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Good morning. 
It's a joy to be together again 

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to worship like this. 
And thank you worship team for 

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that wonderful singing. 
This morning, we are concluding 

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our four-part series of sermons 
on the letter of Jude. 

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Our sermon title this morning, 
is our glorious Destiny, the 

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writer Jude. 
He had written to the church. 

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And at and reminded them to 
contend for the faith. 

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He had wanted to write about 
their glorious salvation, which 

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have been imparted to them, but 
he felt it urgent. 

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He felt it necessary that he 
write instead about the 

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situation that they were facing 
with the false teachers coming 

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in and so he cautioned them. 
He told him contend for the 

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faith and in explaining what he 
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He referred to the Past, he 
talked about how the children of

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Israel had been let out of Egypt
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Because they were not committed 
to God. 

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They were rebellious. 
God punished him. 

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He talked about the Angels kept 
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judgment. 
He talked about Sodom and 

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Gomorrah. 
He used these stories as 

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illustrations on what not to do,
or where to draw attention, 

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where to look and see what God, 
what kind of God we serve how 

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serious God is last Sunday. 
We looked at how God expected 

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the church, what God was 
expecting from the church. 

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He wanted them to persevere in 
the faith. 

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He wanted them to serve and 
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And focus on helping those who 
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And nothing has really changed. 
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We are the same kinds of people 
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Then God is staying, God is 
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He was back, then, nothing has 
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Not from the time of the 
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Not from the time of Sodom 
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Now in God's eyes. 
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close of this short little 
letter and we see the rich and 

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the Glorious Promises to the 
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And again we need to remind 
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God's promises for God's Church.
Therefore our times as well. 

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So I want us to absorb just 
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with this thought. 
We have a glorious Destiny. 

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According to Jude, I want to 
just speak a little bit about an

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introduction to speak at Midway 
of an introduction before I 

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focus on the passage for this 
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minutes, but I want to draw our 
attention to form a foundation 

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so to speak, for what I want to 
say. 

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As God's people, we know. 
That we're supposed to repent 

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and believe we've been taught 
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We believe that, we know, we 
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live morally, upright, and pure 
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We know, we also know that that 
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the other people. 
We know all that. 

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But again, before we dig into 
the scripture passage, I want to

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ask ourselves. 
Why? 

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Why are we to do that? 
What's the big deal with? 

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So to speak playing by the 
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Are we to do that? 
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us or do that so God will look 
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may be. 
No no that's not it. 

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We are to do the things God 
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Yes. 
But not to gain a few more marks

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on the approval register so to 
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Or as if God would say you know 
what actually he's so good. 

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I can't we can turn the grace 
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That's not how this works. 
It's not what happens. 

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We cannot work up some credit 
system before God. 

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And yet, this is a place where 
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misunderstanding. 
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understand and grasp the what of
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But we never get to the why? 
We never get to the why? 

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The reason for it and this is 
where we come somehow get 

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off-track, we get off the rails.
As followers of Jesus, we do the

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things or at least I trust we do
that God wants us to do and get 

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this. 
We do them in response to God. 

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But not to gain or receive or to
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We do good things in response to
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on Earth, doing good as our 
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God. 
That's our reason, for being And

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it is that truth. 
That's where the fork in the 

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road is where people Branch off.
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A lot of people have an idea of 
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know the Ten Commandments. 
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His teaching his death on the 
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His resurrection. 
But it may as well be, that 

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person is still missing the mark
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transaction. 
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It's a deal. 
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do for me. 
X y z, that is the wrong view of

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God and the wrong view of a 
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And I'll explain later how this 
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misery. 
Sermon people. 

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May get the truth right. 
That God loves them and God 

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wants them to obey him. 
But the reason or the wife or it

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is missing it it's it's it's 
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They get the what, but not the, 
why they get the content but not

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the purpose of it. 
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They missed the relationship 
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And we can see this working out 
in human relationships all the 

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time, but it happens between us 
and God as well. 

