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I want to invite your attention 
to a passage found in the book 

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of First John, the fifth chapter
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there in verse 13. 
First John, chapter 5 in 

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beginning there, in verse 13, 
John said these things. 

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I have written to you, who 
believe, in the name of the son 

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

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continue to believe in the name 
of the son of God. 

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Now, this is the confidence that
we have in him that if we ask 

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anything according Adding to his
will he hears us? 

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And if we know that he hears us,
whatever we ask, we know that we

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have the petitions that we have 
asked of him. 

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If anyone sees his brother, 
sinning, his sin, which does not

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lead to death, he will ask and 
he will give him Life For Those 

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who commit sin, not leading to 
death. 

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There's a sin leading to death 
and I do not say that he should 

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pray about. 
That all unrighteousness is sin 

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and there is a sin not leading 
to death for a little I don't 

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want to talk from these passages
as found in the Epistle of John.

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But first of all I want to just 
say this that we live in a world

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that is filled with 
uncertainties we are unsure 

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what's going to happen from 
moment to moment day to day week

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to week, we have no idea. 
There are many things in our 

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life that are completely 
uncertain. 

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In fact, we live in a world 
that's filled with uncertainty 

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as a society for example. 
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circumstances and we are so 
uncertain about them that many 

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times, we spend large sums and 
large percentages of our money 

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on insurance policies warranties
and guarantees all with the 

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possible contingency in life. 
In the back of our mind, to 

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cover every one of those. 
There's even people today that 

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spend large sums of money on 
mediums astrologers and fortune.

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Tellers, all for the List of 
trying to grasp some insight 

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into the otherwise, unknown 
future, and all of this is for 

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the purpose of removing, some of
the fear of uncertainty. 

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I haven't seen it in a very long
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remember seeing bumper stickers,
maybe you've seen them too, but 

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I remember seeing bumper 
stickers and signs, that Sid, 

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the only things in life that are
certain are death and taxes, 

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remember that we used to see 
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Time and all of. 
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world. 
That's filled with uncertainty 

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but the Christian has around him
because it's found in the word 

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of God, the child of God because
of the Bible has certainties 

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that we can hang our hat on in 
this life. 

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For example, we are certain How 
the Universe began and we are 

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certain how it will end. 
We are certain why, and how God 

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created everything that in the 
very beginning, he literally 

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spoke Thing into existence and 
it was so we are certain why 

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people behave the way that they 
do we are certain about what is 

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right and what is wrong. 
We are certain about the 

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elements that make for good 
Human Relationships. 

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We are certain about how to get 
to heaven. 

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We are certain that he'll waits 
for the disobedient. 

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And for the ungodly, we are 
certain about God's promises 

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were certain about his son and 
our savior. 

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We are certain about His 
substitutionary death on the 

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cross, his literal resurrection.
And we are certain that one day 

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he will come again in God's 
appointed time. 

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So in a world of uncertainty we 
the child of God Lives by a 

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standard of absolutes. 
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want to talk about two things, 
two, great certainties for the 

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child of God. 
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somebody said one time that in 
the writings of John they are 

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filled with encouraging words. 
In fact, once said one time that

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the great news of the Gospel is 
the great news and in The Gospel

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according to John because it's a
message of salvation. 

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But the Epistle of John is also 
great news because it's Message 

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of assurance. 
Look at verse 13 of our text 

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really quickly, and we're going 
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And by the way, if we don't have
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If we don't have this, then 
nothing else in our life 

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matters, it doesn't matter what 
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It doesn't matter all of 
accolades that may come our way.

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Nothing in the world will 
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If we do not have this but the 
child of God has an assurance 

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and a certainty. 
The number one here, it is to 

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know that we are saved and verse
13 of our text. 

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John said these things. 
I have written to you, who 

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believe, in the name of the son 
of God, that you may know that 

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you have eternal life and that 
you may continue to believe in 

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the name of the son of God. 
John right here is telling 

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Christians why he's writing. 
He's telling them, he's writing 

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to give them an assurance of 
eternal life. 

