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Our Father in heaven, we thank 
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would be true of us. 
Maybe they true for us. 

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We could come now to you. 
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could Seek You. 
Hit and knock and come into your

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presence because of your grace 
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So we pray Lord that you would 
meet us now as we open up your 

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word. 
I pray that your word would be a

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feast for us. 
That would be a place of rest 

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for us. 
That it would be a place of 

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delight and joy for us and as we
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words for us Jesus. 
That would be shown once again 

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the true gospel and the good 
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us and through Us by its power. 
So, give us eyes to see. 

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Give us ears to hear this 
morning and help us to seek you.

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As you seek us out, we pray this
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Amen. 
Would you please stand for 

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reading of God's word? 
We're working our way through 

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the Sermon on the Mount might 
have just a few weeks left in 

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this amazing sermon that our 
Lord Jesus Christ has preached 

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for us this morning. 
I'll be reading from Matthew 7, 

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beginning in verse 15. 
These are Jesus words for us. 

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Jesus said, Beware of false 
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sheep's clothing, but inwardly 
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Moves. 
You will recognize them by their

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fruits. 
Our Graves gathered from 

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thornbushes or figs from 
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So, every healthy tree Bears, 
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tree Bears. 
Bad fruit a healthy tree cannot 

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bear. 
Bad fruit, nor can a diseased 

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tree bear, good fruit. 
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Good, fruit is cut down and 
thrown into the fire thus you'll

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recognize them by their fruits. 
This Word of the Lord. 

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You may be seated. 
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the sermon of the mount. 
Jesus warned his disciples to 

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beware to beware of false 
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And as we hear these words of 
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we're honest, our modern ears 
hear them and we think does 

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these words really mean anything
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It seems strange to us, beware 
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there are false prophets 
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midst, these words still matter.
this morning, I want to show you

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why they matter and why Jesus is
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relevant for us today as it was 
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years ago You see you and I we 
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age where truth is questioned. 
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questioned but even the concept 
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question and people will hurl 
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that say, there's no such thing 
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Not only that but the truth of 
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all that we believe as 
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questioned to the question for 
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tell the difference between what
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And what is false? 
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confusion around us and so many 
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to us from false prophets and 
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The Sermon on the Mount, Jesus 
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something to do with fruit. 
And so this morning, I want you 

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to see what it means to hold 
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given to us in his word. 
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through abiding in him and him 
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The first thing I want you to 
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we must be aware of the false 
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I want you to look with me at 
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Matthew 7, verse 15, you can 
find it in your bulletin or your

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own Bible or the bloop you Bible
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If you don't have a Bible this 
morning, that's our gift to you.

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Once you take it with you so 
that you would have God's word. 

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Matthew 7, verse 15, Now, before
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know where this this verse In 
this passage finds itself in 

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Jesus. 
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This is at Jesus's conclusion. 
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that. 
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Beatitudes and what it means to 
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It's like any good preacher. 
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the kingdom and now he gives us 
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after he invites us to ask and 
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After he gives us the Golden 
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through the narrow gate. 
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pay attention. 
Don't be deceived because there 

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are false prophets Among Us. 
And again, as we hear those 

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words, they might seem strange 
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But I want you to know these 
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new to the Bible. 
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Prophet Jeremiah warn. 
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prophets. 
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23 16, Jeremiah said do not 
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prophets who prophesied to you, 
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This is what false prophets do. 
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gives false hope built on empty 
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Own minds. 
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According to Jeremiah these 
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hopes, and they speak not for 
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out of their own minds but their
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stories. 
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story of Elijah as the last and 
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confronting the prophets of Baal
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people of Israel. 
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will you go limping between two?
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That's a question that I think 
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people who live in a world where
there's so much confusion and so

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many contrary messages other 
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ask ourselves how long we go on 
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Either, the Gospel of Jesus 
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The Apostle Paul in second 
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Apostles, deceitful, workmen, 
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themselves as Apostles of 
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Christ Representatives. 
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It's just a disguise. 
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prophets and false teachers who 
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heresies into the church and 
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Matthew, 24, verse 24, Jesus 
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and false gospels saying that 
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present themselves as false 
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That is why it's at this point 
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that Jesus says beware. 
Beware beware of the false 

