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Good morning, hope you rested 
well without wasting any 

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fraction of time. 
Let's open our Bibles to The 

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Gospel. 
According to Matthew in chapter 

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24, Matthew chapter 24. 
And if you get there, please 

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meet me in. 
Verse 3, Matthew 24 verse 3. 

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And our brother just prayed, but
we're going to pray one more 

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time and ask the Lord to help us
with the scriptures. 

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I'm reminded in Luke 24 that 
when Jesus met with his 

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disciples and his resurrection. 
It says that he opened their 

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minds to understand the 
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And so even in understanding the
scriptures we need an 

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intervention from the Lord for 
the sake of comprehension and 

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for application. 
And so that's what we're going 

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to ask the Lord to do, okay? 
You might be a little weary this

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morning, I heard some footsteps 
running around and this in the 

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halls and stuff, so I get it. 
Conference but we need God's 

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help. 
Lord. 

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We ask you this morning, 
grateful for your common Grace 

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in the weather and the sun in 
our energy. 

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Thank you for soundness of mind.
Thank you for the energy in our 

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bodies though. 
We pray as you have shown Us in 

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the scriptures that we are 
dependent upon you to open our 

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minds. 
But Lord, our minds are not. 

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The only thing that we ask for. 
We ask that our hearts would 

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burn within us as your 
scriptures are And as we hear 

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the word of the Living God that 
we would sense the warmth and 

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the Embrace of your wisdom of 
your affection of your grace and

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mercy, Lord just apprehend all 
intrusion and dominate and every

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faculty of our being in Jesus 
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Amen. 
Matthew 24:3, I hope you're 

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there. 
This chapter Matthew. 

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According to these words, here, 
we see with Matthew chapter, 25 

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is known as something as the 
Olivet discourse, here's Jesus 

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speaking on the Mount of Olives,
about a particular subject and 

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the theme really of this 
discourse is centered around the

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second coming of the Lord Jesus 
Christ and the events that will 

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precede it and more specifically
this Lengthy teaching from Jesus

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is a response to the inquiry of 
his disciples who were 

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wondering, when will these 
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What will be the sign of your 
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It was a question based on what 
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destruction of Jerusalem. 
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is that when these disciples 
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the lengthy ascensor to any 
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Yes. 
In other words, if you want to 

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leave longest answer that Jesus 
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gospels here it is, which is 
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Because that informs me, at 
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necessary to give us in. 
Great detail, the events that 

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would lead to his triumphant 
return and Christ found it 

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absolutely necessary to give 
certain exhortations around 

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that. 
Climactic event. 

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This is important to the Lord. 
But instead of dedicating this 

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entire weekend to explaining the
events that will lead to his 

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return instead of explaining 
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them, I believe it will be of 
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If we simply focus on one 
particular warning, in this 

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prophetic Masterpiece and the 
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on is found here in verse 3 and 
verse 4. 

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As he said on the Mount of 
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him, privately saying, tell us, 
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these things be and what will be
the sign of your coming and of 

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the end of the age and Jesus 
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See that? 
No one leads. 

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You astray. 
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What will be the things? 
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evident the things to look for. 
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Christ. 
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common answers are the things 
that Jesus says, after verse for

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natural disasters, the increase 
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degradation. 
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and religious activity as a sign
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But how often is it that you 
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How often is it? 
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that the very first thing that 
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sign that he starts off with has
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intensification of deception. 
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teaching, with warning his 
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lead up to that climactic event.
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profuse deception. 
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It will be powerful. 
It will be magnetic, it will be 

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so strong that even Jesus, if 
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deceived And what's amazing here
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warning, Jesus is not giving it 
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He is giving it as an 
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Urgent warning. 
My people understand there will 

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be an unleashing of seducing 
spirits that can even numb the 

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minds and persuade the hearts of
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As Lord. 
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Jesus to just say that 
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But he repeats it in different 
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A total of three times in the 
same teaching, You there in 

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Matthew 24 verse 4, but come 
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Jesus says again and many false 
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Many astray, Matthew 24, verse 
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prophets will arise and perform 
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So, as to lead astray Eve, Eve 
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Even the elect It's fascinating.
How Jesus does not repeat about 

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fires about floods about riots 
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The thing that our Lord puts an 
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People will be duped? 
Hoodwinked, persuaded into 

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falsehood about the most 
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And that is the truth about who 
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Now we see here that Jesus is 
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His people and whether you 
believe that Jesus is speaking 

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to the group of Christians, who 
will be there during the 

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tribulation or not. 
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emphatically. 
Clear throughout the Bible and 

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it is this that it is very 
possible for those who profess 

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to follow Jesus Christ to fall 
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You can't debate that or else we
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scissors and cut out and cut out
something almost in at least 

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every epistle. 
And as we are racing toward the 

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culmination of the age, as we're
racing towards the closing 

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chapters of History. 
I'm just curious to know and the

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past two years. 
How many here have said out of 

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their lips? 
We're living in the last days, 

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just lift your hand, with only 
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how many people have been told 
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Has anybody said to, you were 
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We are living in the last days. 
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significant necessarily 
happened, but because since the 

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book of Acts, we've been living 
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And if we're living in the last 
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the last days. 
Then surely we are coming to the

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closing minutes of History. 
And Jesus said here deception in

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the last days as we come closer 
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open and a glorious resurrected.
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deception will be more severe 
and will be more serious than at

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any time in history with the 
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and natural disasters. 
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also false narratives false, 
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this A weekend is dedicated to 
understanding deception. 

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And by the end of this weekend, 
I hope you make it here till 

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Sunday morning, because we're 
ending this for you to leave 

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here equipped with the word of 
God, to know how to be deception

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proof forever. 
How to be deception proof 

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forever, because the Bible is 
sure is, is that you can live a 

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life where you do not have to 
fear being, tricked, or lie to 

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God, did not leave us to 
ourselves, God has given us 

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everything that we need to know 
so that we can continually walk 

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in the fullness of his light and
revelation. 

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The seat, the seat is any 
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which deliberately intend to 
make people believe that 

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something is not true. 
Anything and words are action 

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that has the agenda that has the
motivation to try to make you 

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believe something. 
Not to be true. 

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I'm not sure if you've been a 
victim of deception, I'm not 

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sure. 
If you've been told by someone 

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about something only to find out
later that they were 

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intentionally with a selfish 
agenda trying to lure you 

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astray, but it is one of the 
most humiliating and frustrating

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or deals that you can undergo. 
The feeling of being lied to, to

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the point where you invest your 
emotions and judgments and 

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decisions into something only to
find out later that someone was 

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was not telling the truth, can 
be a devastating experience. 

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And here's the thing about 
deception, At best, you can be 

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embarrassed. 
You can be embarrassed because 

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when the truth of a matter comes
out, you realize that your 

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discernment was not was not 
operating at worst deception can

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be destructive. 
And what you have is, people who

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can hurt themselves. 
Or who can wound others with 

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irreversible consequences? 
Deception is scary. 

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The reason why deception is 
scary is because people who are 

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deceived, don't know it. 
Deception is not like sin. 

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What do I mean by that? 
When people send sometimes they 

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can look at send, they know it's
wrong and they do it anyway. 

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Deception is not looking at 
something wrong and doing it 

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because you think it's going to 
advance some personal desire or 

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satisfying in a certain way, 
deception is looking at 

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something that is wrong and 
thinking it's right. 

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And then applying it to your 
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We have a duty because Jesus 
said these things will come. 

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And he will come embodied as 
truth to make everything Ryan to

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expose all falsehood. 
But until then, he leaves the 

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responsibility up to us every 
single person in here has a 

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responsibility. 
To operate in discernment so 

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that they would not be deceived 
in any way in any way. 

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What I'm speaking to you about 
this weekend is not just 

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deception about certain 
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I'm talking about deception, In 
anyway, here's my question. 

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How does the New Testament? 
Clearly warned Christians. 

