

595
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,100
were free from the control of 
righteousness. 

596
00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:47,699
What benefit did you reap? 
At the time? 

597
00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:50,000
From the things, you are now 
ashamed of no benefit, right? 

598
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,500
We're ashamed of those sins. 
They've benefited us not at all.

599
00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:56,199
They were a path of Destruction.
Those things result in death, 

600
00:34:56,699 --> 00:34:59,900
but now verse 22 says that you 
have been set free from sin. 

601
00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:04,000
You have and have become slaves.
To God the benefit, you reap 

602
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,900
leads to holiness. 
Cleanest, what does it lead to 

603
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:11,300
holiness? 
If your life is not constantly 

604
00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:15,100
being conformed to the image of 
Christ and of Holiness, you need

605
00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:18,800
to really examine. 
Do you have true love for 

606
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:19,400
Christ? 
Why? 

607
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,700
If you love me? 
You will obey what I have 

608
00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:24,800
commanded. 
The benefit that you read leads 

609
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,800
to Holiness in the result is 
eternal life for the wages of 

610
00:35:27,808 --> 00:35:31,000
sin is death. 
But the gift of God is eternal 

611
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,400
life in Christ. 
Jesus, our lord. 

612
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,900
What is Paul saying there? 
He's saying this the gift of 

613
00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:40,400
grace through faith, Jesus 
Christ that you've been given. 

614
00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:47,800
That gift comes with something 
and it comes with this, your new

615
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,700
responsibility not to live the 
old way that you used to live in

616
00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:56,100
your sin and your pride and in 
your sinful nature. 

617
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,300
But it is to live in 
righteousness, and Holiness and 

618
00:35:59,308 --> 00:36:02,600
bringing glory and honor to God 
through Jesus Christ. 

619
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:07,600
And what a privilege it is that 
we get to live a life of 

620
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,600
obedience. 
I don't know about you, but I'm 

621
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,500
tired of Christians who they 
want to. 

622
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:16,200
Get way out on the edge. 
How much can I still get away 

623
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,200
with and not abuse the grace of 
God? 

624
00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:21,900
That's not a question that we 
should be asking. 

625
00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:25,300
We should go back to the heart 
of God, to the Ten Commandments 

626
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:29,400
and say, Here's what pleases 
God, lord, remove any area in my

627
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:34,300
life that does not, please you 
show me what it is. 

628
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,500
Lead Me In obedience to that 
area. 

629
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:42,600
Oh, the antinomian abuses Grace,
by their sinful disobedience. 

630
00:36:43,700 --> 00:36:46,300
They abused Grace because they 
have no true. 

631
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:50,800
Understanding of Grace in the 
price, that was paid for them at

632
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,200
the cross. 
Oh, how could we abuse the 

633
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,600
Glorious sacrifice of Jesus 
Christ that he has graced us 

634
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,200
with? 
How can we abuse that by living 

635
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,000
any way that we want to live, 
you know, with the attitude that

636
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,400
so many Christians have? 
I would rather ask for 

637
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,500
forgiveness than permission and 
just go ahead and do what you 

638
00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:10,300
want to do anyways and not 
really worry about all the 

639
00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:12,800
people that you're going to hurt
in the process and all the 

640
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,400
Fallout. 
It's going to come from your 

641
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,400
Disobedience and how your 
testimony that testimony of 

642
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,000
Christ. 
That is so beautiful that we've 

643
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,900
been given that, we don't 
deserve how you will drag that 

644
00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:24,000
through the mud and make a 
mockery of him. 

645
00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:27,000
Well, may you hear the word of 
the Lord today? 

646
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,600
Where he says, if you love me, 
You'll obey what I command you 

647
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,700
want. 
Abused my grace. 

648
00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:37,600
Jesus, teaching concerning true 
love expressed by obedience 

649
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,800
projects-- perverse 
antinomianism. 

650
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,400
That is the abuse of Grace by 
sinful Disobedience, but it is 

651
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,400
also the abolishment of God's 
commands. 

