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Well church, last week I did 
start the new series called The 

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Gospel and we are going to be 
doing this this week in two more

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weeks before we start on our 
summer series, which we're going

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to be looking at The Parables 
really excited about that. 

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And when I launched this last 
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Normally, when you, when I 
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preachers, we ask God some 
questions, one of which is what 

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is your words say? 
That's the first question, is 

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always a good question to ask. 
Number two is, how do you apply 

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it? 
How do we apply it to our lives?

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Today because who knows that 
this book is as relevant as it 

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is. 
As it was 2,000 years ago as it 

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is today or vice versa where you
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But the third question is this, 
why are you saying this to us 

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today? 
Because the reality is, I could 

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just just read through this and 
everything would be of benefit 

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to us, but God speaks in seasons
and he emphasizes something. 

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We need to here for a particular
reason, and I felt the Lord 

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impressed upon me that we needed
to hear the truth of the Gospel 

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are fresh as plainly as in 
clearly as possible. 

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Why is that the case and I gave 
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Number one is that, I think 
it's, it's a reality for Any of 

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us, especially if you've been 
walking with the Lord for a long

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time. 
That we may not fully grasp, the

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magnitude of the Gospel. 
We almost take it for granted. 

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Or we don't fully understand 
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And so when people ask us, what 
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Jesus? 
We somehow find a little bit 

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difficult to be able to share 
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think we are in a season and 
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been the case. 
In fact, you can read it in 

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Galatians which I did last last 
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church, there, listen, you've 
been listening to another gospel

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because there are other gospels 
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And the problem is they sounded 
they sound like they are full of

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Truth. 
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And how do they do so gospel 
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you're going to get the best 
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The gospel has become some kind 
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of your life's goals. 
The gospel has become something 

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like this. 
You are a fantastic person but 

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did you know, you can be even 
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As we looked at last week, that 
is not actually the gospel, that

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is a false gospel. 
And yet you look at YouTube look

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at God TV channels and I'm not 
suggesting that all the content 

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is like that, but there is a lot
of gospel quotes that is 

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positioned as You name it, you 
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Positioned, as if you. 
So into this, you'll get 10 

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times next week, gospels around 
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And if you don't have a knife of
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don't have enough faith. 
And I'm sure you've heard of 

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these quote gospels, but that is
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There is no power in that 
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It might as it says in the book 
of Timothy tichelman, your ears 

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and it says in the end times 
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Doctrine truth that tickles, our
ears that things are we want to 

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hear but the gospel is an 
offense because the gospel 

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reveals the condition of man. 
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last week, I posed the point 
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be good it there for Supposes 
that there is bad news, of 

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course. 
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or good news, would be good news
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you follow, you know, and I gave
the example, if you come back 

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from the doctors, good news, the
the test results came back 

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clear. 
It's because the prospect of bad

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news exists, that it could have 
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Or that, you know, I've got my 
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because that's good news because
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see the gospel is we say it's 
the good news and we say you are

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saved but we've got no idea 
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got no idea what we say from And
what we say is we say from a 

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boring life, to a better life 
and the good news is just a bit 

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better than the good news. 
You've currently got But that's 

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not the gospel. 
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this in about the third reason 
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the magnitude and the greatness 
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us to praise him and to fall on 
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So those are the reasons why I 
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preach on the gospel. 
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about when we get to The 
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demonstrate the gospel in story.
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series on Parables, I think it's
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understand what the good news is
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They are speaking to Okay, so we
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and his way of a recap and if 
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back again, glad you're back, 
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be honest with you, we looked at
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and Eve, and we looked at what 
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relationship with the heavenly 
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that came rushing in and then we
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Well that's fine. 
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us here in the present day? 
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in his writings that that have 
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In other words, we're born into 
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Because we are not just born 
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see that all around us. 
We are born with a corrupted 

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nature bison. 
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perform myself out of it by 
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The problem is our very Nature 
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and so that's why the message of
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message of good works. 
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where our nature is changed and 
you might be shocked by this 

