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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. 

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By your law and enlighten our 
impulses. 

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By Your knowledge, sanctify our 
souls by your truth, and grant 

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that we may be obedient to your 
words and may fulfill Your 

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commandments at every hour. 
O you who? 

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Enlightens the rationale 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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Last week we examined and 
expanded on the letter of Saint 

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Paul to the Ephesians, chapter 
2, verses 8 to 9, which reads 

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For by his grace we worse while 
we are saved through faith, and 

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this faith was not of you, but 
is the gift of God, not of works

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that no man should glory or 
boast. 

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And we, I pray and I hope, 
enlightened those who strictly 

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and at times harshly claim that 
salvation is by faith alone and 

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deeds, good deeds are 
irrelevant. 

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Works have got no place in the 
salvation of men. 

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True in one sense, but we'll 
have a closer look at it. 

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We looked at the Ephesians, that
is the Jews and Gentiles in the 

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city be seen before Christ and 
their lifestyle and deeds, dead 

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in trespasses and sins, walking 
in sin, following the course of 

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the world, following the Prince 
of the power of the year. 

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And we broke the passage chapter
2 down into verses verses one to

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three and then verses 4 to 9 and
at at until that point we're all

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hallelujahing and praise Jesus. 
Yes, yes, you know, that's it. 

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That's true. 
But then there came a spanner in

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the works. 
It was a bubble busting and rain

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on parade when we read verse 10.
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concentrate on this episode. 
The good works preordained by 

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God for us as stated in verse 
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I gave the example of a drowning
boy and my rescue, my efforts 

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and my accomplishment. 
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drowning boy, if the drowning 
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his or her or his swimming 
skills and what have you, and 

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was again in the same 
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My salvation that I saved him 
from the first time will not 

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save him if he has not. 
And we brought the examples of 

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taken swimming classes and he's 
cautious in as to what what 

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waters he's jumping into in the 
and the height of the of the 

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waters. 
So in verse 10, in which is what

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we're going to talk about today,
we find that there are good 

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deeds that were preordained for 
we Saint Paul says including 

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himself when he says we 
including himself because he was

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in the same predicament. 
Are his workmanship, God's 

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workmanship created in Christ 
Jesus onto good works which God 

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has prepared beforehand that we 
should walk in them, walk in 

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them. 
We have been saved by grace, by 

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Jesus Christ on the cross, by 
His death, burial, resurrection 

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and ascension. 
Yes, but we need to continue now

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and not kick back and not claim 
hook like hook, line and sinker 

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as we said last week, but wait 
for the fish and not kick back 

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and be LAX and say there's 
nothing else I need to do, I'm 

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saved. 
No, because the verse is telling

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us that we have been created in 
Jesus Christ onto good works. 

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We need to continue in good 
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I'm going to going to read more 
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And again, we read that the 
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previously that they were not 
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shouldn't boast. 
Of course they shouldn't boast 

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because their works were evil, 
so they couldn't boast. 

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But that they through faith and 
that faith also they couldn't 

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boast about the faith because 
the faith was through Christ. 

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If Christ had not come who, whom
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So everything was pointing to 
God, and they could not boast 

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about that, but that their faith
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brought Jesus, and they received
the salvation through Jesus 

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Christ. 
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as the readers of the passage, 
upon hearing this, neglect good 

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works altogether, as some do, 
and I said harshly and sometimes

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very abruptly, he goes on to say
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these good works. 
Now I'm going to read from the 

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blessed Theophilic who expands 
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very amazing interpretation and 
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Please bear with me. 
He writes, you have been created

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in Christ, O Christian, that 
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Now you've received the 
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cross. 
We are candidates of that 

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salvation. 
We receive that salvation. 

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You have been created in Christ.
O Christian, you became a new 

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piece of workmanship when the 
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baptism. 
Romans 6 verses four to five. 

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I won't read it again and as now
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As at the beginning of your 
creation you were brought from 

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non being into being. 
Isn't that amazing? 

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As at the beginning of your 
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non being into being. 
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being comes into existence, this
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pre-existing being, and that is 
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Praise and glory be to his holy 
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So also now he continues. 
So also now God has recreated 

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you and brought you from a 
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condition of doing good. 
You're evil before Christ. 

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You're put to death in baptism. 
Through Jesus Christ you've been

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born, and you now you have been 
born into a condition to do 

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good. 
It continues to say you've been 

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created not to be lazy and LAX, 
but to work and to walk 

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everywhere doing good deeds. 
That is to say, to pass the 

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whole course of your life doing 
this, not just two or three 

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years or when you became a 
Christian and you received Jesus

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Christ to be your Lord and 
Savior. 