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Now I To say there are sometimes
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to know over a period of time. 
I was a painting contractor for 

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24 years. 
I don't know how it is in the 

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state of Missouri, but I'm going
to tell you how it is in the 

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state of California. 
If you go into the Union's, for 

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example, you start off as a 
first period apprentice and it 

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is a five it has a 10. 
Apprenticeship 9 and out and 

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what it is over a period of five
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A person starts learning at the 
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period of Prentiss. 
And by the way, if you're a 

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first period of Prentice 
painter, you don't get to hold a

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paintbrush. 
Rush, you don't even get to hold

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a caulking gun, you hold a piece
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buckets and that's it. 
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learn a little bit more and they
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And then one day, all of a 
sudden you spent all this time 

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and some journeyman hands, you a
paint brush and you get the 

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prime something big stuff. 
My point is you learn the trade 

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over a period of time and there 
are many things in our life that

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we have knowledge of today that 
we didn't have knowledge of a 

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year ago. 
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Because we've come to learn them
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The word no, In this passage is 
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John and it does not mean to 
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He said I'm writing these things
to you that believe in the name 

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of the son, Son of God that you 
may know you have eternal life 

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that word. 
No means to know for certain. 

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It means to know in the here and
now got to make a point though. 

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There's a difference between 
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there's a difference between 
confidence and conceit. 

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I'm not saying that we are saved
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I'm not saying that at all and 
all the things that I will do in

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my life, you know what, if I 
keep everything, if I do 

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everything, you know what I am. 
The Bible says that I'm an 

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unprofitable servant saved by 
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You have always spin that I have
on that is really kind of like 

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this to practically apply it. 
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I've heard people say you see if
I do everything that the Bible 

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says I'm just gonna barely make 
it does that sound like Peter 

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said, having an abundant 
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Kingdom one day? 
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To me, it doesn't mean that if 
I'm a unprofitable servant saved

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by grace, it doesn't mean that 
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God, I'm going to barely squeak 
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I mean that at all, what that 
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started out about the idea of 
being an unprofitable servant if

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I hire shot. 
Hey, and I pay shot. 

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Hey, ten dollars an hour and I 
sub him out to somebody else for

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the services that I've 
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an hour on chai. 
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He is a profitable servant. 
Now, I will never become a 

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profitable. 
A servant to Jesus because I 

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will never mean more to Jesus 
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going to be an unprofitable 
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Still not going to deserve it. 
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still will be Grace, but it 
doesn't mean I'm going to barely

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squeak in. 
I'm going to tell you if I make 

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it to Heaven, we're going to 
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We're going in with an abundant 
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The Bible says, if we make it To
know for certain start says that

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this does not mean that we 
gradually grow in certainty, but

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that we will possess it in the 
here and now, A present 

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certainty that we are saved. 
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I am not saying a doctor and I 
don't believe in a Doctrine, you

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know, this already of once 
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I'm not saying that at all. 
And the Bible is clear that if I

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don't keep the Commandments and 
I don't keep living the 

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Christian Life as I should, I 
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And if I do not make those 
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I know that I'm not preaching a 
doctrine of once saved, always 

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saved. 
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Sometimes our people believe in 
the concept of what saved 

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forever lost. 
We can have an assurance in a 

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confidence that we have eternal 
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Now the Same author. 
The same author that gave. 

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The Assurance is the same author
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There are conditions to our 
Salvation, you know, we can 

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basically sum it up this way. 
There are two things that we 

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have to fit or fill conditions. 
Wise, number one, we have to 

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break with sin. 
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the truth for the rest of our 
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Everything in the, in the 
Christian Life falls into that 

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category. 
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Fellowship, we have to break 
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truth. 
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verse 6, the conditions of 
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If we say that we have 
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darkness, we lie and do not 
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Taste some folks You know how we
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somebody. 
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How do you know how do I know if
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I'm talking about spiritual 
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I'm not talking about just being
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I'm talking about spiritual 
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How do I know, the only way that
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If I'm in fellowship with 
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Is these conditions, number one,
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because I do not walk in 
darkness, I walk in the light if

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I am in fellowship with God. 
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fellowship with God, then we are
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but if I'm in fellowship with 
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here is not in spiritual 
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There's no way we can be in 
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We are not, we are divided. 
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How do we know if we say? 
We have fellowship with him and 

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walk in darkness, we lie and do 
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All right, listen to this in 
verse 9, First John 1:9, if we 

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confess our sins, he is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins,

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and number two to cleanse us 
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Now, Maybe you've heard brother,
Joe, hisle over the years. 

