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Thank you, Brelan. 
Can we turn pleased in God's 

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Word tonight to the book of 
Titus, the Epistle of Paul, the 

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Titus to the chapter 1 and we're
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verses. 
Epistle of Paul, the Titus and 

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the chapter 1, and we'll just 
concentrate for our reading on 

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the 1st 4 verses. 
It's a Paul, a servant of God 

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and an apostle of Jesus Christ, 
according to the faith of God's 

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elect and the acknowledging of 
the truth which is after 

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godliness in hope of eternal 
life, which God that cannot lie 

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promised before the world began,
but hath in due times manifested

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His word through preaching, 
which is committed unto me 

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according to the commandment of 
God our Saviour, the Titus, mine

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own Son, after the common faith,
grace, mercy and peace from God 

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the fower and the Lord Jesus 
Christ our Saviour. 

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Amen. 
May God bless thee. 

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Short reading of his word. 
Let's seek his face again. 

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Fower. 
We thank you for the people that

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are gathered tonight in this 
meeting, the gospel meeting. 

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We thank you for the hymns that 
have been sung, the reading of 

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the word, giving of the 
testimony. 

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And now, Lord, we need thy power
to preach the word. 

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Let it not return void unto 
thee, but let it rower have free

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course and be glorified and give
me the power that I need to 

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preach it in Jesus name, Amen. 
Amen. 

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It's those words there of verse 
2 it says concerning the Lord in

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hope of eternal life, which God,
God that cannot lie. 

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Paul wrote this epistle, this 
letter to Titus in in whom he 

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had left in verse five behind 
there in the island of Crete, 

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and he left them there 
effectively to set up a New 

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Testament church. 
He was there to win souls and 

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then to see the people who had 
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brought into the fellowship and 
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And then out of that church, 
hopefully our churches would 

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come as the word of God spread 
on the island. 

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In verses 6 to 9, we have some 
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the elder because we believe, as
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this would have been a 
Presbyterian Church. 

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And a Presbyterian Church is run
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It's run by the elders of the 
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And when we go for elders in the
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anybody meets the 
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And you'll notice here in verses
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qualifications are. 
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through to verse 16, we see why 
such strong and spiritual men 

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are needed. 
And we get a lot of insight 

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there into the great enemy of 
the gospel, the devil. 

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He is strong, the enemy is 
aggressive. 

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And those who are ordained to be
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the flock, they must be 
stronger. 

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Again, there's going to be a 
great battle fought, and these 

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men need to be equipped if these
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going to survive and to prosper.
An important and vital as such 

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an orderly arrangement might be.
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not ultimately depend on human 
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There's a lower foundation LED 
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And that's before we get to the 
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That is in our text. 
That is the faithfulness of God 

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to his own word. 
That's what our text says, as is

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the assurance. 
God who cannot lie. 

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These are glorious words. 
God cannot lie. 

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With three main thoughts 
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through them. 
First of all, number one, we 

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have here the character that 
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The character that produces the 
text, we're told right away God 

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cannot lie. 
And why is it or how is it that 

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God cannot lie? 
You and I, as we know, have that

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sad ability to lie. 
The Bible says that God be true,

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but every man a liar, all men 
are liars. 

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We have lied, of course, in the 
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We would have to confess to 
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Probably one of the first real 
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When we were queried, as were we
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maybe as young as three or four,
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our mowers and we said mum, it 
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knew it was us. 
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innocent, you never look as 
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You're never as much guilty when
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So probably at an early age we 
told a little lie and it's 

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likely impossible, at least that
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I'm pretty sure that Peter never
planned to panic and the lie 

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when he was confronted about his
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And we know that he lied and 
that he lied with those some 

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curses and he said on three 
occasions, I know not the man he

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denied he lied about his 
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Jesus. 
And we all know our our weakness

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and our capability will take in 
lying. 

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But it is distinctly said that 
God cannot lie. 

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We have it worded elsewhere, the
same truth, It is impossible, 

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the same idea. 
It is impossible for God to lie.

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And this is because we all act 
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The Saviour used the 
illustration about the bad tree.

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The bad tree can only produce 
bad fruit, but the good tree can

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only produce the good fruit and 
God's nature. 

