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In 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 
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The Apostle says that we are 
called by the gospel. 

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Again in First Corinthians 
chapter 1 and verse 9. 

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He states that were called into 
Fellowship by the gospel. 

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Now John in the Epistle of John 
Begins, the text by talking 

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about the fact that Jesus has 
been revealed that he has. 

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God has come to the world and 
we've touched him, we've talked 

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to him. 
We've Walked with him and we 

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know fully who he is and we have
a special fellowship with God 

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and with Christ, and he says, we
want, we want you. 

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We remind you of these things, 
we write these things to you 

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because we want you also to have
this same Fellowship. 

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We've been called into 
fellowship with the Lord Jesus 

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Christ. 
We've been calling the 

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fellowship with God, the Father,
all the way back to the 

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beginning. 
This Fellowship was broken by 

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seeing and Cause of sin of man 
being separated from God was in 

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need of a savior, Jesus came and
through the apostles words, 

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through the words of the 
Apostles, we can find the way 

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that leads us back into 
Fellowship. 

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John clearly tells us in first 
John chapter 1 that it's through

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the light of his word that we 
have Fellowship as long as we 

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remain in the light. 
Now, obviously, he doesn't mean 

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in that passage that a person 
makes every step in the light, 

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but he's teaching us the 
importance of having, the right 

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attitude of walking in the right
way of Walking, In The Light, in

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1st, John 1:7. 
John says, if we Walk in the 

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light even as he is in the 
light, we have Fellowship one 

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with another and the blood of 
Jesus Christ. 

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His son cleanseth us from all 
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Jesus was the True Light. 
Jesus came with the word and 

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through that word, we can have 
that light today and we do have 

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that light as long as we remain 
within the confines of that 

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light. 
Now, noticed he says that our 

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fellowship with God is dependent
upon the fact that we walk in 

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the light. 
Now, I want to illustrate that 

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when I was a little boy, About 
the size of a little Caleb, who 

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was here this morning hand, his 
oldest son, my Grandpa took me 

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to some railroad tracks and he 
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that time and he took me to the 
railroad track, a couple of 

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blocks of our house and and he 
got up on the rail and he just 

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started walking. 
He says he's a little boy and 

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Arkansas. 
He had walked the rail. 

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Now, I don't know if he had this
in mind or not, but he taught me

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a great lesson and of course, 
When I first took my first step,

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I can hardly take a step without
Fallin. 

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I can hardly walk one step after
another without falling off of 

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the rail. 
But he would encourage me. 

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He put me back on the rail and I
kept walking and I kept 

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practicing. 
He said, when I go away, I 

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believe you back in a month or 
so and every chance you get you 

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practice. 
And so I practice well pretty 

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soon because I was determined to
walk the rail. 

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I could walk a few steps without
falling. 

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Well, that's A little bit like 
Christianity. 

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You see, when you start your 
baby, that's why Jesus says, 

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except a man be born of water 
and of the spirit, he cannot 

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enter the kingdom of heaven. 
When you start, you don't know 

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anything. 
When you start, you can't walk 

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in the light hardening but your 
determine and you have a mindset

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to be the kind of person God 
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And so, you get back in the 
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You get back in the light 
because you're determined to 

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stay there your tutor. 
Ermine to be the kind of person 

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that God wants you to be. 
But you know what I learned. 

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After I learned to walk pretty 
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I learned that that there were 
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You know, sometimes these tracks
that I walked on went from the 

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East, to the west and on the 
north side of the track that 

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were some tall cottonwood trees.
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were some red-tailed. 
Hawks sometimes, as I would walk

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along one of those red-tailed, 
Hawks would swoop down to get a 

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squirrel and the shadow would 
start early and I'd follow. 

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Or sometimes I would be at a 
certain place and and there was 

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a stop sign on the road and a 
car would come screeching up to 

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the stop sign and it would start
on me and I would fall. 

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Sometimes we lived in a small 
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Everybody knew each other at the
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Somebody say Dwayne and I turn 
around and I fall. 