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Use this example, he used the 
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There was a sister in Christ, 
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somewhere and he offered the 
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And here comes this sister, 
walking down the aisle with 

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tears streaming down her face. 
She came up in the song was over

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and she's sitting down next to 
brother Joe and she tells 

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brother, Joe, I have sinned and 
I've been asking God to forgive 

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me for 20 years. 
I've been asking for forgiveness

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for 20 years and I'm scared to 
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I'm not forgiving Did you know 
that she was forgiven the first 

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time? 
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listen to this. 
If we confess our sins, he's 

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faithful and just to do two 
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One, forgive us, our sins and to
cleanse us from all 

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unrighteousness. 
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mean the word confess does not 
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It's kind of like when you're a 
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parents are they got you dead to
rights and you deny it until you

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can't? 
And you reluctantly admit it's 

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kind of like these police shows,
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I like the investigation shows 
and they get some guy in the hot

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box in there and they start 
grilling this guy and they say, 

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we got you dead to rights. 
We saw you, we got all these 

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Witnesses in the what me? 
What me, what me, what me and 

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pretty soon after hours are 
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he says, all right, I admit it, 
I confess. 

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That is not this word. 
This word confess is the word 

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human Leggio. 
It's a compound word comes from 

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two other words, homeless, and 
Lego, and it means to say the 

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same thing. 
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to God your sins, you do it in 
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with repentance and you do it in
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That you literally are saying 
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that God says about that sin. 
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He forgives every sin and even 
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unrighteousness. 
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means he removes the 
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Even of that sin, it's gone. 
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example of the Pharisee, and the
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about the Pharisee tonight. 
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about the tax collector, You 
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these two guys and you got the 
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basically thanking God for all 
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And you know, really he might as
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the way he did it, such a 
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turned out. 
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might as well have said that. 
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What about the guy that was 
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And the Bible says that Jesus 
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won't even look up toward the 
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He bows his head down, he smote 
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outward sign of inward anguish. 
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merciful to me. 
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Sinner You know what that is? 
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Yo. 
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about your sin that God says 
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That's confession of sins with 
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when you do that you are 
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happened chapter 2 and verse 1 
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children, these things I write 
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and if anyone sins, we have an 
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Christ, the righteous John 
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pleading our case, if you will, 
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make mistakes, we certainly are.
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throw our self as it were on the
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God's forgiveness. 
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Who is our propitiation in that?
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for Christ's sake. 
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All right. 
What if you went up to somebody 

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tomorrow? 
Row and you said, are you saved?

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What if you went up to somebody 
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You're going to get all kinds of
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somebody might say well, yeah. 
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think so. 
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so very few. 
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Nope, not me. 
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The question is, can you know? 
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Here it is. 
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John gives it. 
Here's number one, The Obedience

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test and it's found in first 
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Listen to this. 
Now by this we know there's that

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word again to know for certain 
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We know that we know him, that's
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relationship. 
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keep his Commandments. 
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of what they mean by this, we 
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gospel. 
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gospel, That's The Obedience 
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they're not going to be saved. 
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Everybody must come to Jesus. 
Come believing in Jesus 

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repenting of their sins confess,
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be baptized in water for the 
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But it doesn't end there. 
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filled with obedience, obedience
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By the way, that we worship 
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By the way, that we live, by the
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things that we practice, by the 
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on, and on, according to the 
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Secondly though, secondly, is 
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Here it is. 
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So, first and foremost, I have 
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Am I doing that first? 
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If I obeyed the gospel and a, my
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my life, that's number one. 
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Am I walking? 
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disciple of Christ, I need to be
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Now I'm going to tell you, you 
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live it in sinless Perfection, 
you will not and neither will. 