652
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,200
In the name of Freedom, the 
antinomian wants to abolish the 

653
00:37:49,207 --> 00:37:51,000
name. 
I mean abolish the commands of 

654
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,800
God in the name of Freedom, all 
you were here, him all the time.

655
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,600
I have freedom in Christ to do, 
whatever it is that I want to do

656
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:58,800
unfortunate thing, is they 
forget what? 

657
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,700
Scripture says, Grace is 5:13. 
Here's what it says. 

658
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000
You my brothers were called to 
be free, but do not use your 

659
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,700
freedom to indulge in the sinful
nature, rather serve one another

660
00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:09,900
in love. 
Here's that loving one. 

661
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:13,400
Another thing that Jesus, 
Promoted he says the entire law 

662
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,400
is summed up in a single 
command, love your neighbor as 

663
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,200
yourself. 
Well how important it is that we

664
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,200
see that how important it is 
that we see at Freedom in 

665
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:28,800
Christ. 
It's not freedom to do, whatever

666
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,100
it is that we want to do. 
Many people think that freedom 

667
00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:38,400
is in Christ is freedom to sin. 
I said it before and I'll say it

668
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,500
again. 
It's not freedom to sin, freedom

669
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,100
from sin. 
Why would Christ free you from 

670
00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:46,900
your old life of sin? 
Only to have you in the name of 

671
00:38:46,900 --> 00:38:50,700
Freedom abuse Grace in return 
back to it. 

672
00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:54,800
It's absolutely contrary to the 
teachings of the word of God and

673
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,800
the teachings of the New 
Testament Church. 

674
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,600
Christ said, if you love me. 
You'll be my commands. 

675
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,800
Peter says this in First Peter 
chapter 2. 

676
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,800
He says live as free men but do 
not use your freedom as a 

677
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:11,100
cover-up for evil live as 
Servants of God. 

678
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:14,100
How will people know that your 
Servants of God I assure you 

679
00:39:14,100 --> 00:39:16,100
this if you look just like the 
world you act like the world, 

680
00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:17,800
you talk like the world. 
You go to the places of the 

681
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,700
world, you consume the 
substances of the world, you 

682
00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:21,300
party with the world. 
You do all the things that the 

683
00:39:21,308 --> 00:39:24,000
world does. 
They don't really think that 

684
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,500
you're anything other than the 
world. 

685
00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:32,600
He says, don't don't use your 
freedom as a cover-up but live 

686
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,200
as Servants of God. 
Why watch what he says show? 

687
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:36,600
Proper respect to everyone. 
Why? 

688
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,600
Because everyone's watching you 
show them that you truly love 

689
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,900
Christ. 
Let it be more than just words. 

690
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,700
He says love the Brotherhood of 
Believers show them that you 

691
00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:48,400
love the church right in a day 
and time where people are 

692
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,400
telling you that you don't have 
to love the church and be a part

693
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,600
of a church to love Christ. 
I say this to you. 

694
00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:57,700
Yes, you do forsake. 
Not the Assembly of the saying. 

695
00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:02,800
Let's go to church symbol with 
other believers and express your

696
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,300
love to Christ together in 
obedience to his commands. 

697
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,700
He's a show proper respect to 
everyone, love the Brotherhood 

698
00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:12,700
of Believers fear, God, there's 
that love for God, loved him 

699
00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:14,300
with all your heart, soul and 
mind. 

700
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,100
He says, honor the king respect,
the authorities that God has 

701
00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:19,100
plays. 
When you do this, people are 

702
00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:21,900
going to see you and they're 
going to see you as a true 

703
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:23,600
Christian who does not abuse 
Grace, right? 

704
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,900
Going to see you as some 
perverse antinomian abolishing 

705
00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:29,900
God's commands for your 
convenience. 

706
00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:31,800
Isn't that what people love to 
do today? 

707
00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:35,500
But I enjoy this and so I'm 
going to fudge in this area of 

708
00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:36,700
my life. 
You know what? 

709
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,500
You're saying listen to me. 
You love that sin more than you 

710
00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:44,300
love Christ. 
He said that's harsh. 

