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Thanks for checking out the 
anchor Faith. 

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Message podcast from st. 
Augustine, Florida. 

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Now, enjoy this message. 
So it's an honor that Pastor 

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Earl's asked me to come and 
Minister. 

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It's always an honor. 
I love my church. 

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I love my church family. 
I love every one of you, you 

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know, I've really kind of grown 
up here and I say that every 

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time, but I have my, some of the
most pivotal points in my life, 

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have happened here with you guys
that I prefer a church. 

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I answered the call to Ministry.
I came here, I've met my wife, 

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I've had my children, my 
greatest triumphs, my greatest 

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failures of all happened in this
church body. 

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So it's exciting for me to come 
and Minister and it's always a 

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great honor. 
This is never something that's 

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taken lightly by our pastors or 
any one of us that step up here 

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because we know the, you know, 
the responsibility to rightly 

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divide the word of Truth, the 
responsibility that rests on our

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shoulders to make sure that 
we're accurately communicating 

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what God has said in his word. 
So tonight we're going to go on 

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a little journey together. 
Either the title, my message is 

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lost in the woods. 
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The goal was to not be, so let's
just be clear about that. but to

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any time that we ever, Anybody 
ever enters this Pulpit at 

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anchor? 
In a church, you know, the 

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message that we bring is not 
just the general message, you 

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would hear from the regular 
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We always bring the gospel of 
the kingdom of God and that's 

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not something I ever be taken 
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Because you understand, I was 
raised in church and I, you 

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know, every time I miss her, I 
say this and I get this little 

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disclaimer but I was basically 
born on to a Pew. 

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I think the second the service 
right after my mom can, you 

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know, testify with a service 
right after I was born. 

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Boom, we were we were there at 
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in that, I was taught a lot of 
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I was taught a lot of the word, 
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that set me up from my life. 
But I was also taught a lot of 

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religion because the message I 
received wasn't through the lens

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of the kingdom. 
And when I read the Bible, I 

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read it through religious eyes 
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received the revelation of the 
Kingdom, until I put on that 

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lens of the kingdom. 
And then the whole world came to

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life for me. 
The word of God came to lat. 

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I mean, everything that I ever 
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answered. 
I received the kingdom message, 

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so it's not just a sermon that 
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Everything that we talked about 
everything that we do every the 

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way that we think all of it 
hinges on the foundation of the 

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kingdom. 
And if you guys miss Sunday, you

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need to go back and listen to it
before next Sunday, because 

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Pastor Earle just started a new 
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And it's again, re-emphasizing 
and Reba, you know, establishing

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this foundation of the kingdom 
of God, that really is just the 

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message Jesus preached as well. 
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like, you know, I read the Bible
every day but today specifically

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knowing I was going to come 
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I started looking through the 
gospels and looking through the 

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good news, right? 
The gospel means, good news and 

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as I'm looking through the good 
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there. 
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heaven. 
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I'm not discounting, that's not,
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But when you're reading the 
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If that was the best news for 
the church, why isn't it in the 

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gospels of Matthew Mark, Luke 
and John Why is it specifically 

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stated in fact, if the gospel 
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Humanity was when you die, you 
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If that was the good news, why 
did Jesus forget to preach that?

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So when we, when we look at the 
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you know, this Forest, so to 
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you know, we've heard it said a 
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It's like the kingdom is the 
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message of Salvation healing 
forgiveness, all these, you 

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know, Redemption, all of these 
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forest. 
But what I've found is with most

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modern Christians. 
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God, gotten into the forest. 
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and don't know what they've 
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lost in the woods. 
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Well, you know, why is your if 
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If you say, well, why is your 
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Why is your life so good? 
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we walk into church more like 
God is good and then somebody 

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says all the time so we know the
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he good? 
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You know, because he is that's 
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you said, how is God good? 
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We don't we don't really know 
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So whenever we begin to look at 
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us through the kingdom, we got 
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Genesis 1:26, put it on the 
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Some of you have heard this a 
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times but honestly, some of you 
in here, this is your first time

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hearing it. 
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If this is one of the first 
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message, you'll never ever be 
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You'll never able be able to go 
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So every time this gets 
mentioned any time Pastor Earle 

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ever brings up the Scripture, it
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There's we have not exhausted 
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don't think, I know where we're 
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God gave, man Dominion I get it.
I'm telling you, I hear some of 

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you talking in the lobby, you 
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I know what this is. 
Do you though, really because I,

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you know, you're the way the way
you're acting is telling me you 

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don't have it yet, but we're 
going to read it because this 

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understand, we're spoiled a 
tanker, Faith Church. 

