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Into second Peter chapter 1 keep
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have one and there's this is 4 
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important. 
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would call it maybe a first step
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Alex back there. 
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Savior and you're assured 
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talked about when it comes to 
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those are the foundational 
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Obviously you're never going to 
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until you know Christ as your 
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you're saved until you're 
baptized. 

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That's the first step of 
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relationship to the law, we 
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rest of everything that we're 
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wrapped up in this. 
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go along with this Christian 
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that we're going to talk about. 
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bring that about are things that
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rest of the book. 
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of laying the foundation for the
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about and, you know, putting 
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and everything else. 
Anybody else need a copy of 

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that? 
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Peter chapter 1 and verse #5 the
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And beside this giving all 
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virtue and to virtue knowledge 
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and to temperance, patience and 
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charity. 
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and abound, they make you that 
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unfruitful in the knowledge of 
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think is an interesting thing 
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you so that you are a fruitful 
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Verse #9 But he that lacketh 
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see afar off, and hath forgotten
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sins. 
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this Part 1 is the introduction 
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and the spiritual victory. 
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we're going to talk about are in
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comes to these things. 
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life are more important than 
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has a problem with indwelling 
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So it's, it is, I think, I think
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Christians who are brand new 
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and they say, you know, I want 
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everything the minute I got 
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obviously we should be, we 
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things and we should be growing 
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But you're going to start off as
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And, and what I see happened 
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get frustrated and get 
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should be as spiritual as that 
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be, I should be, I should be 
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I'm a saved, I'm a Christian. 
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I should be way farther along in
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You're a baby. 
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thought process they have, but 
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I want to be an adult. 
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Forget this is not even worth 
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I'm just, I'm checking out, 
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That would be, that would be 
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and you say you can't eat, you 
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How are you going to eat the 
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I've never seen a baby do that, 
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inherently know the process and 
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they're going to mature at 
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grow up in different ways, 
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requires patience. 
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what we're talking about with 
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comes to Christ, God regenerates
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but that old sin nature is still
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And it's very obvious. 
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Peter, you look at Paul. 
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that I do not, the evil which I 
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evil which I would not. 
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forth all right. 
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woods. 
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I would do this, but I can't and
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the victory in my spiritual 
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That's that's what it's all 
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instructs believers to put away 
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2 verse #1 It's a command 
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malice and all guile and 
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speakings and it continues as 
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These are the sincere milk of 
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thereby. 
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the Lord is gracious, right It's
it's you have to have that 

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growth process, but you should 
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that are keeping you from being 
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and putting off the old man. 
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in the Christian life is 
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the New Testament epistles, 
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is I mean and 1st John is 
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examples, but all over the place
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what to do and how to fight it. 
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get it right and to get it clean
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with God and everything else 
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then it would be very clear in 
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we should do. 
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shouldn't, but if you sin, this 
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perfection, right? 
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perfection, what we see in the 
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an ongoing presence of sin in 
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about it says about how to get 
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against the old nature and all 
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not everywhere address the need 
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will explain how this could be 
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solution to the to the sin 
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Give me a verse that says that 
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perfection, right? 
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least one that says you can live
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that's what he intended for us 
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talk about holiness and talk 
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perfection, right? 
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perfect in many cases is 
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right? 
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going to sin. 
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There's a spiritual war that 
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The flesh wars against the 
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The old man wars against the new
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gives him a holy nature, but 
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present. 
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secret or key to spiritual 
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Now this is important. 
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I'm going to read this first 
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to jump into a few things and 
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Perfectionist and higher life 
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one secret by which the believer
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experience of victory, blessing,
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Many keys, quote, UN quote, have
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baptism of the Holy Spirit, a 
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life, the abiding life, the 
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John Piper is one that talks 
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chapter 6 because he gives the 
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Louis Barry Shaffer said that 
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foundation as well as the key to
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spirit. 
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different things to different 
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OK, It, it really depends on how
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what definitions you come up 
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mean by these things when you 
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But maybe you've heard of the 
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It looks like Kezwick, but it's 
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The Kezik movement in the 1850s 
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I think 1875 was actually when 
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convention in England. 
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continuing today. 
They have done a convention in 

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Keswick, England every year 
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But this this whole, you know, 
the, the higher life, the second

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blessing, the those kind of 
things that, that that are 

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mentioned and there's a lot of 
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for it actually comes from a 
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William Boardman called the 
higher Christian life. 

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And really that's where the 
Keswick convention came from. 

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That was it was kind of birth 
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And, and like I said, it 
continues today even. 

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But the main idea in this 
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what you would call it, is that,
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movement, the deeper Christian 
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things that it's called, but 
that the Christian should move 

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on from this initial conversion 
experience to experience what's 

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called a second work or a second
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It's called entire 
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It's called the second touch. 
It's got a lot of different 

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terms for it depending on who's 
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people who teach this higher 
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Christians who receive that 
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him more holy and in many cases 
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denomination started to form 
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And one of them is the Christian
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That's a that's a big one that 
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higher life movement. 
Some of your Pentecostals, which

