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

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Wofford, senior pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 

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County of Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Clark as he 

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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The world system satisfies the 
desires of the fallen nature. 

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So even though we're Christians,
we still deal with sin, right? 

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And we'd be lying if we say that
something doesn't affect us at 

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times or attract us. 
It does. 

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We got to fight against it. 
The Bible tells us as men to 

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flee youthful us at war against 
the soul. 

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You have to put yourself in a 
place that you're not going to 

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be attacked by the world system,
but the world system is designed

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to satisfy the fallen part of 
your nature, your flesh and your

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mind. 
Hey, we're all human, right? 

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We all have cravings and 
desires. 

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If you're trying to lose weight,
you're not going to go hang out 

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in the donut shop or at the ice 
cream parlor. 

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If you're trying to do a digital
detox, you've got to get out 

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into nature, away from 
technology. 

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In today's message, Pastor Clark
expresses to you the importance 

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of being on guard against the 
sinful system of the world. 

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Don't let the world entice you 
to compromise your walk with 

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Christ, but steer clear of all 
of its fleshly lusts. 

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Now here's Pastor Clark in 
Revelation Chapter 18 with 

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today's edition of Living Waters
of Grace. 

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In spite of the darkness and 
this last day of the 

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tribulation, God's glory is 
going to shine, because the 

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Angel illuminates the earth with
his glory, so the darkness can't

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ever outshine the light. 
And it talks about this 

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judgment. 
It says the nations have drunk 

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of the wine for the wrath of her
fornication. 

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The kings of the earth have 
committed fornication with her, 

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and the merchants of the earth 
have become rich through the 

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abundance of her luxury. 
This Joel judgment is spoken 

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about where Babylon is fallen 
shows that in chapter 17, the 

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ecclesiastical system is fallen 
with a great harlot we studied 

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about several weeks ago. 
And now in chapter 18 we see the

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political financial system 
becoming affected by what's 

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going on. 
And Babylon's going to receive 

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double for her many sins. 
The dwelling place of Satan. 

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There's so many places on the 
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the dwelling place of Satan, of 
demons. 

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I think bars are and nightclubs 
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demons. 
Unfortunately, I attended some 

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of those places after I became a
Christian for a while. 

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I knew down deep inside that I 
shouldn't be in those places 

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because I didn't. 
I wasn't like that anymore. 

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But you know, through business 
situations or whatever, I was 

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compelled to go to some of these
places at different times. 

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And I'll tell you like it's 
sense of darkness and what 

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happens as a Christian, if you 
hang out with people who are in 

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the dwelling place of demons, it
will have a tendency to pull you

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back from the direction that God
wants you to go in. 

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It will cause you to go 
backwards in your spiritual life

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that we use that word 
backsliding. 

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And so there's many, many places
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demons. 
Now here is a mine which has 

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wisdom. 
The seven heads are the seven 

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mountains in which the women 
says this judgement has become 

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the pollution of the whole 
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I know you folks that have kids.
You love your kids. 

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Some of you have chosen to 
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Some of them you haven't you? 
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I'll tell you guys, it's your 
responsibility to train your 

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kids in the way of the Lord. 
In these days, you can't depend 

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on anybody else to train your 
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It gives us warning in the Old 
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Israel were told to teach their 
kids from the morning when they 

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got up to when they went to bed 
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They would read the word, they 
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teach them the ways of God. 
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not saying any, you guys do 
this, but too many people depend

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on the Christian School to 
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or they depend on the church 
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spiritually. 
And the church has a 

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responsibility to teach 
everybody from the baby up to 

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the oldest person. 
But one day a week for 45 

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minutes isn't going to cut it, 
right? 

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It isn't. 
It's your responsibility to 

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teach your kids, but what's 
happening is all this pollution 

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is affecting your children. 
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when your kids come home from 
school and you're asking them, 

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well, what is it you learned 
today about science? 

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Or what is it that they taught 
you about how the world 

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developed? 
And you're not circumventing the

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darkness that's coming in to 
infiltrate their lives and to 

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cause them to become jaded in 
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You're going to have a real 
problem when they get older and 

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they become adults. 
The world system that we're in 

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today is opposing Christ and 
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It exists today to make you and 
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And the only thing that can free
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person. 
And the power of the Holy Spirit

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is Christ. 
And the Father sent him forth to

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do the work of convicting the 
world of sin and of 

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righteousness and of judgment. 
The apostle Paul tells us we're 

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not to be conformed to this 
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It's not a suggestion, it's a 
commandment not to be conformed 

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to this world. 
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conformed to this world is allow
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I, I personally don't see a 
whole lot that's worthwhile 

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watching on there. 
It's like a waste. 

