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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. 
They're not making up stories. 

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They're not trying to figure out
what they're going to teach. 

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It's here. 
They teach what's here, and they

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expound on the scriptures. 
And this is what we need in this

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day. 
We need truth, not stories, not 

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fables, not entertainment. 
I don't need to come up here and

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make you laugh and entertain 
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We need the word of God. 
That is what changes us. 

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That's what transforms us. 
Have you ever attended a church 

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service where the pastor's 
message didn't come from a 

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biblical passage? 
Today, many Internet preachers 

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focus on few good sermons 
offering seven steps to success 

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or reminding you that you are 
the victor, not the victim. 

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But today Pastor Lewis 
emphasizes that genuine time 

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with God should be rooted in His
Word. 

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True guidance and strength are 
not found in 2 minutes sermon 

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clips and prosperity teachings, 
but by reading and spending time

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with God in His Word, the Bible.
Now here's Pastor Lewis in the 

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book of Jude chapter 1 as he 
begins his message apostates 

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described. 
Please turn in your Bibles with 

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me, please, to the book of Jude.
We're going to plug through this

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and we're going to finish it 
eventually. 

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I promise you, eventually we 
will finish Jude. 

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We'll go to the 12th verse. 
I'm going to go ahead and read, 

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first of all, the verses that I 
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And I have to admit, because of 
the content of the verses, it's 

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not like it's going to be a 
whole lot of verses, but I 

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believe that the Lord has some 
things to say to us in these 

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verses that will be beneficial 
to all of us in our Christian 

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walk. 
But starting at verse 12, he 

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says this. 
These are spots in your love 

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feasts while they feast with you
without fear, serving only 

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themselves. 
They are clouds without water, 

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carried about by the winds. 
They're late autumn trees 

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without fruit, twice dead, 
pulled up by the roots, raging 

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waves of the sea foaming up 
their own shame, wandering 

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stars, for whom has reserved the
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Now Enoch the 7th from Adam 
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saying, Behold, the Lord comes 
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to execute judgment on all, to 
convict all who are ungodly 

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among them, all their ungodly 
deeds which they have committed 

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in an ungodly way, and of all 
the harsh things which ungodly 

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sinners have spoken against him.
So once again we see here that 

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this book of Jude, which he 
gives us small book, but he 

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gives us right before the book 
of Revelations and he, he gives 

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us his book because of what's 
going on in his culture at that 

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particular time. 
People were walking away from 

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the faith, people were 
absconding from the faith, 

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people were defecting from the 
faith, people were turning from 

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the faith. 
And some of these were teachers 

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who were teaching ungodly things
to the Christians. 

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And you found it necessary, He 
found it necessary to put this, 

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this letter out as a warning to 
the people to let them know. 

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Be careful, watch out, make sure
you are alert, make sure your 

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eyes are open, you're sober. 
Make sure that you understand 

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truth and that you're not 
deceived. 

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And this morning, my heart is 
echoing what it is that Jude is 

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saying. 
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I'm seeing as I'm reading some 
things and I'm watching and I'm 

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looking, I'm seeing that people 
are walking away from the 

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church. 
People are walking away from the

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church. 
People are leaving the church. 

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People are, are, are defecting 
from the Word of God. 

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Pastors are leaving their 
pulpits and leaving the faith. 

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Not just leaving their pulpits, 
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But it brings to light the 
things that Paul said back in 

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the book of first Timothy. 
And I'm going to read it because

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it's I think it's important that
we hear this before we go into 

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talking about the description of
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But there's two things I want to
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First, first, first Timothy, 
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You've read it before, but I 
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First Timothy chapter 4, verse 
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Now the spirit expressly says 
that in the latter times some 

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will depart from the faith. 
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Because they're giving heed to 
deceiving spirits and doctrines 

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of demons. 
Verse 2 says speaking lies in 

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hypocrisy, having their own 
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iron. 
Now I want you to go to Second 

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Timothy, and in Second Timothy, 
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going to read. 
First, we're going to start with

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start at chapter 4, First 
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it says for the time will come 
when they will not endure sound 

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doctrine, but according to their
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That's so important. 
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But according to their own 
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itching ears, they will heap up 
for themselves teachers and 

