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This is living. 
Waters of Grace, the teaching 

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ministry of Lewis Harold, 
assistant pastor of Calvary 

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Chapel of Westmoreland County in
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Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 
continues teaching through God's

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Word. 
Pastor Clark always said there's

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a famine for the word of God and
it's so true. 

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There's a famine for the word of
God. 

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And that's why I love this 
church because when you come to 

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church, you come bringing 
Bibles, you come with the 

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intention to hear the Word of 
God. 

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You come with the intention to 
learn more about the Word of 

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God, to dig into the Word of 
God. 

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So we thank God that in here we 
can be able to share the 

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Scripture one verse at a time 
and to hear what God has to say.

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As Christians, we journey 
through life with Jesus by our 

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side. 
However, there are times when we

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may overlook the fact that His 
Word provides the sustenance we 

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need. 
We might find ourselves running 

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on empty, and before we realize 
it, we can end up in a difficult

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situation without thinking about
turning to Him for help. 

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That's why in today's message, 
Pastor Lewis reminds you that 

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attending church is not just 
about fulfilling an obligation 

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or participating in a social 
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It's an opportunity to fill up 
your spiritual tank. 

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Now here's Pastor Lewis in the 
Book of Jude, chapter one with 

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today's edition of Living Waters
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Before we go into all that, I do
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give us a backdrop of where 
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If we remember a few weeks ago 
when we first started this, the 

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whole idea is the reason why 
we're talking about these false 

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teachers is because Jude, who 
initially intended to write this

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letter for the purpose of being 
able to just encourage the 

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believers, encourage them in 
their in their faith, just to 

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talk about the common salvation 
and all the things that they had

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in common being saved. 
But the Holy Spirit moved on 

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them and said, no, I want you to
take this a different way. 

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We are in a time right now where
there's so many false teachers 

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and so many such a big famine 
for the word of God and, and, 

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and we need to do more than just
talk about the common salvation,

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but we need to exhort the 
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for the faith. 
So he decided that he would 

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write this to exhort us and them
to be steadfast to be unmovable 

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when it comes to the faith, and 
not just a faith that comes with

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someone's opinions or faith that
includes someone's psychology or

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someone's philosophy. 
But he said the faith that was 

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once for all delivered to the 
Saints, that mean the very word,

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the very doctrine that was 
passed down from the apostles 

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that they received from Jesus 
Christ, that they gave to the 

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people. 
And we now share with each other

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that faith is what we need to 
contend for, that striving to 

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strive for that faith, to 
agonize for that faith and to to

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do it earnestly, to do it with 
everything that we have on the 

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inside of us. 
And then he goes on and he tells

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us he said been the reason why 
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faith. 
And it's not much different than

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what it is now. 
We need to contend for the faith

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because you know, there's false 
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are teaching things contrary to 
the faith that was given to the 

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apostles, just like today, 
there's teachers that are 

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teaching things that are 
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Pastor Clark always said there's
a famine for the word of God. 

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And it's so true. 
There's a famine for the word of

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God. 
And that's why I love this 

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church because when you come to 
church, you come bringing 

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Bibles, you come with the 
intention to hear the word of 

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God. 
You come with the intention to 

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learn more about the Word of 
God, to dig into the Word of 

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God. 
So we thank God that in here we 

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can be able to share the 
Scripture one verse at a time 

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and to hear what God has to say.
But here he said in verse four 

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said that there's certain men 
crepin. 

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I said that they were creeps 
that crept and they crepin and 

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they came in unnoticed and they 
begin to do ungodly things and 

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speak ungodly things and speak 
things that were untrue, abusing

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the very grace of God, even 
denying Jesus Christ. 

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And then in verse 5 he says, but
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he used that word. 
But he said, but I want to 

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remind you and he wants to 
remind them about the and us 

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about the character of God, the 
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righteousness of God. 
And in doing that, he gives us 3

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examples of those who sinned 
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And of course, if you remember, 
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Israel who was in, you know, 
once they got out of Egypt and 

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he delivered them out of Egypt, 
how they were unbelievers in the

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wilderness. 
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unbelievers, they perished in 
the wilderness, they were 

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judged. 
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he talked about the angels who 
didn't keep their proper domain,

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but they end up sinning against 
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even coming down and committing 
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You can read about that over in 
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these, the sons of men came in 
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relationships with the daughters
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And they created these giants 
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thank you. 
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people end up being they, they 
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They perished in the flood. 
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Sodom and Gomorrah. 
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how God judged Sodom and 
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perversions, because of them 
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having unnatural desires, men 
desiring men and women desiring 

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women and, and, and, and the 
place was just a mess, even to 

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the point where they challenged 
or threatened to abuse the 

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angels of the Lord who came to 
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they wanted to make sure before 
they destroyed it that they had 

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good reason to do so. 
And they did so these three 

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examples, Old Testament examples
gave a a peek into the the, the 

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character of God and to the 
holiness of God and to the 

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righteousness of God. 
Sin will be judged. 

