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Hebrews chapter 3. 
Verse 12 to 13. 

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Take care Brothers. 
Lester be in any of you. 

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An evil unbelieving heart. 
Leading you to fall away from 

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the Living God. but exhort one 
another every day, as long as it

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is called today, That none of 
you may be hardened by the 

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deceitfulness of sin. 
Growing up in Canada when we 

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move to a new house in Middle 
School. 

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Part of one of the advantages of
that was that we could now walk 

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to our school. 
But with that came, a whole new 

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level of Parental Guidance 
knowing that we were going to be

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walking back and forth. 
Every single day, my parents 

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exhorted us. 
My parents warned us and maybe 

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you've heard These Warnings to 
if you've ever walked somewhere,

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even if it was just a block son,
make sure that before you cross 

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the street, you look both ways. 
Sun, even though it's a red 

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light and you have the right of 
way to walk, make sure you look 

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both ways before you walk son, 
make sure that if there's 

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anybody even if it's somebody 
from school, a parent from 

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school, they see you walking. 
And they pull over to the side 

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and say, get in my car and come 
with me. 

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You never do it. 
Maybe you've heard these 

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exhortations as well. 
But with those exhortations was 

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the fact that we heard it almost
every single day, it was a 

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repeated warning and it almost 
became annoying, but here's the 

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reality, it worked. 
It worked. 

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Now, why would any parent warn 
their children in such a manner,

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why would any parent take it to 
themselves to warn and to exhort

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everyday for the safety of their
children? 

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Very simple. 
Because love warns. 

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Love warns. 
True. 

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Love warns. 
And in the same way, the Bible 

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rather parents warned their 
children out of love of the 

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dangers, outside of the Four 
Walls of the home. 

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In the same way, our heavenly 
father through the scriptures 

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warned his children of the 
dangers of this very world 

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because love warns Paul says in 
Colossians 128 him, we Proclaim 

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warning everyone and teaching 
everyone that we may present 

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everyone mature in Christ. 
Iced warning and teaching. 

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Why? 
Because love warns. 

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And the Bible itself does not 
just warn us directly. 

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The Bible tells us in Hebrews to
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another. 
To exhort means to strongly 

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urge. 
Or to strongly encourage someone

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to perform a certain action. 
An exhortation can take a form 

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of warning or encouragement or 
Comfort or reproof depending on 

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what circumstances being 
addressed. 

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And so it's saying here that we 
ought to exhort one another. 

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Why should we exhort one 
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Well, firstly tells us to do it 
every single day. 

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That we are to encourage and 
exhort one another day by day 

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night by night. 
You think that's exhaustive but 

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it's because of the second part 
of the verse, that explains why 

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we are to exhort one another 
every day because sin attempts 

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to deceive us every single day, 
every single day sin is on a 

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mission to deceive. 
The people of God sin is on a 

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mission to bring war against the
people of God. 

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That's why Peter says in First 
Peter 2:11 beloved, I urge you 

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as sojourners and exiles. 
To abstain from the passions of 

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the flesh, which war against 
your soul. whether you and I 

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want to believe it or not the 
passions of the flesh are at war

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with us every single day and 
because of that the author of 

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Hebrews says exhorted exhort one
another every single day lest 

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sin deceives, you and so one of 
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over sin, Is walking alongside 
with Brothers and Sisters in 

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Christ that are willing to speak
into our lives, so that our 

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hearts can remain soft towards 
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That's why you don't miss 
church. 

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It is so important to meet with 
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Another, the Gathering of the 
Brethren is vital for the 

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purpose of our sanctification. 
You hear excuses all the time. 

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All these people that think 
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Well, I don't need to go to 
church. 

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Oh, really? 
Okay, let's go with that. 

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Train of logic. 
You might not want to go to 

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church. 
You might not feel like going to

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church because you feel like you
don't need it because you read 

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your Bible every single day 
because you watch so many 

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YouTube sermons. 
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But what if somebody in the 
church needs you It's so selfish

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to think that, you know, I don't
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mean, but what if somebody in 
church needs you? 