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prophets among you. 
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we think they are strange. 
We think they might be archaic 

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an Antiquated, something that 
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but no longer matters today. 
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As we hear these words to beware
of false prophets, we also might

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be tempted to think. 
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talking about extremists and 
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Maybe, as you hear the idea of a
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Jones, a Charles Manson For me, 
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Texas. 
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David koresh and I can still 
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elementary student. hearing 
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even seeing on the news, This 
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their lives because they 
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prophet. 
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these extreme examples, we 
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Well, I would never follow 
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be true. 
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talking about. 
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about extremists and cult 
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But he's talking about the false
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more commonplace and harder to 
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Again, look with me. 
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continues. 
He says, beware of false 

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prophets, beware of false 
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sheep's clothing, but inwardly 
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And other words, the false 
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of look like sheep. 
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They look like me. 
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followers of Jesus, but 
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So Jesus says, they're like 
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Paul, in Acts 20, put it this 
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He says, I know, after my 
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come in among you. 
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Where do these false prophets? 
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not outside the church. 
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He says these Fierce wolves will
come among you not sparing the 

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flock and from among your own 
selves will arise men speaking 

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Twisted things to draw away 
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False prophet. 
It's like a wolf in sheep's 

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clothing. 
Looking like a follower of Jesus

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and even saying things that 
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truth all the while they're 
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A true prophet in the Bible. 
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God to speak truth in his name. 
A false prophet is someone who 

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is speaking false things and the
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Not only is that blasphemy but 
it's incredibly dangerous and 

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destructive to the church 
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And you don't have to be a 
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happened time and time again 
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church. 
So many have come and gone. 

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Proclaiming false things about 
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heinous things in his name that 
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Maybe, you know, someone like 
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Maybe you know, someone who is 
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not because of Jesus but because
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Christians said about him. 
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morning, here's my question. 
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Jesus? 
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that's been made in our image? 
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into the lies of false prophets 
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So this morning, I want to ask 
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Jesus? 
are all you following some 

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caricature, but as lead, you 
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you know? 
How are we to live in this age 

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of confusion? 
How we supposed to tell the 

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difference between what is true?
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If a false prophet is like a 
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clothing, how we able to spot 
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Jesus tells us the answer has to
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So, second thing I want you to 
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must recognize the false gospels
that are being preached, false 

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prophets, preach, false gospels.
And Jesus says it that we can 

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recognize them by their fruits. 
Look with me in verse 16. 

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Jesus says you will recognize 
them by their fruits and then 

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you ask this question. 
He says, are grapes gathered 

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from thornbushes or figs from 
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What is he saying? 
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go to the nursery later this 
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time that you want to buy a 
fruit tree. 

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And you know anything about 
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If you don't know a lot and know
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just trees, right? 
And until they actually bear 

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fruit, you might have a hard 
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between one fruit tree and 
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buy what you think is an orange 
tree and then finally, you've 

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been nursing this tree along 
after you've planted it and 

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you've watered it and you've 
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it. 
You are excited for the oranges 

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that are going to come. 
And then finally, after months, 

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You don't have oranges, you have
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What's Jesus is point he saying,
fruit doesn't lie? 

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An orange tree makes oranges. 
A lemon tree makes lemons. 

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If you want to be able to tell 
the difference between what is 

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true and false, if you want to 
be able to be wary of and to 

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spot the false prophets Among 
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of the false gospels that they 
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Because false gospels powerless,
and the messages of false 

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prophets proclaimed will always 
lead to Decay and disease in 

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spiritual atrophy. 
Jesus says, you can recognize 

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them by their fruit. 
Look with me. 

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He goes on verse 17 every 
healthy tree, Bears. 

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Good fruit. 
But the disease tree Bears. 