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Do not be deceived. 
I'm not speaking about how the 

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New Testament warns, how the 
world is deceived, or how the 

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world can be deceived. 
How does the Bible look in the 

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face of Believers and say do not
be deceived, the warnings are 

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numerous overwhelming and we're 
not going to cover every single 

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warning but I hope that this 
weekend would stir you on a 

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personal journey. 
And that Journey would be for 

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you to go home and to look at 
every single warning in the New 

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Testament is What the holy 
spirit says, be careful about so

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that you'd be fully equipped and
assured that you are indeed 

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walking in the light. 
And so this is not going to be a

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complete thing, it's not going 
to be an exhaustive thing but 

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they'll be enough for you to 
understand that the scriptures 

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are loud and clear with a very 
familiar phrase to believers, do

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not be deceived. 
Let me say something before we 

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begin and dive in. 
The motive behind this is that 

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you would know great joy and 
great Assurance in the Lord. 

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But for some, this can be a very
disturbing weekend. 

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At least initially. 
And I want to tell you why meet 

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with me and First Corinthians 
15:34 I want you to see what 

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Paul says to the Corinthians in 
this one. 

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Simple verse and 1st Corinthians
15:34. 

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We read wake up. 
Paul says in the ESV, wake up 

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from your drunken stupor as is 
right and do not go on sinning 

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for some have no knowledge of 
God I say this to your shame. 

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The two words that start. 
This verse off, wake the initial

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context, the initial meeting 
means be sober-minded be free 

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from the intoxicating influence 
of a certain substance and the 

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substance that Paul is speaking 
about is actually in verse 33 

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with the first four words of 
that verse. 

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What does he say in verse 33? 
Do not be deceived. 

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Do not be deceived. 
In other words, deception was 

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the very thing that was 
inebriating the Corinthian 

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Church. 
And what's amazing here is that 

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he says, I need you to wake up 
because you are not aware of 

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what is overtaking, your 
judgment. 

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You are not aware of your own 
Consciousness that the looming 

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dangers around, you are 
presenting themselves as. 

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And I'm sure most of us in here,
have known the unpleasant 

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experience of being suddenly 
awakened from sambar. 

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Some of you experienced that 
this morning, You can be an 

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alarm clock. 
It can be a creative roommate. 

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It's rarely a joyful thing to 
have our sleep interrupted at 

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least in the beginning. 
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because we become comfortable. 
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we become numb when we are under
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that looking at something wrong 
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anyway. 
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something that is wrong and 
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something that is untrue, but 
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It's the right thing. 
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conviction. 
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friends, you Now, invite people 
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the same as you do. 
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that and they make a career out 
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ideology because it become so 
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truce, believing something to be
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Believing something to be God. 
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holding hands with others who 
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up your head of the wrong way. 
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that's That's disturbing to some
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initially feel like that You may
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When he would crash into my room
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creative in the way you would 
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that he can do to make sure that
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that I needed to be somewhere. 
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I want you to hear every message
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As jolting as it may be as 
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it may be with a heart of love 
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somewhere. 
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something. 
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Much and God loves you too much.
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clouded by the fog of your own 
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somebody else who walked into 
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that God did not say so. 
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start with something and 
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That is very known to Christians
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already interest rates go to 
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here's a phrase that you're 
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Most of this weekend do not be 
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that a lot or do not deceive 
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heart be deceived. 
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hear over and over again. 
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first time in our weekend 
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First Corinthians 6:9-10 Paul 
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not know that the unrighteous 
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God? 
Do not be deceived, neither the 

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sexually immoral, nor idolaters 
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practice, homosexuality, nor 
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drunkards, nor revilers nor 
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this that he was disturbed by 
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This church was extremely gifted
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that there was sinful Behavior 
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that was condoned with little to
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for repentance. 
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Paul and Paul as a faithful 
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church. 
Search and would have this 

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letter read publicly to say, I'm
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church and I'm concerned about 
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And so, I need a call out and 
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So before he lists, this catalog
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that must have been going on. 
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and lovingly says, oh, do not be
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Now, why would he say that the 
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because then and even today 
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persuasion within the four walls
of the church were consistently 

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attending meetings, who believe 
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way that the Bible condemns and 
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and hated wickedness but stumble
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I'm speaking about those Who 
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And have no heartfelt desire. 
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Jesus Christ. 
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his moral Majesty, this is a 
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And before we go on to this, 
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you're going to see, we're going
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a moment. 
I want you to see a, the best 

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illustrations for sermons is in 
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If you want an illustration book
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go to the Old Testament. 
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picture that would be branded in
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understand what this looks like 
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One of the most infamous scenes 
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history has to do with a golden 
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Moses is up there on the 
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Revelation for the sequential 
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Israel, and the people get 
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impatient that they asked Aaron 
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them an idol. 
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resistance and what I want you 
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this Idol is created and Builds 
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I want you to see it in your own
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It's an exodus 32 verse 5. 
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notice how it translates to the 
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When Aaron saw this, he built an
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And Aaron made Proclamation and 
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to the Lord. 
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that every time tomorrow. 
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they're salivating at the mouth 
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Idol not that they can see that 
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them and Aaron looks to them and
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feast to the Lord capital L ORD 
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even verbally, they're declaring
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true God, they are proclaiming 
even in verse 4 that God had 

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delivered them from Egypt, but 
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an idol. 
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There's Proclamation there's 
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the truth that they're 
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The truth that they are serving 
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actuality they are standing 
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It's just like mind-numbing 
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This is like when you step 
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even real? 
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even today. 
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these people including Aaron In 
their idolatry did not try to 

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reject God. 
They had no intention of 

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removing the true God from their
worship from their vocabulary 

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from their Doctrine. 
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knew what he's done, he 
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why the golden calf. 
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replaced. 
The true God at least in their 

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understanding. 
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worship the true God through the
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Well, let's translate it today. 
You have people today, who claim

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the name of Jesus? 
You have people today who know 

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what he is done. 
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say that they worship him, all 
the while they're actually 

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worshipping an idol. 
I think about that. 

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You can live your entire 
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Believing proclaiming declaring 
even surrounding yourself with 

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others that you are for the 
truth. 

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All the while You've been bowing
before an idol. 

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Sobering. 
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concerned about with this 
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conduct was contradictory. 
So he writes out not to a 

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secular school system, not to 
the White House. 

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He writes to God's house Do not 
be deceived and he begins to 

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list a catalog of sins, the 
tolerance of unrepentant sin 

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while claiming relationship to 
Jesus is truer now than it ever 

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has been. 
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especially with a certain sense 
in which I'm sure you can guess 

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the unnatural practice of 
homosexual, Passions. 

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Pastor Daniel Bennett preached 
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last week. 
So I'm not going to spend too 

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much time on this, but we're not
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I'm not sure what you believe. 
I'm not sure what your church 

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believes, but I have a duty to 
tell you this. 

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I'm highlighting homosexuality, 
not because it's the only sin 

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but it's the only sin that I 
know of that has an entire month

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dedicated to its celebration if 
you know of an adultery month if

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you know of an anger month, let 
me know. 

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I will gladly speak on it. 
I don't know of anything. 

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I don't know if anything except 
for a month that is dedicated to

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celebrating propagating 
praising, what the Bible calls 

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an abomination. 
Remember the jolt thing from the

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the Sleep? 
Remember that? 

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Hold on to that. 
Because of the aggressive 

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Applause behind homosexuality. 
It is the church's Duty and 

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responsibility to address it 
with absolute Clarity for that 

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is the only solution to the 
desensitization that is coming 

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Upon Our Generation, including 
the generation of those who 

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claim to follow, Jesus Christ. 
Again, I don't know what you 

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believe, I don't know what your 
church believes, but the word of

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God is clear that this practice 
of homosexual Behavior, whether 

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it's monogamous, which is really
the case. 

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Or whether it is a lifestyle 
that is free. 

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This idea of sexual Liberation, 
it's sin. 

