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Well, good morning, everyone. 
It's great to see everyone who's

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here today. 
Good to have our visitors with 

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us. 
And we want you to know that 

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you're welcome anytime you can 
be here. 

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We are continuing through a 
study in First John this 

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morning. 
So if you want to flip open your

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Bibles, we'll be in Chapter 5 of
First John finishing up this 

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letter and this final sermon. 
This will be lesson #8 as we 

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cover this topics of guaranteed 
an answer and the sin that leads

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to death. 
It has been a great study to 

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walk through this and I 
appreciate you being willing to 

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listen to a young buck like me. 
Many of you have way more 

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knowledge and wisdom than me. 
So as I present God's word, I 

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appreciate you being willing to 
hear it and I continue to ask 

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that you will show me how to 
apply it in your continued 

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example and your wisdom as you 
show me the way. 

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As I'm a young Christian, I get 
to stand up here and and teach 

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from God's word, but you are 
providing such a great example 

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for me. 
So we have things to learn today

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and I have to still learn how to
apply them because they're 

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always challenging in a good 
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So first John chapter 5, Part 2,
we're going to pick up in verse 

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9. 
We finished up after verse 9, 

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but let's get ourselves a 
running start here. 

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From where he was writing, it 
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of men, the witness of God is 
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For this is the witness of God 
which he has testified of his 

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Son. 
So he's trying to convince them 

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of why they need to trust and 
how faith that Jesus came and 

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did what he did, not to follow 
the Gnostic teachings that he 

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really wasn't who he said he 
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And maybe their faith isn't what
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He said, no, you need to believe
God's witness because if you're 

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going to take the witness of two
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Testament, two or three, three 
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claim. 
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witness of men, God's witnesses 
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He who believes in the Son of 
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So we are one of the witnesses. 
We can testify to the truth of 

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the gospel. 
He who does not believe God has 

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made him a liar, because he does
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God has given of his Son. 
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testimony that God has given us 
eternal life and this life is in

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His Son. 
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Don't forget that verse. 
That's going to be important 

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later. 
He who has the Son has life. 

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He who does not have the Son of 
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These things I've written to you
who believe in the name of the 

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Son of God, that you may know 
that you have eternal life and 

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that you may continue to believe
in the name of the Son of God. 

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So what's implied there? 
That you can believe in God and 

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you can have faith in Him, but 
that you can not be sure that 

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you have eternal life? 
We've already talked about that.

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We've been over assurance, but 
it's possible to not have that 

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assurance, and it's also 
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to believe. 
That's why He has to encourage 

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them. 
That's why he's writing this, 

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and that's why we need to hold 
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So that's where we left off last
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with the same flow of thought 
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So our context here is so far we
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what He said in verse one. 
We know that we have Him because

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That disestablishes confidence 
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because we have belief or 
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He said that's how you know 
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his commands. 
So we have faith, confidence 

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established in these things and 
he says it's like I'm missing a 

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slide, where'd it go? 
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belief, confidence in that we 
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We have confidence from the Holy
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We have confidence from our own 
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We have confidence from the 
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He's been building a case for 
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And so he says now this is the 
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that if we ask anything 
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us. 
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before the apostles, their own 
experience, the waters that were

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testifying to Jesus, his baptism
and his life, his ministry, the 

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blood he shed, the Holy Spirit. 
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confidence. 
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know that when we talk to God, 
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to his will, he hears us. 
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And you know, it's easy with 
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confidence in it. 
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Because we're talking to someone
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answer is delayed, or maybe the 
answer is no and we don't see a 

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physical checklist in front of 
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Of all the things that God has 
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we're just asking. 
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There is no glimmer in the sky. 
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left and then we walk away. 
Prayer by nature is easy to lose

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confidence in. 
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confidence that we ask anything 
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This is going to be important. 
God does not ignore prayers, He 

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says. 
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understand, better translated 
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hears us whatever we ask, we 
know that we have the petitions 