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What if somebody's encouraged by
your presence? 

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What if somebody is encouraged 
by your words of wisdom? 

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What if somebody's encouraged by
your prayers and your worship to

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God? 
We cannot miss the Gathering of 

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the brethren for this purpose 
because it keeps our hearts 

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soft. 
And that's the very purpose of 

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this short message today, to 
lovingly warn of one specific 

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thing, the deceitfulness of sin,
The purpose of this short 

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message is this is that if there
is any sin creeping in your 

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life, that through the word of 
God, it would put it in the 

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spotlight. 
To lead us to repentance the 

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goal of this. 
Very short text is to bring us 

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to a place to identify the 
things that might be. 

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Seducing us into a certain 
lifestyle and by the grace of 

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God, we would cut it off before 
it leads us away from the Living

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God. 
How does sin deceive us? 

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If sin had a voice, what would 
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Number one, sin deceives people 
by convincing them. 

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That they can keep it in the 
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Sin deceives people by 
convincing them that they can 

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keep it in the dark sin, has 
this subtle way of trying to 

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enter into your heart and cinch 
eyes to Mesmerize you to bring 

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it in a place where it resides 
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Long enough, where you become 
hardened Where you're not soft 

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towards the things of God and 
where you're not convicted about

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the things of God anymore, where
you have no urgency for the 

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things of God anymore sin. 
Very rarely comes in a very 

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obvious way. 
No, no, it comes in a friendly 

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way, and it tries to convince 
you that you can actually hide 

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it from people. 
It convinces you to say you can 

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be one way in church and you can
be a completely different person

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at one in the morning in your 
bedroom and you could be a 

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completely different person at 
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And you can keep those different
Lifestyles and their respective 

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circumstances and environments 
and nobody will know about it, 

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send deceives you and saying, 
yeah, you can look at that on 

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your phone because you can just 
delete the history. 

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Yeah, you can look at that on 
your computer because you have 

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the ability to just delete off 
your browser. 

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Oh yeah. 
You can talk like that about 

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somebody because it's just 
between you and another person 

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sin deceives, you and convincing
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That you can keep it in the 
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But here's the reality. 
You may be able to fool your 

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friends. 
You may be able to fool your 

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husband, you may be able to fool
your wife, you may be able to 

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fool, even your spiritual 
leaders, but there's one person 

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you cannot fool, and his name is
Jesus Christ. 

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Oh, you can't fool him because 
he sees everything and he hears 

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everything. 
You better believe it. 

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When you're in your car by 
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car with you. 
Jesus Christ, when you're on the

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phone with somebody you know 
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Jesus Christ, when you're 
talking in that room when nobody

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else is in the room, you know, 
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Jesus Christ. 
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Who said in Genesis, 39 9. 
When Potiphar's wife was 

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seducing him and he could have 
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long time. 
This young man had this 

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Revelation that so many 
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Do not have. 
How can I send? 

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This is exceedingly. 
Great wickedness against my God.

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Joseph knew that though. 
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anybody else in that house. 
There was somebody in the house 

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God almighty. 
And the Numbers Chapter 12, we 

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see Miriam and Aaron speaking 
against their brother speaking 

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against his wife and speaking 
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And at the end of verse 2, there
are these four crucial words 

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that changed the whole scenario 
as they're gossiping as they're 

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speaking against the man of God.
It says this and the Lord heard 

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it, five words. 
And the Lord heard it. 

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And so this is a truth that you 
and I must rehearse every single

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day. 
God sees me and God hears me. 

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Send deceives by trying to 
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they can keep it in the dark. 
Secondly, sin deceives by 

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attempting to convince people 
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There's a story of this circus 
trainer who for years, would 

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entertain people by bringing a 
line into a cage and walking 

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into that cage with it and doing
all these tricks and arousing it

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and getting it to Roar and to 
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He's been doing it for years, 
it's all. 

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Although this thing was a lion 
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It's co-worker. 
And people would come in by the 

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droves to watch this man. 
Perform these tricks with this 

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lion. 
And day in and day out. 