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You might think I'm a fanatic, 
but you know, I still have ATV 

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because my wife still likes 
watching it, but I, I don't have

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any interest in that television.
It's a waste of time. 

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Tell me one thing that's good on
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Football. 
That's about it, you know, But 

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the problem is you got to deal 
with the commercials in between,

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right? 
And that's when you go 

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backwards, scantily clad women 
with the beer commercials and 

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the fancy car commercials. 
And you know, it's just like, 

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brother, I'll tell you. 
But you know, the TV is what 

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conforms you subliminally to 
think the way the world does. 

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It takes your kids and causes 
them to have a worldview that 

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isn't Christian. 
It's a worldview that's fallen. 

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And so Paul tells us not to be 
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The world system satisfies the 
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So even though we're Christians,
we still deal with sin, right? 

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And we'd be lying if we say that
something doesn't affect us at 

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times or attract us. 
It does. 

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We got to fight against it. 
The Bible tells us as men to 

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flee youthfulness at war against
the soul. 

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You have to put yourself in a 
place that you're not going to 

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be attacked by the world system,
but the world system is designed

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to satisfy the fallen part of 
your nature, your flesh, and 

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your mind. 
That's why it's going to be very

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easy for the Antichrist to 
deceive the masses in the last 

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days, because he's going to 
promise them all these 

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possessions. 
He's going to promise some 

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wealth and prosperity, and 
everybody's going to have the 

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sense of entitlement. 
And that's why I keep bringing 

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up through this book, the 
prosperity gospel that's being 

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preached out there today is a 
perfect segue into what the 

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Antichrist is going to promise 
the masses, using the false 

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religious system to get people 
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themselves rather than being 
interested in giving and being 

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sensitive to others. 
And verses 4 through 8, he hears

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this voice from heaven saying, 
come out of her, my people, lest

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you share in her sins, unless 
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The Lord saying the sins have 
reached up to heaven and God has

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remembered our iniquities. 
In other words, sin has gotten 

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so high and so much in God's 
face that there'll be a time 

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when God says that's it, it's 
over, enough's enough. 

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I'm going to eradicate this 
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humanity, and it's not going to 
have control upon people anymore

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because it's going to be put to 
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Call sin and death one day and 
the Book of Revelation will be 

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thrown into the lake of fire. 
And so we see that God's 

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faithfulness and His warning is 
to the people who are left on 

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the earth at the time of this 
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There'll be many people that 
will come to know Christ during 

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the tribulation, and they can't 
take the mark of the beast, so 

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they can't buy and do commerce 
and sell and do business because

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they don't have the code and the
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system. 
So they're going to be like 

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nomads running the earth, hiding
out, trying to protect 

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themselves from the internment 
camps and that kind of stuff. 

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But God is warning the people on
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time that do know him, that are 
part of his remnant that come 

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out from among these people that
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that are worshipping the fallen 
world system. 

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And he says come out and be 
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In other words, they have to 
avoid defilement or they'll 

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become partakers of the sins of 
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And today, some of us might have
become defiled by situations and

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places we've been recently or 
things we've watched or heard or

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seen or purchased that have had 
an ungodly influence in our 

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life, and we need to avoid this 
defilement. 

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First Timothy chapter 5 says 
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Be partakers of other people's 
sins. 

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Don't share in other people's 
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Keep yourself pure. 
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with verse 8, it says for you 
were once darkness, but now 

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you're light in the Lord walk as
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In other words, there was one 
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things. 
That's all you thought about. 

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I remember there was a time in 
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think, OK, what bad things am I 
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I had a whole list of them and 
it wasn't a good day for me 

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unless I accomplished my list of
of sin. 

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It says you once were like that,
but now you're light and the 

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Lord walk as children of light. 
In other words, don't walk the 

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way you used to walk, for the 
fruit of the Spirit is in all 

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goodness, righteousness, and 
truth. 

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Finding out what is acceptable 
to the Lord, what's acceptable 

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to you, Lord, that's my prayer. 
Now, what is pleasing to you? 