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I but our goal. 
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standard. 
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like Jesus in everything that we
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test. 
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one. 
Sometimes we say, oh absolutely,

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I have a, the word of God. 
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I'm trying to walk as he walked 
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all that. 
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test, you know what it is? 
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misunderstand love In 1st John 
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He who says he's in the light 
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darkness unto. 
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abides in the light and there's 
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But he who hates his brother is 
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darkness, and does not know 
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darkness has blinded his eyes. 
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to anyone here that is guilty of
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What I've seen in a few days 
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congregation filled with 
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love each other and you 
demonstrate that with kindness 

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one to the other. 
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anybody here tonight but let me 
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and it's called the love test 
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light but I hate my brother, I'm
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what do we say a few nights ago?
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night. 
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what love means and what hate 
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It all that the way that you 
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hate, someone is, by the way 
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I'm going to tell you, there are
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the warm fuzzies. 
There are people that just don't

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give you that warm sensation 
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and there are people in your 
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having anyone command you to 
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You love them naturally. 
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phileo. 
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it's a love of service and 
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And by the way, it's always the 
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And he gave the greatest 
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for the sins of the world. 
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enough. 
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love your neighbor. 
I've had some neighbors that 

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really weren't worth loving. 
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Sometimes to love your neighbor.
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further and love your enemy. 
What's that mean, that means, by

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the way that you treat them, but
the greatest way that you can 

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demonstrate love to them, is 
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even though they're rotten 
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You still have a desire that 
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You want them to be saved to. 
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That's the highest point of your
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Am I saved and my past in the 
It's test. 

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Am I passing the disciple test? 
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All right, there's something 
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That's great. 
And I want you to get this, 

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please, because this is a 
blessing that the world does not

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have. 
Number one, a blessing, the 

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world doesn't have is to know 
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That's number one. 
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doesn't have its right now, you 
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It is confidence in prayer. 
That God actually here's our 

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prayer. 
My talk about what that actually

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means in a minute but I want to 
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prayer. 
First, John 5:14, listen to this

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Now, this is the confidence that
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anything according to his, will 
he hears us? 

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The word confidence comes from 
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boldness and freedom with which 
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It's in chapter 3, beginning in 
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It speaks of boldness in our 
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Notice beloved, if our heart, 
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If our heart does not condemn 
us, we have confidence toward 

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God, that whatever we ask we 
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Because why do things we keep 
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And We do those things that are 
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Verse John 5:14 that if we ask 
anything according to his will 

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he hears us? 
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What is it? 
It's what God Wills, what God 

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desires? 
What God wants or what God 

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allows and to pray. 
According to his will is to pray

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with that provision when Jesus 
in Matthew 26, was in the 

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garden. 
He prayed to his father three 

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times. 
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this cup pass from me, but not 
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In other words, he poured his 
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all in the hands of God. 
He said if it really is your 

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will remember last night I said 
very quickly in passing that 

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when you pray according to God's
will with that provision and you

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say those words, you have to 
mean it and you have to actually

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be okay with the answer. 
If you're not going to be okay 

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with the answer, don't pray if 
it's your will because you don't

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mean it. 
If you pray according to God's 

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will and you say if it Be Your 
Will you have to mean it, you 

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have to be okay with the answer.
All right, what does it mean to 

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hear? 
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God hears, the audible sound of 
everything. 

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To say that God cannot hear the 
audible sounds that are in the 

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world of a sinner praying is to 
limit. 

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God, I've heard people say that 
God can't even hear the audible 

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sound. 
In other words, it's blocked 

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off. 
He's not even capable of 

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hearing, the audible sound of a 
sinner. 

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That's not what that means. 
God hears everything. 

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So, what does it mean the 
promise to the child of God? 

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What does it mean that God Hears
A Christians prayer? 

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Here it is. 
The very fact that he hears 

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prayer. 
We Vine says signifies that he 

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answers prayer. 
In other words, God hears, the 

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audible sound of everything, but
he only answers his children. 

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That's the difference. 
That's a great blessing. 

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The word here, presupposes a 
response. 

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Remember that country song years
ago, sometimes I thank God for 

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unanswered prayers. 
Interesting, isn't it? 

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It's the world. 
The concept that if you ask for 

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something and you don't get it 
that God didn't answer it. 

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Okay? 
I'm gonna tell you right now. 

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If you're a child of God and you
ask in faith believing according

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to God's will, God answers every
single prayer, you pray. 

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I want to tell you a little 
story, just a little example. 