711
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,200
Well, that's real. 
That's truth. 

712
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,200
Jesus said if you love me you 
will obey what? 

713
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,800
I command. 
We cannot live like perverse 

714
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,600
anti. 
No means because what Jesus 

715
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,800
says, rejection reverse 
antinomian. 

716
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,800
And antinomianism. 
We cannot abuse Grace just 

717
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:10,400
because we have freedom. 
Cannot abolish, God's commands. 

718
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,600
Just because we have Grace, and 
freedom will see the importance 

719
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,700
of them working together and I 
assure you this, any teaching, 

720
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,500
you write this down, any 
teaching that removes, or erases

721
00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:26,300
required obedience to the Lord's
commands, into the teaching of 

722
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:29,300
the word of God. 
Any teaching, it says, you were 

723
00:41:29,300 --> 00:41:32,500
free to do what you want to do, 
is contrary. 

724
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:38,600
Read to biblical sound teaching 
walk out when they say that. 

725
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:42,400
It's not important that we as 
Christians are obedient to the 

726
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:43,600
commands of God. 
Why? 

727
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,700
Because it directly contradicts 
what Jesus says. 

728
00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:53,100
And this one particular verse 
that were looking at today I 

729
00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:55,600
know some of you at this point 
in time, your minds are bungled 

730
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,800
because I threw a new word at 
you just rest you'll get it. 

731
00:42:00,900 --> 00:42:04,300
I don't want to move to the last
in the final portion of this. 

732
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,200
Jesus teaching concerning true 
love expressed by obedience 

733
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,000
rightly provides Assurance. 
It rejects perverse 

734
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,100
antinomianism or an abuse of 
Grace. 

735
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,100
But I want you to see this 
because this is important today 

736
00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:20,400
and I want you to examine your 
own lines in light of this. 

737
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:28,200
Thirdly, it reveals pseudo, 
affection pseudo, affection. 

738
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,000
And what I want to do here is I 
want to do a reversal of 

739
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,200
Scripture. 
A lot of times in interpreting 

740
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:35,600
texts and understanding 
something. 

741
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,800
It's a good practice to reverse 
that scripture. 

742
00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:42,200
And what I mean by that is to 
take the scripture and to look 

743
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,400
at it in reverse order. 
And for example, we are looking 

744
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,200
at John 14:15 and it says this 
if you love me, you will obey 

745
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,600
what I command. 
Let's reverse the order of that.

746
00:42:54,900 --> 00:43:00,500
In the - it says, if you don't 
keep my commands, you don't 

747
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,200
truly love me. 
If you don't keep my commands, 

748
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:09,400
you don't truly love me now we 
know that's not what the Lord 

749
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:10,800
said the. 
Lord said, if you love me, 

750
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,300
you'll keep my commands. 
But if we reverse, that will 

751
00:43:13,300 --> 00:43:16,700
see, there's also truth there to
be uncovered. 

752
00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:19,900
And so we should examine our 
lives in line of that. 

753
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,500
Because Jesus teaching 
concerning true love expressed 

754
00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:27,500
by obedience, reveals pseudo 
affection. 

755
00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:31,400
Oh doesnít reveal that to us. 
If our love for Christ is not 

756
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,100
true. 
It is confirmed by a disobedient

757
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:39,400
lifestyle proving this. 
Proving that are love that we 

758
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:43,400
claim to have is at best fake 
and phony. 

759
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,200
Let me just assure you this. 
Nobody likes a fake, or a phony,

760
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,400
even the lost world hates a 
friend who has to face, right? 

761
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,800
You'll hear them use that term 
often because they're phony, 

762
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,100
they say one thing in front of 
their face and then they stabbed

763
00:43:54,100 --> 00:43:55,700
him in the back when they're 
away from them. 

764
00:43:55,700 --> 00:43:59,300
No one likes that. 
That's why we why would we 

765
00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:03,100
expect the Lord to like that as 
well? 