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that we have asked of Him. 
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us because we're asking things 
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What does it mean to ask things 
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or in his name? 
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We're praying about those 
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What is his purpose? 
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and we can align ourselves with 
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there were things that we want 
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wants. 
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James chapter 4 verse 3 says you
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because you ask a miss that you 
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When you and I get an instinct 
to pray for something, we just 

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need to investigate it a little 
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We need to take it a little bit 
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want this? 
Does it align with God and His 

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desires? 
And if it does, great, go for 

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it. 
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and maybe they're good things, 
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selfish reason. 
He says you're asking it so that

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you can spend it on your 
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Solomon, I think of his example 
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It says now Solomon made a 
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Egypt and married Pharaoh's 
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Then he brought, then he brought
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the city of David until he had 
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and the House of the Lord and 
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Solomon is taking over the 
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and he's establishing, he's 
married another influential high

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up person. 
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life as the leader of this great
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Verse 2. 
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at the high places because there
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of the Lord until those days. 
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locations set up for worship 
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Solomon loved the Lord walking 
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David, except that he sacrificed
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places. 
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Solomon real quick, there was a 
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he wasn't fully following a 
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And the Bible makes a point to 
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The Bible makes a point to note 
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high places. 
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Now the king went to Gibeon to 
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the great high place. 
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offerings on that altar at 
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The Lord appeared to Solomon in 
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And God said, ask what shall I 
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And Solomon said, You have shown
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David, my father, because he 
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righteousness and uprightness of
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You have continued this great 
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given his his, and you have 
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throne as it is this day. 
Now, O Lord, my God, you've made

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your servant king instead of my 
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But I'm a little child. 
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how to come in. 
And your servant is in the midst

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of your people whom you have 
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numerous to be numbered or 
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Therefore give your servant an 
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your people, that I may discern 
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For who is able to judge this 
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The speech please the Lord that 
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Then God said to him, Because 
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not asked for long life for 
yourself, nor have you asked for

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riches for yourself, nor have 
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enemies, but I've asked for 
yourself understanding to 

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discern justice. 
Behold, I have done according to

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your word. 
See, I have given you a wise and

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understanding heart, so that 
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you before you, nor shall any 
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And I have also given you what 
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and honor, so that there shall 
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kings all your days. 
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keep my commandments, my 
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your father David walked, then I
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So the message is Solomon asked 
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God and to lead God's people 
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The things he asked for weren't 
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And God responded by saying 
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James says ask God for wisdom 
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without reproach, without making
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you freely. 
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But God is a good God. 
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Because you didn't ask for the 
other stuff, I'm going to give 

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you that anyway. 
I remember when I was a little 

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kid, I asked my dad. 
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this here, If I want a new video
game console, should I be asking

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for something else to try to get
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And he said, well, that's not 
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We don't, we don't try to get 
other things by trying to 

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manipulate God into something 
that we really want over here on

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the side. 
The point is God's going to take

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care of us. 
God's going to give us what we 

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need and often times more than 
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But we need to align with his 
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Samuel 1 verse 10. 
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We read of a woman named Hannah 
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situation to say the least. 
In her life. 

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She was married to a man, Al 
Qaeda, and that man had another 

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wife and this man had children 
with the other wife and things 

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were going well for them in that
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But Al Qaeda really loved 
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So you have this kind of really 
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already got two spouses that's 
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the next. 
That's a whole problem in itself

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that that God did not set up for
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handle right. 
And so Elkanah loves one wife, 

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but his other wife is giving him
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And so he's just, he's caught in
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Hannah's upset because she wants
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And that's the thing that she 
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And it says she was in 
bitterness of soul and prayed to

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the Lord and wept in anguish. 
She wanted this so bad. 

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It was the purpose she was 
looking for. 

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It was the meaning. 
It was maybe even some of the 

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social standing she wanted. 
It was all she wanted. 

