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In previous Parables, we see 
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desire. 
That the loss be saved in Luke, 

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the 14th chapter and verses 15 
through 20 for you. 

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Remember that Jesus gave the 
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in that Parable we find revealed
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That a man would enjoy the 
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found in his kingdom. 
You remember that Jesus had just

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finished a lesson on humility. 
And in the beginning of the book

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of Luke, the fourth chapter and 
verse 15. 

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The Bible says and when one of 
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heard these things. 
He said unto him. 

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Blessed is he that eat bread in 
the kingdom of God? 

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And then in verse number 16 you 
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said in response to those words,
he said a certain man. 

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Man made a great supper and 
bade, many. 

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And the Bible says that that a 
servant was sent from the master

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or the lord of the house, at the
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that all those that were bidden 
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are now ready. 
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understand as we've talked about
in time past but understanding 

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this when a great supper or a 
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invitation would be extended 
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the house. 
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And I am told that this is 
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The invitations went out for 
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and then just right at the time 
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and all things were ready and it
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would be sent out from the 
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people that had already been 
bidden to come to the supper and

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so that was exactly what would 
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And that's what Jesus said in 
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He said a servant went out to 
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to tell those that were already 
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ready. 
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Jesus said so sadly, that they 
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As we know the story, they began
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reject the invitation that was 
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That was a wonderful invitation.
They had other things in their 

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life that they found and deemed 
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to the great supper. 
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it's very important though and 
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Jesus gave so long ago, they had
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rearrange their schedules. 
If need be to put the great 

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feast. 
And the great supper of first 

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and foremost by way of 
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they did not realizing they had 
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Such a wonderful supper. 
The Bible says and Jesus 

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declares that they all begin to 
make excuse. 

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And the first one, says those 
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piece of ground and therefore, I
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You see there was a possession 
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That was keeping him from the 
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The second one said I have 
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There it is. 
He said, please have me excused.

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He had a business transaction. 
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Well, the third one said, well, 
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come. 
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with having a wife, I have one 
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The point being is this and 
that's the point that Jesus is 

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conveying. 
This was a man that had had a 

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social tie and I'm going to tell
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business transaction, whether it
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whether it is a social tie or 
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all the world that might stand 
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great invitation to the great 
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It would be wrong. 
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Common Thread that sinner woven 
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makers. 
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that other things were far more 
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As a result. 
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lost his chance to secure a part
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In order to get a part of the 
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the chance to get the world's 
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side in order to go see how his 
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And the third one. 
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The Lord. 
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we let trivial things, get, in 
the way we let trivial things 

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stand, in the way of service to 
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But you know what Jesus said, 
Jesus said that the Master of 

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the House said, as a result of 
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Masters invitation, he said you 
go out quickly into the streets 

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and into the lanes and bring in 
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And the maimed and the Halt and 
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You know what, I think of when I
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society that we live in, it's a 
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our children begin to compete in
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If they play sports, everything 
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And by the way, there's 
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good wholesome. 
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I'm not saying That what I am 
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that we are small children, we 
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survives, the best, go to the 
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rise to the very top in every 
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But you know, what's very 
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Jesus said all those that are 
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all those that are halt, all 
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rejects them. 
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He said, I want every one of 
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I want everyone to come into the
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the servant said Master, we have
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there's still room. 
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Now, when you go into the 
hedges, you go into the 

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highwomen. ways you reach out 
and you get anyone that will 

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come And so the Bible says that 
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thou Hast commanded. 
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Hope there for all of mankind 
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always room for one more. 
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Jesus also gave the parable of 
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You would remember that prior to
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talk about tonight. 
That he said that one that would

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come to him is one that is 
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to build a Our, how awful would 
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Jesus says in essence, to build 
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And by the way, this was those 
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the Tower in the middle of their
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they needed in that they might 
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landscape of their land, and 
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take that which is theirs or to 
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So these individuals that were 
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as it were in the religious 
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Jesus. 
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understood just exactly what he 
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Because they knew about building
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Vineyards. 
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them, that when these towers 
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someone began to build But never
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And couldn't finish. 
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would look to them. 
Like they were foolish, how sad 

