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This is Living Waters of Grace, 
the teaching ministry of Lewis 

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Harold, assistant pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 

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County in Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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But there are other decisions 
that we have to make for Jesus 

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Christ rather be on our jobs, in
our communities or even in our 

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families. 
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decision that we will not 
denounce, we will not deny, we 

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will not turn from Jesus Christ,
we will not disown it. 

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And that's exactly what this 
means when he says if we deny 

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Him, it means if we disown him, 
we disown Him before men, He 

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would disown us before the 
Father. 

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There's a lot of pressure in our
world today to deny the name of 

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Jesus. 
It's become a bit taboo to say 

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that you follow Jesus. 
It's perfectly OK to be 

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spiritual. 
But to say that Jesus is your 

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king? 
That can bring on the ire of the

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masses. 
Pastor Lewis shares today that 

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we need to be ready to stand for
Jesus no matter what the world 

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tells us. 
But what if it's a friend or 

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family member who's pressuring 
you to take it easy about your 

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faith in Jesus? 
It doesn't matter. 

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Jesus died for you. 
You are called to stand for him.

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Now. 
Here's Pastor Lewis in the Book 

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of Second Timothy, Chapter 2, 
with today's edition of Living 

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Waters of Grace. 
Paul was looking at imminent 

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execution. 
He was looking to be executed. 

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So he was giving his son in the 
faith, Timothy, last words, 

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important words that would help 
him to carry the mantle, to do 

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the job that he had began to do,
to carry the mantle, that he 

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would be the pastor of this 
church in Ephesus, but that even

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more than that, he would be the 
man of God that God was calling 

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him to be. 
And in doing so, Paul thought it

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was necessary to impart to him 
instruction just as he is 

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imparting it to us as well, to 
help us to live a life that's 

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pleasing to God. 
So when we start here in verse 

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11, the first thing we read is 
this is a faithful saying or 

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this is a trustworthy saying. 
You can believe this, you can 

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live by this. 
This is something that you can 

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take with you, Timothy. 
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emphasize the promise of life, 
which is in the gospel that Paul

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was emphasizing at the very 
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And he says here, for if we died
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with him. 
Now that's especially important 

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to Paul because he's facing 
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So as he sits in this prison and
he's thinking about these things

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and he's thinking about the 
promise that he has in Christ 

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Jesus that if we die with him, 
that we will also live with him.

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Paul's encouraging himself as 
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Timothy. 
And that's exactly what the word

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of God does. 
When we read the Word of God or 

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we study the word of God, it 
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And when we share the word of 
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encourages them. 
But even in our encouraging with

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other people and sharing the 
word with other people, we also 

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encourage ourselves, which is 
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continue to talk about the 
things of God, because we 

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encourage not only other people,
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that. 
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we also live together. 
In Romans 6 and 8, the Bible 

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says now if we die with Christ, 
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live with him. 
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thinking about these kind of 
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And when we think about the 
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Jesus tells us that we are to, 
you know, deny ourselves that we

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are to pick up our cross and 
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So we do give ourselves away. 
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saved, when we trust Jesus 
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We do die to ourselves. 
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We die to our old way of being, 
our old way of thinking, our old

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way of speaking, the things that
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We die to those things. 
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And it's almost symbolic because
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have. 
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the other one is the one that we
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Holy Table. 
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it is a symbol of what has 
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So when he talks about baptism, 
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into the watery grave, that 
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grave upon his death. 
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there, we that symbolizes Jesus 
Christ raising up into 

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resurrection of new life. 
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We, we rise with Jesus Christ in
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live with Jesus Christ. 
Galatians 2 and 20 says I have 

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been crucified with Christ. 
Nevertheless, I live not I, but 

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Christ lives in me, in the life 
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I live it by the faith of the 
Son of God who loved me and gave

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himself for me. 
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Corinthians 5 and 17 says if 
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creation. 
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they've died, they've died. 
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That old me, they passed away 
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become new and we are all new in
Christ Jesus and we're grateful 

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for that. 
So he says if you die with him, 

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we should also live with him. 
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Timothy, don't be afraid of the 
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We know that Nero is taking 
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People are dying for the faith. 
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Timothy to say, this could 
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no question about it, it could 
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But be encouraged because if we 
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with Him. 
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So then we go to verse 12 and he
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reign with Him. 
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persecution, if we endure 
suffering, we will also reign 

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with him. 
There's that reward. 

