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This week, we're going to be 
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in our lives, and this is a 
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hot-button word because 
oftentimes when ever use the 

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word change, there will be 
people who get defensive and 

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say. 
Now, look, we're talking about 

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the Lord's Church. 
There's things we're not 

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supposed to change and that, and
yet within the teachings of 

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Christianity change is one of 
the very reasons why God gave us

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the assembly. 
And His word is because we need 

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to change from a sinful life to 
an obedient life. 

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A life that reflects the design 
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his glory rather than to reflect
if you will the Flesh. 

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And yet, there are many other 
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Bible says will never change. 
Jesus is immutable. 

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He says that God is the same 
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And so whenever you look at the 
word change as it's used in the 

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scriptures, you're going to find
the whole rainbow. 

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Things talked about whenever you
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going to find things that never 
change, things that should never

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change and things that must 
change things that absolutely 

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must change in order to be 
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Well, pleasing to God. 
And so today, whenever we're 

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talking about some of these 
Concepts were going to introduce

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our thoughts this whole week, 
we're going to be talking about 

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change. 
We want to introduce our 

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thoughts by talking about change
itself and how sometimes we 

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don't change like we should 
we're going to talk about how 

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that there it can come about 
change in our life and how we 

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can bring about change, good 
change positive change change 

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that as a prove to God and how 
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must never change in this life 
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First of all, whenever we talk 
about change the verse that we 

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used in your little flyer acts 
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The Bible says, God is 
commanding all men everywhere to

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repent the word repent. 
It is a synonym if you will for 

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change, we don't often use the 
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religious context. 
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up to somebody and was talking 
about, changing you go, you 

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know, you need to repent, you 
know you we don't often use that

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just into in our way, we 
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word repent means change. 
God is demanding that we change.

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And so he whenever he God, 
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change. 
We have to ask When where, how, 

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what, what is it? 
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What kind of change is God? 
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we really need to look at it. 
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in the scriptures that thought 
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really didn't if you'll turn to 
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The first chapter, we find a 
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tells us in verse 19, Excuse me.
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beloved brother and but everyone
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speak and slow to anger for the 
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the righteousness of God, 
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see, here's some things that God
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anger of man does not work the 
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This isn't in keeping with God's
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And so he says, therefore 
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all that remains of wickedness 
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verse 21, received the word 
implanted, which is able to save

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your souls, the word, implanted,
we're in our hearts and in our 

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minds, is able to bring about 
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prove verse 22, but prove 
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not merely hearers who delude 
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Now, here's somebody who has a 
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the change doesn't really come 
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It's it's really if you will 
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Outside of their life, it may be
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It may have a semblance. 
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changed people in some way. 
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acknowledgment to Jesus. 
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praise God, with their lips, but
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But God says, listen, I want 
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I really want some dude, 
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only on the outside, but from 
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In other words, true change 
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heart, from our hearts. 
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Notice verse 21 is a hero word 
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He is like unto a man who looks 
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for once. 
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away, he is immediately 
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What kind of person he is. 
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Standard. 
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person is? 
What the Greek is trying to get 

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across to us? 
Hear the word of God reveals to 

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us. 
Us things that an outward mere 

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cannot show to us or cannot 
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shows us how we appear to 
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The word shows us how we appear 
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We may outwardly look beautiful,
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We may be ugly on the inside and
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people who sometimes look at 
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God sees them, but they go away 
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that they are notice. 25, but 
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perfect law, the Lauber Liberty.
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begun a forgetful hearer. 
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shall be blessed in what he 
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Evidently this man reacts with 
the word of God that is he sees 

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himself, he sees what kind of 
person he is inside the word and

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something happens. 
He becomes a doer change happens

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in his life. 
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Changes his behavior. 
He changes his relationships. 

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He changes the way, he, he acts 
the way he feels, and the reason

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is not by being around a Bible. 
It's not being around religious,

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people, it seeing yourself in 
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change you in some way. 
Let's let the outwardly we may 

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appear, beautiful, but inwardly,
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If you will to the Book of 
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The apocalypse. 
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Revelation, the third chapter 
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out, right, third chapter and 
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Let's look at the church at 
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Now, here's a church that was 
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Notice what it says here to the 
angel of Churchill, owed to see 

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uh, the amen, the faithful and 
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the creation of God, says this, 
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neither cold nor hot. 
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should were. 
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dispassionate about their 
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They didn't have any emotion and
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if they didn't, they were just 
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Notice? 
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you are lukewarm and neither 
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I will spit you out of my mouth.
You're distasteful to me. 

