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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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We are glad that you have joined
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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 want to go ahead and turn
into the 15th chapter of John's 

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gospel, as we look at a message 
entitled to day life in the 

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True, Vine lies in the True 
Vine. 

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We're going to see here in this 
fifteenth chapter of John Jesus 

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last. 
I am statement those of you who 

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have been in the study for any 
amount of time. 

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You have seen the importance of 
the I am statements of Christ. 

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He took that Greek term, ego 
eimi and he coupled it with 

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descriptions of himself. 
Many of those descriptions being

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borrowed from the Old Testament 
types and pictures that we saw. 

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If you would take that term Eggo
I me which was establishing 

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himself as Jehovah God in flesh.
That statement I am was borrowed

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and it was borrowed from the Old
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We know they're at the burning 
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When God had his conversation 
with Moses and he commissioned 

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Moses and Moses says, when I 
tell him all these instructions,

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who do I tell them? 
Sent me, he said, you tell him. 

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I am that. 
I am sent you. 

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It is Jehovah. 
God, Yahweh who sent you and 

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Jesus borrows that statement. 
Yahweh from the Old Testament 

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egg. 
Oh, I I me, I am and we've seen 

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many of his I am statements in 
the study through John. 

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We're going to look as I said at
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very important. 
But in chapter 6, if we were to 

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take a quick review, we saw the 
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Where Jesus said, I am the bread
of life ego, eimi. 

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Yahweh is the bread of life and 
I am a he always standing here 

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before you the bread of life. 
He compared himself to the 

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picture of the Mana during the 
time of The Exodus in the 

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wilderness. 
He said that was pointing to me 

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and now I'm here, John chapter 
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I am statement. 
He said, I am the light of the 

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world. 
I'm the one who exposes the 

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darkness. 
Okay, he borrows from the Old 

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Testament where he would be that
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God's people. 
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world chapter 10, Jesus makes 
another. 

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I am statement. 
He says, I am the door and 

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making the statement that I am 
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He was stressing that he is the 
only entrance in the only access

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to fellowship with the father. 
He's the door, the only access 

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and he took us again in our 
minds, back to the Old Testament

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where you would go into the 
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And there was that location of 
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picture of the dwelling of God, 
and there was one curtain one 

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door. 
Jesus says, I am the door and 

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the door that allows you to 
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father. 
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and his next, I am statement. 
He said, I am the Good Shepherd 

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and I guarantee you this every 
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girl, who was listening to the 
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immediately had their minds turn
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Psalm We're just stated the 
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is my shepherd, He wanted them 
to understand that Shepherd that

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the psalmist pointed to it. 
Is he the Christ, he said ego, 

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eimi, the Good Shepherd and the 
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chapter There at the tomb of 
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Lord proclaimed. 
This he said, I am the 

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resurrection and the life that 
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there is no true life apart from
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Yahweh who brings life to the 
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Ezekiel, both testified, during 
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testified that he is truly The 
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the dead, he brings the dead 
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Then in chapter 14, we see 
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Make the next, I am statement 
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with. 
He said I am the way, the truth 

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and the life. 
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I am the true way to the father 
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and no Man comes to the father, 
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I am the way, the truth, and the
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In each of these statements, 
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again, his deity, the fact that 
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laid down his full Glory only to
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being fully, God and fully man. 
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the hypostatic union and you 
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because it's so Supernatural. 
It that is who he truly. 

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Is. 
And here in this fifteenth 

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chapter he is going to give 
another one. 

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Remember the setting of where we
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We are leaving the upper room 
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You said, come now let us leave 
he's leaving the safety of the 

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upper room and he's taking his 
first step toward the cross 

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after that Passover, his first 
step toward becoming the 

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sacrificial lamb, that the very 
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observed pointed to and 
somewhere between, That Upper 

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Room. 
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Gethsemane where he would be 
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unjustly, arrested unjustly 
accused unjustly, tried and 

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unjustly murdered somewhere 
between there in the Garden of 

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Gethsemane. 
Jesus teaches another lesson to 

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his disciples. 
He teaches that lesson with 

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this. 
I am statement I am The True 

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Vine. 
I am the True Vine. 

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Jesus is going to take an 
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going to describe some things to
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He's going to in his description
counter all of the false 

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ideology of the day. 
The false ideology of the day 

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said that Israel is the true 
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They are the ones who are truly 
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not connected, To Israel, if 
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Jew to Judaism, then you are not
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all. 
Jesus is going to contradict the

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common ideology of Judaism. 
Along with his Proclamation that

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he is the true vine. 
He's also going to explain 

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exactly what that means. 
Exactly what that means and 

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exactly who this lesson pertains
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And why it pertains to them. 
He's going to answer questions 

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for us. 
Who are the dead branches? 

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Who are the fruit? 
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What does all of the details of 
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What does it mean to us? 
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We put it in its context. 
We're going to see exactly what 

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it means. 
What Jesus is teaching here. 

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So let's turn there together in 
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Now read verse 1, all the way to
the verse 8 and then we will 

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come back and discuss. 
The Lord is teaching here. 

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He said, I am the True Vine and 
my father is the gardener he 

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cuts off every branch in me, 
that bears, no fruit, while 

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every branch that does bear 
fruit, he prunes so that it will

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be even more fruitful You are 
already clean because of the 

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word I have spoken to. 
You remain in me and I will 

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remain in you no Branch can 
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Fruit by itself it must remain 
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Can you bear fruit unless you 
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I am the vine and you are the 
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If a man remains in me and I in 
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Apart from me, you can do 
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Then if anyone does not remain 
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is thrown away. 
And Withers, such branches are 

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picked up and thrown into the 
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If you remain in me and my 
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whatever you wish and it will be
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This is to my father's Glory 
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Here's the important thing in 
the key to interpreting this 

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correctly, the last statement 
here showing yourselves to be my

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disciples. 
I want you to understand this 

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teaching comes on the heels. 
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never a True Believer at, 
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the vine, all of the other 
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wasn't in the Vine. 
And this is coming right on the 

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fact that Judas has left to 
betray Christ and this is the 

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disciples in Christ himself for 
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Ministry after the calling of 
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The first time that they would 
make a public appearance without

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Judas. 
Iscariot And as he's known and 

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everything that he's taught, he 
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of his followers. 
Was Judas a Believer who lost 

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salvation. 
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absolutely not the case as many 
want to distort, this passage to

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say. 
Was Judas once a part of the 

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vine and then his bad Deeds. 
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Not a part of the vine. 
That's not what this passage is 

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going to say. 
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apostate from the beginning? 
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Never truly coming to saving 
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Only playing a role, a dead 
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Hiding out in the living Vine. 
We're going to see that. 

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That is more accurately. 
The depiction that Jesus is 

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going to paint for us here. 
He would not paint the picture 

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of anything less than eternal 
security, because John has 

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established. 
And in the last 14 chapters that

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no one shall pluck. 
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from the father's hand, and so 
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theological debate that 
surrounds this passage and it's 

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like any other theological 
debate that surrounds any 

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passage. 
It's because we don't put it in 

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its proper context. 
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of chapter 15, but we must also 
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We must also put it in the 
context of the entirety of 

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scripture. if you are truly his 
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will always be sure and Lee his 
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the first thing that I want us 
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in verse one that small first 
part of one, the vine of Christ.

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The vine of Christ Jesus says I 
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Now in saying that I am the 
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Vine Christ is distinguishing 
himself first, he still 

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distinguishing himself as God 
when he says I am he's letting 

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them know. 
Once again you have nothing to 

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fear, you do not need to be 
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I know all things, I see all 
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I am. 

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Oh, to here, that should have 
been great rest for his 

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disciples to know that the Great
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Incarnate. 
Was there with them on this 

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darkest of nights? 
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I am distinguishing himself as 
God once again, as if we have 

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not seen this enough in John's 
gospel, do you think that John's

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intention was to highlight for 
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The deity of the Lord. 
Jesus Christ. 

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I assure you. 
It was Here's John. 

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I am the True Vine. 
Quoting Christ. so that we 

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understand that he is 
distinguishing himself as God, 

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but not only that as the True 
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this as a word of warning to his
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Please go back and research this
his audience. 

