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The world we live in today is 
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And you know we wish and we hope
and we pray sometimes for things

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to go back to the way it was you
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I wish we could live back in the
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you know, times were good. 
Those were really good times but

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sadly, the world has changed in 
a direction that is getting 

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farther and farther away from 
God farther away from spiritual 

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things, farther away from 
morality. 

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And the world is continuing to 
change. 

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Sometimes changes happen in our 
life that are good for us. 

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We like certain things that make
changes in our life, maybe we 

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can remember something that 
happened in our life that 

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changed us. 
Changed our course in life. 

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There may have been an event or 
something that caused us to go 

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in a different direction than 
where we were going before and 

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things that change it, 
continually maybe in our life 

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from day to day. 
The life of a Christian is a 

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crypt is a is a life of change. 
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Christ to change the lives and 
the attitudes. 

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And and all the things that we 
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if Christ was in the things that
are in the world. 

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If Christ was part of the 
decision, making process in the 

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world, we pray for our leaders, 
that there might be a change or 

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a return to more. 
Excuse me, morality But we see 

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the world continuing to change 
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away from these things. 
But when Jesus comes into a 

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person's life, there is a change
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the, the life of a human, their 
life changed, we can take from 

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our text in. 
Matthew the 8th chapter in 

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verses 23. 
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examples of what happened to 
people when their lives were 

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touched by Jesus in Matthew. 8, 
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And behold there came a leper 
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if thou wilt thou canst make me 
clean, And Jesus put forth his 

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hand and touched him saying, I 
will be thou clean and 

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immediately. 
His leprosy was cleansed. 

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Notice the blind man in Matthew,
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And behold. 
And he becometh cometh to 

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bethsaida and they bring a blind
man unto him and besought him to

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touch him. 
And he took the blind man by the

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hand and led him out of the 
town. 

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And when he had spit on his eyes
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asked him if he saw it. 
And he looked up and said, I see

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men as trees. 
Walking after that, he put his 

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hands again upon his eyes and 
made him look up. 

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And he was Turned and saw and he
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clearly notice the man with a 
withered limb in Matthew the 

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12th chapter verses 10 through 
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There was a man which had a 
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And verse 13 then he said to the
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he stretched it forth and it was
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other. 
How about the Widow and Nan, 

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Luke 17, verses 11 through 15 
and it came to pass the day 

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after that. 
He went into a city called Nan 

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and many of his disciples went 
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Now, when he came to, I to the 
city of do, the Gate of the city

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behold, there was a dead man. 
Carried out, the only son of his

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mother and she was a widow and 
much people of the city was with

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her. 
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had compassion on her and said, 
to her, weep not and he came and

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touched the bear. 
That is an open coffin and they 

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that bear him Stood Still. 
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unto thee arise and he was and 
he that was dead set up and 

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began to speak and he delivered 
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Jesus touches the lives of men 
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Today, of course, we don't see 
the Miracles and we don't 

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experience the Miracles because 
the Miracles that were talked 

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about here in these verses don't
happen anymore because they had 

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a, they had a purpose, but in an
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hearts of men today and when had
their hearts are touched their 

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lives change completely When 
you're touched and changed, you 

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have a deeper Foundation, we 
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We notice how big skyscrapers 
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They dig down deep into the 
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Ground and they pour footings 
and put rebar in it and concrete

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and all kinds of things to make 
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They don't build it upon mud, 
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but they want to make sure that 
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Wrong. 
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built, the beginning is not on 
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inside, it's on the foundation. 
Within a man's Spirit within his

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soul, you have to go much deeper
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The foundation is laid Upon 
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build on that Foundation, Your 
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You see the world and the 
denominational World builds 

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their lives upon other things 
other than Jesus Christ and his 

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teaching and God's teaching. 
And those things will eventually

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crumble and fall the time and 
elements the winds and things of

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that nature that come along will
cause those things to dissolve 

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and to be gone and and be 
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But if your life is built upon 
the solid rock Jesus Christ, it 

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will stand through the the ages 
and through eternity. 