766
00:44:04,500 --> 00:44:07,500
No understand this. 
He wants us today to examine Our

767
00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:10,300
Lives because when we examine 
our lives in light of what he 

768
00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:15,400
has said, it could reveal that 
some of you could reveal that 

769
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:21,800
even I Have a pseudo affection 
for Christ, the pseudo 

770
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,600
affection, a fallacy of farce 
Adlai. 

771
00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:30,100
It's make believe it is a claim 
without any substance. 

772
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:32,800
First John chapter 2. 
I told you I would get back to 

773
00:44:32,900 --> 00:44:34,100
verse 4. 
Let's get back there and see 

774
00:44:34,107 --> 00:44:37,500
what it says. 
It says the man who says I know 

775
00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:44,500
him but does not do what he 
commands is a liar. 

776
00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:49,900
It doesn't get any more clear 
than that and the truth is not 

777
00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:52,900
in him. 
Now again I'm telling you that's

778
00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:55,700
not to say if you obey him he 
will see that as good and he 

779
00:44:55,700 --> 00:44:57,800
will save you. 
I'm saying this, if he saves 

780
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:02,400
you, he will lead you into 
obedience and for you to think 

781
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,000
that you can claim to love 
Christ. 

782
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:09,300
And have no obedience to his 
commands living the same sinful 

783
00:45:09,300 --> 00:45:12,500
life that you've always lived 
continually trying to cover it 

784
00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:15,400
up as if it's not there. 
I say this to you, you have a 

785
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,800
pseudo affection for Christ. 
It is no true. 

786
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:24,100
Love at all for the Savior. 
I say this in love, I don't say 

787
00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:27,700
this because I'm upset, I don't 
say this to try to get you to 

788
00:45:27,700 --> 00:45:30,500
doubt salvation, I say this 
today, so that you can leave 

789
00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:32,600
here with full Assurance of 
Salvation. 

790
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,000
As you bend the need to Christ 
and you cry out to him as Lord 

791
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,900
and Savior and as he takes over 
your miserable life and he 

792
00:45:38,900 --> 00:45:41,500
forgives you of all your sins 
and grants to you the eternal 

793
00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:43,500
life that he and he alone has 
promise. 

794
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,900
I say this to you. 
So that if you are walking in 

795
00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:49,300
the deception of pseudo 
affection for Christ, meaning 

796
00:45:49,300 --> 00:45:51,500
this are you love the idea of 
Jesus? 

797
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,400
Well, you might even love the 
thought benefits of Jesus. 

798
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,000
You might even love coming to 
church and seeing all your 

799
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,800
friend. 
But when you walk out of here, 

800
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:08,300
You consistently live exactly 
like the world? 

801
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:13,200
In their sin and in their 
selfishness and in their 

802
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,100
Darkness. 
Can I say this to you friend? 

803
00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:21,100
Please hear my voice that is 
pseudo affection for Christ. 

804
00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:24,300
It is not real. 
It is only a claim. 

805
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:29,700
How do I know that Jesus said, 
if you do really love me, You 

806
00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:32,000
obey my commands. 
And when we reverse that, if you

807
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,100
don't obey his commands, you 
don't really love him. 

808
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,000
You say, well, who do you think 
you are? 

809
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,900
I'm a nobody, I assure you of 
that. 

810
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,900
All I have been entrusted to do 
is to deliver the message of 

811
00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:45,700
Christ in here. 
It is John 14:15. 

812
00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:49,900
If you love him you will obey. 
Him is your love for him. 

813
00:46:49,900 --> 00:46:52,400
Just words is it pseudo 
affection? 

814
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:58,400
Is it authentic? 
How do we know how do we know if

815
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,300
it's just mere talk, right? 
That's the question that we 

816
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:04,400
would ask if we begin to examine
our life today. 

817
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:05,800
Watch this. 
You want to know if your 

818
00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:10,700
affection for Christ is pseudo, 
affection, it will be marked by 

819
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:13,300
works of sin. 
Instead of works of 

820
00:47:13,300 --> 00:47:16,400
righteousness, works of sin, 
instead of works of 

821
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,500
righteousness. 
Luke chapter 6 verse 43. 