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What type of God are we 
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He is one who is 100% holy. 
Holy, holy, Holy is the Lord God

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of hosts, and no one yet has 
ever been able to point to even 

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one occasion where the promise 
of God has failed. 

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First Kings 1856. 
There hath not filled one word 

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of all his good promises. 
And that's why the Bible says as

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it does at the lip of truth 
shall be established forever. 

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You look at this book that is in
your hands. 

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It has sought intact from its 
earliest days. 

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It has survived every attack 
upon it. 

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Every effort has been made to 
corrupt this book. 

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Efforts have been made to ban 
this book. 

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There's certain countries of 
this world that if you were 

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caught with this book in your 
possession, you would find 

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yourself behind bars. 
You could be tortured and put to

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death. 
Every effort has been made 

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nearer home to ridicule this 
book. 

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But this book not only survives,
this book prospers and 

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flourishes. 
The Bush burneth, but it is not 

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consumed. 
And even as we speak, all over 

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the world tonight, there are 
hundreds if not thousands of 

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translators. 
They are working today. 

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They give this book to new 
people in their native tongues. 

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This book has survived. 
And this book has survived 

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because God cannot lie. 
Not only does He positively 

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promote the lip of truth, but he
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One of the seven things which he
hates and abominates is a false 

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witness that speaketh lies. 
The 9th commandment is Thou 

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shalt not bear false witness. 
Thou shalt not lie against your 

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neighbour. 
Proverbs 19 and verse 5 says a 

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false witness shall not be 
unpunished, and he that speaketh

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lies shall not escape. 
And all liars, that's what the 

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book says. 
All liars will have their part 

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in the lake of fire. 
It's not in the character or the

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scope of God to lie. 
This is the character that gives

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us our text. 
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we have the consequences that 
promote our text. 

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These things are told us here 
that we may profit from them. 

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All Scripture is given by 
inspiration of God, and is 

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profitable, profitable for 
doctrine, for reproof, 

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correction, instruction, and 
righteousness. 

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Paul claims such profit for this
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Titus. 
Luke there chapter 3 and the 

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versi now deserve what it says. 
This is a faithful saying, and 

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these things I will that thy 
affirm constantly that they 

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which have believed in God may 
be careful to maintain good 

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works. 
These things are good and 

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profitable on the men, but 
they're only good, and they're 

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only profitable if they're acted
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Our ways are unclaimed treasures
which will benefit ours but not 

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us. 
And since God cannot lie, then 

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we should heed His prognosis of 
the wickedness of our hearts. 

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What has God got to say about 
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What is God saying to me? 
What is God saying about me? 

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That's what we ought to think 
about when we come to the 

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Scripture and God looks into the
human heart and He gives us 

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prognosis, and His prognosis is 
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He tells us us that we have all 
sinned and He knows what He's 

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talking about. 
We have all sinned and we have 

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all come short of His glory. 
We have all incurred guilt, as 

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is what we call total depravity.
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In other words, the whole man is
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Way back in the days of the 
Reformation with a man called 

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Martin Luther, the hallway 
there, the roommate there is 

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named after him, the great 
Martin Luther, and he fought 

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with the Roman Catholic 
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A Dutchman from Rotterdam. 
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his book, which was called The 
Bondage of the Will, whereby he 

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showed clearly that man had 
willingly sold himself in the 

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spiritual slavery, in the 
spiritual bondage, and that 

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man's wicked heart governed 
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That's not a popular doctrine 
and even within some evangelical

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churches, evidently those that 
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would be very wouldn't be long. 
Do you get an objection to that?

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But it's a Bible doctrine. 
That's why we're preaching it 

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tonight. 
It teaches us that an unsaved 

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man, an unsaved woman is a 
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held captive by the devil at his
will. 

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And it's God himself who tells 
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You know, sometimes you, you 
hear about it in the news or 

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certain or on some of those 
documentary type programmes set 

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up, they look at the scammers 
and sometimes they go after the 

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rogue builders. 
The builders who knock the doors

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maybe have some little pensioner
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And they say, you know, we're 
over the road here and it's just

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looking up here at your roof and
you're going to run into big 

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problems with that roof. 
You need a new roof, going to 

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cost thousands. 
And of course, the wee woman 

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doesn't want the winters coming 
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One thing you need over your 
head is a roof that doesn't 

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leak, a roof that's not going to
light you down when the winter 

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comes in and she pays out 
thousands of pounds for work 

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that never needed to be done. 
It was the work of the scammer. 