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We get a reward for enduring and
we're enduring now. 

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I mean, we, we endure. 
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persecution that Timothy or 
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gone through. 
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than John was martyred. 
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people who live for Christ get 
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endure the persecution. 
There's a strength, and Paul is 

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saying here that if we share in 
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persecutions and we persevere in
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don't give out, we don't throw 
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The hope is that we're going to 
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It makes us stronger. 
There's a quote that I want to 

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share with you and it just 
simply says at the timberline 

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where the storms strike with the
most fury, the sturdiest trees 

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are found. 
When we go through the hardest 

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trials, the hardest test, when 
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furnace. 
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become sturdier. 
Sturdier in Christ Jesus. 

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It's a time of preparation. 
So he says if we endure, we 

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shall also reign with Him. 
Revelations 3 and 21 says to him

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who overcomes, I will grant to 
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also overcame and sat down with 
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Mark 13 and 13 says, And you 
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sake. 
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You might be. 
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sake. 
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not people out there who hate us
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That's the only reason they hate
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We stand for that name, but he 
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the end shall be saved. 
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And Paul, once again, thinking 
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living at that particular time 
and all the things that's going 

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around him, he simply says this.
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deny us. 
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back at that particular time 
when they were going through the

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persecutions, whenever the 
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Nero soldiers, when they would, 
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these Christians in and they 
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before they would send them to 
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threaten to behead them or 
before they would Pierce them 

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through with the sword, they 
would give them an option, a 

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chance to deny Jesus Christ. 
They would ask, do you want to 

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denounce them? 
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And it's those who would hold on
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Christ. 
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There's a book that I have 
called the The Soldiers, God 

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Soldiers. 
And it's just full of men who 

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gave their life for Christ 
generally during the time of 

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Reformation. 
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when they were caught or they 
were arrested and they were tied

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up to a stake to be burned 
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they would ask them, do you want
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And they would say no. 
And all of these men died a 

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horrific death of a martyr, 
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But also wanted to let you know,
remind you, I want to remind you

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that 23 years ago, two kids, one
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named Eric Harris, walked into a
high school in Colorado called 

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Columbine. 
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and kill 12 people before they, 
well, 13 people actually, before

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they turned the guns on 
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These are obviously very 
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came to a young lady whose name 
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And she was well known as a as a
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And they asked her a question. 
Eric Harris was the one that put

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the gun to her head and asked 
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He asked her, do you still 
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And she said yes. 
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Her life was cut short at age 17
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I don't know that anyone in here
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that, would ever have to make 
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But there are other decisions 
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Christ rather be on our jobs, in
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families where we have to make 
the decision that we will not 

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denounce, we will not deny, we 
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we will not disown him. 
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means when he says if we deny 
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If we disown Him before men, he 
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Father. 
So there may be a time when we 

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have to stand and have to accept
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coming if we do not deny or 
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Now, none of us know exactly 
what we would do at that 

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particular time, but I pray that
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The way he gave it to Cassie 
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The way he gave it to so many of
those reformers, the way he gave

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it to Peter, the way he gave it 
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Philip and all the other 
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that particular time. 
I pray that the power of Christ 

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would be upon me at that time 
and that I am able to sing a 

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hymn instead of denounce my 
Savior. 

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And I pray that each one of you 
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as well. 
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Fear is usually the reason why 
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Fear. 
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earlier that God did not give us
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But we have a spirit of power of
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And I pray that in that time 
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the power to not disown our 
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Then he goes on to the 13 and he
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remains faithful. 
He cannot deny himself. 

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It's a very interesting line 
there because he's saying if we 

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are faithless now, he didn't say
if you were have, if you have 

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little faith. 
He said if you are faithless, if

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you don't believe, if you don't 
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He cannot deny himself. 
In the book of Numbers, the 

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Bible says that he is not a man,
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the Son of Man, that he should 
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So he will never do anything 
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He will never do anything 
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Whatever he promised, he will 
do. 