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Let me, let me go at it from a 
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once more and expand it a 
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Let me ask this question. 
Why did Jesus even come to save 

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us? 
You and me? 

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Why did he do that? 
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Well, don't insult us. 
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Come on, you know, better and I 
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Why did he come to save us? 
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in your mind, say John 3:16 for 
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So loved the world, he gave his 
only begotten, son, whoever 

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believes in him should not 
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everlasting life. 
That's we just get that. 

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We just write it off so fast in 
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We just don't even think about 
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Okay? 
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But that doesn't still answer 
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Yes. 
That message is for my benefit 

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and yours. 
That's it's written. 

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But from God's point of 
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Why did he love us? 
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Let's go a bit deeper again ask,
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Because of us. 
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because of God, That's the 
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The does God love me because of 
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of his own character who he is? 
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That's the fork in the road. 
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people separate sad to say. 
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themselves and take credit for 
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Think God is getting a good deal
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cartoons of God's lucky to have 
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That is about as fault as it can
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from the truth. 
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principal who God is. 
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what God does, if God loves me 
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out. 
How good I have done things how?

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Well I've performed then the 
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performance and workspace 
situation and it will fall flat.

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But the actual truth is that 
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No one makes the grade. 
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mark, nobody gets passed 
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Every human being is lost. 
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View and they would, they 
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this is there. 
There are thinking, if you dig 

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down into it, I'm a pretty good 
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I do a lot of good deeds. 
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compared to a lot of people, I 
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I can't see why God would not 
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cause me to have me on his team 
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He's gaining quite a bit. 
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God's actually bit worse off 
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We may not say these words but 
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even verbally that way but it's 
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are. 
I know I get it. 

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It's foolish to even say these 
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Maybe. 
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It's the epitome of self 
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Its idolatry what the Pharisees 
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The Pharisee goes into the 
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I thank you, Lord, that I'm not 
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He rattled off this guide 
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A little bit further away, I 
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good guy, and Jesus condemns it.
Let me say it again. 

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If God loves me because of me, 
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Quality based Performance Based 
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The Bible does not teach that, 
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around, it changes everything. 
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he is of his nature of his 
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changed completely because then 
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It is Grace based. 
What a relief, what a big weight

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falls off our shoulders. 
I'm being kept by him, he's 

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holding me. 
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I have to respond to the gift 
after receive salvation. 

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I have to repent it, true but 
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I don't have to worry, will I 
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Will I be able to stand? 
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Really secure? 
And then because of what God has

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done for me, what God is doing 
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have a future and a glorious 
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Then that Destiny is eternally, 
secure, many people in the world

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today they wonder about what I 
lose it and whatnot, that's 

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focusing the wrong direction. 
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The question is, not how good am
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It can I trust him? 
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where there's specially when 
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They get this, they understand 
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100% devoted and dependent on 
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He's everything to them 100%. 
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they know they have, no, they 
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have no no handle on society. 
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Knowing that. 
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continues, its pain, but it will
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secured. 
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say this this morning as well, I
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will yet suffer for our faith 
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We're still being spared, we're 
still being protected under some

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charters of Rights, what we have
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I'm not knocking that. 
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in my lifetime. 
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destiny of God's people this 
assurance of what still to come,

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we would indeed be in a dark 
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Jesus, this life is only for a 
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presented as a want to read in a
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In a few minutes, we will be 
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father, that's what the 
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So this morning once again, look
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wrote in relation to the 
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Started out with again, as 
appealing to them contend for 

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the faith deal with the false 
teachers that have infiltrated, 

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the church? 
And plenty of the consequence of

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rebellion and the denial. 
He reminded them of the 

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predictions of the Apostles of 
the Lord, Jesus. 

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He instructed them, how to live 
out their faith, but building 

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themselves up praying in the 
Holy Spirit keeping themselves 

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in God's love waiting, for the 
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And today we see that he points 
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I want to pause just for a 
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Think about this, if you could 
choose to look like someone you 

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admire, who would you like to 
look like some celebrity some 

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sports star? 
Who would you like to look like?