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Bad fruit a healthy tree cannot 
bear. 

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Bad fruit. 
Nor can a diseased tree bear. 

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Good fruit. 
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There's bad and there's good and
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fruit. 
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bad fruit? 
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false gospel. 
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salvation in something other 
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His death and Resurrection for 
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gospels are so deceiving to us 
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looking and sounding like the 
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them. 
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gospel are taken away. something
that says, you are saved through

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Jesus Plus Or something that 
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something away from what Jesus 
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The Apostle Paul described it 
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Galatians have a Bible, you can 
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Once you to hear what Paul says 
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Galatians. 
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believed in Jesus and they 
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Jesus but they didn't stop 
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They believed in Jesus. 
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in Christ and what he's done for
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false gospel had begin to seep 
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So much. 
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it's no longer the gospel. 
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Galatians 1, verse 6. 
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you are so quickly deserting 
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of Christ and are turning to a 
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Not that there is another one 
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you and want to distort the 
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So now I say, again, if anyone 
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contrary contrary to the one 
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This is incredibly serious. 
A false gospel had began to seep

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into the galatian church, and 
he's calling his church back to 

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the one true salvation that is 
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Christ Alone by his finished 
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And saying you've been deceived.
Brothers and sisters. 

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We need to hear these words 
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I wonder how many of us have 
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Because each and every day we 
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being proclaimed To Us by false 
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are everywhere. 
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know what they really look like.
and just how contrary to the 

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true gospel, their messages 
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gospels look like today? 
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like four different categories, 
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but let me just simply give you 
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The first is this the Prosperity
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Perhaps, one of the most common 
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over the world. 
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if you work hard enough and you 
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bless you, with health, wealth 
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It's a popular false gospel 
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want to hear. 
You're telling me I can just try

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to be good and work hard and God
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The problem is, it's not true. 
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experientially it's not what the
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last week, Jesus calls us to 
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Not the easy one. 
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Invites us to walk down the easy
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A path away from the cross away 
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our suffering. 
We're not promised health, 

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wealth and prosperity. 
We are promised a savior who 

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knows our every sin, our every 
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and paid for it on the cross. 
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never believe the Prosperity 
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I don't need to be worried about
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I want you to answer this 
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Have you ever asked why do bad 
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We re assume that if we are 
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But if you read the Bible, you 
see that this life, This Side of

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Heaven is filled with suffering 
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stories. 
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There's another gospel in 
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and sociologists have called 
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The gospel that says that God 
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He wants us to be good people, 
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And that's really what the human
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It's a gospel that says that God
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It's therapeutic. 
He just wants you to be happy 

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and pleased with yourself. 
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aesthetic and that it says that 
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interested in your life and what
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He's really only there. 
When you need them, you can go 

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to them and get what you need 
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Shelf. 
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The true gospel says that 
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with every single part of our 
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incarnate in our flesh. 
To know what it truly means to 

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understand what it's like for us
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us in our place on the cross. 
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gospel, is the gospel of 
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A gospel of perfectionism, a 
false gospel that says believe 

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in Jesus and be perfect. 
Yes, we are saved and justified 

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by Grace, but now we are 
Sanctified by works and you 

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better earn it. 
You better live a life that is 

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deserving and sinless. 
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be one of Christ's disciples? 
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opposite side. 
Gospel of antinomianism, a 

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gospel of cheap Grace. 
A gospel that says you don't 

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need to be holy gospel that 
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and Jesus died in your forgiving
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So don't even try. 
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Bonhoeffer. 
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the cross. 
And this is what I want you to 

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see about every false gospel, 
everyone promises hope and offer

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salvation by some way, other 
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What false gospel are you most 
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What false gospel has seeped 
into your soul and distorted 

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your understanding of the true 
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Because you see this is what 
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and they cause us to see a false
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understanding of the cross. 
He's false Gospels. 

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Come to us from false prophets 
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So, how do we know the 
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How can we walk through this 
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between true and false? 
Good fruit, and bad fruit? 