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You know, families must be built
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And young people's lives must be
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We see the family crumbling in 
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It used to be that half of the 
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Their marriages ended in divorce
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I think it's much more than that
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agreement for however, long we 
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stick with it. 
But if it doesn't go right, then

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we'll just let it go and go on 
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That's not what God intended for
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And if the family today is not 
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there is something that is 
completely common between the 

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two. 
It will crumble. 

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It will have problems. 
It will have trials that come 

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its way. 
And so, it is also with young 

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people when they build their 
lives, they need to be building 

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their lives Upon Jesus Christ. 
Jesus said in Luke 6, and verses

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46 through 49, and why call why 
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Lord Lord, and do not the things
which I say, Whosoever cometh to

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me and heareth my sayings and 
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I will show you to whom he is 
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built in-house and dig deep and 
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And when the flood arose in the 
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house and it could not shake it 
for, it was founded upon a rock.

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But he that heareth and do with 
not is like a man that without a

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foundation built a house upon 
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Against which the stream did 
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it fell and the ruin of the 
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Notice also 2nd or 1st 
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through 13, according to the 
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unto me as a wise. 
Masterbuilder, I have laid the 

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foundation and upon and, and 
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let every man, take heed how he 
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Foundation can no, man, lay than
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Which is Jesus Christ. 
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Foundation, gold silver, 
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stubble. 
Every Man's work shall be made 

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manifest for the day shall 
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revealed by fire and the fire 
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Every man's work of what sort it
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You see time and elements. 
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everything in this world but 
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Sure. 
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of Jesus Christ. 
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upon the solid rock? 
I stand all other ground is 

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sinking sand. 
All other ground is sinking 

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sand. 
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The strong foundation will be a 
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That will be a life. 
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And steadfast notice also, 
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Christ the same yesterday today 
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And we don't have to worry about
That Foundation ever crumbling 

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because it's something that that
we can rely on, we can build our

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spiritual life on that and not 
have to worry about anything 

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else. 
But when Jesus touches the life,

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he lifts us out of the sinking 
sand and places, our feet on the

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Rock and gives us an eternal 
Foundation. 

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Notice Psalm 40 in verses 1 
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for the Lord and He inclined, 
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He brought me up out. 
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out of the Miry clay and set my 
feet upon a rock and established

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my goings. 
And he has put a new song in my 

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mouth, even praise unto our God.
Many shall see it, and fear and 

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she'll trust in the Lord. 
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change. 
When Jesus is involved in their 

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life, when Jesus is that 
Foundation of their spiritual 

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life, we see lives change for 
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someone that was In sin, maybe 
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maybe it was drugs. 
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member that was involved with 
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involved in and living a riotous
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and whatever it may be. 
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life, their lives change, it 
lifts them up out of the Miry 

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clay and sets their feet on 
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Also, when you're touched and 
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difference. 
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should see a difference. 
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we're separate and apart from 
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We can't tell sometimes the 
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are living in sin and then also 
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But we ought to see that 
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And when Jesus really touches 
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difference notice in 2nd 
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Therefore If any man be in 
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a new creation old things are 
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All things are become new, 
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For in Christ. 
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availeth, anything nor 
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creature creature. 
If he's ins foreign verses 22 

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through 24 that you put off 
concerning the former 

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conversation, the old man, which
is corrupt according to the 

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deceitful lusts and be renewed 
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And that ye put on the new man, 
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righteousness and true Holiness,
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If you then be risen with Christ

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seek those things which are 
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the right hand of God, set your 
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And on things above, not on 
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dead. 
And your life is hid with Christ

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in God. 
When Christ, who is our life 

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shall appear then shall ye also 
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mortify. 
Therefore, your members which 

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are upon the Earth fornication, 
uncleanness inordinate 

