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It is always a joy to sing to 
the Lord with you always and it 

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is always an honor and a 
privilege to open God's word 

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with you. 
And so meet me in the book is 

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second Timothy as we have been 
in the past few weeks, in 

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chapter 3, in your Bibles and as
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in song is, can I tell you 
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rustling of the leaves of the 
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I'm thankful for technology but 
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understand what I'm saying by 
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Second Timothy chapter 3, And 
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One more time, shall we? 
Heavenly Father, we thank you 

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for Gathering us as your people.
We thank you that we have 

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freedom still. 
We thank you that we have access

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to the full revelation of your 
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will We asked, oh, Lord. 
That as we expound these verses,

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that they would not come through
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strong and himself. 
Lord, we are weak. 

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I am weak and we ask for your 
help apart from the help of the 

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holy spirit. 
This meeting will be futile, 

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it'll be void of your power and 
the transforming Grace that is 

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necessary to build our faith. 
Lord help us, demolish every 

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distraction anything that would 
hinder the reception of your 

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word Lord. 
Pray that you would cancel the 

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assignments of Satan and the 
Lord instead, we would know your

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presence and your power in your 
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We ask these things in the 
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Jesus name we pray. 
Amen. 

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So we can spend the next few 
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each of the characteristics that
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about the marks of mankind. 
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going to be concluding our time 
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prayerfully. 
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this Pastoral Epistles. 
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we're going to be looking at the
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of God provides Us in the 
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And this final point is 
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Believers understanding. 
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that it might even be the means 
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And I say truly saved because 
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is one of the most damning 
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The Apostle is going to conclude
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pointing to another component of
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alienated from Christendom. 
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I mean by that Paul is not about
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deals necessarily with those who
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households, separated from 
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disconnected from even churches.
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in verse 4, where he speaks 
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than lovers of God, that's 
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do with Christ, who want nothing
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God is not in their plans, he's 
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under thoughts, he's not in 
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their affections, why? 
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pleasures, and they are 
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Instead, we'll Paul is about to 
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Corruption of Outsiders, but a 
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It's in verse 5. we read having 
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denying its power avoid such 
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godliness, but denying its 
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as we come to the combination of
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increase. 
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who aware the costume of piety, 
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godliness, but will be void of 
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good thing. 
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to be listed among it is a 
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That should be named with the 
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And deplorable practices that 
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And by the God-fearing What does
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appearance of godliness, the 
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outline, it speaks of a form of 
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legitimate. 
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can be put on and put off, but 
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and it can even deceive, the one
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something. 
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bought a Furniture piece in his 
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tree. 
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I remember when he brought into 
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didn't know anybody talked about
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I thought there was an exotic 
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breed of professing Christians, 
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the Sight and Sounds of 
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But upon examination, they lack 
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makes someone Godly. 
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they will deny its power denial.
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verbal verbal rejection of God. 
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life that testifies, that that 
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him in the first place. 
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does not dismiss the fact that 
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godliness can recite Doctrine. 
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or that they even come into 
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This denial of power speaks of 
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evidence of communion with God 
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for the things of God, that can 
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God himself. 
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people, again, might have 
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Bible. 
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concerning Jesus and his work. 
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don't nothing of true worship. 
There is no sense of delight in 

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God. 
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directed towards everything but 
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for the world and the love for 
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different than one who 
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Judas, the Apostle who committed
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Christ. 
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had the appearance of godliness 
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So well that he camouflage 
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when a woman came with an 
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the feet of the Christ and begin
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toe this Judas criticize this 
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impression to those in that same
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indignant. 
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been sold and we could have 
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questioned him. 
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that this man did not care about
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he could have taken more money 
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So camouflage was Judas that 
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declared that one of them would 
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Nobody suspected Judas. 
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He's so worldly. 
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Nothing of the sort. 
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Judas is a testament that one 
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ministerial, work and still be a
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How do we make sense of this? 
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I find it quite fascinating that
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We are told that there will be 
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approach the return of Christ as
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The Great Tribulation, they'll 
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spirituality. 
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near to Christ's return that 
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extinct. 
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will actually multiply, you will
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hard to believe, we're already 
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All you have to do is peek over 
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China, who are persecuting 
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faiths, And their governments 
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from religious buildings and 
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No no they have churches there. 
They have religious and sacred 

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texts there. 
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compliant churches they have 
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godliness that will obey with a 
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government was say and they will
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no, they will increase, but they
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power of the Gospel. 
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exploring, a couple of things. 
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possible? 
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people will arrive to this 
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being emptied of this power. 
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How does this thing even occur? 
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How is it that there are people 
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Who claim to profess Christ? 
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closely, you realize that they 
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They haven't really been saved 
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I believe there are a couple of 
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present them to you today 
because the goal of this 

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message, if you haven't realized
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everybody in here, does not just
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but as truly met God, One of the
ways I believe according to the 

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scriptures that some arrived to 
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But denying the power, the true 
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power and a man or woman's heart
is found an example found in the

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book of Acts chapter 19, And 
verse 11, I would like to read 

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this as an illustration to you 
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Of how this appearance, how 
phony false Christians are in 

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existence today and will be in 
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to 13, we read Acts 19 11 to 13.
And God was doing extraordinary 

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Miracles by the hands of Paul. 
So that even a handkerchiefs or 

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aprons that he touched that it 
touched. 

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His skin were carried away to 
the sick and their diseases left

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them in the evil, spirits came 
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Then some of the itinerant, 
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invoke the name of the Lord 
Jesus, over those, who had evil 

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spirits, saying I adjure you by 
the Jesus whom Paul proclaims. 

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I love this text while Paul was 
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You've heard me say this before 
but I'll say it again. 

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Wherever this man went there is 
either Revival or riots. 

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And here in this case there was 
a Revival God had release an 

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unusual source of power upon him
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And so great, was this power 
that even the materials that 

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touched his skin was used to 
bring deliverance from disease 

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and demons? 
And news spread fast and the 

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news of this man. 
And the success of his ministry,

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reached the ears of certain 
Exorcist Jewish Exorcist. 

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Who apparently had some kind of 
profession and providing 

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spiritual services to those who 
are bound. 

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And I don't know how they did 
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We can have strong confidence 
that I was superstitious and 

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that their Solutions were not 
concrete. 

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Because we read here something 
more interesting than the fact 

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that there is some Jews, who 
believe they can cast out 

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demons. 
And it is this, they believe 

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that they can borrow the name of
Jesus. 

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They undertook upon themselves 
to declare the name of our Lord.

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And so they saw recipe. 
They saw a formula that they 

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thought that they can just 
replicate easily and copy. 

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They saw that Jesus proclaimed. 
This name. 