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And she goes on and and she's, 
she's going to the temple and 

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she says, O Lord of hosts, if 
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indeed look on the affliction of
your maidservant and Remember Me

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and not forget your maidservant,
but will give your maidservant a

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male child. 
Then I will give him to the Lord

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all the days of his life, and no
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I skipped through to save some 
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was going through. 
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this is her prayer. 
And it happened as she continued

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praying before the Lord that Eli
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Now Hannah spoke her spoke in 
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Her lips moved, but her voice 
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Therefore Eli thought she was 
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So Eli said to her, How long 
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Put away your wine from you. 
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no, my Lord, I'm a woman of 
sorrowful spirit. 

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I'm neither drunk wine, I'm 
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intoxicating drink. 
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before the Lord. 
Do not consider your maidservant

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a wicked woman, for out of the 
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grief, I've spoken until now. 
Hannah is hurting, Hannah is 

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miserable, but she came to the 
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Then Eli answered and said, Go 
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grant your petition which you 
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Then they rose early in the 
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Lord, and returned and came to 
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And al Qaeda knew his wife, and 
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So it came to pass in the 
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conceived and bore a son and 
called his name Samuel, saying, 

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because I have asked for him 
from the Lord. 

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Why did I give these examples? 
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either were longing for 
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something that they were missing
deeply, and they came to God 

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with a prayer that was focused 
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Hannah asked. 
So that she would give this son 

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to the Lord all the days of his 
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I don't know all of God's ways, 
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developed a goal that was 
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it to her. 
And the message for you and me 

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is from first John the same. 
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His will, He hears us. 
So may we search for things that

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align with God's will, Maybe 
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often times you're going to get 
a feeling of something you want,

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but you're going to have to 
search to find, OK, how can I 

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use this? 
How can I ask this in a way 

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that's going to be not just for 
me? 

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And maybe you've stopped hoping 
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Maybe you feel like when we 
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prayer can be kind of open-ended
sometimes and we don't always 

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have a direct understanding of 
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And so maybe you feel like my 
hands have been empty for a long

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time. 
God's rung all out of me that 

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he's going to get and I'm going 
to dried up on the vine. 

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Maybe you've gotten so used to 
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maybe that's we can feel like we
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don't. 
But maybe you've got so used to 

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that feeling that you've stopped
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beyond what you can see right 
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Satan can cripple your effort 
and your fruit by making you 

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feel like you're dried up on the
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If you think you've reached your
limit, your Max, God's not going

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to get anything more out of your
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things that you would ask of 
him. 

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You've used all your credits, so
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Then Satan can cripple you. 
He can cripple your mind and 

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your spirit. 
We need to be asking for things 

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even that we desire. 
If you want something great, if 

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you want friends, if you want 
better relationships, maybe a 

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prayer. 
You could praise God. 

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Please give me some strong 
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Give me more connections. 
Give me more people so that I 

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can spread your word to them or 
help me to build more 

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connections in the body of 
Christ so I can build up other 

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people. 
And maybe you need that strength

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for yourself, and that's fair. 
You need to be built up. 

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Maybe you need more connections 
in here so you feel stronger. 

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But how about thinking about a 
way you can build others up? 

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Maybe there's someone else who's
sitting in the same position 

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you're in who needs the strength
and he needs you to be support 

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for them. 
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Maybe it's money. 
Maybe you want more money. 

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Maybe you want a better income. 
That doesn't have to be wrong, 

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but what are you going to use it
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God, please give me the funds so
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that I can support those in 
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purposes with that money so that
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people in my home and to show 
hospitality. 

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Maybe if you want a spouse, do 
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yourself? 
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you can raise a godly family or 
so that you can share and 

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support others together? 
Career. 

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Do you want a career that's good
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Kingdom? 
Children, even as we learn from 

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Hannah, can be something that 
could be selfish, like the other

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woman in the picture was holding
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her. 
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Lord. 
Even health. 

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You know, I know of people in 
this room who have prayed 

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prayers for health, not for 
themselves, but for their 

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families, so their families can 
have what they need and so the 

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church could continue to benefit
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Even health can have a selfish 
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But maybe sometimes we just need
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Maybe we need to look in ways 
that God could actually use us 

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and look ahead and plan. 
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process that Jesus does say that
the rain falls on the just and 

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the unjust. 
So as you pray and as you see 

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people getting things that they 
wanted, Jesus says good things 

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happen to bad people and bad 
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It's not always a result of God 
saying I'm going to give them 

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this because they had the right 
mindset. 

