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It's great to see everyone. 
That's here tonight. 

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It's a privilege as always to 
preach the Gospel of Jesus 

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Christ. 
It's great to have friends and 

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people that I love that have 
driven to me here, and I want to

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preach tonight about the idea, 
or Biblical teaching of 

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repentance repentance is one of 
those words that is hard to 

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really get out of our mouth 
sometimes because it's one of 

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those words that we sometimes 
can trip on listen, to what the 

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scripture kind of definition of 
we can get from repent. 

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Has, it's called, for throughout
the Bible. 

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It talks about personal absolute
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God as Sovereign. 
It includes sorrow and regret, 

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but it's more than that. 
I'm just giving you the high 

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marks of this, you can look, 
look it up and pretty much any 

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lexicon you want to talk about, 
but I'll give you some 

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scriptures to go along with what
we said repentance is not being 

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sorry. 
There are lots of people that 

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are sorry but you can say sorry 
about a lot of things than that.

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Doesn't mean that it's going to 
fix it. 

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Sometimes sorry, just won't fix 
it. 

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If you've been married for any 
length of time then you've had 

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to apologize for some of the 
same grievances that you have 

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accomplished in the past. 
You know what it is to say? 

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Well that's not good enough. 
Sorry if sometimes it's not good

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enough, there needs to be 
changed Herod was exceedingly. 

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Sorry whenever he cut John, the 
Baptist's head off our ladder to

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be done but that did not fix the
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It's not saying I'm sorry or 
confession Judas, confessed to 

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betraying innocent blood, guess 
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It's Not restitution. 
It includes it. 

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Sometimes. 
You can't fix it. 

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If you murder somebody, you 
can't, you can't fix that. 

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If somebody's head gets lopped 
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for him. 
It's not one of those deals 

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where. 
Okay, I killed somebody. 

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So therefore I'm going to I'm 
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The Apostle Paul would say in 
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chapter, he said by the grace of
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man that knew what it meant to 
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killed people. 
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raise your hand, if you kill 
somebody, don't raise your hands

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going to Everybody out don't do 
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But I do want you to know that 
regardless of whatever you've 

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done and whatever you piled up 
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The truth is, there is a God in 
heaven, that has a way to fix it

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with him. 
And that's something you should 

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always be willing to praise and 
honor God for last of all, it's 

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not forced. 
Sometimes you get in a moment 

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where people can line you up and
it's like, okay, I'm going to 

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force you to do that. 
And I know this in school, my my

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day job, what I do every day is 
Is, I'm the disciplinarian and 

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you can tell the kids that come 
into your office and some of 

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them are like Waterworks 
Central, you know? 

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They think their concept is if I
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Then naturally. 
That's going to get sympathy 

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wrong. 
That's not going to do it at all

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but you can always tell the kids
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know why I did it. 
I did it. 

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I'm sorry, it's not going to 
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I really am. 
Sorry, mr. 

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Smith and let me go apologize to
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it. 
Those are moments where that's 

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pretty easy. 
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indignant, you know, Oh, they 
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in there. 
It's the wrong thing and they're

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not going to be satisfied and 
you may force them to go do 

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whatever it is. 
But as one of the boys said, I 

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may go do it, but I'm standing 
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That's kind of how we are. 
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That's not how we can be with 
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God's not interested in my lip 
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He's not interested in me even 
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he's interested in is that I 
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He said be ye holy as I am. 
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between those two things and our
words sometimes can be cheap and

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what God did, as you put an 
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It includes being sorry. 
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includes trying to make up but 
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And it's something that you do 
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you are in the presence of a 
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God that is infinitely. 
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If he never does another thing 
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another good thing for me, he is
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of service and adoration and 
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Well, again, repentance can be 
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Jonah gave us kind of a picture 
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preaching, it talking about 
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and four Jonah began to enter 
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walk. 
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preach to Nineveh Jonah didn't 
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And I think it's interesting 
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because he didn't like the 
people You talk about scary 

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ground ever, get on. 
You ever heard don't judge a 

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book by it's cover? 
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All of our life kind of 
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learned in kindergarten but we 
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began to sometimes label. 
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we understand somebody by 
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Well there was there were people
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and Jonah was pretty much 
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I don't want to help them. 
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If you can look at another human
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mind, they're not worth it. 
You say that to the mirror 

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first? 
Everybody in this room is worth 

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it. 
Jesus did not die for nobody's, 

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God did not send his son to die 
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He sent his son to die for 
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That were the object of his love
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love, but they were living in 
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And so he wanted this preacher 
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And God Jonah knew that God was 
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save them. 
And so he ran from the situation

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and after a series of events 
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great fish and decided he wanted
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And he says he cried out yet 
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overthrown and eight word. 
Sermon, I know you're wishing 

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for some 8 word, sermon 
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Well, that is one right there. 
Eight words, let us know what 

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they did. 
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believed God guess what you have
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If you're ever going to change 
your life, you've got to 

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recognize. 
There is a God in heaven for you

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to trust. 
There's a God in heaven for you 

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to be convicted by and of all 
the things that gospel preaching

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is for its to get in there in 
the gobbledygook in the mess of 

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your life and can Nick you 
because that's the power of the 

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word. 
Not me. 

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It's not my use of words, it's 
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volume. 
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God will get in there, and it's 
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In fact, I'll tell you preaching
it in preaching, if it doesn't 

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convict people of sin and give 
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This know what happened. 
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they proclaimed a fast and put 
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of them to the least of them. 
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In other words, verse 8, but let
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sackcloth and cry mightily to 
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Yes, but everyone turned from 
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violence, that is in his hands 
who can tell of God, Turn and 

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relent and turn away from his 
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perish. 
Then God verse 10 says saw their

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works that they turned from 
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from the disaster that he said 
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did not do it. 
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He saw something in them. 
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were completely recognizing. 
Hey, this is God, this really is

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God, and he's upset with us. 
Have you ever had a moment where

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you realize not only, it's my 
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But what am I going to do to fix
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I'm going to tell you if that 
conviction aspect of what I just

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said a minute ago is so 
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When you mess up recognizing 
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that really is the one that's 
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It's not about Mom and Dad, none
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about the preacher, it's about 
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And if we could with one voice, 
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recognize that there is a 
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offended by my behavior. 
The sooner I'll change my 

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behavior because I'm not worthy 
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But God is worthy of me, 
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He's worthy of you changing, and
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And again, it came about with 
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demonstrated it with fruit and 
God relented of the disaster 

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that he said he would bring in 
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The men of Nineveh Jesus said 
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with this generation and 
condemn, it because they 

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repented at the preaching of 
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Jonah is here. 
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story. 
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character of God, that's 
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What's more? 
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Son of God, referencing this 
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that's a great story, that 
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they repented at the preaching 
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that listen to me and about me 
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repent what a horrible 
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He said, one greater than Jonah 
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That was him. 
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today as he's ever been. 
He's just as alive as when he 

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walked on the earth. 
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His message is just as powerful 
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there are people that are 
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the nature that God has created 
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preaching of Jesus Christ Jonah 
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demonstrates faith and fruit 
will John the cousin of Jesus 

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came preaching as well. 
In fact he was the guy That's 

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kind of like the steamroller for
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Israel had gone into the period 
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years. 
They hadn't heard from anybody, 

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they were looking for the 
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But it had gotten stale and they
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for a lot of it for a competence
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So John shows up and he starts, 
he really is not your normal 

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guy. 
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thought about how good they 
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They were the people that would 
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Their phylacteries and and the 
people that were fakes and 

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farces and imitations of what 
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the outward. 
John comes and he absolutely 

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destroys people's pride and 
their selfishness and their evil

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ways. 
And he says things like this And

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Acts 19, Paul reference John. 
And he said, John indeed 

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baptized with the baptism of 
repentance saying to the people 

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that they should believe on him.
Who would come after him. 

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That is on. 
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This is some John's teaching 
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And through this concept in 
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came preaching in the wilderness
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Say repent for the Kingdom of 
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Jerusalem and all Judea and all 
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The Jordan went out to him and 
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Jordan, confessing their sins. 
But when he saw many of the 

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Pharisees and Sadducees coming 
to his baptism, he said to them 

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brood of vipers who warned you 
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Therefore, bear fruits, worthy 
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We've talked about this already 
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this again, notice what John is,
he's having two reactions. 