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This name had power, he had a 
certain method and they said, 

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well, if it worked for him, 
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trying to perform a Deliverance 
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know, but it was a guy that Paul
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And these preachers got beat up 
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naked because those demons said 
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would say of you Jesus, I know 
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Demons are so busy that they 
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nervous when he woke up. and in 
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teaches me. 
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trying to understand here. 
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there are those who can adopt 
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engage and Christian activity, 
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They don't know Christ. 
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He's a name that they might even
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the name that they adore and 
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This is one of the ways that 
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The same way that the sons of 
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parents evolved, overtime pay 
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and exposure to Christian 
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connection with the Lord by 
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lingo. 
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It's all that they've known and 
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and part deals with comfort more
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familiarity. 
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It's something that they just 
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him. 
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Lord, there is no evidence of 
private Devotion. 

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To God, there is no hunger for 
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they really have. 
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christianese. 
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involved with in the church. 
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gives them a false sense of 
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Charles Spurgeon said. 
Not generation, but regeneration

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that makes someone a Christian 
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There are many things in 
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That fascinate me many things, 
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talk. 
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don't actually understand what 
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Maybe you knew that already 
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I disappointed you. 
They don't understand what 

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they're saying all they're doing
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ability was understand. 
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their vocal boxes to take those 
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actual human. 
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They're not, they're not 
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just able to put things together
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so trained that certain context 
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communication and so an owner 
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you here. 
Hello. 

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Hello? 
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over time that in certain 
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things. and I say all that to 
say that many Christians operate

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in the same way, Professing 
Christians at least their 

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knowledge of God is as deep as a
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English language. 
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And if it's well-trained enough,
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And who to say to, and when to 
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Would anybody be crazy enough? 
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parrot could be a human because 
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like one, then why is it that we
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who have an appearance of 
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And so it's inherited. 
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Christianity is not a matter of 
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It's a matter of culture. 
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are proving that, because they 
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though. 
They live like Devils every day.

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a symbol that declares not only 
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of dying to self and they can 
put those things around their 

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neck and on their ears as they 
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Appearance of godliness and they
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Thinking because they have the 
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stories, they understand. 
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like this, while their life, 
contradicts everything that this

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Christ tells us what a true 
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They're safe you're in for the 
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But number two, this appearance 
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of false teaching and not just 
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teaching. 
So this idea of those who have 

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this appearance this facade of 
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even though their feet of travel
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faithful Christian Ministries. 
It's not just limited to that. 

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There are those who will be 
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of godliness because they sit 
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Jesus himself condemn, the whole
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for their appearance of God, 
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Pharisees, he caused trouble for
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In fact, one of the most 
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against these religious folk all
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close to the Heat and to the 
sharpness. 

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When he, when he faced 
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when you have the time, and I 
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The Book of Matthew chapter 23, 
you don't have to turn there 

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because by the end of this 
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verses that I would love for you
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But in Matthew 23:15, in this 
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Pharisees, he says, at one point
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of startling in verse 15, he 
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Pharisees hypocrites. 
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land to make a single proselyte.
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you make him twice as much a 
child of headed, hell is 

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yourselves. 
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They were already dead and and 
then once you apparently 

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converted them there, now twice.
Damned Now, this is in the 

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context of condemnation, but 
there's something commendable 

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about the Pharisees here at 
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I mean, you might have had the 
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this separated, stoic men, that 
just looked at everybody else's.

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As you'll never come here. 
No, no, they were evangelist. 

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There are missionaries. 
They were spent days and weeks 

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to travel across, just to see 
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belief system. 
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But they were false, they were 
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legalistic understanding of the 
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them as they were Damned. 
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You're seeing here. 
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the modern Mormon, you've seen 
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convicted by them, as they've 
knocked on your door, they spent

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a Saturday afternoon. 
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The false gospel? 
And they travel. 

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And they spent two years and one
will spend two years, dedicate 

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two years of his life to be a 
missionary, he will allow two 

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years of his life, he will put a
hold on his dreams on his plans 

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as a young adult and go to some 
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false Christ. 
And damn those, who would 

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believe it. 
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appearance of godliness, there's
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And if people are not careful, 
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they would be attracted to false
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I remember, when I first got 
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a couple on a missions trip and 
this couple were sharing their 

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testimony in. 
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that just stuck with me and it 
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she was in college and she had 
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She was hungry to know. 
Truth. 

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She was hungry to know, God, and
she was moved. 

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Muslims. 
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lifestyle and their willingness 
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compared it to the slothfulness 
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She was so close. 
Believing a false god. 

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And this appearance of 
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convince people, there's going 
to be a false sense of Liberty, 

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a false sense of piety that will
be attractive. 

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We're seeing it with a New Age 
movement where people feel and 

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they're expressing spiritual 
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This is only going to become 
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notice I said not just false 
teaching that will produce 

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appearances of godliness. 
I also said, Unfaithful teaching

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What do I mean by that? 
I mean that appearances of 

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godliness will also become true 
because there will be those who 

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declare and profess and claim to
be Ministers of the true gospel 

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in ministries that apparently 
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When in fact, they are not 
giving the complete gospel. 

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And because of this, this is 
what's going to happen. 

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It's already happening. 
It's going to continue to 

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happen. 
We're going to see half 

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converted semi saved moralistic 
mannequins. 

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Infecting the angelical World. 
Why? 

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For one reason? 
Among many, because the teaching

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because the proclamation of the 
Gospel is not complete. 

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I'm more angry at such men than 
Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

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And Jeremiah spoke of such men 
and I want to show you I want to

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show you from this is where I'm 
going to encourage you to turn 

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when God speaks about the 
prophets who were supposed to 

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represent the truth and what 
they did and what it resulted to

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its Heroes. 
Jeremiah 23. 

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We looked at Matthew 23, scroll 
in your sacred scripture. 

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Did Jeremiah 23. 
Verse 14 liquid. 

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God says Jeremiah 23 14, but in 
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seen a horrible thing. 
That alone is just sobering, not

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among the Heathen, not among the
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Jerusalem, I've seen a horrible 
thing, they commit adultery and 

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walk in lies. 
They strengthen the hands of 

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evildoers so that no one turns 
from his evil. 

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Imagine that That is as a result
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prophets, they didn't call 
people out of sin. 

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They convince them to remain in 
it. 

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Their life in their preaching, 
didn't admonish them to let go 

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of their fleshly desires. 
But to have a stronger grip on 

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them, it's a false security. 
Remember in Jeremiah these false

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prophets were saying, peace, 
peace. 

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When there is no peace. 
There is no conviction, there is

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no rebuke. 
There is no call to repentance 

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and because there is no 
authority, never mind their 

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message, the message isn't even 
mentioned here. 

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He's talking about their 
lifestyle. 

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Because it doesn't matter even 
if you preach the truth of the 

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life contradicts that cancels 
the power of the message. 

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And that's why God is 
highlighting this. 