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Something happened to me years 
ago as a painting contractor, 

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when I was still doing that, you
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the challenges that you have in 
business, as, you know, no 

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doubt. 
You got to try to round up 

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enough work to keep your guys 
working all the time, but at the

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same time, you have to have 
enough cash flow that you can 

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pay your bills and you have to 
have some good jobs that you 

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have some volume. 
So that the company gets, well, 

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you need all that. 
There's a hotel downtown 

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Bakersfield called the Padre 
Hotel years and years and years 

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ago, was a very famous hotel. 
Very nice had theme rooms and 

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all this. 
You know, what happened over 

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time, it became a home for 
slums, homeless people live 

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there, it was run down to 
nothing. 

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It was awful, disgusting. 
There was a company down south 

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in the Los Angeles area and you 
know what they did, they bought 

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the Padre Hotel and they said we
are going to refurbish the whole

447
00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:36,500
thing. 
We're going to restore the whole

448
00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:41,200
thing and all that. 
I got to tell you, I wore my 

449
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,200
knees out, praying that God 
would give me that job. 

450
00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:47,400
I wanted that job so bad. 
You know, why? 

451
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,400
Cuz in my mind I'm thinking this
is the job we're going to have 

452
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,700
cash flow. 
It's going to keep my guys 

453
00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:55,300
working for a long, long time. 
It's going to be all that. 

454
00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:57,400
It's gonna be great. 
It's gonna take All this 

455
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,900
pressure off, right? 
I prayed and I prayed and I 

456
00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:05,000
prayed, and I prayed, and the 
outside of the bid, the Outside 

457
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,700
Alone was over a hundred 
thousand dollars worth of 

458
00:28:06,708 --> 00:28:10,500
painting. 
I didn't get it. 

459
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,100
I was disappointed. 
Really disappointed. 

460
00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:20,400
You know, what happened? 
It was some new fellow that got 

461
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,200
his license. 
You have to have a contractor's 

462
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,800
license to contract in 
California. 

463
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,500
His license. 
He went and got the job. 

464
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,500
Oh, he was just absolutely just 
happy as can be when you talk to

465
00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:33,400
him, you know what happened, he 
did the work and got beat out of

466
00:28:33,408 --> 00:28:38,200
every dime. 
He got beat out of every penny 

467
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,600
and it broke his company all. 
I'm saying it in my mind. 

468
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:48,900
This is the job. 
And God said know, sometimes God

469
00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:52,600
knows more than we know. 
Now, I'm not saying that is not 

470
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,000
a testimonial, I don't do that a
testimonial, I think it's wrong 

471
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,500
because when you preach people 
give testimonials what they're 

472
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:01,000
doing is they're attracting 
attention to themselves. 

473
00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:02,500
I'm just giving you a little 
example. 

474
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,800
I thought I was wrong. 
I thought this was it. 

475
00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:10,800
God knew more than me. 
And I'm thankful now that God 

476
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:17,100
said, no, he said no to my 
request in Mark chapter 11 and 

477
00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:20,300
verse 24, we find also, we must 
ask in faith believing. 

478
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:24,400
Therefore, I say to you, 
whatever you ask, when you pray 

479
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,500
believe that you will have it 
and you will have them. 

480
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:30,900
The blessings are for his 
children. 

481
00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:34,500
Only remember in John chapter 9,
when Jesus heals, the man that 

482
00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:37,600
was born blind, remember when 
they tried to say the Pharisees 

483
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,300
tried to say, oh he's a sinner. 
And all that. 

484
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,500
Remember what happens the man 
that was born blind said this. 

485
00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:47,600
Now we know that God does not 
hear that means answer, he does 

486
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:52,100
not hear Sinner's but if anyone 
is a worshiper of God and does 

487
00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:58,500
his will him, he hears and that 
word simply means answers. 

488
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,500
Look at first, John 5 and verse 
15. 

489
00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:06,700
Watch this. 
And if and that word means since

490
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,300
since, we know that he hears us,
whatever we ask, we know that we

491
00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:14,700
have the petitions that we have 
asked of him. 

492
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,700
In other words, we have so much 
confidence that God is going to 

493
00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:21,900
answer our prayers. 
Then when we bow the knee before

494
00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:25,800
him and we pour our heart out to
him and we prayed but not in 

495
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,800
faith believing and we pray. 
According to God's will as we're

496
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,400
actually making the petition. 
We know that God's answering 

497
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,800
that prayer. 
Great confidence. 

498
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,500
Great blessings. 
For the child of God. 