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One reaction are Pharisees and 
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Basically. 
Like we're here watching you but

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we don't need you. 
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that only came to John and 
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He was a man. 
God didn't have any Miracles, 

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didn't perform any Miracles but 
the truth that he preached LED 

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them to confess their sins and 
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of repentance. 
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through a day and you thought, 
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you ever have that on a, on a 
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something that's just working on
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that's working in your heart, 
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behind our eyes and between our 
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that you've been working on. 
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further from this conversation 
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last time you really got real 
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got sent in your life and you 
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conversations and you don't have
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don't have those conversations 
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in a real bad spot. 
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because here's what Paul wrote 
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it's okay, don't worry about it.
It's all going to work out. 

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Okay, I've had a religious 
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I have, I have been saved once 
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worried about it because God is 
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work out, okay? 
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How that are we that are dead to
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So you can't abuse Grace. 
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Grace was one of those things. 
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man all over the world. 
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every time you get real about 
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to make up with God because 
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resistant and to people that are
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the preacher has is to be very 
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He was abrasive it. 
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when we talk about repentance 
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absolutely produces fruit. 
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says all have sinned and fallen 
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All must repent. 
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G, the Apostle Paul said, truly 
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overlooked but now As all men 
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because they did not repent woe 
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He said, woe to you bethsaida 
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were done in, you had been done 
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have repented long ago in 
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you, It will be more tolerable 
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judgment than for you. 
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You had been done in Sodom, it 
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day, but I say unto you, it 
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land of Sodom in that day of 
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This is Big Stuff. 
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very big deal for everybody. 
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this everybody sins and 
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what repentance is not my 
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definition of it and Jesus had 
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Jesus talked about comparatively
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His mighty Works he said tyre 
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sidon God wipe them off the map 
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So that People would drive their
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the sins of Sodom? 
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they could not find just a 
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And God will wipe them off the 
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will be more tolerable. 
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of judgment than for you. 
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you're looking at 66 books 
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New Testament has 27 today. 
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I've got the entire thing right 
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He can't read, I'll get you an 
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If we can't read or we can't 
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person in all the world that is 
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learn this. 
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Cambodia, that cannot read. 
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that has scripture on it. 
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God because faith comes by 
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of God. 
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to Malachi God, basically sets 
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operate and how How he's going 
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and he demonstrates himself as 
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saves a little bitty group that 
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messed up if you ever want. 
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there that mess up over and over
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God makes a way to bring them 
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themselves in the tight and they
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I need a way back and you find 
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beat you down. 
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That obviously is superior. 
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one, there's not going to be any
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In fact, there's not going to be
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anything for you. 
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Jesus Christ and his will, 
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has. 
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you hear Jesus preach and you 
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Malachi has been fulfilled in 
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Mark, Luke and John and you read
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death of Jesus Christ, and his 
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you get to the book of Acts and 
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This is the Lord's church and 
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established. 
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the rest of the Bible and these 
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that were messing up. 
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special needs and challenges. 
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find out that we have a God that
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the Israelites did, you know 
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me to do. 
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perfect law of Liberty, and not 
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when Jesus calls upon us to 
repent, and he makes these 

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comparative statements about 
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he's basically saying is, they 
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burial and Resurrection, they 
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about about me at all. 
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not recognize that. 
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You do know your witness to who 
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everybody in this room tonight. 
If you don't believe that, Jesus

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Christ is the Son of God, 
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you. 
I'm not going to spend the time 

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right now, but if we need to 
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If it takes all night, I don't 
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I want to convince you with the 
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that Jesus is the son of God and
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son of God, please, I beg of you
don't leave here tonight in that

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situation. 
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think about that for just a 
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Jesus expects us to recognize he
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and what he is and he expects us
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He expects everybody to repent. 
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sometimes people get to 
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Well, you know, when I'm a 
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be good and there's no big deal.
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from scripture right out the 
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First of all, when you look at 
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get there think of this. 
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gospel as well as the book is 
this you are a sinner don't ever

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say you're perfect. 
Don't ever say you don't have 

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anything to fix, but by the same
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situation of ignorance and say 
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bliss. 
Don't don't show me anymore. 

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The Bible, in fact, I wanted I 
want to know the least amount 

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possible that I have to know to 
be safe. 

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That's not how we live. 
That won't work either. 

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He places a restriction on that.
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So anybody that says, you're 
preaching a gospel that says you

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got to be perfect. 
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you say you are you're a liar 
but it goes on to talk about how

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Christians fix it. 
We gotta, we gotta recognize, 

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we're not perfect, but we got to
live, according to a high 

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standard and we hold ourselves 
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And then when we do mess up, 
there's a way we can fix it. 

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And it didn't have to drag on 
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you know, the part about why we 
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Night is you've drugged on and 
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Now I hope not too long to where
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There's a guy back home that he 
said that literally he said you 

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know he at one point in time 
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I'm going to be baptized I'm 
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He kept saying it that's all he 
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He never was Then all the sudden
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six months to a year later that 
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literally ran to the water. 
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the door and said, go baptize me
right now, before something gets

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in my head and change his mind, 
you stop. 

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And think about what he was 
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Whenever you're a Christian were
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God's word. 
Here's what the scripture says, 

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if we walk in the light as he is
in the light, we have fellowship

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with one another and the blood 
of Jesus Christ, his son 

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cleanses us from all sin. 
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we deceive ourselves and the 
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If we confess our sins, he is 
faithful and just to forgive us 

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our sins and to cleanse us from 
all unrighteousness. 

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If we say that we have not 
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And his word is is not in US. 
That's important. 

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I can't say I don't have sinned.
So do I say? 

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You know this is what I hear a 
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Say what? 
We're all. 

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Sinners. 
Now that's true. 

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But I also want to find a little
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So let me qualify. 
Here's here's really what that 

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means. 
We're all Sinners. 

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You worry about your sin. 
In fact, I'm going to give you a

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pass for your sin. 
I'm going to make you feel 

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better about anything you've 
done wrong, but I want you to 

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00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:36,200
make me feel better about what 
I've done wrong. 

448
00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:38,100
So, what I'm going to say is, 
I'm a sinner. 

449
00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:40,300
You're a sinner. 
Make me feel good about what 

450
00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:42,200
I've done wrong. 
I'm going to make you feel good 

451
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,600
about what you've done wrong and
we'll all feel good about it. 

452
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,600
The problem is this. 
Let me point out to you. 

453
00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:49,100
I'm not the one that justifies 
you. 

454
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,200
The Bible says, he is faithful 
and just to forgive us. 

455
00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:55,200
Who's going to forgive you? 
Your sins. 

456
00:22:55,300 --> 00:23:00,400
Not So, if I give you a pass for
how you feel or worse yet, the 

457
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,900
worst deception in the world. 
When I look into the mirror and 

458
00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:05,300
say:, I really think God's gonna
give you a pass for that. 

459
00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:10,100
Whether I'm trying to give 
myself one or you're trying to 

460
00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:11,800
give me one, doesn't help a 
thing. 

461
00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:14,900
There's somebody that's done to 
justify us. 

462
00:23:16,100 --> 00:23:17,700
And to forgive us in his name, 
is God. 

463
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:24,400
He longs to, he wants to my 
little children, he said these 

464
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,600
things I write unto you so that 
you may not sin. 

465
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,000
And if anyone sins, we have an 
advocate with the father, Jesus 

466
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,700
Christ, the righteous, listen to
what he says by. 

467
00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:36,300
Now, we know that we know him by
this, we know that we know him 

468
00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:40,500
if we keep his Commandments he 
who says I know him and does not

469
00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:45,100
keep his Commandments is a liar 
and the truth is not in him now.

470
00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:46,600
Stop and think about that for a 
second. 

471
00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:50,300
You back up and you're really 
back up from this. 

472
00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:54,100
So we have a God that says 
you're not perfect, when you 

473
00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:57,600
mess up as a Christian, you got 
to do what he said. 

