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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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This is what the end times are 
going to look like. 

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It's going to have these 
deceptive people who appear to 

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be godly, but there's no 
relationship whatsoever. 

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And he says, Paul says now from 
these people, turn away, turn 

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away from these people, have no 
fellowship. 

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Have no fellowship with these 
people. 

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You got to turn away from them 
because they can be seductive, 

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they can be deceiving, they can 
be luring, so you need to turn 

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away from them. 
There's a lot of talk about 

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staying away from toxic people, 
but then the generally accepted 

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definition of toxic seems to be 
people who disagree with you. 

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But what if there were people 
out there who make you feel 

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good, but really they're drawing
you away from God? 

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As Pastor Lewis points out in 
today's message, those are the 

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type of people you need to stay 
away from. 

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The Bible says not to have any 
kind of fellowship with those 

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who say they're of God, but 
their fruit tells another story.

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Now here's Pastor Lewis in 
Second Timothy Chapter 3 with 

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today's edition of Living Waters
of Grace. 

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They have a form of godliness, 
and this form of godliness 

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actually means that it's a they 
have a shape of godliness or 

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semblance of godliness. 
They have an appearance of 

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godliness, but there's no fruit,
there's no substance, there's 

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nothing, there's no life on the 
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It's just a shell of an 
appearance of godliness. 

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It's an imitator of godly people
without the power. 

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So it's like profession without 
practice, without no 

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relationship whatsoever. 
And this is what Paul is saying.

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Paul is saying these people are 
going to look righteous, they're

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going to look holy, they're 
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they won't have the Redeemer. 
They will not have that 

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relationship with the Lord. 
None. 

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These are people who Jesus is 
talking about over in Matthew 7 

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when he says that they're going 
to be many that are going to 

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come to me and say Lord, Lord. 
But everybody who comes to me 

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saying Lord, Lord will not enter
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Oh, but they're going to put up 
the argument. 

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Lord, didn't you know? 
You know, didn't we Prophecy in 

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your name did not cast out 
demons in your name did not do 

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many wonders in your name. 
And he's going to say depart 

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from me. 
I never knew you, depart from 

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me. 
You who work lawlessness, Yes, 

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you had an outward shell. 
You had a appearance of 

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godliness, but there was never 
relationship. 

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I never knew you. 
There was never relationship and

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that's exactly what we're going 
to see in the last days. 

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These teachers, these false 
teachers that are going to have 

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this appearance of godliness. 
They're going to sound godly, 

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but their lives have no fruit. 
They're going to be just like 

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Jesus talked about over in 
Matthew chapter 23 when he 

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talked about the woes over in 
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And there's two woes in 
particular that just gives me 

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the chills that he talks about. 
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25, verse 23, what are you 
scribes and Pharisees, 

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hypocrites for? 
You cleanse the outside of the 

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cup and dish, but inside they 
are full of extortion and self 

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indulgence. 
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false teachers will be. 
They'll be full of self 

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indulgence. 
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teaching, everything that 
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gain. 
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their own bellies. 
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chapter, he says, woe to you, 
scribes and Pharisees, 

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hypocrites, for you are like 
whitewashed tombs, which indeed 

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appear beautifully beautiful 
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And I remember Clark telling us 
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stood up on the hill and he saw 
these whitewashed tombs and how 

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they glittered in the sunlight 
and how beautiful they looked in

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the sunlight. 
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these false teachers are going 
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Like these whitewashed tombs, 
which indeed appear beautiful 

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outwardly, but inside are full 
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uncleanness, awe, uncleanness. 
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going to look like. 
It's going to have these 

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deceptive people who appear to 
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relationship whatsoever. 
And he says, Paul says now from 

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these people, turn away, turn 
away from these people, have no 

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fellowship. 
Have no fellowship with these 

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people. 
You got to turn away from them 

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because they can be seductive, 
they can be deceiving, they can 

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be luring. 
So you need to turn away from 

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them. 
You need to break fellowship 

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with these people and have no 
further fellowship with them, 

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neither inside the church or 
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He, you know, they actually mean
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these people, but we treat them 
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So we pray for them. 
We pray for them, we minister to

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them. 
We don't just throw them away. 