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But just imagine you, let's just
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If you were perfect. 
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sense of the word a perfect 
human specimen Imagine God, 

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looking at you as his creation 
saying, that's very good because

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that's what he did in Genesis. 
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very good. 
That's what the Book of Genesis 

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tells us God made humankind In 
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It means we are representations 
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We are limited. 
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The Brokenness in the Sin, he 
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who he is what he is. 
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that and since we could not keep
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our place died, for our sins to 
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him only as anything or having 
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and then he then I want to read.
Now you want to read the verse. 

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Jude one was 24. 
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passage. 
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or Jesus, who is able to keep 
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present You blameless before the
presence of his glory with great

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joy to the only God our savior 
through Jesus Christ. 

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Our Lord be glory Majesty 
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all time and now and forever. 
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Where's the focus? 
It's the Lord. 

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That is who Jude is directing 
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It's a very inclusive, a very 
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using words that explain the 
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He's talking about Jesus, he's 
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in relationship to us. 
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security, and the steadfastness 
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It boils down to this point. 
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does the keeping number one? 
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his readers of their position in
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keep them. 
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because of who God is what he's 
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Jesus. 
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Jesus in relationship, or we all
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life, it can be very 
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deflating. 
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when we repent, but it does not 
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is, and he's not going to let us
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He's not going to get rid of us.
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God is some absent-minded Dad or
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Oops, there goes that one. 
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our sins and receive salvation 
we still need to go on to 

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perfection. 
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here. 
That happened to my wife and I 

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many years ago, we were young, 
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One of our young Church 
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got drunk. 
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terribly, just just totally 
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and very sorry and repented, and
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confessed and we remind her of 
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confessed and she had repented, 
she was Sorry, we supported her.

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but we knew what she needed, and
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But one of the other guys, one 
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winded, but he wasn't happy. 
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start accusing him blaming and 
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on if we'd done, this wouldn't 
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didn't like it. 
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all of this and I find that just
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wonder if God did the same in 
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of God said, I should have been 
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Route. 
God did God think that to the 

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discussion was over? 
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When it comes to people who are 
seeking God in Repentance and 

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even when they struggle, what 
this world needs is less 

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finger-pointing and more 
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snatching them out of the fire 
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Even the Garment stained by sin,
we get busy with showing Mercy 

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the false teachers. 
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be but repentant Sinners receive
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It's true. 
We have the freedom to do and 

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decide things but our 
preservation security rest in 

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God's mercy towards us, we don't
have to undertake other you're 

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still watching. 
God, are you still on track with

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us know? 
God loves us. 

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He keeps us. 
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Keeping us, we would be falling.
The most perfect. 

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Saint is not so good that he 
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If God doesn't keep him the most
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Gone that if God draws him and 
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It's amazing how self to see if 
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think they're strong and start 
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The bottom line is, it's the 
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does the keeping. 
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let's look at Point number two, 
he presents them blameless, this

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is the beautiful part. 
Hard to know what to do with 

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this, passage, never mind. 
What is it? 

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Like, did some possible almost? 
And the best I can do is picture

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Life as a journey. 
A lot of pain and suffering and 

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God's children often. 
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We fail a lot, but the time we 
reach the Finish Line, things 

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don't look good with us. 
We haven't treated our bodies, 

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right? 
We haven't done what we should 

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be doing a lot of times. 
There's a lot of pain and 

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suffering and we fail a lot when
we, when we were trying to reach

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the Finish Line things. 
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Made this mistake and that 
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and the landscape is littered 
with bad choices. 

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And by the grace of God, were 
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kept us now, he will be 
presented blameless. 