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Now that again is a little bit 
like Christianity. 

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No matter how long you live it, 
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always going to be some 
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In fact, the Bible says in First
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that the devil is a roaring 
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Well, can you about seeking 
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He may devour in the second 
Thessalonians letter, our Second

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Corinthian letter. 
The Apostle says that Satan is 

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like a serpent. 
He's deceptive. 

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And so he's always looking for 
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she see the difference between 
the person who fails and the 

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person who is successful is the 
person who gets up one more time

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when he falls You see the 
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failure is not your education. 
It's not from which side of the 

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tracks that you were born. 
Now we want to blame those 

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things and we want to bring 
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It's not because you're a man or
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your job or your social status. 
It's because you just get up one

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more time than you fall. 
That's the difference. 

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I'm telling you today, that 
whoever you are, you can live 

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for Jesus and you can be the 
kind of person that you ought to

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be. 
Get up, get up one more time and

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give it a little more effort. 
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successful you can be. 
That's the key. 

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That's the difference between 
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Lee In this passage John is 
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A lifestyle is teaching us a way
of life. 

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We've been called to fellowship 
with God. 

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Think about that we've been 
called in the fellowship with 

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the creator of the heavens and 
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The Bible says, in the 
beginning, God created the 

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Heaven and the Earth and he 
wants us to be in fellowship 

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with him. 
He made us in his likeness, he 

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made us in His image and he 
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I am and it's up to you. 
He has designed of means he's 

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designed a way that you can be 
successful. 

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He wants you to be successful. 
You know, there's an interesting

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passage over there in second 
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All of us are familiar with this
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This is where Peter is talking 
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Christian Graces and he says if 
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abound, they make you that ye 
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unfruitful in the knowledge of 
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Here. 
Jesus Christ. 

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But there's an interesting 
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Some interesting versus at the 
conclusion of what he says about

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the Christian Graces, look at 
this or listen to this. 

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Now, second Peter, chapter 1 
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The writer says, wherefore the 
rather Brethren give diligence 

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to make your calling and 
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Sure, for if you do these things
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Listen. 
Now for soul entrance, Shall be 

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administering you abundantly 
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Listen to me. 
You're not going to make it to 

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Heaven by the skin of your 
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It's not going to be something 
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You have to make up your mind. 
You have to decide on going. 

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Now you can earn your salvation 
and there's nothing you could 

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do, that will cause you to 
deserve it. 

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But when you make up your mind, 
God will provide a way. 

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For you to get through and do 
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His plan is simple, too. 
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In fact, it's a plan that 
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Everyone can obey known as he 
says wherefore an entrance 

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should be ministering you 
abundantly into the Everlasting 

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Kingdom of our Lord and Savior 
Jesus Christ. 

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Now sometimes I hear people 
quote from 1st Peter 4:11 and 

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we're not first Peter 4 verse 
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because I think it's forward 17 
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Let's see here. 
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judgment is going to begin at 
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the righteous scarcely be saved.
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sort of goes to something like 
this, you know, it's real hard 

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to get to heaven. 
Fact, it's impossible for some 

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and and we'll be lucky if we get
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And you know, That's a 
contradiction to what he says in

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2nd Peter chapter 1. 
If he's talking about judgment 

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he's talking about our Eternal 
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It's clear in second, Peter 
chapter 1 that he's talking 

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about the Eternal Kingdom. 
He says into the Everlasting 

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Kingdom of our Lord and Savior. 
Jesus Christ over there in 

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second, Peter chapter 2, the 
Eternal Kingdom. 

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So now if in First Peter Chapter
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talking about the same thing, it
on fit. 