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We don't just, we don't put, we 
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put them down. 
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We pray that God would touch 
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and that they would turn from 
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We intercede on their behalf, 
understanding that they are 

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taken captive by Satan. 
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And he said for of this sort are
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they creep into households that 
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And, and what that probably 
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told to not have fellowship with
these people, these false 

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teachers and these unbelievers 
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these kind of characteristics, 
these people are probably 

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they're not invited into the 
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So they don't have access to the
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You know, they don't stand in 
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Righteous. 
So these people creep into homes

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and make their way or get access
into homes of vulnerable people 

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who will listen to what it is 
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And, and, and what it says here 
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and make captives because in a 
spiritual war, just like in a 

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regular war, there's always 
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In a regular war, there's 
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captive. 
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the, in a spiritual war, they're
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People are taken captive. 
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take captives of these gullible 
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And just because it says, when I
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because it says gullible women, 
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he's talking about all women. 
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are gullible. 
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All women are not gullible. 
But what he is saying that these

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are prompt is a section of 
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was obviously identified that 
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into. 
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They were his a weak self will. 
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They're women who were not 
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because they were gullible. 
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that Paul mentions here that 
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these false teachers. 
The one thing he mentioned, he 

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said they're gullible. 
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That means they listened. 
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They're open to everything. 
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anything that sounds good. 
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heard a pastor once say, it's 
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you're young sitting in a 
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But the the pastor once said, he
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something, you will fall for 
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And I never forgot that. 
I never forgot that. 

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And that's exactly what's going 
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These women didn't stand for 
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They didn't stand for truth, 
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doctrine. 
So they were willing to fall for

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anything. 
And that's exactly what happened

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with these particular women. 
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were gullible women. 
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were loaded down with sins. 
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given to their own passions. 
They were given to their sinful 

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ways. 
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were sexual sins, or rather it 
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busy bodies or gossipers, sins 
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things, self sync, satisfying 
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But they were loaded down with 
sin. 

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Not just sinful, they were 
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Sin is a burden. 
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does weigh you down. 
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It causes you to feel like 
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on you like in your life, and 
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You're carrying these burdens 
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And that's why when we get 
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When we give our lives to 
Christ, we feel so light because

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we relieve those burdens. 
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We give them all to him. 
The sin, you know, the burden 

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bearer, we give them to the 
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bearing them, the burden bear 
takes them. 

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And that's why we feel so light 
when we get saved. 

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Do you remember that when you 
first got saved, how you just 

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felt so light? 
Everything outside looks so much

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brighter. 
You look in the grass and look 

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greener. 
Flowers look more beautiful. 

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The sky look bluer. 
You know you're smiling at 

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everybody and talking to 
everybody because you were just 

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so free. 
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You were, you were. 
You were free from those burdens

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that once used to bound you. 
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with these sins also #3 they're 
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So not just sexual lusts, but it
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the lust for things, lust for 
money, lust for jewelry, or 

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whatever it may be. 
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things. 
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control their passions. 
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always learning and never able 
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truth. 
In other words, these women are 

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always running somewhere looking
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And I've seen that, you know, 
people will go from church to 

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church, following speakers to go
from church to church looking 

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for a fresh word, looking for a 
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something that will tickle their
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justify the lifestyle that 
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So they go from place to place 
searching, but they never come 

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to the knowledge of the truth. 
They never come to the knowledge

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of the gospel. 
They never receive or experience

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the power of the gospel. 
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you sit in, regardless of how 
many speakers you listen to, if 

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you don't accept the truth of 
the gospel, you will never come 

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to the knowledge of truth. 
And that's exactly what these 

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women were doing, just searching
for the knowledge and never, 

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ever finding any. 
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That's the danger of being 
ignorant of the faith, you know?

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And that's why Paul, I believe 
This is why Paul said over in 

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First Timothy 211 that the women
should learn, but they just need

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to learn in silence. 
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They should learn. 
They should learn the word of 

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God. 
They should learn the doctrine, 

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but they need to learn in 
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I think Paul was trying to avoid
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And these false teachers take 
advantage of these women and 

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they fleece them of their money.
They fleece them of their 

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loyalty, of their services. 
Titus, one in 10, says that 

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these these false teachers are 
teaching things that they ought 

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not for the sake of dishonest 
gain, for the sake of dishonest 

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gain. 
And not only do these teachers 

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come from without people who 
come outside of the church and 

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try to work their way in, but 
it's also people who were coming

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from inside the church that 
raise up, that are raised up to 

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becoming a teacher. 
And they began to speak things 

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that are outside of the truth 
and they begin to deceive other 

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people. 
In fact, Paul warned about that.