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a lot of the Pentecostals feel 
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And so a lot of the Pentecostals
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Nazarenes came out of that 
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that, but it that, that Kazik 
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what was known as the Wesleyan 
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it really, it really came under 
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influential in that. 
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1830s it had started to pop up 
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the deeper Life movement came 
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Phoebe Palmer, there was a lot 
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preachers that that promoted 
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her name. 
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Kazik movement. 
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life up, let's just put it that 
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ministry and everything else. 
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movement and the Keswick, the 
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we're not Wesleyan Holiness. 
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the leaders in this Kasich 
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G Campbell, Morgan AT D Pearson,
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Murray, Hudson Taylor, Jonathan 
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movement, you know, and you you 
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revival. 
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movement, the higher life 
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I went down a deep rabbit hole 
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the idea of the Kesic movement 
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total perfection type of living.
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are really redefining what the 
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movement was not a bad theology,
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so, so all of these names of the
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know their names because they've
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instrumental in revivals and 
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beginning of all of this stuff. 
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it, it kind of took a turn and 
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surrender to God, you'll be able
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you can live a sinless, perfect,
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convention, that Kazik theology 
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Rile wrote his own book on 
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The book was called Holiness 
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you ever get a chance to read 
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But he wrote this, he said it. 
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was to was to move it away from 
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which I think is what we find 
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of sanctification. 
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our souls if we know anything of
an inward fight and conflict, it

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is the invariable companion of 
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Do we find in our heart of 
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the spirit against the flesh so 
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that we would? 
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principles within us contending 
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sanctification. 
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stagnation, deadness and 
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lot of the people that were anti
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theology accused them of was, 
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Apathy, stagnation, deadness, 
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certain extent. 
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Geldren does is present a 
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you will. 
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higher life or deeper life 
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something different than maybe 
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at really that really call this 
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the, you know, and it may be 

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considered revival theology by 
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through different lenses, but 
the theology that came out of it

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really is not all that biblical.
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here is Romans 6 one through 10.
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What shall we say then? 
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grace may abound? 
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Know you not that so many of us 
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Christ, we're baptized into his 
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as Christ was raised up from the
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death, we shall be also in the 
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Knowing this, that our old man 
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body of sin might be destroyed, 
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serve sin, for he that is dead 
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live with him, knowing that 
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dead, dieth no more death, hath 
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liveth, he liveth unto God. 
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verses that Lewis Berry Shaffer,
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with this higher life movement. 
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the foundation as well as the 
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while Romans 6, one through 10 
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let's turn over to Hebrews, 
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chapter 4, Ephesians chapter 4. 
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New Testament epistles would 
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and it would be presented as the
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in spiritual victory. 
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we had to do, then it would be 
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This is the key. 
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walk in the Spirit. 
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and as we go through the rest of
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spiritual victory, we're going 
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But there's no one key that's 
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see a multiplicity of things 
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in regard to sanctification. 
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many problems which are 
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our instruction and edification 
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And there is no one key. 
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down to. 
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life, the Kazakh movement 
theology, whatever you want to 

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call it, whatever you want to 
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that you can reach this certain 
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ability to not sin. 
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level, you've reached AI 
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level that gets you to a point 
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holy, we should be trying to be 
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the flesh. 
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away. 
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old sin nature there that we war
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James made that very clear and 
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instructions about spirituality.
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the believers eternal and 
changing position in Christ, 

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which is we talked about that 
position and and standing 

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relationship and fellowship. 
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things. 
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absolutely necessary for true 
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There is walking worthy 
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one, walk worthy of the vocation
wherewith ye are called 

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submission to the ministry. 
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long time on all of these. 
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of teaching and protection, 

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which of course refers to a 
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Verse 14. 
That we henceforth be no more 

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children tossed to and fro, and 
carried about with every wind of

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doctrine, by the sleight of 
sleight of men, and cunning 

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craftiness, whereby they lie in 
wait to deceive, but speaking 

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the truth in love, may grow up 
into him in all things, which is

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the head. 
Even Christ, from whom the whole

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body fitly joined together and 
compacted by that which every 

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joint supplieth according to the
effectual working in the measure

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of every part, maketh increase 
of the body into the edifying of

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itself in love. 
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putting on the new man, in 
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22, put off concerning the 
former conversation, the old 

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man. 
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new man, which after God has 
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true holiness, there's walking 
in love. 

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Ephesians 52 walk in love as 
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There's proving what is 
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#10 proving what is acceptable 
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He says there's having no 
fellowship with and reproving 

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the unfruitful works of 
darkness. 

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Verse 11 says exactly that, 
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15, not as fools, but as wise. 
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verse #16 because the days are 
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wine, wherein is excess, but be 
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There's singing psalms and 
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Verse 19, you go on to the next 
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There's giving thanks for all 
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Verse 20. 
There's walking in obedience and

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holiness in the home. 22 through
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That's the whole way that God 
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husbands, wives, children. 
There's doing the will of God 

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from the heart. 
Ephesians 66 just put on the 

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whole armor of God verse 10 
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The same thing can be said about
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and the teaching of other 
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For example, there's a biting in
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John 15 is all about that vine 
in the branches. 

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Taking the yoke of Christ and 
learning of Him and serving Him.

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Matthew 1128 through 30 should 
be reckoning oneself to be dead 

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unto sin and alive to God in 
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Yielding yourselves to God. 
Romans 613 through 16. 

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Mortifying the deeds of the body
by the Spirit. 

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Romans 813. 
Presenting your body as a living

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sacrifice. 
Romans 12/1. 

449
00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:32,440
Not being conformed to the 
world. 

450
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,640
Verse 2. 
Renewing the mind, verse 2. 

