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We learned that a Godly life 
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Number one, it silences 
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And number two, it will lead 
people to glorify God and we'll 

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get to that in detail a little 
bit later. 

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But let me first talk about the 
critics for just a minute. 

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I understand that the critics in
our life, I get it, their 

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widespread, they're all around 
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In fact, for the most part, 
they've captured the 

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institutions of our society, our
society, even in the school 

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systems, right? 
And I know it's probably worse 

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today than ever. 
I get it, but even in the 

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educational system around us, 
what we have is, we have an idea

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that is thrust upon our 
children, for example, that we 

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need to accept people that are 
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Lifestyles and sinful lifestyles
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And if you opposed a sinful 
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minority and you are criticized.
And that happens. 

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Today, I get that But living a 
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Those critics? 
What about the people that Peter

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was writing to they would have 
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They would have understood about
the stressful situation that 

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they were in. 
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they were scattered from their 
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They were under severe 
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They were feeling the pressure 
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They needed motivation to carry 
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the midst of great trials. 
And Peter tells them that their 

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life would be the kind that 
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life. 
That convinces unbelievers of 

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the validity of the Christian 
faith which can convert them 

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now. 
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live Godly before watching 
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when I preach the sermon on the 
value of a good friend, and I 

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talked about the influences that
are around us, And I often times

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refer to young people, but 
really, it's anybody. 

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I'm going to make a statement 
that you've heard me say over 

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the years, but who you really 
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better determined, by the way 
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you act, by the way that you 
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And by the way that you dress in
places number one, where you are

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not known or number two, in 
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comfortable that's really you. 
Now we hope praying trusted 

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everybody that's here today is 
the same person tomorrow. 

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What I'm saying, is the places 
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in places where you are not 
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That's really you. 
Are we authentic a person that 

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lives a Godly life needs to be 
authentic, to have the 

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influence, we need to have. 
So going back to our text in 

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verse 11 though, he calls 
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begins like this. 
He said I beg you as sojourners 

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now, interesting words 
sojourners, more on that in just

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a minute. 
But let me say he said I bet you

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as sojourners and pilgrims 
abstain from fleshly lusts that 

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war against the Soul in these 
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I'm going to live a Godly life 
on the outside, it begins on the

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inside. 
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that godliness is not your own 
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Goodness, why do we talk so much
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You know why? 
Because the inside is where the 

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problem is, the outward behavior
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The manifestation of what we are
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always talk about the heart. 
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example, that And by actions, 
they're really the symptom, 

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they're not the problem, the 
problem is the heart and when we

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only address the situation, or 
the symptom, it's like putting a

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Band-Aid on a laceration. 
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So what's godliness godliness is
something that is on the inside.

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What is it? 
It's not your personal goodness.

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You've heard me say this to it 
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of God in every aspect of your 
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What about this? 
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You've heard this too. 
As conduct is to the heart. 

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And I think it's really 
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time when he talked about what's
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godliness is on the inside that 
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It's a practical awareness of 
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life, it will demonstrate itself
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righteousness. 
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Righteousness, is the 
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else? 
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What about the heart? 
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heart is, and the heart is on 
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And that's called conduct. 
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have no shot at fixing the 
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And really, that's what we're 
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In verse 11. 
It's clearly Inward and private.

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So let's look at the word 
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Different translations render 
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The new King James renders it as
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The King James renders it as 
strangers and this word can also

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be translated As aliens now, 
what's interesting about that 

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he's saying this, I'm writing to
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visitor, as a traveler, I'm 
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or an alien and the work, the 
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From these three English words 
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alongside the house. 
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living in the world alongside 
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this world. 
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Home. 
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It means living alongside the 
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brief stay. 
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he's saying I'm talking to you, 
not to worry too much about 

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what's going on, outwardly 
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surroundings. 
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Sojourner, you are not from this
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permanence in this life, it 
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You're a pilgrim. 
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This it's only a brief time that
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So I'm writing to you, 
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Sojourner and as a pilgrim. 
Now, obviously, we are born into