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Sin will be judged. 
So now we come here to verse 8 

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and he says likewise. 
I want you to look at that word.

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He says likewise also these 
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And I'm going to, I'm going to 
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to read verse 8:00 and 9:00 and 
then we'll come back and we're 

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going to make comment about 
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He says likewise also these 
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They reject authority and speak 
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Yet Michael the Archangel, in 
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he disputed about the body of 
Moses, deter dared not to bring 

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against him a reviling 
accusation. 

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But he said, the Lord rebuke 
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There's a lot in this little one
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likewise, he's mean. 
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In the same manner as or just 
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like they how they defiled their
flesh, these dreamers defile 

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their flesh. 
Just like they rejected 

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authority and did not want to 
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or the word of God. 
So these dreamers reject 

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authority and they speak evil of
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Now this dreamers, what in the 
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dreamers? 
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Well, for them, they're dreamer.
They consider them dreamers 

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because they're really, they 
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in, they don't really live 
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They they live their lives based
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that they think came from God. 
But it obviously don't because 

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they're doing things that are 
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So these dreams come from other 
places or these visions that 

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they have, and they live by 
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OK, it's OK, you know, to live 
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Even these visions that say that
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salvation and it's OK, you know,
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it's part of salvation because 
your body is evil anyway. 

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It's your spirit that you have 
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That's evil. 
That is not of the Lord. 

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Those are visions that they're 
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They're unrealistic. 
I told you a while ago, my 

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grandmother and her wisdom she 
taught me years ago when I was 

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young, she said to me, we're 
talking about how preachers are 

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called to the ministry. 
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me how pastors and those who 
preach the word of God, they're 

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called by God and then they're 
sent out. 

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But then she warned me, she 
said, now there are those who 

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are sent and then there's those 
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And, and she was explaining to 
me that there's some false 

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teachers out there, that they 
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They were not called even by 
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They just got up and decide they
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They just went. 
They just went, and that's 

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exactly what we're talking about
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These are just men who they were
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not called by God, they didn't 
have the Spirit of God, and they

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just start teaching and 
preaching, coming out from the 

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body, speaking things that are 
contrary to the doctrine of the 

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apostles. 
It's also true that they're out 

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of touch with reality and they 
live these unrealistic lives and

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instead of believing according 
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have their own way of doing 
things according to their own 

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dreams. 
They turn away from God's truth 

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and they feed themselves. 
They feed their themselves on 

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these false doctrine. 
And when you feed themselves, 

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they're feeding their own flesh.
They're not filling the spirit, 

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they're not feeding the spirit, 
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Then, because they're feeding 
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pride begins to rise out of 
that, and that encourages them 

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to rebel against truth. 
These aren't doctrines that come

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from the Holy Spirit. 
These aren't doctrines that they

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receive from the apostles. 
These are demonic doctrines, 

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doctrines of demons. 
First Timothy 41 and two says 

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that they depart from the faith,
giving heed to deceiving spirits

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and doctrines of demons. 
These dreamers and one of the 

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things that there's three things
that he said that these dreamers

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do. 
First thing that they do is that

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they defile the flesh. 
These dreamers defile the flesh.

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Now obviously you're talking 
about the same way that they did

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with the sexual immorality over 
here and what was Sodom and 

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Gomorrah over in verse 7, how 
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and Gomorrah and the surrounding
areas, how they defiled their 

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flesh by having immoral sexual 
relationships going after 

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strange. 
But perversion is basically what

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they what they end up doing. 
And in doing so, they defiled 

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their bodies, they defiled their
minds and, and now what 

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defilement is basically it's 
being impure. 

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When you defile your flesh, it's
being impure. 

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It's dishonor it desecrate 
desecration of the body and 

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mind. 
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defilement, they're usually 
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But like it like it wasn't 
solemn. 

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However, there's a lot of ways 
that we can defile ourselves 

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now. 
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when they talk about defilement,
you know, there there you talk 

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about defilement in terms of, 
you know, not being clean. 

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So if someone touched the dead 
body, that was defiling to them.

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If someone ate with unclean 
hands, that was like defiling to

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them or any of those kind of 
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Tucks A leper. 
You couldn't, you know, you were

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defiled. 
You weren't clean until you had 

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to go through the ritual. 
And they had all these rituals 

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of how to make one clean, you 
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Jesus talked about that over in 
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He talks about how they did wash
their hands several times and, 

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and, and how they have to do all
these, these rituals to become 

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clean. 
Well, now you don't have to do 

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all those things to become 
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You confess your sins to the 
Lord Jesus Christ and you repent

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of those sins and it's the blood
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us. 
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cleanses us, but there has to be
a confession and there has to be

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a repentance. 
That's the that's the humility 

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that we need that can make us 
clean. 