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How can we recognize the false 
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turn back? 
It's the joy of Salvation that 

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is found in Jesus. 
Jesus says, it has to do with 

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fruit and at the end of this 
section of The Sermon, on the 

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Mount once again, he says this 
in verse 20, thus you will 

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recognize them by their fruits. 
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want you to know. 
I want, you know, that we must 

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abide in the truth of God's 
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How do we tell the difference 
between the fruit of a false 

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gospel and the truth fruit of 
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We must know that good fruit 
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Jesus alone. 
The Gospel of John, Jesus tells 

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us what this looks like. 
John 15 verse 5, Jesus said, I 

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am the vine and you are the 
branches, whoever abides in me 

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and I in him he it is that bears
much fruit for apart from me you

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can do nothing. 
This verse means so much to us 

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as a church that we actually had
engraved on a piece of stone and

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put it in the courtyard. 
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Because here we believe that we 
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False gospels lead us away from 
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And they feed us this lie that 
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But Jesus says, no good fruit 
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So what does it mean to abide 
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Jesus Will earlier in the Gospel
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verse 31 Jesus said if you abide
in my word, you are truly my 

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disciples and you will know the 
truth and the truth will set you

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free. 
How do we abide in Jesus and so 

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bear? 
Good fruit, true gospel fruit. 

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Did you hear it? 
Jesus said, abide in my word and

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if you abide in my word, you 
will truly be one of my 

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disciples. 
If you're truly one of my 

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disciples, you will know the 
truth and the truth will set you

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free. 
So, in this world of confusion 

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was so many conflicting messages
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How do we know the difference? 
We can only know the difference 

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if we know the truth. 
I put it to you this way. 

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I want you to imagine that later
this afternoon. 

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You get an email from me. and 
one of those emails that says, 

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greetings, greetings. 
Pastor, Paul is here and I am in

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real trouble. 
I'm in the middle of sub-Saharan

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Africa and have run out of 
money. 

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And I need you to send me money 
through this link. 

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If you'll only give me your bank
account and your Social Security

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number, Now, other than that, 
you've had enough of those to 

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know that that's laughable. 
I want you to go there for just 

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a second. 
You would probably listen to the

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words the email and say that 
that doesn't really sound like 

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Paul. 
Why don't think he says, 

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greetings, it's kind of strange,
and I don't think he'd be asking

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me for money. 
You might even if you thought 

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that maybe it sounded enough. 
Like Paul, you might be tempted 

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to say, well, you know what, I 
want you to prove that you are 

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who you say you are, would you 
please send me a picture of 

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yourself. 
And you get a picture of my old 

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picture from the internet, which
does not have a beard like this.

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It's a little bit more clean 
shaven, that's old pole you 

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think? 
Well that's not what it looks 

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like. 
Now not the least of which is 

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your here on Sunday morning and 
it's impossible for me to get to

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sub-Saharan Africa in a day. 
What's the point? 

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Well, the more that, you know me
And been around me and have 

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heard me speak and talk. 
You can easily tell the 

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difference between me and an 
imposter. 

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How are we to tell the 
difference between the false 

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gospels that are being preached 
to us? 

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Only when we deeply know the 
real thing. 

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And Jesus is calling us as his 
people to abide in his word. 

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The most famous verse about the 
Bible in the Bible is probably 

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second Timothy 3:16. 
As we end, I want you to turn 

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there and you can find it. 
Actually in your bulletin, we 

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used it as our profession of 
Faith this morning. 

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Second Timothy, 3:16 Says, this 
all scripture is breathed out by

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God and profitable for teaching,
for reproof for correction, and 

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for training in righteousness, 
as for a Paul is telling us the 

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importance of the Bible, the 
importance of scripture, the 

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importance of God's word that 
all of its been breathed out by 

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God and in other words it's a 
Grace for us, it's a gift that's

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been given to us to teach us and
train us and grow. 

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And if you've grown up in the 
Bible Belt, you've probably 

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heard this verse before. 
But do you know where it comes 

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from and why Paul wrote it? 
Context matters. 

