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

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Harold, assistant pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 

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

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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But we're all in a battle. 
Whatever that sin is, whatever 

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that struggle is that you have, 
that you're still trying to get 

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victory over, you are in a 
battle. 

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It's a spiritual war. 
And in a war there are many 

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battles. 
And thank God He gives us the 

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strength to win many of the 
battles. 

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It doesn't mean sometimes we 
don't lose some, sometimes we 

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do. 
Sometimes things come out of my 

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mouth that shouldn't. 
Thoughts come into my mind that 

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shouldn't. 
Sometimes I'll lose that battle.

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Wow, isn't that the truth? 
We are all in a battle and 

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sometimes you lose. 
One of the best places in the 

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Bible that we see this played 
out is in Romans Chapter 7 where

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Paul talks about not doing the 
things he wants to do and doing 

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the things he does not want to 
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That's a daily, sometimes moment
by moment battle. 

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The point Pastor Lewis will make
today is that while you won't 

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win every battle you face, you 
need to stay in the battle and 

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allow the Lord to equip you 
daily. 

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Now here's Pastor Lewis in the 
Book of First Timothy, chapter 

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one with today's edition of 
Living Waters of Grace. 

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And then in verse 15, the best 
line in this whole Scripture, he

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said this is a faithful saying. 
That means it's a trustworthy 

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saying and worthy of all 
acceptance. 

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That means everyone, everyone 
should accept this. 

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It's worthy for everyone to grab
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What is that word? 
This is the best news in this 

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entire chapter, that Jesus 
Christ came into the world to 

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save sinners, to save sinners. 
He didn't come to save the 

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righteous. 
He didn't come to save those 

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whose garments have never been 
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He didn't come to save the 
perfect. 

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He didn't come to save the ones 
who had never sinned, those who 

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were so good, you know, oh, 
that's a good person. 

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That's a good person. 
And God didn't come for you. 

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God came for us who are messed 
up, those who were sinful, those

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who blew it in the past, those 
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That's who God came for. 
That's who Jesus Christ came 

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for. 
So he said Jesus Christ came 

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into the world to save sinners. 
And Paul's acknowledging and he 

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says, and I am chief, I'm one of
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And when he says that, he's not 
saying, well, I compare myself 

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to your sin. 
My sin is worse than yours. 

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That's not what he's talking 
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I've even heard that before. 
People comparing sins, Well, you

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should see what I used to do. 
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compared to the standard of God,
because we don't compare 

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ourselves with each other. 
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each other. 
We shouldn't feel good about the

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fact that this person did 
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Sin is sin. 
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standard that God has, I am a 
chief Sinner. 

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I am a chief Sinner and so am I.
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He didn't say I was chief. 
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chief. 
He says I am chief. 

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Paul acknowledges that he still 
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to get victory over, just like 
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We still got some things that we
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We still got some things that 
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and we go the wrong way on it. 
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that I am chief. 
I can still be like that old 

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person sometimes. 
But the news that he came to 

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save sinners, not to condemn 
them, as it says in John 3 and 

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17, he came not into the world 
to condemn the world, but that 

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the world through him might be 
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He didn't come to condemn us, He
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And I thank God for that because
I qualify. 

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I qualify. 
I am a Sinner and I qualify for 

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the person that Jesus Christ 
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And thank God I do and thank God
I do because otherwise I'd still

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be there. 
I'd still be there. 

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He is so good. 
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the things I did in my life, and
I'm so grateful that he didn't 

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leave me where I was. 
I've hit some dark times in my 

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life, very dark. 
I used to be angry at one point,

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very angry. 
Went through a lot of different 

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changes in my life. 
I used to chase money, thought 

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it was the most important thing,
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Everything was for me and about 
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Chase positions. 
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would get me more money. 
I ran the streets. 

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There was even a point where I 
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owned a gun. 
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would be in a room with a bunch 
of gang members and there was a 

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time when I was the only one 
that didn't have a gun, and then

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I went and got a gun. 
So when people say carrying a 

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gun sometimes don't change you 
if you're not the right person 

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to be carrying a gun, yes it 
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Yes it will. 
Because it made me bold to do 

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things that I wouldn't do if I 
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To say things that I wouldn't 
say if I didn't have it to go 

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places that I wouldn't go if I 
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But he saved me. 
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still reached down one night and
touched my heart and he saved 

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me. 
I'll never forget my wife and I 

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sitting about 5 rows back from 
the 1st and we're listening to a

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teaching of preaching on 
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And we both looked at each other
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I know it was me. 
And as he was praying and asked 

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us to close our eyes and to 
think about whether or not this 

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is for us. 
The scripture is about us. 