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You don't serve god with 
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Oh, but you don't quit, your 
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Here's why they were lukewarm 
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holy spirit is quoting. 
Maybe not quoting verbatim 

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somebody in the congregation but
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Notice the attitude this quote 
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He says, because you say, I am 
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have need of nothing now that 
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contextually hear about their 
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community, he's talking It just 
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He's talking about people who 
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mature, wealthy and Rich. 
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These people think they've got 
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They have it. 
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Rich. 
Notice what he says and we have 

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need of nothing. 
Do you not know that you are 

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wretched and miserable and poor 
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They were destitute how they 
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Elves was starkly different to 
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They should have been looking in
that mirror because the physical

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mere told him, they had it made,
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revealed to them, that they were
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unclothed. 
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They were literally unprepared. 
I advise you to buy from me, 

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gold refined by fire so that you
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so that you may clothe 
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And that the Shame of your 
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and eye Salve to anoint, your 
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I love, I rebuke and I Chasin, 
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here today and I don't know 
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I know outwardly, you may appear
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Okay, everything's fine. 
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But the fact of the matter is, 
we don't have the ability to 

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look into other people's hearts 
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ourselves for what we really 
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But you do, you know, because 
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you know what you've hidden from
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need to like, the church at 
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Look into our lives and see 
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And then that gives us 
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reality of where, to change in 
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Outwardly, everybody may be 
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approval, but whether without 
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being a presentable for God, 
that's nothing, that's just a 

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mere. 
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This is a church here in 
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This isn't talking about a 
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about a Congregation of our 
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you've got it, made your rich 
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Don't you know your poor blind 
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Look at yourself. 
The way I look at you you need 

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some real changes. 
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have all kinds of and a whole 
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Some of us don't have any 
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swearing. 
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may not have a problem with lust
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problem with theft others do, 
some of us ain't mine, a I have 

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a problem with envy and hatred. 
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is, is regardless of how you 
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we need to understand. 
It's how God views us that 

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It's the only thing that really 
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that's where when will that 
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That's where the authentic and 
the genuine comes from, it comes

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from winds within inside. 
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through the scriptures through 
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Let's look at Some passages, 
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at home. 
I have a tendency to teach a 

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long time and I'm trying not to 
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But I do want to get the concept
of, and I want you to come back 

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all through the week because we 
are going to be building on 

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these sermons. 
We're going to be building one 

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upon another. 
And I don't want you to miss one

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because everyone is critical to 
The Next Step because change is 

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so difficult in our lives. 
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God gave us habit for a good 
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Our brains are habitual for good
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to do good, then it becomes 
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Just having a habit isn't 
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But yet having a bad habit that 
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or things in our lives that are 
real struggles to change. 

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I want you to know there is hope
there is real hope and God would

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not ask us to do something that 
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Every single one of us have to 
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I hope you're not sitting there 
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say well Glenn everybody else 
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Then I would say, okay, you 
laodicean, you're rich and 

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increased with goods and have 
need of nothing. 

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Are you one of the few people 
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here? 
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How about that? 
That's the problem we're getting

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at here folks. 
Have you changed much in the 

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last 10 years? 
How's your marriage changed in 

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the last 10 years? 
Have your friendships change? 

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Not for, are you have you gotten
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Have you overcome some things in
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or have you been? 
Are you battling the same 

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battles for the last 10 years? 
The last 10 years it reminds me 

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of a teacher. 
One time, the teacher went to 

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the principal and said principle
I want you to know. 