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Not what's pleasing to my fallen
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I want to live in a way that's 
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It says have no fellowship with 
unfruitful works of darkness, 

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but rather expose them. 
And we can't be around darkness 

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any of us. 
We shouldn't be messing with 

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that stuff. 
We shouldn't be in places where 

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darkness is being glorified and 
where people are ignoring the 

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truths of the Kingdom of God. 
It says don't hang out with 

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them, don't have fellowship with
them, rather expose them. 

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If you're going to do anything, 
preach the gospel, share with 

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people their need of Jesus 
Christ, he says. 

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It's shameful even to speak of 
those things which are done to 

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them in secret. 
But all things that are exposed 

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are made manifest by the light 
for whatever makes manifest as 

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light. 
So we're in a place of 

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ungodliness. 
We're in a place of the 

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unfruitful works of darkness. 
The Holy Spirit lives in you. 

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If you're a believer, there's 
light in you that's exposing the

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darkness. 
Now, you can try to hide the 

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light. 
You can try to ignore it like 

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it's not in you and participate 
in the darkness for a while. 

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But the darkness can't outshine 
the light. 

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And God will eventually have to 
chasten you and discipline you 

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and put you in a place in your 
life that you're going to repent

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and get back on track again. 
He says in verse 14, Awake you 

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who sleep arise from the dead, 
and Christ will give you light. 

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See, then you walk 
circumspectly, not as fools, but

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as wise. 
A fool walks in darkness after 

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they become a Christian, 
redeeming the time because the 

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days are evil. 
Things are getting worse and 

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darker and worse and darker. 
Therefore, do not be unwise, but

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understand what the will of the 
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Do not be drunk with wine and 
which is dissipation, but be 

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filled with the Spirit. 
Drunkenness is not to be 

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tolerated in the believers life.
None of us have a right to get 

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hammered anymore. 
We shouldn't be doing that. 

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Now I'm not saying you can't 
have a drink because the Bible 

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doesn't teach that total 
abstinence, but the Bible is 

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real clear that you're not to be
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Amen. 
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when they're moving into a place
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So my job to judge you if you 
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judge me. 
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than one glass of wine, you have
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heading in a dangerous 
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What the apostles saying here in
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for the people that are going to
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Christ had to shed his blood and
die for and so he's warning them

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in revelation to be protected as
a repent so that they won't have

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the plagues in verse 8 come upon
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herself. 
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this time, living in a way that 
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have wealth is another thing to 
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I've known people who are very, 
very wealthy that live like they

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have no money, and they use 
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wonderful in the sense of 
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You know Sam Walton, the founder
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When Sam Walton developed his 
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wealthy, he lived in the same 
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He never sold it. 
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He could have bought anything he
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was wired. 
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and even all the money he had 
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the family, the kids, the 
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that have all come on down the 
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He set the trust up so that 
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given to them at certain periods
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problems, as the Scriptures say,
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So we see here the pride. 
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Church of Jesus Christ and the 
last days in Matthew 25 prior to

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the final judgment. 
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you know, I'm I'm saved, I'm 
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Well, how do you know why? 
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to, you know, I believe in 
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That's all there is. 
You know, well, thank God for 

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the simplicity of the gospel. 
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the sense of what real belief 
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In real belief entails change of
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Then I'm not walking in darkness
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wanting to walk in darkness, I 
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If my heart still desires the 
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want to do those sinful things, 
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heart. 
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I'm still lost. 
I'm still in my sin if that's my

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main propensity and focus of my 
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But this is the final judgement 
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lot of people, says this is the 
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going to judge the nation's. 
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verse 31 of chapter 25 in his 
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with him, then he will sit on 
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Picture this. 
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encounter. 
All the nations will be gathered

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before him, and he will separate
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shepherd divides the sheep from 
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And he will set the sheep on his
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If you're a believer here today,
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left. 
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poser or a phony, you're on the 
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And the king will say to those 
on his right hand, Come, you 

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blessed it of my father, inherit
the Kingdom prepared for you 

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from the foundation of the 
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Listen to this. 
I was hungry and you gave me 

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food. 
I was thirsty and you gave me 

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drink. 
I was a stranger and you took me

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in. 
I was naked and you clothed me. 

