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I hope that the things we have 
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Love and good works whenever I 
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things to accomplish during a 
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I remember Hebrews 10:24 and 25 
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gather together were to 
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and good works. 
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to be some effect that transfers
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of everyone. 
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to say tonight is Appropriate 
and Will some way enhance our 

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spiritual growth or change our 
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So that's what we're going to 
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honor God. 
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going to talk about microwave 
religion and somebody who, you 

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know, said one time. 
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going to talk on microwave 
religion. 

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They said well Glenn, you know 
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used to be you know, stovetop 
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to microwave. 
Maybe it'll be a little bit 

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shorter. 
Shorter time, you know, baby do 

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it in 3 minutes instead of 40 or
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No wrong, that's not correct. 
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tonight showing that sometimes 
what we want, we wanted simple 

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quick, we want to take a pill. 
We want a quick fix. 

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We live in an age of instant, 
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maturity doesn't come with a 
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It doesn't just come with 
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a day, it comes. 
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some focus, it comes with some 
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about the difference between 
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and yet at the same time it's 
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it's difficult, you know, the 
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kind of like a Deep River you 
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dive and if you die you'll go 
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what Christianity is to there 
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on the surface. 
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enjoy digging into it and really
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it and their lives. 
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do that as well. 
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little bit about microwave 
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We have many conveniences in our
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high speed, internet and emails,
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all kinds of stuff in. 
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like without that, I don't know 
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GPS and my Phone has changed my 
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yours for the good and it is 
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appreciated and we're thankful 
for all of these things. 

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But you know, there's nothing 
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conveniences, and yet living in 
this world, we can develop some 

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beer, really bad habits because 
of our inconveniences as as one 

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person used to set, at least my 
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they had to go up and physically
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least they got some exercise 
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But now with remote control, he 
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things. 
So simple and so convenient, we 

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don't want to do it ourselves at
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We don't want to fix, we don't 
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person said about why marriages 
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says back in my day, when we got
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tried to fix it, not throw it 
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says something about our our day
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We live in instead of working on
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away and get something new or 
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to look past what's convenient 
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recognize. 
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deeper. 
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I read that I thought was very 
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It says, gimme three dollars 
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I thought this little poem. 
If you get home, you could look 

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up the whole thing. 
I'm just going to allude to it. 

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This one says, I don't know if 
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don't know if I can come to 
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interests, if you'll just fill 
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salvation. 
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I don't want to live it on 24/7.
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little bit of just give me three
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be fine. 
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get about you know, just give me
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way. 
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give my whole self to Jesus. 
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Well, you know, we want the Easy
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us. 
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If you will, well you can't just
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to become righteous and to 
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You have to make a commitment, 
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have to give it some time you 
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your life. 
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priorities. 
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priorities. 
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Commitments to read the Bible 
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to about now needed to up every 
and Deuteronomy and numbers just

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suck the life out of us and we 
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unfortunate that we can't make a
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year. 
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know, that's what I'm talking 
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The reason why we don't make it 
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a year is we don't carve out the
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something spiritual go into that
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It's either in the morning at 
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need to carve it out and 
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We need to make a commitment to 
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things and get it done. 
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happens in our life. 
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minutes, you can read the Bible 
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know how come we run successful 
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Well, it's because we just 
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Well, that's what Satan has 
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Satan, has used it to make it so
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Convenient. 
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We have to be able to do it 
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and then get back to our life. 
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selling this. 
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inclination to this and on one 
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There was a ABC's. 
How to be saved, just ABC. 

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And just remember ABC and you 
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Number one, admit fess up that 
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somebody who loves you three 
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Give Christ to shout out for 
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Redemption and they say you do 
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Well that sounds really good, 
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It believe confess and you're 
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Is that all there is to 
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I'm sorry. 
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it's quite a bit more than that.
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just the ABCs. 
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It's little bit more complex 
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something the blasphemous that 
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Every once in a while. 
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you can zip open and it's been 
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packet. 
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towelette just wipe again as 
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ridiculous. 
How can this be a substitute for

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baptism? 
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But truth is contrary to human 
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It's not just that simple. 
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is straight and narrow and 
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straight and narrow. 
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it takes some commitment to be 
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straight and narrow comes almost
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ships, going through some rocks 
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have two point that boat and get
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you have to make it through 
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Well, that's the way it is with 
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successful at the Christian 
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attention. 
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It takes us, knowing that this 
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through here, and that their 
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gone through the straight and 
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submission, you know, back when 
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starting in America. 
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Scott used to go around and call
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He says, you got to hear the 
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You got to believe it, you got 
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and you have to be baptized. 
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I believe this is a good way to 
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but some people think that is 
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well. 
No, this is how you begin your 