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verse 4 says, and they will turn
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away from the truth and be 
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And then I'm going to read one 
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again here in Second Timothy, 
but chapter 3, starting at verse

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one, it says, but know this, 
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last days perilous times will 
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And then it describes how it 
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It says for men will be lovers 
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boasters, proud blasphemers, 
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unthankful, unholy, unloving, 
unforgiving, slanderers without 

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self-control, brutal, despisers 
of good traitors, headstrong, 

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haughty, lovers of pleasure 
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a form of godliness but denying 
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And from such people turn away. 
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advice to Timothy, his young son
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pastor and he's saying, listen, 
understand something. 

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And the latter times these 
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And it's also appropriate for us
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Back in I read something 
recently, I read that said back 

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in 19, I think it was 1972, like
90% of the United States were 

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Christian. 
Now it's less than 64% people 

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walking away from the faith and 
a lot of the reasons why people 

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are giving from walking away 
from the faith is is because 

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they have differences with the 
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Now times have changed, the 
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Word of God needs to change. 
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Cultural differences. 
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Word of God says I got to live 
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I'm not in agreement with it, so
I'm walking away from it. 

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These people I spoke to because 
they have been in some 

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legalistic situations or in some
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kind of churches where you know,
it was works based, was put 

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condemnation on people instead 
of teaching both truth and 

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grace. 
These people left because they 

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feel like they just can't stand 
up to the standard of what their

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authority was trying to make 
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They can't stand up to it, so 
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It's easier for me not to be 
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be under authority that I can't 
stand up to. 

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So I'll just become an atheist 
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Therefore, I don't have to worry
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feeling convicted about 
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I don't have to worry about it 
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It doesn't matter whether we 
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It doesn't make it not true. 
Truth is truth. 

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Truth is truth, and just because
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it so. 
I used to say, look, God said 

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it, I believe it, and that 
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No, God settled. 
God said it, that settles it. 

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It doesn't matter whether I 
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It's not settled because I 
believe it. 

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It's not settled because you 
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It's settled because God said 
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The word of God is. 
It's to us. 

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It is an aroma of life to those 
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To those who don't believe is 
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death. 
But unfortunately, people are 

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losing faith in the Word of God.
They're losing faith in the word

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of God. 
They're losing, they're losing 

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faith in the promises of God. 
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they don't know God. 
So they think that this God 

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that's in the body, they think 
this God should be this way or 

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he should be that way. 
God shouldn't 'cause people to 

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suffer or let people suffer. 
They don't know God, that some 

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of the best work he does in us 
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God is supposed to love 
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He's supposed to love everybody,
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everybody. 
Yes, He does love, but there is 

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some things that we are not to 
love, in some ways that we are 

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not to love. 
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And I've learned recently that 
you can know the Word of God and

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not know the God of the Word. 
We can quote Scripture, we can 

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remember Scripture, We can do 
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But if we don't know the God of 
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doesn't mean anything. 
We got people sitting in 

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seminaries who know the word of 
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They know it, they've studied 
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they don't know the God of the 
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And because of that, there's no 
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And unfortunately, a lot of the 
lot of these men and are walking

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away from the faith at certain 
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No Holy Spirit, no relationship,
just a head knowledge of what's 

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in here. 
Our hearts for you as pastors 

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and anyone who comes up here and
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when we teach, we want to have 
the Word living in your hearts 

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and in your lives and in our 
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We pray for the Word to live in 
us that we have a relationship 

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with the God of the Word. 
We pray for your spiritual 

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growth, that the knowledge of 
his will, that you would have 

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the knowledge of his will inside
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You understand it and spiritual 
understanding and and 

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discernment, the knowledge of 
His will. 

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We have teachers that come in, 
out and I'm going to say it 

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again on Wednesday night. 
We have 5 teachers that come in 

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here and they teach and they're 
teaching Old Testament. 

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They're teaching Old Testament 
right now. 

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We're going through the book of 
Psalms, but on Wednesday night 

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we have Tom Brubaker, we got 
Will Thomas, we got Steve 

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Eichelberger, Dave Trout, John 
Morris, and these guys are 

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really bringing forth the 
scriptures, the truth. 