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And if God is tugging at your 
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for you to receive salvation. 
And my wife and I both stood up 

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together and we got saved. 
But it was that day when the 

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Lord touched our hearts. 
There is a time and we needed it

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because we were sinners. 
I was Sinner, am a Sinner, but 

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I'm a forgiving Sinner. 
And then he goes on in verse 16 

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he says, however, for this 
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me first Jesus Christ might show
all long-suffering as a pattern 

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to those who are going to 
believe on him for everlasting 

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life. 
Paul says I am now the poster 

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child of who can be saved. 
If he can save me, then he can 

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definitely save you. 
Paul is saying I'm the pattern 

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I'm the pattern on those that in
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first. 
I love that verse where it says 

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in me first, Jesus Christ might 
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He showed his patience towards 
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persecuted him. 
I was a direct assault upon him.

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And if he saved me, he'll 
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I was, I heard somebody talking 
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yeah. 
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Christ or if I'm talking to a 
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say, well, Jesus Christ, well, 
you know, he'll never save me 

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because of the things that I 
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The guy says that he would 
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back to Paul and say, well, wait
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Jesus Christ? 
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Did you ever kill anybody 
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Christ? 
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Did you ever beat people up, 
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because they. 
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Well, Paul did and he still got 
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But I don't have to go back to 
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did. 
I can talk about what he did in 

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me first, what he did in me 
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And so Paul said, I am the 
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I'm the prototype. 
I'm the example of what the 

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patience of Jesus Christ will do
and what grace and His mercy 

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will accomplish in us. 
Not only did he save me, He 

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changed me. 
Not only did he change me, he 

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delivered me. 
This is the power of the gospel.

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The gospel is power. 
That's why Paul says in Romans 

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116, I'm not ashamed of the 
gospel of Jesus Christ, for it 

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is the power of God unto 
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There's power in the gospel. 
There's power in the gospel. 

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It changes lives. 
It can deliver. 

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It can set people free. 
It can save lives. 

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Thank God. 
Verse 17 So after Paul says all 

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that, then he goes into a praise
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A1 man praise and worship 
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He says now to the king, 
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God, who alone is wise be honor 
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Paul's worshiping, Paul's 
worshiping, and do you ever 

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think about what God did for you
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and you just go and just start 
worshipping him, that blessing 

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to just think about, Oh my God, 
Lord, I can't believe you did 

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this and just start worshipping.
He is king eternal. 

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He's never, he's alpha and 
Omega. 

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There's none before him. 
There's not going to be any 

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after him. 
He's immortal. 

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That means he's uncorruptible. 
He's uncorruptible. 

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He's imperishable. 
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He's immortal and he is the 
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He's invisible. 
You know, Hebrews says that, you

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know, we believe it's through 
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that things that are seen are 
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seen. 
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He is the invisible God who 
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And we can say that because He 
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He's the source of all wisdom. 
He is the Spirit. 

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According to Isaiah Chapter 11 
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wisdom in the spirit of 
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He's the spirit of knowledge, 
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All of that is in Christ Jesus. 
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So he is the only wise God. 
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glory. 
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And so much more is due to him, 
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Honor and glory forever and ever
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So be it. 
Then in verse 18, he says this I

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commit to you, son Timothy, 
according to the prophecies 

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previously made concerning you. 
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If we go over to go over to 
first Timothy chapter 4 and look

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at verse 14 and it says here do 
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you, which was given to you by 
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the hands of the eldership. 
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Timothy before Timothy was 
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on of hands. 
It was an anointing. 

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There was that that Commission 
that came, you know, by the 

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presbytery, the learning, the 
laying on of hands by many 

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elders. 
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there were prophecies that was 
given to Timothy about his 

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ministry. 
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that according to those 
prophecies that was previously 

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made concerning you, he says, 
listen by them, wage the good 

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war, fight the battle well, 
fight the good fight with those 

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prophecies. 
And we said, you know, and, and 

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he's saying that to us. 
He said that to us, fight the 

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good fight. 
Hold on to the word of God. 