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relationship with God. 
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This is how you start out. 
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This isn't the entire gospel. 
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the Bible has to say about 
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It's more than just, that simple
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are necessary. 
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remember how to get into the 
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It's a good way to remember what
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How to be chemical? 
Come into a covenant 

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relationship? 
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that. 
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talk about these steps and we 
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other people say well you know 
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You're treating it like a 
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Have you ever heard that I have 
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They said well we need more than
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I didn't check all those things 
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Now I've done. 
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makes us mature Christians. 
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Whenever word child, the being 
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everything that Christ died for 
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And that's the beginning. 
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in Christ and then the growing 
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bit more complex. 
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everything. 
Then we need to grow in the 

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grace and knowledge of Our Lord 
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Our Lord Walter Scott had a good
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children to go home and tell 
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wanted them to come back so that
they could learn more and that's

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what we need to do as well. 
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about microwave, religion, a lot
of times and this is something 

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that's very important today. 
There's a gospel being preached 

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that you can have forgiveness 
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There's a lot of people just say
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where's repentance in that? 
Well what's repentance, they 

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don't even understand the word. 
The word isn't a word you use 

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every day. 
It's about time. 

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You repent, they go. 
I heard that word in church but 

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I don't know what that means. 
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change change Direction? 
That's what that word means. 

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The word repentance means to 
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Direction. 
Not just stop repentance is more

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than just stopping repentance. 
Is not a stop sign, it's a you. 

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Learn sign. 
It's a used to go in a different

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direction than the one you've 
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than a stop sign. 
I want you to know just because 

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you've stopped doing a lot of 
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Doesn't make you a mature 
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You say, well, I don't sin, I 
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I don't steal anymore. 
I must be a Christian by 

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default. 
Well, there's a lot of people 

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that don't lie. 
Don't cheat, don't steal, but 

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they're not Christians. 
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about here. 
We want remission, they want 

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forgiveness without Out 
repentance. 

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The Bible tells us unless we 
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We will likewise perish like 
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We find in Acts 17:30. 
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Came and commanded the entire 
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ignorance, God overlooked, but 
as thou, commanding all men 

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mankind, all mankind everywhere 
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It's our sin that caused Jesus 
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God wants us to stop sinning but
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that's simpler repentance is 
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We obey the gospel. 
It comes to us before remission 

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of sins, for forgiveness of sins
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of Salvation, you would think by
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grasp on what God means. 
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be immersed in water. 
A washed in water, we can 

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that baptism is hard, it's 
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is the change of Allegiance, the
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I am no longer going to sin. 
I'm going to deal with my Your 

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to sin. 
I'm going to put it to death 

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every day. 
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death the flesh every day, but 
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Christianity repentance. 
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death, the Flesh and walking 
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into court to a spiritual things
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Every moment we're going to stop
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speaking the truth. 
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that's what we got to get at in 
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Repentance is required of God. 
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emphasis than while we've given 
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change of heart, the change of 
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they wouldn't have a problem 
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and all three have to do is say 
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we're going to do it. 
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everywhere to repent, It's the 
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change of mind, resulting, in a 
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continually taught. 
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doctrine of the early church, 
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People want Jesus as Savior but 
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unless you take him as Lord too.
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You can't have one or the other,
you can't pick which Jesus you 

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want. 
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Whom you've scanned being 
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what's a Lord mean? 
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Suggest, what does it imply? 
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shots. 
He's the one that sets. 

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The priorities he was the one 
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He's the one that tells us but 
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it takes. 
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do that. 
Do do this. 

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God makes that distinction 
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he tells us to obey that which 
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Well, a lot of people today in 
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want righteousness without 
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I want this to be given to me, I
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know, if there's any argument by
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John, it first John is probably 
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because he says those who 
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righteous those who don't 
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who loves his brother is a child
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One who doesn't doesn't know. 
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about as plain as you can kid. 
It's the most plain-spoken book.

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I letter in the New Testament, I
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It's refreshing to read it, you 
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here's how you know, if you 
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chapter 2, and I want you to 
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misunderstand first John, you 
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Starting read verse 3, first, 
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have come to know him if we keep
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The one who says verse for verse
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come to know him And does not 
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and the truth is not in him. 
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You mean people in the Bible 
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John a loving disciple called 

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somebody a liar. 
He says, here's the person whose

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lies a person who says, he knows
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And as a repented yet, that's 
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here's a it one who says, I've 
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keep his Commandments is a liar,
and the truth is not in him, but

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whoever keeps his His word in 
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been perfected by this. 
We know that we are in him. 