822
00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:21,700
The Lord himself said this, no 
good tree Bears. 

823
00:47:21,700 --> 00:47:24,600
Bad fruit nor does a bad tree 
bear. 

824
00:47:24,700 --> 00:47:28,100
Good fruit. 
Each tree is recognized by its 

825
00:47:28,100 --> 00:47:31,100
own fruit. 
People do not pick figs from 

826
00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:32,700
thornbushes or grapes from 
Breyers. 

827
00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:35,400
What is the Lord saying here in 
agrarian terms? 

828
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,300
What is he meaning? 
He's saying this, we all know 

829
00:47:38,300 --> 00:47:41,200
this, we get apples from an 
apple tree. 

830
00:47:41,900 --> 00:47:43,700
We don't get grapes from an 
apple tree. 

831
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:48,300
We don't get lemons. 
From a kiwi tree. 

832
00:47:49,900 --> 00:47:53,800
He's saying the tree Bears, the 
proper fruit. 

833
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,000
Is your claim to know Christ? 
Bearing the fruit of Christ and 

834
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:59,900
what is the fruit of Priceless 
obedience to his commands? 

835
00:47:59,900 --> 00:48:04,600
Just as he said, if you love me,
you will obey my commands. 

836
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:06,800
Or if you were to look at your 
life today. 

837
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,400
I know sometimes it's scary to 
do. 

838
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:13,400
I pray that you would if you 
were to look at your life today,

839
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,900
Is your claim to love for 
Christ? 

840
00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:22,400
True love proven by obedience or
is it pseudo love proven by the 

841
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:26,300
fact that you were still wrapped
up in your own sin and your own 

842
00:48:26,300 --> 00:48:31,700
self-deceit, many claim to love 
Jesus but yet deny him by their 

843
00:48:31,700 --> 00:48:34,000
lives. 
But wasn't that an epidemic and 

844
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,300
Christianity my prayers this 
that it would stop today and 

845
00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:39,400
that we would as Jesus did call 
for believers to live. 

846
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,900
Holy lives. 
Set apart from a lost and Dying 

847
00:48:41,900 --> 00:48:42,700
World. 
Isn't that? 

848
00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:47,600
Not what eat command. 
Of course he does even when we 

849
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,700
go back to the promise of 
Abraham that we have been 

850
00:48:49,700 --> 00:48:52,800
engrafted into in Christ, the 
promise to Abraham was that God 

851
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:57,700
was going to raise up a people 
for his name and for his glory 

852
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,600
he would not raise up a people 
who were not obedient to the 

853
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:06,700
things that he has commanded. 
I assure you of that pseudo 

854
00:49:06,700 --> 00:49:09,300
affection to Christ will be 
marked by works of sin. 

855
00:49:09,300 --> 00:49:11,400
Instead of works of 
righteousness, your life will be

856
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,700
inundated with sin. 
You will be the same person that

857
00:49:13,700 --> 00:49:16,700
you've always been. 
And this is false love for 

858
00:49:16,700 --> 00:49:21,700
Christ and no true Faith at all.
I would say be aware of this, 

859
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:26,600
we're seeing is accepted more 
and more and more in our 

860
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,200
culture. 
There is no love for Christ and 

861
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:34,200
disdain for sin. 
Any longer proven by are 

862
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,000
obedient and righteous lives. 
We can live any way that we want

863
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,900
to live. 
Claim that we're on the path to 

864
00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:45,300
eternal life and I assure you 
again of what the Lord said he 

865
00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:48,800
says, wide is the gate and wide 
is the road that leads to 

866
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,000
destruction. 
But narrow is the gate and 

867
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,400
narrow is the road that leads to
life and few find it. 

868
00:49:56,300 --> 00:50:00,700
Or you're one of the, are you 
one of the few today who truly 

869
00:50:00,700 --> 00:50:04,900
love Christ and is it proven by 
obedience to his word and his 

870
00:50:04,900 --> 00:50:07,800
commands? 
Pseudo affection, for Christ, 

871
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,300
should be marked by your works 
of sin. 