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statement. 
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because I don't care. 
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hell and bad people in heaven. 
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I am not minimizing good works 
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good work is a fruit of and a 
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in Christ. 
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this the conversations we have 
with people and you might have 

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it with, you might have it with 
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Yourselves is well he's a good 
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to heaven. 
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be going to hell. 
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is not based on your work, is 
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Nature has been changed and you 
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God and you become a child of 
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That is the message of 
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You get me? 
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thank goodness for that. 
You mean I don't have to work 

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for my salvation. 
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The gospel is good news because 
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it. 
We don't have to earn our way to

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heaven. 
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go to heaven and spend eternity 
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Jesus. 
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Because as I said last week, not
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everyone was a child of God, 
then what's the point of Jesus 

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died on the cross for us? 
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then clearly everyone will get 
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But the inheritance is saved for
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That's why it says that Spirit 
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Cries Abba, you can only cry 
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If you are a new creation and 
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me, good? 
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summary, brother long summary, 
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because as we know the good news
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not a thing. 
The good news isn't a place, the

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good news isn't a magic formula.
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The good news is Jesus himself, 
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It is the work and the person of
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Why is Jesus good news for us? 
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we'll unpack it together. 
Jesus takes away the work and 

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the result of the bad news of 
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That's it, that bad news, that 
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relationship. 
Jesus Takes that away and 

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restores us. 
That is the central story of 

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God's Redemptive plan in the 
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Let's look at John 3:16 because 
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text, and it rather sums up the 
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We're going to look at verse 16 
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It says, this for God, so loved 
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We've been singing about that. 
Listen God. 

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So that's the white hot wire of 
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Old. 
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failure. 
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with those guys and let me go to
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somewhere in try again for God. 
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Why it's not that God chooses to
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God is love for God. 
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His only begotten, son, that 
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not perish. 
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That not perish is the bad news.
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Jesus and believe in him, then 
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default destination. 
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eternity with Jesus in heaven, 
and then we don't like talking 

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about this stuff do week, that's
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the Gospel. 
You know, Paul said, I'm not 

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afraid of the gospel because it 
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salvation. 
We are in the business of saving

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Souls, that is the church is 
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Lost. 
We have to save them from 

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somewhere and maybe you're in 
the room this morning and you 

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have yet to believe in Jesus and
you're saying this is rather 

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hard to hear, I'm not a bad 
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Like, and I'm going to say to 
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I'm sure you do better work than
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now for the God, so loves you. 
That he wants a restored 

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relationship with you. 
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I'd Die For You. 
Ariel. 

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The god did not send his son 
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world. 
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His finger saying, look, what a 
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You are, he came to save the 
Lost. 

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That whoever believes in him is 
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not believe is condemned 
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Why are they condemned already? 
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destination. 
You get it. 

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If you don't believe in Jesus, 
you're condemned already because

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that's the Fallen nature, the 
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Because he has not believed in 
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son of God. 
The good news is this Jesus has 

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made a way to restore 
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Now, we talked about last week, 
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and I told you, what we call the
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rather Posh word, but it simply 
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prototype means first and 
Evangelion is Latin for gospel. 

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And we looked at the Declaration
that First Gospel declaration in

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chapter 3 when God cursed, The 
Serpent and said, I will put 

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enmity between Between you and 
the woman and between your 

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Offspring and her Offspring, he 
shall bruise your head, The 

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Offspring of Eve. 
And you shall bruise his heel, 

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that was a declaration of the 
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come that there would be a seed 
War. 