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it is. 
They would say this man began to

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build, but he was not able to 
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I hope we understand, we're not 
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buildings. 
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that have not sat down and 
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contemplated completeness in 
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is. 
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great, supper have come in 
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turned their back on that which 
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Well here we go. 
Now we as we look at the setting

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of this Parable you remember 
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collectors and the Sinners draw 
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You know I can think of nothing 
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picture of the Sinners Drawing 
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Do you remember when there was a
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maybe she was a prostitute but 
this was a great sinner in her 

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life when she was in the very 
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The Bible says that she washed 
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dried them with her hair. 
You see, when she was in the 

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very presence of the Lord, she 
recognized and realized she was 

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a sinner. 
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she was greatly appreciative of 
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that That she was greater than 
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should have known better. 
They should have come with their

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Alabaster boxes. 
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to Jesus as a visitor that day 
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and should have been what she 
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But the Bible says that she 
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even as he's she stood behind 
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And with those tears, she wiped 
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And drive them with her tears. 
But you know, there were so many

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people in that day and time they
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would discount Jesus and 
discredit Jesus because they 

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were Sinners that were drawn to 
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You remember, all of their 
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the Pharisees, they would catch 
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simply being this. 
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This man is not a good man. 
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because this man he eats with 
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Now we know what a Publican is. 
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He was an extortioner. 
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but he was an extortioner. 
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Because he was contracted out by
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and he they were The Hired Gun 
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take money or taxes from fellow.
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But you know, they only 
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highest bidder, those of Rome. 
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than an individual took and 
extortion, was the game and 

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these publicans are Tax 
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wanted and they stuck that in 
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You see? 
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attracted to Jesus. 
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world had cast aside, the ones 
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said they're no good. 
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What about the prostitutes? 
What about all of those that had

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a horrible reputation? 
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Remember, when Jesus was giving 
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You remember, when Jesus said 
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Vineyard, a Vineyard owner, a 
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He commands, both of those Sons 
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labor there. 
The first one says, I'm not 

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going, but then Jesus says he 
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And then he goes the second one,
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The second one from the very 
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He accepts the idea and he says,
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And Jesus looked at all these 
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lawyers, all of the Pharisees, 
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And Jesus said in Matthew, 
chapter 21 and verse 31, whether

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of them Twain did, the will of 
the father, they say unto him 

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the first and Jesus saith unto 
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I say unto you that the 
publicans and harlots go into 

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the kingdom of God before you, 
for John, came unto you in the 

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way of righteousness. 
And you believed him, not. 

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But the publicans and the 
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when you had seen it repented, 
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believe him as they followed, 
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of the day. 
So did they follow Jesus? 

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Because he had something that 
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Well, there were those that 
would try to discredit him. 

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There were those that would 
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would There were indeed those 
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then Jesus is going to give some
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preach a sermon with reference 
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You think sometimes we might 
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Oh, we believe in living a 
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doing that, which is right, 
let's not discredit that. 

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I'm not saying that at all. 
I'm not saying that folks that 

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are living in sin are to be 
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because God does not embrace 
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All that simply means is just 
like, Jesus had all of those 

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Sinners before him. 
What did he tell them? 

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He He told them to repent, he 
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No more forgiveness was had when
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their life and decided that they
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sinner. 
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forgiven, but let us never ever 
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Regardless of what a person does
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misunderstand me now. 
Regardless of what a person does

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in their life. 
God may have poor and hate their

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sin, but he loves their soul, he
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stop loving the sinner, God 
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And so here we have the parable 
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their own hypocrisy and 
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Jesus gave them a glimpse into 
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God and his great love for 
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I think it's important that we 
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our attitude toward Sinners as 
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Jesus begins with the words and 
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time Jesus preached a sermon or 
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greater than I am far greater 
than you are. 