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affection, evil concupiscence 
and covetousness, which is 

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idolatry for which things sake, 
the wrath of God cometh on the 

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children of disobedience in the,
which he also walked sometime 

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and you lived in them. 
But now you also put off all 

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these Anger wrath, malice 
blasphemy filthy communication 

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out of your mouth, Li not one to
another scene that you have put 

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off the old man with his deeds 
and put on the new man which is 

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renewed in knowledge. 
After the image of him that 

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created him where there is 
neither Jew, nor Greek 

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circumcision nor uncircumcision 
Barbarian scythian, Bond or 

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free. 
But Christ is all and in all put

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on therefore as the elect. 
Act of God, holy and beloved 

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bowels of mercies kindness. 
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long-suffering forbearing one, 
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another, If any man have a 
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Christ, forgave you? 
So also do ye and above all 

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these things put on charity, 
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perfectness. 
He tells us here in the last 

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latter part of this these 
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about the things that we should 
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Taking the old man of sin and 
putting it off taking it off and

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putting on the new man. 
The new created man with in our 

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lives, all these things love and
mercies and kindness and 

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humbleness meekness 
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And we see that the world today 
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Not that there aren't good 
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are, but it seems like we're 
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Attitudes of selfishness and all
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When you're touched and changed 
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as well. 
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things of the world to spiritual
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Our desires are changed from the
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desires of our own fleshly lust 
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And that we serve, our God. 
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have a hope and a piece that 
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understand or changed on the 
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verses 16 through 23 know, ye 
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yourselves, servants to obey his
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Ye are to whom ye obey whether 
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But God be thanked that ye were 
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But G have obeyed from the heart
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sin. 
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righteousness, I speak after the
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infirmity of the of your flesh. 
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members servants to uncleanness,
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Even. 
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servants to righteousness, unto 
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righteousness. 
What fruit had you then in those

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things there? 
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for the end of those things is 
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But now being made free from sin
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have your fruit unto Holiness 
and the end everlasting life for

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the wages of sin is death. 
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life through Jesus Christ, Our 
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are changed on the inside, you 
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this happened that we worry 
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we need to change the outside 
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with what we think the Christian
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like and talk like, and all 
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they change. 
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opportunity to grow. 
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We have to let the word of God 
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you're touched and changed, you 
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outside as well. 
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verse 14, through 16 year or the
live, the world, a city that is 

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Neither do men, light a candle 
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on a Candlestick and it giveth 
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house. 
Let your light. 

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glorify your father, which is in
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the inside and that cleans us up
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That cleans us up on the outside
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See Christ Living in us, we do 
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We don't do things that we used 

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Spirit or a different attitude. 
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about is the Christian Spirit. 
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spirit of love and forgiveness 
Jesus love those loves those who

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love him, but he also loves 
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That is mimicking Christ. 
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out, we can't just change a 
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well, I'm not going to drink 
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I'm not going to steal anymore 
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and a, but I'm going to go ahead
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to worship and and I'm going to 
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Unless you have the spirit of 
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have a long ways to go. 
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5, let this mind be in you which
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Jesus, it's our attitude of how 
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deal with things in our life, 
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Paul said Brethren. 
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fault, ye which are spiritual 
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of meekness. 
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also be tempted how we deal with
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problems in our life. 
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We love people, we forgive them,
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we possibly can and leave 
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When you're touched and changed,
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You know, one of the traits of a
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not what they need but they see 
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They see what others are lacking
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be. 
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talent to the, to the benefit of
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need their soul saved. 
They're lost. 

