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In the name of the glorious 
Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

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Spirit, forever Amen. 
Glory be to the everlasting 

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mercies which sent you to us, O 
Christ, the light of the world 

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and the life of all. 
Give us wisdom by your law and 

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enlighten our impulses by Your 
knowledge. 

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Sanctify our souls by Your 
truth, and grant that we may be 

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obedient to Your words and may 
fulfil Your commandments at 

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every hour. 
O You who enlightens the 

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rational with the knowledge of 
Your greatness. 

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Do enlight, O my Lord, our 
thoughts, that we may meditate 

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upon Your holy and divine 
Scriptures at all times, O Lord 

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of all, Father and Son and Holy 
Spirit. 

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Forever. 
Amen. 

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Faith alone or? 
Faith by itself. 

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Without. 
Works is deed according to James

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chapter 2, verse 17. 
However, according to James 

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chapter 2 verse 19, faith 
without. 

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Love and reverence. 
And deeds obviously is demonic 

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James. 
Chapter 2 Verse. 19 You believe.

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That means you have faith. 
That there is one God. 

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You do well, great, the Devils 
also believe. 

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And they tremble. 
You see, beloved, many believe 

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what God says. 
Many believe that God exists. 

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Many believe in Him, which 
should mean that they love Him 

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so much that they want to do 
what He tells them. 

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Now there are many evil people 
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two of these, that is, believed 
that God exists and believe what

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he says, and they are quite 
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exists. 
But it takes someone who is not 

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just a nominal Christian, that 
is Christian by name, but who is

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one indeed, that means works and
in living to love Revere God and

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to do what he commands. 
That is the true Christian. 

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So just as faith with love is 
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deeds is Christian. 
But faith without love is 

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demonic. 
SO2 Love without deeds is 

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demonic and fake as well. 
It's a beautiful triangle. 

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You want to call it a beautiful 
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See Jesus in chapter 14 of John 
verse 15 commands If you love 

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me, keep my commandments, right?
That means if you believe and 

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you love me, not merely believe 
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I'm sorry if you love me and you
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believe in me, but keep my 
commandments, St. 

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John Chrysostom writes. 
To love is to submit to Christ 

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at all times. 
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need, not mere show of words. 
It is easy. 

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He goes on to say it is easy for
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something, but it is not so easy
to act on that word or promise. 

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Let me ask you a question. 
How many times have you promised

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something to God? 
I promise I will do this. 

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Lord, if you hear my prayer and 
and reply and grant them, I 

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promise I do this, I will do 
this, I will give you this. 

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How many times? 
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one thing we promise and we 
recite every ferial morning 

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during morning prayers that is 
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Thursdays, Fridays and 
Saturdays. 

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Now if there's not a 
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feast, it's just a ferial date 
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during the prayers. 
Look at what we sing. 

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Listen to this. 
And I posted this day by day, I 

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promise you so that tomorrow I 
will repent. 

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Hey, it's ringing bells, right? 
Yeah. 

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Oh, that's me. 
Day by day I promise that 

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tomorrow I will repent. 
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and my trespasses and 
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O Christ, pity me. 
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pity me and have mercy upon me, 
Saint John Chrysostom continues.

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If you love me, Christ said, 
keep my commandments. 

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I have commanded you to love one
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another as I have done to you, 
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To love me, he writes, is to 
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He's speaking on Jesus's behalf.
To love me is to obey these 

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commandments and to submit to 
me, your beloved, whatever that 

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you love, whatever that you 
desire, you and all your desires

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must be submitted to Jesus 
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And that is true faith with 
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love, the one very God pleasing 
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To love and Revere God the 
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Matthew 17 Five. 
Listen to his Son. 

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This is my beloved Son, in whom 
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Only the Son, Jesus Christ the 
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other. 
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the redemption of our sin from 
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No, no, but only through the 
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Get it right. 
Get it right. 

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It doesn't concern me how many 
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degrees you have. 
No, no, no, I don't. 

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It doesn't concern me how many 
how, how many theological papers

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and books you've written. 
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Jesus said God said listen to 
him to his son. 

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Matthew 17, five John chapter 3,
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Look at what Jesus rightly 
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to dare even think about what 
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He whom the Father loves is 
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Father loves and has given all 
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That's one way that we can 
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listen to his Son. 
Now there's going to be an 

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equation. 
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appease and receive God or 
Revere God the Father is by 

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listening to His Son and His 
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Only. 
The one and only way by which we

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can receive except believing God
the Father, is to do the same to

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the Son as we do to the Father 
in Matthew chapter 10 verse 40. 

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Now I'm going to read the 
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He who receives me, He who 
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Let me dare to add to that. 
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reveres me, He who has a 
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same with the Father. 
Matthew 1040 be the second part.

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We're going to talk about the 
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To express and exercise a true 
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beloved, is to obey his 
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Now you want to, you want to 
show and and express and and 

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show your love and your 
reverence to God. 