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And we can't cleanse ourselves. 
There's no way that we can 

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cleanse ourselves, but we can 
become cleansed through the 

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blood of Jesus Christ that he 
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And thank God for that. 
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years ago, it's still just as 
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It can still cleanse, still 
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its power, thank God. 
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defilement and, and how they 
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They defile themselves even 
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Jesus taught us over in Mark 7, 
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very quickly because I want to 
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7. 
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doesn't come from anything that 
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defilement comes from what comes
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It comes out of the heart. 
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that defile us. 
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speaking in verse, starting at 
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within, out of the heart of men,
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adulteries, fornications, 
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wickedness, deceit, a lewdness 
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pride, foolishness, all these 
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man and defiles a man. 
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come out of the heart. 
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up in the heart that defiles us.
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It's not washing, it's not eaten
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But these men, these dreamers, 
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defiled themselves because of 
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heart. 
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They were ungodly men. 
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these were men who, who, who, 
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sexual morality and deceit of 
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They defiled themselves. 
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fact that they rejected 
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Well, if men are not godly and 
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own, then they will reject 
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They rejected authority. 
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according to the word of God, 
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had put in authority over them. 
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reject the authority that God 
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He put something, He puts people
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reason. 
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authority, they think that 
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themselves, but they're not. 
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that God puts in place for 
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rejecting God. 
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people, when they wanted a king,
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rejecting him. 
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rejecting me, they're rejecting 
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authority, They practice 
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authority. 
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authority, the word of God will 
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authority that we may object to.
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therefore, basically when they 
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reject the authority because 
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themselves. 
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them the Antichrist, because 
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instead of Christ. 
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And then of course, the third 
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fact that they speak evil of 
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That's speaking evil with angels
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evil with them. 
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We can go down a little further.
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going to give an example of what
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But you know, angels would play 
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the Lord, even though we know 
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Christ. 
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angels who was here during the 
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brought in the law. 
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Deuteronomy, go Old Testament 
here for a second, and I'm going

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to try to show this to you how 
important it is to God about how

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important angels were in the 
prominent place that they had 

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with him because they were there
for a number of very important 

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events. 
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chapter 33, it's going to read 
this small verse here 33 and 

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verse 2. 
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It says now this is a blessing 
with which Moses the man of God,

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blessed the children of Israel 
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And he said the Lord came from 
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Sire and he shone forth from 
Mount Paran and he came with 10 

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thousands of Saints, in other 
words, 10,000 of angels from his

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right hand came, came a fiery 
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And then verse 3 say yes, he 
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Saints are in his hand. 
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Everyone receives your words. 
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time that when he came down and 
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and this is and this is one that
I I thought was very interesting

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as well over here in Acts. 
Let's go to the book of Acts 

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real quick concerning the angels
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and most of you probably already
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Stephen. 
So now we're looking at what 

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happened when Stephen was being 
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And Chapter 7, verse 53, and I'm
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says, which of the angels did 
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He's talking to the Pharisees 
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wanted to kill him. 
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who foretold the coming of the 
just one of whom you now have 

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become the betrayers and 
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And verse 53 is the one I want 
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He says, Who have received the 
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How do they receive the law? 
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have not kept it. 
Direction of angels and have not

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kept it. 
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in the book of Galatians. 
Just trying to draw a picture 

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here of the significance of 
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talking about how they basically
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these angels. 
Galatians chapter 3 and look at 

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with me at verse 14. 
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It says this only. 
I want to learn from you. 

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Did you receive the Spirit by 
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hearing of faith? 
Are you so foolish, having begun

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in the Spirit that you are now 
being when I'm now being made 

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perfect in the flesh? 
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to verse chapter 4 and in 
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verse 19. 
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OK, chapter 3, verse 19. 
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What purpose then does the law 
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It was added because of 
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should come to whom the promise 
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through angels by the hand of a 
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Now a meteor does not mediate 
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So he talks about the importance
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was at the time of the law and 
the presenting of the law, how 

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the angels even came with him. 
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the angels, the Lord came with 
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to Mount Sier, which is where he
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So when you talk about all these
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they combine and these men who 
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speaking evil of these 
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And so he gave an example. 
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being mere men don't have a 
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dignitaries. 
Yet Michael the Archangel who is

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more powerful than most men, he 
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Angel. 
So look at what he says in verse

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9, back in Jude verse 9, he 
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and contending with the devil 
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of Moses, dared not bring 
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accusation, but said the Lord 
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So he's making a point here. 
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these dreamers, these false 
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speaking evil about angels or 
dignitaries or these spiritual 

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authority, spiritual 
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speaking evil of them and they 
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but yet they speak evil of them.
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who was constantly before the 
throne of God, who was basically

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the battle Angel. 
I mean, he would come to me back

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in the book of Dan and talked 
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doing battle with the devil when
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when Daniel had requested a word
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being delayed because he was in 
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demon. 
So Michael the Archangel was not

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a wimp. 
He was powerful Angel and had a 

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lot of authority. 
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railing accusation against 
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He said the Lord rebuked you. 
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As Pastor Lewis continues to 

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