451
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,720
Exercising 1's spiritual gifts 
and service. 

452
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,840
Romans 12/3 through 8. 
Setting one's affection on 

453
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,760
things above Colossians 31 
through 4:00. 

454
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,920
There's a lot of things here. 
And so we find even more 

455
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,040
elements of holiness and 
spiritual victory in the other 

456
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,440
epistles. 
There's no one path of 

457
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,400
sanctification, no one means a 
victory. 

458
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,560
There are many, and all of them 
are important. 

459
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,560
And that's the, that's the key 
here. 

460
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,560
I say the key, there is no key. 
And that's what I, that's my 

461
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,760
whole point is that there are so
many different things that were,

462
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:05,480
that were given as ways to 
sanctification and how we work 

463
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,680
out our sanctification and how 
we work out our, our spiritual 

464
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,080
life. 
And so I, I made this point 

465
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,440
already there in #3 but some of 
the things that we would 

466
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,680
ordinarily include in this 
section on Christian growth and 

467
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,200
spiritual victory, like prayer 
in the church, are dealt with in

468
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,960
their own separate sections. 
And that's what I mean this, 

469
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,640
this whole thing is kind of 
setting the foundation for 

470
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,480
everything that we do in our 
spiritual life. 

471
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,280
And so all everything that we're
going to talk about in the rest 

472
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,480
of the book is all spiritual 
growth, Christian growth and 

473
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,680
spiritual victory. 
But here's some important 

474
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,520
things, important truths about 
Christian growth. 

475
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,440
And I think some of these are 
key to what we're talking about 

476
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:45,360
when it comes to the no one, no 
one thing that's going to get us

477
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:48,600
to that, that spot that we're 
trying to reach when it comes to

478
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:53,480
the, you know, the, the second 
blessing or second baptism or, 

479
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,480
or any of those other terms that
you want to use. 

480
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,800
But let's go to second Peter 
chapter one, second Peter 

481
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,920
chapter 1. 
And we'll, we'll end up 

482
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,680
beginning in verse #3 we already
read some of these verses, but 

483
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,920
we're going to break these down 
South number one. 

484
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,560
And and we have, I don't know, 
10 or 12 things here. 

485
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,440
Christian growth flows from 
God's abundant salvation. 

486
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,960
And I think this first point 
here is probably the the key to 

487
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,400
everything that we're talking 
about in, I wouldn't say 

488
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,560
refuting the deeper life 
theology, but the problem with 

489
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,200
with that. 
And second Peter chapter 1 and 

490
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,240
verse #3 according as his divine
power hath given unto us all 

491
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,160
things that pertain unto life 
and godliness, through the 

492
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,640
knowledge of him that hath 
called us to glory and virtue at

493
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,480
salvation. 
The believer has everything that

494
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,680
he needs to grow and to be 
fruitful. 

495
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,360
All he has to do is use it. 
He doesn't need a second 

496
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:45,880
blessing. 
He doesn't need a second 

497
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,960
baptism. 
He doesn't need a second touch. 

498
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,920
He doesn't need any of those 
other things that the Keswick 

499
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:55,960
Convention focused on and, and 
almost rallied around, I guess 

500
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,480
you could say. 
And, and, and look, I, I think 

501
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,840
there was some good things that 
came out of that Kazik 

502
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,440
convention. 
I think there was some, there 

503
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,200
was some revivals that took 
place. 

504
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,040
But as that, as that move 
further and further away from 

505
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,320
those initial conventions, if 
you want to call it that, but 

506
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,160
the initial meetings, this 
theology kind of took on a life 

507
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,240
of its own. 
I have a book on my shelf right 

508
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:22,520
now called The Authentic Kazik 
Voice, authentic Kesic voices, 

509
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,360
something like that. 
It's all messages that have been

510
00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:26,320
preached at the, at this kesic 
convention. 

511
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,560
And some of them are very, very 
good messages. 

512
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:33,560
And, and, and some of them are 
by, by men that we easily 

513
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,400
recognize because we've been 
reading their books and, and you

514
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,640
know, and quoting them for 
years. 

515
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,320
But this idea, and whether it, 
whether that was the idea or 

516
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,000
whether these ideas came out of 
it, the second blessing, the 

517
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,840
second baptism, the second 
touch, all of those things are 

518
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,800
at the very least branches off 
of what came out of that. 

519
00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,120
We don't need that. 
We have that already. 

520
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,800
We have everything we need. 
We got everything we need at 

521
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,600
salvation. 
So the second thing then is when

522
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,920
it comes to this important truth
about our Christian growth, 

523
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,560
Christian growth is a process of
adding to our faith. 

524
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,440
Verse #5 and besides this, 
giving all diligence, add to 

525
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,320
your faith. 
And he says virtue, knowledge, 

526
00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:21,120
temperance, patience, godliness,
brotherly kindness, charity, all

527
00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:24,640
of those things. 
So at salvation, the child of 

528
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,600
God has only one thing, and 
that's faith. 

529
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,560
The Christian life is the 
process of adding all of those 

530
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,160
things as you grow and as you 
mature and as you develop in 

531
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,160
your walk with Christ, right? 
This is, it's very obvious that 

532
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:44,000
all of these things are things 
that, OK, you have faith, right?

533
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,160
All right, now add virtue to 
your faith. 

534
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,520
All right, now add knowledge to 
that virtue. 