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this world physically, right? 
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So when do we become a stranger?
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alien, we become a stranger to 
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Christian, when were baptized 
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Colossians chapter 1 and verse 
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He has delivered us from the 
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translated us into the kingdom 
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We belong or we Solutely become 
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Here's another passage Hebrews 
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We have no continuing City but 
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Do you remember when we studied 
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Jesus? 
Do you remember when I said that

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passage? 
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When you talk about Jesus, while
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scripture says Foxes have holes 
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but the son of man has nowhere 
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about that idea and I freely 
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well he must have been homeless,
that's not true, he had a place 

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in Capernaum, he could have gone
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he had nowhere to go. 
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has no place of permanence or 
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he had a place that's greater 
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That's what he's saying. 
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you're only here for a little 
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a stranger here and you're 
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come A continuing City in that 
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So he brilliantly set that. 
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And then it gives some 
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And he says, this abstain from 
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are strong cravings and 
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it's not exclusive to that is 
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The word abstain is a greater 
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Stop abstain is an action word. 
It is something that we set into

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motion. 
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Paul used in First Corinthians. 
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said, flee fornication or 
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comes from the Greek word, few 
go, and that's where we get the 

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English word fugitive. 
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similar to the word flee. 
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fugitive, from the law runs from
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And by the way, if you're 
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They get you. 
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fleeing from sin, it'll get you 
It's an action word, doesn't 

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just mean just stop committing 
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Yeah, that's great. 
That didn't help. 

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How am I going to do that? 
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lust, I have to flee or run like
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Fleshly lusts, Galatians chapter
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these. 
I'll briefly read these quickly.

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The Works of the flesh are 
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fornication. 
Uncleanness lewdness idolatry 

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sorcery hatred contentions 
jealousies. 

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Outbursts of Wrath selfish, 
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envyings murders, drunkenness, 
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I tell you beforehand, just as I
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those who practice, such things 
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God. 
Now, why do we have to abstain 

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from these things? 
Why do we have to run from these

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things? 
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Because he said they war against
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Soul. 
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That we are in a battle. 
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And we're in a battle with the 
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The devil is the enemy. 
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referenced? 
And they are battling. 

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The devil is battling for our 
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He's battling for you, too. 
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you through, your kids will do 
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He may not be able to discourage
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get to your kids. 
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you'll fall. 
The devil throws everything he's

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got. 
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fleshly lust will war against 
the soul. 

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Now interesting that phrase war 
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It's not just some little battle
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something that is a one-time 
thing, the phraseology, their 

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warring against, the sole means 
to wage war. 

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It means to carry out an all out
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That's the phraseology. 
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the military. 
It isn't some tiny Skirmish or 

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battle. 
It's not a one-time thing. 

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It is a long-term battle, so we 
have to continue to run from the

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fleshly lusts. 
We're going to get to the some 

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specifics on how to and I love 
that practical passages. 

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I'm establishing the general 
principle now though. 

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So if we're in a battle where 
Santa is going to be fought on a

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very serious level, so how do we
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How do we do that in Romans 
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Beginning in verse 12, therefore
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We are debtors not to the flesh 
for if you live, according to 

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the flesh, you will die. 
But if by the spirit, notice you

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put to death, the Deeds of the 
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What's that mean? 
How do you put to death, the 

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Deeds of the body? 
Well, Christians are to mortify,

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the remaining sin that's in your
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What's it mean to mortify 
remaining sin? 

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Well, I'll tell you one of the 
favorite sayings today. 

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You've heard this relax. 
Let go let God. 

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Well, I do believe in letting 
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faith and trust in him. 
I put my life In His Hands in 

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both Time and Eternity. 
Yes, I agree with that, but 

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there's nothing about the 
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at all to do. 
With letting go everything has 

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everything to do with holding on
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Everything. 
There's nothing about letting go

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and relaxing. 
You relax, you're going to lose.