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Why do you think Pharaoh wanted 
to get rid of all the 

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firstborns? 
Why did the Herod wanted to get 

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rid of all the firstborns? 
Herod was not acting in his 

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natural. 
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through Herod because they 
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The enemy does didn't want the 
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Because he could see the 
Redemptive plan and they're not 

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only, we did, we have the 
Declaration in chapter 3, we had

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the demonstration of it when God
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to in order to take that skin 
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That was a deck that was a 
demonstration of the Gospel that

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there would be one that would 
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our sins would be covered how 
awesome is that that in one 

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chapter chapter 3, you get the 
fall, you get a prophetic 

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Declaration of the gospel and 
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I mean isn't that amazing? 
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reminded to people message me 
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want to send you this. 
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look how awesome this is. 
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it was confirmation to share it 
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of Adam to Noah. 
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Jared, Enoch Methuselah lamech 
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Look at the English words. 
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sentence that you ready. 
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Next slide. man is appointed 
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despairing wrist, If that 
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knees and worship God. 
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me? 
You kidding me. 

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Don't tell me, listen, we 
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And don't tell me that this 
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When you look at stuff like that
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So loved the world that he 
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spare, and he didn't say, oh my 
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Please Chantelle. 
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Adam and Eve sinned. 
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He put it in his people. 
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sorrow. 
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born into, but the Blessed God 
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with us teaching, what his death
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Thank you, Lord. 
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Let's worship. 
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which are fulfilled. 
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birth to show how powerful I am.
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said The Offspring of Eve Oh my 
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Look, God, you are amazing. 
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we are forgiven. 
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as we read in Romans as as Sin 
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Adam or death, came through one 
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Adam, so life comes through the 
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fully man fully God and die in 
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want to give you three things 
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is good news and The we often 
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forgiven more specifically, our 
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sin, cannot go unpunished. 
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Here's Justice demands, that sin
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God is a just God, he cannot not
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a, just God and a righteous God 
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God is love which, of course he 
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rest, what happened say, well 
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So he approves of your 
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So that love Must Be Love but 
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wish and before you know it you 
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remove certain biblical truths. 
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therefore, why on Earth did 
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point where there is no, good 
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Be honest with you church. 
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humanness in me is like people 
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will make them feel happy. 
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that uses phrases like hell and 
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By the way, Sika targeted. 
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got out of minimizing, so we 
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a holy boldness that is coming 
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you go to the judge, let's say 
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terrible, a huge crime, Justice 
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the dock. 
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and the judge says I am a judge.
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Your charge is a trillion 
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that trillion dollars. 
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comes down the stairs and he 
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your cheek. 
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writes a trillion dollars and it
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That is what the cross is all 
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Fully just full of. 
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Was that the angel of death 
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first ones would die? 
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you get a lamb Slaughter, it eat
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blood on the lintels, on the 
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Remember this story? 
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of death will pass over. 
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said, Behold the Lamb of God who
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of blood pays for the sin debt. 
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celebrating Passover on the 
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Those lambs have been 
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Jesus died on the cross as our 
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Isn't that just profound? 
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that the penalty of sin, which 
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behalf and received the full 
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That was due us. 
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Why? 
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passes over us and we have life 
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That is what happened on the 
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Number two, we become righteous 
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of the Divine exchange where our
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paid that for us. 
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to us. 
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And it's called imputation. 
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Flash words. 
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because this words doesn't mean 
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righteous. 
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of Christ is credited to us. 
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So, therefore, when God looks at
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Yes, we make mistakes, but when 
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And that's why we are called 
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righteousness of God of Christ 
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looks at us, he says You Are 
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Our nature is changed. 
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forgiven tick. 
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are standing his righteous with 
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We are born again of the spirit.
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Born-again believers. 
We Are Born Again by the spirit,

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so that we are now Alive by the 
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with God. 
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Our very nature is changed. 
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Let's use the analogy of a 
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Imagine a factory that produces 
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atmosphere. 
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That's, that's our fallen nature
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When our sins are forgiven, the 
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They looked at it's as if the 
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and all the pollution, the cost 
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There are I'll pay for the 
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and I'll cover the cost of the 
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your factory needs to change, 
quite frankly, And so what 

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happens is our Factory when our 
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still the tendency to produce 
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And so the other part of the 
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Factory ourselves is under new 
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change. 
That is what it means, have a 

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new nature. 
Now it's a process of retooling 

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and learning to bear fruit as we
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And sometimes we will produce 
bad products and sometimes we 

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will pollute the atmosphere 
around us, but we're under new 

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ownership and we've been 
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that is what it means for our 
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So it's not just that our sins 
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It's that are very Factory. 
Our very selves need to be 

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changed and so those are the 
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I want us to be clear. 
Number one, the shedding of 

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Christ's blood as a sacrifice 
means that our sin debt is paid 

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for the wrath of God. 
That was do us is now on Number 

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two, it means that we become 
righteous. 