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Were Jewish men had. 
He's speaking to here who their 

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whole lives. 
They have been taught in error 

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that God loves the Jew and he 
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That you must be. 
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fellowship with God, you must 
obey the law or you have no 

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relationship with God. 
Here Jesus is going to teach 

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them something. 
Something in this one statement 

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he's saying I am the True Vine. 
It is a word of caution. 

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Why is it a word of caution? 
Because he's cautioning them 

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against false or counterfeit 
Vines, Israel still thinking 

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That they were the vine of God. 
Had already rejected their 

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savior. 
Had already. 

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Made a conscious decision to 
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He's conscious, he's causing 
them to be conscious of the fact

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that there is And there are 
false and counterfeit Vine 

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specifically here. 
Talking about Israel, who was 

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once. 
The vine of God. 

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Jesus uses an analogy here to 
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himself and apostate. 
Israel, those who didn't have 

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any true Faith at all. 
Who were just going through the 

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motions living. 
A legalistic standard, always 

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falling short. 
Can I assure you in this and 

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promise you this? 
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up to a legalistic standard, you
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God, in Salvation in the grace 
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Jesus painting this picture for 
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Vine is using this metaphor to 
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apostate. 
Israel did you know the Old 

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Testament confirms that Israel 
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in fact, in Isaiah chapter 5 
verse 1, It's as I will sing for

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the one. 
I love a song about his 

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Vineyard. 
My loved one had a Vineyard on a

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fertile Hillside and he dug it 
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planted it with the choicest 
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in it and cut out a wine press 
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crop of good grapes, put it 
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Oh, that's consistent with 
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Teaching that a good tree Bears.
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Bears, Bad fruit. 
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and Men of Judah judge between 
me and my Vineyard, what more 

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could could have been done for 
my Vineyard than I have done for

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Why did it yield only bad? 
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going to do to my Vineyard. 
I will take away its hedge, and 

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it will be destroyed. 
I will break down its wall, and 

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it will be trampled. 
I will make it a wasteland, 

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neither pruned or cultivated, 
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Thorns will grow there and I 
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rain on it. 
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Almighty is the house of Israel.
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garden of his delight. 
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he saw Bloodshed for 
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of distress, Jeremiah says this 
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referencing the Vine, Was 21. 
He said I had planted you like a

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choice. 
Vine of sound and reliable 

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stock. 
How then did you turn against me

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into a corrupt wild Vine? 
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in the apostasy of Israel. 
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with the word. 
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Corrupt crops like a wild Vine. 
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The psalmist writes this as we 
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scripture reading for the day, 
you brought a vine out of Egypt,

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you drove out the nation's and 
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You cleared the ground for it 
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land. 
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its shade in the mighty Cedars 
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It sent out its bows to the see 
it's shoots as far as the river.

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Why have you broken down? 
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by pickets grapes bors from the 
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Ravaged, it creatures of the 
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Return To Us. 
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Almighty. 
Look down from heaven and see, 

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watch over this Vine. 
The root, your right hand has 

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planted the sun. 
You have raised up for yourself.

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Your Vine is cut down. 
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rebuke at your rebuke, your 
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Boy, once fruitful Vine known as
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Was now a waste land because of 
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because of sin. 
They were no longer that choice 

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Vine that the vinedresser had 
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this distinction and it's a very
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to the Old Testament for 
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interest don't lose interest. 
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understand the New Testament, 
less you read it in light of the

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Old Testament and it is Christ. 
They're saying to them, What you

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think is the true vine? 
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That was flourishing? 
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John chapter 1. 
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speaking of Jesus, he came to 
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But his own did not receive him.
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I mean, we've seen it over and 
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In John's gospel, how can they 
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Messiah. 
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were in a state of darkness and 
unbelief no longer end, the True

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Vine, Matthew chapter 21, Jesus 
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reference to the vine using 
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would flip over there to Matthew
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read it together. 
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He says, listen to another 
Parable. 

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There was a landowner who 
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wall around it, dug a winepress 
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Then he rented the vendor to 
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journey. 
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approached, he sent his servants
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fruit attendants, seized his 
servants, they beat one killed 

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another and stoned a third, and 
then he sent other servants to 

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them more than the first time in
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Treated them the same way. 
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what Jesus is saying here. 
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them, they will respect my son, 
he said, but when the tenants 

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saw the sun, they said to each 
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let's kill him. 
Take his inheritance so they 

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took him and threw him out of 
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Therefore, when the owner of the
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to those tenants, he will bring 
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end, they replied and he will 
rent The Vineyard to other 

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tenants, who will give him his 
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time. 
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of the Gentiles here. 
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Jesus said to them, have you 
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The stone. 
The builders rejected has become

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the Capstone, the Lord has done 
this, and it is marvelous in our

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eyes. 
Therefore, I tell you that the 

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kingdom of God will be taken 
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Who's he talking to? 
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Who thinks in this time that 
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be taken away from you and given
to a people who will produce its

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fruit. 
Their Jesus is again. 

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Speaking of the production of 
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making sure that he is 
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From the counterfeit Vine from 
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pretending to be in God, when 
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have chased after idolatry and 
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They're in fact because of their
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Hearts cut off from everything 
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Jesus is making it very clear, 
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true vine. 
He is that true vine. 

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He is cautioning them of that 
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Jesus hears establishing the 
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The true people of promise. 
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faith in Christ. 
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Were truly in Christ, not by 
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Not by fulfilling the law, not 
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their Heritage, or their 
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They are of the True Vine only 
by grace alone, through faith 

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alone, in Christ alone, apart 
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religion. 
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Galatians chapter 2. 
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is not justified by observing 
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Christ. 
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Christ Jesus that we may be 
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not by observing the law because
Bible observing the law, no one 

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will be justified. 
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That's what Jesus is doing here 
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he's making it very clear that 
you will not be justified by 

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observing the law. 
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True Vine. 
I am the True Vine just as I am 

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the way and the truth and the 
life. 

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No man comes to the father, but 
by me, so he's cautioning 

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against false or counterfeit 
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Paul addresses, that in Romans 
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6, it's not as though God's word
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descended from Israel or Israel.
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descendants. 
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Watch what he says here on the 
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Jesus is saying, on the 
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your lineage and your heritage 
through Judaism is the key to 

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knowing god. 
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Isaac that your Offspring will 
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In other words, it is not the 
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children, meaning, natural 
Israel, those are can trace 

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their Roots all the way to 
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They thought he's saying it's 
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children of Promise who are 
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what does that promise? 
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and forgiveness of sin, and 
salvation in Christ, and In 

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Christ Alone. 
Use caution against falsehood 

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counterfeit Vines. 
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his exclusivity to his 
exclusivity. 

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I know that's a word. 
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Jesus is the exclusive and only 
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nothing is going to change that 
he's using this metaphor to 

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remind them of this. 
There's but one true vine. and I

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am, he and I am alone. 
I am the True Vine. 

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You have no connection to God. 
Apart from Jesus, me say that 

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again, so that everyone can hear
you have no connection to God 

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apart from Jesus. 
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your thinking, let me tell you 
what the liberal theologians 

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say, aren't we? 
All just children of God. 

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No. 
We're not just all children of 

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God, you must be graciously 
placed into the vine of Jesus 

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Christ, so that you bear fruit 
for God. 

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If he doesn't graciously place 
you there, you are not a child 

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of God, you're a child of sin, 
and you were a child of Satan. 

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Just as I once was before, I was
redeemed in Christ. 

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He's calling their attention to 
his exclusivity. 

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Why it's important that you see 
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Wasn't popular, then. 
It's not popular now. 

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You know, this that under the 
Roman persecution Christians 

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were not killed and martyred and
persecuted because they followed

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Christ. 
But it was because they followed

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Christ alone, though, they would
have accepted their Jesus. 

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Had their Jesus been seen as 
another God, or another goddess 

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or some other type of Idol. 
But Christians were persecuted 

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under the Romans, because they 
would not bow to Artemis. 

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They would not bow to the Roman 
Emperor. 

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They would not bow to the Greek 
gods and goddesses that have 

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carried over from the Greek 
culture. 

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They were persecuted because of 
their stance in Christ alone. 

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It is an exclusive message in 
any other gospel. 

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That is preached. 
That is not exclusively limited 

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to Christ and Christ alone for 
salvation is not a Biblical 

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gospel. 
The American ideology that says 

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we're all just trying to get to 
God in our own way. 

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Your own way, is going to send 
you directly to hell. 