474
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:05,600
We have to Confess our sins. 
Now, why is that unique? 

475
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,100
Why is that important? 
Here's why that's so important. 

476
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,800
A couple of ways that takes 
place that's not necessarily. 

477
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:16,000
In fact, that's not going to be 
a picture of a public 

478
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,300
confession, okay, it's not what 
it is. 

479
00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:24,100
Now I'm all for somebody coming 
forward in church and needing 

480
00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:26,600
prayers of the church. 
We're to pray for each other all

481
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,900
the time. 
Anyway what's I don't know 

482
00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:31,100
anybody that would disagree with
that, I don't know anybody that 

483
00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:34,500
would fight that and yes, 
whenever we get overtaken and 

484
00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:37,100
send one of the most important 
things you will ever do is have 

485
00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:40,300
other people fighting for you to
overcome that sin. 

486
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,000
God is certainly listening to 
the herd and you need to be a 

487
00:24:44,008 --> 00:24:48,300
part of the herd, the church. 
But when you send, you have 

488
00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:50,400
somebody very, very important on
your side of here. 

489
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,000
It is in the Old Testament that 
Genesis to Malachi. 

490
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,900
Here's how it was. 
You were a person that send you 

491
00:24:56,900 --> 00:25:00,100
brought your animal sacrifice, 
and let's say that Chris is the 

492
00:25:00,100 --> 00:25:03,900
levitical priests. 
I hand it off to him, he begins 

493
00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:06,000
to prepare it. 
He's got his own robes. 

494
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,900
He does all the stuff that's 
necessary. 

495
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,500
He makes atonement for my sin, 
but there's another guy that's 

496
00:25:11,500 --> 00:25:14,300
going to go in. 
He does that he performs that 

497
00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:16,900
Worship in the Holy place in the
temple. 

498
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,700
But then there's another guy who
is of a certain lineage of the 

499
00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:24,500
lineage of Aaron and he's the 
high priest and let's say Terry 

500
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,400
was the high priest. 
So we got a little priest and 

501
00:25:27,500 --> 00:25:31,500
and I hand it off to him and he 
does this for me and then I've 

502
00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:34,100
got a high priest that goes in 
for everybody. 

503
00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:39,200
And he takes the blood of an 
animal and he prepares himself, 

504
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,900
just so, and he goes into the 
most, holy place that would kind

505
00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:45,100
of make, you think about this 
communion table right here, 

506
00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:49,500
overlaid and gold had a pot of 
manna that had never spoiled it.

507
00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:53,700
Had a rod Aaron's Rod that had 
miraculously budded and it had 

508
00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:56,200
the Old Testament law that God 
had written on those tablets of 

509
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,300
stone. 
The second set, Amazing. 

510
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,700
That high priest goes in to this
Most Holy place and he offers 

511
00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:09,000
animal blood for his own sins 
and the sins of everybody else. 

512
00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:12,100
When Jesus came, let me tell you
why it is today. 

513
00:26:12,100 --> 00:26:15,600
You don't, you don't have to 
confess your sins to a man 

514
00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:21,900
before you talk to God. 
You're a priest when Jesus died.

515
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,600
The Bible says he became the 
high priest. 

516
00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:29,500
The old high priest, there's no 
such thing as a high priest, 

517
00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:32,200
today of the lineage of are and 
they don't exist. 

518
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:33,900
You couldn't trait, you couldn't
track them down. 

519
00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:38,100
If you wanted to, Jesus Took the
place of that high priest. 

520
00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:43,100
And the Bible says, we're all 
priests Hebrews chapter 2, and 

521
00:26:43,100 --> 00:26:46,400
Hebrews chapter 4 says, we have 
a high priest that can be 

522
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,000
touched with the feeling of our 
infirmities, and he was in all 

523
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,800
points tempted, like as we are 
yet without sin. 

524
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,400
So when we come to God, when we 
come and we Come boldly to the 

525
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,000
throne of grace. 
The Bible says, that's not how 

526
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,500
they did it. 
In the Old Testament, they 

527
00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:04,700
didn't come boldly. 
They came afraid, they came in 

528
00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:06,700
fear. 
And the only thing their 

529
00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:10,200
sacrifices it and their, their 
situation was roll their sin 

530
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,800
forward another year until they 
could do it again. 

531
00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:15,900
Not a really great system. 
You might say, but we have an 

532
00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:18,900
amazing system. 
We have an amazing plan because 

533
00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:23,800
our our sacrifice was Jesus. 
His cousin John said, Behold the

534
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,200
Lamb of God that takes away. 
The sin of the world. 

535
00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:29,900
That's your picture of the 
perfect sacrifice. 

536
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,900
The Hebrew writer said, he went 
into the heavens. 

537
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,300
The high priest on Earth in the 
Old Testament, they only offered

538
00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:39,000
animal blood and it was here on 
the earth. 

539
00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:42,000
And it was one of those deals 
that God would allow them to 

540
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,900
escape for another year, and 
literally they'd send the 

541
00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:47,100
scapegoat in the wilderness with
her sins. 

542
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:53,300
Jesus Christ did not run and he 
didn't Escape God, put 

543
00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:56,000
everything that you've ever 
done, or I've ever done on his 

544
00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,100
back and he died and awful cruel
death because that's what our 

545
00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:04,700
sins warranted. 
That's what we deserved. 

546
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:10,100
And so today when you mess up as
a Christian, you need to run to 

547
00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:12,800
the one that went through walk 
through it and dealt with it. 

548
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,800
The only difference is he was 
tempted. 

549
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,400
Like we are yet, he didn't mess 
up and what he's gonna do is 

550
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,100
he's going to communicate to the
father. 

551
00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:23,200
God, the Father who is a spirit 
that does not know what it's 

552
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,700
like to put on flesh and blood 
and he makes the father 

553
00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:30,600
understand. 
Have you ever had a situation? 

554
00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:33,200
Where you were sitting in a 
room. 

555
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,100
And you thought you understood a
certain set of circumstances, 

556
00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:41,300
and then when you got a few more
facts, you changed your mind 

557
00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:44,100
quick. 
One of the most compelling, I 

558
00:28:44,108 --> 00:28:49,100
think it was MacArthur or one of
those guys wrote about a story 

559
00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:52,200
about a man who was on a train 
one time and it was a, it was a 

560
00:28:52,208 --> 00:28:54,800
very uppity part of town. 
This guy got on the train with 

561
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,800
his kids and his kids were 
bouncing off the walls. 

562
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,900
And The Story Goes that this man
that was their father, 

563
00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:04,100
obviously, their parent was 
sitting there and he was looking

564
00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:05,900
out the window and just 
oblivious to everything that was

565
00:29:05,900 --> 00:29:07,800
going on. 
And finally, these kids bumped 

566
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,600
into this guy, some hoity-toity 
guy, you know, you always hate 

567
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,500
that guy. 
But he got upset about it says, 

568
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:16,700
hey look, take care of your 
kids. 

569
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,100
If you're one of those people 
that you're upset about little 

570
00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:24,300
kids bless your heart, you 
forgot you were 11 time and 

571
00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:26,700
you're just replicating, the bad
behavior of a bunch of old folks

572
00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:28,600
that treated you bad when you 
were little and don't do that. 

573
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,100
Shame on that behavior. 
That's an awful set of behavior.

574
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,100
But the reality is this man, 
stop what he was doing. 

575
00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:39,200
He said, I'm really sorry. 
You see, we just came from the 

576
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,400
hospital, their mother just died
and we really just don't know 

577
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,500
what we're doing right now. 
Instantly, those facts changed 

578
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:50,300
everything. 
Changed everything. 

579
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,800
Let me tell you how this goes 
down, you mess up, you better be

580
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,500
talking to the right person. 
You better be talking to the 

581
00:29:57,508 --> 00:30:00,000
right person. 
Don't talk to the wrong people. 

582
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,400
You know. 
Good don't go talk to your 

583
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,800
friend. 
Yes, they may have some good 

584
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,700
advice. 
You better be talking to the one

585
00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:08,600
that's going to make the father 
understand because he's the one 

586
00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:12,800
that can make the father, say 
I'm gonna forgive him this and 

587
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,600
the reason he's going to make 
that possible. 