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The one who says he abides in 
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the same manner as he walked, 
how much more straightforward 

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can you get? 
Walk. 

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He's talking about living. 
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to follow Jesus, you got to live
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I can't make it any more simple.
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and those who hear this word to 
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If anybody says they know God 
don't keep his Commandments 

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there. 
Liar. 

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Wow that's pretty profound 
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Really But he gets at the point 
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the faith. 
If you want to be pleasing to 

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God, Jesus is the author of 
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obey him. 
Now, guys, I don't know if you 

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ever meet anybody who's a 
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claims to be a calvinist but you
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chance to meet a lot of people 
who claimed all different kinds 

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of religions and their two 
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Calvinism. 
And this is one of them. 

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Titus 2:11 says the grace of 
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God, that brings salvation has 
appeared unto all men, that 

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destroys predestination is 
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election. 
He destroys this idea that God 

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made a preference not based on 
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respecter of persons. 
They said they said God 

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Sovereign he can do whatever he 
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righteous. 
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God is evil and we'll come back 
and talk about that later if you

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want, but God does doesn't pay. 
Certain people be saved and 

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serve people to a lot to be lost
indiscriminately because the 

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Bible says God desires and 
Timothy. 

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God desires all men to be saved 
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true. 
If that statement is true than 

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the doctrine of predestination 
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If God truly desires it and he 
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is the cuncta consequence of the
Bible. 

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But the Bible says, some people 
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Is God not powerful enough to 
save them? 

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Well no no don't question the 
sovereignty of God, here's the 

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point, my friends, the grace of 
God, that brings salvation has 

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been offered or appeared to all 
men. 

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Titus 2:11 but Hebrews 5 and 9 
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That Jesus is the author, the 
originator. 

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He is the one who will say he is
the author of Eternal salvation 

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unto all. 
All it doesn't stop there all 

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them that obey him. 
He will save anyone if they will

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obey him. 
And that's so important for us 

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to get, he became the author of 
Eternal salvation. 

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And to everybody, anybody could 
be saved if they will obey the 

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Lord. 
So, those who want righteousness

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without obedience, God's doesn't
offer that he says, you want to 

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be saved. 
Here's how you can know you if 

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you obey me or not, it's 
important. 

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It's critical to understand 
claiming to know God, without 

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keeping his Mints makes us a 
liar. 

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We know that. 
Well, let's go on what about 

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Holiness without self 
discipline? 

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People want once again to be 
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I'm glad. 
I hope you give me an extra 

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portion so that I could just be 
really hope or holy 

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superabundant. 
Holy and I could Spirits as if 

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it's come, some kind of of You 
know, aura or something. 

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Holiness means basically 
separation from sin, it's the 

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same word, translated, 
sanctification or Saint often 

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times in the scriptures. in 
order for us to be successful at

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our Christian Life, it takes 
more than just being wholly once

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We can be saved from our sins. 
We can go on our way, rejoicing 

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know that. 
So we've been forgiven but now 

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the task of remaining or 
maintaining Holiness is ours. 

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We can like a dog go back to our
vomit. 

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We can like a salad, go back to 
wallowing in the mire. 

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That doesn't mean we weren't 
cleansed once we were but we 

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went back. 
It's our responsibility to 

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maintain Holiness in our lives. 
We've got to do that. 

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What do we do? 
We must deny ungodliness and 

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worldly lust and live, soberly 
righteously and godly. 

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We can't just do anything we 
want to. 

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I want to make a side point here
before I go on. 

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No, we're not going to play 
church here for a few minutes 

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and I want you to really pay 
attention. 

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I've had an opportunity to deal 
with a lot of addicts and my 

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life, not just alcoholics. 
I'm talking about heroin abusers

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and meth crack addicts and also 
homosexuals. 

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And guess what? 
I've dealt with a few very, very

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angry people. 
You know, some people who said 

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they were born, that way they 
go, I'm Irish, I'm just born 

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angry, I was mad at my mom, 
whatever I was born Now, people 

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are that, they don't look at 
this fact and they sent to 

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excuse whatever thing they want 
to be genetically. 

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Believe that they may have You 
know, I don't know if you're 

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blaming your family for your 
anger, you know, or maybe like 

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they used their doing nowadays, 
finding a genetic weakness for 

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adultery. 
There are some men who are born 

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with the adultery gene they say 
and there's some who born with 

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alcoholic predisposition there's
some who are born. 

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They say I'm born homosexual, 
friends. 

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That doesn't matter to me. 
I know some people very close to

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me, it doesn't matter what's in 
that you're born with a 

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predisposition to That doesn't 
matter if you've got a problem 

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with same-sex attraction, you 
can get out of it. 