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Do not pass go and do not 
collect $200. 

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But it is in Christ alone. 
His teaching his disciples. 

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I am the True Vine. 
There is no other I know when we

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take that stand in our culture, 
today, we are quickly hated, 

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aren't we? 
Quickly hate it. 

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But we must remind people. 
But if they're not in Christ, 

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they're enemies of God, they are
alienated from God, they are cut

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off from God. 
Just as I, once was before, I 

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was included in Christ. 
Say that seems harsh cautions 

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1:21 says. 
Once you were alienated from 

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God, And we're enemies in your 
mind's because of your evil 

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Behavior. 
I assure you and guarantees this

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fact that when Kirk Hall was in 
his sin, I was cut off from a 

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holy God. 
I was alienated from him and I 

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was his enemy because of my 
wickedness, I am thankful that 

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God in his sovereignty. 
Love love one of his enemies 

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enough to rescue me from myself.
The grant me forgiveness and 

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mercy so that I could be 
included in this True. 

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Vine of Jesus Christ, there's 
but one way to God, Jesus is 

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making that clear. 
Once again that way is the true 

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vine. 
Jesus is that true vine. 

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It is from him that all 
blessings from God. 

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The Father flow is from him that
we access everything from the 

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father, his grace, his Mercy, 
his forgiveness. 

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Eveness his adoption as Sons and
Daughters is reconciliation. 

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His Redemption. 
His restoration has promised 

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eternal life. 
Those we sing just a moment ago,

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Jesus Christ Our Living, Hope 
the hope that we have flows from

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the one true vine. 
Jesus Christ is the vine of 

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Christ. 
How important it is that we see 

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that today as he starts this 
text with that then. 

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00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,600
Secondly, we see the father's 
cutting. 

453
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,700
Fathers cutting verse 1. 
The second part he says, I am 

454
00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:17,300
the True Vine and my father is 
the gardener and this analogy, 

455
00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:21,700
he places the father and the 
position of the gardener so that

456
00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:24,200
we can understand this. 
And he says this, he cuts off 

457
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:28,200
every branch in me, that bears, 
no fruit, while every branch 

458
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,700
that does bear fruit, he prunes 
so that it will be even more 

459
00:29:33,300 --> 00:29:38,500
fruitful He then tells his 
disciples, you are already clean

460
00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:41,000
because of the word I have 
spoken to you. 

461
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,200
What is Jesus saying here? 
He's saying that the gardener, 

462
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,100
the father. 
He cuts, I want us to examine 

463
00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:50,400
the father's cutting here today 
because it's often misunderstood

464
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:55,800
he caught. 
Well, how could such a loving 

465
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,700
soft and weak impotent, God, 
that we have created in our mind

466
00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:03,300
in the culture that we live in? 
How could he cut anything watch?

467
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,600
It's obvious how he cuts Hebrews
chapter 4 tells us this. 

468
00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:16,100
Describing the word of God for 
us for the word of God. 4:12 is 

469
00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:19,900
living and active sharper than 
any double-edged sword. 

470
00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:24,500
It penetrates even even to 
dividing Soul and Spirit joints 

471
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:26,900
and Marrow. 
It judges the thoughts and 

472
00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:29,500
attitudes of the heart. 
Nothing in all creation is 

473
00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:31,800
hidden from God's sight, 
everything is uncovered and laid

474
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:37,100
bare before the eyes of him to 
whom we must give account the 

475
00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:41,600
father does. 
Cutting, it seems appropriate 

476
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,700
that he would do the cutting 
with the sword of his word. 

477
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,600
What is this time? 
We entertained. 

478
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,100
The thought the sword of the 
word. 

479
00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:55,600
It's seen through scripture as a
sword. 

480
00:30:56,100 --> 00:31:00,300
We talked about the word of God,
it cuts here, the author of 

481
00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:02,900
Hebrews describing it as a 
double-edged sword. 

482
00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:07,400
Could it be that one Edge is for
the purging of the unbelievers? 

483
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,600
The other Edge is for the 
pruning of the true believers. 

484
00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:14,200
I find a consistent with 
scripture. 

485
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,000
I could find a consistent with 
this analogy that Jesus is 

486
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,000
making. 
Let's look at that first as the 

487
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,900
father cuts. 
Let's look at the purging of the

488
00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:25,900
father's knife. 
The purging of the father's, not

489
00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:31,700
if it's by his word. 
That God, justly removes and 

490
00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:33,500
condemns, the wicked and the 
unbelieving. 

491
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,000
One day at that, great, white 
Throne, judgement by his word. 

492
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,900
The wicked will be condemned 
forever. 

493
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:47,300
Did you know even in our time 
when his word is complaint 

494
00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:53,400
proclaimed. 
When it is preached, there will 

495
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:58,300
be a constant purging of 
unbelievers, even from within 

496
00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:04,100
our fellowship. 
I have confidence in this and we

497
00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:06,000
preach the word of God, 
unashamedly. 

498
00:32:06,900 --> 00:32:10,300
People will either believe or 
they'll leave. 

499
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,400
And when they leave because they
cannot endure sound Doctrine and

500
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,300
sound teaching, I assure you 
have promise you. 

501
00:32:17,300 --> 00:32:21,700
We will not chase after them. 
Because it is through the word, 

502
00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:24,700
the father is purging them. 
He say, well, Pastor don't you 

503
00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:26,900
think that we ought to make our 
church a place for the lost? 

504
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:28,400
People can come in and feel 
comfortable. 

505
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,600
Absolutely not. 
It's contrary to scripture, the 

506
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,700
church is for the believer. 
The Believers are to come here 

507
00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:38,200
to be strengthened by the word 
of God. 

508
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,600
We're going to see in a moment, 
pruned, so that you can go out 

509
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,200
and you can share the gospel. 
Purging, the wicked from the 

510
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,900
world, and bringing them into 
the church, not the opposite of 

511
00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:51,900
that. 
Well, I just believe in being a 

512
00:32:51,908 --> 00:32:54,200
little more Seeker, sensitive 
not me. 

513
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,400
I believe in being a little more
gospel-centered. 

514
00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:02,900
Because there's no lost. 
Wicked person who seeks God. 

515
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,600
There's no no one righteous. 
No, not one. 

516
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,300
No one seeks after him as Paul 
declares in Romans. 

517
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,900
The father's word purges, when 
his word is proclaimed. 

518
00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:21,600
There's a purging that takes 
place, John chapter 6, we see 

519
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:26,400
this, John 6:65, if we go back 
there in our minds and remember 

520
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,400
when we were studying through 
John, chapter 6 and verse 65, we

521
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,300
saw this, he said he went on to 
say, this is why I told you that

522
00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:36,000
no one can come to me unless the
father has enabled him. 

523
00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:38,200
Jesus preaching on Sovereign 
Grace there. 

524
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,200
That no one can come to him 
unless the father and Abel's 

525
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,600
them to come. 
It can't be any clearer than 

526
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,700
that. 
Watch what it says in verse 66, 

527
00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:51,200
Jesus preached, the hard truth 
of the sovereignty of God in 

528
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,900
Salvation. 
Watch What Happens Next from 

529
00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:58,100
this time, many of his disciples
turned back and no longer 

530
00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:00,500
followed him. 
We must ask the question. 

531
00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:01,800
Why did they no longer follow 
him? 

532
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,400
Because the word of God purge 
them. 

533
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,900
They refuse to believe the truth
of the word of God. 

534
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:13,699
They were purged. 
By The Cutting that double-edged

535
00:34:13,699 --> 00:34:16,300
sword. 
Make no mistake here. 

536
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,000
Word of God. 
Purge them make no mistake. 

537
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,199
It is the word of God. 
That purged Judas. 

538
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:27,300
That poser, that imitator. 
Just prior to the upper room 

539
00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:30,100
discourse as we saw as we 
traveled through John, it was 

540
00:34:30,100 --> 00:34:32,900
his word that purging. 
It was Jesus who said go do what

541
00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:35,699
you have to do and by the word 
that was spoken from Christ 

542
00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:39,900
Judas left. 
Jesus told him to do something. 

543
00:34:40,699 --> 00:34:45,500
He purged him from within. 
His word is constantly 

544
00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:51,600
separating. and purging the 
goats from the Sheep purging the

545
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,699
goats from the Sheep, the True 
Believers from the false 

546
00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:59,900
believer, But isn't this the 
danger of modern Christianity? 