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It was the work of a liar who 
took advantage of that little 

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woman with all her life savings,
bladder for thousands of pounds 

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made off, having done very 
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anything, for nothing needed to 
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And away they went, a lot 
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And she was superior. 
But listen, God is not like 

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that. 
God cannot lie. 

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There's no exaggeration when He 
says concerning the wickedness 

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of our hearts. 
The whole head, this is a 

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picture that He paints. 
The whole head, this is total, 

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is sick. 
The whole heart is faint from 

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the sole of the feet to the 
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There is no soundness in it but 
wounds and bruises and putrefied

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sores that have not been closed.
They're bound up nor mollified 

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with ointment. 
And you can't argue against 

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that. 
If you do, then you're making 

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God to be a liar. 
You're confronting Him. 

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And all that does is just AB sin
on the sin that's going into 

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denial. 
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This is God looking into the 
wickedness of our heart. 

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And since God cannot lie, then 
we need to believe Him when He 

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says that we are totally 
helpless to save ourselves. 

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And this may be seen to make a 
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Again, and unpopular, but I 
remind you again, I must come 

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back to this again. 
This is God speaking. 

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This is His book. 
I'm quoting verses of Scripture 

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here. 
I'm referring to what God has 

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said. 
He's telling us the truth. 

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And I remind you tonight, the 
only thing that makes men free 

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and sets them free is the truth 
of God. 

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And since God cannot lie, we 
ought to believe the record that

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God has given of His Son, 
because we were so sinful, 

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because we are so helpless, that
only the Son of God, only the 

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Christ of God, can save us. 
And when He saves us, it will be

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by grace through faith, not of 
works, lest any man should boast

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that our sin necessitated the 
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God. 
And Calvary of we would be see, 

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if God was under no obligation 
to send his Son, because he was 

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under no obligation to save us, 
He could have left us as a race 

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to perish in our sins. 
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the Bible says he is, he come to
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then that necessitated Christ, 
the Son of God dying for us upon

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the cross. 
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Judas played us a little bit, 
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Peter who forsook him and all 
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And you have Pilot there, you 
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Jewish authorities there you 
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up. 
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into this here. 
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put His Son on the cross. 
God delivered him up for us all.

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He went to the cross according 
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the foreknowledge of God. 
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we must believe him when he 
utterly rubbishes and he utterly

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rejects every our supposed way 
our on his own. 

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Twice in the Word of God, twice 
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He warns there is a way that 
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the ends are off are the ways of
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You know, in a civic sense we 
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everyman, that civic right to 
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religion. 
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We don't vandalise our halls, 
our chapels or whatever. 

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We recognise they have a civil 
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That's the society in which we 
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civil religious liberty and 
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ours. 
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civic right and and believe it 
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Christian duty to warn every man
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last be seen to be damnable 
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teaching, then they'll be lost 
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The book compels us to say that 
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cannot lie. 
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is this palatable? 
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Does this fit the current 
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I am out of step with current 
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but I'm in line with the word of
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Governments lie, politicians 
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It must be true. 
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in the book that I referred to 
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well, Erasmus, Luther's 
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Erasmus became a cardinal. 
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Luther was some debater. 
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He knew the weak spot of 
Erasmus, and he writes in his 

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words. 
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Is it enough? 
Is it not enough that you submit

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your opinion to the scriptures? 
Do you submit it to the decrees 

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of the Church? 
Also, what can the church decree

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that has not decreed in the 
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The Church isn't infallible, got
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He's not unfallable. 
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I know there are certain 
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together. 
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as Luther told them at that 
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before at the data, worms, popes
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The New Testament church was the
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They were the people who brought
the false witnesses to condemn 

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the Lord Jesus. 
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But listen, God cannot lie. 
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to you things, excellent things 
in counsel and in knowledge. 

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And if you have a false belief 
and it's been with you since 

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your early days, that does not 
line up with the word of God 

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that you can try and do your 
best and so on all like that. 

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I'm saying to you tonight, 
jettison it, jettison it. 

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Get it out of your mind 
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Be be determined to reject it. 
Throw it off, throw it off and 

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embrace the word of Him. 
He cannot lie. 