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There is no Authority because 
there's no authenticity. 

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Why are they profits that for 
the same reason? 

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Why preachers some preachers are
preachers today? 

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There's something attractive 
about that kind of authority. 

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You get respect. t', when you 
are Pastor or an evangelist or a

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podcast preacher, Your source of
information that people can come

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to people rely on voices, that 
declare truth or perhaps some 

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are attracted to it because 
because they want that authority

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to control people. 
And they want to manipulate 

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people and they want to take 
advantage of the vulnerable and 

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the naive. 
And there are even some who see 

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this as a job. 
It's a job. 

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And sometimes it's not just a 
paycheck to paycheck thing, they

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will even twist their message to
have greater gain from people 

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who have simple faith. 
Regardless of the fact, these 

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men here are told by the god 
that they apparently represent. 

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This is horrible. 
This is absolutely atrocious but

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it's later in the same chapter 
that you see God, not just 

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judging their practice. 
But it's condemning their 

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Proclamation. 
And it's in verse 21 of the same

455
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chapter. 
Would you like to know how these

456
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:57,000
prophets who can claim to be 
messengers of God came to be? 

457
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,600
Would you like to know how is it
that it happens? 

458
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,300
How is it that you have? 
Those who are apparently 

459
00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:03,700
supposed to give the truth but 
don't give the truth. 

460
00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:05,100
Why this? 
Why are you even in that 

461
00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:09,200
position? 
Why would you even dare to to 

462
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,100
walk in such a call? 
Jeremiah 23, 21. 

463
00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:16,100
Look what God says about the 
same profits. 

464
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:22,700
I did not send the prophets. 
Yet they ran, I did not speak to

465
00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:25,100
them, yet they prophesied. 
Number one, they were never 

466
00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:30,400
called by God to begin with. 
I didn't send them their 

467
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,400
self-appointed Ministries and 
ministers. 

468
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:38,200
They didn't have a call, they 
have a conviction and whatever 

469
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,200
desire. 
There wasn't a pure desire was 

470
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:45,100
an Unholy desire. 
Could have been again that they 

471
00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:49,200
saw something of personal gain 
by being a prophet. 

472
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,900
They saw the praise that they 
could receive. 

473
00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:55,700
If they just sued the religious 
consciousness of men among other

474
00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:59,000
things. 
Nevertheless God says, I never 

475
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:04,900
sent them. 
If you're entertaining Ministry,

476
00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:07,600
but you don't have the pure 
desire for Ministry according to

477
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,700
the Bible and you don't sense. 
God calling you to Ministry. 

478
00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:12,400
Can I say this in love? 
Stay away from Ministry, just 

479
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,200
stay away. 
Go go, join the Mormons. 

480
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,000
Go join the Jehovah's Witnesses 
or go do something else. 

481
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:27,100
But do not come into this. 
If your desires are not in line 

482
00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:30,200
with the word of God, and if you
do not have the conviction that 

483
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,300
the Lord himself has called you 
to this ministry. 

484
00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:38,500
Because such men strengthen the 
hands of evildoers and no one 

485
00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:40,900
turns from his evil, but that's 
not the only thing. 

486
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:47,900
Look at verse 22, Jeremiah 23 
22, but if they had stood in my 

487
00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:52,600
counsel, then they would have 
proclaimed my words to my people

488
00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:56,300
and they would have turned them 
from their evil way and from the

489
00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:01,400
evil of their deeds, So number 
one, they won't even send, but 

490
00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:04,800
even if they did start from a 
right place, there was a failure

491
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,500
along the way, and the failure 
along the way, if it wasn't from

492
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:12,400
the beginning, was this, they 
did not know me and spend time 

493
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,900
in my presence. 
That's what he means here. 

494
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:19,800
If they had stood in my counsel,
if they were in that inner 

495
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,100
circle of intimacy, with me, if 
they sat at my feet and sought 

496
00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:27,300
to me, if they came to my word 
and allowed it to burn in their 

497
00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:32,300
hearts, if they had come to me. 
Then they would have spoken my 

498
00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:36,200
words. 
Because you cannot fellowship 

499
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:41,700
with the Holy One and not have 
that impress you to see the evil

500
00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:44,900
in the world and remain silent 
about it. 

501
00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:49,200
There is no way that you can 
actually come in contact with 

502
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,600
this God, on a daily basis and 
not be moved to be faithful to 

503
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:57,000
his message. 
I can tell you something boldly,

504
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,000
that many of these people, that 
will not declare a message of 

505
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,900
repentance unto salvation or 
call to Holiness for those who 

506
00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:05,200
are saved. 
By faith. 

507
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,900
They don't know God. 
I don't care how smart they are,

508
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,700
I don't care how impressive they
are. 

509
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,800
I don't care how philosophical 
they are. 

510
00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:16,500
If they do not preach the 
complete truth, they don't 

511
00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:22,600
fellowship with the person who 
is truth because God said it. 

512
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,500
If they would stood in my 
counsel, then they would have 

513
00:33:26,500 --> 00:33:29,900
Proclaim my word. 
They don't commune with me, they

514
00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:32,900
don't know me. 
They don't hear from me. 

515
00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:38,000
But if you stand in the counsel 
of God, you will never bend your

516
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,900
knee before, man. 
No matter what kind of faces, 

517
00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:44,400
they might show you while you 
preach and would you know? 

518
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,000
It preachers are encouraged. 
Not to look at the faces of 

519
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400
people, not in some Seminary 
text in the Book of Ezekiel do. 

520
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:56,500
Not look at their faces. 
You preach the truth and Let My 

521
00:33:56,500 --> 00:34:00,100
Words reach their hearts. 
And look at the result, they 

522
00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:01,700
would have turned from their 
evil way. 

523
00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:04,200
They would have, they would have
been a chance for repentance. 

524
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,400
There was a chance for True, 
Conformity to my Holiness, to my

525
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,400
will, but because you didn't 
preach it, you raise a 

526
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:17,199
generation that had the 
appearance of godlessness This 

527
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:19,900
is what we're seeing today on a 
vast level. 

528
00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:23,900
This is what we will continue to
say c as well, and I can go on 

529
00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:27,000
about different reasons why 
people will clothe themselves 

530
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,500
with a false false sense of 
relationship with God. 

531
00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:32,699
A false sense of Faith but I 
want to end this message on a 

532
00:34:32,707 --> 00:34:35,199
different note. 
I want to conclude with 

533
00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,600
something that will directly 
deal with all of us. 

534
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,199
I want to offer to you a series 
of marks in the past few weeks 

535
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,100
and we could have done it with 
every single one of these things

536
00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,000
in the past few weeks, you've 
been hearing about the marks of 

537
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,300
the of the men, and women who 
will be plagued by their own sin

538
00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:52,600
in the last days. 
But I want to conclude this 

539
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,900
section on this. 
On this exclamation point that 

540
00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:59,800
Paul gives us in verse 5, with a
series of marks of somebody who 

541
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:06,900
is truly born again. 
Now, this part is going to do 

542
00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:08,500
two things. 
At least two things. 