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Love, God can present Peter, the
liar blameless and Paul the 

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Christian killer blameless. 
We must ask on whose account who

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paid for it, who arranged the 
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Jesus, Paid the price in the 
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And he made it possible present 
as a blameless before God, we do

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know from the gospel writer 
Matthew, Jesus is not going to 

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come to us, put us before God 
and some kind of half apologetic

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was a father. 
I know this guy's kind of 

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shabby, you know, but can we 
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It's not that way at all. 
He will welcome us home with 

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great celebration and joy. 
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blameless before. 
God is just more than just 

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barely, making a cross, the 
finish line and stumbling in. 

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Okay, here they are. 
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sure, hey here they are no, it's
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Victory, Parade. 
He presents us perfect. 

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Paul rights. 
In his letters. 

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I know it boggles the mind. 
How does it even work? 

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But think of it, when Jesus died
on the cross, every sin was paid

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for even the thief. 
On the cross, who was a 

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murderer, came to his senses, 
and in remorse and convictions, 

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that think of me when you come 
into your kingdom, just before 

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he died. 
And Jesus today will be with me 

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in Paradise. 
The man repented in response to 

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what the conviction, he had 
sinned, he deserves to die and 

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he's sorry, he wanted a 
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You see folks, that's it. 
That's it. 

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I mentioned earlier a perfect, 
you You know, that when you 

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arrive on the other side, that's
what you'll be. 

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As a saint perfect, 100% 
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Through the work of Jesus on the
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God sees us fully forgiven. 
He sees us blameless. 

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And it all would be that because
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Blood, paid for the sin, the 
penalty of sin is death sure but

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Jesus did that already. 
Now, we are blameless in God's 

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eyes. 
All those who have received 

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eternal life, they are redeemed 
when Jesus presents them to the 

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father, and they will be 
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Yes blameless. 
And again this goes back towards

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the work of redemption. 
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and Jude says, it will happen 
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Think about that, we may think 
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In this life, we have seen 
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There will be a celebration, the
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can't even dream about For me, 
when I read stuff like this, and

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when I meditate on stuff like 
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think, if c.s. 
Lewis the writer, he's a good 

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writer and his line of thinking 
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have need for air and food and 
water. 

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We do so in relation to the 
existence of these substances 

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food and air and water he says 
equally so we sense a need for 

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fulfillment or satisfaction and 
for Joy which are the counter 

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parts of the reality of 
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and joy. 
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have to conclude that the very 
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these longings, they are a 
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Which means one day they will be
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I'm reminded of this in the 
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Romans, the very existence of 
the physical world which we 

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live, as a reflection of God's 
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It's a message we must not 
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Jude was so full of joy and 
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He continues in this letter. 
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again to the only God our savior
through Jesus Christ. 

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Our Lord be glory Majesty 
dominion and Authority before 

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all time now and forever. 
Amen. 

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Look where he's focusing. 
Now, he's focusing in on God, 

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he's offering worship to God. 
He's recognizing God for who and

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what God is. 
This is not about Jude at or 

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about anyone or anything else 
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It's all about God. 
When a person does that, then 

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they are close to God. 
Let me again. 

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Bring it back to original 
earlier. 

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Thoughts, if someone would ask 
you this question. 

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Why do you want to go to heaven?
What would your answer be? 

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Or maybe they would ask you, why
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What would you say? 
And we may have different ways 

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of articulating. 
This question of verbalizing it 

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and not saying God has a 
specific way. 

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What he wants us to answer the 
question necessarily. 

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But you see friends, we're not 
saved for the sake of ourselves.

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We are not saved for the sake of
ourselves. 

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Oh yes. 
God loves us. 

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But goes back to who God is. 
Why does God love us? 

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Not because we're lovable but 
because he is love. 

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We saved by grace through God's 
love through Christ sacrificed. 

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Yes. 
But not because of what a lot of

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people think. 
No, we didn't earn anything. 

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We can turn anything, we can't 
pay back. 

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We're saved by God for God's 
glory for his honor and not 

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ours. 
That's Point. 