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They're not making up stories. 
They're not trying to figure out

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what they're going to teach. 
It's here. 

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They teach what's here, and they
expound on the scriptures. 

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And this is what we need in this
day. 

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We need truth, not stories, not 
fables, not entertainment. 

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I don't need to come up here and
make you laugh and entertain 

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you. 
We need the Word of God. 

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That is what changes us. 
That's what transforms us. 

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That's what makes us look more 
and more like Jesus is the word 

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of God. 
And we can't lose faith in the 

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Word of God because the Bible 
says he's faithful even when 

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we're not. 
It's the same word that brought 

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forth the earth. 
It's the same word that said, 

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let there be light in this bed. 
Light. 

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Ever since no one's been able to
put the light out. 

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It's the same word that created 
you and me. 

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It's the same word that we that 
we live by. 

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We it says that certain things 
are going to happen and it has 

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happened. 
It's the same word that says 

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that we would need a savior and 
we did. 

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It's the same word that says I'm
going to give you a savior, and 

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he did. 
Same word that says that every 

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He would suffer on the cross and
die, and he did. 

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It's the same word that says 
that he would get up out of that

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grave, and he did. 
It's the same word that says 

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He's coming back and He is. 
It's the same word, same word 

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that saved our souls. 
It's the same word that brought 

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us from darkness into light. 
The same word that brought us 

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out of death and into his, the 
Kingdom of his dear Son. 

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The same word, the same word 
that redeemed you and me, the 

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same word by which we have 
forgiveness of sins. 

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It's the same word. 
The same word. 

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Let's not lose faith in this. 
This Bible and the one that you 

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hold. 
This doesn't contain the word of

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God. 
It is the word of God and we 

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have to believe that and trust 
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Why am I saying that? 
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about here are people who walked
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away from the truth, and they 
announced teaching things and 

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saying things to try to get 
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They're Antichrist, which means 
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them instead of Christ. 
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truth instead of the truth that 
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The Bible says that. 
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title of this it probably say my
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doomed for a second. 
I just want to give a difference

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between apostates and the word 
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know is that a backslider is a 
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It's a lapse of of faith. 
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point where Christians will have
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know, maybe someone died that 
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church or stop praying or stop 
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These things happens. 
Sometimes temptation gets a hold

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of you and you start going back 
and reverting back, you know, to

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your old lifestyle. 
Sometimes those things happen, 

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but at some point or another, 
because of the Holy Spirit 

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that's in you and because God, 
the God that that saved you 

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won't let you go but so far. 
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you will bring you back. 
You won't walk away totally. 

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But then there's a apostasy. 
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rejection of the Christian 
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It's a, it's a deliberate 
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and, and you reject the truth. 
Truth is, in fact, you never 

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really believed it in the first 
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You professed it. 
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definition of an apostate. 
An apostate is not, and this is 

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from where this one warns where 
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I kind of like this definition. 
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true believer who has abandoned 
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You know, people try to say, 
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apostate, then isn't that proof 
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necessarily eternal? 
You know, I mean that you can 

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lose your salvation. 
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When words you say that an 
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who has abandoned his salvation.
He is a person who has professed

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to accept the truth and trust 
the Savior, then turns from the 

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faith. 
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Yeah, we are saved when we 
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Jesus Christ, but also believe 
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raised him from the dead. 
That's got to be there as well. 

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So an apostate is more of a 
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final situation because these, 
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really believed, never truly 
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And this is who Jude is talking 
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into the church crepin to the 
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I mean, looks like just like 
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here could be a person sitting 
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We have no idea. 
Look like us, talk like us, act 

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like us. 
You know us. 

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If we hear somebody say hey, 
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know, maybe that means that they
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If they can hold those 
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slang words, may that means that
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words may that means that they 
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necessarily. 
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We can't. 
Only God can see the heart. 

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God knows the heart. 
So this is who he's talking 

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about. 
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the faith and decided that they 
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themselves because they don't 
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of Jesus Christ. 
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spots in your love feasts while 
they feast with you without 

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fear, serving only themselves. 
Spots in your love feast now at 

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first mention, you know, you can
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shirt, for example, white shirt.
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If I came up here with a white 
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is clean except for one spot And
if you catch me after eating, 

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sometimes you might catch me 
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You know, I tend to get 
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I don't know why how that 
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No comments there. 
My poor wife has to always try 

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to get these spots out after I 
get finished. 