543
00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:13,100
As you hear these different 
marks of what it means to truly 

544
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:17,500
be saved, the spirit of God will
bear witness in your spirit that

545
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:21,300
you are a child of God, and you 
will be able to say confidently.

546
00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:25,900
Amen, amen, amen. 
That is true of me. 

547
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:34,800
And two others. 
It may cause you to say, if you 

548
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,400
are honest with yourself and if 
you love your soul, to think I 

549
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,700
hear these things, but I, I do 
not know if I can say that. 

550
00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:47,400
This is true of me. 
I've grown up in the church, 

551
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,500
I've done the ordinances. 
I even have been involved in in 

552
00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:54,200
some Ministries. 
But these marks I'm afraid are 

553
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:59,700
not evident in my life. 
And I'm also going to give this 

554
00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:04,100
disclaimer that I am aware of 
people who are truly born again,

555
00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:07,900
then when they hear such things,
all it does is cause more doubt,

556
00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:09,700
though they have no reason to 
doubt. 

557
00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:15,300
Because they are just prone to 
introspection and one of their 

558
00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:18,700
weaknesses is that they struggle
with understanding the love of 

559
00:36:18,700 --> 00:36:21,800
God and the Salvation that he 
offers freely. 

560
00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:25,500
I'm not I'm not trying to cause 
more doubt to you. 

561
00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:31,400
I'm trying to make sure But 
every person here though, 

562
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,800
imperfect and those striving on 
to maturity and Jesus would fall

563
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,900
along the way they could say, on
a foundational level in my being

564
00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:43,100
and the Holy Spirit who is in me
though, I may grieve him. 

565
00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:47,200
Sometimes I can sense the 
testimony that I have truly been

566
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:51,900
brought from Death To Life. 
But how can we do this? 

567
00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:56,000
Are we just going to pull some 
verses here and there we can but

568
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,300
I want to tell you something, 
there's an entire book in the 

569
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:02,900
Bible that has the ambition, the
main goal of its writings for 

570
00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:07,100
this very purpose. 
And whenever I've had 

571
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:09,600
conversations with people, 
whether they doubt their 

572
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,000
salvation or whether I think 
they should question their 

573
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:18,900
salvation is go to the book of 
First John and read it through 

574
00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:22,800
and through. 
And as you see, what John says 

575
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,400
about those who are truly born 
again, if you can say amen. 

576
00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:29,100
Amen, amen. 
Then you are safe. 

577
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:33,000
But if you cannot testify in 
your heart, that these things 

578
00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:38,100
speak of you, then fall on your 
face, and called to him was 

579
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:43,000
ready to save you and so I want 
to prove this to you in first, 

580
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,600
John 5 verse 13, Now, look for 
those in here. 

581
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,300
We're like yes I'm a I even know
where you're going preacher, 

582
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,400
maybe you don't know where this 
is going, equip yourselves with 

583
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,600
these verses so that you can 
help another. 

584
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,500
So you can pass this along to 
somebody else so that you can 

585
00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:05,100
use this. 
When you might be facing 

586
00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:07,500
somebody that you're trying to 
evangelize who is church. 

587
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:10,100
And I used but not truly Born 
Again. 

588
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,800
Look what John says. 
In first John 5:13, I write 

589
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,900
these things to you who believe 
in the Name of the son of God, 

590
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,300
that you may know that you have 
eternal life. 

591
00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:26,100
What's amazing is this is the 
same John who wrote the Gospel 

592
00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:29,300
account in the Gospel of John 
and you know what he says near 

593
00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:32,000
the end of that book, right? 
And John 20:31. 

594
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,500
He says, but these are written 
so that you may believe that 

595
00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:40,800
Jesus is the Christ. 
So that it's an Evangelistic 

596
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,900
text. 
Look at the deity of this man. 

597
00:38:43,100 --> 00:38:45,400
He's the God man. 
Jesus Christ. 

598
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,300
But then he comes to First John,
and he speaking to Christians, 

599
00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:51,300
primarily, and he's not saying 
I'm writing these things to you 

600
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:55,500
so that you may believe I'm 
writing to you who do believe 

601
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,900
for what purpose that you may 
know that you have eternal life 

602
00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:04,100
that you may have the assurance 
that you make be concrete. 

603
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000
See God is not satisfied with 
you. 

604
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,500
My precious brother who might 
waiver in your trust in the 

605
00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:14,300
gospel. 
God does not want you to live in

606
00:39:14,300 --> 00:39:19,300
doubt of his love. 
He wants you to know that you 

607
00:39:19,308 --> 00:39:23,000
have eternal life. 
He wants you to not just believe

608
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,200
theologically that you are 
secure. 

609
00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:28,900
He wants you to be able to 
Rejoice because, you know, that 

610
00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:32,200
you're secure. 
And so he writes these things 

611
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,400
that you may know that you have 
eternal life and if you hear 

612
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,800
these things and you don't know,
then why would you play around 

613
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,600
with your soul? 
Because you don't want to 

614
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,900
disappoint some people that 
thought you were a Christian. 

615
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,000
That's not going to matter if 
you go to hell. 

616
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:58,400
And so, let's look at five marks
in the book of First, John Put 

617
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:03,400
your seatbelts on. 
And some of you will rejoice and

618
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,000
some of you, it may hurt, but if
you respond appropriately, you 

619
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,700
will rejoice as well. 
If first John 5:1, we see the 

620
00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:12,800
first Mark of somebody who's 
truly been born again. 

621
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,400
And you'll notice something of 
these verses. 

622
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,800
Every single verse will say 
those who have been born of God,

623
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,300
those who have every single 
verse will have that phrase, so 

624
00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:23,400
it's an Evidence. 
It's a mark of somebody who's 

625
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,000
been born of God, which is what 
Paul is talking about that 

626
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,700
power. 
Within being born from above, is

627
00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:32,400
the power of God unto salvation.
The holy spirit's work in a 

628
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,700
heart. 
Not you clothing yourself in 

629
00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:40,000
your righteousness. 
Everyone who believes that Jesus

630
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,200
is. 
The Christ has been born of God.

631
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:48,500
And everyone who loves the 
father loves, Whoever has been 

632
00:40:48,500 --> 00:40:53,200
born of him. 
Number one, faith in the person 

633
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:58,700
and work of Jesus Christ. 
Notice that it says, whoever 

634
00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:03,600
believes everyone who believes 
Now, I understand the conflict 

635
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,300
with this because those who 
might have an appearance of 

636
00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:09,800
godliness, might claim belief, 
but their lives contradict as 

637
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,400
tight as tells us in chapter 1, 
that there are those who profess

638
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,400
to know God, but they deny him 
by their works, but you have to 

639
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,000
read it. 
So slowly to understand what 

640
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,400
John is trying to say, because 
this Faith does something to 

641
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,800
you. 
It's not intellectual assent. 