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Number 3, we're saved for God's 
glory. 

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Again it's c.s. 
Lewis who once reminded 

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mentioned in his writings that 
is different as human beings are

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like, we're all very unique. 
They say there's no two humans, 

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exactly alike. 
We live out our unique 

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giftedness and how were wired 
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So our unique individuality as 
we live that out. 

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It's then that were most like 
Jesus. 

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With the Holy Spirit, leading us
in our unique gifts as 

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individual, as we are, it's just
like Paul writes and Corinthians

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the parts of the body. 
Like, there's a vast, vast 

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difference between the ear, and 
the fingers. 

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Or the toes and the eyes. 
You know how very different they

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are, but they all make one body.
There's no selfishness among 

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them, they shouldn't be. 
And Jesus incorporates us into 

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his body, the church, all of us 
belonging to one Humanity in 

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Christ made up of individual 
members. 

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Each one Desiring to serve and 
glorify God with the gifts. 

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We have received, God is a god 
of Joy, a god of love, God of 

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Grace, the god of Truth, God of 
mercy and all of that. 

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He quips his people to live 
these things out. 

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He's also got of Holiness, God 
of Truth and God of Justice. 

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Nothing will be ever, get past 
him. 

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We know that he is eternally 
good, he's eternally. 

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Holy his whole being his power, 
his knowledge. 

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His love, his Mercy. 
His whole being an infinite 

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existence of all that is good in
Eternal. 

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That is who we are dealing with.
That is the one who we will 

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stand before. 
That is the one who will welcome

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in Us in his presence and it 
will happen with great joy and 

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celebration. 
Will be blameless. 

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That's the destiny of God's 
people. 

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We're not there yet, at least, 
not yet, but we have a role to 

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play. 
We have a job to do. 

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Again, a word picture that comes
to my mind is the as music. 

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I love good music. 
And when I listen to some good 

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music, let's say there's an 
orchestra playing and I'm always

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drawn into the sound how that 
flows. 

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I'm just amazed at how the 
different players, one plays the

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cello and one plays the trumpet,
and one plays the piano and one 

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plays a violin, and there's many
more, each one in their own 

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unique way playing, but the same
tune very different but the same

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Harmony, it just Blends and 
flows together. 

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It is glorious. 
Serious. 

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But I would say anything that's 
good on Earth is only a shadow 

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of what still to come. 
Now here in the meantime, of 

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course, the worlds are very 
broken Place governments 

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politics culture and what have 
you people are not following 

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Jesus. 
But We are waiting for God's 

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glory. 
When Jude wrote to the church, 

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he gave them warnings. 
He gave them hope and he gave 

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him Assurance that's for us 
today as well. 

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We do not have to fear or worry 
what's going on around us. 

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The destiny is secured that is 
going to happen. 

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The path. 
There may be littered with pain 

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and frustration and who knows 
what all? 

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But we can continue, we need to 
be on alert and on guard but our

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hope is not in this world. 
Our hope is in Christ, not 

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insist. 
Eames not new ideas, new truths,

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perhaps. 
But the same gospel that was 

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revealed to the people of old. 
We are given the same Assurance.

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God will keep us. 
We will be presented before God 

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for God's glory and majesty and 
power. 

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I want to encourage us as a 
church to walk close with Jesus 

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rest in him. 
Make him our Focus. 

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And our destiny will be 
glorious. 

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Let us pray. 
Thank you. 

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Lord, for the words of 
scripture, you've left us to 

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your Faithful Servants, the 
prophets the gospel writers and 

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your apostles. 
Lord, we recognize our need for 

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you. 
We're aware that we're dependent

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on you for everything our 
safekeeping for the journey we 

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face and all of its differences.
Lord we pray that you'll draw 

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us, you'll make us. 
Holy help us to see to 

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understand. 
Bring us conviction and see us 

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through you created Us For Your 
Glory. 

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Help us to realize that and 
leave that out in Jesus name. 

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Amen.