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It's in the Bible, condemns it, 
and those who live in it, with 

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no desire to be saved from it 
with no desire to be redeemed 

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from it. 
Listen will not inherit eternal 

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life, not that Jesus cannot save
them, he can saving this gospel.

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So powerful, it can save anyone.
But those who believe they can 

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Embrace this lifestyle and still
claim the Savior at the same 

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time. 
Don't just have a different 

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opinion. 
They are strongly deceived. now 

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if you're a professing Christian
who believes otherwise if you're

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someone in this place who has 
friends or family that do live 

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in are part of that community, 
or maybe you're somebody in here

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who struggles with those 
Passions, May be publicly may be

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privately. 
But you're justifying it because

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your conception of Jesus affirms
unit. 

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Again, I need to let you know 
that your emotions have duped, 

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you Your emotions have tricked. 
You your conscience is in 

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darkness and any tolerance in 
the name of compassion that we 

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might think we are showing to 
others by accepting them the way

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they are. 
And that's in is only a 

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contribution to cementing them 
in their deception. 

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Be very careful believers. 
Homosexuality is one of the 

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strongest expressions of self 
worship. 

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It is a detrimental assault on 
the flourishing of any 

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civilization. 
You want to study world history 

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and know why some Empires rise 
and fall. 

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Do you want to know one of the 
major contributions to that 

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homosexuality? 
Homosexuality is one of the 

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major contributions to 
civilizations cracking and 

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crumbling to fine powder. 
It dismantles, the family 

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function. 
While sabotaging the natural 

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order of reproduction. 
And if you think about on a 

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deeper level it distorts the 
message of the Gospel that God 

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seeks to powerfully display and 
something that he is created 

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called marriage but only in a 
marriage between a man and a 

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woman. 
This message is not about 

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homosexuality. 
I just need to address this in 

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passing, but let me also say 
this, that the Christian 

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solution to homosexuality is not
calling people to be straight. 

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The Christian solution is to 
call people to surrender to 

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their maker. 
And to come to Christ, who has 

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the supernatural ability to 
reshape their identity to such a

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degree that it can even 
influence their sexuality and he

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can mold them and shape them to 
such a point where their desires

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triumph over their flesh and 
their and their lust, and their 

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longings and their fantasies and
check this out. 

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He doesn't not in a way where 
you're forced to be molded into 

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something, your molded into the 
way you were. 

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So you are now in the fullness 
of joy, this comes with a joy, 

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this comes with delight, this 
comes with your intended, 

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purpose by God, that can only 
come through the blood of Jesus 

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Christ. 
And so I want to let you know, 

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if you know somebody, or if you 
are somebody that is in this and

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you have been comforted because 
there are parades about this and

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then and your celebrities love 
this and they praised its your 

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politicians. 
Our ones who are applauding 

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this. 
Listen shake out of it, shake 

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out of and realize God's 
intended design for your life 

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and realize that the way to it 
is not behavioral modification. 

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It's to come to the foot of the 
cross. 

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Because Christ sees you in that 
and he does not Reserve his 

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grace. 
And mercy. 

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He longs to extend it and to 
make you into a testimony. 

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Listen, I know people who have 
been saved from this and I 

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cannot hold back. 
I'm not ashamed of the gospel, 

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because I've seen its power. 
I've seen its power And so, take

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that into heart, take that into 
consideration but notice 

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something because this message 
isn't about homosexual. 

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I look back at this list and 
First Corinthians 6, 9 and 10, 

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Notice that as we come to these 
verses, there are interesting 

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things that are brought up and I
want to bring something to your 

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attention. 
Don't mind the buzzing we're 

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trying, something new, I guess. 
In First Corinthians, 6:9 and 

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10. 
As you read this list, what 

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you'll notice is that there are 
different things that Paul 

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brings up. 
And one thing in the ESV that I 

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find quite interesting in verse 
10 nor thieves nor what's the 

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other one. 
The greedy, the greedy greed 

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greed is mentioned on this list.
Now, think about that for a 

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moment because Paul is saying 
something quite insightful, 

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greed, those who are greedy will
not inherit the Kingdom of 

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Heaven. 
How would I read that? 

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I thought to myself, I 
understand adultery. 

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I Anderson idolatry I understand
thievery. 

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Agreed. 
Another translation is the word 

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Covetous. 
What does it mean? 

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No matter what English word you 
use? 

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If you're faithful to the 
original, this is the simple 

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understanding of it. 
Those who have a desire for 

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something or someone that does 
not belong to them, will not 

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inherit heaven. 
Those who have a desire for 

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something, or someone that does 
not belong to them, will not 

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inherit Heaven. 
That's exactly what this word 

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means. 
It's extremely sobering, but 

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that's the point. 
You wondering, is that really a 

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sin? 
And I say yes, it's a sin 

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according to the Bible. 
So serious that it will bar 

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people from even having eternal 
life and if you want to know the

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essence of that send really 
behind it, it's telling God I I 

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am frustrated with your 
providential leading in my life.

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I hate how you have led my life,
I despise where I am today, and 

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since you're the one who claims 
to have control over what I 

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have, and what I experienced, I 
hate you. 

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If it was up to me, this is what
I would have. 

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And so it's really an assault on
the sovereignty of God, that's 

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the essence behind it. 
And Paul says, shockingly those 

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who are greedy. 
Now, listen, This is this is 

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something that might jolt us 
because as somebody cleverly 

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said, greed is in that category 
of respectable sins. 

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Respectable sins. 
So it's not so flagrant, it's 

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not so obvious, it's not so 
gross. 

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It's like, it's like a classy 
sin, right? 

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It's a sin that doesn't really 
disturb others. 

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It's a sin that's just internal.
It's a sin, that doesn't cause 

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much destruction. 
And yet the holy spirit says, 

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the greedy will not inherit the 
Kingdom of Heaven. 

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How many of us would ever think 
that somebody who's not a 

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homosexual, somebody who's not 
an adulterous, somebody's not an

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idolatry. 
But at the same time is consumed

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with greed is just as much in 
need to be radically born again 

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than any of the other ones. 
The reason why I'm bringing this

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to your attention. 
Is because we don't see sin the 

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way God sees sin. 
This is what I'm trying to bring

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to us. 
The reason why is because by 

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default we do not perceive sin, 
the way God does. 

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And my friends, that is one of 
the strongest way to invite 

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deception into our lives. let me
say this way, when we don't have

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a trusting view of the world, by
having the lens of God's 

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holiness ever before us, then 
our perception of life becomes 

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blurred to the point where Meek 
we make dangerous judgments 

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about everything including sin 
sin in our own lives sin, in the

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lives of other people. 
And so we see here that this is 

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an example of how God has a very
different standard of Holiness 

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than you. 
And I can, I give you an example

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in the Bible that will challenge
Us in that when you make the 

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word association between David, 
the king of Israel and sin. 

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What comes to mind Bathsheba? 
Bathsheba adultery. 

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And further than that murder, he
killed her husband to have her 

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to try to cover his sin. 
And that was a sin. 

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That was a severe sin. 
That was a sin that God sent the

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Prophet by the name of Nathan to
confront David about. 

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And I want you to see how the 
Bible words. 

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David's, confession. 
David and second Samuel, 12, 13,

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and second, Samuel 12, 13 David 
said to Nathan. 

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I have sinned against the I have
sinned against the Lord, and 

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Nathan said to David, the Lord 
also has put away your sin, you 

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shall not die. 
He confessed. 

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It wonderful. 
Beautiful much different than 

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Saul but here's what's amazing. 
When David confessed, there were

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still consequences, right? 
And the major consequence to his

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sin is that four of his sons 
would die for of his sons would 

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die in the reason why, for of 
his sons would die is because 

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when Nathan came with a parable,
a very clever Parable to bring 

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David to make a judgment in 
that, Parable, he actually 

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pronounced judgment on himself 
and that's another study for 

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another time. 
So, God took him at his word and

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the standard by, which he judge,
which Jesus told us will be 

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brought upon us. 
And so for of his sons died, Now

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here's the thing there is 
another episode in David's life 

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where you can say, he had a 
major downfall. 