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He warned about that over in the
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of Acts. 
He made it very clear over in 

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chapter 20 of the book of Acts, 
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He said, For I know this, that 
after many that after my 

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departure savage wolves will 
come in among you, not sparing 

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the flock also from among 
yourselves men will rise up 

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speaking perverse things to draw
away the disciples after 

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themselves. 
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that for three years I did not 
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day with tears. 
So these are these are the, the 

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people, these false teachers 
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things and getting people to 
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follow them. 
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as it gets closer to the end 
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The Bible says even the very 
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teachers are resistant to truth 
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how they resist the authority of
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He says now verse 8, now as 
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Moses, now you might say, well, 
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Jenny's and John Breeze back in 
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But Paul, through study, 
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writings, he was able to 
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the Egyptian magicians who stood
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him. 
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said, let my people go. 
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to let your people go. 
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down the rod and, and and it 
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Satan is. 
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He threw down there did the 
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and it turned into a serpent. 
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there's no need of letting you 
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your God can do. 
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well, you let my people go. 
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let your people go. 
He turned the Nile River into 

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blood. 
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turned the Nile River into 
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turned the Nile River into 
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I'm not going to let you go. 
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My God can do what your God can 
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Came to the frogs, mostly let my
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I'm not going to let your people
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I'm going to have frogs going to
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Now notice these magicians 
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They had to imitate after Moses,
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anything on their own. 
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He doesn't do anything on his 
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He's an imitator. 
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So they brought up frogs. 
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false teachers did. 
They brought up frogs too. 

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I'm not going to let you people 
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My gods can do what yours can 
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Then it came to the lice. 
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plagues that Moses was able, 
that the Lord did through Moses,

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and they couldn't duplicate it. 
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They were exposed. 
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Exodus 8 and 19, they said this 
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They finally realized it after 
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by not wanting to believe him, 
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They realized that. 
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to happen here with Paula 
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these do as these do, as so do 
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And that's exactly what they do.
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challenge the Bible, always want
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They are resisting the authority
of God's word and they're trying

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to get other people to question 
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That goes all the way back to 
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It's exactly what Satan did in 
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tried to get them to, got try to
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And that's what happens with 
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They, they, they get out a 
little bit of truth and the rest

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of them is a lie and they try to
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Did it really mean this? 
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meant, that's what it meant. 
That's what it means. 

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But they are going to resist. 
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of corrupt or depraved minds. 
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the faith. 
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faith, counterfeit faith. 
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It's not real, but verse 9 he 
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further for their folly will be 
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Yes, going to come to a point 
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exposed. 
They're not teaching the word of

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God. 
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they're teaching humanism, 
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We're hearing so much of that on
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imitate. 
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look like preachers, they look 
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They throw a word or two in 
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sound like they're followers of 
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that they, that they love Jesus 
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But the truth of the matter is 
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They're imitators. 
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7 steps to this or seven steps 
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can improve your marriage, how 
to live happy and all those 

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things. 
But they don't teach about sin. 

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They don't teach about, you 
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through Jesus Christ and him 
being the only way to salvation.

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They don't teach that. 
They don't teach that. 

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But we have to understand that 
faith doesn't come by teaching 

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psychology. 
It doesn't come by teaching 

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philosophy. 
Faith comes by hearing and 

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hearing by the word of God 
according to Romans 10 and 17. 

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Now I have to say, I have to say
I've been coming to this church 

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now going on 13 years. 
We went on 13 years. 

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I've been coming to this church.
I have never once seen any man 

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coming to this sacred desk and 
teach out of anything other than

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the Bible, men or women that 
teach. 

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The women over there, they don't
teach out of books. 

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They teach out of the word of 
God because this is the truth. 

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This is the power. 
This is what changes lives. 

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So here at Calvary Chapel, this 
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That's what Ezra did. 
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scripture and he explained it. 
That's what Jesus did. 

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That's what the the, the 
apostles did. 

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They read the scriptures and 
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That's the way it's been done 
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here. 
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other than true doctrine, if you
don't want to hear about sin, if

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you don't want to hear about the
grace of God, if you don't want 

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to hear about Jesus Christ being
the only way, then this is 

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probably not going to be the 
church for you. 

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If you want to hear something 
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ears. 
If you want to hear something 

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that's going to cause you to 
feel you know good about 

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yourself. 
And you never have to look at 

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what the Holy Spirit is doing in
your spirit to get you to to 

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obey Him or to get you to walk 
in a way that will allow you to 

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live a life that is separated 
unto Him. 