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Hold on to the doctrine that is 
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Hold on to that. 
Every day you get up, you are in

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a spiritual battle. 
Believe it or not, we are all 

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soldiers. 
That's why, you know, the 

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Scripture refers to us so much 
as being like soldiers, so many 

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military terms, because being in
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But our weapons of our warfare 
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That's all. 
But we are in a spiritual 

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battle. 
Some of us are in a battle 

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against our flesh, somewhere in 
the battle against the world, 

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somewhere in the battle against 
Satan every day who's constantly

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accusing you before God and man.
But we're all in a battle. 

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Whatever that sin is, whatever 
that struggle is that you have, 

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that you're still trying to get 
victory over, you are in a 

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battle. 
It's a spiritual war. 

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And in a war there are many 
battles. 

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And thank God He gives us the 
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battles. 
It doesn't mean sometimes we 

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don't lose some. 
Sometimes we do. 

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Sometimes things come out of my 
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Thoughts come into my mind that 
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Sometimes I'll lose that battle.
Like the time I told you I was 

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riding my wife and something 
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don't say it. 
You go out. 

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You're about to say I told you 
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Don't say it. 
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said it. 
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battles, though. 
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We win some and some we lose, 
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fight the good fight all the 
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We get up, we're fighting the 
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fight and then 19, he says. 
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conscience, that means you have 
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believe, your proclamation of 
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You believe that Jesus Christ 
came and died for your sins. 

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You believe that Jesus Christ 
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he rose again on the third day. 
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into heaven. 
You believe that he's coming 

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back. 
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is in that. 
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that faith and we believe in the
word of God and everything 

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that's in this word. 
We keep that with, we hold this 

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in front of us, not behind us or
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We got to keep this in front of 
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Paul said you were to always 
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before me, so that I might not 
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So we hold on to those things. 
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walking out our faith. 
It's just walking out our faith 

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or living out our faith. 
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condemned conscience. 
We're not being hypocritical in 

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our faith. 
We're not living double lives. 

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We're not allowing the enemy to 
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make us feel condemned about 
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Look, if I sin, I repent, I'm 
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He's not going to hang that over
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I have a good conscience. 
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So I'm always trying to always 
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And then he says here, which 
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rejected the faith and they 
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some having rejected that 
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suffered shipwreck. 
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now to the Navy. 
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know, the example now is a Navy 
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Now you suffered shipwreck. 
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battling now we're talking about
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And it's like that sometimes, 
you know, when we're in that 

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battle, if we give up and we 
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we, we, we ignore our conscience
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reject the faith, it will 
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It will lead to sin. 
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It will lead to disobedience, 
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Verse 20, and we're going to 
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And in verse 20, he says of whom
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whom I delivered to Satan, that 
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Hymenaeus and Alexander. 
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read about in the book of Acts 
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walking with Paul, but they 
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the world instead. 
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Jimenez was a man who actually 
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resurrection have already come. 
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resurrection had already come, 
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was teaching, contrary to the 
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So he says the resurrection has 
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to stumble in their faith as a 
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And then there's Alexander. 
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he opposed Paul's teaching. 
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that, that they all need to be 
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Now, that doesn't just happen 
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That's not what he's talking 
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Obviously, when that had 
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went to them, he talked to them.
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similar account of this 
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the discipline works back in 
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when the gentleman who had 
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to him and they had talked to 
him and, and just did not 

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repent. 
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about with these guys. 
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While at the end of chapter 
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end of that, it talks about the 
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withdraw from people who are 
sinning openly sinning and not 

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repenting, not repenting. 
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that. 
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The purpose of that is not to 
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I do not want to discard my 
brother because he slipped or my

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sister because she slipped. 
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that brother or sister is so 
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opportunity to either hear God 
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over to Satan. 
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to Satan, they'll be, they'll 
become afflicted and they'll 

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come to a point like I was come 
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God, 'cause I'm at my lowest and
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repentance. 
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I've done. 
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what the goal is for them to 
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That's what church discipline is
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It is not to just kick somebody 
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It's for the purpose of 
restoration. 