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I was sick and you visited me. 
I was in prison, and you came to

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me. 
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and say, Lord, when did we see 
you hungry and feed you, or 

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thirsty and give you a drink? 
When did we see you as a 

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stranger, and take you in or 
naked and clothe you? 

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Or when did we see you sick or 
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And the King will answer and say
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you, in as much as you did it 
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these, my brethren, you did it 
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So in a church what we do is for
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It's Christchurch, and 
everything we're trying to do as

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a body of believers is for the 
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him yet, for the sake of people 
who do know him, to help our 

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missionaries get the gospel out 
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When there's a need presented, 
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need because everything that we 
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judgment, when God sees are we 
living for the sake of others? 

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Many say to those on the left, 
depart from you cursed into 

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everlasting fire, prepared for 
the devil and his angels. 

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For I was hungry and you gave me
no food. 

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I was thirsty and you gave me no
drink. 

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I was a stranger. 
You did not take me in. 

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I was naked. 
You did not clothe me. 

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I was sick and in prison. 
You did not visit me. 

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And they will answer, saying, 
Lord, when did we see you 

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hungry, or thirsty, or a 
stranger, or naked, or sick, or 

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in prison, or did not minister 
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And he will answer them, saying,
assuredly, I say to you, And as 

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much as you did not do it to the
one, the least of these, you did

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not do it to me. 
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everlasting punishment, but the 
righteous into everlasting life.

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So the world system is either 
compelling you to move away from

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it. 
So you take what it is that 

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God's allowed you to have and 
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And you pray and you say, Lord, 
what's the decisions you have 

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for me? 
What missionaries am I going to 

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help? 
What person is going to show me 

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they have a need? 
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them and blow them off whenever 
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that need and I'm going to walk 
away. 

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Or I'm going to use what it is 
and God's going to put it in my 

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heart to say, God, Clark, help 
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that, that be sensitive to that 
situation that's being 

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disconnected from the world 
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The world system, though, is 
telling you no, you can't do 

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that. 
You're a fool. 

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You don't know that person. 
You don't know what they're 

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going to do with this or that. 
All this skepticism and all this

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fear and trying to hoard 
everything you have for yourself

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and where's it going to end? 
It says these will go away into 

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everlasting punishment, but the 
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So what's the priorities of our 
stewardship in this world system

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today? 
The plagues are going to come. 

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The entire economic empire, the 
Antichrist is going to collapse.

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The remnant are going to rejoice
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But what about you and me today?
Where are we with this system 

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that we're still influenced by? 
Jesus talks about the importance

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of laying up for yourselves 
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6. 
Do not lay up for yourselves 

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treasures on earth, where moths 
and rust destroy and where 

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thieves break in and steal. 
But lay up for yourselves 

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treasures in heaven, where 
neither moth nor rust destroys, 

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and where thieves do not break 
in and steal. 

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For where your treasure is, 
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So I have to say to myself 
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in regards to the world system, 
I can teach this stuff, I can 

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talk about it, I can exhort you,
but I need to exhort myself. 

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Where's my stewardship? 
Where's my heart affections? 

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Where's my priorities? 
Does God own what I have? 

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Do I surrender my life to God, 
every part of it, everything I 

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have, everything that is mine, 
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Does my stuff have a hold on me?
Am I giving more allegiance to 

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the present world system? 
Is my treasure you Jesus, or is 

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it the treasures of this present
earth? 

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What is it that you and I are 
putting our focus upon as we 

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live our lives today? 
The last thing I want you to 

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look at is Second Corinthians 
chapter 6, because these things 

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are going to happen. 
When they do happen, if we're 

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with him already, we're still 
going to have to give an account

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for what we did with our lives. 
And the Lord will say, well, you

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know, you believed in me, you 
trusted in me. 

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You're in the Kingdom and the 
Bible says that some of us will 

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be saved as oh by fire. 
I don't want to find out what 

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that means. 
I hope you don't either. 

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Doesn't sound good. 
It's good to be saved, but it's 

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the be saved by as oh by fire. 
Sounds like this is skin of our 

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teeth and we were on the edge of
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The Second Corinthians chapter 6
tells us here again, the warning

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that I read about at the Lord's 
Supper. 

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Allow the Lord to deal with your
hearts, all of us, and allow the

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Lord to separate from your heart
what might be there that is 

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causing you to be tied into the 
world too much. 