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That's it's not always as simple
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OK, so if we know, and since we 
know that he hears us, whatever 

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we ask, we know that we have the
petitions that we have asked of 

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him, maybe the answer is no. 
Hannah's heart was shaped during

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the time or no or not yet was 
the current answer. 

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Verse 16. 
Moving on, if anyone sees his 

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brother sinning a sin which does
not lead to death, he will ask 

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and he will give him life for 
those commit sin not leading to 

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death. 
So what's the line of thought So

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far He's built our confidence 
through all the witnesses. 

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Now we told them we have so much
confidence that God will even 

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answer our prayers. 
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important, what could be more 
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prayer than for spiritual life? 
I think that's the flow of 

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thought here. 
What could be more important 

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that we could ask God for than 
forgiveness, than for renewal, 

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for a spiritual life, for 
someone who is not right with 

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God? 
He says, goes on to say there is

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sin leading to death. 
I do not say that he should pray

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about that. 
All unrighteousness is sin, and 

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there is sin not leading to 
death. 

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OK, so let's back up. 
What is this sin that leads to 

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death? 
So we know he's talking about a 

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brother. 
So this is someone who is a 

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Christian and he says this is a 
sin that does not lead to death,

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but he can be given life. 
So what is the context of the 

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life here? 
What is the life under 

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consideration? 
You know, some people think that

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he's talking about physical life
here. 

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There are people who say he's a 
brother so he can't lose his 

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salvation because once he's a 
brother, then Saints do not ever

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lose their salvation. 
And so they have to impose a 

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meaning that this is physical 
death. 

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They have to say that this is a 
sin that will cause you to die. 

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Don't pray about that. 
Well, there are things that I've

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seen in people's lives where if 
they would have kept going down 

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that path, they would have died.
Or I can read examples in the 

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Bible, people would have died 
had God not provided them 

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support. 
So I think for it to be physical

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death doesn't even make sense. 
We pray especially in scenarios 

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where people's lives are in 
danger because that's dire. 

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So physical life here I do not 
believe is the context. 

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And as long as you believe that,
hey, we, we can lose our 

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salvation, that this next 
consideration is, I believe, the

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only logical conclusion. 
If we back up in verse 12, he 

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said he who has the son has 
life. 

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So the context of the life here 
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What life is given by the Son? 
Spiritual life. 

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So he who has the Son has life. 
So whoever is committing a sin 

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that does not lead to death, I 
believe what he's saying is if 

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he sees a sin which does not 
lead to spiritual death, he will

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ask and he will give him life, 
spiritual life for those who 

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commit sin but not leading to 
death. 

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OK, so there are still other 
questions. 

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So he says he will ask. 
So this is the person seeing the

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sinning brother happening. 
He will ask and God the capital,

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he will give life. 
OK, well, let's look at a 

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parallel passage because I think
James offers a pretty similar 

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set of statements here. 
James 513 If anyone among, is 

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anyone among you suffering, let 
him pray. 

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Is anyone cheerful? 
Let him sing psalms. 

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Is anyone among you sick? 
Let him call for the elders of 

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the church and let them pray 
over him, anointing him with oil

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in the name of the Lord. 
And the prayer of faith will 

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save the sick, and the Lord will
raise him up. 

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And if he has committed sins, he
will be forgiven. 

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I believe that's the sickness 
he's talking about. 

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It's a sickness of sin. 
Confess your trespasses one 

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another and pray for one another
that you may be healed. 

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So this process of asking for 
forgiveness starts with somebody

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confessing it and asking for 
help. 

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And here's another example of 
that. 

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In Acts 8, verse 19, we read of 
a man, Simon the sorcerer. 

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It says he who previously 
practiced sorcery in the city 

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and astonished the people of 
Samaria, claiming that he was 

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someone great. 
Simon was supposed to be this 

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great sorcerer to whom they all 
gave heed from the least to the 

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greatest, saying, This man is 
the great power of God. 