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Hold on to that, which is of the
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the flesh. 
Let's talk about that for just a

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minute mortifying, remaining 
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Well, first of all, please get 
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Sin is not mortified. 
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You know, I can I can hide my 
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I can hide it from anybody. 
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there is to the one part. 
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There's nothing we can hide from
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He knows, but I was listening to
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there's two people, you can't 
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one, you can't lie to God. 
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your wife, both of them will 
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They're both going to find out. 
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intimate relationship that we 
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So we can't lie forever and not 
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We have an intimate spiritual 
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can't lie about that. 
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So sin is not mortified when 
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If I continue in sin, but I try 
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I've done nothing to the sin. 
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I have not put it to death, let 
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28:13. 
He who covers his sins, will not

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Prosper, but whoever confesses 
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mercy. 
Now stay with me as we build 

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this Foundation here, stay with 
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Through what does the Bible say?
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this passage If we confess our 
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forgive us our sins and cleanse 
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So it's not a matter of covering
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It's a matter of getting rid of 
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God the word confess though does
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It doesn't mean I'm sorry I got 
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My dad used to say that you 
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You're sorry, you got caught. 
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confess. 
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word. 
Homo lagaye. 

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Oh, and it literally means to 
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So when you confess that sin, 
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confessing it to God. 
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God, you are literally saying 
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that God says about that sin. 
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That is confession with Godly 
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confession without repentance is
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I can be sorry that I did 
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I have no other way to get 
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Okay, I did it like I admitted 
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If I want the Forgiveness of God
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forgive me. 
My sins and cleanse me, even 

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from the contamination of that 
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If I confess it with Godly 
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in hand, Number two. 
Sin is not mortified when it's 

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merely internalized. 
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It's kind of like this. 
I don't commit that sin anymore.

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But if you ruminate on the 
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inside and you have not 
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ruminate on the pleasures of 
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time before that sin will link 
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So if you internalize this and 
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Give me a little illustration 
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Number of years ago, there was a
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ski. 
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relatively good health. 
He was walking through Los 

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Angeles International Airport, 
LAX and all of a sudden as he 

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began to walk through, he 
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He grasped his chest. 
He had a massive heart attack 

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and he dropped dead. 
Well, 37 year old pretty healthy

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young guys. 
Don't have massive heart 

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attacks. 
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drop dead. 
When they took his body and they

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did an autopsy, they cut him 
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found. 
They found that in his stomach 

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was 11 rubber containers and in 
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one half of a million dollars 
worth of cocaine. 

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What happened is one or more of 
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Little hole here little seepage 
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life. 
That's kind of what sin is 

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folks. 
If you internalize it, you don't

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mortify it. 
It's only a matter of time 

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before the leak out. 
Got a morph. 

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I got to put it to death, got to
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Here's another one sin is not 
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exchanged for another sin. 
What good is it to trade the 

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lust of the flesh? 
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The lust of the eyes for the 
pride of life, it's kind of like

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this. 
It's kind of like a vise, if a 

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person has a vice, okay, and you
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I smoke cigarettes. 
So I'll just start smoking 

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cigars, okay? 
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I'll start chewing tobacco. 
You haven't done anything, you 

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haven't quit, the use of 
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what you've done is. 
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another Vice? 
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not mortified when it's merely 
exchanged for another sin. 

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So it's not mortified when it's 
just covered up. 

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It's not mortified when it's 
internalized, it's not mortified

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when it exchanged for another 
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this is big. 
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conscience has been A pieced. 
Let's talk about that for just a

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minute, the conscience very 
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3 and verse 16. 
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that when they defame you as 
evildoers, those who revile your

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Good Conduct in Christ may be 
ashamed. 

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You know, contrary to 
psychology, they say, you know 

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what? 
We don't want somebody to feel 

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bad about anything. 
I'm not making fun, I don't 

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understand it. 
I don't understand all that. 

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Big picture stuff that they do 
today. 

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I'm not qualified. 
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somebody just the other day, I 
believe this. 

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Sometimes people think preachers
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And from a psychological 
standpoint, we are completely 

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unqualified to do that. 
All we can do is show you the 

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scriptures. 
We're on qualified for that 

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other stuff. 
So I understand that there are 

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schools of thought that maybe I 
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this is what society says, 
society says, we don't want your

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conscience to bother you 
anymore. 

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We don't want you to be in pain 
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that you have made in the past. 
We don't want you to feel bad 

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about that. 
Did you know this, though, when 

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you talk about the conscience, 
the conscience is the pangs of 

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guilt of a guilty. 
Conscience are the right healthy

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and natural consequence of sin. 
So that you can hate yourself. 