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We get the word all the time. 
Rightly divided when, I mean, 

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our pastors do exactly what the 
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He says, I didn't Apostle. 
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from you, the full counsel of 
God and I'm thankful for real 

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pastors, that have raised us in 
developed us and taught us that 

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way. 
But Realize there's other places

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outside of here that you'll go 
and they're not going to 

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understand this. 
This is a answer to a deep 

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theological question that church
people and non-church people are

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both asking, why do we exist? 
God answers it on the first 

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page? 
That we see God, the high 

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Creator, the Creator. 
The emanates love the emanates 

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life that that has created. 
All things says, and let us make

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man in our image, according to 
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And then he says these three 
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every human Destiny from then, 
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And I'm going to emphasize what 
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Again, the three words that God 
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every human Destiny from this 
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This did not change when Jesus 
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God's original intentions for 
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Never changed ever. 
His original intentions are his 

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eternal intentions. 
So these are the most powerful 

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words you could ever hear for 
your purpose, your assignment 

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and your destiny. 
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Okay, he then he says over the 
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of the sky over all the cattle 
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every creeping thing that creeps
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We know that God in the original
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that he could just be a being of
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religious setting. 
Everything that I've read in the

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Bible. 
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the Bible, but I read the Bible 
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I've read shows that God gave 
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the Earth and an assignment on 
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planet. 
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Jesus. 
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kingdom and said, you're going 
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dominate this world. 
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happened from the fall all the 
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mankind back to God's original 
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Since it's the foundation of 
your destiny, realize anything 

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other than you ruling is 
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And I don't know what version of
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But I've read the Bible. 
And it empowers me to dominate 

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right now. 
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afterlife and what happens when 
you die realize even after you 

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die. 
You come back because you were 

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made. 
To rule here not heaven. 

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Who rules Heaven, think. 
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Let's think it through, who 
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pretty clear 11650 now, which is
one of those to get read both 

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chapters. 
You'll find it. 

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It says, the highest Heavens are
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given to who, man or woman 
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We're not trying to say just 
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humanity to mankind. 
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that we would dominate here. 
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Designed that means Jesus came 
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get you somewhere that you 
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Jesus came to bring you back to 
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to rule. 
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I hope we believe it. 
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verses 15 through 17. 
We're going to do some reading 

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tonight. 
It says something, God took the 

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man and put him into the Garden 
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keep it. 
And I'm going to do what all the

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creative team hates. 
And I'm going to read portions 

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of it and I'm going to stop and 
expound and I'm gonna read and 

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pause all through this. 
But it says in, God took the man

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and put him in the Garden of 
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Where did he put, man? 
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Because he hated man. 
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Because he wanted man to suffer.
No God, put man in the garden in

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the Earth. 
Because that was God's very best

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for man, is that he would be 
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if it was better that he just be
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I haven't found that. 
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commanded the man saying from 
any tree of the garden, you may 

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freely eat but from the Tree of 
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you shall not eat for in the day
that you eat it, you will surely

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die. 
God does a powerful thing for 

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man. 
Here in this moment, he empowers

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his free will. 
He gives him an either/or Choice

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C without an either/or choice. 
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You just exist and are and you 
go around doing and there's no 

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consequence. 
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But God gave man, a choice and I
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This whole story starts with the
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In the Epic tale that God is 
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Is the ultimate Storyteller. 
He starts out his whole story 

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with you and I and a treat. 
That'll be important later. 

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Write that down a tree. 
Draw a picture of a tree. 

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If you're like me, take notes 
and you draw little pictures and

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there's this fine. 
We're not gonna do a Bob Ross 

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tutorial. 
Don't worry. 