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Just a few verses before this 
one and second, Timothy 3 verse 

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1, this is what Paul said. 
Understand this, that, in the 

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last days, there will come times
of difficulty for people. 

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Will be lovers of self. 
Lovers of money proud, arrogant,

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abusive disobedient to their 
parents ungrateful, Unholy 

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heartless, unappeasable 
slanderous without self-control 

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brutal. 
Not loving good treacherous. 

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Reckless swollen with conceit 
lovers of pleasure rather than 

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lovers of God. 
Now, listen to this, having 

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appearance of godliness but 
Denying its power. 

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And other words in the last 
days, there will be people 

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proclaiming false gospels. 
They will have the appearance of

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godliness but they will deny his
power. 

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They will be lovers of self and 
lovers of money. 

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They will be abusive and 
arrogant and prideful and 

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slanderous. 
And so then Paul writes that's 

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why it matters that all 
scripture is god-breathed. 

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But I want you to see this 
morning is, this is why the 

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Bible matters and why it's such 
a gift to us. 

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It's why we need it. 
We need the Bible because we 

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need to know deeply, the one 
true story of redemption. 

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We need the Bible because we 
need to know deeply. 

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The one true message of 
Salvation. 

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We need to Bible because we need
to know deeply the true gospel. 

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And we need to know what. 
So intimately that we can spot a

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false gospel immediately. 
And be able to call a false 

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prophet and expose them for what
they really are. 

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We cannot do that. 
Unless we abide and the word And

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so, what message are you 
listening to the most? 

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Do you find yourself tempted to 
listen to all the messages that 

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we are completely flooded with? 
This afternoon as you go back 

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home, what will you turn on the 
television? 

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As you get out your phone and 
listen to a podcast, what will 

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you listen to? 
As you get on the internet and 

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read some article? 
What will you read? 

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Because over and over again. 
My guess is there are false 

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messages of false gospels 
working in and through every 

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single one of those channels. 
Are you abiding in God's word? 

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More than those things. 
So to train yourself to not only

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spot the false gospels Among Us.
But to see God's word for what 

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it really is. 
It's a love letter. 

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A place of rest. 
An invitation to come and feast.

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It's a story that tells the one 
true story of redemption and a 

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world proclaims that you are not
loved. 

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And you don't matter, unless you
make enough or look the right 

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way in a world that says, you 
can make yourself better and 

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save yourself. 
A world that says that this is 

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all that there is. 
And so, just live it up now 

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because there's nothing to come 
to that world this stories. 

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Is you are loved. 
That we have a Creator who made 

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all things in it. 
He is Made You and Me In His 

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Image that though. 
Actually, we are far more broken

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and far more sinful than we 
could ever know. 

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God loved us so much that he 
sent his only son to know our 

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pain and our sorrow and to Bear 
our sin on the cross. 

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He died in our place on the 
third day, he rose again and one

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day he is going to Come back to 
make all things new. 

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Do you know that story? 
More than that. 

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Do you live every day out of 
that story? 

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Do you rest in that story and 
are you so deeply and intimately

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acquainted with that story? 
That there is no false message 

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that could ever compare? 
Jesus says you will recognize 

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them by their fruits. 
We can only do that when we see 

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the goodness and the grace of 
the fruit that he has given us 

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in his word and that salvation 
that he has given us in his son.

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Let's pray. 
Father in heaven. 

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We pray that you would make us 
people who love your word. 

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It's so easy to see it as 
something we have to do. 

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Or something we fail to do. 
Oh, but Lord, as we come back to

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it, maybe even today. 
Help us to see that you. 

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Welcome us back to yourself. 
And as we abide and your word 

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help us to live out of it and 
just taste and see that you are 

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who you say, you are, and that 
you're gospel. 

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And your story of Salvation is 
the only one that bears. 

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Good and true fruit in our 
hearts. 

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We ask this in the strong name 
of Jesus. 

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Amen. 
Let's stay and let's sing 

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together.