642
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,800
It's not an odds acknowledgement
of Creed's? 

643
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,600
No, no, it does something to 
your affections. 

644
00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:31,000
It does something to your 
direction, it does something to 

645
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,700
your Because right after he 
says, everyone who believes that

646
00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:40,800
Jesus is, the Christ has been 
born of God and look how he 

647
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,100
correlates it. 
And everyone who loves the 

648
00:41:43,100 --> 00:41:46,900
father, what's the connection 
that? 

649
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:49,600
If you believe in Jesus Christ, 
you're going to love the person 

650
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:55,300
of God. 
There's going to be an Awakening

651
00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:59,300
to the reality of relationship 
with the one who saved you. 

652
00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,700
That there's going to be this 
newfound relationship with this 

653
00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:07,000
God though you cannot see him. 
You love him and you adore him 

654
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,500
and you want to worship him and 
you want to serve him and as you

655
00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:12,700
grow in the knowledge of you 
want to see him. 

656
00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:17,400
You love the father, it's a 
faith that actually causes you 

657
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,500
to be in relationship with God, 
to commune with God, not to get 

658
00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:23,400
a ticket in and live how you 
want. 

659
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,100
No, no. 
It's an understanding that this 

660
00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:28,100
is deeply. 
Relational. 

661
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,500
That this is a Salvation work, 
that brings me to God himself. 

662
00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:38,300
And so, you understand that upon
being born again? 

663
00:42:39,300 --> 00:42:43,400
Yes, the belief we can rehearse 
the truth that you come to the 

664
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,700
knowledge that you cannot save 
yourself and that you cannot 

665
00:42:46,700 --> 00:42:50,000
work your way to heaven and that
you cannot appease the wrath of 

666
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,100
God in this life. 
We can talk about that. 

667
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,900
It's important justification by 
faith. 

668
00:42:56,500 --> 00:43:05,400
Yes. but that kind of faith is 
not just A whisper of belief, 

669
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,200
it's not just a slot filled in 
your knowledge of something. 

670
00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:12,200
It's a trust that causes you to 
rest. 

671
00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:18,000
It's a trust that produces an 
anchor in your soul that you are

672
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:22,800
ready to meet death that you are
ready and confident to stand 

673
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,200
before a holy God. 
And that trust that causes that 

674
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:31,200
burden to roll off your back. 
At the same time causes you to 

675
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,700
love the father. 
And I actually adore him and 

676
00:43:34,700 --> 00:43:38,700
cherish him and worship him. 
And that is why when somebody 

677
00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:42,300
comes from Death To Life, 
they're able to Now sing. 

678
00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:47,100
They're able now to to come in 
and wash themselves with truth 

679
00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:51,800
because they want to know God 
They want to know their savior. 

680
00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:56,700
Do you? 
You believe great but do you 

681
00:43:56,700 --> 00:44:00,200
love the father? 
You understand great. 

682
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:04,000
You can even preach the gospel 
to me, probably But do you love 

683
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,300
God? 
Because everyone who believes in

684
00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:10,200
the same breath, John says 
everyone who loves the father. 

685
00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:13,800
Belief in the person and work of
Jesus Christ. 

686
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,200
You've surrendered your attempt 
to win your salvation, you've 

687
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,800
surrender, the idea that you can
actually be righteous before 

688
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:24,900
God, you fall at his feet and at
the same time, you want to know 

689
00:44:24,900 --> 00:44:29,700
him. 
Mark number two and first John 

690
00:44:29,700 --> 00:44:37,000
chapter 3 verse 9 This is where 
the ESV does us a service. 

691
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,700
No one born of God, makes a 
practice of sinning. 

692
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,600
For God's seed, abides in him 
and he cannot keep on sinning 

693
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:52,000
because he has been born of God 
that word seed in the Greek is 

694
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:56,400
the word Sperma. 
And what's being implied here, 

695
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,700
is that when you're born again, 
the very DNA of God gets inside 

696
00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:03,300
of you. 
And you become his offspring 

697
00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:06,000
spiritually. 
And one of the ways, you know, 

698
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:10,500
that you you've been born of God
that the spiritual DNA has been 

699
00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:14,100
imparted into your soul, is that
you cannot go on. 

700
00:45:14,100 --> 00:45:19,000
Living in habitual sin, And the 
King James new King James, it 

701
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,100
would read, they do not sin. 
But that would, that would be 

702
00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:25,000
kind of hard to understand 
because early on, he says, if we

703
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,600
do sin we have an advocate. 
So the idea here is is something

704
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,300
continual habitual. 
And here's what I want to tell 

705
00:45:33,300 --> 00:45:36,600
you that, if you've really been 
born again, not only do you now 

706
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,700
enter into a relationship with 
God, but you actually have a new

707
00:45:39,700 --> 00:45:45,100
relationship with sin. you don't
have the same attitude towards 

708
00:45:45,100 --> 00:45:50,700
the things you once enjoyed, and
even may be justified, In fact, 

709
00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:55,800
now you have a white-hot hatred 
for sin, you realize that it put

710
00:45:55,900 --> 00:46:00,300
the Christ on the cross. 
You realize that there was a 

711
00:46:00,308 --> 00:46:03,900
bloody payment for your 
salvation because of your sin, 

712
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,700
you realize that it will 
fracture your fellowship with 

713
00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:10,600
God. 
You realize that it's ugly and 

714
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:15,600
it's horrific and now you are 
understanding God's mind though.

715
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:19,400
It is still polluted because we 
are still in this flesh and that

716
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,900
is not To say that you will not 
never know, Temptation or that 

717
00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:26,300
you'll never slip as you pursue 
maturity and Jesus Christ. 

718
00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:29,300
What it does mean, though, is 
that you cannot be comfortable 

719
00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:33,600
and willing to be in sin and 
claim to be born of God. 

720
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,200
Others might say it and they may
not say it directly but they 

721
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,400
remove it from their preaching. 
So might as well take a pair of 

722
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,400
scissors preacher and cut it out
of your Bible. 

723
00:46:46,100 --> 00:46:48,900
You cannot claim to be a child 
of God and still love your sin. 

724
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,500
People always wonder but I'm not
perfect. 

725
00:46:55,700 --> 00:46:59,000
And it's been a while, I still 
struggle and there still a 

726
00:46:59,008 --> 00:47:02,600
battle. 
And I always respond with this. 

727
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,800
Do you want to be free from sin?
I wish I could like that. 