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Jesus about what he did for 
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Acts 2 Acts, 20, and verse 35. 
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How that? 
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support the weak. 
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Lord Jesus, how he said, it is 
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receive. 
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changed, you have a better 
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The Christian has a hope of 
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that are living in the world, 
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how much money you have. 
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All the pleasurable things that 
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fame, or the power, or the 
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all those things will not matter
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returns. 
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You have a hope of eternal life 
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sin and those that are living in
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So, when you're touching change,
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for you. 
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in verses 6 through 8 for, I am 
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time of my departure is at hand,
I've fought a good fight, I have

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finished. 
My course, I have kept the faith

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henceforth. 
There is laid up for me a crown 

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of righteousness, which the 
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give me. 
Me at that day and not to me 

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only but unto all them also that
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What a wonderful thing. 
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he reaches out and touches the 
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hope we have a hope a hope of 
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Which were so. 
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Matthew 25 and verse 34 then 
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his right hand. 
Come you blessed of my father 

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inherit the Kingdom prepared for
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From the foundation of the 
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Also 1st Corinthians 2 and verse
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hath, Not Seen Nor Ear heard, 
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heart of man, the things which 
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love him. 
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And I John saw the holy city. 
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God out of Heaven prepared as a 
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We can all thank God that he 
allowed his son to die for us 

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and that Jesus blood touches us 
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cleanses us from our sin and by 
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When a person is touched by the 
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touched by the hand of Jesus, we
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We have a hope of something that
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And we live, you know, in a, in 
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you know, where everyone has 
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And you go up and you touch 
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touch me. 
You're in my personal space. 

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We are the ones that allow Jesus
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We are the ones that allow him 
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make the changes that need to be
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We can tell Jesus, don't touch 
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You're in my personal space and 
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where people will stick their 
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Basically, I don't want to hear 
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I don't want to hear about your 
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I don't want to hear about 
Christ and they can't be touched

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with the hand of Jesus because 
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But we are the ones that allow 
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life that need to be made 
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behold I stand at the door and 
knock If any man will hear my 

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voice and open the door, I will 
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him. 
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change? 
How can Jesus touch me? 

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Well, that's notice. 
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18, but God be thanked that ye 
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Remember, we read this earlier, 
but ye have obeyed from the 

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heart that form of Doctrine 
which was delivered. 

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You being then made free from 
sin. 

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Ye became the Servants of 
righteousness of the what is 

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that form of doctrine that he's 
talking about here. 

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You have obeyed from the heart 
that form of Doctrine. 

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To be freed from sin, we have to
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We first must first must hear 
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So then Faith cometh by hearing 
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If you're going to allow Jesus 
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hear his his words. 
You have to hear the truth that 

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is taught within his scripture. 
We also must have faith in what 

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we've heard. 
Mark 16 and 16. 

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He that believeth and is 
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that believeth not shall be 
damned. 

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We have to have faith. 
Than what we have heard and read

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and studied Luke 13 and verse 3.
It tells us that we need to 

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repent. 
I tell you nay but except ye 

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repent, ye shall all likewise 
perish. 

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And then we must make the 
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Confess. 
The name of Jesus Christ. 

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In Matthew 10, and verse 32 
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confess me before men, him will?
I confess also before my Father,

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which is in heaven and then we 
must be baptized into Christ, 

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Act 2, and verse 38. 
Eight, then Peter said, unto 

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them, repent and be baptized 
every one of you. 

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In the name of Jesus Christ for 
the remission of sins and you 

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shall receive the gift of the 
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Forgiven. 
We must obey that form of 

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Doctrine. 
This is the form of Doctrine. 

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This is the doctrine, which God 
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provided us to obey him. 
Then we must. 

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Remain faithful, Revelation 2, 
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Be thou faithful unto death and 
I will give thee a Crown of 

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Life. 
If we have strayed from the path

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of righteousness, we have done 
things wrong. 

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We must confess our faults 
confess, your faults, one to 

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another and pray one. 
For another that you may be 

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healed, the effectual fervent 
prayer of a righteous man, 

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availeth much. 
This is the form of Doctrine. 

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This is how we allow Jesus to 
touch our lives, and change our 

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lives. 
For the better for the good. 

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So that we can have a hope of 
eternal life. 

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