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If you've got a problem with 
adultery you can leave it. 

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How about fornication? 
Yeah. 

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That too. 
How about thievery? 

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Oh, so we'll go out if you get 
an adrenaline rush or whatever. 

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It might be, covetousness name 
is sin. 

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I don't care if you have a 
predisposition, and I don't care

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if your jeans lean that way. 
The point is, is Jesus said 

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you've got to repent of your 
sin. 

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You got to work on that now. 
Yes, for some people, it's 

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easier to live life. 
If they don't have a problem 

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with covetousness or lying, 
there are some people who seem 

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to be pathological liars. 
I'm just born liar. 

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It's easier for me to tell a lie
than it is to tell the truth. 

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Well, guess what? 
You still got to stop lying, you

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got to stop lying, you've got to
stop stealing. 

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You've got to stop getting angry
without any purpose. 

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I don't care if you have a 
predisposition to same-sex 

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attraction, the Bible says 
repent. 

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I don't care if you have a 
predisposition to covetousness 

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of be free. 
It doesn't matter. 

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God tells us all. 
We've got to practice 

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self-control and Holiness. 
We've got to practice some 

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Holiness, and yes, that takes 
self discipline. 

449
00:25:35,500 --> 00:25:39,400
It takes a commitment success. 
Paul said he had to discipline 

450
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,000
his body and bring it under 
subjection lest after he 

451
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,600
preached to others. 
He himself should be Cast Away. 

452
00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:48,600
Yes, it comes with commitment 
and growth but it can't happen. 

453
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,800
There is no sin in this world 
that God cannot help us get 

454
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:57,000
victory over I did. 
Nye that their sin that is as 

455
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,900
strong or stronger than God. 
God promised us that if we 

456
00:26:01,900 --> 00:26:05,200
sought first, the kingdom of 
God, we can make it. 

457
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,100
We can be Overcomers, we can 
succeed. 

458
00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:11,400
I know, X homosexuals in the 
church. 

459
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,100
I know X thieves in the church 
that came as a real surprise. 

460
00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:19,700
To me one day, a person in my 
congregation said he was going 

461
00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:22,900
to go away for a little while 
because he had made a deal with 

462
00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:26,100
the da I said over what? 
What he said, oh, I robbed a 

463
00:26:26,108 --> 00:26:29,400
bank. 
That was news. 

464
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,800
I said you robbed a bank. 
He said, yeah, but I've worked 

465
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,500
it out. 
I'm turning myself in. you just 

466
00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:40,700
don't know what's in people's 
past sometimes, But I'll tell 

467
00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:45,400
you what guess what? 
The church is full of X centers.

468
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,000
That's what it's about guys. 
All of us have had sins in our 

469
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,300
lives. 
But all of us don't have to 

470
00:26:56,500 --> 00:27:01,500
remain in our sin. 
If God sets us free, we are 

471
00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:04,200
free. 
Indeed, we can be forgiven. 

472
00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:10,700
We do not believe that any sin 
is stronger than God's power. 

473
00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:14,400
Yes, there are Temptations. 
He says, but there is no 

474
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:20,200
temptation taken you. 
There is no temptation taken 

475
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,300
you, what 1st Corinthians, 
10:13. 

476
00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:27,400
There's no temptation that can 
overtake you as the point. 

477
00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:32,600
There's nothing that is stronger
than God's ability to set you 

478
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,700
free and you can practice 
Holiness in your life. 

479
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,400
But such as is common to man, 
but God is faithful who will not

480
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:46,100
allow you to be tempted Beyond? 
There's the bird. 

481
00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:48,200
Oh, Glenn. 
But I can't help it. 

482
00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:53,200
You can I don't care what it is.
if you're a homosexual tonight, 

483
00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:56,400
you better not tell me because I
know some ex homosexuals in the 

484
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:02,300
church and they say, The 
repentance and allowing God to 

485
00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:06,200
change your life, works just as 
well with that as lying as anger

486
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,400
as any other sin, the same thing
works in all of those things, 

487
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:15,200
Holiness, practice, Holiness and
our life, it comes with kelp, 

488
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,100
commitment and self-discipline. 
They want growth without 

489
00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:22,600
diligence. 
To be the Christian remain, 

490
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,400
spiritual babies. 
Hebrews 5 pieces went for the 

491
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,000
time, you ought to be Growing 
up. 

492
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,400
He says, I can't but I have to 
address you as those who are 

493
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,000
babes in Christ. 
Long for the sincere, milk of 

494
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,400
the word that you may grow, 
thereby. 