588
00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:18,100
The reason why that is possible 
is the Bible says that if we 

589
00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:21,100
walk in the light, Part of us 
walking in the lightest when we 

590
00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:24,100
mess up, we fess up. 
If I take a step out of the 

591
00:30:24,108 --> 00:30:28,200
life, my next step is to fess up
and ask for God to strengthen me

592
00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:32,400
and help me with that. 
He goes on to call us little 

593
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,300
children, my little children, 
these things I write unto you so

594
00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:37,300
that you may not sin. 
Another words, I don't want you 

595
00:30:37,308 --> 00:30:41,200
to keep practicing sin, but when
you mess up, Up. 

596
00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:44,000
You have an advocate with the 
father, Jesus Christ, the 

597
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,700
righteous then he says something
amazing. 

598
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,700
He said now by this, we know 
that we know him if we keep his 

599
00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:55,200
Commandments high standard here 
and he says, I know he and he 

600
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,300
who says I know him and does not
keep his Commandments is a liar,

601
00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:01,900
and the truth is not in him. 
You don't want to be in this 

602
00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:03,000
spot. 
None of us. 

603
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,300
Do we want to walk in the light?
God's going to deal with every 

604
00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:09,300
hypocrite that's ever existed in
the church? 

605
00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:12,900
And I can promise you at some 
point in time we're going to be 

606
00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:15,600
in a spot where we got to really
be careful about this. 

607
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:18,800
I don't want anybody leaving 
here thinking that they got to 

608
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,100
be careful in this sense of 
that. 

609
00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:23,200
God's looking for a way to wreck
your relationship with him. 

610
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,800
That's just not true. 
You can't read the Old Testament

611
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,700
and see God, and his 
relationship with Moses and the 

612
00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:32,100
Jews, especially in the Darkness
without thinking. 

613
00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:34,900
Wow, we serve an amazing God 
that will bear with us through a

614
00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:38,400
lot of junk because they put God
through a lot. 

615
00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:43,200
Every Christian must repent, 
when we send confession and 

616
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,200
repentance are connected. 
The Bible says, in Acts 8, when 

617
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,700
Simon saw that through the 
laying on of the Apostles hands,

618
00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:51,400
the Holy Spirit was given he 
offered them money. 

619
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,900
Now, again, I want you to 
understand how this worked, when

620
00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:58,400
he saw the laying on of the 
Apostles hands. 

621
00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:02,200
The Holy Spirit was given here's
a good example of first century 

622
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,700
Miracles. 
These guys that were Apostles 

623
00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:09,300
had seen Jesus rise from the 
grave and they had the power to 

624
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,300
Up to somebody else. 
And say, I'm gonna lay on hands 

625
00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:13,600
on you. 
And I'm going to give you the 

626
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,700
power for, as long as you live 
to perform miracles in the name 

627
00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:19,800
of Jesus. 
Why did they do that? 

628
00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:23,700
They did that. 
Because the word of God had to 

629
00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:26,800
be verified and there was no 
Revelation, that was complete 

630
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,100
yet. 
Didn't have a Bible to go to. 

631
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,200
They certainly most of them 
didn't. 

632
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,800
None of them hardly any any of 
them had an Old Testament copy. 

633
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,600
You just there were a lot of 
things that they needed to know 

634
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:42,300
and so God. 
In a miraculous way, gay people 

635
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,800
his word and protected it and he
gave it to a lot of people. 

636
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,700
And so they were able to not 
only perform Miracles, but they 

637
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:52,000
were able to teach without 
making a mistake. 

638
00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:54,400
Now, I can't teach without 
making a mistake. 

639
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:55,900
That's why you got to be on your
toes. 

640
00:32:56,500 --> 00:32:59,600
I need you to be able to write 
notes and listen to this, and 

641
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,400
judge it by what the Bible says,
because I'm a man. 

642
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,400
And I had, nobody has laid. 
Their hands on me and giving me 

643
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,900
a supernatural gift or 
miraculous gift of the Holy 

644
00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:11,800
Spirit. 
Back here though this guy Simon 

645
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,800
saw the apostles lay hands and 
the Holy Spirit was given. 

646
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,700
Now that was demonstrated, it 
demonstrated itself in power and

647
00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,600
he offered them. 
Money saying, give me this power

648
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,800
also that anyone who might lay 
hands, may receive the Holy 

649
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,400
Spirit. 
He was thinking about it. 

650
00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:32,100
You know, what, these guys that 
they can make a killing selling 

651
00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:36,800
this. 
That's not how it was going to 

652
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,700
go. 
But Peter said, your money 

653
00:33:39,700 --> 00:33:42,400
perish with you because you 
thought that the gift of God 

654
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,400
could be purchased with money. 
You have need a partner portion.

655
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,900
In this matter for your heart is
not right in the sight of God, 

656
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,500
repent. 
Therefore this year wickedness 

657
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,500
and pray God. 
If perhaps the thought of your 

658
00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:55,700
heart may be forgiven you for, I
see that you are poisoned by 

659
00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:58,900
bitterness and bound by iniquity
and Simon answered and said, 

660
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,100
pray to the Lord for me, that 
none of these things, which you 

661
00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:07,400
have spoken may come upon me. 
Now, here's a good example, this

662
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:08,900
guy messed up. 
Royally. 

663
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,100
He didn't just have he didn't 
just have a misunderstanding, he

664
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:17,400
had an agenda and he wanted this
bad and when all of a sudden 

665
00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:21,900
Peter Rex's plan and by the way,
this teaching about money right 

666
00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:25,199
here is a big deal. 
You're not saved by money. 

667
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,199
You're not saved by what your 
money will do. 

668
00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:30,600
You're saved by the grace of God
and what can't be done and can't

669
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,000
be bought with money. 
There were a lot of people that 

670
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,500
thought when you got money, that
that means salvation. 

671
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:38,199
That's an almost exactly the 
opposite of what Jesus. 

672
00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:41,900
Taught be careful about money. 
You either be in charge of your 

673
00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:43,800
money or your money is going to 
be in charge of you. 

674
00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:46,199
And here's an example of a guy 
that his money was in charge of 

675
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:50,600
him and when Peter convicted him
of his sin, he said you need to 

676
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,600
pray. 
God, how would he do that? 

677
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,699
Did he have to go find somebody 
else that he have to go to the 

678
00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:57,300
temple to do that? 
No. 

679
00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:02,700
You have a right as a priest, a 
child of God. 

680
00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:04,900
Somebody that's been baptized 
into Christ. 

681
00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:08,400
You have the opportunity to 
approach God through Jesus but 

682
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,800
you also have the right to ask 
somebody else to pray for you. 

683
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,500
Because he, he said, pray to the
Lord, for me, that none of these

684
00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:18,600
things, which you have spoken 
may come upon me. 

685
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,700
You know what I want. 
I want to pray for me and I want

686
00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:24,000
other people. 
Pray for me too. 

687
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,500
And I hope our human Pride 
doesn't get in the way of that. 

688
00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:31,800
Because that's exactly what it 
is, when it happens. 

689
00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:35,900
Make sure we understand 
confession and repentance are 

690
00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:38,700
connected. 
He who conceals his sin does not

691
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:41,600
Prosper, but whoever confesses 
and renounces sin finds Mercy. 

692
00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:44,600
You know, how many people I have
talked to that have said, you 

693
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,000
know, when I finally came clean 
with God about whatever it was, 

694
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,500
I felt like the weight of the 
world was awful me. 

695
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,600
You want to know why that is? 
Because you can fold it and tuck

696
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,600
it. 
You can do a thousand things 

697
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,300
with trying to fix your sin, but
you can't do it. 

698
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:02,100
I think about this back home. 
Sometimes we'll get people call 

699
00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:04,500
us, and they'll say, You know, 
we're going to be there. 

700
00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:07,100
We're coming by to see y'all. 
Okay. 

701
00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:10,600
When are you showing up because 
we like a two-hour warning, just

702
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,800
so, you know, a two day would be
better. 

703
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,800
But two hours, at least not two 
minutes to. 

704
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,200
Let me tell you what happens 
when I in our house. 