547
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:05,900
Modern Christianity, distorts 
the word of God, so much that it

548
00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:09,000
doesn't offend anyone not even 
an unbeliever. 

549
00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:14,700
You're an unbeliever here today.
It ought to offend you because 

550
00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:17,800
I'm going to tell you the truth.
You are a sinner, you're 

551
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,300
destined to hell and judgment 
apart from a gracious. 

552
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:22,900
God saving you this morning that
ought to bother you. 

553
00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:25,300
I pray that it bothers you to 
the depths of your soul, as the 

554
00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:29,000
word of God Cuts. 
You is there's two ways that he 

555
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,900
could Purge. 
He can Purge You by sending you 

556
00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:36,500
out this last time. 
Never to hear the gospel again. 

557
00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:43,100
You stepping off in and drifting
off into final apostasy just as 

558
00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:47,300
Judas did. 
And he could the preaching of 

559
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:49,800
the Gospel today. 
Purge you from darkness and 

560
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,800
bring you into light, but is the
cutting of his word that does it

561
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:55,800
in modern Christianity. 
We don't want to offend anyone 

562
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,600
with the word of God. 
We have to clean it up. 

563
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,100
Seemingly apologize for God on 
every difficult issue. 

564
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,100
I'm thankful that I get to a 
pastor a church that I don't 

565
00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:07,200
have to apologize for what God 
says. 

566
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,900
We just look at it and here's 
what God says and because God 

567
00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:13,200
said it it's the word of God. 
Therefore we were required to 

568
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,300
follow the teachings of the 
scriptures. 

569
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,800
Unfortunately. 
Some are purged. 

570
00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:26,900
Some are purged by the truth. 
Well, I'm never returning to 

571
00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:31,300
that Fellowship again. 
I don't like what they say. 

572
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000
I find it ironic that someone 
would say they don't like what I

573
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,100
say. 
When I simply just read the text

574
00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:41,500
of scripture, what you really 
say is, I don't like the word of

575
00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:46,900
God. 
It's cutting me it's and it is 

576
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:49,600
and it's cutting you to purge 
you for a movie. 

577
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,200
You see, Curtis isn't, this 
isn't part of the church growth 

578
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,900
manual in 2023. 
No, throw that thing away. 

579
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,200
Here's the church growth manual.
We need 66 books of a church 

580
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,900
growth manual. 
You know what? 

581
00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:03,300
The apostles preached decreased,
the hard teachings of Jesus 

582
00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:04,400
Christ. 
And you know what he did? 

583
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,700
He purged the unbelievers from 
within them and we're going to 

584
00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:10,100
see next that he prunes the True
Believer. 

585
00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:14,500
See the word of God, she the 
purging of the father's knife in

586
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:16,700
regard to the wicked and the 
unbelieving. 

587
00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,000
We're in verse 6. 
It says that he removes them. 

588
00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:31,100
They're thrown away withered the
picked up cast Into the Fire and

589
00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:34,400
burned. 
They have no use in the kingdom 

590
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,800
of God because he didn't belong 
in the kingdom of God to begin 

591
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:43,000
with. just as Judas, did not We 
see the pruning of the father's 

592
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,400
knife next. 
Again, he uses his word. 

593
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:52,000
It is pruning by his word, he 
cleans and he purifies all True 

594
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,300
Believers. 
Look what he said there in verse

595
00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:56,900
3, verse 3, he let them know 
this, you are already clean 

596
00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:59,300
because of the word I have 
spoken to you, for three and a 

597
00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:01,100
half years. 
They have listened to the word 

598
00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:07,000
of God, being spoken to them. 
This word clean is the same root

599
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:12,300
word that we get the word that 
he uses for purged. 

600
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,700
Purge. 
When we look at that. 

601
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,200
Tells us something that should 
give us great assurance. 

602
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,800
A great Assurance is that his 
word has already cleaned? 

603
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,500
At those of us who are in 
Christ, he is already purged us 

604
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:30,500
out of the world and has placed 
us into the True Vine, the Lord 

605
00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:34,100
Jesus Christ and there's going 
to now then be a continual 

606
00:38:34,100 --> 00:38:35,400
purging. 
This is speaking of our 

607
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,900
positional sanctification are 
positional purging or your set 

608
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:42,200
apart for God. 
But it's also speaking of our 

609
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,600
continual purging that continual
sanctification that is going to 

610
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,700
go on in the life of every True 
Believer. 

611
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:56,500
Is assuring his followers? 
That unlike Judas. 

612
00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:03,300
They are really in the vine and 
they have been pruned by the 

613
00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:06,400
word of God. 
They are made clean through the 

614
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:13,400
washing of the water. 
Of the word. 1st Peter 1 verse 

615
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,400
23, speaks of being born again 
for you, have been born again 

616
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,800
not of perishable seed but of in
perishable and how through the 

617
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,400
living and enduring word of God.
How is a person born again? 

618
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,800
How were the disciples born 
again, not by some fairytale or 

619
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,600
some myth? 
They were born again by the 

620
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,700
proclamation of the truth. 
Of the word of God, the word of 

621
00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:37,100
God was spoken. 
God in his grace and his Mercy 

622
00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:39,700
through the power of His Spirit 
sovereignly, regenerated them to

623
00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:42,000
Faith and repentance. 
They believe they trust in 

624
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,100
Christ and they're clean. 
He prunes us all. 

625
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,500
He proves his own and how does 
he do it by placing us in a 

626
00:39:50,508 --> 00:39:52,100
position that we can grow and 
mature? 

627
00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:55,400
You're here today? 
Not because this is a cool place

628
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,500
to be. 
If you're a True Believer, 

629
00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:00,000
you're here today because God is
Sovereign, we placed you here so

630
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,600
that he can continue the pruning
process so that you can grow and

631
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,200
you can mature in Christ. 
Why are you going through a 

632
00:40:06,207 --> 00:40:07,800
trial in your life? 
Because it's part of the 

633
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,000
pruning. 
Why are you suffering? 

634
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,900
As part of the pruning, why is 
their perseverance in your life?

635
00:40:11,900 --> 00:40:15,400
It's part of the pruning. 
And in that is going to produce 

636
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,800
greater fruit in your life so 
that he can receive greater 

637
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,800
glory. 
His desire, the True Believer 

638
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:27,600
who is in the True Vine is that 
they're pruned to a point where 

639
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:32,400
they are growing in all areas of
the fruit of the spirit. 

640
00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:36,100
Paul reminds us of the fruit of 
the spirit in Galatians 5:22. 

641
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,400
The fruit of the spirit is love 
joy, peace, patience. 

642
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,300
Kindness goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control 

643
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,600
against such things. 
There is no law. 

644
00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:48,000
Who's in word things, I promised
will eventually come out of your

645
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,600
life. 
As he is doing a work in, you in

646
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,000
the area of gentleness 
internally. 

647
00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:57,400
Where the holy spirit says, 
maybe you shouldn't have talked 

648
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,600
to that person in that tone, 
maybe you should have had that 

649
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:05,900
attitude that you had eventually
as he cuts You by The Sword of 

650
00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:09,900
the truth of the word of God and
he prunes you eventually. the 

651
00:41:09,908 --> 00:41:13,800
fruit of gentleness is going to 
come to full fruition in your 

652
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:18,700
life, you're going to see great 
fruit because he is pruning you 

653
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,700
I can stand here before you 
today and say that, I'm thankful

654
00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:25,800
for the pruning. 
Knife of God. 

655
00:41:26,900 --> 00:41:31,100
That knives, that won't let me 
be who I once won. 

656
00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:38,700
It was constantly cutting away, 
everything in Kirk all that does

657
00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:42,900
not look like Jesus Christ. 
Why am I thankful for that? 

658
00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:46,400
Because it's great assurance 
that I am truly his for those. 

659
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,600
He foreknew he predestined, he 
predestined them to conform it 

660
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:56,400
to the image of his son. 
Man cannot believe in the 

661
00:41:56,408 --> 00:41:58,900
predestination and election of 
God and not believe that God is 

662
00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:01,400
going to carry out the plan that
he sought to carry out through 

663
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,000
that. 
The plane that he sought to 

664
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,200
carry out through that was to 
conform and me to the image of 

665
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,100
Christ. 
That means everything that looks

666
00:42:09,100 --> 00:42:11,700
like Kirk Hall. 
The word of God is constantly 

667
00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:15,000
cutting against and cutting off 
and removing why so that I can 

668
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,500
bring glory to God and looking 
like Christ. 