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This is how he made his money 
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It would perform well. 
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This circus trainer comes in 
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And he performs these tricks 
with this lion and all for a 

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sudden without any warning, this
line that he has trained with 

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for years on end suddenly 
pounces upon this circus trainer

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and grabs him by the neck and 
dragged him around that cage, 

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until he lost all his blood. 
What he thought that he could 

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tame eventually turned on him. 
And so many people treat their 

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sin the same way, they think 
that if they can just tame it if

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they can train it that it won't 
get out of control and they can 

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just go on with their life 
without any consequences. 

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But you better believe. 
That the wages of sin is death. 

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You better understand. 
That though you might have had 

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that habit in your life. 
I'm talking about his habitual, 

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so we're not talking about 
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So we're talking about habitual 
sin, you might have kept that 

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sin in your life for a long time
and not have seen any 

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consequences, but it's coming. 
Oh, it's coming. 

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You just give it time and it 
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So many people who are habitual 
liars and because they've told 

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white lies our whole life think 
that they can continue to lie 

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without any problem and get away
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And I myself have heard stories 
of people who have brought that 

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lying habit into their 
workplace. 

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And when they brought it to the 
workplace and attempted to use 

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it, they've been exposed by 
high-profile bosses and almost 

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lost their jobs because they 
thought they can get away with a

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certain responsibility by lying.
There are those who gossip even 

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within the church and they come 
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and spread their venom in their 
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And they think that, as long as 
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doesn't affect the entire 
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But what they don't realize is, 
they're only building 

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themselves, a reputation of 
others to see how untrustworthy 

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they are. 
And here's a just a little side 

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note. 
If the people you talk to gossip

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with you, they most likely 
gossip about you. 

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Just keep that in mind next 
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And there are those. 
Who are married? 

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Married man, and married woman. 
We're entertaining thoughts and 

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moving towards flirting. 
And being inappropriate with the

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opposite gender, because they 
want to try to fulfill a little 

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fantasy in their minds. 
When they don't realize that 

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they're being unfaithful. 
And here's a strong Godly 

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warning. 
That little fantasy that you 

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want to try to see come to pass,
will turn into a nightmare 

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before you know it. 
Bible says in Hebrews 13:4, let 

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marriage be held in honor among 
all and the marriage bed be 

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undefiled for God will judge the
sexually immoral and adulterous 

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Sin has its consequences. 
But sin tries to deceive you 

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thinking, there's no 
consequences in fact. 

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It tries to convince people that
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better and worth the 
consequences. 

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No, this people of God, the 
consequences of sin last way 

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longer than the pleasure it 
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Lastly. 
Sin deceives people and 

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convincing them that they cannot
have power over it. 

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There are genuine people with a 
genuine sin in their life and 

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they have given up on trying to 
fight that sin because they feel

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and they've been convinced that 
sin has too much power over them

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and people even verbalize this 
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this is just a part of who I am.
This is just something that I'm 

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just going to have to live with.
I'm not going to pursue Purity 

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anymore as a single young, man. 
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faithfulness anymore. 
I'm not. 

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Pursue pure speech. 
I'm not going to pursue this. 

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I'm not going to pursue Holiness
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this is who I am, maybe it's 
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something that I inherited, 
maybe some of them just have to 

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live with the rest of my life. 
That is a Lie from the pit of 

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Hell. 
That is a lie straight from the 

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mouth of Satan himself that you 
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The only way that you can not 
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you're not a Christian. 
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of the spirit of God, know this,
that Jesus Christ did not just 

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die for the penalty of your sin.
He died for you to have the 

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power over it. 
That's the gospel, that's 

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salvation, not that he just 
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of your sin. 
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you can have power over it in 
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And sin says, no, no. 
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me for the rest of your days. 
When the Bible says, in First 

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Peter 2:24, he himself bore our 
sins in his body on the tree 

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that we may die to sin and live 
to righteousness. 

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By stripes we have been healed 
It is Romans 8:13 that we must 

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put this finger on and claim the
promise of that those who live 

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according to the flesh shall 
die. 