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But the Lord deal with that 
stuff and he'll, he'll help you 

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to be free from it. 
He'll lift it off of you. 

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He'll put things in priority and
he'll put things in place in 

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your life. 
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selfishness and the cost of 
greed affects your marriage, it 

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affects your kids, it affects 
your relationship with the 

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people you work with, the people
you're concerned about, your 

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burden for. 
There's no power outside of 

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yieldedness to God. 
And God wants us to yield to 

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him, all of us. 
How much does he want of my 

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life? 
He wants it all. 

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And that's something that I have
to look at in my own life every 

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day. 
Every day I have to fight 

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against the pressures of the 
world. 

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Every day I have to make a 
decision what I'm going to do 

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with my checkbook. 
Every day I have to make a 

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decision what I'm going to do 
with what God trusts me with. 

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And it's, it's, it's not easy 
guys, as you all know, if you're

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honest, but you know, prayer is 
a wonderful place to come 

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because we can say, Lord, help 
me to understand the dynamics of

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this place. 
I live in this earth that the 

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ancient Israelites said wasn't 
their home. 

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They were looking for a city 
whose builder and maker was God.

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It says they dwelt in tents as 
temporal dwellers, as 

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sojourners, as nomads, not 
putting roots down in this world

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because they were looking for a 
city whose builder and maker was

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God. 
And the church today is so 

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anemic and so weak because 
believers have chosen to give 

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allegiance to the world system 
instead of the Kingdom of God. 

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And the Bible says in the last 
days that we're to come out from

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among that kind of living and 
that kind of concept and be 

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separate. 
It says judgment has to 1st 

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begin with us and us meaning the
House of God, but that we would 

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listen to what Paul says when he
says what agreement has the 

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temple of God. 
That's you with idols if there's

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idols in your life and lay them 
at the feet of Jesus so he can 

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smash them and pull you out of 
the bondage that they've allowed

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to control your life. 
For you are the temple, the 

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living God. 
As God has said, I will dwell in

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them and walk among them. 
I will be their God and they 

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shall be my people. 
Oh, may we be able to say that 

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today that He is our God and we 
are His people. 

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Come out from among them and be 
separate, says the Lord. 

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Do not touch what is unclean and
I will receive you. 

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If you're touching unclean 
stuff. 

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Stop it today, deal with it 
today, and walk out with a firm 

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conviction by the power of the 
Holy Spirit that from this day 

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forward you're not messing with 
certain things that you were 

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messing with. 
I will be a father to you and 

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you shall be my sons and 
daughters, says the Lord 

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Almighty. 
Therefore, having these 

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promises, beloved, let us 
cleanse ourselves from all 

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filthiness of the flesh and 
spirit, perfecting holiness in 

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the fear of God. 
His has been Living Waters of 

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Grace With Pastor Clark, we're 
going through the challenging 

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and also intriguing Book of 
Revelation. 

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Whether you're a fan of reading 
ahead in books of fiction, 

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there's such a benefit to 
reading ahead in the Bible to 

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read about how it all ends. 
But in an interesting turn of 

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events, the Book of Revelation 
is not really the end, but 

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rather the beginning. 
It's the end of life as we know 

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it here on earth. 
But there's so much to look 

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forward to for what comes after 
all the judgement of the earth 

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and those who reject God. 
There's a lot to work through, 

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and it can be heartbreaking to 
read through the intense 

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judgements and wrath that will 
come on those who hate God with 

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all their might. 
The thing is, God has given 

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chance upon chance to these 
people. 

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They don't want it. 
So the outcome is that there are

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judgements and consequences for 
those who've rejected the good 

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news and the gift of salvation 
that's offered through Jesus's 

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death and resurrection. 
Are you one who has heard about 

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these things but doesn't really 
want it because you want to live

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life on your terms? 
Trust me, living for Jesus is so

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much better. 
That doesn't mean it will be 

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easy. 
As you listen and read through 

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Revelation with us, you'll come 
to a stark realization that you 

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don't want to be on earth when 
the apocalypse happens. 

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So check out Calvary Chapel 
online.com to learn how to come 

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to a saving grace through faith 
that will allow you to be with 

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Jesus for eternity. 
We'd also love to meet you in 

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person at Calvary Chapel 
Westmoreland. 

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Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh
St., Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 

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15601. 
This has been living Waters of 

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Grace.