499
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,900
All right but now we got to come
down to one final thing. 

500
00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:46,900
We got to talk about a passage 
found in verse 16 that sometimes

501
00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:50,500
is really misunderstood. 
Let's talk about that verse, let

502
00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:57,000
me read it first, break it down.
First John 5:16 if anyone sees 

503
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000
his brother, sending us in, 
which does not lead to death, he

504
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,800
will ask and he will give him 
Life For Those who commit sin, 

505
00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:07,300
not leading to death. 
There's a sin leading to death, 

506
00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:10,500
and I do not say that he should.
About that. 

507
00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:13,100
All right, you got two kinds of 
prayers. 

508
00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:14,900
That seems like two kinds of 
sins here. 

509
00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:20,600
It says one, you got to send 
that is not unto death and to 

510
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,900
you got to send that is unto 
death. 

511
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,100
And John says, if you see a 
brother and he sending a sin 

512
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,900
that is not unto death, that's 
the King James. 

513
00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:33,700
The new King James, says leading
to death. 

514
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:39,400
You will ask and God will give 
strength, God will bless that 

515
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:40,900
person. 
God will do that. 

516
00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:44,800
Give life for the one who's 
committed, a sin that is not 

517
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,100
leading to death. 
All right? 

518
00:31:47,900 --> 00:31:50,200
What kind of death is that 
talking about? 

519
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,600
You can pick up a commentary and
it'll say, I read a commentator 

520
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,500
one time. 
It said, well, that death is 

521
00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:59,000
physical death and what it means
is, you can ask God to forgive 

522
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,700
you of any kind of sin, except 
the one that leads to capital 

523
00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:04,400
punishment. 
Is that what he's talking about?

524
00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:08,300
I've heard another say this 
though, it's physical death. 

525
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,600
And therefore, as long as a 
person doesn't die, then they 

526
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,100
still can be forgiven, but if 
they commit a sin, the takes 

527
00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:16,600
their life, they can't be 
forgiven. 

528
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,000
That what that's talking about? 
Absolutely. 

529
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:26,500
Not folks is talking about 
spiritual life and spiritual 

530
00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:29,300
death. 
The entire epistle is filled 

531
00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:32,900
with what spiritual life and 
spiritual death. 

532
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,600
What does John already say? 
He says, we go from what from 

533
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,900
Death to life. 
Now, he wasn't talking about 

534
00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:43,100
people, being raised from the 
dead, he's talking about, 

535
00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:45,900
spiritual death and spiritual 
life. 

536
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,200
And when we come to Christ in 
Christ, we have Spiritual life. 

537
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,300
So what he's talking about is 
he's talking about a sin that 

538
00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:58,800
does not lead to spiritual 
death. 

539
00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:04,000
You ask God, and God will give 
life for the one who commits 

540
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,600
such a sin. 
All right, what's the sin unto 

541
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,900
death? 
Then what is that? 

542
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,000
What's the sin that is unto 
death? 

543
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,200
What's the big, bad Sin? 
All kinds of ideas? 

544
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,400
People think some say it's the 
unpardonable. 

545
00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:22,600
Anibal sin of Matthew 12 and 
Mark 3, some say it's the 

546
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:27,200
willful sin of Hebrews chapter 
10 and on and on and on what is 

547
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,400
the sin that leads to spiritual 
death? 

548
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,500
Here it is. 
Here's the big bad, terrible 

549
00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:38,800
rotten sin, here it is. 
And he sinned That you will not 

550
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:45,400
make right? 
Any sin that you will not repent

551
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:51,700
of give you an example. 
Let's just say that brother. 

552
00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:56,700
So, and so here, I'll just 
create a guy, he's out of Duty, 

553
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,800
he leaves the church, he goes 
out into the world of sin. 

554
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,500
He doesn't want to make things, 
right? 

555
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,800
He turns his back on everything 
he's ever known. 

556
00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:08,900
Own. 
He decides to go out into the 

557
00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:12,500
world and commit sins and be 
away from the church, guess 

558
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,199
what? 
That is a sin that leads to 

559
00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:18,500
spiritual death or a separation 
from God. 

560
00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:21,900
He won't make it right. 
He won't repent. 

561
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,900
John said if your brother is 
doing that kind of sin. 

