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

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Wofford, senior pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 

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

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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You'll receive afflictions and 
persecutions when you stand up 

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for truth. 
Guys, you realize that some of 

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you are already experiencing 
that. 

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They got rid of Jesus because of
sound doctrine. 

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They eliminated all the apostles
because of sound doctrine. 

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This is not fashionable. 
This is not culturally relevant.

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This is not something that the 
society really is looking for. 

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Wow, what an indictment of our 
current culture. 

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Indeed, It is not mainstream to 
submit to the authority of 

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Scripture. 
It is not popular to live life 

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in the way that Jesus taught, 
being humble and giving 

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generously. 
Jesus does not offer his 

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disciples an easy road to walk, 
but He has walked this road 

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before us. 
Truth is often not easy to stand

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for, and there are always 
consequences for going against 

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the grain of the culture. 
In today's message, Pastor Clark

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reminds us that choosing Jesus 
is worth any cost. 

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Now here's Pastor Clark in 
Ephesians chapter 4 with today's

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edition of Living Waters of 
Grace. 

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False doctrine is the invention 
of man, his concepts, his 

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interpretations and heresies. 
It's not rooted in the Apostolic

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teaching and Ephesians 414. 
Paul warns them about being 

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carried about with every wind of
doctrine by the sleight of men, 

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where they lie in cunning 
craftiness, thereby waiting and 

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lying, waiting to deceive. 
It's hard to conceive that 

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there's people out there that 
make their living under the 

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auspices of ministry and they're
leading the flock down the path 

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of destruction in regard to the 
teaching. 

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And Paul warns the church there 
in Ephesus, don't be carried 

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about with all these winds of 
doctrines. 

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I get so tired of all these new 
moves out there today, This book

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about this book and then this 
book about that book and this 

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book about it's like, try this 
and try. 

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And then the pastors, they feel 
pressured. 

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It becomes schizophrenic. 
Well, we need to do this because

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this is in now. 
And when that isn't in anymore, 

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then we'll do this. 
And then let's talk about this 

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book and by this guy's writings.
And then, you know, before, you 

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know, people aren't in the word 
anymore. 

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They're into some book that some
man's written. 

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First Timothy 110 says there are
things that are contrary to 

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sound doctrine, warning them not
to be around that stuff. 

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First Timothy 41, it says give 
heed, that people will give heed

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to seducing spirits and 
doctrines of demons and the last

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days in chapter 4, verse 6, if 
you instruct the brethren, I 

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love this. 
It should be the life verse of 

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every pastor, every teacher. 
If you instruct the brethren in 

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these things, you will be a good
minister of Jesus Christ, 

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nourish in the words of faith 
and of God's doctrine which you 

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have carefully followed. 
Amen. 

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That's what we're all to do. 
Let me read that again. 

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This is the responsibility of 
anybody that teaches the word. 

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If you instruct the brethren in 
these things, you will be a good

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minister of Jesus Christ, 
nourished in the words of faith 

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and of God's doctrine, which you
have carefully followed. 

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I'll tell you the day that we 
stopped carefully following the 

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doctrine of God. 
Here is a day you bolt from this

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church. 
Don't allow yourself to be 

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sitting here ever under any 
false teaching anywhere. 

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If you have friends or in 
churches and they're in places 

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of false doctrine or false 
teaching, it behooves you to 

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warn them and to tell them to 
search the Scriptures as the 

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Bereans did daily to see whether
the things they were being 

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taught were so. 
There's too many Christians 

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nowadays that attend the church 
without their Bible. 

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And you come and you listen to 
some man rant and rave up front 

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for 45 minutes and you figure, 
well, he's a minister, he must 

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know what he's talking about. 
Don't ever take that for 

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granted. 
Your job is to study and to be 

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in the Scriptures along with me 
or anybody in this church that's

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teaching something that isn't in
the word. 

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You say very nicely. 
Where did you come up with that?

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You keep my fire to the feet 
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It's important. 
It says in 413 I come, I give 

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attendance to doctrine. 416 Take
heed unto yourself, and and unto

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the doctrine. 
Verse 517 it says, They who 

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labor in the word and doctrine 
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Second Timothy 43 it says, When 
they will not endorse sound 

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doctrine, Titus 210 says, that 
they may adorn the doctrine of 

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God our Savior in all things. 
Hebrews 13, nine says, Do not be

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carried about with various and 
strange doctrines. 

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Second Timothy 42 says Exhort 
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doctrine. 
Let's read Second Timothy 

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chapter 4 for a moment. 
If you flip over there Second 

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Timothy chapter 4 verse one 
through 5, I charge you 

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therefore before God and the 
Lord Jesus Christ, who will 

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judge the living and the dead at
his appearing and his Kingdom. 