535
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,160
All right, now add temperance to
that knowledge. 

536
00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:55,040
All right, now add patience to 
that temperance and godliness to

537
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,720
that patience, and brotherly 
kindness to that godliness and 

538
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,240
charity to that brotherly 
kindness. 

539
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,800
Those are all things that are, 
it's a growth process, right? 

540
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:08,720
It's like what we're saying here
is a baby is born and he starts 

541
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,480
to grow and he gets to be about 
3 years old and then all of a 

542
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,720
sudden magically overnight he 
gets a takes a growth pill and 

543
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,960
now he's an adult and he can do 
everything that he needs to do 

544
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,080
as an adult. 
It doesn't happen that way, 

545
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,280
right? 
And the same thing is true about

546
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,160
us in our spiritual life. 
It's not you don't get saved and

547
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,640
you start to grow and start to 
grow and start to grow and all 

548
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,880
the sudden you get a second 
blessing and now you are a 

549
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,800
sinlessly perfect Christian who 
lives in absolute holiness 

550
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,440
before God. 
See what I'm saying? 

551
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,080
It's a, it's a growth process. 
All of it is a process and it 

552
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:42,600
takes time. 
And it's, it's, it's a 

553
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,920
development that that comes to 
us as we continue to mature in 

554
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,480
our Christian, in our Christian 
walk #3 then Christian growth is

555
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,880
never instantaneous. 
It doesn't come overnight by any

556
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,040
process whatsoever. 
We have Galatians 5, Ephesians 

557
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,320
5, first John one. 
Those are all things that talk 

558
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,200
about walking in our in our 
relationship with Christ. 

559
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,640
But the believer doesn't 
suddenly have an overflowing cup

560
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,840
of perfection and virtue, 
patience and charity. 

561
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,680
And there's nothing that can 
place him into such experience. 

562
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,640
Growth is a gradual thing. 
You don't you don't see a bit. 

563
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,560
You don't, you can't see a baby 
grow on a daily basis. 

564
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,320
And Christian growth is 
described as walking with Christ

565
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,200
as we mentioned in those verses.
It's step by step, day by day 

566
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,960
thing. 
The Christian life is, is not a 

567
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,240
leap or a flight. 
It's a walk, right? 

568
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,760
And for for a kid, all right, 
this happens often. 

569
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,200
He sees himself in the mirror 
every single day. 

570
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,760
And he looks at himself and he's
like, man, I'm short, I'm 

571
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,240
skinny. 
I'm not growing at all, right? 

572
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,160
And then grandma comes around 
after she hasn't seen him for a 

573
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,160
while and she says, wow, you're 
getting so big, right? 

574
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,560
Look how tall you are. 
Look how look how big your 

575
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:53,120
muscles are getting, right? 
He can't see it because he's 

576
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,520
seeing himself every single day,
right? 

577
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,640
But somebody looking at it from 
the outside that hasn't seen you

578
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,920
in a while can, can see that 
It's kind of the same thing with

579
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,880
it with, with your spiritual 
growth, right? 

580
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,360
It's slow and you may look at it
and you say, am I even, am I 

581
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,120
even getting anywhere in my 
Christian life? 

582
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,800
But somebody that hasn't seen 
you for a couple years and comes

583
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,080
back and says, wow, there's a 
big difference in who you are 

584
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,520
now versus who you used to be, 
right? 

585
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,520
And that's, that's what that 
growth process is. 

586
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,960
It's, it's not something that 
happens instantaneously. 

587
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,040
It doesn't come overnight. 
It's a slow step by step, day by

588
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,120
day thing. 
The Christian life is not a 

589
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,840
Libra flight. 
It's a walk. 

590
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,440
So letter D then #4 Christian 
growth requires all diligence. 

591
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:40,160
Second Peter chapter 1 on in 
verse #5 I don't think that's 

592
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,960
the right verse. 
But and beside this giving all, 

593
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,400
Oh yeah, giving all diligence, 
add to your faith, virtue and 

594
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,720
virtue knowledge. 
So the half hearted Christian is

595
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,600
not going to grow. 
He's going to remain a babe and 

596
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,840
will continue to cause trouble 
in the church and do more to 

597
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,280
hinder God's work than to help 
us. 

598
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,240
And Revelation chapter 3, verse 
15 and 16, the Bible talks about

599
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,840
that lukewarmness. 
I would rather you are cold or 

600
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,840
hot, but because you're 
lukewarm, I want to spew you out

601
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:09,160
of my mouth is what he says. 
And, and again, so for, for, for

602
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,720
all of us. 
It's not just for new 

603
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,800
Christians, but if we're going 
to grow in our Christian walk, 

604
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,040
we have to do it intentionally, 
right? 

605
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,000
You hear stories sadly, all the 
time. 

606
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,720
And I, I just read 1 the other 
day that, that they arrested 

607
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:31,160
some parents because they, they 
found a body in a House of a, of

608
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:38,880
a 7 year old that was like 28 
lbs, seven years old, 28 lbs so 

609
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,800
malnourished. 
And, and they did an autopsy on 

610
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,880
the body. 
And this is, is sad. 

611
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,760
They found 1 blueberry in the 
stomach. 

612
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,800
That was it. 
Why do you think the girl it was

613
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,080
a, it was a little girl that 
they found. 

614
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,400
Why do you think she was only 
£28 and not growing? 