872
00:50:09,300 --> 00:50:11,000
Instead of works of 
righteousness, but it will also 

873
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:15,800
be marked by words without 
obedience words, without 

874
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:21,300
obedience Luke 6:46. 
Lord says this. 

875
00:50:21,300 --> 00:50:27,000
Why do you call me? 
Lord Lord, and do not do what I 

876
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,600
say. 
What a statement? 

877
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,200
What a thought-provoking 
statement? 

878
00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:36,400
Because we would never call 
anyone Lord that we did not obey

879
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,700
and the Lord rightfully. 
So in Luke chapter 6, ask this 

880
00:50:39,700 --> 00:50:41,800
question, why do you call me 
Lord, Lord. 

881
00:50:43,700 --> 00:50:47,000
And then you turn around and you
deny that by not following my 

882
00:50:47,100 --> 00:50:50,600
instruction. 
I would say this to you today. 

883
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,900
Why are you calling Lord? 
Lord and do not do what he says.

884
00:50:52,900 --> 00:50:55,900
Because in doing that, you 
revealed that he is not bored at

885
00:50:55,900 --> 00:50:57,900
all. 
That is pseudo affection? 

886
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,400
You really don't love Christ. 
You say, well, you can't say 

887
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:06,800
that I really don't love Christ.
No, but Christ came. 

888
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:12,800
And he said it and if you love 
him, you will obey his commands.

889
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,000
And that if you don't obey his 
commands, you don't, truly love 

890
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,300
him. 
You are that person who calls 

891
00:51:18,300 --> 00:51:23,100
him, Lord, Lord and does not do 
what he says. 

892
00:51:24,700 --> 00:51:27,300
You are one of those persons 
with words. 

893
00:51:30,100 --> 00:51:35,000
Mere words. 
With no accompanying obedience 

894
00:51:35,900 --> 00:51:39,800
mere talkers, empty, talkers as 
Peter calls him in second, Peter

895
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,100
chapter 2 when he says this, 
these men are Springs without 

896
00:51:42,100 --> 00:51:44,500
water and Miss driven by a storm
blackest. 

897
00:51:44,500 --> 00:51:48,200
Darkness is reserved for them 
for their mouth, empty boastful 

898
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:52,300
words and by appealing to them 
the lustful desires of sinful 

899
00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:54,800
human nature. 
They enticed people who are just

900
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,100
escaping from those who live in 
error, they promised them 

901
00:51:58,100 --> 00:52:01,200
Freedom while they themselves 
are slaves of depravity for man 

902
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,700
is a Slave To whatever has 
mastered him. 

903
00:52:03,700 --> 00:52:07,200
He's speaking of those false 
teachers, and false prophets in 

904
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,000
his day. 
And he's saying this. 

905
00:52:09,700 --> 00:52:14,600
He's saying that these people 
claimed to know Christ and claim

906
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,100
to love Christ and claim to have
freedom in Christ. 

907
00:52:17,100 --> 00:52:21,500
But it's only words, they're 
empty talkers, Jude calls these 

908
00:52:21,500 --> 00:52:26,000
same Pretenders clouds Without 
Rain, if you study the small 

909
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,500
book of Jude, we've all 
witnessed this, haven't we? 

910
00:52:29,500 --> 00:52:31,500
Those of us who live on the 
Texas coast, when we're down 

911
00:52:31,500 --> 00:52:33,100
there with our family on the 
beach. 

912
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,600
You know how beautiful the 
beaches are if you like muddy 

913
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:39,200
sand? 
You're down there and that storm

914
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,200
blows in off the Gulf and you 
see it those big black clouds, 

915
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,300
man, they develop out there in 
the the ocean and they began 

916
00:52:45,300 --> 00:52:48,000
moving too short and you're 
picking up kids and you're 

917
00:52:48,100 --> 00:52:51,600
flinging Cheetos and blankets 
and towels and all this stuff 

918
00:52:51,700 --> 00:52:54,200
and you got to get back to the 
car because the rains coming. 