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This leads me to my third and my
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I've seen the character that 
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the faithfulness of God, the 
consequences that promote the 

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text, that we're lost, we're 
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ourselves. 
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Thirdly, hear the choice that 
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You see, you can't remain 
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Once seen, they cannot be 
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ignored, they can't be 
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Certainly they cannot be 
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And the great issue then centres
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first posed by Pilot What shall 
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Listen to what Jesus said. 
I am the way, the truth, and the

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life. 
No man cometh unto the flower, 

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but by me coming to the flower 
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It means to be accepted with 
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Christ because Christ has 
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This is something we receive in 
an act of faith being justified 

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nowhere, great Reformation tax 
being justified by faith. 

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We have peace with God through 
our Lord Jesus Christ, and faith

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only comes because it believes 
the record that God has given in

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true is true. 
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It's essentially trust. 
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It trusts God's word as 
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And no matter who says what 
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ridicules it, no matter who says
I have proved it wrong, faith 

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says no, I believe God. 
Not what Paul said in that great

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shipwreck. 
I believe God that it shall be 

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even as it was told me, because 
God cannot lie and his great 

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hymn marvelling at the great 
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immortal God to bear our sins to
the tree. 

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Old Charles Wesley made this 
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Listen to the words is 
crucified. 

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He said He has crucified for me 
and you to bring us rebels back 

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to God. 
Believe, believe the record 

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true. 
Ye now are bought with Jesus 

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blood. 
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side. 
My Lord, my love is crucified, 

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and when you put your faith in 
Christ, and that's your choice 

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as your only saviour, realising 
your lost estate, then you 

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profit exceedingly. 
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the Bible says you pass from 
death on the life and you shall 

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not come in the condemnation. 
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It is to live and to die in 
unbelief. 

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The live and die and unbelief is
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Jesus said if you die in your 
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cannot come at a great loss. 
That's a loss that can never be 

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restored. 
There's no second chance after 

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death. 
The eye lids close in death. 

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The last breath is uttered. 
The body lies still. 

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The soul is out into God's great
on ending eternity, and there's 

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no way back. 
If you die in Christ, you go to 

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be with him, which is far 
better. 

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But to die in unbelief is to be 
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without any hope of redemption. 
But, but why do that tonight? 

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You know this is still the day 
of grace, still the day of 

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mercy. 
Doors of the meeting house are 

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open. 
Gospels preached, proclaimed one

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way or another. 
Why not tonight, if you're still

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unsaved, come to know him as 
your Saviour. 

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God himself invites you to come.
Christ invites you to come. 

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Come unto me, He says all that 
are weak and have a laden, and I

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will give you rest. 
He gives you an assurance, an 

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assurance. 
Him that cometh to me I will in 

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no wise cast out. 
And not only will he not lie, He

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cannot lie. 
It is impossible. 

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But you need to come, and it 
would be a great thing tonight 

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as we bring this gospel meeting 
to an end. 

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It would be a great thing 
tonight if you were to come to 

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Him and to call upon His name. 
Whosoever shall call on the name

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of the Lord shall be saved just 
where you're sitting in your 

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seat. 
You ask the Lord to save you. 

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Lord, I believe your word is 
true, and on the basis of your 

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invitation, I'm going to come 
save me. 

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Save me for Jesus sake, and 
you'll do it. 

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Or if you want to speak with us 
afterwards, we'll not be running

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away quickly after the meeting. 
If you want to wait behind and 

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chat with us, well, we're 
willing to do that as well. 

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But you trust the Saviour, Don't
leave the meeting on converted. 

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We'll close the meeting just 
with a little word of prayer. 

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I will give thanks for the the 
food that the Lord has provided 

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and then we're free to have the 
supper. 

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But don't leave on converted. 
Heavenly follower, we thank you 

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for your word tonight, the word 
to him that cannot lie. 

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We thank you, Lord, that we have
trusted His word and we're still

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trusting. 
You've never failed as you never

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will. 
And we thank your Father that 

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all who come will be received. 
Sinners Jesus will receive. 

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Send the word of grace to all. 
Thank you to Lord for the food 

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that thou hast supplied, and as 
eaten, drink to your matchless 

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glory, for we ask it in Jesus 
name, Amen. 

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Amen. 
Thank you for listening so well.