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Your worship to God is to obey 
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And the same way that we can 
Revere the Son, the Christ is to

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obey his commandments. 
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Just as Jesus says, if you love 
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Just as God the Father has 
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him and his Son, so too Christ 
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demanded and commands the same 
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with Him. 
You want to have a relationship 

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with God. 
You have to be obedient to the 

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Son that He loved, in whom he 
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You want to have a relationship 
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genuine relationship with 
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He has demanded something. 
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Because He is God by nature. 
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just as the Father has demanded.
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40, we read and we ascertained 
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and experience the Father, by 
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So you know the Father has no 
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from God. 
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John chapter 6 verse 46. 
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must have received, known and 
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with the Son. 
You want to see the Father, you 

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look at the Son. 
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the reflection, He is that God. 
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Because no one has seen the 
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But people saw Jesus, people saw
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who did not see and yet believe.
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19. 
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the incomprehensible God, the 
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comprehend and can speak of by 
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Now you want to talk about God's
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You want to have an experience 
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You want to speak about the 
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that let there be light and it 
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You can't see that, but you see 
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Jesus and when I say you see 
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people. 
So those who saw I saw and I 

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believe because they saw and I 
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he is God. 
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the apostle saw those 500 that 
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they at the one time. 
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God. 
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Jesus commands Lazarus out of 
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power of God. 
Now I know and I have an an 

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understanding very minute, very 
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understanding of the power of 
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sacrament that Jesus worked when
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death. 
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to receive, to have a true, 
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real spirit, moved experience 
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first to love him, and then 
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obey him and fulfill His 
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John 1415 To have our own 
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love him, and to fulfill His 
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Before we begin to receive Jesus
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authority as God the Son. 
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unblemished worship of Christ is
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honor His authority, to admit to
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authority as God. 
If not, then your faith or your 

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understanding of the Lord Jesus 
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He wasn't just that mere human 
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He is God by nature. 
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John chapter 20. 
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Look at the authority, John 
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After his comforting peace he 
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in fear and confusion in the 
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He manifests His authority. 
He shows His authority and this 

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is the resurrected Lord Jesus 
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Praise and glory be to His name.
We spoke about in last weeks 

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episode where Saint Paul 
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Jesus Christ who did not see 
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So after His comforting peace in
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manifests His authority by 
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Just as the Father has sent me, 
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them the Holy Spirit, not in the
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the day of Pentecost, but He 
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Spirit. 
And He said, just as the Father 

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has sent me, just as the Father 
has sent me not I have asked the

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Father authority to so send you,
I have asked the Father to send 

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you. 
I have asked the Father to allow

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you to be sent. 
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So praise and glory be to his 
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He has authority as God 
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Just as the Father has sent me, 
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Just as the Father sent the Son,
the Son sends his disciples 

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later who were called apostles. 
Just as the Father emphasized 

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the acceptance and obedience of 
His Son in order to enter a 

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relationship with Him, the Son 
too emphasizes the reception and

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obeying of the disciples whom He
sent by authority, whom He later

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called apostles, as stated in 
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In Matthew chapter 10, verse 40,
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receiving the Father through the
Son, Jesus sets the 

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prerequisites of receiving Him, 
accepting Him, loving Him, 

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obeying Him through the 
apostles. 

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That is their teaching and their
instructions. 

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He who receives you. 
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He who receives you receives me.
Now he who doesn't receive them,

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remember what happened to those 
who laughed at the messengers of

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the Lord God, and they scorned 
their words and they laughed at 

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His prophets. 
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of Chronicles, chapter 36, verse
16, it is said that the anger of

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the Lord God arose among His 
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healing for them. 
Wow, wow. 

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Let's go back to our original 
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Faith without deeds, standing 
from love is demonic according 

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to James chapter 2 verse 17. 
You see, just as you cannot say 

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I believe, I believe in and I 
love God and reject His Son, so 

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too you cannot claim to believe 
and love Christ if you reject 

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His messengers, his apostles. 
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preached and called all 2 was 
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That faith, that true 
relationship that Jesus 

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presented to mankind was gifted 
as a depository to his 

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disciples, his apostles. 
And in turn, that deposit was 

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then deposited or that 
depository was deposited in the 

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Church along with many other 
graces of the Holy Spirit. 

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So let me ask you a question. 
You love the Father. 

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Do you love God the Father? 
If so, do you love? 

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And are you obeying his Son? 
If so, are you obeying and 

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adhering to the apostles? 
Apostles of the Son? 

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If so, are you active and a 
participant in the Church 

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established upon the foundation 
of the apostles? 

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Thessalonians, beloved if one 
expression is removed and 

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disregarded from an equation, it
makes the equation unequal. 

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If 2 + 2 = 4, but you say 2 plus
blank equals blank, nothing 

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there, that equation is going to
be unequal. 

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But if you say 2 + X = 4, yeah, 
you've placed an expression in 

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that equation. 
It's still a full expression. 2 

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+ X = 4, well, you know it's 
two, but take away it's just a 

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blank space there. 
That equation is going to be 

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unequal. 
If a link is removed and 

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disregarded from a chain, the 
chain is flawed. 

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The chain is not complete if the
cornerstone in the center of an 

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arch is removed and disregarded,
the two sides of the arch will 

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collapse. 
So too if an element is removed 

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from the formula. 
Lack of a better term or the 

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equation set by Christ in 
Matthew chapter 10 verse 14. 

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If it's removed, disregarded, 
then it's flawed. 

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Then flawed is our relationship.
If you say just the Son and the 

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Father, what about the Holy 
Spirit? 

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If you say the Father and the 
Son and the Holy Spirit, well 

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what about the equation in 
Matthew chapter 10 verse 40? 

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If you say the Holy Spirit and 
only the the Son, what about the

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Father? 
If you say the Father and the 

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Son only, what about the 
apostles? 

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He who receives you, He's 
telling the apostles, the 

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disciples and the apostles. 
He who receives you receives me.

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He who receives me receives the 
Father. 

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There is a beautiful equation 
there, beloved. 

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So we believe if we believe in 
that, we read that verse and we 

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believe in the commands of Jesus
Christ who commanded us, that if

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we love Him, we must fulfill his
commandments, all his teaching, 

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all His precepts. 
If we do well, then we can't 

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choose and pick. 
We have to commit to submit to 

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and live according to the 
equation that Jesus has given 

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us. 
Again, if an element is removed 

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from the formula or equation set
by Christ in Matthew chapter 10 

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verse 40, if it is removed or 
disregarded, then flawed is our 

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relationship with the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit. 

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Praise and glory be to His name.
Amen. 

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