495
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,000
He said, I want to say some 
North aint, but you're unable to

496
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,400
digest it because you're still 
babies. 

497
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,500
Well, in order to be babies, 
we've got to make every effort. 

498
00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:47,800
The Bible says, make every 
effort to add to our faith 

499
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,200
virtue and to Virtue knowledge 
on his temper temper page. 

500
00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:53,000
We've got to add to ourselves 
Christian virtues that are 

501
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,200
mentioned there and that takes 
work. 

502
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,700
So I'm going to ask you straight
out. 

503
00:28:56,700 --> 00:28:59,200
Do you've heard this sermon a 
hundred times, but what are you 

504
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,400
working on? 
That's why we're not successful.

505
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,500
We're not focused. 
What are you working on? 

506
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:08,800
Oh, I Glenn. 
You know. 

507
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,400
I'm a sinner. 
You know I need to grow and 

508
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:11,800
everything else. 
What are you working on? 

509
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,300
I don't know. 
There's nothing that's really 

510
00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:19,100
bothering me lately, really? 
That's the reason why we're not 

511
00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:24,000
growing. 
Come on guys. 

512
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,400
Christian growth ought to be 
something that's important to 

513
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:32,200
us, so we can't have Christian 
growth without giving it some 

514
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:38,300
effort, some energy, some Focus,
The Bible says, if we failed to 

515
00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:40,100
do. 
So we're short-sighted even as 

516
00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:42,600
blindness as we've forgotten 
that we were once cleansed from 

517
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,000
our old sins, second Peter 1 and
verse 9. 

518
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,100
If we fail to add these 
Christian virtues to our life, 

519
00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:52,600
we need to add to our faith 
virtue knowledge and Temperance 

520
00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:56,200
diligence in gaining knowledge 
that we may walk worthy. 

521
00:29:56,700 --> 00:29:59,800
Maybe about worthy of the Lord 
fully pleasing him being 

522
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,100
fruitful in every good work and 
increasing in the knowledge of 

523
00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:05,800
God collations. 
What does that describe your 

524
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,400
life? 
If it isn't, you're going to 

525
00:30:08,408 --> 00:30:10,100
have to do something to get 
there. 

526
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,500
That's what I want to encourage 
you to do this week. 

527
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,700
I want you to not go away from 
this place unchanged. 

528
00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:19,600
I want some change to be really 
important to us. 

529
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,700
You cannot continue to do what 
you've always done expecting to 

530
00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:27,700
get a different result. 
That's Insanity to always do 

531
00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:30,600
what you've always done. 
Hoping for a different result. 

532
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,600
If we're wanting a better 
result, if we're going to grow 

533
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,900
in our knowledge, we're going to
have to do something about it. 

534
00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:38,200
That's what we need to do. 
That's right. 

535
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,700
Knowledge without study is 
impossible. 

536
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,400
You are as Bible literate. 
As you ought to be, my people 

537
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,000
are destroyed for lack of 
knowledge, we know that and so 

538
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,000
we're going to have to do 
something. 

539
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000
I need to be a diligent student 
of God's word. 

540
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:53,900
I need to get more familiar with
who wrote it. 

541
00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:57,600
When it was written where was 
who has written two, I need to 

542
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,700
become familiar with the word of
God. 

543
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:01,700
It's a static by the doesn't 
change. 

544
00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:04,400
I didn't open it up the other 
day and find third Peter. 

545
00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:07,600
It's still there. 
That's why I'm trying to say 

546
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,700
it's not that difficult, if you 
study this your whole life, 

547
00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:12,600
you're going to have it 
memorized, you're going to get 

548
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,800
it. 
It's going to make sense to you 

549
00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:18,600
as you continue to layer upon 
layer, those experiences of time

550
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,900
and reading the word of God. 
It comes though with that habit.

551
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,200
It's the only source of saving 
faith and spiritual growth. 

552
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,200
My friends. 
If you're weak in your faith, 

553
00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:29,700
faith comes by hearing hearing, 
by the word of God, Romans 

554
00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:32,000
10:17. 
So, we got to get back into the 

555
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
word. 
It's a source of our strength. 

556
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:41,000
And everything, a lot of times 
we get lukewarm and sometimes we

557
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,200
grow weary and lose our fire. 
And what do you say to someone 

558
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,900
like that? 
Well, I'll tell you what, I've 

559
00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:49,800
been good been beginning to say,
to people. 

560
00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:52,800
I beginning to say and I want 
you to list. 

561
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,600
If you don't go away with 
anything else, I want you to get

562
00:31:54,600 --> 00:32:01,200
this time listener. if there is 
no God, Then, nothing matters. 