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No, she can feel bad about 
yourself, no, so that you get a 

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situation where you can't ever 
forgive yourself. 

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No. 
So that you fix it. 

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You've talked about, I've talked
about this team before talking 

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about, you know, you fire the 
nerve on a horse, they're still 

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crippled, they're still lame but
you don't feed they don't feel 

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it fire the nerve right years 
ago, a number of years ago, I 

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was working out lifting weights 
lift them too heavy and I did 

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something to my right wrist, 
something popped, and their 

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attendant or something. 
It was so sore. 

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I mean, I couldn't hardly move 
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took Advil, I did all kinds of 
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Finally, went to the doctor and 
the doctor said, have you ever 

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had a cortisone shot? 
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well you're getting one today 
and they came out with that 

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horrible needle. 
And by the way, when they're 

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going to run that thing in you 
for a cortisone shot, that 

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needle looks like about that 
long. here it comes and stuck 

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that thing in there, and I'll 
tell you, it hurt it, hurt worse

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than my wrist, but 20 minutes 
later, My wrist felt better than

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it ever did. 
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No, the doctor said Frank, you 
do know I've taken the pain 

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away, but the damage is still 
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That's what the conscience is 
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damage so you can fix it not 
just mask it. 

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So until the conscience is 
appeased, I have not mortified 

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sin. 
So notice this now mortifying 

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remaining sin When we begin to 
mortify sin, when Jesus is not 

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only lowered on the outside, but
Jesus is Lord, on the inside, 

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how we gonna do that? 
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Well, we learn we have to 
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Lust me, give you something very
practical on how to do that, got

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to do this. 
If you're having a hard time 

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with fleshly lusts, ask 
yourself, are you doing this in 

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James chapter 4 and verse 7? 
James says, submit yourself. 

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Therefore unto God, resist the 
devil and he will flee from you 

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two things are required submit 
and resist. 

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If you're having trouble with 
the flesh or fleshly lust, let 

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me ask you, are you submitting 
to God? 

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And are you resisting the devil?
And by the way, resisting, the 

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devil means you don't go where 
those Temptations are, you do an

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about-face to those things. 
And you run the opposite 

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direction and that's what 
abstaining and fleeing and all 

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of those things mean what else? 
In. 

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So, doing guess what? 
We can form the Jesus Christ. 

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We are now making no provision 
for the flesh, but there's more,

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we have more to do, we have to 
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Philippians chapter 4, you know,
Paul said in Philippians chapter

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4 whatsoever, things are lovely 
whatsoever, things are good 

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whatsoever. 
Things are of good report. 

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And on and on and on, he says, 
thank the word means, meditate 

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meditate on these things. 
So here goes practical, how we 

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going to mortify sin submit and 
resist conform. 

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The Jesus Christ will make no 
provision for the Flesh, and we 

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are going to meditate on God's 
word. 

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I'm going to tell you, you can't
do that and continue to have a 

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problem with sin. 
But it's a lifelong effort. 

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In Joshua 1:8, I love this. 
I love practical passages and I 

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like the ones that give us hope,
don't you? 

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The book of the law shall not 
depart from your mouth, but you 

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shall meditate in it day and 
night that you may observe to do

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all that is written in it for. 
Then you will make your way 

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prosperous and then you will 
have good success. 

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Notice this, somebody might say,
I just can't. 

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Yeah, you can sure you can. 
I just can't? 

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Yeah, you can look here. 
Meditate on the word of God day 

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and night. 
Observed to do what is written 

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in it and guess what, you'll 
have success. 

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Don't let anybody tell you, you 
can't. 

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Don't let anybody in the world. 
Tell you that you can't because 

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you can, there's nothing in the 
word of God that is required, 

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that you cannot do. sometimes we
sell ourselves short and we just

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say I just can't but really it's
because we just won't We can you

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will have good success. 
Meditate on the word of God, 

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observed to do what's written in
it, and will have success. 

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And that's going to lead to 
something that every one of us 

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needs and that's called 
self-control. 