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It doesn't have this is this was
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tree, but it became not a happy 
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So But he says and he put the 
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Evil. 
You shall not eat from it or in 

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that day. 
You eat from it, you will surely

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die. 
So at this point, God gives Adam

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a choice to either obey the 
command or disobey life is 

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simple for Adam. 
Would you agree that he has 

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given obey or not? 
Don't obey. 

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And I think it's worth saying 
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life is still that simple. 
We overcomplicate things. when 

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really God is still dealing with
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Okay, we'll just keep going. 
It's fine. 

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If we look at what's in is we 
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just for the sake of 
paraphrasing. 

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We know that Adam obviously 
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We see that in the next chapter,
he God gives him a woman and 

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then the next one, they go and 
they eat from the fruit, and 

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they're separated. 
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King. 
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Kingdom's realm. 
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See sin, always Always causes 
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Always. 
Send disrupts your Dominion, sin

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comes and divides your dominion 
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you're doing. 
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from the tree, it was more than 
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God was giving him a safeguard 
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Dominion. so, if sin destroys 
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your Dominion, if it keeps you 
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If we're to Define sin, a tank 
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pastor always defined Senate 
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sometimes you know you have this
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the unpardonable sin and you 
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that are you know whatever but 
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its simplest form. 
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didn't cheat on his wife, he 
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he didn't do the Ten 
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All he did. 
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commanded. 
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world forever. 
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there's some sins, you know, 
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than others Sin is Sin. 
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something, just do it. 
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talking about plants and fruit, 
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people's lives and 
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Adam Romans 5:12 says, therefore
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entered, the world and death 
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spread to all men because all 
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By Adam eating the fruit. 
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next passage we see in Romans, 
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one we know really well, most 
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going to talk about. 
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So again what does this mean 
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We all are never going to make 
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that what this means? 
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See this would this would slay 
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to the religious Church in some 
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but y'all are talk to good here.
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online. 
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their car. 
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chapter 7 put that up there for 
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of the glory of God and then if 
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18, we're going to read Is this 
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Nothing good. 
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That, and again, the writer of 
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his past life. 
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Talking about his present state,
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nothing good dwells in me, that 
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Willing is present in me, but 
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good that I want to do. 
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very evil that I don't want to 
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That was how life was? 
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I just want to do something 
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It just seems like everything 
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but if I am doing the very 
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I am no longer the one doing it 
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find then the principle that 
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one who wants to end me the one 
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For I joyfully concur with the 
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I see a different law in the 
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against the law of my mind, and 
making me a prisoner of the law 

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of sin, which is in my members. 
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the state of every person that's
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And it's important to emphasize 
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this message, because there is 
no hope Without the king you're 

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stuck, no matter what you do, no
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no matter how many good things 
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be burnt up and fall away. 
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and with the one who can fix the
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talking this, this person this 
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needs saving They need a savior.
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Verse 24 Wretched, Man that I 
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this body of the body of this 
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Then we see in verse 25. 
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Jesus our lord. 
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with my mind, I am serving the 
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with my flesh, the law of sin, 
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There's not another one, we'll 
stop there because I did that on

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purpose and I'll remember why in
a second. 

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But in this dreary terrible 
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person that he is and me, we 
sing a song about this in 

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Amazing Grace, right? 
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Amazing, Grace. 
How sweet, the sound that saved 

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a Wretch like Me? 
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savior. 
Can we all agree? 

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We need a savior. 
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been born again, are you saved? 
Come on. 

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Are you saved? 
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What does that mean? 
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of sin. 
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Are you safe from separation? 
I'll wait, I mean, look good 

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because if you ask most 
Christians, I'll tell you the 

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popular. 
It's, I'm not gonna come to, I 

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could come down. 
Be like mr. 

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Joe, what do you think you're 
safe from and then put him in an

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awkward position because then 
I'll come my friend correct. 

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When he said me like you're 
wrong. 

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Here's what I really meant my 
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I'm not gonna do that to him. 
I'm just gonna tell you what he 

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was gonna say what he was gonna 
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Most crisp. 
Most modern Believers. 