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He didn't have to sit down and 
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Oh no, what Jesus did is Jesus. 
Got in that very situation that 

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very element. 
Something would come up and he 

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preached the perfect sermon and 
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All of those Hypocrites that 
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consistencies of these men, he 
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on there. 
Would have a sheep. 

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Which one of you would have a 
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You have 100 of them. 
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them departs. 
He said which one of you and the

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language there is telling us. 
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essence. 
Every single one of you would do

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this very thing that's what he 
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you. 
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that very thing. 
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ninety and nine and find that 
one lost sheep and notice notice

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how precious and Priceless it 
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Sheep owner, he would go go out 
and he would find that one sheep

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that was lost away from the 
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He would pick it up, he would 
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his shoulder and he would walk 
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distance or the amount of miles 
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way back to his place with a 99 
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But you know what Jesus says, 
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going to do that? 
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rejoicing. 
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to do? 
You're going to bring your 

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friends over, and they're going 
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He said this, you do it for a 
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But that is how God looks at the
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That the soul of The Sinner that
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His precious, in the eyes of 
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rejoicing. 
When the one that comes into the

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fold, that was lost. 
A lost sheep, is converted and 

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comes to the fold of the great 
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There's more rejoicing for that 
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already just and righteous. 
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misunderstand this point though,
we don't want to misunderstand 

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the point to say that those that
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those that are Christians and 
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time are not precious in the 
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Oh, yes. 
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They are. 
And if you're a Christian 

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tonight and you are living your 
life Faithfully in accordance 

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with the word of God, then I'm 
going to tell you something 

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tonight, the Lord is proud of 
you, the Lord as needing you to 

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do his business and the lord 
loves you too. 

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But the reason that there's so 
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repents is because of the other 
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longer or doesn't repent Eternal
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Hell, I think this tells you and
I when we need to have a love 

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for the lost, the importance of 
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understand that we sometimes 
preach the gospel and we need 

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not to be weary in hearing the 
gospel. 

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If you've been a member of the 
law, As Church, it doesn't 

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matter, 50, 60 years. 
Don't ever get weary and hearing

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The Greatest Story Ever Told. 
Do you still Marvel at the 

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things in, God's word, where 
God's plan was fulfilled in the 

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sending of his son? 
does it still not move you when 

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you think about Jesus, on that 
day, when those nails were 

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driven into his hands and into 
his feet, When Jesus lived, the 

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perfect, perfect life became the
perfect sacrifice, and as Jesus 

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died on the cross, he said those
words to his father, it is 

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finished. 
What is finished? 

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God's plan, doesn't it move you 
to think that? 

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God did that for you? 
And for me go never get tired of

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hearing the simple gospel. 
It is the simple gospel that we 

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must preach to the lost for. 
We love them. 

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To remember that old song that 
we used. 

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Saying, I love to tell the 
story. 

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I love to tell the story for 
some have never heard the 

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message of Salvation from God's 
Own holy work. 

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I love to tell the story for 
those who know it. 

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Best seem hungering and 
thirsting to hear it like the 

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rest and when it seems of Glory,
we sing, the new song will be 

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the old old story. 
That I have loved so long, let 

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us never grow weary and hearing 
The Greatest Story Ever Told. 

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Well, let's look now at some 
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Parable, we find that there's a 
tremendous lesson of the love of

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God in seeking those that are 
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God's love is not a waiting. 
Love, God's love is a seeking 

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love. 
God is ever seeking those that 

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are lost. 
He is ever reaching out to Oh, 

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those that are lost. 
The question is not whether or 

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not God is reaching and seeking 
the lost. 