705
00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:20,900
We live in our house, not 
ashamed to say that. 

706
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:24,300
I'm not criticizing any part of 
how it we just live there. 

707
00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:28,100
But I can tell you what happens,
I can move some Freight to 

708
00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:30,400
hiding whenever you show up at 
my door. 

709
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,200
If you say we're in 
Farmersville, we want to Um bye 

710
00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:37,200
okay give me just a minute and I
get off the phone. 

711
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,100
A bunch of screaming and yelling
takes place. 

712
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,800
Your grab a bunch of stuff. 
You go to the nearest place and 

713
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,700
you shove it tuck it, you do 
everything. 

714
00:36:43,700 --> 00:36:46,600
You can to Rack stacking packet.
You know what happens though, 

715
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,700
when people show up oh I love 
your ass. 

716
00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:51,800
Oh this is great. 
They have no idea that behind 

717
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,700
that door. 
If you open it all manner of 

718
00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:56,900
evil, what jump on you? 
But you know, what happens after

719
00:36:56,900 --> 00:36:59,500
they leave, that still has to be
dealt with that. 

720
00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:01,900
Hadn't gone away. 
I may have shoveled it in the 

721
00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:04,400
back room and you may not open 
that door, you may think 

722
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,700
perfectly well of me. 
But there's a room with a bunch 

723
00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:08,700
of junk in it. 
Listen, if you got a room with a

724
00:37:08,707 --> 00:37:11,000
bunch of junk and you better 
figure out who it is, that can 

725
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,000
help you clean it out because 
you will not fix it by yourself.

726
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:20,300
You won't do it. 
Mankind, does not possess that 

727
00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:22,600
power. 
That's not God's plan. 

728
00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:25,300
God is fair and we have a 
choice. 

729
00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:28,900
The Bible says, when a righteous
man turns away from his 

730
00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:31,400
righteousness and commits 
iniquity and dies in it is 

731
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,300
because of the iniquity that he 
has done that. 

732
00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:36,800
He dies when a wicked man turns 
away from the wickedness which 

733
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,000
he has committed and does. 
What is lawful and right? 

734
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,200
He preserves himself alive. 
In other words, God won't let 

735
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,100
you put your life on cruise 
control. 

736
00:37:44,100 --> 00:37:46,000
Don't think that I've done some 
good stuff. 

737
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,500
And I've been baptized once upon
a time, and I'm just going to 

738
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:52,500
push the cruise control button. 
That's not what he said by the 

739
00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:55,400
same token. 
Maybe just maybe you at one 

740
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,900
point in your life you were 
doing good and you went off in 

741
00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:01,100
the ditch and you think that I'm
worthless and I can't be saved 

742
00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:03,300
and there's things. 
I just don't feel like I can be 

743
00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:05,400
forgiven of you. 
Make the choice that you want to

744
00:38:05,408 --> 00:38:06,900
serve God. 
And I'll tell you about a God 

745
00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:08,800
that can forgive you of anything
you've done. 

746
00:38:08,900 --> 00:38:10,900
And you get right back up on the
straight and narrow road. 

747
00:38:10,900 --> 00:38:13,700
And guess what? 
He said, you've made the choice 

748
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,400
to accept my grace, you've made 
the choice to get back in the 

749
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,100
light of my word. 
And that choice is going to save

750
00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:21,800
you. 
Because he considers and turns 

751
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,100
away from all his transgressions
which he committed. 

752
00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:26,000
He shall surely live. 
He shall not die. 

753
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,800
Yet, the house of Israel says, 
the way of the Lord is not fair,

754
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:30,800
o House of Israel. 
Is it? 

755
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,900
Not my ways which are fair and 
your ways which are not there. 

756
00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:36,100
Therefore, I will judge you o 
House of Israel. 

757
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,500
Everyone. 
According to his ways says the 

758
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:42,000
Lord God, repent and turn from 
all your transgressions, so that

759
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,100
iniquity will not be your ruin 
cast away from you all the 

760
00:38:45,100 --> 00:38:47,900
transgressions, which you have 
committed and get yourself, a 

761
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:51,600
new heart, and a new spirit. 
Irit for, why should you die o 

762
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,500
House of Israel for? 
I have no pleasure in the death 

763
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:59,100
of one who dies says, the Lord, 
God, therefore, turning live of 

764
00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:01,900
all the things that I wish I 
could put in a capsule. 

765
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:08,700
And give people a pill and a 
glass of water and allowed them 

766
00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:10,700
to put it in their mouth and to 
wash it down. 

767
00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:14,400
And then 30 minutes later. 
It take effect, is this get 

768
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,500
yourself a new heart and a new 
spirit? 

769
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,500
Oh, how I wish that people could
recognize that of all the misery

770
00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:28,000
and all the doubt and all the 
guilt that they deal with there 

771
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,200
is a new heart and a new spirit 
that only God can give you and 

772
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,200
it's available and it's 
available whenever you get good 

773
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,400
and ready. 
The problem is Satan and sin are

774
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,500
confusing and their convicting, 
the of their own, their own. 

775
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:45,900
The Bible says, the wicked man 
is holding literally with the 

776
00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:50,500
cords of his own sins. 
And takes on its own Dimension. 

777
00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:54,400
It takes on its own brain, so to
speak, and it does everything 

778
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,200
possible to convince us, there's
no new heart, a new spirit, if 

779
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,300
I've messed up and I'm in the 
ditch, I'm just in the ditch. 

780
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,200
No, you're not. 
No, you're not. 

781
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,400
Jesus told his church to repent.
Here's where it kind of the 

782
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,000
rubber meets the road. 
The Bible says to the angel of 

783
00:40:13,008 --> 00:40:16,400
the church at Ephesus. 
Write these things says, he who 

784
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,800
holds the Seven Stars in his 
right hand, who walks in the 

785
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,700
midst of the seven, golden 
lampstands. 

786
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,200
I know your works. 
This is the good stuff. 

787
00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:25,900
I know your Works, your labor, 
your patients that you cannot 

788
00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:27,700
bear. 
Those who are evil you've tested

789
00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:30,300
those who say they are Apostles,
and are not and Hast found them 

790
00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:32,600
Liars, you've persevered and 
have patience. 

791
00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:35,300
You've labored for my namesake 
of not become weary. 

792
00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:38,700
Nevertheless, I have this 
against you that you have left 

793
00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:42,600
your first love. 
Remember therefore from where 

794
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,100
you have fallen repent and do 
the first works or else. 

795
00:40:45,100 --> 00:40:47,400
I will come to you quickly and 
remove your lampstand from its 

796
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:51,200
place unless you repent. 
But this you have that you hate 

797
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,300
the Deeds of the Nicolaitans, 
which I also hate, he who has an

798
00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:55,700
ear to hear. 
Let Him hear what the spirit 

799
00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:58,700
says, to the churches to him who
overcomes, I will give to eat 

800
00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:01,400
from the Tree of Life, which is 
in the midst of the paradise of 

801
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,300
God, two things from this. 
I want to get well three things.

802
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:06,500
First of all, they had a lot of 
good things going on in their 

803
00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:10,000
church. 
I don't know any church. 

804
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,700
You can take of that. 
Doesn't have some good stuff 

805
00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:18,100
going on. 
I don't know it, but I know this

806
00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:21,400
was, this is the Lord's church. 
This one Collins church. 

807
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,400
This one wasn't started after a 
t-33. 

808
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:26,500
This wasn't this wasn't because 
of some religious division. 

809
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:30,400
This is the church at Ephesus 
that was founded in Acts the 

810
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,300
18th chapter, by the Apostle, 
Paul. 

811
00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:35,900
Acts 19 tells us a little bit 
about that congregation and 

812
00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:37,800
entire letter was written about 
congregation. 

813
00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:40,400
And here, you have a situation 
where the church is told they 

814
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,900
have to repent as anybody ever 
told you. 

815
00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:48,300
That all people sin and they 
must repent Christensen and we 

816
00:41:48,308 --> 00:41:51,900
must repent churches, sin and 
they have to repent. 