615
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,560
And said when they when they 
first found the body they 

616
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,160
thought it was a three or four 
year old. 

617
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:05,560
Turned out the girl was 7. 
Nothing to her because she's not

618
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,680
being fed, right? 
She's not she's not doing 

619
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,160
anything for nourishment and, 
and, and, and, and blame that on

620
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:13,960
the parents. 
But at the same time, you know, 

621
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,600
Christian growth is the same 
thing. 

622
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,360
It requires diligence. 
You have to be fed on purpose. 

623
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,080
You have to eat right, which all
I'm saved. 

624
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,400
I'm on my way to heaven. 
I'm baptized. 

625
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,120
I, I now I can just live my life
the way that I want to. 

626
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,920
I don't have to spend time in 
God's word. 

627
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,320
You're going to get 
malnourished. 

628
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,200
I have to be at church. 
You're going to get 

629
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,920
malnourished, right. 
You need the things that are 

630
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,040
going to feed your spiritual 
walk because it's a slow growth 

631
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,840
process. 
I can promise you this, the 

632
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,480
people that are not reading 
their Bible, the people that are

633
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,240
not faithful to church, I can 
promise you that you're eating 

634
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,240
way more than you're in your 
Bible, right? 

635
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,840
How important you find that to 
be to your to your physical 

636
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,440
nourishment. 
But then all of a sudden 

637
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,760
spiritual nourishment doesn't 
matter and you think that you're

638
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,560
going to continue to grow and 
you walk with Christ. 

639
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,640
It's not going to happen. 
Feed that, that, that spiritual 

640
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,840
growth #5 Christian growth is an
individual path and process 

641
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,600
verse #5 Add all those things. 
We already read all those, 

642
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,000
right? 
It's put on Christ. 

643
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,600
Those verses describe Christ. 
He's all of those things. 

644
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,840
He's virtue, he's knowledge, 
he's temperance, he's patience, 

645
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,840
he's godliness, He's brotherly 
kindness. 

646
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,400
He's charity. 
So the goal of the Christian 

647
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,720
life is to reach the measure of 
the stature of the fullness of 

648
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:36,280
Christ, right? 
That's our goal number #7 

649
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,880
Christian growth requires 
patience. 

650
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,520
I already talked about this, but
it says, and to knowledge 

651
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,640
temperance and to temperance 
patience. 

652
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,440
That's because one of the most 
important things in the 

653
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,160
Christian life is to have 
patience. 

654
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,640
It's essential for growth 
because it's a process. 

655
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,080
And there was a lot of trials 
and a lot of obstacles and a lot

656
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,520
of enemies. 
And you just have to keep on 

657
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,160
keeping on. 
Keep walking with the Lord, keep

658
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,960
surrendering to Him, keep 
trusting Him, keep praying, keep

659
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:02,400
studying your Bible, keep going 
to church, keep obeying Him. 

660
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,240
And all the things I've preached
the message, I don't know, it's 

661
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,320
probably a few years ago now, 
but what to do when you get into

662
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,719
a spiritual rut? 
And that wasn't the title. 

663
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,639
I don't remember exactly what 
the title of the message was, 

664
00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:15,800
but what do you do when you get 
in a spiritual rut? 

665
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,199
How do you get out of it? 
We've all been there before 

666
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,280
where you just don't feel like 
doing anything spiritually 

667
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,560
right? 
You don't feel like reading your

668
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,280
Bible, you don't feel like 
praying. 

669
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,880
How do you get out of that rut? 
You just have to start doing it 

670
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:36,280
right And you start reading your
Bible again, God starts to speak

671
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,800
to you. 
He starts to move on your heart 

672
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,199
and it starts to become precious
again. 

673
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:41,880
You, you just start praying, All
right? 

674
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,440
How do you get out of that? 
You just have to do it. 

675
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,800
And sometimes when you feel like
you're not growing, when you 

676
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,400
feel like you're stuck in a rut,
when you feel like nothing is 

677
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,080
moving, I, I, I'm not growing in
my Christian life. 

678
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,920
What's wrong? 
Sometimes you have to just keep 

679
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,560
doing those things. 
You have to have patience, 

680
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,760
right? 
You have to have patience. 

681
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:01,760
The next point. 
Letter H Christian growth 

682
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,480
guarantees fruitfulness. 
Verse 8. 

683
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,120
For if these things be in you 
and abound, they make you that 

684
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,640
you shall neither be barren nor 
unfruitful in the knowledge of 

685
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,920
our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Every believer can have good 

686
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,840
fruit and blessing in this 
present life if he's willing to 

687
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,240
be diligent and seeking to grow 
in Christ. 

688
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,080
Verse #9 is our next point. 
If the believer is not growing, 

689
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,400
he's going backwards. 
And I've said this many, many, 

690
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,680
many times, if you are not going
forward, you are going 

691
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,800
backwards. 
You cannot stay in the same 

692
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,160
place. 
It's, it's, it's and use the 

693
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:33,600
example. 
If you're, if you're traveling 

694
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,560
up a river in a canoe and you 
stop, guess what's going to 

695
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,120
happen? 
You're going backwards. 

696
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,880
Oh man, I'm going backwards, 
pedal forward, right. 

697
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,600
And then you stop again. 
And what happens? 