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The question is, how is he 
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So? 
Well, certainly not 

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miraculously, certainly not 
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Is he going to move us and guide
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the neck? 
Guiding us, as he would have us 

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to go. 
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Bible says, in John 3:16 for 
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So loved the world that he gave 
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whosoever believeth on him 
should not perish but have 

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everlasting life. 
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Began that God. 
So loved the world and that 

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works. 
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was the type of lovey head, is 
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All right. 
He continues to seek and save 

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the Lost. 
Through Christians preaching, 

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the word of God. 
He's depending on you and I, he 

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continues to reach out to them 
to seek and save them that are 

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lost, but he's counting on you 
and I and sometimes we let this 

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become the greatest or best kept
secret in town. 

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But understand this where the 
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20, this is what Jesus told them
to do. 

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He said go ye therefore and 
teach All Nations. 

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Baptizing them in the name of 
the father, and of the son, and 

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of the Holy Ghost, but notice 
teaching them to observe all 

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things whatsoever. 
I have commanded you and lo. 

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I Am With, You Always even to 
the end of the world. 

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I want you to understand where 
the Bible Clearly states there 

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that not only it is the job of a
disciple, a follower of Jesus, a

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Christian to take the gospel to 
the lost and baptize them in the

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name of the father, and the Son 
and the Holy Ghost. 

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But I want you to understand 
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We have a responsibility from 
that point forward, to give them

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something that will sustain them
in this life. 

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Like one man said, one time. 
Whatever a person is converted 

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with is what he'll need a steady
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the person is moved with emotion
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He's going to need a whole lot 
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order to be faithful. 
But if a person is converted 

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with God's word, then all he 
needs is a whole lot more of 

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God's word. 
And if we will take that gospel 

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and take that word of God and 
instruct it to those and teach 

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them all things. 
Things they will remain 

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faithful. 
Until the end, you know, I think

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it's important. 
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That sheep, that was lost. 
Was lost until he got back with 

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the 99. 
The Sheep was not safe until he 

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got back with the 99. 
Ladies and gentlemen, tonight 

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the 99 is the Ark of Safety. 
The 99 is the Lord's Church. 

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There is no safe, place or Safe 
Haven outside of the church. 

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You know, I realized tonight 
there are many churches, there 

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are many religious affiliations 
in the world. 

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I know that I'm not concerned 
about any other affiliation in 

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all the world. 
All I'm concerned about tonight.

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With is this, the church that he
built the one that he promised 

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that he would build in Matthew 
chapter 16 when he said I will 

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build my church and the Gates of
Hell shall not Prevail against 

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it. 
Oh yes, indeed. 

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We want to be a part of that. 
We want to be in the Ark of 

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Safety. 
We want to be part of the body 

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of Christ. 
There is no salvation apart. 

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From the Lord's Church, part of 
the body of Christ is when we 

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are safe, In the Ark of Safety, 
a person is lost in the world 

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until they come to Jesus. 
You know, sometimes people think

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that we can be saved in whatever
condition we want to be in 

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whatever sinful condition, 
whatever choices we make. 

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Because Jesus died a long time 
ago, we can be saved in that 

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condition. 
And then over time, God works on

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our heart and seeks to change 
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That's not what the Bible 
teaches. 

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The Bible teaches, we must 
change. 

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First, we must repent. 
First, we must make the 

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about-face in our life and make 
the determination that we are 

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going to change first. 
When the gospel is preached in, 

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all the accounts of New 
Testament, Biblical history, of 

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all of the conversions in the 
book of Acts. 

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We find that there was an alien 
ship. 

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Inner, that was living their 
life apart from, or away from 

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God, and then something came to 
them in their life was another 

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man, preaching the gospel to 
them that cause them to make a 

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change in their heart. 
It all begins in the heart and 

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I'm here to tell you tonight, if
the heart's not right, there's 

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nothing right, if the heart is 
not changed, then a man cannot 

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change. 
Sometimes people change their 

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Direction by there. 
Actions. 

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But their heart is far from him.
The Bible clearly states when a 

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person is going to be saved, it 
is by hearing and hearing by the

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word of God, a person comes to 
hear the gospel when the word of

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God, which has the power to save
is preached. 