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Preach the word, be ready in 
season, in and out of season, 

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convince, rebuke, exhort with 
all long-suffering and teaching 

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as yours might have, and 
doctrine for this time will come

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when they will not endure sound 
doctrine, but according to their

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own desires, because they have 
itching ears. 

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They will heap up for themselves
teachers, and they will turn 

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their ears away from the truth 
and be turned aside the fables. 

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But you be watchful in all 
things and door afflictions. 

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Do the work of an evangelist for
full fulfill your OR ministry. 

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You'll receive afflictions and 
persecutions when you stand up 

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for truth. 
Guys, you realize that some of 

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you are already experiencing 
that they got rid of Jesus 

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because of sound doctrine. 
They eliminated all the apostles

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because of sound doctrine. 
This is not fashionable. 

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This is not culturally relevant,
so this is not something that 

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the society really is looking 
for. 

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But if we don't use our salt and
light in the days that we are 

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living right now, we will lose 
our opportunity to continually 

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be the church in this country. 
This is a day that you stand up 

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and you speak the truth and 
love. 

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You don't hold back, you don't 
hide it, you don't hide your 

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light under a bushel. 
You speak the truth and the top 

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of the mountain. 
And I believe in these days the 

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Lord is stirring A remnant 
around the earth, not only in 

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the church, but within the 
confines of the political arena.

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People are getting fed up with 
the destruction of our moral 

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fiber in our country. 
People are getting tired of 

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liberal agendas. 
People are getting tired of 

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conservative values being pushed
down the drain for the sake of 

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the liberal tendencies of the 
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The founders of our 
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those men that wrote that 
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And we as a church need to 
understand that doctrine 

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pervades not only what we 
believe in the church, but how 

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we live in the culture. 
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Your faith stands with you 
wherever you go, and if you 

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don't have sound doctrine, you 
won't know how to stand. 

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So here in Pergamos, the very 
things that the church is warned

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against, the doctrines that 
Jesus hates, are infiltrating 

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the church. 
The Nicolaitans. 

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The word means to rule the 
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The doctrine of Balaam means to 
Lord it over the people, Lord it

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over the flock and lead them 
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The the pressure of leaders to 
put pressure upon the people and

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try to manipulate them and 
control them and make them feel 

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second to them because they have
a disagreement or a different 

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perspective regarding something 
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Whenever the pastor isn't 
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something in the church and he 
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consider what the body is 
sensing, it's very, very 

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dangerous. 
You're in a situation where you 

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are being controlled and 
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It's the Church of Jesus Christ,
not the Church of Calvary Chapel

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or the Church of any other name.
Christ is the head of the 

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church, and we are all 
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He is Lord. 
The pastors aren't Lord, but the

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Nicolaitans and the Balamites 
were the type of people that 

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they were very controlling and 
manipulating. 

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They lorded it over the flock 
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people astray. 
Balaam, interesting about him. 

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He was a true prophet but he 
sold his gifts for money. 

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He was hired by King Balak to 
cure people, curse people of 

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Israel, and God prevented this 
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Yeah, 24,000 people died because
of the compromise and the Jews 

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ended up worshipping at Pagan 
altars and they ended up 

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committing fornication. 
You know the Bible says come out

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from among them and be separate,
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Have no fellowship with the 
unfruitful works of darkness, 

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but rather reprove them. 
If you and I are in ungodly 

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places, hanging out with ungodly
people, slowly our own moral 

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fiber will be eroded and we'll 
find ourselves doing the very 

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things that the nature of the 
people who are lost are doing. 

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Christians fall and Christians 
still sin, and that's why we're 

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warned not to be around things 
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It says light and darkness 
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Again, have no fellowship with 
the unfruitful works of 

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darkness, but rather reprove 
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In other words, preach about 
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Let your conviction be heard. 
If someone asks you your opinion

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about something regarding you 
know the gay lifestyle or 

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abortion, let your voice be 
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Speak up about what you know the
word teaches and what the truth 

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is. 
James chapter 4, it's gives us 

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warning if you flip over there 
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James chapter 4 regarding our 
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James chapter 4 verse one, it 
says where do wars and fights 

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come from among you? 
Do they not come from your 

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desires for pleasure? 
That war in your members you 

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lust, you do not have, you 
murder and you covet and cannot 

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obtain. 
You fight and you war, yet you 

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do not have because you do not 
ask, you ask and you do not 

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receive, because you ask amiss 
that you may spend it on your 

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pleasures. 
Adulterers and adulteresses, do 

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you not know that friendship 
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God? 
Whoever, therefore wants to be a

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friend of the world makes 
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Or who do you think that the 
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The Spirit who dwells in US 
yearns, jealous, jealously. 