669
00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:21,700
So what happens in the life of a
True Believer? 

670
00:42:23,100 --> 00:42:27,500
Just prune. 
So we see the father's cutting. 

671
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,300
We see his grace in that in the 
lives, those of us who know 

672
00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:37,200
Christ, then we go to the next 
portion in Verses 4 through 8. 

673
00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:41,500
The True Believers continuance. 
This is really where the rubber 

674
00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:45,200
meets the road theologically and
understanding that this passage 

675
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,700
is in no way saying that a 
person can come to Christ and 

676
00:42:48,707 --> 00:42:51,700
then later lose salvation and 
then be out of Christ, that's 

677
00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:54,700
impossible. 
Wouldn't be Grace at that point 

678
00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:57,400
in time, if it's not Grace, it's
not biblical salvation. 

679
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,800
So get rid of it. 
In verse 4. 

680
00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:07,200
The Lord says remain in me and I
will remain in you no Branch can

681
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,600
bear. 
Fruit by itself, it must remain 

682
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,100
in the vine. 
Neither can you bear fruit 

683
00:43:12,100 --> 00:43:15,600
unless you remain in the vine? 
Remember what he's saying? 

684
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:22,100
Remember when he sang it just 
hours after Judas has walked out

685
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,900
on the visible group. 
That was there for three and a 

686
00:43:25,900 --> 00:43:30,300
half years, he's walked down. 
Jesus is saying look, if you 

687
00:43:30,300 --> 00:43:32,900
remain in me you're in me. 
If you don't remain to me, 

688
00:43:32,900 --> 00:43:36,200
you're not in me. 
Jude is proved by his going out 

689
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,500
that he wasn't really in Christ 
just as John declares in first 

690
00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:42,700
John that they went out from us 
because they were not of a same 

691
00:43:42,700 --> 00:43:44,800
John, who's noting these things 
here? 

692
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,200
He says I am the vine. 
You are the branches. 

693
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,100
If a man remains in me and I in 
him, he will bear much fruit. 

694
00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:57,300
Much fruit apart from me, you 
can do nothing. 

695
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,300
If anyone does not remain in me,
his like, a branch that is 

696
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:03,100
thrown away. 
And Withers, such branches are 

697
00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:05,400
picked up thrown into the fire 
and burned. 

698
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,600
If you remain in me and my 
words, remain in you ask, 

699
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,500
whatever you wish and it will be
given you. 

700
00:44:11,300 --> 00:44:15,900
This is to my father's Glory 
that you bear much fruit showing

701
00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:19,600
yourselves to be my disciples. 
What the evidence of the 

702
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:24,200
disciple is He bears fruit, if 
he doesn't bear fruit, he was 

703
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,000
never really a disciple at all. 
In fact, the fruit that Judas 

704
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,500
board was bad fruit, and Jesus 
already taught on this bad 

705
00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:33,700
trees, bear, bad fruit, good 
trees bear. 

706
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,700
Good fruit. 
And that good fruit is, fruit of

707
00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:38,200
righteousness and obedience to 
God in Christ. 

708
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:45,000
What is he talking about here? 
Let me make it for Everclear. 

709
00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:51,500
He is talking about the doctrine
known as the preservation of the

710
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:54,700
Saints. 
But the doctrine known as 

711
00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:58,100
persevering Faith, what does 
that Doctrine? 

712
00:44:58,100 --> 00:45:01,100
Teach us that Doctrine teaches 
us that someone who is truly in 

713
00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:05,800
Christ will persevere and 
continue in Christ forever. 

714
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:11,100
And for always, because they are
preserved by the grace of God. 

715
00:45:11,100 --> 00:45:14,200
How do I know this is true 
again, John 6:37. 

716
00:45:17,900 --> 00:45:20,100
He says this all that the father
gives me will come to me. 

717
00:45:20,100 --> 00:45:24,200
And whoever comes to me, I will 
never drive away, write that 

718
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,900
down, never drive away. 
The Father, Here, sink, cutting 

719
00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:31,500
dead branches is not driving 
away. 

720
00:45:31,500 --> 00:45:36,200
People who were once, Believers,
he'll never drive them away. 

721
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,600
He is cutting away, the posers, 
the imposters, those who have 

722
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,900
false professions of faith, He 
says, for I have come down from 

723
00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:47,500
heaven, not to do my will, but 
to do the will of him who sent 

724
00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:52,800
me and this is the will of him 
who sent me that I shall lose 

725
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,400
underline. 
It none of all that he has given

726
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,900
me, but raise them up at the 
last day for my father's will, 

727
00:45:59,900 --> 00:46:02,700
is that everyone who looks to 
the son and believes in him 

728
00:46:02,900 --> 00:46:07,300
shall have eternal life and I 
will raise him up at the last 

729
00:46:07,300 --> 00:46:11,000
day. 
Jesus is making it clear. 

730
00:46:12,100 --> 00:46:16,700
As crystal clear as possible, 
your preserved by the grace, and

731
00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:20,700
the will of the father, you 
aren't preserved because you 

732
00:46:20,700 --> 00:46:26,500
persevere, you persevere because
you have been preserved. 

733
00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:28,600
I pray that everyone knows the 
difference. 

734
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,900
There are many people who are 
trying to persevere in faith by 

735
00:46:30,900 --> 00:46:33,100
their own will power. 
That's not perseverance and 

736
00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:35,400
Faith. 
You haven't yet, been preserved.

737
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:42,200
when the grace of God, preserves
you, It is a spirit of God. who 

738
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:48,100
Empower you to burst persevere 
in faith as long as you have 

739
00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:54,000
breath in your body, so, if 
you're truly in Christ, Would be

740
00:46:54,008 --> 00:46:57,000
marked by some things. 
He makes this clear in this 

741
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,700
analogy. 
The first thing is continually 

742
00:46:59,700 --> 00:47:03,200
abiding in Christ continually 
abiding in Christ. 

743
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,400
The apostate like Judas will 
outwardly seem to be in Christ 

744
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:11,200
or in the vine but is actually a
dead Branch who Bears no fruit. 

745
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:19,700
And will not abide forever. 
Again. referencing John's first 

746
00:47:19,700 --> 00:47:25,800
epistle, he says, in chapter 2, 
Verse 19 that they went out from

747
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,200
us. 
But they did not really belong 

748
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,300
to us. 
He goes on to say, for if they 

749
00:47:30,300 --> 00:47:32,900
had belonged to us, they would 
have remained with us. 

750
00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:34,500
Why? 
Because they have been preserved

751
00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:38,100
by God's grace and God's 
preservation of Grace leads to 

752
00:47:38,100 --> 00:47:41,800
God's perseverance in faith, but
they're going it showed that 

753
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:47,600
none of them belong to us. 
They never Belong. 

754
00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:50,700
I assure you today. 
Listen to my voice. 

755
00:47:50,700 --> 00:47:53,800
If you walk out this door and 
you say I once believed but I've

756
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:59,000
never believing again, you never
really believed. because Grace 

757
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,100
grabs, you Grace keeps you 
Grace. 

758
00:48:03,100 --> 00:48:06,400
Hold you and it holds you to the
end and preserves your very 

759
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,200
soul. 
And in that you will persevere 

760
00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:13,900
in faith in this life, it is a 
continual abiding in Christ. 

761
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,500
It is the opposite of Judas 
Iscariot. 

762
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,500
The True Believer will abide in 
Christ. 

763
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:29,600
Preserved by God's effective. 
Known as is efficacious Grace 

764
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,500
proven by the holy. 
Spirit's empowerment. 

765
00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:37,600
To continue pressing on Mark of 
a True Believers that True 

766
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,500
Believers going to continue to 
press on in faith. 

767
00:48:40,900 --> 00:48:43,400
No matter what this life throws 
at them. 

768
00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:47,600
They will remain in faith in 
Christ. 

769
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,600
Never to deny their trust in him
and him alone in the hope that 

770
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,200
they have. 
Because of him, it's continual 

771
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:57,300
biting and Christ, but it's also
seen in this text constant 

772
00:48:57,300 --> 00:49:00,100
dependence upon Christ. 
Look at verse 5 constant 

773
00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:01,500
dependent upon Christ. 
I am the vine. 