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And they heeded him, because he 
had astonished them with his 

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sorceries for a long time. 
But when they believed Philip as

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he preached the things 
concerning the Kingdom of God 

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and the name of Jesus Christ, 
both men and women were 

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baptized. 
Then Simon himself also believed

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and when he was baptized he 
continued with Philip. 

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I believe the Holy Spirit said 
those things to make sure we 

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know he is a Christian. 
He believed he was baptized and 

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what is the response after he 
makes a mistake? 

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So he was amazed seeing the 
miracles and signs which are 

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done. 
So he had this faith proven. 

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Verse 18 goes on to say, and 
when Simon saw that through the 

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laying on of the apostles hands 
and the Holy Spirit was given, 

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he offered them money. 
I want to buy that from you. 

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That looks good saying give me 
this power also that anyone on 

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whom I lay hands may receive the
Holy Spirit. 

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OK, there's his mistake. 
Peter said damn your money, 

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perish with you because you 
thought that the gift of God can

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be purchased with money. 
Wait, he just said he believed 

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and he was baptized. 
So this man is about to perish. 

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Well, consequence of sin, 
because you thought that the 

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gift of God could be purpose 
with money. 

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You have neither part nor 
portion in this matter, for your

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heart is not right in the sight 
of God. 

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Here is the response, and here's
the recipe he gives him. 

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Repent therefore of this, your 
wickedness, and pray if God 

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perhaps, and pray God if perhaps
the thought of your heart may be

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forgiven you. 
For I see that you are poisoned 

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by bitterness and bound by 
iniquity. 

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We started by talking about 
somebody who is in a sin leading

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to death. 
When you are poisoned, that's a 

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sickness of sin and it's 
bitterness and he's bound in the

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iniquity. 
That is the state of someone who

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is in sin before they repent. 
Simon answered and said, Pray to

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the Lord for me that none of the
things which you have spoken may

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come upon me. 
I think this is a great example 

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of what first John is getting. 
At first John writes in a little

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bit of a different style, so 
it's maybe a little bit more 

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black and white, higher level 
view, but that's what he's 

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saying. 
Ask and you will give him life 

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as long as the person's sin does
not lead to death, because this 

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was on its way to death. 
He said your money perish with 

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you. 
So if there was ever a case 

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where it was leading to death, 
it would have been this one. 

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Maybe physical death. 
There's people in the New 

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Testament who were smote by God 
for it, but also spiritual 

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death. 
This was a sin that could have 

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led to death unless he repented.
I think that's the key. 

452
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,560
He says there is a sin leading 
to death. 

453
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,800
I do not say that you should 
pray about that. 

454
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,640
So why? 
Why should someone not pray 

455
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,960
about a sin leading to death? 
I believe is because there's no 

456
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,520
point. 
Why is there no point? 

457
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,800
Because the person doesn't want 
to repent. 

458
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,400
The person doesn't really care. 
There's no point in praying for 

459
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,880
someone who doesn't want 
forgiveness. 

460
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:10,680
There's no point in praying for 
someone who doesn't want to 

461
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,800
change. 
It's an empty prayer. 

462
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,280
You're trying and you're feeling
stressed and you're anxious, but

463
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:18,840
they don't care. 
So what's the point? 

464
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,600
I believe that's what he's 
saying here. 

465
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:22,960
I do not say that he should pray
about that. 

466
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,680
So I believe the sin that leads 
to death is a sin that you will 

467
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,920
not repent of. 
Now, someone, some might say 

468
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,920
this is the sin of unbelief. 
There is. 

469
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,960
I think there's a way to connect
these things to where if you 

470
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:37,720
don't believe, then you're not 
going to repent. 

471
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,160
So they're all kind of connected
when you start to think about it

472
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,560
that way. 
Hebrews 10 verse 26 supports 

473
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,640
this. 
For if we sin willfully after we

474
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,040
have received the knowledge of 
the truth, there no longer 

475
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,640
remains a sacrifice for sins, 
but a certain fearful 

476
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,760
expectation of judgment and 
firing indignation which will 

477
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:01,240
devour the adversaries. 
OK, willful sin does not have a 

478
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,200
sacrifice. 
Is he saying that if I make a 

479
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,560
sin that was willful that I'll 
never be forgiven of it? 