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It is that word and that power 
that is affected on the heart of

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man. 
It is that that's going to cause

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a man to make a decision. 
When he hears the word of God, 

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then he must believe. 
Eve or not belief. 

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In order to continue down the 
path of what a man must do in 

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order to be saved. 
Yes, he must believe in Jesus 

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Christ. 
He must believe that. 

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Jesus is who he says he is. 
That Jesus is the Christ, the 

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son of the Living. 
God then, the Bible says that a 

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person must repent. 
Now it's the change that we've 

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been talking about tonight. 
A person must make the 

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determination. 
I am going. 

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In this direction, I always have
I've been going in this 

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direction but I no longer want 
to do so, I want to make a 

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change then a person stands and 
says those precious wonderful 

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words. 
I believe that Jesus Christ is 

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the son of God. 
You know, when a person does 

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that Romans chapter 10 tells us 
those things are unto or up to 

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Salvation. 
But you know something there's 

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only one way to get into the 
body of Jesus Christ that we've 

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talked about tonight. 
Galatians 3:27 says for as many 

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as you have been baptized into 
into Christ have put on Christ. 

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All of these steps are unto but 
baptism for the remission of a 

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man's sins is into Christ. 
There's no safety. 

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There's no salvation outside of 
the body. 

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Of Christ. 
Well as Jesus wrapped up these 

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thoughts. 
There's one thing that we must 

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understand from what we've 
learned. 

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What about when the Bible says 
that we are to be separate from 

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the sinful things that are in 
the world. 

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Remember last night we talked 
about that the righteous needs 

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not to even travel down the same
path as the wicked. 

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We got to do something 
different. 

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How do we work? 
All that out with the yearning 

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love and the seeking love that 
God has and is expecting you and

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I to go to the Lost, notice it 
is true that a Christian must be

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separate from the world. 
Second Corinthians Six and 

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verses 14 through 18, it is in 
fact true that we must not be 

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unequally yoked together with 
unbelievers. 

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It is true that we must come out
from among them and be separate 

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saith, the Lord. 
But this does not mean that we 

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isolate ourselves from the world
for Paul recognized that we 

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could eat with those in the 
world. 

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First Corinthians 5 9 through 
11, he instructed those at 

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Corinth to eat with those in the
world. 

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First Corinthians 10. 
Seven and 29, Jesus, ate with 

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the Sinners, but not to partake 
of their sin or support them in 

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their sin. 
He did so in order that he might

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redeem them. 
I'll tell you, if that's your 

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heart and your motive, there's 
nothing wrong with going and 

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seeing someone that is living a 
sinful life. 

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Remember what we talked about 
last night about the word of God

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being the seed and Jesus 
discussed that in the parable of

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the sower. 
And how it all boils down to, 

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and I said that tonight to the 
heart of a man. 

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Well, you know what? 
Sometimes, when a person hears, 

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the gospel, the first time their
heart is not right yet. 

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But that doesn't mean that we 
quit, we have to continue 

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continue. 
Continue to teach them what's 

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found in God's word and 
prayerfully prayerfully. 

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They will accept it with a good 
and honest heart because God is 

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awaiting. 
The time that he can give the 

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increase, you know after all how
can we be the salt of the earth 

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that Jesus spoke about and 
Matthew 5, if we don't mingle 

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with the meat, how can we be the
light of the world as Jesus said

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to be in Matthew 5 on the great 
Sermon on the Mount? 

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If we don't shine as lights in 
darkness, he wants the lost to 

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be saved, so very badly. 
Yes, he does. 

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He wants the lost to turn from 
the wicked of their ways. 

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Listen, if God didn't love the 
Lost, Why would he put into 

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motion a scheme of redemption of
all those years from the time 

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that Adam and Eve fell in the 
garden and put a plan together? 

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That lasted that long that had 
to bring man gradually back to 

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God. 
How would it be that God sent 

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his only son to die on calvary's
cross that he loved with all of 

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his heart? 
If he didn't love the center, 

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well one more thing I'd like to 
say tonight. 