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If that's not what you want, 
then this is not going to be the

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place. 
But as long as we're here, I've 

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always heard the Word of God 
line by line, chapter by 

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chapter, book by book. 
And that's the way we'll 

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continue to do it. 
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that, it's going to be exposed. 
They're going to be exposed. 

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Give it an opportunity to 
repent, but they're going to be 

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exposed. 
So This is why it's so important

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to come and have fellowship. 
Hebrews tell us that we should 

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not be forsaking and forsaking, 
not the assembling of ourselves 

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together as is the matter of 
some, as some are doing, but we 

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need to encourage each other, 
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It's so much more as we see the 
day approaching, as it gets 

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closer to God, we need to be 
exhorting each other even more, 

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coming together, encouraging 
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Jews says that we got to contend
for the faith, which was once 

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for all one time it was given. 
There's no new revelation on the

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faith. 
One time it was given for all, 

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delivered to the Saints. 
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times, we still have hope in 
these last and evil days, we 

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still have hope. 
And the hope that we have is in 

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Jesus Christ. 
He is where we are. 

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We we can hide in Jesus Christ. 
I have a Psalm that I just want 

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to end with, and it's Psalm 3. 
It kind of truly talks about how

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we have to deal with perilous 
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This was David dealing with his 
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He says, Lord, how they have 
increased. 

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Who trouble me? 
Many are they who rise up 

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against me. 
Many are they who say of me, 

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there is no help for him in God.
Now, if it ended there, that 

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would be a sad story. 
If that was the end of the 

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story, that would be a sad 
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But it doesn't, he says. 
But you, O Lord, are a shield 

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for me. 
You're my glory. 

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You're the one who lifts up my 
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I cried to the Lord with my 
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He heard me from his holy heel. 
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all the perilous times that 
David was going through, even in

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the midst of all the people who 
were seeking to take his life as

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he was running for his very 
life, he was able to say, I laid

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down and went to sleep. 
That's the piece that brother 

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had. 
He laid down and went to sleep. 

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And even in our perilous times, 
when we have the peace of God 

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with us, in US and for us, we 
will be able to lie down and 

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sleep, he says. 
I woke up, for I didn't sustain 

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myself. 
It wasn't the people around me 

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that sustained me, but the Lord 
sustained me. 

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I will not be afraid of 10 
thousands of people who set 

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themselves against me all 
around. 

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And then he says, arise, O Lord,
save me, Oh my God, for you have

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struck all my enemies on the 
cheekbone. 

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You have broken the teeth of the
ungodly savage beast. 

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Men who are people who are 
untamed animals that are 

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untamed, their strength is in 
their teeth. 

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That's what we fear. 
We fear the teeth of wild 

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animals. 
And yet the Lord broke their 

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teeth, cause them to be 
harmless, defenseless. 

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He broke their teeth. 
Salvation belongs to the Lord. 

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Your blessing is upon the 
people. 

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We have a hope, and thank God we
do. 

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And that hope that we have is in
Jesus Christ and Him alone. 

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He came so that we would have 
hope. 

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He came to bless us. 
He came to take for us and to do

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for us what we couldn't do for 
ourselves. 

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You've been listening to Pastor 
Louis Harrell here on Living 

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Waters of Grace. 
We're digging into all that Paul

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shared with Timothy in the books
of First and Second Timothy. 

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Timothy was commissioned to do 
the following fight the good 

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fight of faith, lay hold on 
eternal life, to which you were 

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also called, and have confessed 
the good confession in the 

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presence of many witnesses. 
Timothy would be carrying on 

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what Paul had taught him and 
continuing on in ministry, even 

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though Paul knew that more 
hardships would come for 

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Timothy. 
This is the Christian life. 

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It's not glamorous. 
It's not some celebrity status. 

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It's hard fought. 
It's gritty, it's unpopular, but

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it's worth it. 
Do you believe that today? 

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Are you willing to fight the 
good fight even at the cost of 

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earthly pleasures? 
Living the life of a follower of

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Jesus will have its heavenly 
rewards. 

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To be a part of a community 
that's looking forward to that 

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heavenly reward, we invite you 
to join us at Calvary Chapel 

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Westmoreland. 
If you're in the Greensburg, PA 

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area, come be with us this 
Sunday at 10:30 AM at 400 E 

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Pittsburgh St. 
Ste. 6B. 

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