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The when God looks at us, he 
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And number three are, very 
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As I invite the band up, I want 
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Why? 
This is those three things is 

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such good news. 
Number one, it means. 

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Therefore and I've talked about 
this already, we are adopted 

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into the family. 
Our identity of as a child of 

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God is restored. 
We become once again a son and a

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daughter of the most high. 
And that's why we cry out. 

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Abba. 
And a lot of us are seeking 

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identity. 
Let me tell you, your identity 

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is in Christ. 
A lot of the bad stuff that 

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happens is because we operate 
out of that identity of a child 

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of God, and the freedom that 
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are, his brings Peace, and 
Freedom, number two, we get 

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access to the father and 
Eternity with him. 

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It says, As in Ephesians 3, 12 
that we can run boldly into the 

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presence of God. 
That is what the cross that is 

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what the person of Christ has 
done for us, that we can sit on 

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his lap and that we can worship 
him. 

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That we are called To Worship in
spirit and in truth, you can 

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only worship God if your nature 
is changing Born Again by the 

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spirit. 
And you know, Jesus said, I go 

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to prepare a place for you for 
where I am, so you will be also 

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that is our future, hope that we
spend eternity with him. 

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Number 3, we have the Holy 
Spirit in US. 

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We are sealed for the day of 
redemption. 

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One of the questions that people
ask is, can you lose your 

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salvation? 
I want to tell you. 

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You cannot. 
Why is that the case? 

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Because you are born again, not 
by works. 

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Lest any man should boast but by
the spirit of God. 

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And so if you're not saved by 
works, your Works won't keep you

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saved. 
Because if you think that you 

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can lose your salvation because 
you're not doing well enough, 

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then you fallen into a gospel of
works. 

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Now, I'm not trying to minimize 
the importance of good works. 

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I'm not trying to minimize the 
fruit of that, but hear me 

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Church. 
And I'm not trying to make 

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excuse, but walk in that narrow 
path because there is a narrow 

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path and sacrifice. 
But if you said yes to Jesus, 

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you are a new creation in Christ
Jesus. 

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You are still for the day of 
redemption. 

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And Jesus says, I will not lose 
any that you have given me 

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father Okay, I have met so many 
people that are bound up in 

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works because they are fearing 
that they're not saved and they 

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can lose it. 
I want to just share that truth 

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with you now and I know there's 
scriptures. 

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You could say, well Mark, what 
about this? 

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Or what about that? 
I'm happy to have that 

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conversation with you. 
Number three, we become for, we 

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become co-heirs with Christ. 
We get to rule and reign with 

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him for all eternity. 
We get to be partakers of the 

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inheritance of a Heavenly Glory.
That is amazing news. 

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And we are empowered by the 
spirit to extend the good news 

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of Jesus. 
As he Paws upon us, his gifts 

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and the anointing 
church, I'm reminded of in the 

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scriptures when you had the 
Berean Church and they were 

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affirmed by Paul because they 
would always test what Paul said

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by the scriptures. 
We need to be like bereans, we 

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need to test the scriptures, but
it means that we need to do our 

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work to. 
We are battling against a 

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consumer church. 
Where you come in, you get fed, 

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you get fat, you go out, I'm 
saying to us if you want to walk

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with Jesus and be his disciple, 
then you've got some work to do 

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and dive in, in the scripture, 
the same. 

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Do you say about this Lord? 
And you might need to re-watch 

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this. 
You might need to re-listen you 

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might need to