563
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,400
The nothing matters. 
If there is no God, then, 

564
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,800
nothing matters. 
Even as Ecclesiastes says what, 

565
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,700
let's eat drink tomorrow. 
We die and that's it. 

566
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,600
If there is no God, nothing 
matters. 

567
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:19,500
If there is a God, Nothing else 
matters. 

568
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:27,400
Nothing else matters. 
If there is a God, nothing else 

569
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:29,500
matters. 
I don't care what you did today.

570
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,000
It's only the spiritual stuff 
you did that had any Eternal 

571
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,100
importance? 
Honestly. 

572
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,100
We need to have that kind of 
mind to sort out all of the 

573
00:32:41,108 --> 00:32:43,100
things that we think are 
important. 

574
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,100
Although there's things that are
urgent but they're not more 

575
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:53,200
important. 
If there is a God, nothing else 

576
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:59,200
matters. 
So stop trying to live life as a

577
00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:01,600
we got to have some balance 
between the fleshly in the 

578
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,800
spiritual and I'm having a real 
tired time hard time getting 

579
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,500
that spiritual up where it needs
to be. 

580
00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:10,100
My friends, it needs to be 
everything. 

581
00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:16,500
It needs to be total commitment,
it needs to be everything. 

582
00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:20,500
And that's what we've got to get
at in our life. 

583
00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:23,000
We've got to get that knowledge.
It's absolutely vitally, 

584
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,700
important, eternally, important.
We're hoping to cram just before

585
00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:30,600
judgment, ain't got to work. 
That's not the way it work. 

586
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,600
You know. 
I like these pictures that I 

587
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,600
look out every now and then of 
people reading their Bible. 

588
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,600
The story behind this one is 
that this person right here, 

589
00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:43,300
these two people don't read. 
And this person is reading to 

590
00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:46,100
them first time, they've written
word for word of God, read to 

591
00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:49,800
him and he's being Fascinated 
by, you know, I just talked to 

592
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:54,000
Keith Thompson two days ago 
about going to Dar Salam, and he

593
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000
talks about how nasty Darcel 
obvious. 

594
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,100
It's a big city in Tanzania. 
If you look at its on the 

595
00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:03,300
western coast of Africa and he 
just got back and he said, oh, 

596
00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:06,300
they trudged through that City 
and it was muggy and it was 

597
00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:09,600
trashy, you know, and you'd go. 
He said, we showed up at this 

598
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,699
place and there were 18 people 
there, and all they wanted to do

599
00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:15,800
was just hear the word of God. 
They just wanted to hear the 

600
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:20,500
Bible and they read it and 
people just rejoicing and 

601
00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:22,400
hearing the word of God and Dar 
Salam. 

602
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,100
My friends, we have no idea what
it would be like to be without 

603
00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:30,699
our Bibles, but we've got a lot 
of copies laying around. 

604
00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:35,199
And we think just because we 
purchased the word of God, that 

605
00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,199
it's part of our Lives. 
I don't care how many bibles you

606
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:40,900
own, if it doesn't change the 
way, you think of the way you 

607
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:43,900
live handed in? 
We've got somebody else that can

608
00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:47,600
use it. 
Having a Bible isn't the point. 

609
00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:53,300
Having the Bible change us is 
what its purpose is all about. 

610
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,400
So get at reading it, get it, 
understanding it, take it to 

611
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,200
school with you. 
If they kick you out, I'll tell 

612
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,200
you what's more important. 
Reading the Bible, that's what's

613
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,500
most important. 
You know that we've got to get 

614
00:35:06,500 --> 00:35:10,100
it back into our lives. 
Well some people want salvation 

615
00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:13,000
without sacrifice. 
Jesus said, take up your cross 

616
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000
and follow me. 
Whoa, what a statement? 

617
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000
Can't you make this Christianity
a little bit cheaper if you're 

618
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,400
trying to sell it. 
That's not very appealing. 

619
00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:26,800
That's not a good slogan. 
You want to go to heaven. 

620
00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:34,300
Pick up a cross and follow me. 
That just, that just sounds like

621
00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:38,700
a hard sales line. 
My friends Jesus wants us to 

622
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:41,100
make a commitment and he 
understands that we might be 

623
00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:43,600
taking up a cross in order to 
follow him. 

624
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:49,400
That's right. 
If you lived in Egypt, And you 

625
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,500
realize that like those 21 
people the other day. 

626
00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:59,100
You might lose your actual head 
because you were going to claim 

627
00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:03,200
to be a Christian. 
That could have been you. 

628
00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:08,200
In that picture. 
Could have been today. 