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It was much later than this 
moment and for some reason it's 

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not usually in the association 
when we make sin and David 

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brought together in the same 
thought. 

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And what we see in that 
confession, because David 

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confesses, which is a wonderful 
example by David he sinned yet. 

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He was a man after God's heart 
and one of the reasons because 

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he confessed his sin 
continually, sincerely, he 

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repented of it when he was 
caught in it. 

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And even before he was caught in
it. 

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In some cases, listen to this. 
You go down a few years later 

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from David's Infamous sin with 
Bathsheba, you go to chapter 24 

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in the same book and look at 
verse 10 and I want you to see 

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how David words, his confession 
there. 

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And second Samuel, 24 10 but 
David's heart struck him a firt 

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after he numbered the people. 
So what does David do? 

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As a king he calls out for a 
census and the nation of Israel 

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and he asked his men to number 
the the Army, the strength of 

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his army. 
And after he does this, even 

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though joab pleaded with him. 
Listen, King David, you don't 

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want to do this. 
Now that's strange to us like 

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what's the big deal of counting 
numbers? 

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God has a whole book called 
numbers. 

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God is not against numbers. 
If we have this idea that God 

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cares doesn't care about 
numbers. 

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Go to the book of Acts, he 
numbers, the amount of people 

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who are saved, God, is is for 
numbers calculating. 

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But the way David deida did it 
his motives were in pure, they 

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were Unholy, he was trying to 
publicly Flex his strength. 

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His military might in defiance 
of the dependency that he was 

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called to have in God and more 
than that, you read, Exodus 30, 

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David didn't do the senses, the 
way the Old Testament told the 

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nation to do a census. 
So he he does this and then he's

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pricked in the heart he's 
convicted and then it says here 

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in the second part, in David 
said to the Lord I have sinned 

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greatly and what I have done but
now O Lord please take away the 

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iniquity of your servant for I 
have done. 

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Very foolishly Did you notice 
it? 

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when David was confronted about 
his sin with Bathsheba, he said 

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I have what sin When he was 
confronted for numbering the 

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nation. 
I have sinned greatly. 

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And what I have done. 
Greatly and then he adds to it 

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at the end, I have done very 
foolishly. 

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David was a New Covenant 
believer in Old Testament time. 

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You see that in so many of the 
things that he says, and does. 

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And he was one of those 
examples, David saw his sin of 

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pride and arrogance. 
As a greater offense. 

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Than the sin of adultery and 
murder. how many of us have were

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honest with say that we can 
contrast those two things and 

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say that they are in the same 
category or ones more intense 

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than than the other we would say
the adultery in the murderer is 

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David. 
I have sinned greatly against 

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the Lord. 
And here's what shocking maybe 

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God actually agreed with that. 
Because the consequence of this 

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sin was not for of his sons 
dying. 

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You read in the same chapter you
know how many people died 

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because of the sin 70,000? 
70,000 people died as a result 

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of David's sin as a leader over 
God's people. 

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Apparently, the Lord agreed with
David. 

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But what our judgement be the 
same as gods. when we actually 

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say that was a great sin David 
for what you did, I don't think 

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we would and maybe we need 
another example to widen our 

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understanding from the New 
Testament cuz when you bring up 

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Old Testament you have some 
people that's the Old Testament 

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brother. 
Okay. 

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Let's go to the New Testament. 
Let me show you a man who sinned

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three different times on three 
different days and how God 

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answered those sins differently.
So you go to the book of Acts in

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chapter 12 and there's a king. 
Another king. 

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His name was Herod, another 
leader and Herod make some 

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decisions. 
Himself Herod has no 

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relationship to the true and 
living God. 

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If any relationship she had with
God, it was killing his people. 

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And in verse 1 of chapter 12, 
what do you read about Herod? 

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About that time Herod, the king 
laid, violent hands, on some 

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people who belong to the church 
and verse 2 of Acts 12. 

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He killed James, the brother of 
John with the sword, he killed 

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one of the Apostles. 
He killed one of the leaders. 

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Of this new movement. 
And look what happens in verse 

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3. 
And when he saw that, it 

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pleased, the Jews. 
He proceeded to arrest Peter. 

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Also, he was bloodthirsty 
because he was thirsty, for the 

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praise of men, the Jews. 
Love the fact that he killed one

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of the leaders of the church. 
And so, he sets up a new 

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campaign to have Peter executed 
as well. 

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So, he arrests Peter and this 
was during the days of 

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unleavened bread. 
So he want to wait till the 

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feast was done. 
He already killed a man, and now

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he is meditating to kill and 
murder. 

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Another man, that's one day. 
You fast-forward to acts 12 

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verse 19, Peter miraculously, 
escapes, an angel comes and 

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rescues him. 
He goes to the church to testify

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about it and Herod finds out. 
And in verse 19 of chapter 12, 

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we see, and after Herod search 
for him, and did not find him, 

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he examined the centuries in 
order that they should be put to

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death, then went down from Judea
to sister and spent time there. 

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So he comes into the room and 
goes, where is he? 

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And the soldiers were 
surrounding him all day and all 

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night says. 
No, you don't know. 

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You're all dead. 
Maybe give you time to see your 

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family. 
May even give you time to see 

679
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,800
your wife's you're dead now 
calls for the execution. 

680
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,100
So this man was ruthless. 
He killed those who are clergy 

681
00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:03,000
men, he killed leaders in the 
church and he even goes beyond 

682
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,200
that and he kills people who 
served them and who were 

683
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,800
innocent in a matter. 
He had no regard for justice, no

684
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,700
regard for investigation. 
He was frustrated, he lost out 

685
00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:13,900
of this. 
You're the reason why I'm going 

686
00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:21,700
to kill you and he does Another 
day in verse 21 in the same 

687
00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:27,000
chapter. 
On an appointed day Herod, put 

688
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,800
on his Royal robes, took his 
seat upon the throne and 

689
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,000
delivered, an oration to them. 
And the people were shouting, 

690
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,500
the voice of a God, and not of a
man. 

691
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,000
Immediately an angel of the Lord
struck him down because he did 

692
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,200
not give God the glory. 
He was eaten by worms and 

693
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,500
breathed his last. 
This is why we need to read your

694
00:43:52,500 --> 00:43:54,000
Bible. 
Slowly likes, take a step back 

695
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,700
and consider the sequence of 
events. 

696
00:43:57,500 --> 00:44:00,400
This man murdered one of the 
Apostles of Jesus Christ. 

697
00:44:00,700 --> 00:44:04,600
He was planning to murder. 
Another one, this man killed 

698
00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:10,600
innocent people who served him. 
No intervention from heaven. 

699
00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:16,400
But the moment people begin to 
praise him to flatter him. 

700
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,800
Really? 
That was a reason and he basked 

701
00:44:19,900 --> 00:44:25,300
in that Glory. 
Immediately, he sends an angel 

702
00:44:25,900 --> 00:44:33,000
and God has him killed. 
When he received worship, he 

703
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,500
crossed a line when it came to 
murder, God was willing to delay

704
00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:41,200
his judgement, he was going to 
judge him when he came to Pride.

705
00:44:43,300 --> 00:44:45,600
It brought a stench to Heaven, 
that God could no longer 

706
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,900
tolerate and brought immediate 
Swift discipline. 

707
00:44:49,900 --> 00:44:54,600
Fascinating isn't it? 
Is our judgment like God's do we

708
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,700
see sin the way? 
He said I'm afraid not I'm 

709
00:44:58,700 --> 00:45:03,300
afraid not if we had a choice to
stop Herod after he was 

710
00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:06,900
murdering Or after he enjoyed 
the praise of men. 

711
00:45:06,900 --> 00:45:10,100
Which one would we choose? 
Which one would be more patient 

712
00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:16,100
with In God's mind. 
He could not tolerate Pride. 