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It's got finger quotes in case. 
We're just audio recording, only

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see right here. 
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If you said, you're saved, what 
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They would say, hell, Eternal 
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He paid the price for my sins so
that I wouldn't have to pay that

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price and all they're talking 
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But this this man in this 
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Wretched Man because of a 
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He's not at the end result yet 
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that he is. 
He needs to be saved from his 

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wretched State presently. 
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Okay, we'll go somewhere, hold 
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Let's go to John chapter 8. 
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We all want Savior, Jesus to 
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We all understand. 
He is a savior, he does that, 

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but who he truly is as Lord. 
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between Savior, and Lord, what 
does our Lord and our lordship 

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that we confess when we get born
again, what does that save us 

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from? 
What were we in? 

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What will rebound by? 
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Okay. 
We're, y'all are getting it, 

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you're putting together. 
It says Jesus answered them and 

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said. 
So if this was in, you know, my 

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Bible, this would, these letters
would be read their white right 

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now. 
I have zero Bibles that have 

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white letters, but it's okay. 
It says, Jesus answered them and

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said, truly, truly, I say to 
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is a slave of sin and the slave 
does not remain in the house 

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forever, but the sun does remain
forever. 

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Then here's a popular scripture,
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So if the son makes you free you
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Indeed free from what. 
Free from Santa free from the 

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consequence of sin. 
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one who commits sin is a slave 
of sin. 

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Then it says the son, if he 
makes you free, you will be 

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free. 
I could just be in this one 

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passage and say it looks like 
The son frees you from. 

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The slavery of committing. 
Sin. 

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It's gonna be a little quiet for
a little bit but all the rest of

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you will get on board in a 
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Because when in the end, we want
Jesus to be the Savior that 

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meets us at the Pearly Gates and
says, hey, you're okay. 

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Come on in. and what we get 
uncomfortable with is the savior

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that meets you in your bedroom 
and says, hey, I can save you 

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from actually needing a 
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See, it's understood when you 
accepted Christ that work that 

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he did in his death burial and 
Resurrection, you became a brand

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new person when you get born 
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with your mouth that he was Lord
forever. 

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You're the old passed away and 
you became a brand new person on

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the inside free from sin and all
your past sins were forgiven. 

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But the problem is if in that 
moment he said it doesn't matter

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what you do from here on out. 
He undoes what happened in 

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Genesis 1:1 God gave man Choice 
C. 

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Jesus is work on the death 
burial and Resurrection is 

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sitting at is sitting at the 
right hand of the father that 

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work didn't undo free will. 
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but it's going to get it's it's 
going to be tight, it's going to

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be right. 
It's only going to get heavier, 

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but it'll be okay. 
I promise it'll end. 

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Well, is that okay, as could I 
forecast that at least Because 

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our issue is, they're like, oh 
well Jesus. 

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Forgives all my sins. 
Even the ones I'm gonna do. 

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We've already failed that 
Wretched Man. 

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That was going to be saved. 
Apparently, just wants to stay 

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wretched. 
So when sin showed up, it was it

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was inevitable because there was
nothing you could ever do 

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outside of Christ payment to be 
free from it. 

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But the moment that he came and 
the moment that he died on the 

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cross and became sin on our 
behalf. 

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Because isn't that what it says 
that he on the cross? 

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He became what was inevitable 
for us? 

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But it's important to note. 
There's something there's things

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that took place before the 
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Jesus is life, isn't summed up 
like most of the you know the 

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Catholic Creeds right? 
Those are all summed up with the

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birth of Christ, the death of 
Christ and we miss everything in

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between which is all the kingdom
stuff. 

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And it was written for a reason.
So why don't we go? 

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And look at that, I mean, it, 
even if we look at Matthew 

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chapter 4, look at Jesus, as our
perfect example. 

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Would you say Jesus is our 
example? 

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Raise your hand. 
Let me see, is Jesus the perfect

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example. 
Okay. 

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Then I never should hear from 
you, well, but that was Jesus. 

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My brother. 
Can you do it? 

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Because Jesus well that was 
Jesus. 

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No, he's our example, an 
example, something to be 

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followed and he's not unfair, 
which means whatever he said 

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that he did that we could do, we
can do so in Matthew 4, when 

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he's tempted by the enemy. 
Did he? 

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Bow to sin. 
Was he a slave to sin? 