774
00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:04,600
You are the branches, the man 
remains in me and I in him, he 

775
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:08,400
will bear much fruit. 
Then he says, apart from me, you

776
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:13,800
can do nothing. 
You can't bear fruit. 

777
00:49:13,900 --> 00:49:18,000
That brings God glory apart from
Jesus Christ. 

778
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:24,600
There must be a constant 
depending upon the Vine. 

779
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,400
If you are in your own effort, 
trying to produce the fruit of 

780
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,100
the spirit as defined in 
Galatians. 

781
00:49:31,100 --> 00:49:34,200
Chapter 5, you are going to fall
miserably short. 

782
00:49:35,700 --> 00:49:38,200
Because Christ said, apart from 
me, you can do nothing. 

783
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:43,900
The True Believer will depend on
the nourishment from the vine. 

784
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:46,600
Know what? 
Great nourishment we receive 

785
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,000
from being in Christ. 
Those of you who are in Christ, 

786
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,500
know exactly what I mean your 
spirit Bears witness to it. 

787
00:49:51,500 --> 00:49:57,900
Even now how he nourishes us 
because we are his He leads us 

788
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,800
into works of righteousness for 
his name's sake for the glory of

789
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,100
the father. 
True Believer. 

790
00:50:04,100 --> 00:50:10,400
Will understand that any good in
him or her Any good in him. 

791
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:14,500
There are her at all is the 
result of the fact that they 

792
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:18,700
have been connected to the Vine.
That the good that is in them is

793
00:50:18,700 --> 00:50:21,700
the good of the vine, not the 
good of themselves. 

794
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,400
I find it ironic that so many so
called Christians can take 

795
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,300
credits. 
So often for the things that God

796
00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:31,900
has obviously done himself. 
But we're truly connected to the

797
00:50:31,900 --> 00:50:33,800
vine. 
We know this that he is our 

798
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:38,500
source that anything good in US 
comes from Christ. 

799
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:44,800
That we can do nothing. 
Not one single thing that honors

800
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,100
God apart from the vine of Jesus
Christ. 

801
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,200
Nothing over you today. 
Who are here who are not in 

802
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:56,000
Christ. 
You can do nothing. 

803
00:50:57,500 --> 00:50:59,900
Nothing that will get you any 
reward in heaven of your own 

804
00:50:59,900 --> 00:51:04,400
strength, nothing that will lead
others to faith in Christ in 

805
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,700
your own strength. 
Nothing that will produce love, 

806
00:51:07,700 --> 00:51:11,200
joy, peace patience. 
Kindness goodness gentleness and

807
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:15,100
long-suffering nothing. 
It all must come from the 

808
00:51:15,100 --> 00:51:18,800
nourishment of the vine. 
He's making that clear the 

809
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:24,600
constant dependence upon Christ 
The Vine And then the consistent

810
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:29,900
production of Godly fruit. 
The consistent production of 

811
00:51:29,900 --> 00:51:32,900
Godly fruit. 
A True Believer will have 

812
00:51:32,900 --> 00:51:36,100
evidence in their lives and out 
of their lives. 

813
00:51:37,500 --> 00:51:43,200
Evidence of righteous fruits of 
obedience toward God and God's 

814
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:48,400
will John 14:15 we just were 
there just a few lessons ago. 

815
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,900
What did the Lord teach us? 
If you love me. 

816
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,600
You obey my commands. 
If you're truly in the vine, you

817
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:59,300
will live in an obedient life 
unto Christ producing works of 

818
00:51:59,300 --> 00:52:02,500
righteousness as you are 
connected to the Vine. 

819
00:52:04,500 --> 00:52:06,600
To prove this point. 
I don't seek to tell you some 

820
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,800
catchy story or illustration or 
give you some example from my 

821
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,300
life. 
Can we go to the scriptures to 

822
00:52:11,300 --> 00:52:15,600
see that this is true? 
But every other idea is alive 

823
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,900
produced by mankind because 
there are many people who say 

824
00:52:18,900 --> 00:52:23,300
that Jesus can be Lord, Our 
Savior and not Lord. 

825
00:52:24,100 --> 00:52:26,600
Then later at some point in 
time, become Lord. 

826
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,300
I guess, that's when you finally
started obeying him, can I help 

827
00:52:30,300 --> 00:52:31,800
you? 
That's when he became savior to.

828
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,700
We look at consistent production
of fruit. 

829
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:47,100
In a life of a True Believer. we
go to the scriptures and we go 

830
00:52:47,100 --> 00:52:52,200
to another parable of Christ 
that he makes this so clear. 

831
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,200
Mark chapter 4 verse 3. 
It says listen a farmer went out

832
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:59,000
to sow his seed as he was 
scattering the seed, some fell 

833
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,300
along the path and the birds 
came and ate it up. 

834
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,200
Some fell on Rocky places where 
it did not have much soil, 

835
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,600
sprang up quickly because the 
soil was shallow, but when the 

836
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,400
sun came up, the plants were 
scorched and they withered 

837
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:14,600
because they had no root. 
Other seed fell among Thorns 

838
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,600
which grew up and choked the 
plants so that they did not bare

839
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,600
grain. 
Still other seed, fell on good 

840
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:25,000
soil, came up grew and produced 
crop multiplying, 30, 60, or 

841
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,300
even 100 time. 
I know what many say they're, 

842
00:53:28,300 --> 00:53:30,100
why are you telling us we're not
farmers? 

843
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,000
Good news is you don't have to 
be a farmer to understand this. 

844
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,400
Because God in his sovereignty 
allowed, Jesus to give you the 

845
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:40,200
interpretation there right at 
Mark chapter 4, the 13th 

846
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,400
birthday. 
It says this, the 13th verse 

847
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,800
then Jesus said to them. 
Don't you understand this 

848
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,200
Parable? 
How then, will you understand 

849
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,600
any parable? 
The farmer says the word. 

850
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:57,100
Some people are like seed along 
the path where the word is sown.

851
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,500
As soon as they hear it, Satan 
comes and takes away the word 

852
00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:03,200
that was sown in them. 
What that looks like in our day 

853
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,900
and time that person who hears 
the preaching of the truth of 

854
00:54:05,900 --> 00:54:08,200
the Gospel. 
Like, you're hearing today, you 

855
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,600
hear it. 
And before you can absorb it, 

856
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,200
because you cannot absorb it on 
your own Satan, snatches, it 

857
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:17,200
away from you, you walk out the 
door and you carry on with your 

858
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:21,200
lost sinful life. 
One Step Closer to an eternal 

859
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,900
hell. 4:16, says, others like 
seed. 

860
00:54:24,900 --> 00:54:27,200
Sown on Rocky, places. 
Hear the word and at, once they 

861
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,900
receive it with joy. 
These are those people who that 

862
00:54:29,908 --> 00:54:31,800
here and they said this seems 
like a good idea. 

863
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,300
Do they like the benefits of 
Christ? 

864
00:54:35,300 --> 00:54:36,800
Do it seems good. 
I get eternal life. 

865
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,500
I get forgiveness. 
My slate is wiped clean all. 

866
00:54:38,500 --> 00:54:44,800
This is good stuff. but since 
they have no root, But since I 

867
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:46,700
have no route, they're not 
really connected to the True 

868
00:54:46,700 --> 00:54:49,400
Vine since they have no root. 
They last only a short time. 

869
00:54:51,500 --> 00:54:55,100
They don't persevere. 
When trouble or persecution 

870
00:54:55,100 --> 00:54:59,300
comes because of the word, they 
quickly fall away, he began to 

871
00:54:59,308 --> 00:55:00,600
think where your weird because 
you're going down there with 

872
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:02,300
those church people doing Church
things. 

873
00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:06,100
Oh no, I'm not going down there 
anymore. 