713
00:45:16,900 --> 00:45:19,400
Here's the Temptation Of You 
Ready, the thoughts that are 

714
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:20,700
dude. 
It may be creeping in. 

715
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,200
Well look, If that's the case, 
and I might have a better sense 

716
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:29,800
of Judge God's justice, then 
then he does, I might have a 

717
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,300
better standard of 
righteousness, then he does. 

718
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:36,200
How can drinking in adoration 
from others, be anywhere near 

719
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,600
murder. 
But here's the thing, I don't 

720
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,800
think God is giving us these 
examples to tell us that he 

721
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:46,200
thinks less of adultery less of 
murder less of thievery and more

722
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,500
of Pride and more of envy and 
more of these things that's not 

723
00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:50,800
the point. 
The point that he's trying to 

724
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,400
make is of how seriously he 
takes the sins that we don't 

725
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:59,600
even think about. 
That we have, we have no grid 

726
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,900
for, that's not even in our top 
10. 

727
00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:06,200
So to speak, the reason why God 
brings these examples to show 

728
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,200
that his standard of Holiness is
much much higher than ours. 

729
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,200
How many today justify sin? 
Listen based on this. 

730
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,200
Well doesn't hurt anybody, 
right? 

731
00:46:20,300 --> 00:46:22,800
I've talked to too many 
unbelievers on the streets in 

732
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,400
meetings like this and 
afterwards when you present the 

733
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,200
gospel and you might have a 
conversation with somebody and 

734
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,000
you ask them about their life, 
you ask them about their their 

735
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:35,400
faith and when you bring up the 
concept of sin, here's the main 

736
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,800
objection about their goodness. 
Well, I'm not hurting anybody. 

737
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,400
Well they're not hurting 
anybody. 

738
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:50,000
And what you just heard here 
through these examples is that 

739
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:55,500
God is reminding us that in your
understanding of how sin works. 

740
00:46:55,700 --> 00:46:57,900
There is a vertical Dynamic to 
this. 

741
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,400
It's not just that you're not 
hurting anybody even in your 

742
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:08,400
most private hidden sin. 
There is a person who is 

743
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,900
affected. 
That's God himself. 

744
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,900
That's the point. 
There is a heart that is being 

745
00:47:14,900 --> 00:47:16,900
affected. 
There is a law that is being 

746
00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:20,800
violated. 
There is someone who's being 

747
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,000
Assaulted in it. 
We don't see that. 

748
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,400
And that's why these examples 
are given to us. 

749
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,100
And when you and I listened 
understand, the vertical 

750
00:47:30,100 --> 00:47:34,600
relationship between our sin and
God, we now only will have a 

751
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,900
greater motivation to be 
intolerant about it in our own 

752
00:47:36,900 --> 00:47:38,400
lives. 
But we will actually be more 

753
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,400
urgent about the gospel in a 
culture where we believe that we

754
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,500
are good. 
And that even that is becoming 

755
00:47:45,500 --> 00:47:48,300
skewed. 
But, listen, I'm going to end it

756
00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:52,100
here. 
This includes this includes a 

757
00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:56,300
greater comprehension not just 
of how we affect God, how it 

758
00:47:56,300 --> 00:48:01,100
affects him as a person, but of 
the eternality of his Justice. 

759
00:48:02,700 --> 00:48:06,900
As a judge. 
Ephesians 5. 

760
00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:22,800
Verse 5. 
Paul says to the Ephesians, For 

761
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,000
you, may be sure of this that 
everyone who is sexually immoral

762
00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:29,500
or impure. 
Who is Covetous that is in 

763
00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:33,600
adultery idolatry. 
Rather has no inheritance in the

764
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,600
Kingdom of Christ. 
And God, pause same thing. 

765
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,100
That really said in First 
Corinthians 6, right? 

766
00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:43,500
The Covetous, the person who has
a desire for those things that 

767
00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:46,800
do not belong to them. 
Is an idolater. 

768
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,400
Has no inheritance in the 
Kingdom of Christ in God. 

769
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,600
Now look what he says when he 
adds this in verse six, he had 

770
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,300
something that isn't added First
Corinthians. 

771
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,100
He says in verse 6, let no one 
deceive you. 

772
00:49:00,300 --> 00:49:03,600
Let no one deceive you with 
empty words. 

773
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,300
For because of these things, the
wrath of God. 

774
00:49:08,300 --> 00:49:10,300
Comes upon the sons of 
Disobedience. 

775
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:16,000
So, Paul here says this 
deception, Goes further than not

776
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:21,400
inheriting the kingdom of God. 
This deception includes thinking

777
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:25,600
that God's Wrath won't be poured
out, that God doesn't have 

778
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,300
wrath. 
That God doesn't have judgment. 

779
00:49:27,300 --> 00:49:30,300
That God doesn't have a sense of
Holiness that needs to be 

780
00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:33,100
satisfied through Justice 
righteous Justice. 

781
00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:37,900
Let no one deceive you with 
empty words, empty words, words 

782
00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:41,100
with no meaning words with no 
backing words, with no Authority

783
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,600
words that say, Hell, doesn't 
exist. 

784
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,900
Judgment isn't coming. 
We're all headed towards the 

785
00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:53,200
same path. 
Those are empty words and people

786
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,500
are deceived. 
Listen, let no one deceive you. 

787
00:49:55,500 --> 00:49:58,500
The Christians the church. 
Let no one deceive you with 

788
00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:03,100
empty words. 
Because the wrath of God will 

789
00:50:03,100 --> 00:50:05,700
come upon these things. 
If you think about our human 

790
00:50:05,700 --> 00:50:10,500
justice system, the severity of 
many of the punishments is often

791
00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:13,600
determined by the value of the 
victim and the nature of the 

792
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,000
victim, right? 
So if you catch me one of these 

793
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,300
nights killing a mosquito, I 
doubt that you're going to call 

794
00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:28,900
the police to charge me. you see
me swatting a fly and Your heart

795
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:33,200
is disturbed by that. 
I don't think that you would 

796
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:38,100
file a lawsuit against me. 
But then you consider our 

797
00:50:38,100 --> 00:50:40,600
federal law, and if you look at 
it carefully, you realize that 

798
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,200
there are some animals who are 
protected by federal law. 

799
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,300
I remember being in Hawaii long 
time ago for a basketball 

800
00:50:48,300 --> 00:50:52,300
tournament in my unsaved days. 
And when we were there, we had 

801
00:50:52,300 --> 00:50:55,600
time on the beach and a sea 
turtle approach, the shore, and 

802
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,400
the moment it did the people in 
charge put a red rope around it.

803
00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:02,400
And we were told even when we 
were swimming, you can you might

804
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,200
see sea turtle, if you harass 
the turtle, if you harm the 

805
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,200
turtle thousands of dollars in 
fines thousands of dollars in 

806
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,600
fines and in some cases even 
jail time. 

807
00:51:14,500 --> 00:51:17,000
Why? 
Because because of the nature of

808
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,400
that animal, the value of that 
animal in the Judgment of our 

809
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:25,500
government. 
If I harm your household pet, 

810
00:51:26,900 --> 00:51:30,100
it's not going to have the same 
consequences as if I kill the 

811
00:51:30,100 --> 00:51:33,200
Bumblebee. 
Because there's a value. 

812
00:51:33,700 --> 00:51:38,400
There is a nature. 
What if I harm a child? 

813
00:51:41,700 --> 00:51:43,400
What if I kill another human 
being? 

814
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,500
Not just a human being, not just
my neighbor. 

815
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,200
What about a top official in our
government? 

816
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,100
What about somebody? 
Who has an important role in 

817
00:51:56,100 --> 00:51:58,600
society? 
What will come about that? 

818
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:03,500
Greater consequence. 
That is in direct correlation to

819
00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:08,400
the value. 
Of that individual the value of 

820
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:15,300
human life. 
Universally now, what happens if

821
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:20,200
I salt, somebody who is 
infinitely. 

822
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,000
Holy. 
Infinitely. 