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Now, in the preceding verse 
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Peter says, the end is near you 
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talking about in verse 17 18. 
He's not talking about the day 

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of judgment in verse 17, 18 
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since he said that and the 
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Now, we've been preaching to 
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that when John, the Baptist said
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hand, it had to come and that 
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So, the pro it is, it has 
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It has reference to something 
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And the reference to that. 
Something else is the 

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destruction of Jerusalem. 
He says the righteous will 

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scarcely be saved. 
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Because they're going to be 
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with Titus comes with that army.
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they're going to withdraw. 
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this is an omen from God telling
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victorious, but those who listen
to, Jesus are going to flee the 

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mountains. 
Remember, that's what Jesus 

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said. 
When you see the armies 

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encompassing Jerusalem, flee to 
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The righteous were scarcely. 
Saved the Judgment was right 

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upon them. 
But they were allowed to escape.

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and, History Bears record that 
no Christian suffered in the 

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destruction of Jerusalem, death.
For they left when Jesus told 

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him to leave. well, the point is
all the things that we've been 

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talking about this week, if we 
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have to make up our minds that 
we're going to be saved. 

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We got to make up our minds to 
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We got to walk in the light. 
We got to determine that we're 

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going to remain in the light. 
Sometimes we may see him 

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sometimes we may fall but we 
must get back up and get back in

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the light and press forward, 
Press On. 

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Now, let's go back to 1st John 
and look at this, a little more 

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carefully. 
Notice what John says, at verse 

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7. 
We've already quoted that but I 

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want to read that again. 
It says, but if we walk in the 

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light, as he is in the light, we
have Fellowship one with another

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and the blood of Jesus Christ, 
his son cleanseth us from all 

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sin. 
If we say that, we have no sin, 

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we deceive ourselves and the 
truth is not in us. 

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If we confess our sins, he is 
faithful and just Just to 

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forgive us our sins and to 
cleanse us from all 

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unrighteousness. 
If we say that we have not 

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sinned, we make him a liar and 
his word is not in us. 

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All of us are sinners. 
I don't know why some people 

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have such a difficulty with 
admitting that. 

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I remember when I was growing 
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impression that they were 
sitting us I don't know, I guess

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they wanted people to think 
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I don't know what the reason 
was. but John clearly says, if 

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we claimed that sin never 
bothers us that we're lying, he 

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tells us clearly that if we 
claim, we are per perfect in the

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sense of being flawless, that 
were wrong. but, on the other 

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hand, He says, if we confess our
sins, he is faithful and just to

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forgive us our sins and to 
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unrighteousness. 
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story in the Old Testament. 
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the story, but you remember that
Jesus came to her, rather Moses,

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and the children of Israel came 
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And they need water. 
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was instructed by God to take 
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carrying and he was instructed 
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Bible tells us that in the book 
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obedience and the people's need,
the Bible says that God provided

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the people water from a rock. 
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an approximate date. 
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months, but about 40 years 
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are in an area of the country by
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again, you gather the people 
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you speak to the Rock. now, here
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here, he's told only to speak. 
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Moses why? 
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But you know the story. 
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the Rock but he hit it again. 
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Now, why is God? 
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wondered why? 
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why except that God told him 
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what God Said. 
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Sometimes we to go beyond What 
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We think we're better off then, 
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sell it, it doesn't do as much 
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more than God said, he did all 
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more. 
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Inspiration reveals to us, why? 
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You see 1st Corinthians, chapter
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followed them. 
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It wasn't a literal rock that 
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But in both instances, the water
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Horeb and Cadence Rania. 
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He's talking about the miracle. 
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followed them was Jesus. 
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death. 
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the fourth chapter that he was 
giving Living Water that would 

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say 28 spiritual thirst and give
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rock, their first time, they 
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Jesus died one time on the 
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You see, he ruined the picture. 
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to the Rock, they were to speak 
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He violated God's Will and he 
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Because you see that's the way 
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When you're Christian when you 
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one time, therefore you're 
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You're baptized one time. 
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problem in the Brotherhood. 
People get their life messed up.