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You know, I think it's important
that we understand that God also

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loves those that are Christians,
but they fall away. 

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But I think it's also important 
that we look to God's word and 

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look to another Parable. 
That Jesus said so long ago, we 

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don't have time to go into it. 
I'll not talk long about it. 

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But in the parable of the 
prodigal, that was the third and

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final Parable that Jesus gave 
concerning God's yearning and 

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seeking love for the lost. 
That's a different story though.

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This is a fella. 
This is a young man that 

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departs. 
I think it's important that we 

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also understand the father never
went after the Sun and supported

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him in that lifestyle, you know,
I think tonight that sometimes 

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we lose sight of that and we 
support our loved ones who have 

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made a horrible decision to go 
back into the world and do 

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things. 
We know are wrong. 

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And we support them in that and 
we're going to love them right 

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on back. 
You want to love them. 

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What did the father do? 
He stayed at home. 

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And every day, I would imagine. 
He looked for that boy to 

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return. 
Finally, that boy realized that 

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there was a Detachment between 
his father and himself. 

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If a man won't feel that, why 
would he come back? 

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the Bible says this young man, 
finally, one day came to 

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himself, And when he did notice 
what he did, he purposed in his 

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heart first, he said, I'm going 
to go back, I'm going to go back

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to my father. 
I'm going to say, I have sinned 

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against heaven. 
And I've sinned against thee. 

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I'm no more worthy to be called 
thy son. 

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You make me one of your hired 
servants and that'll be enough. 

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We know the story. 
When the young man began to when

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he left home, he left looking 
like the son of the father. 

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When he came back, he didn't 
even remotely resemble. 

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The father son, I'm going to 
tell you that, no one would have

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recognized him that day, not his
brother, not the servants, not a

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neighbor, he didn't even 
resemble the one that had left. 

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But there was one that did know.
There was one that did recognize

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and that was the father way out 
in the distance. 

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You know, why the father saw him
in a long distance away he saw 

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him because he was looking for 
it. 

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He's always perfect. 
He always stands for that, which

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is right, but he never stops 
loving his children when they 

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fall away. 
The Bible says, this young man 

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comes to his father. 
He can't even get all the words 

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out before. 
His father fell on his neck and 

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kissed him and said, put on the 
best room. 

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Put a ring on his hand. 
Kill the fatted calf. 

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We're going to eat drink and be 
merry for my son. 

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That was lost is now found. 
Yes, indeed, God loves those 

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that are lost, one more thing 
before I step down tonight. 

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Sometimes we forget, when we 
tell that story, that there's 

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another son, He's a prodigal to 
you ever. 

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Think of that. 
Prodigal means, wasteful. 

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We think the one was a prodigal 
because he left. 

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He was a prodigal that left. 
But there was another son that 

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was a prodigal that stayed. 
You know what the problem was 

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with the second. 
The problem with the first is 

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his heart wet first, then he 
went his, when your heart goes 

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your life and your body and your
actions and your decisions are 

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soon to follow usually. but this
other fella, the older son, his 

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heart was gone but he remained 
that tells me something. 

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That tells me sometimes we can 
think that we are in good 

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standing with our God because we
come and Assemble. 

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But we must examine the heart. 
And if our heart is gone the 

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Father the same father that's 
longing for the one that has 

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departed to come back. 
Is longing for you to change 

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your heart. 
Wouldn't it be sad like Jesus 

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said about building those Towers
to get to the end and realize 

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there are changes? 
We should have made But we did. 

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It'll be too late. 
What about those awful words 

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that sometimes we sing almost 
persuaded. 

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Almost, but lost. 
If you're not a Christian 

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tonight, those are the steps 
that make you in Christ and wash

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your sins away. 
Hearing the word of God, 

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believing in Jesus repenting of 
your past. 

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Life confess him for, who he is 
as the Son of God and be 

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baptized in water tonight. 
All things are ready. 

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You can do that and have your 
sins washed away. 

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