728
00:47:07,100 --> 00:47:09,000
Do you want to be liberated from
this thing? 

729
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,700
Yes. 
It hurts me hurts, my family 

730
00:47:12,700 --> 00:47:14,300
hurts my brothers and sisters in
Christ. 

731
00:47:14,300 --> 00:47:16,900
It hurts, my God primarily and I
said, you have nothing to worry 

732
00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:20,000
about because it's that 
attitude, it's not about instant

733
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,000
Perfection. 
It's about new heart Direction. 

734
00:47:23,900 --> 00:47:25,800
He says here. 
No one born of God makes a 

735
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:30,200
practice of sinning. 
But we come to the third mark. 

736
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,700
And it's found in first, John 
229. 

737
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,900
If you know that he being God is
righteous, you know that 

738
00:47:39,900 --> 00:47:42,400
everyone who practices 
righteousness is born of him. 

739
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,000
So, being born again is not a 
matter of you stopping or 

740
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,800
ceasing to do that, which is 
wrong. 

741
00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:51,700
But there is, there is something
that happens in your heart, that

742
00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:55,500
changes your Pursuits in life. 
Your priorities, your 

743
00:47:55,500 --> 00:47:59,200
affections, and there is this 
towering goal. 

744
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:03,800
Now that cast a shadow on every 
other thing in this world. 

745
00:48:03,900 --> 00:48:06,500
Every other thing in your plans,
every other thing in your 

746
00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:10,900
dreams, this thing is so 
mountainous in your heart and it

747
00:48:10,900 --> 00:48:17,000
is this, I want to be like him. 
I want to be like the one who 

748
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,800
saved me. 
You see, we are all from 

749
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,800
different backgrounds, we have 
different stories and upon 

750
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,000
salvation, we do not share the 
same vocation. 

751
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,300
We do not have the same 
personality after we meet 

752
00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:34,800
Christ. 
We might not even be living in 

753
00:48:34,808 --> 00:48:37,500
the same place or going in the 
same direction. 

754
00:48:37,500 --> 00:48:41,900
But one thing that we all share 
is that we have a desire to be 

755
00:48:41,900 --> 00:48:45,400
like the savior So, no matter 
who you're married to, you want 

756
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,100
to be like Jesus, as the husband
that you are to the wife. 

757
00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:51,500
That you have no matter what 
kind of occupation you have. 

758
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,500
It's not about primarily having 
more money, or more promotion, 

759
00:48:55,500 --> 00:48:57,700
or more Comfort. 
It's about wherever I am. 

760
00:48:57,700 --> 00:49:01,700
I want to be like Christ no 
matter what kind of temperament,

761
00:49:01,700 --> 00:49:04,500
no matter how you look, no 
matter what kind of disease, you

762
00:49:04,500 --> 00:49:07,400
might be riddled with, no matter
what kind of chronic pain, no 

763
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,000
matter what kind of built you 
have, there's something towering

764
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,100
over all of that. 
And it is this Lord. 

765
00:49:12,100 --> 00:49:16,300
How would you live? 
Like if you were me, And do it 

766
00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:20,200
through me. 
There is a thirst for the 

767
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:24,900
commands of God, to be to be 
respected and to be obeyed and 

768
00:49:24,900 --> 00:49:27,300
there's a pain in the heart when
you find yourself in 

769
00:49:27,300 --> 00:49:31,900
Disobedience and yes there are 
days where you will know great, 

770
00:49:31,900 --> 00:49:36,400
tides of Temptation and you will
even know some Falls that would 

771
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,000
hurt you and others and you 
might stay there long enough, 

772
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,900
but let me say it again. 
When you come down to it, as you

773
00:49:42,900 --> 00:49:46,200
battle lukewarmness, as you 
battle Temptations of this world

774
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:50,200
down deep inside. 
You know that your life means 

775
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:54,000
nothing apart from living for 
him and like him. 

776
00:49:55,900 --> 00:49:59,200
That's why I first, John 5:3, he
says, for those who are in this 

777
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,600
category born again, that the 
commands of God are not 

778
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:06,100
burdensome. 
They're a joy to you. 

779
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:11,600
What you once despised and 
rejected and ignored, and maybe 

780
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:15,400
even made fun of you now, want 
more than anything. 

781
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,800
And you seek God's power and 
help. 

782
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,300
When you realize that you are 
blind to a certain aspect of 

783
00:50:22,308 --> 00:50:26,700
your personality, or about your 
habits or your decisions. 

784
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:28,700
And you say God, would you deal 
with that? 

785
00:50:28,700 --> 00:50:31,000
That's somebody who has been 
changed. 

786
00:50:32,900 --> 00:50:36,400
You want to live out in 
righteousness and it's not a 

787
00:50:36,408 --> 00:50:39,100
burden to you. 
It's a joy to you. 

788
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,500
We come to the fourth, Mark, and
first, John 4:7. 

789
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:51,500
Beloved. 
Let us love one another. 

790
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,200
For love is of God. 
And everyone who loves is born 

791
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:03,600
of God and knows God. 
So not only are you now awakened

792
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,000
to loving the father because you
realize the father, so loved you

793
00:51:07,300 --> 00:51:11,100
that he sent his son to rescue 
you But there's something else 

794
00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:14,200
that's inspired and it's an 
inspiration for horizontal 

795
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,800
sacrificial. 
Love and look at the language 

796
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,400
here. 
He says beloved let us love one 

797
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,100
another. 
In other words you who are loved

798
00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:27,500
love one another which teaches 
us that the motivation to love. 

799
00:51:27,500 --> 00:51:30,200
One another comes from the 
stream of the knowledge of God's

800
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:35,900
love for you and God's love for 
me and from that place because 

801
00:51:35,900 --> 00:51:39,400
you were motivated by an 
experiential revelation of God's

802
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,300
love towards. 
You the Holy Spirit comes into 

803
00:51:42,300 --> 00:51:44,000
that one. 
Stony heart. 

804
00:51:44,700 --> 00:51:48,300
He takes it out. 
He puts in a heart of Flesh. 

805
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,700
And that heart of Flesh. 
You know what he does throughout

806
00:51:51,700 --> 00:51:55,200
your life as you yield to him as
you submit to him. 

807
00:51:55,900 --> 00:52:00,600
Christ comes and he carves in 
that heart a love. 

808
00:52:01,700 --> 00:52:06,600
I love for people. 
And there is now this committed 

809
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,800
compassion that you have 
selflessness. 