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I think I deserve a raise, I 
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years, And I still have not 
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And the guy says, I've got 20 
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Yes, I've got 20 years 
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haven't got 20 years experience.
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experience 20 times. 
You've not really grown, you 

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know, and that's what happens 
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and we've still got one year 
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That's not, that's not what 
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We've got to have real growth in
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So how do we do that? 
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the lesson of the Old Testament 
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Sometimes they're example was 
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so that we would stumble like 
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But insert first, Samuel, 15 and
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and Samuel said has the Lord as 
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obey is better than sacrifice 
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rams, well Glenn, what is the 
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God. 
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as long as I check in as long as
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Blessed, Be You? 
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the Lord God says, no. 
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Satan in that. 
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that if he just did the outside,
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but that wasn't the case. 
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have to speed through. 
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that passage. 
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Psalms, if you have your Old 
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chapter an interesting passage 
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My people and I will speak o. 
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God is about to reprove them for
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First verse 8, I do not reprove 
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Well, they had that down. 
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to approve you for what you're 
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You're doing it right on the 
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something wrong right here. 
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here and I really want to get to
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I don't reprove you prepared 
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your burnt offerings. 
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passage now too. 
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it all but let's go to verse 23,
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Thanksgiving honors, me and to 
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I shall show. 
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them, he wanted their hearts 
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were bitter in their sacrifices 
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I'll give God, but I don't have 
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God says, yes you do. 
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the sacrifice of Thanksgiving. 
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attitude of Thanksgiving, you 
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about here. 
There's no true change, that's 

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and not the real out, the 
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change within our hearts. 
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And probably one of the clearest
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please turn to Matthew the 23rd.
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Matthew. 23 verse 23. 
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upon this occasion, in Matthew, 
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scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites
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and cumin. 
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cumin well those are spices. 
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taste of food and you know, 
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They were. 
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their income that whenever 
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they got in this increase, in 
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sit down and count out the deal 
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Dill things he would go, 1 2 3 4
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10 and they would tithe 
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tenth of their spices to God. 
Now that takes Nobody could say 

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this person was on devoted would
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you've got to say and that 
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religion. 
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But what happened? 
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in you have neglected the way 
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Justice and mercy and 
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These are the things you should 
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neglecting the others. 
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doing was wrong. 
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the inside. 
You forgot to give me your 

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heart, you forgot to change the 
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Notice you blind guides, who 
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camel woe to you, scribes and 
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Notice what he says in verse 20 
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outside of the cup and of the 
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But inside, they are full of 
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You, blind Pharisees, first 
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first. 
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Change comes from, he says, 
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cup and of the dish. 
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clean. 
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whenever you work on the inside 
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The outside gets cleaned. 
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clean the inside of the cup and 
the dish and the outside will 

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almost take care of itself 
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wanted them to work at. 
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you, scribes Pharisees 
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tombs who on the outside appear,
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full of dead, men's bones and 
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Here's the, here's the deal, 
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25, the Bible tells us for us to
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God has a purpose. 
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just a check-in, it's not just a
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another to love and good works. 
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To be better than we were the 
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We've got all kinds of people 
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to be worse. 
All the things on television. 

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You want to be cool, try to do 
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Like you've never done it 
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Try to be worse than you've ever
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television, I'm not talking 
about cable. 

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You guys know, you got to 
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But broadcast television has 
never been worse. 

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One of the hits of this season 
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Desperate. 
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watching the trailers, I've not 
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But just watching the, the 
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something. 
I think Jesus would say, you 

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know, I got to see that I can't 
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Woo. 
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Because it's all about the 
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It's all about doing things that
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help you be a better. 
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got so much in this world 
advertising sin. 

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How can we forsake? 
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We're here, we're supposed to 
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Real love and good works. 
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get here. 
Is the encouragement. 

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We need to bring about genuine 
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We're not coming here to praise 
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We're coming here to change our 
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That's what this is all about, 
to bring about real authentic 

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change and my friends, if our 
religion doesn't bring about any

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real change in our lives, then 
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Jesus tells us, excuse me. 
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things are life. 
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this taking care of the poor and
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orphans. 
He said that's real religion. 

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Ian. 
Just giving sacrifices, isn't it

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doing to bring about change in 
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compassionate being thoughtful, 
being as compassionate about the

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sinful in this world as God is 
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Not willing that any should 
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very day continues to express 
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And the desire for them to be 
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that in our minds? 
My friends. 

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This is not a club where we come
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we are and how different we are.
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and the mind of Christ. 
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reminded, not of how great we 
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But how great the change is that
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lives. 
We need to look into the word 

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and see the disparities, the 
discrepancies between the Life 

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of Christ, and our life between 
his heart and our heart between 

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his hands. 
Ambition and our ambition 

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between his life and our life, 
and make sure that discrepancy 

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continues no longer we are 
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the image of his son in the Book
of Romans. 