698
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,520
You start going backward. 
You cannot stay in one spot 

699
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,240
spiritually. 
You're either going forward for 

700
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:51,880
Christ or you're going backward.
And so the question then is 

701
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,280
where are you in your in your 
spiritual walk? 

702
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:57,320
Are you closer to God today than
you ever have been? 

703
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,560
Because if you're not, if 
there's been a time when you've 

704
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,320
been closer to God, then you are
going backwards and you need to 

705
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,160
start paddling upstream again a 
little bit, right? 

706
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,880
Verse 9, He that lacketh these 
things is blind and cannot see 

707
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,440
afar off and hath forgotten that
he was purged from his old sins.

708
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,400
All right, so a believer cannot 
stand still spiritually. 

709
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,040
He can't say I'm satisfied with 
where I am, so I'll just stay at

710
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,840
this place in my Christian life.
We have to keep pressing on to 

711
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,120
higher ground or we're going to 
backslide. 

712
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,720
I'm pressing on the upward way. 
New heights, I'm gaining every 

713
00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:30,320
day, right? 
We sing that song. 

714
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,320
But are you really, Are you 
really gaining new heights every

715
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,520
day? 
Only if you're going forward on 

716
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,400
purpose. 
That's the only way that's going

717
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,640
to happen. 
And again, then a letter J 

718
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,160
backsliding makes the believer 
nearsighted and forgetful, and 

719
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:48,040
it says that very plainly. 
He that lack of these things is 

720
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,160
blind, cannot see afar off, and 
hath forgotten that he was 

721
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,960
purged from his old sins, 
becomes filled with the cares 

722
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,840
and the lusts of this world so 
that he that he does not think 

723
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,520
about eternity. 
His eyes are on man rather than 

724
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,600
on Christ. 
He forgets the important things 

725
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,600
and focuses on the unimportant 
things. 

726
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,080
Backsliding is a sad and 
unfruitful condition. 

727
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,160
And, and I'll tell you that's 
what happens with a lot of these

728
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,080
people who think they're going 
to experience that second 

729
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,600
blessing and all the sudden life
is just going to be so easy to, 

730
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,680
to live this sinlessly perfect 
life. 

731
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,120
And I can't remember. 
I think, I think it was actually

732
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,960
in this one year discipleship 
that Brother Cloud used an 

733
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:26,040
example of a, of another 
Christian that, that, I mean, 

734
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,040
it's been dead for a long time, 
but that we read often. 

735
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,000
And he, and he used that exact 
example. 

736
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,520
He decided, he determined that 
he was going to go out in the 

737
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,960
woods and he was, he was going 
to get in the word and he was 

738
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,040
going to be there until he got 
the second blessing. 

739
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,680
So he goes out in the woods and 
he was there for three or four 

740
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,480
days and he finally feel got 
what he felt like was the second

741
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,000
blessing. 
And he came back and he said, 

742
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,040
I'm going to live this sinlessly
perfect life. 

743
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,720
And it was only a matter of a 
few days before he found himself

744
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,880
tempted and falling to sin 
again. 

745
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,320
And he gave up. 
He says it's not worth it. 

746
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,160
I, I got the second blessing and
I'm still struggling with it, 

747
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,040
right. 
And then he realized, no, it's 

748
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,360
not the second blessing. 
It's a battle that I'm going to 

749
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:05,960
have to face every single day of
my life. 

750
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,640
And he came to that realization 
before he finally quit 

751
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,760
altogether. 
But that's one of the, that's 

752
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,240
one of the difficulties and one 
of the one of the one of the 

753
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,120
downsides of this, this sinless 
perfection theology. 

754
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,240
You're never going to get to 
that sinless perfection. 

755
00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:21,840
You're never going to have that,
that, that life where you're not

756
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:26,480
able to sin or able not to sin 
would be the way that they say 

757
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,960
it, right? 
You're never going to get to 

758
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,520
that point. 
So so many people that think 

759
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,880
they are either are lying to 
themselves or they get 

760
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,400
discouraged and they quit all 
together. 

761
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,440
Letter K then Christians, 
Christian growth does not save, 

762
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,160
but it does prove your 
salvation. 

763
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,680
Verse #10 where for the rather 
brethren, give diligence to make

764
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,760
your calling and election sure. 
For if you do these things, you 

765
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,840
shall never fall. 
What is the election talking 

766
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,520
about right there is that is 
that Calvinism. 

767
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:57,800
Make sure that you're one of the
elect. 

768
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,960
No, the election that he's 
talking about, there's your 

769
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,840
relationship with God. 
Make sure that your relationship

770
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,480
with God, make sure that you're 
calling. 

771
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,600
Is it? 
Give diligence to those things, 

772
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,720
right? 
Peter's challenge is the same as

773
00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:14,280
Paul's challenge in Second 
Timothy 219, as James is in 

774
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,960
James 217 and 18. 
Those who profess Christ but 

775
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,040
don't live for him have no 
biblical basis to say that 

776
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,080
they're saved. 
And again, we don't, we don't, 

777
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:28,680
we don't, we don't do good works
in order to be saved, right? 

778
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:32,160
We don't do good works in order 
to stay saved, but we do good 

779
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,760
works and we live for the Lord 
because we are saved. 

780
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,000
And that's one way that you 
prove it, right? 