919
00:52:55,700 --> 00:52:59,900
You get back to the car and 
never the first drop of rain, 

920
00:52:59,900 --> 00:53:03,800
hits the ground and that cloud 
blows over you and it doesn't 

921
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:05,800
form rain. 
So it gets way Inland. 

922
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,500
But man, you freaked out. 
That was a cloud Without Rain. 

923
00:53:09,500 --> 00:53:13,000
It was just a facade. 
It was a pseudo rainstorm 

924
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,600
coming. 
Some of you have accepted this 

925
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:20,200
pseudo, affection for Christ, 
Your clouds Without Rain your 

926
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,800
talk without action, your hot 
air. 

927
00:53:23,300 --> 00:53:27,100
Nothing backing your claim. 
Jesus says this to you. 

928
00:53:28,300 --> 00:53:30,400
Are you listening? 
It's Gonna Hurt. 

929
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,400
Let me warn you. 
You don't truly love me. 

930
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,100
You don't really love me because
if you did love me. 

931
00:53:39,300 --> 00:53:43,800
You would obey. 
What I have commanded. so, as 

932
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:49,100
your love for Christ, is it 
authentic Or is it just pseudo 

933
00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:52,300
affection? 
How do you know examine your 

934
00:53:52,300 --> 00:53:54,800
life today? 
But I'm not going to examine 

935
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,600
your life because I promise you 
this I'm going to be busy. 

936
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,200
Examine time. 
Why? 

937
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,300
Because I don't want to settle 
for pseudo affection because 

938
00:54:00,300 --> 00:54:04,800
pseudo, affection falls short I 
want to love God with all my 

939
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,600
heart soul and mind love my 
neighbor as myself not so that I

940
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,400
can be saved, but because I am 
truly saved and I want to see 

941
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,900
that in every area of my life 
and I don't mind the Holy Spirit

942
00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:18,900
showing me, I assure you of that
when I missed the mark so that I

943
00:54:18,900 --> 00:54:22,500
can what confess that sin and 
repent of that sin and a lion 

944
00:54:22,500 --> 00:54:24,000
with the commands of Jesus 
Christ. 

945
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:27,700
My Lord and my savior who love 
me because of his love, for me, 

946
00:54:27,700 --> 00:54:30,500
I now can love him in return and
how do I express that love. 

947
00:54:30,500 --> 00:54:33,100
It's not in just living any way 
that I want to live with with 

948
00:54:33,100 --> 00:54:34,800
but Will disregard to his 
commands. 

949
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,100
I express that love in obedience
to his commands. 

950
00:54:37,100 --> 00:54:40,200
Did you appreciate Christ then 
live a life that shows that you 

951
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,500
appreciate Christ by being 
obedient to his command? 

952
00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:49,500
The close with this? 
will obedience to Christ save, 

953
00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:54,900
you know, Don't ever leave here 
and say that I said anything of 

954
00:54:54,900 --> 00:54:58,600
the sort. 
Obedience to Christ will not 

955
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:04,600
save you. 
However, It will confirm in does

956
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:10,900
confirmed those who are truly 
saved a saved person will have a

957
00:55:10,908 --> 00:55:17,100
desire to obey the Savior that 
they love person that says he or

958
00:55:17,100 --> 00:55:22,300
she has a love for Christ. 
But has no desire to follow his 

959
00:55:22,300 --> 00:55:26,100
will or his commands is only 
deceiving themselves though. 

960
00:55:26,100 --> 00:55:29,400
I think of that person who makes
the profession of Faith saying 

961
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:31,700
that they love Christ. 
And then when you try to get 

962
00:55:31,700 --> 00:55:34,200
them in the baptismal pool in 
obedience to the Lord's, 

963
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,200
command, as a, no, I don't want 
to do that. 

964
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:40,200
What do you mean? 
You don't want to do that? 

965
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,400
That is the First Command that 
he gives to a Believer to follow

966
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,800
him and Believers baptism, you 
don't have an option. 

967
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,600
Why? 
Because if you love him, you 

968
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:53,100
will obey his commands. 
Oh, begins there. 