817
00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:57,300
Why the churches have to repent?
The Bible says, repent and do 

818
00:41:57,300 --> 00:42:01,000
the first works or else. 
I will come to you quickly and 

819
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,200
remove your lampstand from its 
place unless you repent the 

820
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,900
light. 
You don't want the Lord to take 

821
00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:14,200
his lampstand away. 
If you do, the Bible tells us 

822
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,300
that if we walk in the light we 
have Fellowship. 

823
00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:18,800
Jesus said my sheep hear my 
voice and they follow me. 

824
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:21,500
What he's basically saying is 
you're going to listen to me. 

825
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:23,700
You're going to listen to me or 
you're not going to be 

826
00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:25,300
recognized as one of my 
churches. 

827
00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:29,400
How is it that churches are 
supposed to fix themselves? 

828
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:34,200
Here's a very simple way. 
You take this Bible and you read

829
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,800
it for what it is. 
The truth of God's word and you 

830
00:42:37,808 --> 00:42:40,700
do what it says you do. 
What it says for yourself. 

831
00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:42,900
You do what it says for the 
church. 

832
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,300
You see the church doesn't have 
a right to just do whatever we 

833
00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:49,200
want to do. 
The church is the body of 

834
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,300
Christ. 
The head of the church is Jesus 

835
00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:55,600
and he exercises authority over 
the church. 

836
00:42:56,200 --> 00:43:00,000
Ephesians 5:23 says he is the 
head of the body. 

837
00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:05,000
He is the savior of the body, 
the church in Ephesians 1 about 

838
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,000
verse 21 through 23, he 
establishes R22, especially he 

839
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,800
establishes the fact that he 
exercises complete Authority and

840
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,000
dominion and his Sovereign, 
right over the church. 

841
00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:20,000
That's people. 
What if the people in the church

842
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,200
decide? 
We're not going to do what the 

843
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:27,100
Bible says. 
He said like this This you have 

844
00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:30,000
that you hate the Deeds of the 
Nicolaitans which I also hate. 

845
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,100
You know what, the Deeds of the 
Nicolaitans were it was 

846
00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:35,900
compromised. 
He told the Ephesian church. 

847
00:43:35,900 --> 00:43:38,500
I'm proud of you about that. 
What was their real problem? 

848
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:40,200
He said you left your first 
love. 

849
00:43:40,300 --> 00:43:42,000
Did you know? 
God is not some sort of an 

850
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,300
inanimate object where we just 
basically decide we're going to 

851
00:43:45,300 --> 00:43:49,200
push the program button we've 
checked, all the boxes and that 

852
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:53,500
he is just this, this being up 
there that is roboticle and that

853
00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:55,400
he doesn't have any emotion 
whatsoever. 

854
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,000
No, he said you've left your 
first love. 

855
00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:06,100
Who are you in love with you? 
Like all? 

856
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,400
I love my wife. 
I really do. 

857
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,200
Love my kids. 
I see some people here with 

858
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,100
grandkids. 
I love those grandbabies. 

859
00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:16,900
You can tell, you can tell guess
what God can do. 

860
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:23,400
God can too back home. 
There's a guy he is from El 

861
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,600
Cajon. 
California actually from Mexico 

862
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,300
but he works in El Cajon 
California. 

863
00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:31,900
His name is Elias Rodriguez and 
if you know alius I've never met

864
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:35,000
anybody like him. 
But I'm telling you, some of the

865
00:44:35,008 --> 00:44:38,100
people that he has worked with 
us to convert back home in a 

866
00:44:38,107 --> 00:44:40,900
bilingual congregation. 
There's about 50 people that 

867
00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:43,900
that every Sunday assemble with 
us and about. 

868
00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:46,900
Anyway, there's also a 
congregation in Progreso was 

869
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,500
because of this and on and all I
can tell you about, but one day 

870
00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:52,700
we sat down and we began to talk
about the work and he said, 

871
00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:55,700
listen here's what my plans are.
I want to do this on this day 

872
00:44:55,700 --> 00:44:57,700
and I want to do this on this 
day, literally. 

873
00:44:57,700 --> 00:45:00,300
Now think about this someday got
worship. 

874
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:02,700
You ever been a part of a 
bilingual service? 

875
00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:04,200
Sometimes they go long. 
Long. 

876
00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:07,800
They go long, you try to get 
around to talk to everybody in a

877
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,600
big group, it's tough to do, get
out of there. 

878
00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:14,500
You got Sunday, worship, got 
Wednesday, worship, 70 people, 

879
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:16,000
show up of the hundred that are 
usually. 

880
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,000
They're 70 people show up on 
Wednesday night again bilingual 

881
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,000
to our Wednesday night chapter 
studies. 

882
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,700
I'm like, man, that's a lot. 
That's a lot. 

883
00:45:26,300 --> 00:45:30,300
Then yes, what else happens? 
Well, I study with I study with 

884
00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:33,400
basically there's about 15 
different families, I study with

885
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,100
each one of them during the week
on my own Leah said, but I'll 

886
00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:37,400
tell you what. 
There's some opportunities to 

887
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,500
study with somebody here and 
here and here, and I'm like, 

888
00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:42,100
Whoa, man are, hang on, just a 
second. 

889
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:43,700
You ever heard of the word 
burnout? 

890
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,000
You gonna burn some folks out. 
He's like, he smiled and said 

891
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,900
no. 
He said, was there anything you 

892
00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:53,700
wouldn't do when you fell in 
love with your wife? 

893
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:56,800
Mmm. 
Nope. 

894
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:02,500
Not one thing. 
I drive do whatever it was. 

895
00:46:02,500 --> 00:46:04,900
Didn't matter nothing. 
I wouldn't go get. 

896
00:46:04,900 --> 00:46:07,800
He said, that's exactly what I'm
talking about with Jesus Christ.

897
00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:10,300
These people are in love with 
Jesus Christ. 

898
00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:12,900
And I'm going to, I'm going to 
serve, and I'm going to feed, 

899
00:46:12,900 --> 00:46:15,000
and I'm going to, I'm going to 
treat that just like the most 

900
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,900
important relationship and 
they're alive. 

901
00:46:16,900 --> 00:46:19,400
And they're going to devote as 
much time and attention and 

902
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,300
effort and study, because it is 
the number one relationship and 

903
00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:24,400
their life. 
And I'm convinced, the more that

904
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,100
I preach the Gospel of Jesus 
Christ. 

905
00:46:26,100 --> 00:46:29,000
There's a whole lot of people 
that think they can slide in and

906
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,800
slide out and they have The same
efficient problem, there's 

907
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,100
strict doctrinally. 
They know what the Bible says. 

908
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,600
I get it, I understand it. 
I'm never going to change from 

909
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,500
that, but there's somebody that 
better be the number one love in

910
00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:47,000
your life and it's demonstrated.
It's demonstrated, it shows up. 

911
00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:50,300
You can do so many things, 
right? 

912
00:46:50,300 --> 00:46:55,000
And if God is not the number 
one, love the first action of 

913
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,300
your heart, your soul, and your 
mind. 

914
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:03,800
We're in a mess. 
He better be number one. 

915
00:47:05,100 --> 00:47:06,800
My goal tonight in preaching the
sermon. 

916
00:47:07,300 --> 00:47:09,700
Maybe a sermon on repentance but
I want you to think about, you 

917
00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:11,300
serve a God. 
That ought to be number one. 

918
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,900
He deserves to be number one, 
and there was a church that call

919
00:47:14,900 --> 00:47:18,900
themselves his That had fallen 
out of love and listen, this 

920
00:47:18,900 --> 00:47:21,700
wasn't written. 
This wasn't written down by some

921
00:47:21,700 --> 00:47:23,900
guy. 
This was recorded. 

922
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,200
This was the revelation of Jesus
Christ. 

923
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:32,500
He gave the review himself. 
So, very important stuff. 

924
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,500
We can't compromise anything, 
but we can't ever forget. 

925
00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:40,500
God is our first love. 
All of our life, for the church 

926
00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:43,100
to be alive. 
It requires Zeal and repentance.

927
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,800
To the angel of the church in 
Sardis. 

928
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:46,700
Another one of the seven 
churches of Asia. 