810
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,700
Begins to evaporate though, it 
might be stronger on some days 

811
00:52:12,700 --> 00:52:15,300
and others and now there's a 
consideration, there's a 

812
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:18,300
willingness to serve, there's a 
willingness to give there's a 

813
00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:21,200
willingness to reach out your 
life, becomes really 

814
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:25,100
prioritizing and restructured, 
it's not about the funnel coming

815
00:52:25,100 --> 00:52:28,500
down to me. 
It's about me now, funneling out

816
00:52:30,300 --> 00:52:33,600
That's why you serve, right? 
And that's why you're here, 

817
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:35,600
right? 
And that's why you want to know 

818
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,600
what God is requiring of you. 
That's why you pray for your 

819
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,900
co-workers. 
That's why you you serve your 

820
00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:43,900
family members, so they don't 
know, they don't know Christ. 

821
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,700
But this love though, it is 
General. 

822
00:52:46,700 --> 00:52:50,400
It is specifically targeted 
towards the Bride of Jesus 

823
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:55,200
Christ. 
Because back in first John 5:1, 

824
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,000
what does he say? 
It's so clear. 

825
00:52:57,100 --> 00:53:00,700
He says that everyone who loves 
the father loves Whoever has 

826
00:53:00,700 --> 00:53:05,200
been born of him. 
This is amazing. 

827
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:10,600
I'll tell you why. 
Show me your love for the church

828
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:17,800
and I'll show you your love for 
God. though, imperfect, she may 

829
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:23,300
be They'll annoying. 
She may be though inconsistent. 

830
00:53:23,300 --> 00:53:29,800
She may be You love her. 
And the way you love her is that

831
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,000
you are not afraid to be 
associated with her. 

832
00:53:32,700 --> 00:53:34,700
And the way you loved her as 
that you were willing to serve 

833
00:53:34,700 --> 00:53:41,400
her, You're willing to. 
Link arms with those who are 

834
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:45,900
also children of God and walk 
this life with them. 

835
00:53:47,500 --> 00:53:50,700
I'm very wary of those who claim
to be lovers of God and lovers 

836
00:53:50,700 --> 00:53:56,500
of Doctrine and lovers of 
theology, but are isolated and 

837
00:53:56,500 --> 00:53:58,300
continually live their Christian
lives. 

838
00:53:58,300 --> 00:54:01,800
Criticizing the church as 
though, you were not a part of 

839
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:08,900
it. 
If a person doesn't take Church 

840
00:54:08,900 --> 00:54:10,800
seriously it's very hard for me 
to believe that they take god 

841
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:16,700
seriously. because scripture 
says, let us love one another 

842
00:54:17,300 --> 00:54:20,400
and you know that this love is 
not a talk love because John 

843
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:25,500
says earlier let us not love and
talk, but in word and In Deed Do

844
00:54:25,500 --> 00:54:29,100
you love the church or do you 
love sermons big difference? 

845
00:54:30,700 --> 00:54:33,100
You might like sermons, that 
doesn't mean that you love the 

846
00:54:33,100 --> 00:54:39,300
bride. because if you love The 
Bride, it will show in word and 

847
00:54:39,300 --> 00:54:44,700
deed. 
The final Mark of somebody who's

848
00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:48,100
been born of God is found in 
1st, John 5:4. 

849
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:58,500
For everyone who has been born 
of God, overcomes the world. 

850
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,800
And this is the victory that has
overcome the world. 

851
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:07,400
Our faith, our faith. 
Here's the understanding. 

852
00:55:08,100 --> 00:55:09,600
What does it mean to overcome 
the world? 

853
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:10,900
I believe. 
It means many things. 

854
00:55:12,100 --> 00:55:14,300
But I can't help. 
But think when I read this verse

855
00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:17,500
about the different soils that 
Jesus described the different 

856
00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:21,700
ways, people receive the Gospel,
the seed of the message that 

857
00:55:21,700 --> 00:55:24,700
saves a soul. 
And one of those soils is rocky 

858
00:55:24,700 --> 00:55:29,400
soil and the way Jesus describes
that soil is that when that seed

859
00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:32,900
is implanted, when it is 
received by that heart, it is 

860
00:55:32,900 --> 00:55:36,700
met with immediate Joy. 
There is excitement, there's 

861
00:55:36,700 --> 00:55:39,000
posting about it. 
There's telling some people 

862
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,800
about it as well and it says 
even that they endure. 

863
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:48,800
For a while. but then, when 
persecution comes And 

864
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:53,200
tribulation. 
And Challenge and conflict from 

865
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:58,800
the world and threats. 
When false teaching enters in, 

866
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:02,200
as John was dealing with, by the
way, he was dealing with 

867
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,600
Antichrist. 
As all these things, begin to 

868
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:11,900
flood and reach the ankles. 
Of those who are professing 

869
00:56:11,900 --> 00:56:15,100
Christians. 
Jesus speaks of those with rocky

870
00:56:15,100 --> 00:56:17,800
soil that they, as much as they 
immediately Rejoice, they will 

871
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:24,400
also immediately fall away. 
That is not an overcomer. but an

872
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:30,500
overcomer who's been really born
of God, nothing can snatch him 

873
00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:34,900
out of his hand. 
And there is a willingness 

874
00:56:35,100 --> 00:56:36,900
though. 
There might be fear at sometimes

875
00:56:36,900 --> 00:56:39,500
and weakness at other times, 
there may be concerned for your 

876
00:56:39,500 --> 00:56:41,300
family. 
There may be concerned for 

877
00:56:41,300 --> 00:56:46,100
yourself, you realize that in 
you, is the Holy Spirit who 

878
00:56:46,100 --> 00:56:50,900
makes you an overcomer. 
And this kind of reality, this 

879
00:56:50,900 --> 00:56:54,300
Mark can only be observed with 
time. 

880
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,700
But as time goes on, There you 
are. 

881
00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:04,900
You're still loving the Lord. 
They'll Christians might hurt 

882
00:57:04,900 --> 00:57:06,600
you. 
They'll professing Believers 

883
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:07,900
might disappoint. 
You might betray. 

884
00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:11,800
You might try to scare you there
you are, you're still serving 

885
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,300
him. 
You're Still Loving Him. 

886
00:57:14,300 --> 00:57:18,400
You're Still Loving the church. 
You're an overcomer. 

887
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:24,000
Because the one in you is over 
coming through you what about if

888
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,500
they don't overcome will go back
to 1st John to what does it say?

889
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:28,600
If they left us? 
They were not of us. 

890
00:57:30,500 --> 00:57:36,900
They had a type of soil and time
told that it was not legitimate.

891
00:57:41,300 --> 00:57:45,100
Do you believe in him today? 
Yeah. 

892
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:45,700
No. 
No. 

893
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:47,400
Do you really believe in him 
today? 

894
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:53,700
Does your belief cause your soul
to clutch at his Mercy? 

895
00:57:54,300 --> 00:57:59,600
Where you say? 
I know, I know that I am saved 

896
00:57:59,700 --> 00:58:01,000
now. 
I know Jesus died. 

897
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:05,300
I know that I'm saved. 
I know that I will stand before 

898
00:58:05,300 --> 00:58:07,100
him clothed in his 
righteousness. 