823
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:30,800
Good infinitely. 
More valuable than anything else

824
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,200
in this universe, including 
human life. 

825
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,600
If you hold on to that logic, 
you can't abort. 

826
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,600
Now you hold on, tighter 
strap-on. 

827
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,800
You agreed with me with the 
Bumblebee and you agree with me 

828
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,500
with the dog, you agree with me 
that another human life. 

829
00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:46,300
So hold on to that logic. 
And let's take it to a person 

830
00:52:46,300 --> 00:52:50,900
who created all of us. 
What happens if I offend 

831
00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:55,900
somebody who is infinitely more 
valuable than all of us put 

832
00:52:55,900 --> 00:53:00,500
together? 
the natural conclusion, is that 

833
00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:05,400
I Heap up a mountain of 
violations against not just a 

834
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:11,200
life, but the author of life The
author of Life himself. 

835
00:53:12,700 --> 00:53:16,200
And because he is infinite in 
his nature, Ian cure, an 

836
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:22,500
infinite debt. 
And because our punishment is 

837
00:53:22,500 --> 00:53:29,100
against a spiritual being, who 
is eternal, then naturally, I 

838
00:53:29,100 --> 00:53:35,500
will inherit spiritual and 
eternal punishment. 

839
00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:41,200
Even think about somebody who 
takes another life, somebody who

840
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,900
even commits multiple or 
somebody who is assumed, or have

841
00:53:44,900 --> 00:53:47,500
you ever seen this where they 
get like an amount of years that

842
00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:50,000
doesn't even make sense? 
Like there's sentence to like 

843
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,000
three, four hundred years. 
It's like they're not going to 

844
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,300
live that long. 
What are you trying to 

845
00:53:54,300 --> 00:53:58,600
communicate their again there's 
the communication there of the 

846
00:53:58,607 --> 00:54:03,200
seriousness of the violation. 
You took a life. 

847
00:54:04,100 --> 00:54:10,000
And so you will pay for it with 
your life and your existence. 

848
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:16,000
Will be the very thing that will
be accountable for robbing 

849
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,400
somebody else of their 
existence, God's existence is 

850
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,200
forever. 
There is no beginning. 

851
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:26,600
There is no end and because of 
our sin against who he is just 

852
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:31,500
by his nature naturally demands,
A punishment that is in direct 

853
00:54:31,500 --> 00:54:37,100
correlation to that. 
Our sin is great because God is 

854
00:54:37,100 --> 00:54:42,000
great. 
And his wrath is great because 

855
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:45,800
he is great. 
But that is not the only thing 

856
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,500
in this whole equation that is 
great. 

857
00:54:48,900 --> 00:54:51,400
Let me take you back to David's 
words in closing. 

858
00:54:53,300 --> 00:54:56,200
When David had sinned in the 
numbering of his people, he 

859
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:00,300
said, I have sinned greatly. 
I have sinned greatly against 

860
00:55:00,300 --> 00:55:03,500
the Lord, then the prophet. 
God says, well look, I'm going 

861
00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:05,600
to give you a choice. 
God is letting you have a choice

862
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:09,100
of the kind of punishment that 
you want to experience. and he 

863
00:55:09,100 --> 00:55:11,700
didn't have much to work with, 
but the one thing that stood out

864
00:55:11,700 --> 00:55:16,200
to David, Was that there was one
punishment that came directly 

865
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,100
from God. 
The other ones had to do with 

866
00:55:18,100 --> 00:55:20,100
other means, including human 
means. 

867
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:24,300
And so David was prompted to go 
with the one that came directly 

868
00:55:24,300 --> 00:55:28,500
from the hand of God. 
And here is his reasoning and 

869
00:55:28,500 --> 00:55:32,400
choosing a punishment that comes
from somebody that you just 

870
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,400
heard for the past 40 something 
minutes. 

871
00:55:35,500 --> 00:55:38,600
Who is infinitely? 
Holy who sees something as 

872
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,300
hidden as pride and envy and 
will say you cannot inherit 

873
00:55:42,300 --> 00:55:45,400
eternal life because of the lust
of your heart and the desires 

874
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,600
that that tell me I am not 
sufficient in my sovereignty, 

875
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,300
over your life is not good, that
same God David says something so

876
00:55:52,300 --> 00:55:56,100
insightful. 
In verse 14 of second, Samuel 

877
00:55:56,100 --> 00:55:58,800
24, don't turn, their just 
listen to these words. 

878
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:04,200
It may exalt the greatness of 
God and second, Samuel 24 14. 

879
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:07,700
Then David said to God, I am in.
There's that word again, great 

880
00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:12,300
distress let us fall into the 
hand of the Lord for his Mercy 

881
00:56:12,300 --> 00:56:17,100
is great. 
His Mercy is great. 

882
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,200
But let me not fall into the 
hand of man. 

883
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,900
Here's another deception man, 
believes that they are more 

884
00:56:27,900 --> 00:56:32,200
merciful than God. 
The Bible says the contrary God 

885
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,000
is much more merciful than we 
are. 

886
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:39,800
And David knew that. 
And though his sin was great and

887
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,800
he knew that God's holiness was 
great and I God's judgment was 

888
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:46,400
great with all of that. 
His Mercy is great. 

889
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,500
And so great is his Mercy that 
regardless of the greatness of 

890
00:56:50,500 --> 00:56:54,900
our sin, God can greatly forgive
that sin? 

891
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:02,300
And let you know something of a 
goodness and assurance and joy. 

892
00:57:03,500 --> 00:57:07,900
Of his love that will never make
you doubted for a moment. 

893
00:57:10,100 --> 00:57:18,400
So, regardless of this sin in an
in mind, regardless of it, Left 

894
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:22,300
to the justice and Holiness of 
God, we have no hope. 

895
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:27,500
We're sunk, we're done. 
Let's eat and drink, and be 

896
00:57:27,500 --> 00:57:31,800
merry for tomorrow. 
We die and he'll is our portion.

897
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:36,800
But that is not the only quality
of God, that is exalted in the 

898
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:38,900
scriptures though. 
I think it is under emphasized 

899
00:57:38,900 --> 00:57:41,300
in our day and it is a great 
crime because when we under 

900
00:57:41,300 --> 00:57:44,600
emphasize the Holiness of God, 
we minimize the greatness of his

901
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:49,500
Mercy. 
Always, always good news is not 

902
00:57:49,500 --> 00:57:51,500
good news. 
Until there's bad news that 

903
00:57:51,500 --> 00:57:56,600
contrasted And the more serious 
and sober, we are about the 

904
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:59,500
severity of this bad news that 
deals with us because we're the 

905
00:57:59,508 --> 00:58:01,800
bad ones. 
In this whole narrative, the 

906
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:05,000
more awesome is the revelation 
of his goodness because you 

907
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,200
realize that we are undeserving 
of, the great mercy of a great 

908
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:12,200
and holy God and so may I 
present to you the gospel 

909
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,200
knowing that some people will 
not be here tonight. 

910
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:15,500
Some people will not be here 
this weekend. 

911
00:58:15,500 --> 00:58:18,800
Some people might be so angry 
with a message like this, that 

912
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:20,900
they will not return to another 
meeting. 

913
00:58:21,500 --> 00:58:28,000
So be it, at least you leave 
here with the The Holiness of 

914
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,900
God. 
Do you want to see it? 

915
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,800
Do you want to see how bright 
and shining it is? 

916
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:39,900
Do not look to any plague in the
Old Testament. do not look to 

917
00:58:39,900 --> 00:58:43,600
any infliction of disease upon a
man who dared to lift his nose 

918
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:51,100
and Defiance to God, if you want
to see The overwhelming Holiness

919
00:58:51,100 --> 00:58:54,200
of God. 
Look no further than the cross 

920
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:59,300
on Calvary. 
Because hanging on that cross 

921
00:58:59,300 --> 00:59:00,800
was not a criminal was not a 
man. 