629
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,400
Those people died for claiming 
to be Christians. 

630
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:18,700
I don't know if they really were
Don't know have been their lives

631
00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,700
if they do babe, the Lord or 
not, and I kind of studied a 

632
00:36:21,707 --> 00:36:23,600
little bit about the Coptic 
church. 

633
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,400
I don't know much about it. 
But I know one thing. 

634
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,700
They were ready to die for their
faith, they knew what it cost to

635
00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:38,300
be a Christian, a lot better 
than sometimes we do. 

636
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,400
I know that they understood the 
commitment, it took. 

637
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,500
We need to take that kind of 
look at this and realize that if

638
00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:52,100
the day comes that we just can't
be an ABC. 

639
00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:56,100
Christian, we got to recognize 
there more to it than just an 

640
00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:59,700
easy button. 
Sometimes it means giving it 

641
00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:03,000
more, but it doesn't show in our
life, we need to take up our 

642
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,800
cross. 
We need to deny, it deny sinful 

643
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,400
pleasure. 
We need to give up pleasure and 

644
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,400
selfish desires and give 
ourselves wholly. 

645
00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:16,300
The following God and being 
ambitious, we need to prize 

646
00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:19,600
those who put these virtues at 
the Forefront of their life. 

647
00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:21,800
Not they may not make a ton of 
money. 

648
00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:26,900
You're going to you're going to 
become an evangelist in a 

649
00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:29,900
foreign land instead of going to
school and making big bucks. 

650
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,200
I'm not sure that's a wise 
decision. 

651
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,800
Should that come out of our 
mouths? 

652
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:41,300
Yes, that's the. 
Supremely wise thing to say, it 

653
00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:45,000
shows the priorities are right, 
and that's what I'm talking 

654
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,200
about here. 
We've got to give God ourselves 

655
00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:51,500
to the service of God becoming a
Living Sacrifice, Romans, 12:1, 

656
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:53,400
and 2. 
Well, I'm trying to cut this 

657
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,200
down, trying to make a little 
microwave anyway. 

658
00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:01,300
Anyway, Luke Now, the parable is
this, the seed is the word of 

659
00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:05,700
God those soon by the wayside. 
What does it say though? 

660
00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:08,500
Some, by the seed is the word of
God but the ones that fell on 

661
00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:10,200
the good. 
Ground are those having heard 

662
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,100
the word with a noble and good 
heart? 

663
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,000
Keep it and bear fruit with 
patience or endurance. 

664
00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:19,100
That's what we want to be. 
We view ourselves as good 

665
00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:22,000
ground. 
The Bible says, if we view 

666
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,800
ourselves with as good ground 
than, we need to be bearing 

667
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:29,900
fruit with patience, we need to 
Show some evidence of that in 

668
00:38:29,900 --> 00:38:34,800
our hearts and in our lives, but
microwave religion is just the 

669
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,500
opposite. 
Many in this world. 

670
00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:40,200
Want real remission without 
repentance righteousness, 

671
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:44,800
without obedience Holiness, 
without self-discipline growth, 

672
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:50,100
without diligence knowledge, 
without study and salvation 

673
00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:54,700
without sacrifice. 
I want you to know that. 

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That is totally, not part of the
Bible's record, it's totally not

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part of it at all. 
I'll got one last verse. 

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I want to. 
I want to read to you. 

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If you have your Old Testaments.
I want you to look at something 

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in First Kings chapter 13. 
In First Kings. 

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Jeroboam is a guy who belt 
shechem in the Hill Country of 

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Ephraim and lived there, and he 
went out from there and built 

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penuel verse 25. 
Now, they've just split in 

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chapter 12, they just split the 
Kingdom of Israel and notice 

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what he says to them. 
Mmm, Verse 28. 

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So the king consulted, make two 
golden calves and he said to the

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people. 
Here's what he said. 

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Verse 28 of First Kings chapter 
12 First Kings chapter 12, I'm 

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sorry. 
I said there were 13, didn't I? 

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Sorry, 12:28 so the king 
consulted made to Golden calves,

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and he said to them, it's too 
much for you to go up to 

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Jerusalem. 
Behold your God's o Israel that 

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brought you out of the land of 
Egypt and he set one at Bethel 

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and the other at Dan. 
Now, this thing became a sin for

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the people went to worship 
before the one as far as Dan. 

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Now, this chapter delineates. 
Why he did that? 

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He said if the people keep going
back to Jerusalem, their hearts 

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00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:25,100
going to be turned back and I 
I'm going to get fried, I'm 

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00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:26,700
can't keep all these people 
together. 