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We want to be friends with this 
world that's destroying, being 

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destroyed and falling apart, and
we want to hang out in the 

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places that the world goes to. 
We're jeopardizing our walk in 

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our testimony before the lost. 
If you and I get alongside of 

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people that are on their way to 
hell and we sit beside them and 

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we don't tell them about why 
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That's the the, the tragedy of 
tragedies, isn't it? 

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That we just endorse what they 
do and how they live, and we 

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never tell them that there's a 
better way and that there's a 

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Savior that can change their 
heart. 

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See, the lost people, you and I 
know, our friends, our 

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neighbors, our relatives, the 
way they, the reason they are, 

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the way they are is because they
don't have the heart that you 

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have. 
And so all they can do is act 

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the way they do because they 
don't know that there's a 

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different way to live. 
We're not better than them. 

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We're just changed, right? 
We've been cleansed, we've been 

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forgiven, we've been given 
mercy, and the cross of Jesus 

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Christ has changed our hearts 
and our lives. 

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So in order for these people to 
know the difference, some of us 

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have to have the guts to say, 
hey, I need to tell you about 

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what Jesus has done for me. 
Whether they want to listen or 

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hear it or not, tell them anyway
in a loving, humble, gracious 

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way. 
If they ask why you don't run in

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the same excess that you used to
run with them, tell them I can't

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because Christ has changed my 
life and I can't pattern in my 

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life after what this world 
patterns itself after anymore 

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because I'm no longer part of 
this world. 

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I'm waiting for the new heaven 
and the new earth where I really

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belong. 
The world, this world isn't our 

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home, is it guys? 
It really isn't. 

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If you're a true Christian, a 
true believer in Christ, you 

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know this isn't your final 
dwelling place. 

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And that's why the early church,
man, they were so excited. 

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Maranatha, come quickly. 
Lord Jesus, the early church, 

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every day they were living like 
Christ was going to come 

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tomorrow. 
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Hebrews. 
They look for a city and builder

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whose maker was God. 
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dwellings, not considering this 
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for a city whose builder and 
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He's just mentioned there this 
once one name, one person, no 

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background information, but this
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cost him his life and God 
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in the scriptures to be 
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centuries. 
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whims and edicts and and you 
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would say before the throne and 
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And I wonder how many of us 
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to where we are today. 
We trying to advance our careers

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by ungodly compromise by hiding 
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Well, I really can't let the 
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So I'll go to this place with 
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or this affair and I'll just 
sort of hang out there with them

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even though I don't want to be 
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But I, you know, I got to do it 
because of business. 

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No, guys and gals, you don't do 
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You make a stand and you say, 
you know, be honest with I can't

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really be comfortable there. 
But you know, you go, you have a

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nice time, but why don't you 
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You religious or something, 
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I'm not religious, but I have a 
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this goes against my 
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I can't compromise my spiritual 
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And the boss might say, well, 
you know, that might cost you 

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your career. 
You might not get that 

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advancement. 
You know, it might not get that 

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raise. 
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Let it be. 
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Philadelphia. 
He was a supervisor in the US 

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Post Office and he was an 
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And they warned him not to do 
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And he kept doing it and they 
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said it would cost his him his 
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He had a livelihood, a family, a
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not stop telling people about 
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He was fired, he lost his job, 
but the Lord had something 

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better for him. 
He's now one of the pastors that

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did Calvary Chapel in Philly. 
So God will always reward you 

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when you stand up for him. 
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but it isn't. 
God is very, very blessed and 

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pleased with us, and we're not 
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throw at us. 
So Pergamus, the word means to 

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be married. 
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being married to Caesar instead 
of understanding their marriage 

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to Christ. 
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Book of Revelation as a defiled 
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We'll get to it later on. 
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a pure, chaste virgin bride. 
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James tells us, is spiritual 
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We know how bad adultery is. 
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and the Lord has been merciful 
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But spiritual adultery is even 
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defaming the blood and sacrifice
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Spiritual adultery is very, very
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You know, the sin of one of us 
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If I decide to walk in secret 
sin and come into this church 

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and preach the word and tell you
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line up with everything the 
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unpure sacrifice and my sin will
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Your sin the day will affect 
brothers and sisters around you.

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If we had the bubonic plague in 
Greensburg today, we'd make sure

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that this place was quarantined 
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might have it. 
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sitting in here with that 
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be compromised, right? 
The Bible tells us that the sin 

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of one of us effects all. 
That's why we need to live in 

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continual repentance, continual 
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not willingly walking in sin, 
not allowing our heart to be 

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hard because we've been 
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challenged by someone or hurt by
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We need to lay down our feelings
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Christ and His church and His 
Bride. 