922
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:04,900
Who sinned a few times was a man
who never in thought word or 

923
00:59:04,900 --> 00:59:07,900
deed. 
Ever done anything to defy, 

924
00:59:07,900 --> 00:59:12,600
God's word. 
Who hung on that cross God 

925
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:17,000
himself who hung on that? 
Cross the same God that you see 

926
00:59:17,100 --> 00:59:19,200
in David's life. 
The same God that you see 

927
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:23,800
intervening in herod's life the 
same God that you see. who 

928
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:29,000
declares his Holiness who has 
profits melting like a popsicle 

929
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:33,900
stick before burning furnace Who
had men who thought that the 

930
00:59:33,900 --> 00:59:35,900
most righteous thing about them 
was their lips. 

931
00:59:35,900 --> 00:59:38,800
Proclaiming the truth of God and
those very same men, when they 

932
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:41,800
stood before the presence, of 
God said, that the very thing 

933
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:44,600
they could have boasted in the 
righteousness was defiled. 

934
00:59:46,700 --> 00:59:51,700
That same God who has seraphim 
hiding their faces in his 

935
00:59:51,700 --> 00:59:54,000
presence. 
You have these people say, when 

936
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:55,500
I see God, I'm going to tell him
and ask him. 

937
00:59:55,500 --> 00:59:58,100
All these questions you're not 
even going to be able to stand 

938
00:59:58,100 --> 01:00:00,700
in his presence, unless you have
a redeemed, mind, and heart. 

939
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,400
The seraphim, who if they, if 
they chose to even just peek 

940
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:09,900
into this place, what have this 
whole place screeching in horror

941
01:00:09,900 --> 01:00:11,700
because of their beauty and 
their Majesty? 

942
01:00:11,700 --> 01:00:14,000
Those same creatures would not 
even. 

943
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,300
Dare, look upon the Holy One of 
Israel. 

944
01:00:17,900 --> 01:00:22,100
And yeah, that same God who has,
who has these creatures 

945
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:26,200
unbothered with the task of 
continually giving praises to 

946
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:30,400
Him uninterrupted for all of 
eternity steps. 

947
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:35,500
Off of his throne wraps himself 
in flesh and comes into this 

948
01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:41,100
dump of a world to redeem it. 
And as he steps into this world,

949
01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:45,700
he does not receive the Praises 
of creatures that are on fire, 

950
01:00:45,700 --> 01:00:48,900
but not consume that sing with 
perfect pitch in a way that 

951
01:00:48,900 --> 01:00:51,000
would even blow your mind 
physically. 

952
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:55,500
If you heard it, he comes into a
world that questions him, that 

953
01:00:55,500 --> 01:00:58,800
accuses him, that Slanders him, 
that there's to blindfold him 

954
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:02,500
and slap him across the face as 
a prophet who prophesied to you 

955
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:09,400
and spit on that same face. 
And that, that God silently. 

956
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:13,300
As we sang suffered, like a lamb
led to slaughter who could have 

957
01:01:13,300 --> 01:01:16,200
at one moment declared for 
twelve, Legions to break open 

958
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:20,200
the sky and sweep over those 
Roman soldiers and those proud 

959
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:23,500
Pharisees and consume them 
within a second that same God 

960
01:01:23,500 --> 01:01:27,800
chose to suffer. 
Because what was beating in his 

961
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:31,500
heart. 
Was love. 

962
01:01:33,700 --> 01:01:35,800
A love that. 
Doesn't cancel his Holiness. 

963
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:39,100
A love that kisses the Holiness 
of God at the cross. 

964
01:01:42,100 --> 01:01:45,900
And so this idea of cancelling 
are dead in sin. 

965
01:01:46,100 --> 01:01:49,200
Don't get it twisted, it's not 
that God took our sins and swept

966
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:53,400
it under the rug. 
He just transfer the payment to 

967
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:55,700
himself. 
It has to be paid. 

968
01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:00,400
Something has to happen with our
sin or as God is Not holy, he is

969
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:05,900
not just But he translates it 
upon himself, he puts it upon 

970
01:02:05,900 --> 01:02:08,900
his own shoulders and there he 
is hanging. 

971
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,700
With a joy that is set before 
him in the joy yeses and 

972
01:02:12,700 --> 01:02:15,700
pleasing the father in his glory
and magnifying him. 

973
01:02:16,100 --> 01:02:19,000
But also in knowing that those 
who would respond to him would 

974
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,700
receive eternal life and that 
his house has Pastor. 

975
01:02:21,700 --> 01:02:28,300
Daniel said earlier would be 
filled would be filled He had 

976
01:02:28,300 --> 01:02:33,000
every sin in mind that you've 
committed from the moment, you 

977
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:36,900
were able to sin. 
When he died on that cross. 

978
01:02:39,100 --> 01:02:45,900
Every sin. 
And he is so quick to forgive. 

979
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:52,400
And this weekend understand that
he is very likely looking at 

980
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:56,200
some in here who need to be 
forgiven of their sin and he's 

981
01:02:56,200 --> 01:03:01,100
waiting upon your confession of 
that sin for you to make a 

982
01:03:01,100 --> 01:03:04,100
conscious decision. 
I will not live in deception, I 

983
01:03:04,100 --> 01:03:07,200
will not worship God through an 
idol, I will not worship at 

984
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,600
Jesus that I've created in 
fashion with my own hands. 

985
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:13,300
I will see him in his holiness. 
I will see him in the entirety 

986
01:03:13,300 --> 01:03:14,900
of his being. 
I was seeing the greatness of 

987
01:03:14,900 --> 01:03:19,000
his Justice and also the 
greatness of his love and I will

988
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:22,700
Embrace him. 
Because to embrace him is to 

989
01:03:22,700 --> 01:03:26,200
embrace the truth and to embrace
the truth is to bring about true

990
01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:30,600
freedom in your life. 
So as you've heard the greatness

991
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:32,300
of his Holiness, do you at the 
same time? 

992
01:03:32,300 --> 01:03:36,200
See the greatness of his Mercy. 
Do you perceive it? 

993
01:03:38,700 --> 01:03:41,000
Do you see it? 
What more can he do than what he

994
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:45,400
is done? 
And what I just presented to you

995
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:51,900
leaves us with this point. 
No men has an excuse No man has 

996
01:03:51,900 --> 01:03:54,400
an excuse. 
I love to use this point because

997
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:56,700
I've talked to very few who 
believe this. 

998
01:03:58,100 --> 01:04:00,400
But just in case there's even 
one person who believes is. 

999
01:04:00,900 --> 01:04:03,300
I haven't sinned. 
You know what, first John tells 

1000
01:04:03,300 --> 01:04:06,400
us he who says he does not sin 
is a liar. 

1001
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:08,000
There you go. 
You're a liar. 

1002
01:04:08,700 --> 01:04:12,000
You send. 
And you need forgiveness. 

1003
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,800
Let me say this too. 
Is, there's a giant clock behind

1004
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:21,300
you, right? 
Is it still there or am I 

1005
01:04:21,300 --> 01:04:27,900
deceived? 
Give me a couple minutes to be 

1006
01:04:27,908 --> 01:04:30,600
very bold. 
Is that, okay, well, smile at 

1007
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:34,700
lunch together. 
Listen, if you're a Christian in

1008
01:04:34,700 --> 01:04:37,600
here, you profess to be a 
Christian and you're living and 

1009
01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:39,800
willful sin. 
You're not bothered by it. 

1010
01:04:41,300 --> 01:04:42,500
You're in a very dangerous 
place. 

1011
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:47,300
Okay, understand something. 
I know what it means to be 

1012
01:04:47,300 --> 01:04:49,200
deceived in the way. 
Paul warned to be deceived 

1013
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:51,600
about. 
I grew up in a Christian home. 

1014
01:04:52,500 --> 01:04:57,000
I heard the sermons. 
But I loved unrighteousness. 

1015
01:04:57,400 --> 01:04:59,200
Loved it. 
I love to drink it. 