480
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,200
No, he's saying there is a 
sacrifice for a sin that you 

481
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,560
will repent of. 
But if you're just going to keep

482
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,640
on going, there's no forgiveness
for that. 

483
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,560
There is a way to be forgiven 
for things that you'll be 

484
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,760
repented of. 
There is no way to be forgiven 

485
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,240
for things that you don't want 
to change. 

486
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,640
I think that's pretty common 
sense in our relationships. 

487
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,360
If a spouse is committing a an 
error that the other one is 

488
00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:35,800
saying this is wrong, you need 
to stop and they won't change. 

489
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,680
There's no way to fix that. 
There's no way to fix something 

490
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,760
that someone does not want to 
fix. 

491
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,600
Now, if they do change from that
willful sin, it can be fixed. 

492
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,880
We repented of and changed, but 
in the moment and in the time 

493
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,400
that is willful and the time 
that they don't want to give it 

494
00:28:53,400 --> 00:29:02,480
up, there's nothing for that. 
Now, we do know that we still 

495
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,320
make mistakes. 
First, John one verse eight and 

496
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,680
eight through 10 says that we've
we've had if we say we have no 

497
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,400
sin, we're a liar. 
So that's not the case. 

498
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,360
It's not that you never sin. 
It's not that you would never 

499
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:18,120
make mistakes. 
Verse 17, he says all 

500
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,360
unrighteousness is sin and there
is sin not leading to death. 

501
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,080
I think this statement even 
proves more clearly that he's 

502
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:29,240
not saying it's this specific 
sin that leads to death. 

503
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,880
Like there's some like type of 
sin that will lead you to death 

504
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,240
unlike any others. 
I think he clarifies right here.

505
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,000
He says all unrighteousness is 
sin. 

506
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:43,160
He's putting it under the same 
scope, the same bag, but there 

507
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,800
is a sin that does not lead to 
death. 

508
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,760
The sin that someone is willing 
to change. 

509
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,840
From verse 18, we know that 
whoever is born of God does not 

510
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,360
sin. 
OK, let's continue to talk about

511
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,200
the verb tense. 
I know we said this before, 

512
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,560
you've heard it before. 
Does not sin is talking about 

513
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,520
the present active. 
It's a willful thing. 

514
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,600
The present active is this 
person does not continue to sin 

515
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,080
the same way. 
Now, it doesn't mean you don't 

516
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,440
continue to mess up. 
It means you're not just 

517
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,560
floating in the river cruising 
through this sin that you're 

518
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,280
happy to be doing and happy to 
be living in it is the present 

519
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,240
active. 
Whoever born of God does not 

520
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,600
continue to live in their sin is
what he's saying. 

521
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:31,320
But he who has been born of God 
keeps himself and the wicked 1 

522
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:36,040
does not touch him. 
So as I understand some people 

523
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,760
translate this maybe in a little
bit of a different way, but I 

524
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,640
think they both are true 
statements. 

525
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:46,760
So I'll show you both just just 
for getting the whole 

526
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,320
perspective potentially. 
So he who has been born of God 

527
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:55,040
keeps himself. 
If I am a child of God, and if 

528
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,320
God is really living in me, I 
will continue to keep myself and

529
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,200
Him. 
I believe that's true 100%. 

530
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,880
And the Wicked 1 does not touch 
him. 

531
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,280
If I stay out of the realm of 
the devil, and if I stay out of 

532
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,000
the area where He has authority 
and He has power over me, He 

533
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,920
can't touch me. 
Some people translate this 

534
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,680
though. 
They say that he who is born of 

535
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,000
God, that's supposed to say he 
who is begotten of God, meaning 

536
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,160
Jesus. 
And he's saying that Jesus keeps

537
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,360
Jesus is the keeper. 
And the wicked 1 does not touch 

538
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,320
him. 
Now I think there is a nice 

539
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,160
contrast there when you read it 
that way, because Jesus is the 

540
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,760
keeper and the devil has no 
power because of that. 