929
00:47:46,700 --> 00:47:49,600
He said these things says he who
holds the seven spirits of God 

930
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,100
and the Seven Stars. 
I know your works that you have 

931
00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:56,700
a name that you are alive, but 
you are dead Be watchful and 

932
00:47:56,700 --> 00:47:58,900
strengthen the things which 
remain that are ready to die 

933
00:47:58,900 --> 00:48:00,300
for. 
I have not found your Works 

934
00:48:00,300 --> 00:48:02,800
perfect before God. 
Remember therefore, how you have

935
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,600
received and heard, hold fast 
and repent. 

936
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,500
Therefore, if you will not 
watch, I will come upon you as a

937
00:48:08,508 --> 00:48:11,300
thief and you will not know what
hour I come upon you. 

938
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:16,100
Don't take your relationship for
granted God. 

939
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,300
Let me go back a second and say 
this about the church when he 

940
00:48:21,300 --> 00:48:23,600
wrote when he talked about the 
church and the doctrines, here's

941
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,700
what I'm convicted to say 
tonight from God's word. 

942
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,900
If there's something that we 
need has changed that we're 

943
00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:31,700
doing wrong in the Bible, show 
it to me tonight, we'll stop it.

944
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,000
If there's something we need to 
start doing, we'll start doing 

945
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,600
it. 
But every Church in order to be 

946
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,900
the Church of Jesus Christ, has 
to make the same commitment and 

947
00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:41,400
you got to put your money where 
your mouth is. 

948
00:48:42,300 --> 00:48:44,500
If there's something the Church 
of Jesus Christ here that meets 

949
00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:46,100
here in this place, will not 
change. 

950
00:48:46,100 --> 00:48:48,200
It won't be long before. 
This is not the Church of Jesus 

951
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,400
Christ. 
God gives a space for 

952
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,600
repentance. 
He gives some time. 

953
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,800
But at some point in time, that 
time is going to be up. 

954
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,800
I know people that have been a 
part of churches before that, 

955
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,600
they recognize that this is what
the Bible says, and we're not 

956
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,500
doing that and they brought it 
to the leadership of the church 

957
00:49:05,500 --> 00:49:07,600
and Leadership of the church 
says, you know what, we're not 

958
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,300
going to do that. 
Yeah, but that's what the Bible 

959
00:49:09,300 --> 00:49:11,500
says. 
The Bible says, we have to do 

960
00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:15,200
this and the leadership said, 
we're not going to change. 

961
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,300
We're not going to do what that 
says, please help me. 

962
00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:21,100
Understand how that could 
possibly be the Church of Jesus 

963
00:49:21,100 --> 00:49:26,100
Christ. 
Jesus said, my sheep hear my 

964
00:49:26,100 --> 00:49:32,800
voice and they follow me. 
And in Revelation 3:19 he said, 

965
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,600
as many as I love I rebuke and 
chasten. 

966
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:39,200
Therefore be zealous and repent.
You ever had somebody that is 

967
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,800
amazing. 
I'll bring up a list Rodriguez a

968
00:49:41,808 --> 00:49:43,700
lot. 
I want to tell you a story real 

969
00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:47,800
quick. 
Because it illustrates the 

970
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,600
beauty of a culture that I did 
not understand prior to this 

971
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,200
work, but it also illustrates a 
man's heart that is willing to 

972
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,700
change. 
His name is perfect though, 

973
00:49:55,700 --> 00:49:58,300
tourists Perfecto's. 
An awesome guy. 

974
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,700
I don't know how old he is, 
maybe 50 something years old 

975
00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:06,600
hard, worker line of Bane Julie 
can tell you just amazing guy. 

976
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,400
He led his wife to Jesus, they 
were the party central. 

977
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,700
They were the people that drank 
and party period, they were the 

978
00:50:14,700 --> 00:50:16,800
life of the party. 
Not all of that, perfect. 

979
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,700
Those one of those guys that you
better pack a lunch, if you ever

980
00:50:19,700 --> 00:50:21,700
went to pick a fight with him 
because he'd mop the floor with 

981
00:50:21,700 --> 00:50:23,900
you, he was the brawler of the 
group. 

982
00:50:25,500 --> 00:50:26,900
Not only that. 
There was another guy. 

983
00:50:27,700 --> 00:50:29,600
This guy came to Jesus. 
He was saved. 

984
00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:31,800
He was baptized for the 
remission of his sins and he has

985
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:35,500
been following so closely the 
walk that I'm extremely proud to

986
00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:38,500
call him my brother in Christ. 
But there's another guy that was

987
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:42,900
that was also converted and he 
was a guy that had challenges as

988
00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:46,100
well and in his former life, he 
and Perfecto didn't like each 

989
00:50:46,100 --> 00:50:48,200
other. 
And it is baptism. 

990
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,300
Perfect though came to brother 
Elias and said, what am I going 

991
00:50:51,300 --> 00:50:52,700
to do? 
I don't like this guy. 

992
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:55,500
Fact, I've beat this guy up 
before. 

993
00:50:56,100 --> 00:51:00,900
This guy is not good people. 
And he said, he used to be your 

994
00:51:00,900 --> 00:51:05,300
enemy. 
He used to be your enemy but 

995
00:51:05,300 --> 00:51:07,100
God's fixing to make him your 
brother. 

996
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,000
You know, what happened after he
was immersed in the Christ. 

997
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:15,100
Perfecto went up to him. 
He said I'm your brother and he 

998
00:51:15,100 --> 00:51:17,600
hugged him. 
That's the power. 

999
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,200
That's The Power of Jesus 
Christ. 

1000
00:51:20,700 --> 00:51:23,900
That's the power of Jesus. 
When somebody is zealous to want

1001
00:51:23,900 --> 00:51:27,200
to do, what the will is that 
wants to throw away, all the 

1002
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,600
disease of sin and the sickness 
of sin that infects. 

1003
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:35,200
So many of us, that's the power 
of the god that we serve. 

1004
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:40,000
That is his power today. 
Well, I got to hurry on love and

1005
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,700
fear make people repent in 
Romans 2 verse 4. 

1006
00:51:42,700 --> 00:51:44,900
He says do you despise The 
Riches of his goodness 

1007
00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:47,300
forbearance and longsuffering? 
Not knowing that, the goodness 

1008
00:51:47,300 --> 00:51:50,200
of God, leads you to repentance 
but in accordance with your 

1009
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,200
hardness and impenitent heart, 
you are treasuring up for 

1010
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,100
yourself rat in the day of 
Revelation, righteous Judgment 

1011
00:51:57,100 --> 00:51:59,900
of God, who will render to each 
one according to his deeds, 

1012
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,000
eternal life, to those who by 
patient continuance and doing 

1013
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,500
good seek, for glory, honor and 
immortality, but to those who 

1014
00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:09,400
are self-seeking and do, not 
Obey the truth, but obey 

1015
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,500
unrighteousness, they're going 
to get indignation and wrath 

1016
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:17,200
tribulation and anguish on every
soul of man who does evil of the

1017
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,800
Jew first and also to the Greek.
Paul basically says by 

1018
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:23,200
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, 
the goodness of God leads. 

1019
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,300
A lot of people to repentance. 
You mean to tell me there's a 

1020
00:52:25,300 --> 00:52:26,900
God in heaven, that loves me so 
much. 

1021
00:52:26,900 --> 00:52:30,200
He sent his son to die for me, 
that message has converted 

1022
00:52:30,500 --> 00:52:33,000
Untold numbers of people in the 
world, then there are other 

1023
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,300
people like me that had to be 
told, hey, you better get it 

1024
00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:36,600
right or you going to go to 
hell. 

1025
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,100
Whichever one. 
It leads people. 

1026
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,600
It doesn't finish the job. 
It doesn't start. 

1027
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,400
It doesn't finish the 
relationship, but both fear and 

1028
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,500
love are motivators to lead 
people to repent. 

1029
00:52:52,100 --> 00:52:55,000
Jesus said, I say unto you that 
likewise, there will be more joy

1030
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,900
in heaven over one sinner who 
repents than over ninety and 

1031
00:52:57,900 --> 00:52:59,700
nine, just persons who need no 
repentance. 