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Jesus refers to His voice and 
His Word as a sword coming out 

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of his mouth, the sword of 
Christ, and it references 

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Hebrews chapter 412, The sword 
being the word of God. 

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The word of God is sharper than 
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It's able to Pierce and divide 
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is a very discerner of the 
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heart. 
I have no idea what God's doing 

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with this message today in your 
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knows where to put that sword in
and move away some area there 

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and cut out the sin, the cancer 
that can so easily end up in any

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of our hearts at any given time.
His word is a liberating word, a

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cleansing word, a purifying 
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on this church and Pergamus that
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must listen to what He has to 
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the Spirit is saying to the 
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And when the church is 
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then God does bring judgment. 
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that judgment has to begin first
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Has to start with me and you 
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the world. 
The world just looks at all 

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those people inside those 
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All they do is live in delusion.
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they talk about a Savior, but 
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and we have no influence in this
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grace and by the power of His 
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When you guys leave here today, 
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walking out with brightness in 
your face, with light in your 

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eyes. 
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other people, in the presence of
other people, they're going to 

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know, as they knew in the book 
of the Acts, that these people 

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have been with Jesus. 
He speaks about the man in the 

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wilderness. 
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Back in those days there was a 
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the covenant that had man in. 
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will provide them food in the 
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wilderness, that they don't have
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Jesus is referred to as being 
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You feed on him, you eat and 
partake of his life. 

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His life is your life. 
That's why Jesus said unless 

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you're willing to eat in my 
flesh and drinking my blood, my 

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life is not in you. 
Not cannibalism, the spiritual 

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nurturing that comes from the 
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It's mystical, it's hard to 
grasp, it's hard to understand, 

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but as you digest this word, the
Bible says your word. 

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Have you hid in your heart that 
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against him? 
Not the sacrifices to idols 

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which Pergamus was making. 
He refers to this interesting 

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item at the end here of this 
whitestone some people think is 

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ties in with the Urim and 
Thummim. 

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In the Old Testament it was a 2 
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out judgment, the Blackstone or 
white acquittal. 

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If you didn't have a pass, you 
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And why would you want to pass 
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Jesus is talking about giving 
them entrance into an admission 

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to a feast that will last 
forever. 

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And one day we will feast with 
the glory, Jesus Christ in 

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heaven forever, the marriage 
supper, the lamb. 

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Do you have admission to that? 
The admission comes through the 

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blood of Jesus Christ. 
Have you received Christ Himself

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that you might have admission 
into His Kingdom? 

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The wonderful thing is for you 
and me today that I am no longer

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guilty. 
I know I'm a Sinner still, and 

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you know you're still sinners. 
But when Christ atones for your 

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sin, and when He shed His blood 
for you, and you receive that 

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sacrifice by faith, it means 
that you have been made 

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righteous, and that you have no 
more guilt and no more stain, 

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and no condemnation. 
It's a wondrous thing that He 

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does, and that Whitestone 
represents the righteousness of 

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Christ that he imparts to us in 
our heart. 

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And he no longer sees in you a 
depraved individual who is 

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guilty before his throne. 
He sees now a son and a 

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daughter, a St. that has 
received his blood and has been 

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acquitted and declared righteous
by grace through faith in Jesus 

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Christ. 
And we also have received this 

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invitation to feed on Him today 
and throughout eternity. 

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I love the Lord's Supper every 
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It nurtures me. 
It feeds me when I can partake 

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in this mystical way of His body
and His blood. 

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It transforms me like no other 
dinner or meal that I can get 

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because it purifies me. 
I can't take that with Him or 

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before you, unless I've first 
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I trust, have dealt with yours. 
And I celebrate that Supper 

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every Sunday, as I trust you do.
The early church met daily in 

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the Apostles doctrine in 
fellowship and prayers in the 

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Lord's Supper, and the Lord 
added daily to the church such 

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as should be saved. 
This has been Living Waters of 

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Grace with Pastor Clark. 
We're going through the 

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challenging and also intriguing 
Book of Revelation. 

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

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

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

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

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

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it here on earth, but there's so
much to look forward to. 

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But what comes after all? 
The judgement of the earth and 

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

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and it can be heartbreaking to 
read through the intense 

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

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all their might. 
The thing is, God has given 

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chance upon chance to these 
people. 

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

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judgements and consequences for 
those who've rejected the good 

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

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death and resurrection. 
Are you one who has heard about 

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

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

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much better. 
That doesn't mean it will be 

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easy, but as you listen and read
through Revelation with us, 

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you'll come to a stark 
realization that you don't want 

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to be on earth when the 
apocalypse happens. 

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

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

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

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person at Calvary Chapel 
Westmoreland. 

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Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh
St. 

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Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601.
This has been living waters of 

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grace.