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And they did think that they 
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it. 
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a bath, the first time, if you 
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doing now I can't read your 
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You have to make that decision. 
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was take a bath. 
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but it's not really a re-baptism
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The point is you weren't 
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to be baptized scripture. 
Well, you're baptized one time 

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because Jesus died. 
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And then when you need help 
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That's why John writing your 
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our sins he is faithful and just
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And so amazingly When Moses 
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Aaron were forbidden to enter 
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You see there was always 
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fail to remember that now. 
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repeated because God forgave him
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earth he did finally enter the 
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Remember that? 
In Matthew the 17th chapter, you

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remember some men appeared with 
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on that mountain and one of them
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Moses is on the inside of the 
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He'd repented and someday. 
He's going to go to heaven but 

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he wasn't allowed to enter Kate 
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The type of Heaven because of 
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Now I'm going to tell you 
something, you may not always 

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understand why God tells you 
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You may not even always agree. 
With what God has said. 

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But that doesn't matter. 
What matters is God said. 

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And that settles it and no 
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No matter what I say, no matter 
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to make any difference to the 
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Judgment is what God has said. 
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me and receiveth, not my words. 
Hath one that judgeth him. 

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Now I've emphasized today, in 
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Bible, And you can't walk in the
light without the Bible. 

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If you're going to go to heaven,
you got to be in the light. 

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So you got to know what this 
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You got to study it, you got to 
absorb it, you got to comprehend

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it. 
You got to assimilate it in your

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life. 
You got to practice it. 

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You got to tell it to others. 
God's called you into his 

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Fellowship. 
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That's an amazing thought me. 
Just old Wayne. 

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I'm the brother of Jesus Christ.
He's called me in the 

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fellowship. 
With his father. and now, if I 

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stay in fellowship with him, If 
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blessings in Christ. 
Then someday I can go to heaven.

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Now I don't know the mind set of
you today. 

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We're coming close to the 
meeting. 

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We're fixing to getting our 
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buddy. 
We're going to go 70 miles an 

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hour for several days. 
Maybe when we get to New Mexico 

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nurse, won't until 75 Vector. 
No maybes about it. 

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We are, if we decide to go on 
Interstate 10, we're going to go

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80 because that's how fast speed
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When we get to Texas, we're 
going home. 

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Well someday. 
Someday, we're going to go home.

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Are you ready? 
Are you ready to go home? 

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Man, I want to go home, I'm 
ready. 

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Well, Jesus is coming back. 
He may come back tonight. 

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It may be tomorrow, it might be 
10,000 years. 

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I don't know when he's coming, 
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And if you die in the meantime, 
or if I pass from this life 

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through the process, then my 
destiny is set. 

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So, we better think about it 
life tonight. 

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Better think very seriously. 
We're told in second Corinthians

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13, examine yourselves. 
Examine yourselves. 

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Whether you be in the faith. 
Are you in the faith today? 

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You've never obeyed the gospel. 
We urge you to do that when 

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Philip went to Samaria and 
preached Jesus and the things 

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concerning the Kingdom of 
Heaven, the Bible says that they

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believed and they were baptized 
in first or rather in Acts 18, 

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when Paul went to Corinth, he 
remained there for 18 months and

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the Bible says that the 
Corinthians heard believed and 

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were baptized Well, maybe today,
you've heard sufficiently. 

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You're ready to be baptized if 
that's the case believing with 

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all your heart, repent of your 
past, change your mind with 

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register sin, repent or perish. 
Jesus said confess him before 

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this audience. 
Peter said, in Matthew 16:16, 

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Thou Art the Christ, the son of 
the Living, God, And then be 

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buried with him in baptism. 
Bible says that both the 

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preaching the converted acts 8, 
went down into the water and he 

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was baptized, and they came up 
out of the water rejoicing. 

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Why? 
Because baptism will save you, 

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not because there's power and 
water, but because that's the 

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plan of God. 
And when you obey, God, he keeps

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his promises. 
On the all those that obey, 

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Jesus is the author of 
Salvation. 

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Not everyone that says to me, 
Lord Lord shall enter into the 

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kingdom of heaven, but he that 
does, the will of my father. 

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Who is in heaven, are you ready 
to obey today? 

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Right? 
Now, is the time the whole today

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is the day of salvation. 
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