874
00:55:08,300 --> 00:55:10,900
I'll hang with you guys again. 
Sorry, I walked down on all you 

875
00:55:10,900 --> 00:55:13,000
guys and all the things that we 
do and all the sin that we 

876
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:16,300
participate in, I'll come back 
to the Grove of wickedness and 

877
00:55:16,300 --> 00:55:21,400
leave the Grove salvation. 
Still others, like seed, sown 

878
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,000
among Thorns, hear the word, but
the worries of this life, the 

879
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,100
deceitfulness of wealth. 
And the desires for other 

880
00:55:27,100 --> 00:55:30,000
things, come in and choke the 
word, making it unfruitful, some

881
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,400
hear the word. 
When you hear the word today, 

882
00:55:33,500 --> 00:55:35,800
that Jesus Christ can set you 
free through his atoning, 

883
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,300
sacrifice through his death, his
burial and Resurrection, he can 

884
00:55:38,300 --> 00:55:41,700
forgive you of all of your sin. 
He can wash you clean 

885
00:55:41,700 --> 00:55:43,600
completely. 
He can make you in. 

886
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,000
Right standing with God, the 
Father, your creator. 

887
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,300
He will prepare for you. 
A dwelling place for all 

888
00:55:49,300 --> 00:55:50,900
eternity. 
Auntie in his presence, who 

889
00:55:50,900 --> 00:55:54,700
would turn that down? 
There are those who will 

890
00:55:54,700 --> 00:55:56,000
entertain it today? 
They'll say, yeah. 

891
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:59,800
It sounds like a good idea. 
Until we get to the party, you 

892
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:03,700
must leave all of your sin. 
You must lay down your very 

893
00:56:03,700 --> 00:56:07,700
rights disown yourself. 
Isn't that what Jesus said, If 

894
00:56:07,707 --> 00:56:11,000
any man wants to come after me, 
let him deny himself and take up

895
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:12,500
his cross daily. 
When we start preaching 

896
00:56:12,500 --> 00:56:16,700
self-denial and suffering? 
Now, wait a second. 

897
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:19,900
You mean I'm going to have to 
change. 

898
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,000
Oh I can assure you, if you're 
in the vine you will change to 

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be in Christ. 
You are a new creation. 

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00:56:24,700 --> 00:56:29,600
All the old is gone and behold 
all things have been made new 

901
00:56:30,900 --> 00:56:35,100
This person is not in the vine, 
just sounded good for a moment. 

902
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,900
In verse 20, there's hope it 
says, others like seed, sown on 

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00:56:38,900 --> 00:56:47,200
good soil, hear the word accept 
it and produce a crop 30 60 or 

904
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:51,200
even 100 times what was sown 
True Believers going to see 

905
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,700
fruit in their life and why did 
they see fruit in their life? 

906
00:56:54,700 --> 00:56:57,000
Because they hear the word of 
God and do it cuts. 

907
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,300
Know what offends, they hear it,
and they accepted as truth. 

908
00:57:01,300 --> 00:57:03,800
And how do they accept it? 
As truth is if their own accord.

909
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,700
Noah, Sovereign. 
God opens their blind eyes so 

910
00:57:05,700 --> 00:57:07,900
they can see. 
This is the truth that Kirk all 

911
00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:10,600
is the most wretched scoundrel 
who has ever walked the face of 

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00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,400
the Earth. 
But there is a loving God who 

913
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,800
loved Kirk Hall before the 
foundations of the earth and he 

914
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,000
prepared a ways. 
So that Curtain Call could be 

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00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,100
saved through his only begotten 
son, who has sacrificed that he 

916
00:57:20,100 --> 00:57:23,300
made at Calvary for me and for 
all who would believe, and trust

917
00:57:23,300 --> 00:57:27,300
in him, That person, truly 
believes that person is truly 

918
00:57:27,300 --> 00:57:30,700
saved and then the result of 
that is true fruit. 

919
00:57:31,500 --> 00:57:38,700
He says some of it 30 60 or even
100 times what has been sold Oh,

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00:57:38,700 --> 00:57:41,200
I don't encourage you today to 
look at the amount of fruit 

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00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,100
that's being produced. 
In another person's life, I 

922
00:57:43,100 --> 00:57:44,500
encourage you today. 
Look at your life and see if 

923
00:57:44,500 --> 00:57:46,000
there's any fruit being produced
in it. 

924
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,500
Because if you were living life 
apart from Divine, there is no 

925
00:57:50,500 --> 00:57:55,200
true fruit in your life. 
You are a withered dry Branch 

926
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:57,900
only deceived into thinking that
you belong in the vine and you 

927
00:57:57,900 --> 00:58:00,200
will be removed and you will be 
purged. 

928
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,700
Because you were useless to the 
kingdom of God, as I once was 

929
00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:09,100
before his grace rescued. 
Me and made me useful for his 

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00:58:09,100 --> 00:58:16,200
glory. 1st, John chapter 2. 
John says, this verse 3, we know

931
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,600
that we have come to know him if
we obey his commands. 

932
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,900
The man who says I know him but 
does not do, what he commands is

933
00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:24,900
a liar and the truth is not in 
him. 

934
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,400
What is fruit. 
So BD and acts of righteousness.

935
00:58:30,100 --> 00:58:32,600
Those those obedient acts of 
righteousness are produced 

936
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:34,800
because the fruit of the spirit 
has been produced in your life 

937
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,000
love joy, peace, patience, 
kindness goodness, gentleness 

938
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:40,300
and long-suffering and if that 
is true and it is effective in 

939
00:58:40,300 --> 00:58:42,200
your life. 
What is going to happen is Deeds

940
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:43,800
are going to come out of your 
life. 

941
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,800
Those will be Deeds of obedience
brings glory to God. 

942
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,500
But if anyone obeys his word, 
God's love is truly made 

943
00:58:49,500 --> 00:58:52,000
complete in him. 
This is how we know we are in 

944
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,600
him. 
Whoever claims to live in him 

945
00:58:54,700 --> 00:59:00,700
must walk as Jesus did. 
Walk as Jesus did love joy. 

946
00:59:00,700 --> 00:59:02,900
Peace patience. 
Kindness goodness, gentleness 

947
00:59:03,300 --> 00:59:08,100
self-control. 
Consistent production of Godly 

948
00:59:08,100 --> 00:59:13,100
fruit. 2nd Timothy 2:19. 
Nevertheless God, solid 

949
00:59:13,100 --> 00:59:17,400
foundation stands firm sealed 
with this inscription. the Lord 

950
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:22,000
knows those who are his well 
that's why the Lord could make 

951
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,300
the distinguish. 
The distinguishing factors in 

952
00:59:26,500 --> 00:59:28,800
knowing, which ones to cut and 
which ones to prune, he knows 

953
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:32,700
who are his You can identify 
them, he knows them. 

954
00:59:32,700 --> 00:59:37,300
The Lord knows who those who are
his and everyone who confesses 

955
00:59:37,300 --> 00:59:41,000
the name of the Lord must turn 
away from wickedness. 

956
00:59:42,300 --> 00:59:44,500
You turn away from wickedness 
and you turn to righteousness, 

957
00:59:44,500 --> 00:59:46,800
that righteous fruit. 
That is produced in Christ and 

958
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:50,500
in Christ alone because you are 
in the vine support from him, 

959
00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:54,700
you can do nothing. 
To be a fruitless Christian. 

960
00:59:56,200 --> 01:00:01,200
Is to be no Christian at all. 
You can quote me on saying that 

961
01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:03,700
I'm not here to make friends. 
I'm here to tell you the truth. 

962
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,500
To be a fruitless. 
Christian is to be no Christian 

963
01:00:07,500 --> 01:00:09,800
at all. 
It's like claiming to drink a 

964
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:14,600
glass of water that is not wet 
It is that ridiculous. 

965
01:00:16,900 --> 01:00:19,500
Why is it ridiculous? 
Because the word of God is true.

966
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:26,200
Everything else is a lie. 
The word of God stands Jesus 

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01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,300
himself said not everyone. 
Who says lord lord lord, Matthew

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01:00:29,300 --> 01:00:31,600
7:21 shall enter the kingdom of 
heaven. 

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01:00:32,700 --> 01:00:34,300
But only, he who does the will 
of my father. 

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01:00:34,300 --> 01:00:37,000
He says your mirror profession 
that you're in. 

971
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,800
The vine, doesn't make you in 
the vine. 

972
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:42,600
There must be evidence that you 
are in Divine. 

973
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:46,100
What is evidence that you are 
invited is obedience to Christ. 

974
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,900
It is obedient fruits of 
righteousness coming forth out 

975
01:00:49,900 --> 01:00:53,000
of your life because you have 
been positionally Sanctified. 