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But by the spirit, You can put 
the death, the Deeds of the body

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and live. 
By the spirit, God has given us 

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every resource possible to 
ensure consistent victory over 

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sin. 
That's a promise. 

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That's not something we just 
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something that we can 
experience, don't believe the 

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lie of sin. 
Don't believe the flesh. 

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That tells you that you can stay
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You can stay defeated, you can 
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You can stay with those 
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Believe the word of God. 
Saturate yourself with the 

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scriptures call Upon Jesus. 
To give you the Holy Spirit and 

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he'll do it. 
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By trying to whisper to you, you
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dark, nobody needs to know about
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Send the Seas were saying, you 
know, you can keep me. 

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You can tame me, you can train 
me and nothing will get out of 

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hand. 
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You know what you're stuck with 
me for the rest of your life. 

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But know this. 
That God's word, triumphs over 

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every lie and we cling to the 
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Exhort one, another daily. 
Lest you be deceived by sin. 

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Here's what we're going to do. 
We're going to respond right 

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now. 
If there's any area in your 

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life, the Holy Spirit through 
his word has pressed his finger 

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upon. 
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service. 
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For some of you maybe God has 
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time. 
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the first time? 
Regardless know this you must 

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respond. 
This is an extension of Mercy. 

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The Bible says this in Proverbs 
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conceals his transgression will 
not prosper. 

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But he who confesses and 
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Stop trying to hide it. 
Stop trying to bury it, it will 

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come out some way some time, but
if you confess it and forsake it

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know this, there is Mercy at the
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his mercy. 
God wants to extend forgiveness,

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but it requires confession. 
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You must confess it. 
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faithful and just to forgive us.
Our trespasses and to cleanse us

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from all unrighteousness. 
If we confess our sins, it must 

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be done in confession before God
can move in and do something 

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bow. 
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And just right now in your own 
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communion today, before we even 
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message, another message by 
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There's no rush here. 
Ask the Lord to do something in 

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your heart. 
Humble yourself before the 

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mighty hand of God and he will 
exalt you. 

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Ask the Lord to remove that sin 
in your life that you've been 

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trying to hide conceal. 
For the next few moments, no 

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music, no distractions, just 
between you and God. 

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I would encourage you to pray 
what David prayed in Psalms 8611

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teach me to know your truth that
I may walk in your ways. 

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O Lord and unite My Heart To 
Fear your name. 

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May we ask the Lord for the fear
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forgiveness, may we ask the 
Lord, not just for those things,

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but for the power to overcome, 
any sin and every sin, claim his

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promises in the next few moments
and seek Him, ask him to change 

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you before you walk out of these
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He's faithful to respond. 
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As a family as a body have you 
as you've instructed us to 

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exhort one another every day? 
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deception found in sin? 
Father, we pray that we would 

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not be deceived. 
You would keep our hearts soft. 

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We pray for the fear of the 
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The fear of the Lord is the 
beginning of wisdom, there is no

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wisdom apart from the fear of 
the Lord, as being the beginning

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of it. 
Help us understand the fear of 

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the Lord is a Fountain of Life 
help us understand that the fear

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of the Lord is the hatred of 
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Help us understand that, those 
who fear the lord are to you at 

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the light. 
Give us a hatred for sin and 

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wickedness. 
Give us the ability. 

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To exhort one another to 
encourage one another to run 

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this race and help us understand
that even in your rebukes and in

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your warnings just like a loving
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Would you do it out of love? 
Because you care for us and, you

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know, the dangers that come with
the things that might try to 

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attract us. 
You know how we are easily 

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forgettable? 
Concerning the dangers that 

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await us, that there is an 
adversary of our souls that, 

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there's this flesh, that tries 
to convince us. 

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Otherwise, And so, father, we 
pray. 

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That you would have heard the 
confessions, in the hearts of 

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the people, and that you would 
empower the people to live holy 

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before a holy God. 
And Lord, let us leave here with

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this Revelation that you are a 
God that sees, you are a God 

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that hears and we respond to 
that and reverence. 

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In your name we pray. 
Amen. 

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In your name we pray. 
Amen.