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In Romans of 9th chapter, In 
verse 29, the Bible says For 

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Those whom he fore know, he 
always predestined all he also 

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predestined to become conformed,
to the image of his son. 

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That is our purpose. 
Now, let's write that down. 

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Notice here, is what we're 
supposed to be doing to become 

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conformed. 
Conformed to the image. of who 

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of his son. 
Now, that's Christianity to be 

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conformed, to the image of his 
son. 

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To change our character and our 
Behavior to where we act and 

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feel like Jesus. 
Now I don't mean act like Jesus 

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walk on water, do Miracles 
stuff. 

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Like I'm talking about his 
character, his heart, his 

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righteousness, his indignation 
had sinned, that's the heart 

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we're supposed to have. 
And so this is our aim. 

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To become conformed to his 
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And if your religion isn't doing
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that is it, that's what we're 
speaking being educated about. 

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That's what we're both being 
taught about that. 

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Is the change that needs to 
happen. 

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If there's any discrepancy 
between the way I behave in the 

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way Christ behaves, that's where
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That's where the work begins 
right there. 

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That's it. 
And a religion that just Pat you

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on the back and say you are what
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Christianity. 
The Bible tells us we are 

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disciples disciples. 
Did you know the word disciple 

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is used some 300 times in the 
scriptures to talk about 

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followers of Jesus Christ? 
I want everybody, if you will to

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open up your Bibles and look at 
this next verse, Luke 6 and 

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verse 40. 
Luke 6 and verse 40. 

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Luke 6. 
Let's read verse, 39, verse 40. 

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And he spoke a parable to them. 
A blind man cannot guide a blind

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man. 
Can a will they not both fall 

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into a pit? 
Now, notice The New American 

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Standard reads a little bit 
differently, but the word 

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disciple literally means a 
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That's what it is. 
They are squeaking. 

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You expect submit, it means a 
student or learner of someone 

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else. 
We are Christians. 

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Jesus is our teacher, we all are
his students. 

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We are his disciples. 
Notice what this passage teaches

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/ 40 a pupil is not above his 
teacher. 

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But everyone after he has been 
fully trained everyone when he 

451
00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:41,800
is fully trained, will be like 
his teacher, my friends. 

452
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,800
That's where we're going. 
We're supposed to be conformed, 

453
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,900
to the image of his son. 
We're supposed to be transformed

454
00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:54,600
trade, trained, as disciples as 
pupils to be like our teacher 

455
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,100
and if you're not treating your 
wife, like Jesus would treat his

456
00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:00,400
wife, if you're not treating 
your husband, and like, Jesus 

457
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,800
would treat his husband or her 
husband, if you will, and a 

458
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,700
white in a respectful way, if 
we're not treating one another 

459
00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:10,600
for lying, to one another, for 
doing all kinds of things to one

460
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,200
another, that is not 
christ-like. 

461
00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:17,300
Then my friends, our religion 
doesn't really have a purpose. 

462
00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:24,000
It's not Christianity, because 
Christianity is a religion where

463
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:29,600
the pupils become, like the 
teacher, that's what it's all 

464
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,400
about. 
We've become conformed to the 

465
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:39,600
image of his son. 
The Bible continually warns us 

466
00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:43,200
that our motives whenever we 
transform our lives, or when we 

467
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,700
strive to transform Our Lives, 
conform Our Lives, to the image 

468
00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:49,800
of his son are very, very 
important. 

469
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,600
The motives, what is inside our 
hearts? 

470
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,400
And in our minds, let's look at 
some Old Testament passages that

471
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,400
reinforce this Principle as 
well. 

472
00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:00,700
In Ecclesiastes one of those, 
poetical books of the Old 

473
00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:03,900
Testament, and Ecclesiastes. 
Notice chapter 5, and verse 1. 

474
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,100
The Bible says guard your steps,
as you go to the house of God, 

475
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,000
these people were going to the 
house of God, and he wasn't 

476
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,300
talking about people say, you 
need to go to the house of God. 

477
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,300
These people were going and 
notice what he says, and drawn 

478
00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:24,000
near and listen, rather than to 
offer the sacrifice of fools for

479
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,600
they do not know that they are 
doing evil. 

480
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,000
Do not be Hasty and word or 
impulsive and thought to bring 

481
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,300
up a matter of the presence of 
God or gods in heaven. 

482
00:28:32,300 --> 00:28:34,600
And you on Earth, therefore, let
your Words Be Few. 