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No, no, no, the entire span of 
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do good deeds. 
According to Ephesians chapter 

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2, verse 10. 
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to say suggested by the words to
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good deeds. 
So question is, let me pose this

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question, why did God prepare 
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beforehand? 
Let me read the verse again for 

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we are Christians verse 10. 
For we are his creation who are 

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created in Jesus Christ for good
works which God has beforehand 

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prepared for us to walk. 
Why has God prepared these good 

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deeds for us beforehand? 
Why? 

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I'll give you some time to to 
answer TikTok, TikTok, Bing 

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time's up that we should do 
them. 

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Amen. 
We should do good works. 

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We should continue in good 
works. 

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Remember the equation. 
Remember the equation, Faith, 

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that is life in Jesus Christ, 
new life in Jesus Christ, plus 

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good deeds times. 
The grace of God equals eternal 

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salvation, eternal life. 
And if we do not continue with 

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the good deeds, we are in 
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And what will God tell us when 
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commandments? 
Away from me, you workers of 

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evil, deeds of evil. 
Hence, beloved, hence 

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Ecclesiastic chapter 12, verse 
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Let's prepare for some verses 
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Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 
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Because the Lord God brings all 
works into judgment concerning 

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everything that is hidden, and 
it is revealed whether it is 

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good or evil, God will bring 
into judgment all works of men, 

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whether good or evil. 
And Saint Paul expands and says 

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almost the same thing. 
Our Lord and our Savior Jesus 

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Christ prays be to His name. 
Chapter 16 First of all, For it 

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is to be that the Son of Man 
shall come in the glory of his 

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Father with his holy angels, not
to take up all those who have 

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been saved by grace and have 
proclaimed Jesus Christ to be 

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the Lord and Savior. 
Amen. 

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Yes, Amen. 
We need to and that He shall 

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render unto every man according 
to his works or deeds. 

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Again in Chapter 7 of Matthew 
verse 23, Jesus says, and then 

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will I confess to them. 
Here it is. 

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I quoted it, but I'll read it to
you now. 

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I never knew you. 
Go far from me, you workers of 

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inequity. 
These are irrelevant. 

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Irrelevant for the day of 
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Remember the equation. 
I'm going to say it again. 

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I should post it as there's a 
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Faith in Jesus Christ and life 
in Jesus Christ living in 

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Christ. 
Hence Mark 1616. 

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He who is baptized and he who 
believes and is baptized lives. 

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One One side note, many times in
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saved you will find in the 
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The Aramaic version is not 
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Hayeh. 
Live live Mark 16/16. 

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He who believes and is baptized 
lives so salvation. 

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Sometimes I feel that in the in 
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used lightly. 
We are now we have been saved by

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grace. 
Yes, Amen to that. 

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Christ paid the ultimate price. 
We don't need to pay anything. 

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We don't need to offer any any 
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and any animal sacrifices. 
We don't need to do that 

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anymore. 
We believe in that one and only 

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sacrifice. 
However, we have an obligation 

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to continue being candidates of 
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One is to be baptized. 
Now some people think baptism is

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irrelevant as well. 
No, in baptism we die with Jesus

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Christ and we become born anew 
and we live in that life and we 

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live with virtue, good deeds for
the day of judgement, and then 

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we will enter eternal salvation 
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Second Corinthians chapter 5, 
verse 10 Paul writes For we are 

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all to stand before the tribunal
of Christ, that every man may be

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recompensed in his body, 
rewarded for that which is done 

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in it, whether of good or of 
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It is just talking about bodily 
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immorality, adultery, 
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swearing, cussing, drunkenness. 
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We will be judged according to 
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Henceforth we need to walk 
totally away and steer away from

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this and run away from these 
deeds and go to good deeds that 

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have been preordained 
beforehand. 

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Revelations chapter 20, verse 
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And I saw the dead. 
This is John's vision. 

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And I saw the dead, great and 
small, standing before the 

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throne. 
And the books were opened, and 

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another book was opened, which 
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And the dead were judged from 
the records which are written in

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the book according to their 
works, not according to their 

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faith, not if they had believed 
in the grace of God and had only

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preached the grace of God and 
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And it's all done in a, what is 
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No, by their works. 
So our good deeds are a 

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confirmation of our faith. 
Beloved, faith without deeds is 

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dead. 
If we are pleasing and appeasing

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to God by our faith, our 
obedience, our virtues, our walk

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in life, we are appeasing to 
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We will be by the grace of God, 
entering the Kingdom of heaven, 

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that eternal salvation when the 
Lord returns, the eternal bliss 

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and joy with the one, God the 
Father and Son and Holy Spirit 

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forever. 
Amen. 

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