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00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:33,700
But notice notice the way he 
introduced idolatry back into 

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the children of Israel, the ten 
Northern tribes. 

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How did he do it? 
How did he do it? 

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He said these simple little 
words. 

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It is too much for you. 
Don't be a radical Christian. 

703
00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:57,000
That's too much. 
Give me three dollars worth of 

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00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,600
Jesus and I'll go on my way. 
You can be that kind of 

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00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,100
Christian. 
If you want, you can buy your 

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00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:06,500
plastic Jesus and sit him on his
bobblehead in the back and look 

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00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:08,300
in a mirror if that's what you 
want. 

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00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,200
But my friends, I don't know 
about you, but I'm sick and 

709
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,300
tired of plastic Jesus and three
dollars worth of Jesus. 

710
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,400
I think we as the church need to
become the church. 

711
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,900
Again we need to become a 
spiritually minded people that 

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00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:25,500
have spiritually minded goal and
we need to put some effort at 

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00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:29,800
focus and self-discipline into 
our lives and tell people, it's 

714
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,000
not easy, it's not easy to be a 
Christian. 

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00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:39,100
It takes everything, you've got 
to be successful at being a 

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Christian. 
So quit trying to give it the 

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00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:47,300
minimum daily required its and 
start giving him the maximum of 

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00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:52,400
everything that you can. 
It started giving him as much as

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you possibly can and guess what?
You're going to find 

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Christianity? 
A lot easier to live when you're

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fully dedicated. 
When you make a full commitment,

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00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,600
it's going to be easier because 
you're not going to happy having

723
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:13,000
to make decisions all day long 
about which you want to do. 

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Because the devil is always 
going to be crying. 

725
00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:20,000
It's too much, it's too much. 
This Christianity's too much lay

726
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,400
down. 
Take a nap. 

727
00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:23,700
Take it easy. 
God doesn't want you to be a 

728
00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:32,000
fanatic? 
I'm here to tell you tonight. 

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00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:38,000
You don't want cheap religion. 
You don't want to cheat Jesus, 

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00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:40,700
you don't want a cheap 
Christianity. 

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00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,900
If you're going to be a 
Christian, it's going to take 

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00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:47,500
everything you got. 
Your whole mind. 

733
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:54,500
Heart soul body. 
Because Jesus don't shell cheap 

734
00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:59,300
Christianity. 
The real thing is costly. 

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00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:04,200
But it's wonderful. 
If you're not enjoying it, it's 

736
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,800
perhaps you've not bought the 
right kind of Christianity. 

737
00:43:08,700 --> 00:43:12,800
Perhaps, you push the button for
the easy version will tonight in

738
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,900
your faith. 
I want you to know this. 

739
00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:24,000
If there is a God, nothing else 
matters, this is what pleases 

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00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000
him in your faith, repent of 
your sins. 

741
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:32,100
All of them, Luke 13:3 confess 
the name of Jesus Christ before 

742
00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:35,400
men man. 
Matthew 10:32 and in your 

743
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,900
repentance and in your 
confession that you make before 

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00:43:38,900 --> 00:43:42,200
me, men that you believe, Jesus 
Christ is the Son of God, you're

745
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,400
a fit subject for immersion in 
water, a picture of the death, 

746
00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:50,400
burial and G of Jesus Christ. 
And the resurrection to walk in 

747
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,600
newness of Life. 
Romans 6, 3, through 5. 

748
00:43:55,100 --> 00:44:00,200
And I'm here to tell you one 
last point about that, you can't

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00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:04,500
be a Christian, if a death 
doesn't happen. 

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00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:12,500
If you're about to be a 
Christian you've got to die and 

751
00:44:12,500 --> 00:44:16,800
be buried and raised with him. 
That's a symbol of the change in

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00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:24,400
our life to that's a symbol that
change that commitment to live a

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00:44:24,408 --> 00:44:27,000
new life to be a new creature in
Christ. 

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00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:33,000
Tonight don't buy The Fakes, 
don't buy the knockoffs by the 

755
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,800
genuine thing in order to buy 
the genuine thing you've got to 

756
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:45,800
die, you've got to repent, 
confess, be buried, baptism and 

757
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,600
raised to walk in newness of 
life. 

758
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,600
But you'll never regret it. 
You'll never regret it. 

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00:44:54,300 --> 00:44:58,700
By the real thing. 
Don't just look for the cheap. 

760
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:04,300
Microwave religion, look for the
religion of a lifetime. 

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00:45:05,700 --> 00:45:08,300
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00:45:08,300 --> 00:45:14,100
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00:45:14,100 --> 00:45:17,200
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00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,900
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