781
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,160
Somebody who claims to be saved 
and nothing changes about their 

782
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,560
life. 
Nothing is different about you 

783
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,880
after you're saved. 
And you in fact, many times go 

784
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,040
the opposite direction. 
And yet they still want to claim

785
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,920
that they're saved. 
That's that's not evidence of 

786
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,560
salvation. 
There will be evidence of some 

787
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,680
of some. 
Therefore, if any man be in 

788
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,480
Christ, he is what a new 
creature finish the verse. 

789
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:05,080
Old things are passed away. 
Behold, all things are become 

790
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,040
new, right. 
That's what you see as the 

791
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,760
evidence in somebody's life who 
genuinely accepts Christ as 

792
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,080
their savior. 
And yet most people want to say,

793
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,360
oh, I prayed a prayer. 
I don't have to change my life. 

794
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,400
I'm under grace now. 
No, there ought to be something 

795
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,480
different about you. 
And you ought to want to have 

796
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,800
something different about you. 
The the idea and, and I've heard

797
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,520
it said many times, what if I 
told you that you could keep 

798
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,720
living your life exactly the 
same way that you're living your

799
00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:35,960
life and still go to heaven? 
Would you want that? 

800
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,600
Well, who wouldn't, right? 
OK, pray this prayer. 

801
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,920
And they pray the prayer. 
All right? 

802
00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,960
God promised that if you confess
with your mouth Lord Jesus and 

803
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,040
believe in your heart that God 
has raised him from the dead, 

804
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,640
you're saved. 
Go live your life however you 

805
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,920
want to. 
That's not salvation. 

806
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,840
It's not salvation. 
There is no change. 

807
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,160
There is no repentance 
whatsoever in that. 

808
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,600
There's no desire to live for 
the Lord. 

809
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,240
That's not salvation. 
Those who are saved have that 

810
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:06,840
desire. 
Christian growth doesn't save 

811
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,960
us, but it does prove that you 
are saved. 

812
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,000
And the last point there, then, 
underneath this introduction, is

813
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,240
that Christian growth does not 
produce salvation, it produces 

814
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,760
rewards. 
Verse #11 For so an entrance 

815
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,800
shall be ministered unto you 
abundantly into the everlasting 

816
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,960
Kingdom of our Lord and Savior 
Jesus Christ. 

817
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,440
Peter's not saying that by 
growing we're going to make it 

818
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,240
into heaven. 
He's saying that by growing and 

819
00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:33,880
serving, we're going to lay up 
treasures in heaven. 

820
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,880
And same thing with first 
Timothy 6. 

821
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,920
That's that's Paul's. 
I am not ready to be offered a 

822
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,800
time of my departure is at hand.
Therefore, henceforth there's 

823
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:46,840
laid up for me a crown of 
righteousness which the Lord, 

824
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:49,800
the righteous judge shall give 
me at that day. 

825
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:54,960
And not to me only, but also to 
them that unto them also that 

826
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,600
love his appearing right. 
That's what it is. 

827
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,920
It doesn't, I don't, I don't 
gain entrance into heaven 

828
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,760
because of the way that I live, 
but I can certainly earn 

829
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,400
rewards, right. 
I can certainly lay up treasures

830
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,400
in heaven because of the way 
that I live my life. 

831
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,880
And so all of these things are 
the introduction. 

832
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,400
If you want to go on to Part 2, 
you'll see exactly what I'm 

833
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,600
talking about. 
I'm not going to get into Part 2

834
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,840
tonight at all, but Christian 
growth and spiritual victory, 

835
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,480
Part 2. 
This is the all those things 

836
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:23,840
that we're talking about as an 
introduction. 

837
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,680
What is, what is spiritual 
growth? 

838
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,120
Abiding in Christ, putting off 
the old man and putting on the 

839
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,000
new. 
Confessing sin, pressing toward 

840
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,480
the mark and devouring the Word,
protecting the Word, separation 

841
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,080
from the world, separation from 
false teachers, being filled 

842
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,800
with the Spirit, establishing 
godly habits, keeping your eyes 

843
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,360
on Christ, abiding in Christ. 
Those are all things that are 

844
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,760
part of the victorious Christian
life. 

845
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:52,160
And those are all things that, 
as I mentioned, kind of came out

846
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:57,240
of that Kezik theology that 
ended up getting clouded because

847
00:42:57,240 --> 00:42:59,960
these things are things that are
principles in the Christian 

848
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:01,240
life. 
But they've they've taken out a 

849
00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:03,320
life of their own and made 
people think that you can reach 

850
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:08,280
this sinless perfection, or you 
can reach this level that's 

851
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,640
higher than everybody else's 
level where you have the ability

852
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,400
not to sin. 
But we're constantly going to 

853
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,440
face the old man. 
We're constantly going to face 

854
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,360
that old nature. 
And our job as Christians is to 

855
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:25,720
continually be growing and 
continually be moving forward so

856
00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:30,520
that we have less and less of 
the giving in to the old man and

857
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,120
more and more of the giving in 
to the new man and who Christ 

858
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,520
intended for us to be, right? 
But Christian growth is a 

859
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:42,120
process and it requires patience
and it requires diligence and 

860
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,000
all of those other things that 
the Bible mentioned there in 

861
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,680
Second Peter. 
So we're going to get into the 

862
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,160
rest of those. 
Hopefully next week we'll see 

863
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,400
what happens with the weather. 
We have every intention of doing

864
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:56,440
that next week, unless the roads
are still so bad you can't get 

865
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,240
through or the parking lot is, 
because that's always a 

866
00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:03,600
possibility, too. 
You know, once we get 6/12/18 

867
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,920
inches of snow and they start 
running by with these plows, 

868
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,440
they don't care about our lot 
and they throw it all up in here

869
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,000
and then it freezes and it's 
like, it's like trying to move 

870
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,680
boulders and you just can't, you
know? 