483
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,900
Now what he's saying here is you
don't treat God. 

484
00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:39,900
Like somebody just talked to on 
the telephone. 

485
00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:43,400
God is somebody to be respected 
and revered in your life 

486
00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:46,900
whenever you come to offer 
sacrifice, don't offer him the 

487
00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:50,600
sacrifice of a fool. 
Be respectful, my friends. 

488
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,500
You're not just hearing good 
self-help this morning from this

489
00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:56,300
Pulpit. 
This isn't a place that's 

490
00:28:56,300 --> 00:28:59,100
designed just to help your 
marriage to help your 

491
00:28:59,100 --> 00:29:02,600
relationship or to help you be 
financially successful in this 

492
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,800
world. 
What we're doing is getting 

493
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:10,000
prepared to meet God. 
This isn't just a self-help 

494
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,400
place. 
This is a place where Dynamic 

495
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,600
changes necessary in order to be
presentable before God in the 

496
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,600
day of judgment. 
And so we don't come up and 

497
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,500
offer the sacrifice of fools. 
We are to draw near and listen. 

498
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,800
These are the important 
attitudes whenever we come and 

499
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,300
hear the word of God. 
We don't hear it as the words of

500
00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:32,500
men. 
That is, we can accept it or 

501
00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:36,100
neglected, we need to hear it as
the words, the oracles, the 

502
00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:41,600
utterances of God and Isaiah, 1 
verse 10, through 17, there are 

503
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,600
so many verses. 
So when you spread out your 

504
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,400
hands in prayer, I will hide my 
eyes from you. 

505
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,400
He says, yes, even though you 
multiply players, I will not 

506
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,300
listen to. 
Your hands are covered with 

507
00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:57,000
blood. 
God was rejecting their external

508
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,500
acts of worship, because the 
individuals were still Wicked. 

509
00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:07,100
On the inside, he told them to 
stop doing evil 1:17, learn to 

510
00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:12,300
do good. 
Isaiah first, what chapter 1 

511
00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:17,200
verse 16 and 17 sounds an awful 
lot like Jesus clean. 

512
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:18,800
The inside of the cup, doesn't 
it? 

513
00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:22,500
Notice in Hosea, 6? 
And verse 4, through 6, your 

514
00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:25,800
loyalty is like the morning 
cloud and like to do which goes 

515
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:30,200
away early. 
Your loyalty is not there, 

516
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,500
you're not devoted in heart. 
My friends. 

517
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:38,000
God disc. 
Doesn't want outward change for 

518
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,600
a moment? 
He wants lasting change for a 

519
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,000
lifetime. 
He doesn't just want to change 

520
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000
our attitudes for a moment. 
Yeah, I know. 

521
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,100
I need to do better and then go 
away and forget what kind of 

522
00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:56,500
people we are, he wants us to 
really change our lives motive 

523
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,500
is so critical. 
Notice in 1st, Timothy 1 verse 

524
00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:03,200
5, the goal of our instruction 
Is Love from a pure heart, a 

525
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,700
good conscience and a sincere 
faith. 

526
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,300
God tells us we should not 
neglect. 

527
00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:13,000
Certain things just like in 
Matthew and without we should 

528
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,500
add these things without 
neglecting. 

529
00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:17,000
Other things. 
First Corinthians the 13th 

530
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,600
chapter, verse 1, through 3. 
Paul uses a classic, 

531
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,000
illustration of authentic 
Christianity. 

532
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,700
Whenever he says, yea though, I 
give my body to be burned and 

533
00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:29,100
have not charity. 
It profits me nothing he says, 

534
00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:32,600
here motive does matter. 
What happens on the outside 

535
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,500
matters. 
Oh yes, you need to be obedient,

536
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,800
but you can even give in First 
Corinthians 2:16 chapter in 2nd 

537
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,000
Corinthians chapter 8. 
He tells us about the giving the

538
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,400
taking up of our collection and 
he says Some of you think that 

539
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:49,500
it's by extortion, some of you 
give grudgingly. 

540
00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:55,700
He's just don't give grudgingly.
Or believing it's a necessity. 

541
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,600
That means it's imposed upon you
from the outside but he says 

542
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,200
give of a cheerful heart. 
This is what makes that 

543
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,400
acceptable sacrificed not 
grudgingly. 