541
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,360
I think regardless, they're both
true. 

542
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,120
We stay with him. 
He keeps us safe. 

543
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:44,960
Both are true. 
Praise God. 

544
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,160
Someone said it this way. 
The Christian who sets his mind 

545
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,400
to refrain from sin and puts his
trust totally in the keeping 

546
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,000
power of Christ. 
Remember, trust me the 

547
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,240
obedience. 
I can't say I trust God if I 

548
00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,280
don't obey him and puts his 
trust totally in the keeping 

549
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:04,000
power of Christ is free from the
grasp of the devil. 

550
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:10,760
Satan has no power over us that 
we do not give him finishing up,

551
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:17,480
we know that we are of God. 
He's going to end this this book

552
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,760
with a couple statements of 
confirmation and of things that 

553
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:27,480
we know and can be certain of. 
He says we know that we are of 

554
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:33,400
God and the whole world lies 
under the sway of the wicked 

555
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,280
one. 
Some might say you're arrogant 

556
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:42,720
for saying that somebody's right
and the person who's right has 

557
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,480
to be confident in that. 
That's not arrogance, that's 

558
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,040
reality. 
God said it. 

559
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,600
There is a line dividing those 
who are of God and those who are

560
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:57,320
of the wicked. 1 He goes on to 
say, and we know another 

561
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,360
statement of sure affirmation, 
that the Son of God has come. 

562
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,440
He's already told them. 
Those Gnostics who said Jesus 

563
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,480
didn't really come in the flesh,
He was here for a little bit 

564
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,640
then popped out of here before 
he really got into suffering. 

565
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:15,080
He says, no, we know that the 
Son of God has come and the 

566
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,520
verbiage he's using is he's here
now and we continue to enjoy the

567
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,160
benefits of that. 
We know that the Son of God has 

568
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,880
come and has given us an 
understanding. 

569
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,560
Those Gnostics who claimed they 
had a special knowledge from 

570
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:34,120
God, No, the Son of God came. 
He taught us and we have an 

571
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,040
understanding. 
You don't have to wonder whether

572
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,720
it's true or not. 
Has given us an understanding 

573
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,520
that we may know him who is 
true. 

574
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,200
The writer started this whole 
thing by saying I'm testifying 

575
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,760
to you. 
If someone that we saw, we 

576
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,640
heard, we touched, and now I'm 
going to show you him so that we

577
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,000
can all have fellowship 
together. 

578
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,560
We can know him who's true. 
Even when you can't see him, 

579
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,440
when you're praying to Him, you 
can know that you know Him. 

580
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,480
And we are in Him who is true in
His Son, Jesus Christ. 

581
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,159
This is the true God and eternal
life. 

582
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,199
Don't listen to the fake stuff. 
The Gnostics we're teaching 

583
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,800
them. 
Don't listen for us to the fake 

584
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,120
stuff. 
People want to tell you this is 

585
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,840
the true God. 
He came in the form of a man. 

586
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,679
He came as a child. 
He died for us and he suffered. 

587
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:41,400
This is the true God in the last
verse of this letter. 

588
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,920
Little children, keep yourselves
from idols. 

589
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,920
Amen To Him. 
They're all little children 

590
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,199
because He was guiding them. 
He was offering them guidance 

591
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:54,719
probably for a long time. 
And what's interesting to me is 

592
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,720
after all this, maybe this 
statement struck me the most out

593
00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:02,040
of everything he said in this 
chapter because we've been 

594
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,640
through how much confidence do 
you remember? 

595
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,160
We talked about eternity and how
dangerous it is, how 

596
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,280
intimidating it is, and yet how 
much confidence we can have in 

597
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,520
judgement. 
We talked about having boldness 

598
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,280
to know that you have eternal 
life. 

599
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,680
We talked about how great it is 
and the fact that we can know 

600
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,480
him. 
We talked about how he wrote 

601
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,440
this so that we can have full 
joy and why we can have full 

602
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,680
joy. 
We talked about walking in the 

603
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,360
light and having boldness and 
judgement. 