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How many times in our life have 
we not utilized or demonstrated 

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self control every aspect of 
your life you need self-control.

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Sometimes we say something 
quickly because we didn't get a 

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hold of our self yet and then we
regret what we said and sadly. 

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And unfortunately we can't reel 
it back in. 

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Sometimes it's too late, 
sometimes the damage is already 

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done, right? 
All the things that we've said 

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so far will lead to self control
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First Corinthians chapter 9. 
Beginning in verse 26, Paul said

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therefore I run thus not with 
uncertainty thus, I fight not as

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one who beats the air, but I 
discipline my body and bring it 

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into subjection lest. 
When I have preached to others, 

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I myself should become 
disqualified. 

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You know, Paul basically saying 
this, I have to get control over

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my body and that's not passive. 
That is active. 

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In fact, the word discipline 
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the Old King James, it's the 
word Buffett, what an 

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interesting word, Buffett. 
Buffett literally means. 

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I strike a blow against one 
scholar said, it's like you're 

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giving it a black eye. 
Now, I'm not saying you walk 

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around punch yourself in the 
face. 

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Not saying that, it's not what 
he's saying. 

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He's talking from a figurative 
sense but it means I'm not being

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passive here, I'm being active, 
I got to do something. 

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I got to run, not with 
uncertainty. 

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I gotta fight like one that 
doesn't just beat the are like 

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Shadow Boxing. 
I gotta have a Target. 

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I Supporting my body and I bring
it into subjection. 

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That's what I do. 
All active things. 

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In word discipline leads to 
outward deportment. 

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In other words, sin does not 
exist on the outside because it 

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doesn't exist on the inside. 
First Peter chapter 2 and verse 

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12 having your conduct honorable
among the Gentiles that when 

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they speak against you as 
evildoers they may by your good 

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works which they observe glorify
God in the day of visitation is 

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incredible. 
This is the power of a Godly 

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life. 
He said having your conduct 

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honorable. 
What's that mean? 

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You know, the Greek word that's 
translated here for honorable, 

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is one of those Greek words that
really cannot be summed up in 

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one word. 
In fact, it's the Greek word 

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Kalos. 
It means the following. 

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It means lovely. 
It means fine. 

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It means when sung gracious fair
to look at Noble and excellent. 

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what he saying is, if your 
conduct is noble and excellent, 

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and honorable and fine, and 
lovely, and all of that, You're 

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going to have a great power of 
influence over others. 

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In this idea what he's talking 
about is this, the idea of 

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honorable, one scholar said, it 
is the purest and highest kind 

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of goodness. 
So again, our outward, 

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deportment must reflect our 
inward discipline and always 

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will, whatever that is. 
In other words the quality of a 

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transformed life must be visible
to the unsaved world. 

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So what's the purpose of all 
this? 

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When people criticize you that 
they may observe your good works

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and actually glorify God even be
saved as a result. 

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I'm going to talk to young 
people now for just a minute. 

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I realize it's difficult. 
I really do. 

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I understand that sometimes in 
life and with all the 

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surrounding things and all the 
pressures that are on you, I 

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know it's difficult. 
It was difficult when I was a 

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kid and I'm 53 and I know it's 
worse. 

494
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,600
Now, I know that I know it's 
harder. 

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But yes, you can. 
You can. 

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You can, if you will remember, 
there's nothing in the word of 

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00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,800
God that says, to do something 
that you cannot do. 

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It's not true. 
I want to talk about tough times

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though, because I know that we 
have tough times, let me give 

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you an example of really tough 
times. 

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And I want you to do this, 
compare, this compare the tough 

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times that I'm going to read 
about to you to the tough times 

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of Life as a reality today, and 
if they can do it, you and I can

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do it. 
This is the history of the 

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times, at during the time of 
this writing. 

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Peter's readers would have 
certainly understood about 

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hostility and animosity when 
Christians were evildoers, like 

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00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,500
you says, In this passage, it 
literally meant that they were 

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being accused of doing 
something. 

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That was worthy of severe 
punishment. 

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In studying the persecutions of 
that time Christians were 

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accused of insurrection. 
By the way, that's violent, 

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uprisings, against the authority
of government. 