899
00:58:07,300 --> 00:58:13,100
I know it. 
Do you hate sin or are you 

900
00:58:13,100 --> 00:58:16,500
trying to justify and your grip?
Your giving great energy and 

901
00:58:16,500 --> 00:58:19,900
strength and trying to hide 
something because you love 

902
00:58:19,900 --> 00:58:22,100
iniquity. 
But you also want to hold on to 

903
00:58:22,100 --> 00:58:26,700
your Christian culture. 
What's the hunger? 

904
00:58:26,700 --> 00:58:27,900
What's the pursuit? 
Come on. 

905
00:58:28,700 --> 00:58:31,900
Is it for righteousness? 
Is it for the things of God? 

906
00:58:31,900 --> 00:58:34,700
Is it to be conformed? 
Mold in a melted Into His Image?

907
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,100
What happens? 
What kind of Harpoon is thrust 

908
00:58:39,100 --> 00:58:41,200
into your soul when you realize 
that even for a moment, you 

909
00:58:41,207 --> 00:58:46,300
misrepresented him. 
Do you love the church? 

910
00:58:46,900 --> 00:58:51,500
Do you love sermons? 
Do you love the people of God 

911
00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:52,100
though? 
They are. 

912
00:58:52,700 --> 00:58:55,800
Sometimes foolish. 
This would be Tiant. 

913
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:01,100
But you you filter it through 
this Jesus died for them. 

914
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:05,100
And you also turn that filter. 
Realize I'm not perfect either. 

915
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:12,500
And the last one. 
Only you will know if you're 

916
00:59:12,500 --> 00:59:18,100
really an overcomer. 
I pray that you would be but the

917
00:59:18,100 --> 00:59:21,700
only way you can be an overcomer
is if you have this Faith true, 

918
00:59:21,700 --> 00:59:26,700
Faith living inside of you. 
I call you today, if you are one

919
00:59:26,700 --> 00:59:30,900
who has had an appearance of 
godliness, To repent and believe

920
00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:37,100
in the gospel. 
Don't fool yourself anymore. 

921
00:59:38,900 --> 00:59:42,800
Coming to real life with Christ.
No Abundant Life in Jesus. 

922
00:59:43,900 --> 00:59:47,400
Believer. 
I hope that as you heard these 

923
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,100
verses resounding within you 
was. 

924
00:59:50,100 --> 00:59:53,600
Thank you. 
Jesus, you've saved my soul. 

925
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:56,500
Thank you. 
That I know that I have eternal 

926
00:59:56,500 --> 01:00:00,200
life because I know that I've 
been born of him because I know 

927
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,600
that those things that have been
said though, they are marred by 

928
01:00:03,700 --> 01:00:05,800
my imperfections at times they 
are. 

929
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:13,500
True nonetheless, Hallelujah. 
If you feel like this was 

930
01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:16,300
strong, no, this I wish somebody
preach it to me when I was in 

931
01:00:16,300 --> 01:00:19,700
high school. 
I wish somebody had the boldness

932
01:00:19,700 --> 01:00:22,800
to look at me before I went off 
to college. 

933
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:26,100
Telling people, I was a 
Christian while I was getting 

934
01:00:26,100 --> 01:00:32,100
intoxicated at parties. 
I wasn't born again and had a 

935
01:00:32,100 --> 01:00:37,800
rude awakening at the age of 20.
and I could tell you this, the 

936
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:42,200
revelation of the destination of
my eternal State mattered more 

937
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,400
to me, More than what my parents
would have. 

938
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:48,000
Thought, when they found out 
that I was really saved that 20 

939
01:00:48,900 --> 01:00:54,800
even though I was baptized at 
11, Let go of your pride. 

940
01:00:56,100 --> 01:01:00,200
Let go of it and come into 
Abundant Life in Jesus Christ. 

941
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:05,000
Because in the days ahead, 
family of God, there will be 

942
01:01:05,100 --> 01:01:09,100
many appearances of godliness, 
but denying the true power and 

943
01:01:09,100 --> 01:01:13,800
may God by his Mercy display. 
True power from us as his church

944
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:46,700
Let's pray. 
Lord this morning, we Rejoice 

945
01:01:47,500 --> 01:01:49,700
that. 
Again it has been confirmed that

946
01:01:49,700 --> 01:01:52,200
at a certain time. 
You have truly saved us and that

947
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:56,500
we are born of the spirit. 
Lord. 

948
01:01:56,500 --> 01:01:59,800
In this moment, we ask that you 
would deal with any false sense 

949
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,900
of doubt. 
That you would Target it and you

950
01:02:02,900 --> 01:02:05,600
would destroy and replace it 
with true Joy. 

951
01:02:06,700 --> 01:02:09,600
But at the same time, we ask 
that you would convict the heart

952
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:14,900
that you would cut through the 
costume through the mask and 

953
01:02:14,900 --> 01:02:17,100
that the right Hearts would be 
pricked. 

954
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:23,100
Lord may this message not be 
interpreted as trying to make 

955
01:02:23,100 --> 01:02:26,300
people feel unnecessarily, 
convicted. 

956
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:30,800
Because Lord, in the spirit of 
First John, you've given us 

957
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:35,100
these truths that we may be 
secure and we may be able to 

958
01:02:35,100 --> 01:02:38,800
bless you and thank you as we 
examine ourselves in light of 

959
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,400
your word that you have truly 
done a work in US Blessed, Be 

960
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:46,100
Your Name and so Lord made this 
afternoon. 

961
01:02:48,500 --> 01:02:49,800
No, true. 
Joy. 

962
01:02:49,900 --> 01:02:54,600
A joy of confirmation in the joy
of conviction that would lead to

963
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:59,200
conversion. and Lord, may you be
able to look into this 

964
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:02,400
congregation as you did a couple
of churches in the Book of 

965
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:06,400
Revelation and find nobody 
wanting But a group of people 

966
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:11,700
who have been changed. 
A corporate change For Your 

967
01:03:11,700 --> 01:03:14,500
Glory in the days where there 
will be great, appearances of 

968
01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:17,400
godliness. 
Make us truly Godly. 

969
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:20,000
Thank you for salvation by 
faith. 

970
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:22,200
Thank you that we enter in by 
Grace. 

971
01:03:22,500 --> 01:03:24,100
Thank you. 
That we do not impress you. 

972
01:03:24,300 --> 01:03:29,900
You come to save us and all we 
do is fall at your mercy, repent

973
01:03:29,900 --> 01:03:32,200
of our sin and Trust in that 
precious name. 

974
01:03:32,300 --> 01:03:36,000
Blessed, Be Your Name. 
As we sing to you now, in light 

975
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:39,200
of our Salvation, in Jesus name,
we pray, amen.