544
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:13,900
Of a cheerful heart. 
Change happens from the inside 

545
00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:17,800
out. 
We cannot be a disciple of 

546
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,800
Christ, even though we outwardly
get the habits down. 

547
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,800
If our heart is far away from 
God, we are not a disciple of 

548
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:30,200
Jesus Christ. 
Jesus is heart, was to do, the 

549
00:32:30,208 --> 00:32:33,100
will of his father, which is in 
heaven, and it should be our 

550
00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:36,400
heart as well. 
Both things are necessary to. 

551
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,800
Please God, yes, you have to do 
the outside, right? 

552
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,400
Don't neglect it. 
But you have to have the inside 

553
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:47,300
right to now two last points and
then we'll try to get Get wrap 

554
00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:49,400
it up this morning. 
Well, you're not really gonna 

555
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:55,100
try notice. 
God desires more than just 

556
00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:58,500
well-organized self disciplined 
responsible, good citizens. 

557
00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:03,400
Listen, very carefully, the 
Pharisees were all of the above.

558
00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,200
The Pharisees had that part 
down. 

559
00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:10,400
They were extremely 
self-discipline, Luke 18, 11 

560
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,200
through 12 mark, seven, three 
and four. 

561
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,300
They were well, organized, 
Matthew 23 and 23, don't you the

562
00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:21,200
time and effort that it took to 
tithe her but herbs knew I was 

563
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,400
going to mispronounce that herbs
in the garden, the time it took 

564
00:33:25,100 --> 00:33:34,200
took some dedication. they are 
life was organized, but, Their 

565
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,000
heart was far away from God. 
They didn't have the proper 

566
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,600
motive which leads me to one 
last Point. 

567
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:45,700
Here, listen very carefully 
doing good doesn't automatically

568
00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:50,400
make you good. 
Does it make you good? 

569
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,300
Doing good. 
Doesn't make you good. 

570
00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:56,100
Many people in this world 
believe that but that's not the 

571
00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:58,300
case. 
Doing good. 

572
00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:00,800
Does it make you good? 
Once again, the Pharisees were 

573
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,700
involved in Many religious 
activities. 

574
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:07,800
They gave alms to the poor They 
remain selfless are but yet they

575
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,300
remained, excuse me, selfish 
men. 

576
00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:16,100
They tried to do a whole lot of 
religious things on the outside,

577
00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:18,000
but they never really changed 
the inside. 

578
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,900
Jesus said to them clean the 
inside of the cup. 

579
00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:26,699
First, Matthew, 23 and verse 26.
Don't make the same mistake that

580
00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:29,300
the Pharisees made. 
There are many important things 

581
00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:31,100
that fall on the outside of the 
cup. 

582
00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:35,699
We could talk a lot about all 
those things, but when we get 

583
00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:38,600
down to the motives that are 
heart, that's where real change 

584
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,699
begins. 
And it is there where God 

585
00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:49,600
focuses his greatest rebuke. 
Whenever he says repent, that 

586
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,199
goes right back to acts 17:30, 
God is commanding all men 

587
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:58,800
everywhere to repent the word. 
Repent talks about a change of 

588
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:03,500
heart, a change of heart. 
There are many of us here today,

589
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,600
who aren't really Christians. 
We're just good people with good

590
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,200
habits. 
You ever thought about that? 

591
00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:14,200
We're good citizens. 
But we're not really ready and 

592
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,300
prepared to meet God, because 
superficial change is often 

593
00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:22,100
easier than real change. 
A change of behavior often 

594
00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:24,400
times. 
We can make without changing our

595
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,200
heart. 
It's harder to change the heart.

596
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:33,400
It's harder to change the heart.
Superficial external change 

597
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,600
tends to lull us into thinking 
we have really changed. 

598
00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:39,700
When in reality, all we've done 
is develop some new habits, but 

599
00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:42,100
the heart Remains the Same Old 
dead heart. 

600
00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:45,800
That was always there. 
We've got to bring about real 

601
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,600
change. 
Oftentimes, it's easy to River 

602
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,700
to get to a point when we think 
we've done enough whenever we're

603
00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:55,100
doing good and somebody expects 
more of us, it becomes a chafe. 