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so, when Temptation comes to 
you, Are you a sinner? 

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Or are you in Christ? 
The one who overcame. 

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Because again, when somebody 
says well, I've been saved the 

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problem is they're lost in the 
woods because they know I've 

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been transferred from the domain
of Darkness into the kingdom. 

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Forest, what's their? 
I don't know. 

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But I'm here and it's good and I
love it and God is good all the 

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time and they can't even answer.
What have you been saved from? 

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And then when you throw that 
well punishment, tell me if I 

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which one makes me a better 
parent if My child I know is 

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going to do wrong. 
Goes out, runs out in the street

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and gets hit by a car and I know
it's going to happen. 

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But I pick them up, I take them 
to the best doctors and get them

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patched up the best I can. 
And I take care of them and make

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sure. 
Listen, you got hurt, but I'm 

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00:25:48,808 --> 00:25:51,200
going to, we've got the whole 
environment here to restore you 

449
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,600
or am I better as a parent to 
protect them from the thing that

450
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,800
would cause them to have to go 
through the whole recovery? 

451
00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:06,700
Then we say, father God. 
We think he's a deadbeat dad. 

452
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,100
We think that he's up there 
sitting going. 

453
00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:10,400
Yeah, we'll see what you do. 
Let's see it. 

454
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,600
Lets see it, lets see it up your
gut. 

455
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,800
Okay, do what you want? 
Look, okay, now, I guess we're 

456
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,900
gonna have to restore you again 
and there's this whole cycle 

457
00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:20,300
with God, that he's just 
forgiving and saving us after 

458
00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:21,500
the after we've done it. 
And it well, there's a 

459
00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:22,900
punishment but we'll get you out
the punishment. 

460
00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:24,400
Oh, there's a punishment will 
get you out of the punishment 

461
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:25,900
and he's not here as your 
bailout plan for your 

462
00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:28,600
punishments. 
He did way more than that. 

463
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,300
In fact, that's what the Old 
Testament people lived in. 

464
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,200
There were constantly given 
sacrifices, because God wasn't 

465
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,500
in them, and all they can ever 
do was wrong. 

466
00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:38,900
So all they were going to do. 
Is blow it all the time, and God

467
00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:40,800
was going to have to forgive 
every time they brought a half 

468
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,100
of a dove or a half of a cow or 
a half of a lizard or whatever 

469
00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:47,600
it was, they had. 
Every time they made a 

470
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,700
sacrifice, God was forgiving. 
Something they had done whenever

471
00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:55,500
Jesus showed up, he changed 
those the game he said, now you 

472
00:26:55,500 --> 00:27:00,100
don't have to do the stuff that 
incurs punishment, he saved you 

473
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,300
from the thing that was going to
hurt you. 

474
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,100
But we don't want the personal 
responsibility of that, not weed

475
00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:08,500
and Cafe church. 
But you understand what I'm 

476
00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:13,200
saying? 
Because the gospel that I find 

477
00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,600
in Powers, my choice and 
responsibility. 

478
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,700
The gospel that's preached. 
In other places. 

479
00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:25,700
Widely removes responsibility 
and says just show up, do nice 

480
00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:28,600
stuff, you're always going to 
fail but God, in the end will 

481
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:34,600
forgive That's a false message 
that's not in here. 

482
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,700
That's not in my Bible. 
Or any of the other ones I got 

483
00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:41,200
the Bible app. 
I got a whole bunch of Bibles, I

484
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,900
can't find any of them. 
So, let's keep going, we'll keep

485
00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:48,200
what will keep moving on because
sin was truly the thing that 

486
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,500
bound us and held us down. 
I mean again, if you were 

487
00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:54,100
chained in a Cell in a horrible 
place, I mean, you think of the 

488
00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:56,000
worst circumstance you could 
think and some kind of prisoner 

489
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,800
of war camp because really isn't
that what we were before Christ?

490
00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:02,000
That we were held against our 
well as captives by a horrible 

491
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,000
evil person that only wanted 
wrong for us and tormented us in

492
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,200
our mind and in our choices in 
our lives, and then, you know, 

493
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,800
wreak havoc in our, in our guilt
and in our families, and we were

494
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:16,200
bound and all the sudden, the 
savior's shows up And takes you 

495
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:21,000
out of that. 
He doesn't wait until one day 

496
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,200
you die and then says now it's 
all going to be better. 