562
00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:28,100
Don't pray for him now. 
That doesn't mean don't pray 

563
00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:30,400
that they come back. 
That means don't, pray that 

564
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,199
they're forgiving in their 
sinful state. 

565
00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:39,199
I got loved ones, folks. 
I got family members some that 

566
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,800
are out of Duty. 
I pray for him all the time. 

567
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,699
I pray that they will repent and
come back so that they can be 

568
00:34:49,699 --> 00:34:53,199
restored. 
And forgiven, I just don't pray 

569
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,600
for their forgiveness while 
they're in that state because 

570
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,900
until they come back, they are 
committing a sin that leads to 

571
00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:05,200
spiritual separation from God. 
That's the sin unto spiritual 

572
00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:08,500
death. 
Now, let me ask you, what if 

573
00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:12,300
somebody commits that kind of a 
sin, What if somebody actually 

574
00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:13,700
does that? 
Can they be forgiven? 

575
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:19,800
Absolutely remember that passage
found in first John chapter 1 

576
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,800
and verse 9 that is an absolute 
of any sin. 

577
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,900
There's not a sin that you can 
commit, you cannot be forgiven 

578
00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:32,500
of watch this first, John 1:9. 
If we confess our sins, he's 

579
00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:35,000
faithful. 
And just to forgive us, our sins

580
00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:39,600
and to cleanse us from all 
unrighteousness. 

581
00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:44,300
Okay. 
These are great blessings for 

582
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:47,900
the child of God. 
These are tremendous blessings 

583
00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:51,400
folks. 
And sometimes when you feel as 

584
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,500
though you're getting 
discouraged because things are 

585
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:57,200
not going your way in your life,
remember something you have 

586
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,900
something that the world doesn't
have. 

587
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,600
That's a fact. 
The world might think they have 

588
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,700
it, they may think they want it.
They may standing and encourage 

589
00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:10,100
one another with it, to make him
feel better and days of sorrow 

590
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:12,500
and sadness. 
Perhaps, when they stand over a 

591
00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:14,200
new Leaf. 
Grave of a loved one, I don't 

592
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,500
know. 
But there's a difference. 

593
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,500
There's a difference for the 
child of God. 

594
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,800
The child of God can know for 
certain. 

595
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:28,400
He is saved and know that when 
he asked God God will answer his

596
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:34,200
or her prayer. 
One final thing. 

597
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,700
Remember last night, I closed 
with the word hope. 

598
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:40,000
I want to tell you the 
difference between the world's 

599
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000
hope and our hope and then I'm 
finished. 

600
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,700
There's a difference between the
worlds. 

601
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:48,800
Hope, you know what? 
The world's hope is the world 

602
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,300
taupe is postponed. 
Disappointment, give you an 

603
00:36:52,308 --> 00:36:55,600
example, I love my sister. 
Loved her very much. 

604
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,300
We're 11 months apart, where's 
close to being twins as you can 

605
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,200
without being twins? 
I guess we're 11 months apart, 

606
00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:07,300
my sister and I, I remember 
growing up, we'd be watching a 

607
00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:11,700
football game on TV and our team
was just getting whipped. 

608
00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:13,900
I don't know by 40 points with a
minute left. 

609
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,700
Left and my sister would say, 
well don't worry. 

610
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:20,400
There's still hope. 
Yeah, no, there isn't. 

611
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,400
That's postponed disappointment.
Because guess what? 

612
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,400
In one more minute we got to eat
and swallow. 

613
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,600
The fact that we just got waste,
we got whipped. 

614
00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:33,400
Postponed disappointment. 
That's the world's hope. 

615
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:40,100
The child of God has real hope. 
It's a belief in a trust in God,

616
00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:44,800
that God is in total and 
thorough control in our life in 

617
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,500
both Time. 
And Eternity that we can know 

618
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:49,900
that when we pillow our head 
tonight, when we ask God to 

619
00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:53,000
please clean our slate and 
please forgive us of any sin 

620
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,000
that is in our life. 
We can pillow our heads tonight 

621
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,000
and know that if the Lord comes 
back we're going on. 

622
00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:05,300
That's a great blessing, know, 
were saved and that God answers.

623
00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:07,300
Our prayers Christian 
certainties. 

624
00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:08,400
I'm through tonight.