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00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:48,400
They said there were guilty of 
rebelling against Authority, 

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governments, and other 
authorities to. 

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They were, falsely accused of 
atheism, because they refused to

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worship Idol or Pagan Roman 
gods, they were accused of 

518
00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:02,800
cannibalism because they 
participated in the Lord's 

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00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:08,000
Supper, they were accused in 
wrongly of immorality, and they 

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00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,600
were even falsely. 
Accused of having incestuous 

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00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,900
relationships, they were accused
of damaging trade. 

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00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:17,500
And So progress, they were 
accused of wrecking homes and 

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00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:23,600
leading slaves into Rebellion. 
and like today, They were 

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00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,500
accused of hating people because
they opposed the world system. 

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They were literally being 
accused, mocked slandered in 

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every possible Direction. 
And Peter is saying this, 

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there's only one way to do away 
with all of that and that is to 

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live a life that is Honorable 
that's how you do it. 

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00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:47,100
That's how you fight back. 
And you know what's going to 

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00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:48,600
happen? 
Not only do you Silence the 

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00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:53,200
Critics, but I love this notice,
you will even lead those to 

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glorify God in the day of 
visitation. 

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What's that mean? 
Well, first of all glorify God 

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in the day of visitation, what 
is the day of visitation in the 

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00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:06,600
Old Testament. 
We find that it's used a number 

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of ways. 
But basically, for two reasons, 

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and that is blessings and 
judgment. 

538
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,100
In other words, when God comes 
and blessing when God comes in 

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00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:18,700
judgment, But every time that 
I'm aware of in the New 

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00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:22,300
Testament, when the phraseology 
is used in the day of 

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visitation, it's referring to 
God's mercy and God's salvation 

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00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:34,700
every time. 
Day of visitation. 

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When God visits by the power of 
the Gospel. 

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Are you getting the point? 
Here's the point. 

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00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:47,500
The point is your Godly life. 
We'll have such power and 

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00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:49,700
influence. 
You will Silence. 

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00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:53,200
The Critics that will criticize 
you for being a Christian and it

548
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,700
will even have the influence to 
lead people to Jesus Christ when

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00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:03,100
they hear the gospel someday. 
The power of a Godly life. 

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00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:07,000
Do you know, you have that kind 
of power Some 106. 

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00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,500
And for Remember Me. 
Oh, Lord. 

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00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:16,400
With a favor, you have toward 
your people, o visit me with 

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00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,900
your salvation, that's what that
means. 

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00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:24,100
What a powerful powerful concept
Peter is telling us because the 

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00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:27,500
life that you live, you can have
influence on the lost that the 

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00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:31,699
gospel is offered to them will 
obey and glorify God when 

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00:34:31,699 --> 00:34:34,100
salvation comes through the 
gospel. 

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00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:38,400
So As one man said, one time 
that we are the Bible's. 

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The world is reading. 
We are the truths that the world

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00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,600
is needing and we are the 
sermons, The World Is Heating. 

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So, let me ask you this. 
What about you today? 

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When times get tough? 
What can you do? 

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00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,300
I'll tell you what, you can do. 
You can keep living a Godly 

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00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:56,400
life. 
That's what you can do and never

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00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:01,000
quit. 
I know people quit for a various

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00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,600
reasons. 
I know that. 

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But I never understood. 
Why someone could have 

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challenges in life and hard 
times in life? 

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And because of the hard times, 
grow discouraged and quit. 

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00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,200
I don't get that and quit on the
only one that can help. 

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00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,900
I don't understand that at all. 
so when hard times come, they 

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00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:35,900
will fight back. 
With a Godly life. 

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00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:42,700
Fight back. 
Everybody has a choice. when 

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00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:46,600
hard times come, am I going to 
lay down and quit? 

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00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,400
Or from a spiritual perspective,
am I going to get up and fight? 

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00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:53,700
And the fight is the good fight 
of faith. 

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00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,800
Because remember we're just 
pilgrims anyway. 

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00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:58,100
We're only here for a little 
while. 

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00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:04,200
We have no reoccurring or long 
lasting City here on this Earth.