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But anyway, you would think it's
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something though. 
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it. 
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spot. 
So it's like a spot in your love

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fees. 
But that's not what Jude is 

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talking about here. 
What Jude is talking about here 

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when he says is there spots in 
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these are in the Greek. 
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Whole different meaning. 
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It's a nautical term, hidden 
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These are things that lie under 
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you can't see, and you won't 
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until they've already done 
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ship. 
Captains try to be aware of 

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these. 
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with their ships when they're 
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you can't see them because 
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they cause damage. 
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they're there is too late. 
They've already caused damage. 

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They're already put a hole with 
the bottom of your ship and you 

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starting to sink. 
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the church with false teachers. 
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realize that this is a false 
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who doesn't believe what we 
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They've already done damage. 
They've always. 

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They've already caused some 
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They've already rebelled against
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They've already started to 
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They've already caused damage. 
We have to remember what brought

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down the Titanic. 
It wasn't the iceberg that they 

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saw on top. 
It was a damage that they 

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couldn't see underneath the 
jagged edges of the iceberg that

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was underneath that did the 
damage that brought that ship 

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down. 
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here. 
We got to be aware because these

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false teachers can sometimes be 
just like hidden reefs, hidden 

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rocks, and we don't know that 
they're there until they've 

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already done damage. 
It's a sad thing when you have 

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that kind of situation arise 
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We don't know. 
We don't know until we see the 

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effects of it. 
Then we realize that something 

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has happened. 
We've already been the, the, 

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we've been the victims of 
something that was trying to 

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divide and, and tear up the 
church. 

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I pray, I pray that here in 
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that we have so much love here 
and that we have so much an 

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awareness of the Word of God. 
It's going to be really hard for

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someone to come in and try to 
deceive you guys because there's

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so many of you who study the 
word of God. 

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You don't just study the Word of
God when you come here. 

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It's not when you just hear me, 
Clark or any of the teachers on 

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Wednesday night that you guys 
are hearing the word of God. 

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You guys are always reading and 
studying the Word of God. 

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That's why we had a 
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one another because you're 
always in the Word. 

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It's going to be very difficult 
for someone to come in here and 

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to try to teach something that 
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The ears would hear it. 
I would pray that our ears would

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hear it immediately and we'd be 
able to stop it before we cause 

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any damage underneath the 
surface spots in our love 

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feasts. 
And and then the Bible says, and

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they do it without fear. 
And just to go ahead and, and 

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follow up on the word love 
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We have agape feast. 
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love feasts are. 
We have agape feast that we have

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every now and then potlucks or 
whatever you want to call them, 

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where people come and bring 
their food. 

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Everybody loves those, Everybody
loves those. 

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But what Jude is saying is that 
these false teachers will go in 

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to these love feasts and they 
would socialize with everybody 

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like everything is fine and talk
like we all believe the same 

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thing. 
Meanwhile, they have motives 

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that are ungodly. 
This has been Living Waters of 

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Grace, a ministry of Calvary 
Chapel, Westmoreland in 

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Greensburg, PA Pastor Lewis 
Harrell has been teaching 

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through the book of Jude. 
This is a book of warning as the

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audience that Jude was writing 
to was coming under attack from 

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false teachers. 
Even in the early days of the 

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church, there were teachers who 
claimed to have a unique 

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revelation from God that 
superseded Scripture. 

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Pastor Lewis wants you to be 
sure to be on your guard against

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those teachers today as they 
will try to distract you from 

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following the way of Jesus. 
By focusing on what God's Word 

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says, you can call out false 
teachers for what they are and 

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stay on the good path. 
Do you want to hear more 

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teaching from Living Waters of 
Grace? 

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You can do so by visiting our 
website at 

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calvarychapelonline.com. 
There you will find an archive 

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of past teachings from Pastor 
Lewis and Pastor Clark. 

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If you're in Westmoreland 

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And if you're in Greensburg, be 

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