604
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,000
We don't look at it as an 
opportunity to do greater 

605
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,500
service for God. 
In fact, we say they aren't I 

606
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:04,100
doing enough? 
That's a sign that's a sign 

607
00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:07,800
right there that are heart isn't
totally sacrifice, give God all 

608
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,800
of your heart soul, mind and 
strength. 

609
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,800
That's where the real test is 
whenever we begin to chafe 

610
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,500
against God's changes, that he 
brings about a little of the 

611
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:22,700
outside, a little change on the 
outside of our relationships, 

612
00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:24,900
and Friends, our co-workers, and
bosses, and brothers and 

613
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:27,400
neighbors and family, and wife 
can be fairly comfortable. 

614
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,300
It can bring about a comfortable
relationship. 

615
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,200
But that doesn't mean we love 
any of them. 

616
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,900
Doesn't mean we have a heart for
them at all. 

617
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:40,000
We make this think the mistake 
of thinking if we have enough to

618
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,000
eat a comfortable home and I 
scar our marriage is in pretty 

619
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,800
good shape. 
Everything's right with God. 

620
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,200
We are Disciples of Jesus 
Christ, but I want you to know 

621
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,800
such is not always the case. 
Are you content to do good? 

622
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,700
We've Illustrated the soil, my 
friends. 

623
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,700
You can't get stuff to grow out 
of soil. 

624
00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:02,900
That's bad. 
If you're going to bring about 

625
00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:05,900
change, we have to add some 
stuff to the soil. 

626
00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:09,500
You want to bring about, change 
you've got to recognize right 

627
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:14,000
here, is where everything grows.
That's the soil from which 

628
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,900
genuine chump change, really 
grows. 

629
00:37:17,500 --> 00:37:22,900
It's your heart out of the 
heart, precedes, evil adultery, 

630
00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:26,000
all these other things, and out 
of the heart, precedes, 

631
00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:28,500
obedience, and all these other 
things as well. 

632
00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:31,800
There's the soil, I want to ask 
you. 

633
00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:37,800
How's the soil this morning? 
How's your heart, guess what? 

634
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,500
I can't read minds. 
You can't read mine. 

635
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:42,800
I can't read yours. 
I don't know if you're a 

636
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,000
hypocrite. 
You don't know if I'm a 

637
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,700
hypocrite. 
Oh, maybe we hide it real good 

638
00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:49,400
on the outside but guess what? 
That doesn't mean anything. 

639
00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:54,000
God knows your heart and God 
knows my heart. 

640
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,400
So I want you to make one small.
Look I'm not asking you to 

641
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,200
compare yourself to anybody. 
Do not compare yourself to the 

642
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,800
person sitting next to you? 
Their soil is different than 

643
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,700
your soil their soil. 
May be good and honest there. 

644
00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:09,600
So maybe Rocky, I don't care if 
there's other people in church, 

645
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,200
you can point to, and say 
they're Hypocrites. 

646
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,100
I know they're Hypocrites, it 
doesn't matter. 

647
00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:17,100
We're not asking about everybody
else's soil this morning. 

648
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,000
I'm asking you to look at your 
soil. 

649
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,500
Look at your heart. 
Perhaps the reason why there's 

650
00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:27,400
no fruit is because that soil 
needs to be plowed. 

651
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,700
Perhaps that soil, needs some 
nourishment, some fertilizer, 

652
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:37,500
perhaps that soil needs to be 
dug up and it's not once again, 

653
00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:41,700
brought some activity gets some 
oxygen into it, get some, get 

654
00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:45,000
some stuff, some change. 
Yeah, because my friends, when 

655
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:50,400
that soil changes, then the seed
responds differently. 

656
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,400
Luke 8:11, the seed of the 
kingdom is the word of God. 

657
00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:58,900
The problem with bringing about 
change in our lives is not 

658
00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:02,500
change the word. 
It'll never change. 

659
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,600
We're going to talk about that 
later on the problem isn't with 

660
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,300
the Bible. 
Problem with bearing fruit for 

661
00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:12,200
God. 
His power soil. 

662
00:39:13,300 --> 00:39:16,700
The soil of our hearts before 
God. 

663
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,500
So come back this week, come 
back tomorrow night, we're 

664
00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:25,400
planning on talking about Envy, 
we're going to talk about 

665
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,200
hatred, we're going to talk 
about all kinds of things, this 

666
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,500
week, things that make us 
uncomfortable to talk about. 