604
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,760
All those things are so 
wonderful, so exciting, so 

605
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,720
awesome. 
There is nothing that can 

606
00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:40,640
steamroll that. 
Once you have that much joy, 

607
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,320
that much security, that much 
hope, that much boldness as you 

608
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:52,600
look at death in the face, 
nothing can run over that unless

609
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,040
something else takes your 
attention. 

610
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,160
He's gone through so much 
assurance and the thing he 

611
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:03,520
doesn't want to happen here is 
that all that work is missed 

612
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,760
because this wonderful thing 
they're looking at, they turn 

613
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,120
away and they look at something 
else. 

614
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,440
Remember, an idol doesn't just 
have to be a a Pagan God. 

615
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,600
An idol is anything that takes 
the place of God in our 

616
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,000
allegiance, in our time, in our 
first place in our heart. 

617
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,760
If anything steps into this 
place, it doesn't matter how 

618
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,520
good the rest of this other 
things are. 

619
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:31,360
It will cover our perspective 
and it will remove God from this

620
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,480
assuring awesome place in our 
heart. 

621
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,920
So my challenge, even as I've 
been reading through this and 

622
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:43,320
and studying this, is to watch 
out that I don't put something 

623
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,200
else in front of my face that 
would take my attention. 

624
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,360
Because there is nothing better 
song we sing today. 

625
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,080
Take the world, but give me 
Jesus. 

626
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,640
All this joys are but a name, 
but is love abideth ever through

627
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:04,080
eternal years the same? 
Take the world, but give me 

628
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:08,160
Jesus in his cross. 
My trust shall be till the 

629
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:13,600
clearer, brighter vision. 
Face to face, my Lord, I'll see.

630
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,880
Oh, the fullness of redemption, 
pledge of endless life above. 

631
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:20,760
Oh, the height and depth of 
mercy. 

632
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,400
Oh, the length and breadth of 
love. 

633
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:27,560
There is nothing better than the
things that we've studied, the 

634
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,280
assurance, the confidence, my 
prayers that we can put Him 

635
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,400
first. 
Do you know that you have 

636
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,080
eternal life as we've studied in
this book? 

637
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,560
Do you know Him? 
Do you have full joy? 

638
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,040
Do you know that you walk in the
light? 

639
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,000
Do you have boldness and 
judgement? 

640
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,280
If you don't, let's reconsider 
the process. 

641
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,480
Romans 10/17 Faith comes by 
hearing and hearing by the Word 

642
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:53,520
of God. 
Do you have faith? 

643
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,080
Great. 
Do you believe? 

644
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:59,600
According to Mark 16 and 16, 
Have you repented? 

645
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,160
Are you committing sins that 
lead to death because you're not

646
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:08,760
willing to repent? 
Acts 238, have you confessed 

647
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,120
that Jesus Christ is the Son of 
God and there's no other name by

648
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,520
which you can be saved on earth 
or on heaven? 

649
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:19,880
From Romans 10/9 and 10, have 
you been baptized for the 

650
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,240
remission of your sins? 
According to Mark 16 and 16, 

651
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,560
maybe you have done that. 
And I look at a lot of people in

652
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,160
here that I know have done that.
Our call is to now walk in the 

653
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:33,800
light. 
If you need to be started in 

654
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,080
this walk, if you need this 
beginning in baptism, we would 

655
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:38,400
be happy to take care of that 
today. 

656
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,440
But if you've already done that 
and you need to get help, you 

657
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,320
need to walk in the light. 
Remember, just like Simon said, 

658
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:51,080
just like Simon was told, you 
can pray for the forgiveness for

659
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,240
your sins. 
But if you would like the 

660
00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:55,440
prayers of the brethren, just 
like Simon said, I need you to 

661
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,600
pray with me. 
We'd be happy to take care of 

662
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,520
that, to get confident today as 
we leave this place if let's 

663
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,000
stand and sing the song of 
invitation.