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It's always for the purpose of 
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We have to get better. 
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better at walking with people 
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We got to get better at that. 
There are some people who 

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believe that the church is the 
only religion that shoot is 

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wounded. 
We got to get better at walking 

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with people to victory over 
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dealing with. 
My heart breaks when I hear 

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about pastors who have fell off.
Maybe they fell off into some 

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sin. 
My heart breaks because what 

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that's telling me is that you 
mean they had nobody that they 

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could have reached out to before
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Nobody that they could sit down 
with over breakfast like my 

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brother and I did the other day.
Sat down over breakfast and just

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talk with each other. 
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Nobody. 
He could share that he's 

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struggling with a with a sin or 
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That's sad. 
I pray that that doesn't happen 

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here. 
I pray that if someone is 

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struggling, that there's someone
in here that you can reach out 

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to. 
It doesn't have to be me, 

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doesn't have to be Clark, but 
that there's somebody that we 

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can reach out to and say, you 
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I'm struggling in this area. 
So Satan can shine the light on 

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you and show how weak the church
is. 

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All that's exactly what he wants
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Tear up your testimony. 
Let's do it before it gets to 

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that point. 
So Hymenaeus and Alexander, they

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went shipwrecked, but he turned 
them over to Satan so that they 

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would learn to not blasphemy. 
Listen, the grace of our Lord 

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Jesus Christ is abundant. 
And maybe there's someone here 

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who have been overtaken by sin, 
someone who's walking and sin, 

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someone who's never given their 
life to Christ, never, someone 

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who's never believed in Jesus 
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There is no reason. 
Now we know that there's going 

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to come a day when judgments 
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are disobedient, all of those 
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Jesus Christ will suffer the 
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I mean, it's in the word, it's 
going to happen. 

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Nobody here today has to suffer 
that you can either right where 

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you are, confess that you're a 
Sinner and that you're in need 

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of a Savior. 
Doesn't have to be something 

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that it's public or public and 
everything. 

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And a few people here would pray
with you, talk with you. 

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No one has to leave here today. 
Hell bound those of you on TV. 

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If you're watching today, you 
can give your heart to Jesus 

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Christ and repent and receive 
His salvation. 

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His grace and His mercy is 
abundant. 

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It's abundant. 
He had enough for me, He'll have

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enough for you. 
He had enough for me. 

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He'll have enough for you or you
or you or you. 

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No respecter of persons. 
Let's pray. 

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Father, we thank you for your 
sacrifice. 

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We thank you for your love. 
We thank you that you sent your 

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son Jesus to die for our sins. 
Lord, we thank you for the grace

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and the mercy that you have in 
abundance. 

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Father, we just want to thank 
You that You would press it upon

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our hearts always, Lord, to 
remember, to remember that 

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sacrifice, Lord, that you made 
so that as sinners we can come 

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to You. 
We can still ask for Your 

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forgiveness. 
Lord. 

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We thank you, Lord, that we can 
be saved by grace through faith 

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and not by accomplishing the 
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Father, we pray that You will 
always allow us to remember and 

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to commemorate what you did on 
that cross, Lord, when you 

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defeated sin, Satan, and the 
great. 

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We thank you Lord, that we now 
have eternal life because of 

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that sacrifice and we remember 
that in the name of our Savior 

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and our Lord, in Jesus name we 
pray. 

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Amen. 
You've been listening to Pastor 

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Lewis Harrell here on Living 
Waters of Grace. 

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We're digging into all that Paul
shared with Timothy in the books

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of First and Second Timothy. 
Timothy was commissioned to do 

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the following fight the good 
fight of faith, lay hold on 

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eternal life, to which you were 
also called and have confessed 

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the good confession in the 
presence of many witnesses. 

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Timothy would be carrying on 
what Paul had taught him and 

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continuing on in ministry, even 
though Paul knew that more 

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hardships would come for 
Timothy. 

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This is the Christian life. 
It's not glamorous, it's not 

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some celebrity status. 
It's hard fought, it's gritty, 

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it's unpopular, but it's worth 
it. 

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Can you believe that today? 
Are you willing to fight the 

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good fight even at the cost of 
earthly pleasures? 

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Living the life of a follower of
Jesus will have its heavenly 

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rewards. 
To be a part of a community 

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that's looking forward to that 
heavenly reward, we invite you 

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to join us at Calvary Chapel 
Westmoreland. 

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If you're in the Greensburg, PA 
area, come be with us this 

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