969
00:55:53,100 --> 00:55:57,200
But it continues in our lives 
where we obeying his word as he 

970
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,900
unfolds it to us, as we see 
those things in our life that we

971
00:55:59,900 --> 00:56:03,500
are deficient in. 
If we confess those things, it's

972
00:56:03,500 --> 00:56:06,500
as Sin. 
And entrust in the Holy Spirit 

973
00:56:06,500 --> 00:56:10,000
to walk us and carry us into 
obedience for the glory of God. 

974
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,900
Do you love Christ this morning?
Do you love Christ this morning?

975
00:56:13,900 --> 00:56:18,000
A fair question in light of the 
one verse that we read. 

976
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,700
Do you love Christ? 
I would ask that you not examine

977
00:56:21,700 --> 00:56:24,300
your husband to see your wife to
see your children or your 

978
00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:26,300
neighbor. 
You would examine yourself 

979
00:56:26,300 --> 00:56:30,100
today. 
You would ask yourself. 

980
00:56:32,100 --> 00:56:34,100
Do I have a true love for 
Christ? 

981
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,500
Confirmed by obedience to what 
it is that he has commanded. 

982
00:56:38,500 --> 00:56:41,600
Do I love the Lord? 
My God with all my heart soul 

983
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:45,300
and mind. 
Am I loving my neighbor as 

984
00:56:45,300 --> 00:56:48,100
myself in that I assure you you 
will fulfill the decalogue The 

985
00:56:48,107 --> 00:56:50,700
Ten Commandments you will walk 
in obedience to those things. 

986
00:56:50,700 --> 00:56:54,400
Just as Christ died for you to 
walk in obedience to those 

987
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:55,800
things. 
You stand your feet. 

988
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,200
Every head bowed, every eye 
closed. 

989
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,700
Father, we do love you today and
we thank you so much for your 

990
00:57:08,700 --> 00:57:11,300
word. 
Lord Jesus. 

991
00:57:11,300 --> 00:57:13,400
We thank you that in your word. 
There is life. 

992
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,200
Lord, I pray for the person 
who's here today and they are 

993
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,200
dead spiritually that they have 
heard the Word of Life today. 

994
00:57:20,500 --> 00:57:22,900
I pray that as they examine 
their lives and they see that 

995
00:57:22,900 --> 00:57:26,500
they fall short as Sinners, 
condemned by sin, that they 

996
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:29,200
would cry out to Christ, the 
lord Jesus. 

997
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,400
The only one who can free them 
from that. 

998
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:35,800
Condemnation, Lord today as they
cry out to you, Lord, as your 

999
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,600
grace Usher's, them into new and
eternal life. 

1000
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,400
Lord, that you would Empower 
them to repent, believe, and 

1001
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,300
trust in you. 
And that they would leave here 

1002
00:57:45,100 --> 00:57:48,800
changed Forever by what you did 
for them on the cross, where 

1003
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:52,200
you've died, where you were, 
Read and where you Rose again, 

1004
00:57:52,500 --> 00:57:54,600
giving New Life to all who will 
believe. 

1005
00:57:55,500 --> 00:57:59,100
God, I pray that your will would
be done today that the seed of 

1006
00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:04,600
your word would not fall on 
unfertile ground. but that it 

1007
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,700
would fall on the hearts that 
you have prepared today to 

1008
00:58:07,700 --> 00:58:12,900
receive salvation and on those 
who are here to rejoice in the 

1009
00:58:12,900 --> 00:58:16,800
Salvation that they already have
received in you, but your will 

1010
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:20,300
be done in Jesus name. 
Amen. 

1011
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,600
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1012
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,600
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1013
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,400
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1014
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:39,900
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1015
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:45,300
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1016
00:58:45,300 --> 00:58:47,700
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1017
00:58:47,700 --> 00:58:51,800
You have a blessed week and 
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1018
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:41,900
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1019
00:58:41,900 --> 00:58:46,400
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shape.com. 

1020
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,400
We hope and pray. 
You have a blessed week and 

1021
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,000
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