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Now for us, that can be a good 
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For believers, that can be a 
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If we think about, if we think 
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Abraham, think about what 
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They were all promised 
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at one point or another, they 
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And not only is God faithful, 
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someone doesn't believe at all, 
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don't believe at all, 
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still faithful that as an 
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eternity and you have not 
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what He said was going to happen
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The wrath of God will abide on 
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there are times when we all are 
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that way more than we want to 
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if we deny Jesus Christ, that if
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Peter denied him three times. 
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Peter came to be. 
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of the church because he told 
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he said, Peter, you're going to 
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strengthen your brothers because
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want to deny me as well. 
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denied them. 
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allow us to turn to Him. 
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if we confess the fact that we 
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and he will give us grace to 
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We don't have to die in our 
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Jesus Christ for your Lord and 
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that way. 
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saying to you, come to me, come 
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He came to die for your sins and
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these things, charging them 
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about words to no profit, to the
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Now, first of all, he says 
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Clark, Pastor Clark and myself, 
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come up and we share the word of
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new things because we go chapter
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the word of God probably just as
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For some of you, you've already 
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We're not giving anything new. 
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them, I've already given you 
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anything new, but we need to be 
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Every now and then. 
We need to be reminded about the

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mercy of God every now and then.
We need to be reminded about the

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promises that God gives us. 
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suffering. 
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repentance. 
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reminded, and this is what 
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He says remind them of these 
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commanding them before the Lord 
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Don't argue about words. 
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don't have no profit. 
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no eternal value. 
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Those kind of things. 
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It doesn't do anything good. 
It doesn't lead to anything 

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positive, but what it does is 
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He says here that it's only that
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is subvert or destroy the 
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You discourage more people than 
you encourage when you argue 

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about words. 
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want to drop down for a second 
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He says, But shun profane and 
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increase, or in other words, 
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ungodliness. 
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not or not strive over words, 
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profane and idle babblings. 
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he puts what used to be one of 
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still is, but now Hebrews 1166 
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But this when I first got saved,
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I, I, I read this verse every 
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diligent to present yourself 
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does not need to be ashamed, 
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truth. 
That was so important to me when

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I first got saved because I had 
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hunger for the word and I had a 
mentor who was big on rightly 

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dividing the word. 
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every day and I would read it in
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basically says it almost says 
the same thing, but it changes a

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few of the words. 
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this, and this is the most 
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you. 
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approve to God, not approve to 
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Notice what that says because 
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It's not approve to man. 
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I should never be teaching to 
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That's not what this is about. 
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do. 
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understand the word of God, to 
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him. 
And that's why it's nestled in 

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between those two verses. 
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about words to no prophet, to 
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nothing to do with teaching the 
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babbling, that has nothing to do
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Those things are ungodly. 
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God and we are workmen, the 
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the word of God. 
We study it just like Paul said 

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a couple verses back, that one 
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farmer, a hard working farmer. 
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make sure that we are hard 
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God, spending time with him in 
prayer so that we rightly 

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divide. 
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actually means cutting straight,
cutting the word of God 

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straight. 
We know that farmers cut furrows

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straight. 
A Carpenter will cut a board 

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straight. 
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the Word are to cut the Word 
straight, cut it straight, give 

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it straight. 
We don't add to it, we don't 

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take away from it, we don't 
sugarcoat it, we don't 

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breakdance around sin. 
We cut it straight just the way 

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the Lord gives it to us. 
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says Sean, that means to keep 
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irreverent, unconsecrated and 
babbling just simply means empty

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chatter. 
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things because they don't lead 
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It leads to more ungodliness. 
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arguments, bitter arguments, 
bitter debates, and no one comes

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out of it benefiting. 
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But when you teach the word of 
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that is along with it that will 
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It encourages us, it corrects us
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it leads us to godliness. 
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we're in the books of First and 
Second Timothy. 

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Pastor Lewis Harrell is walking 
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from Paul to Timothy. 
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Paul is anticipating that his 
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a close. 
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advice to his mentee. 
Paul writes in Second Timothy 4,

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verse seven. 
I have fought the good fight. 

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I have finished the race. 
I have kept the faith. 

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Wherever you are in your journey
of faith with God, our hope is 

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that you have the willingness to
fight for what's true. 

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Not compromising, but holding 
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Paul was reminding Timothy of 
this, and it's a good reminder 

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for you and for me today, too. 
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