976
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,900
And now you are being 
practically Sanctified that is 

977
01:00:55,900 --> 01:00:58,100
throughout all of the New 
Testament scriptures that is the

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01:00:58,100 --> 01:01:00,000
teachings of Christ. 
That is the teaching of the 

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01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,700
apostle. 
If you're in Christ. 

980
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:07,500
You will produce fruit to some 
measure because that fruit is 

981
01:01:07,500 --> 01:01:11,200
being produced in and through 
you by the hand of a sovereign 

982
01:01:11,500 --> 01:01:13,100
God. 
And so I ask you this question 

983
01:01:13,100 --> 01:01:14,600
as we prepare our hearts to 
close. 

984
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:19,200
Are you in the Vine? 
The Vine. 

985
01:01:20,300 --> 01:01:23,600
Are you here is well, how do we 
know he gave us the evidence? 

986
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:28,700
And how we know Is a fruit or 
begins with that. 

987
01:01:28,700 --> 01:01:31,900
Internal fruit to the indwelling
of the Holy Spirit. 

988
01:01:31,900 --> 01:01:34,400
Love joy, peace patience. 
Kindness goodness, gentleness 

989
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:38,600
and long suffering. 
Then extends beyond that, 

990
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:41,800
doesn't it? 
That external righteousness 

991
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:46,000
where you and your behavior are 
different from a lost sinful 

992
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,800
World. 
Your set apart to bring God 

993
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,000
glory. 
Why it is his will that you 

994
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:57,500
produced much fruit. 
It's his will that you submit to

995
01:01:57,500 --> 01:01:59,800
his pruning through the word of 
God. 

996
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,900
That you take every opportunity 
that you can to sit under sound 

997
01:02:02,900 --> 01:02:05,900
Biblical teaching that you take 
every opportunity that you can 

998
01:02:05,900 --> 01:02:09,000
to open up the scriptures for 
yourself to see those things 

999
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:10,000
that by his word. 
He is. 

1000
01:02:10,100 --> 01:02:14,200
Pruning from your life. 
Or you in the Vine. 

1001
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:17,700
Is there evidence that? 
That is true. 

1002
01:02:19,700 --> 01:02:21,500
I didn't ask you are in, are you
in the vine? 

1003
01:02:21,500 --> 01:02:23,300
Because you walked in aisle. 
One day and prayed a little 

1004
01:02:23,300 --> 01:02:26,800
prayer. 
I'm asking you are you and the 

1005
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:31,200
vine because the evidence that 
you can see proves that you're 

1006
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:36,000
in the vine you producing fruit,
it brings God glory. 

1007
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:42,600
Is he doing a work in? 
You does that work evident or 

1008
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:49,600
are you a dead lifeless branch? 
a pretender on the verge of 

1009
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:56,200
final apostasy as Judas was Are 
you a dead lifeless Pretender? 

1010
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:02,600
Who will be cut away in purged? 
And thrown into the fire. 

1011
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:09,300
The way I see it. 
They're only two options. 

1012
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:16,000
From scripture this morning. 
You are a in Christ. 

1013
01:03:17,500 --> 01:03:23,100
The True Vine. 
Are you Abby apart from Christ? 

1014
01:03:24,700 --> 01:03:26,700
I would encourage you this 
morning at the Spirit, reveals 

1015
01:03:26,700 --> 01:03:30,700
to you that you are living your 
life apart from Christ. 

1016
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,200
I would encourage you to know 
this at 2000 years ago. 

1017
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:39,700
Jesus, Christ died on a cross. 
In the place of every person who

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01:03:39,700 --> 01:03:44,100
will believe man, woman boy, and
girl who will believe and trust 

1019
01:03:44,100 --> 01:03:47,900
in him. 
He died in their place so that 

1020
01:03:47,900 --> 01:03:51,600
they can be included. 
And in grafted into the True 

1021
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:55,100
Vine by faith today. 
Would you trust Jesus as your 

1022
01:03:55,100 --> 01:03:58,400
lord and savior turning from 
your sin and turning to him and 

1023
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:00,600
him alone? 
As the only one who died on a 

1024
01:04:00,607 --> 01:04:03,700
cross to pay for your sin to 
save you from the misery in the 

1025
01:04:03,700 --> 01:04:06,200
Eternal death that your sin has 
calls. 

1026
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:07,800
Would you cry out to Jesus 
today? 

1027
01:04:07,900 --> 01:04:10,100
They to save you. 
I assure you that the word of 

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01:04:10,100 --> 01:04:12,500
God says that for whosoever 
shall call upon the name of the 

1029
01:04:12,500 --> 01:04:14,500
Lord. 
They shall be saved. 

1030
01:04:14,500 --> 01:04:17,800
If you opened your eyes to date 
to see your need for salvation, 

1031
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,200
he points you to the fact that 
you are a sinner and he points 

1032
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,800
you to the answer. 
Jesus Christ, the only one who 

1033
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:26,100
can save you from your sin. 
I pray today that you see that 

1034
01:04:26,100 --> 01:04:29,600
as a work of God, drawing you 
out of sin and drawing you to 

1035
01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,400
himself. 
Would you cry out today? 

1036
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:35,300
Would you be saved? 
And when you be forgiven and 

1037
01:04:35,308 --> 01:04:38,100
granted the eternal life that 
Jesus Christ died for you to 

1038
01:04:38,100 --> 01:04:42,700
have here is called today. 
My faith surrender to that, call

1039
01:04:42,700 --> 01:04:45,500
surrender to Jesus Christ as 
your lord and savior before it 

1040
01:04:45,500 --> 01:04:50,200
is Everlasting too late. 
Father, in the name of Jesus, we

1041
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:52,200
come to you, thanking you for 
your word. 

1042
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:57,300
But we know that it is a double 
edged sword. 

1043
01:04:59,300 --> 01:05:03,100
And it cuts. 
It cuts. 

1044
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,500
Dividing Soul and Spirit, even 
to the marrow. 

1045
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:11,100
It cuts deep. 
God, I pray for those who are 

1046
01:05:11,100 --> 01:05:13,500
lost today, who are being cut by
the conviction of your Holy 

1047
01:05:13,500 --> 01:05:16,100
Spirit, showing them that they 
need Christ. 

1048
01:05:18,500 --> 01:05:22,100
I pray that they not be purged 
from the vine today but that you

1049
01:05:22,100 --> 01:05:24,900
and your grace wouldn't graph 
them into the True Vine. 

1050
01:05:24,900 --> 01:05:27,200
The Lord Jesus Christ by saving 
their soul. 

1051
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:31,000
What I pray for each believer. 
Who's here today? 

1052
01:05:33,100 --> 01:05:36,500
That they would welcome. 
And rejoice in the pruning of 

1053
01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:42,200
the word of God. when we hear 
those truths that are not easy 

1054
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:46,500
for us to absorb, God, I pray 
that they would see them for 

1055
01:05:46,500 --> 01:05:48,500
what they are and they would 
Rejoice that it is you 

1056
01:05:48,500 --> 01:05:51,400
fulfilling your promise, 
conforming us to Christ. 

1057
01:05:52,700 --> 01:05:56,400
Maybe we yield to your spirit 
today and we yield to your word 

1058
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:58,600
today as you continue pruning us
as Believers. 

1059
01:05:59,500 --> 01:06:01,200
May we thank you and praise you 
for it. 

1060
01:06:02,900 --> 01:06:06,800
Holy Spirit, we invite you now. 
Rescue centers. 

1061
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:12,100
To motivate Saints. 
The calls us all to come into a 

1062
01:06:12,100 --> 01:06:14,400
position of worship and 
adoration for who you are? 

1063
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:16,900
We pray all these things in 
Christ's name. 

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01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:22,100
Amen. 
Thank you for listening to the 

1065
01:06:22,100 --> 01:06:25,600
key Life Fellowship. 
Hope it Ministry podcast, if you

1066
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:28,900
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our pastors, please email us at 

1067
01:06:28,900 --> 01:06:38,000
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org or call us at 28 1689 1604. 

1068
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:45,100
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Web site at www.ttil.tv.com, we 

1069
01:06:45,100 --> 01:06:47,400
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You have a blessed week and 

1070
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:45,100
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Web site at www.ttil.tv.com, we 

1071
01:06:45,100 --> 01:06:47,400
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1072
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:49,700
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