1032
00:53:00,100 --> 00:53:02,900
Listen to me very carefully. 
When I say this, there are never

1033
00:53:02,900 --> 00:53:05,600
be a time. 
We're not thrilled out of our 

1034
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,400
tree when somebody makes up 
their mind. 

1035
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:08,600
They're going to fix it with 
God. 

1036
00:53:10,500 --> 00:53:14,300
It ought to make us so excited. 
It ought to make us so excited. 

1037
00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:16,000
I'll never forget the time that 
I saw this. 

1038
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,900
Not happen. 
There was a woman that basically

1039
00:53:19,900 --> 00:53:22,000
decided she wanted to live a 
certain lifestyle. 

1040
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,200
Her husband was there, it was 
one of those deals and he came 

1041
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:28,200
forward to make a confession and
she got up and stomped out. 

1042
00:53:31,900 --> 00:53:35,300
I've never forgotten that. 
It's one of the greatest 

1043
00:53:35,300 --> 00:53:39,000
tragedies in all the world. 
Because of all the things that 

1044
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,600
we have a responsibility to do 
as the body of Christ. 

1045
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,200
Jesus said many things like 
inasmuch as ye have done it unto

1046
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,100
one of the least of these my 
brethren ye have done it unto me

1047
00:53:48,500 --> 00:53:53,000
of all the ways that I can be 
like, God, If there's more joy 

1048
00:53:53,300 --> 00:53:56,800
in heaven over 90 over one 
Center, the ninety nine, just 

1049
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,600
persons. 
The one thing I can do from this

1050
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:02,500
Parable that he taught us Is I 
run and fall on the neck of that

1051
00:54:02,500 --> 00:54:05,000
one and kiss him. 
And show him that. 

1052
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:09,800
I'm so glad he's back. 
That's our job. 

1053
00:54:10,700 --> 00:54:12,100
You want to know what your job 
is. 

1054
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,200
It's not to be the older 
brother. 

1055
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,100
The older brother, expressed his
lack of relationship, and lack 

1056
00:54:18,100 --> 00:54:21,900
of knowledge of who God was and 
he sat out in the field and 

1057
00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:24,400
pouted over the prodigal that 
was coming back. 

1058
00:54:25,700 --> 00:54:29,200
And the Bible says that whenever
that moment happened, the father

1059
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:30,900
went out and even and treated 
him. 

1060
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,400
And I'm convinced that the 
teaching of God's word in the 

1061
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:38,600
church is so important today to 
all of us because sometimes 

1062
00:54:38,700 --> 00:54:40,700
you're caught Like a Cat by the 
back of the neck, you're not 

1063
00:54:40,700 --> 00:54:43,700
sure when to which and what to 
say, let me tell you this, I 

1064
00:54:43,700 --> 00:54:48,400
love you and I want you back is 
a real good thing to say. 

1065
00:54:51,900 --> 00:54:54,900
Because that's what happens 
doing, that's what heaven's 

1066
00:54:54,900 --> 00:54:57,200
doing, every time the gospel is 
preached. 

1067
00:54:58,500 --> 00:55:01,800
I love you and I want you back. 
And every time you get an 

1068
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,000
opportunity to hear the gospel, 
you need to understand that. 

1069
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,200
If you're away from God, he's 
saying to you right now. 

1070
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:13,700
I love you and I want you back. 
This scripture scary to me but 

1071
00:55:13,700 --> 00:55:17,500
it's also hopeful God's a God 
that keeps his promise and he's 

1072
00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:19,700
not willing that any should 
perish, but that all should come

1073
00:55:19,700 --> 00:55:23,800
to repentance. 
But the day of the Lord will 

1074
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:25,800
come as a thief in the night, in
which the heavens will pass away

1075
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,000
with a great noise and the 
elements and will melt with 

1076
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,300
fervent heat both the earth and 
the works that are in, it will 

1077
00:55:30,300 --> 00:55:34,600
be burned up one day, one day, 
God's patience is going to give 

1078
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,600
way. 
And if you're here tonight and 

1079
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,700
you're thinking, God is going to
give me more time, you may be, 

1080
00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:43,600
right? 
You may be right but you may be 

1081
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:49,700
wrong. 
This woman came to Jesus in the 

1082
00:55:49,700 --> 00:55:52,500
most dejected spot of her life. 
She was caught in the very Act 

1083
00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:58,100
of adultery She came to Jesus, 
and Jesus Drew on the ground 

1084
00:55:58,100 --> 00:56:00,900
after he had, basically just 
dispense the rest of the crowd. 

1085
00:56:00,900 --> 00:56:03,100
That was in a mob. 
He said, he, that is without 

1086
00:56:03,100 --> 00:56:04,600
sin. 
Let Him cast the first stone. 

1087
00:56:04,900 --> 00:56:07,300
Do you know the teaching that is
so incredible in debt. 

1088
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,100
It's not one of those deals 
where we justify sin. 

1089
00:56:11,500 --> 00:56:14,300
It's one of those deals of be 
real careful before. 

1090
00:56:14,300 --> 00:56:15,800
What somebody else is doing 
wrong? 

1091
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:18,100
Becomes an obsession of ours of 
our mouth. 

1092
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,100
Real careful thing. 
Listen to what he says to her. 

1093
00:56:24,100 --> 00:56:28,200
He asked it, were they all lat? 
She said no one. 

1094
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,900
Jesus said, unto her, neither do
I condemn, you go and sin no 

1095
00:56:31,900 --> 00:56:34,400
more. 
Then Jesus spoke to them again 

1096
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,200
saying, I am the light of the 
world, he who follows me shall 

1097
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:40,300
not walk in darkness, but shall 
have the light of life. 

1098
00:56:41,100 --> 00:56:42,800
She met the light of life that 
day. 

1099
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,300
And of all the things, I don't 
know that I would love to know 

1100
00:56:46,300 --> 00:56:47,700
from scripture. 
I would love to know what 

1101
00:56:47,700 --> 00:56:51,600
happened to this woman right 
here, but I'm convinced and 

1102
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,100
convicted that I have seen what 
has happened to this woman, and 

1103
00:56:54,100 --> 00:56:57,900
this in individual and just the 
same circumstance, time and 

1104
00:56:57,900 --> 00:56:59,700
time. 
Again, if you will give your 

1105
00:56:59,700 --> 00:57:02,000
heart to the Lord and you will 
give your life and Devotion to 

1106
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,200
him. 
I promise, you'll know the light

1107
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:08,700
of life The light of the world 
and he'll light up your life. 

1108
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:15,800
There is a picture that God gave
us that sums everything up about

1109
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,000
the death burial and 
Resurrection he asks us to 

1110
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,600
repent and be dead to sin. 
He asked us to be buried in 

1111
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:26,300
water for the remission of our 
sins and Rise Again to walk in 

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newness of life that man, I was 
telling you about aleus, 

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Rodriguez is right there and 
that's one of our Sisters in 

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Christ. 
Claudia Martinez. 

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She got up after she had made 
her decision to follow the lord,

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and she literally had to change 
churches. 

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The church, he was a part of she
had been convicted. 

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That it was good and it was 
fine. 

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But she found out that there 
were things, they would not 

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change. 
She tried to study with them, 

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they would not change them. 
She decided she was going to 

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obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
She was immersed, it fit the 

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picture of this right here. 
Just like they did in the early 

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church. 
She died to her since she was 

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buried in water. 
She Rose to walk in newness of 

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life as she walked up the bank. 
I'll never forget it. 

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She said to a sister in Christ. 
What's my responsibility now? 

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Let me tell you what your 
responsibility now is live, like

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a child of the king. 
Live Like Jesus everyday of your

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life. 
The blood that Jesus gave is for

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the remission of sins. 
Whenever people are baptized, 

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the Bible says repent and be 
baptized every one of you, in 

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the name of Jesus Christ, for 
the remission of your sins. 

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And ye shall receive the gift of
the holy spirit for the promises

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to you and to your children and 
those that are afar off. 

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And to as many as the Lord, Our 
God shall call. 

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If you're here tonight and 
you're not a Christian, won't 

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you come and repent? 
We thank you for listening to 

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