871
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:14,840
So anyway, we'll see. 
We'll see. 

872
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,680
Maybe we'll get Daniel and some 
of these guys out there to start

873
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:19,920
moving them. 
Yeah. 

874
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,360
Andrew Jackson. 
Alex. 

875
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:25,960
Who else? 
Brother Gary. 

876
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:27,960
No, I'm scared. 
Trey. 

877
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:29,520
Yeah. 
So. 

878
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:30,400
Yeah. 
Paul. 

879
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,720
Paul. 
So Brother Ryan. 

880
00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:35,320
Yeah, exactly. 
So we'll see. 

881
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,040
We'll see what happens. 
We'll, we'll keep you up to 

882
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:38,840
date. 
But like I said, I, I I don't 

883
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,000
think there's any chance that 
we're going to have church on 

884
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,880
Sunday. 
I'm not canceling it yet because

885
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,880
I still, I still know how wrong 
these people are. 

886
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,760
And, you know, I I don't trust 
them at all. 

887
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,200
And I'm proving it because we 
haven't canceled it yet. 

888
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,400
But yeah, it's exactly right. 
I'd, I'd take it. 

889
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,560
I would take that I saw, I mean,
there's a lot of churches that 

890
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,160
canceled on Monday and I was 
like, how do you know, you don't

891
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:06,080
have any idea Monday by Sunday 
they could be, you know, it 

892
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:07,960
could be 70 and sunny around 
here. 

893
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,960
But anyway, let's pray. 
And then what we, what we're 

894
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:17,800
going to do is, is 2 things #1 
the few guys that normally help 

895
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,320
put away the baptismal, if you 
can do that, we're going to meet

896
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,560
real quick with brother Kevin up
here in the front for everybody 

897
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,000
that's on the ACT team. 
And just kind of go over that 

898
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:29,120
incident that happened there in 
Minnesota. 

899
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,600
It was not handled correctly, I 
don't believe, by the church 

900
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,800
where Don Lemon and his whole 
group came in there. 

901
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,120
Not that Don Lemon is going to 
show up here, but it doesn't 

902
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,440
mean that somebody else couldn't
trying to to show up in protest 

903
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:44,840
and everything else. 
How do you handle that? 

904
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,400
Those are the kind of things 
that we've been talking about in

905
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,720
some of our act meetings. 
And it's not a specific act 

906
00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:52,760
meeting necessarily, but we just
want to go over a couple things 

907
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,320
and just make sure that if we do
have something like that, how do

908
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:56,760
we handle it? 
All right. 

909
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,200
Our our main thing for, for us 
is leave the doors locked. 

910
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,880
They ain't coming in if the 
doors are locked, you know, So 

911
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,560
that's why it's important all of
the everybody, OK, whether 

912
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:11,080
you're on the ACT team or not, 
if you go out and you come back 

913
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,640
in, make sure the doors locked 
behind you once the service is 

914
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,160
started already and everything 
else. 

915
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:17,040
One of the things that we're 
going to do too, and we're not 

916
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,680
going to do it tonight, but but 
here fairly soon is we're going 

917
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,160
to go over some things with 
everybody for what happens if we

918
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:30,360
have like an active shooter 
situation, you know, most of the

919
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,360
people that that are former 
members are not going to come in

920
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,640
shooting the place up, but we 
are right off the highway. 

921
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,640
We're right off of 64. 
We're right off 288, we're right

922
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,280
off 295. 
This is one of the first 

923
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,280
churches that you come to when 
you get off the highway. 

924
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,360
And if they're just looking for 
a church, this is a target. 

925
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,680
So what do you do when something
like that happens? 

926
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,320
Our first line of defense, we 
have all the cameras out there 

927
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,320
and everything else. 
And so we'll see people coming 

928
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,600
in the driveway and we leave the
doors locked until we know who 

929
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,000
it is, right? 
There's a there's a lot of that 

930
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,720
stuff too that, that that is 
preventative. 

931
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:04,920
But what happens if somebody is 
dead set on it and they blast a 

932
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,360
shotgun through the glass door 
and get in here? 

933
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:08,800
What do you do after that? 
Right? 

934
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,880
You know, we don't need 25 
people standing up and cross 

935
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,120
firing and everything else. 
So what do you do? 

936
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:17,240
That's what we're going to talk 
about. 

937
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:19,840
All right, so be be ready for 
that. 

938
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,320
That'll be coming soon. 
But everybody that's part of the

939
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,640
ACT team, if you concealed carry
or if you've been through some 

940
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,440
of the the training and been out
and and done your shooting and 

941
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:35,440
all that kind of stuff, then we 
will have a meeting down here 

942
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,640
afterwards. 
Just just quickly. 

943
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,560
All right, let's pray. 
And then I want to give you a 

944
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:41,760
quick update on the building as 
well. 

945
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,600
Father, again, we thank you so 
much for your goodness to us. 

946
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,400
Thank you for an opportunity. 
We have to be here tonight, 

947
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:45,880
President.