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00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,800
We're looking for one, that's 
greater the poet. 

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00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,700
Once wrote success is failure 
turned inside out the silver 

582
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:16,100
tint of the clouds of doubt. 
You can never tell how close you

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00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:17,900
are. 
It may be near when it seems so 

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00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:20,700
far. 
So stick to the fight. 

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When you're hardest hit, it's 
when things seem worse, that you

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00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:30,000
must not quit. 
I'm going to close now. 

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With a story that happen to a 
man by the name of telemachus in

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the year. 391. 
Ad. 

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He was a little man that lived 
in a village. 

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Tending, his garden and spent 
most of his days in prayer. 

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00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,000
And one day I've read one day, 
he decided he felt compelled to 

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go to Rome and he did that 
required a long journey by foot.

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00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,700
So he walked tirelessly on and 
on and finally weeks later 

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00:37:01,700 --> 00:37:06,400
wearisome he walks into Rome. 
He looks up and he sees the mass

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00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,200
number of people during the days
of a Roman festival and they're 

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00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:14,400
all headed to the Coliseum. 
He joined the crowd and he 

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00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,700
followed along. 
When they got into the Coliseum,

598
00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:20,000
he looked down. 
And he saw a line of Gladiators 

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and they were facing the emperor
that was sitting elevated above 

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them. and all these Gladiators, 
they looked up and they said we 

601
00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:34,200
that are about to die salute, 
you This little man telemachus 

602
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,200
realized. 
These men were going to die. 

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00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:41,600
At the entertainment of those 
that were there. 

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00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,300
So this tiny little voice began 
to yell. 

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00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,700
He said no stop. 
Stop it's wrong but nobody 

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00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:52,600
heard. 
He pressed his way down through 

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00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,000
the crowd. 
He made it all the way down to 

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00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,700
the wall. 
He jumped over the wall and down

609
00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:59,700
on the floor of battle. 
He ran toward the Gladiators and

610
00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:02,000
the crowd starts to laugh 
because they think it's part of 

611
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,300
the act when they realized that 
he was just there to stop. 

612
00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:09,600
What was happening. 
They got very angry and one of 

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00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,900
the Gladiators took his Spear 
and he thrust it into the 

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00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,900
midsection of that little man 
and telemachus fell down to the 

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sand. 
Blood streaming from his body, 

616
00:38:21,100 --> 00:38:25,400
he says it's wrong. 
Stop. 

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And he died. 
I read that there was a hush 

618
00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:33,000
over the entire Coliseum and way
up high. 

619
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A man turned around and he 
walked out. 

620
00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:41,400
Not a sound, being made another 
walked out. 

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Until the Coliseum was empty. 
That was the last time I read 

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00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:53,400
that Gladiators ever fought to 
the death for the entertainment 

623
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,600
of the people. 
In fact, in 399 a.d., the 

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00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,000
emperor made a decree, could 
never happen by law. 

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00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:05,400
What's my point? 
My point is if the power of one 

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00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:10,900
life, one example and one tiny 
little voice could alter 

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00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:13,800
history. 
Think about what the power of a 

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00:39:13,808 --> 00:39:17,700
Godly life can do. 
It can Silence the Critics and 

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Lead others to Jesus Christ. 
I'm finished this morning. 

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Thank you so much for your kind 
listening. 

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I hope something that was said 
was encouraging and helpful to 

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00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:33,500
you in some way. 
We never end a time that we 

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teach from the word of God, 
without extending an invitation.

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00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,000
Maybe you're here and you're not
a Christian. 

635
00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:40,700
If you're not a Christian, you 
can be a Christian today, come 

636
00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:43,900
believing in Jesus, repent of 
your sins confess, his name as 

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00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:47,500
the Son of God and be baptized 
in water for the remission of 

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00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:50,900
your sins added to the body of 
Christ and saved today. 

639
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,700
Maybe you've taken those steps 
of obedience, but you've been 

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away from the Lord, you can come
back. 

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00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:57,400
Repent of those things. 
Confess those things. 

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00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,900
We pray with you and for you, 
and God will forgive and restore

643
00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:02,900
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