1016
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:01,500
And the only time that I'll be 
convicted about is when an 

1017
01:05:01,500 --> 01:05:05,600
embarrassed me, or if I 
disappointed my mom and dad But 

1018
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:10,000
there was no sense of a god. 
Conscious grief in my sin, I 

1019
01:05:10,008 --> 01:05:12,300
have a special burden for people
who grew up in the church 

1020
01:05:12,300 --> 01:05:15,000
because I know what it's like to
sit in meetings like this. 

1021
01:05:16,100 --> 01:05:19,700
And to almost be so numb that no
matter who goes up there and 

1022
01:05:19,700 --> 01:05:24,600
says, what, if barely moves, you
barely moves, you can, I present

1023
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:30,800
a possibility, could it be, 
could it be that despite the 

1024
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,100
name of God on your lips? 
And despite the understanding of

1025
01:05:33,100 --> 01:05:37,700
his ways that could it be, that 
you're deceived I don't want to 

1026
01:05:37,700 --> 01:05:41,600
project a doubt upon those who 
are truly saved. 

1027
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,700
That is not my intention. 
I don't I don't like that kind 

1028
01:05:43,700 --> 01:05:46,000
of preaching. 
And my intention here is not to 

1029
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:50,200
get emotional reactions, this 
weekend, I am in favor more of 

1030
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:56,100
like calculated logical planning
with your soul more than it was 

1031
01:05:56,100 --> 01:05:58,600
so powerful and then you go back
to do the same thing. 

1032
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:00,500
Could care less about the tears 
really. 

1033
01:06:01,500 --> 01:06:04,600
So I want I want to ask you. 
Could it be young guy? 

1034
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:09,500
Could it be sister? 
that the, the fact that you're 

1035
01:06:09,500 --> 01:06:13,500
undisturbed about your 
worldliness, It's not because 

1036
01:06:13,500 --> 01:06:16,100
Jesus is so merciful and he'll 
let you do what you want is 

1037
01:06:16,100 --> 01:06:19,000
because you have a false Jesus 
that you are bowing down to 

1038
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:23,300
everyday. 
Consider that deception and the 

1039
01:06:23,300 --> 01:06:25,600
way that I was able to escape 
that deception. 

1040
01:06:25,700 --> 01:06:29,900
God was very merciful to me. 
Is when I realize that this sin 

1041
01:06:29,900 --> 01:06:34,900
was not satisfy me, which is an 
awesome Evangelistic tool and 

1042
01:06:34,900 --> 01:06:40,200
bringing it to Jesus, this lack 
of satisfaction was so obvious 

1043
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:43,100
that I came to the word. 
And when I discovered in my own 

1044
01:06:43,100 --> 01:06:45,800
Bible that I didn't own in 
college that have to go fetch 

1045
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:49,200
from my dad's library and bring 
it back to my apartment, what I 

1046
01:06:49,207 --> 01:06:52,000
realized was not Just who Jesus 
was that? 

1047
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,300
Who I was. 
I was not the real thing to 

1048
01:06:54,300 --> 01:06:57,300
begin with. 
I wasn't even the real thing. 

1049
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,500
And one of the verses it's still
in my journal 2012, one of the 

1050
01:07:01,500 --> 01:07:04,300
journal entries that still are 
just embedded. 

1051
01:07:04,300 --> 01:07:07,500
In my conscious was, when I Came
Upon that part in Mark where it 

1052
01:07:07,500 --> 01:07:11,500
says, they honor me with their 
lips but their hearts are far 

1053
01:07:11,500 --> 01:07:14,200
from me. 
I said that's me, that's exactly

1054
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:19,800
who I am. 
And so, I ask you, I really do. 

1055
01:07:20,300 --> 01:07:22,100
I'm not going to, I'm not going 
to yell at you. 

1056
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:24,900
I'm not going to beat you over 
with anything. 

1057
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:26,400
I'm just going to ask you to do 
something. 

1058
01:07:28,300 --> 01:07:30,500
Have you ever come to the word 
of God? 

1059
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:34,800
Honestly and said, am I the real
thing? 

1060
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:39,700
Like am I the real thing? 
Or am I deceived? 

1061
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:47,600
If that is your heart, desire to
know, God will speak to you. 

1062
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:51,200
He will reveal himself to you 
and he will make its own own. 

1063
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:57,100
He'll deliver you. 
And I hope that you will 

1064
01:07:57,100 --> 01:07:59,500
endeavor to do that in this 
place if you're not sure. 

1065
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,400
You're not sure. 
My prayer. 

1066
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:05,600
My goal is I close here. 
I said that a couple of times at

1067
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:12,000
night is that every person would
leave here deceived free with 

1068
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,200
the most important Clarity that 
you can have in this life and 

1069
01:08:14,207 --> 01:08:15,800
that is a matter of your 
salvation. 

1070
01:08:16,700 --> 01:08:21,100
I know that I'm saved the spirit
bears with me within me and 

1071
01:08:21,100 --> 01:08:23,200
witnesses to me. 
That I am a child of God. 

1072
01:08:23,500 --> 01:08:27,600
That is my desire for you. 
Lord, we ask you this morning. 

1073
01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:32,899
Thanking you for the words that 
have highlighted how you see sin

1074
01:08:32,899 --> 01:08:37,500
differently than us. and Lord, 
we just pray that this weekend, 

1075
01:08:37,500 --> 01:08:41,399
as we explore, how the New 
Testament, your word tells us 

1076
01:08:41,399 --> 01:08:46,300
not To be deceived about tells 
us how we can be assured of 

1077
01:08:46,300 --> 01:08:49,500
certain aspects of Our Lives 
that there would be an eagerness

1078
01:08:49,500 --> 01:08:54,100
in a hunger to know the truth. 
Lord, we all confess in this 

1079
01:08:54,100 --> 01:08:56,600
place that our sin and deed is 
great. 

1080
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,700
Even the things that run in our 
minds, even the things that live

1081
01:09:00,700 --> 01:09:03,300
in our hearts that no man sees, 
you see it Lord. 

1082
01:09:03,700 --> 01:09:06,800
And we thank you that though the
magnitude of our sin is 

1083
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:10,700
deserving of great judgment. 
So great is your mercy. 

1084
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:14,700
That not only matches it, but 
deals with it. 

1085
01:09:16,100 --> 01:09:18,600
Lord, we ask that every person 
in this place would have 

1086
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:22,899
confidence. 
Not in their ancestry line, not 

1087
01:09:22,899 --> 01:09:27,500
in their parental upbringing, 
but Lord in their own personal 

1088
01:09:27,500 --> 01:09:32,700
knowledge of the Gospel. 
That through repentance and 

1089
01:09:32,700 --> 01:09:37,200
faith in what you've done on the
cross. they can be saved, we can

1090
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:41,200
be saved and we can know that 
Mercy that satisfies us deeply 

1091
01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:46,300
Lord Hold Us by the hand and 
lead us through this word about 

1092
01:09:46,300 --> 01:09:50,300
how we can be secure from 
deception and Lord, mayor 

1093
01:09:50,300 --> 01:09:54,000
conversations be edifying. 
May they be challenging if need 

1094
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:59,300
be so that we can sharpen one 
another and know with greater 

1095
01:09:59,300 --> 01:10:03,100
certainty that we indeed are 
fellowshipping with you in the 

1096
01:10:03,100 --> 01:10:05,100
light. 
Well, we want to magnify you 

1097
01:10:05,700 --> 01:10:08,700
because your mercy is great. 
That you've forgiven that you're

1098
01:10:08,700 --> 01:10:12,900
willing to forgive and so Lord, 
if there's even a few, if 

1099
01:10:12,900 --> 01:10:15,000
there's even one who might be 
deceived about their own 

1100
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:21,100
salvation rescue us rescue us 
That we may be free in the 

1101
01:10:21,100 --> 01:10:23,500
truth. 
Jesus name we pray. 

1102
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:24,400
Amen.