667
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000
We're going to talk about how 
the changing our attitudes, will

668
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,100
change the entire direction of 
Our Lives. 

669
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,500
For God, we're going to talk 
about the image of Christ. 

670
00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:46,900
How to conform, how to bring 
about change? 

671
00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:50,300
We're going to talk about how to
fertilize how to plow our 

672
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:53,100
hearts. 
Because my friends, what we do 

673
00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:57,300
not want, I do not want, I do 
not want to waste my time or 

674
00:39:57,300 --> 00:40:01,600
yours preaching this week and 
going away and having no change.

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And you're my life, that is a 
waste of time. 

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And there's nothing that 
irritates anybody than having to

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go with all the church and 
nothing changes. 

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We don't want that. 
You want your life to be 

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different, you want to be really
grow, you want to be ever real 

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change, you want to really 
change some things in your life.

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Come back this week, we'll talk 
about how God empowers change 

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how we can bring back into 
Bible, does address it how to 

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change it, how to change our 
lives. 

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But come back this week, we'll 
talk more about those things, 

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but that's just, this will 
suffice as an introduction to 

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this week. 
This suffice it to say, say that

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God wants us, ye demands of us, 
that change happens. 

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If there was no need for us to 
change. 

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Why would God ever say, I want 
all men everywhere to repent. 

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If God just says, Hey listen, 
all I want you to do is just 

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trust Jesus and you can stay the
Way You Are. 

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You can stay the way you are. 
All you got to do is just add 

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Jesus and you're saved. 
And that's all that Christianity

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is about our friends. 
That is not what Christianity is

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all about. 
Because accepting Jesus as our 

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savior. 
Means accepting him as our Lord,

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as well. 
You can't have him as Savior 

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without it being Lord, and you 
cannot acknowledge Him as Lord 

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without submitting to him, 
submitting changes to him. 

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So we must change our lives acts
17:30 God has commanded 

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ignorance accomplishment week 
that now is commanding. 

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All of us everywhere to repent. 
We're all in this together. 

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We're all in this together. 
Will be like his teacher. 

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So today, perhaps you've come 
here and you're aware of what 

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changes, you need to make in 
your life. 

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Perhaps you're aware, then your 
faith, you must repent of your 

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sins or you will perish acts 17 
and verse 30, Luke 13:3, Luke 13

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5. 
Acts 2 verse 38, repent and be 

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baptized for the remission of 
your sins. 

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Perhaps you don't want the 
consequences of your sins to be 

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visited upon you and you want to
get forgiveness for those 

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things. 
You can be United with him in 

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the likeness of his death and 
his burial and his resurrection,

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Romans 6, verse 3 through 5 and 
then walk in newness of life. 

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You can get forgiveness for your
past sins. 

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Acts 2:38 if you will change 
your behavior. 

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My friends baptism without 
repentance won't save. 

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If you if you're baptized 
without repentance, a lot of 

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people think the problem is, 
baptism my friends. 

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A problem with Christianity, 
isn't baptism. 

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The problem with Christianity is
repentance, Repentance is where 

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we have to make up our mind that
we want God to be God. 

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And that's why we need to repent
of our sins. 

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That's the toughest things 
because we have to make a 

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commitment to change whenever we
learn better. 

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So this morning, are you willing
to give up your life to let God 

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have control of it, repent of 
your sins. 

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If you do, then upon your 
confession, Matthew 10 verse 32.

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You're a fit subject for 
baptism. 

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That's right. 
Without repentance. 

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You're not a fit subject for 
baptism. 

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But that commitment to say Lord 
I will not want. 

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I'm not going to do what I want 
to do anymore. 

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I'm going to become your 
disciple, I'm going to become a 

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disciple of Jesus Christ. 
I'm going to become a follower 

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of God. 
I will I I'm not going to claim 

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that I know everything. 
Now I'm going to be as a child. 

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I'm going to grow in the things 
I need to grow in knowledge in 

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and that and growing Behavior 
but I will refuse to go away and

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for anymore. 
And look into the word and see 

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where I need to change and then 
say, it doesn't matter anymore. 

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Today I'm going to make up my 
mind. 

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I am going to care about what 
the word God says. 

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00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,800
I need to change in my life. 
If you're willing to in your 

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00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,400
faith, repent of your sins. 
Then why don't you come confess 

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Christ to be baptized for the 
remission of your sins? 

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