497
00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:28,100
That's not a good savior. 
I want the Jesus. 

498
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:30,500
That's powerful in the grace. 
That's powerful to come in and 

499
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,800
break the chains off of me and 
get me in the Kingdom. 

500
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,700
Now noth-nothing Jesus said, 
just wait until it all goes in a

501
00:28:36,708 --> 00:28:42,400
handbasket to wherever see 
toeing the line here. 

502
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,000
That's the Bible were but that's
all y'all think I was gonna say 

503
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,400
it. 
Yeah, I got catch me cussing up 

504
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:53,400
here or anywhere else. 
Let's go to first, John. 

505
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:57,000
Because the work that Jesus did 
was not just to forgive your 

506
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000
past sins. 
And I found so many Believers 

507
00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:01,600
really can only talk about where
they came from. 

508
00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:07,700
And who they were and the old 
man, and look what I did before 

509
00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:10,700
God, and here's my testimony, 
but really answer the better 

510
00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:12,200
question. 
Where are you going? 

511
00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:18,500
Because I could ask the question
you were, what were you saved 

512
00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:19,900
from? 
But the better question to ask 

513
00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:25,600
is what were you saved for? 
Why did he save you? 

514
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,200
Because he loves us. 
Listen go listen to pastors 

515
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,300
Wednesday night messages on the 
route of love. 

516
00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:35,800
Does God? 
Love us? 

517
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,300
Sure enough. 
He loves us. 

518
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,600
But why were we saved? 
Why did he save us? 

519
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,300
Just so that we could feel his 
love? 

520
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:50,700
No. 
We got it. 

521
00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:54,200
This isn't you know that he 
Capital H in case you didn't 

522
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,800
know when you read the Bible, 
there's a capital H for he 

523
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,600
that's talking about God or 
Jesus. 

524
00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:03,200
Some of your like duh and then 
some of your like, oh my gosh, I

525
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:08,300
just learned one thing tonight. 
I know that he appeared in order

526
00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:12,300
to take away sins and in him. 
There is no sin. 

527
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,100
Okay, let's read this part 
again. 

528
00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:18,400
Okay, he came to take away sins 
and in him, there is no sin. 

529
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,100
Are you in Christ? 
Are you in sin? 

530
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,600
Because you can't be see, you're
getting it, it doesn't work. 

531
00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:30,800
Sin and Christ are impossible. 
Roommates. 

532
00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:32,100
They're never moving in 
together. 

533
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,400
They can never dwell together. 
You'll never find them both in 

534
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:41,900
the same room. 
In him, there is no sin, no one 

535
00:30:41,900 --> 00:30:47,100
who abides in him sins. 
Okay, hold on. 

536
00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:48,600
I got it. 
I already heard it. 

537
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,400
I heard it from some of you 
already. 

538
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,500
Well brother, sometimes we make 
mistakes. 

539
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,900
You know if we sent we're not 
talking about making a mistake 

540
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,500
as a Believer, we're talking 
about habitually choosing to 

541
00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:02,900
just send and go against What 
God Says. 

542
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,200
So let me give that disclaimer 
very clearly when you're saying 

543
00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:07,400
well, since you know, I've you 
know, what happens when we sent 

544
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:12,300
listen, I'm talking about people
who know what God Said and 

545
00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:14,100
choose, I'm not going to do 
that. 

546
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,800
So know that as we continue to 
read, there's no one who abides 

547
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,600
in him sins. 
No one who sins has seen him or 

548
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,500
knows him little children, make 
sure that no one deceives. 

549
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:31,400
You the one who practices 
righteousness is what now hold 

550
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,500
on. 
I thought we'd been made 

551
00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:37,800
righteous Have we been made 
righteous in Christ? 

552
00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:39,500
Yes. 
Absolutely. 

553
00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:46,800
We have So the question is, do 
we maintain that? 

554
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,400
Talking about Works. 
Your whole life is about works. 

555
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,200
You wake up in the morning 
because it works and you go sit 

556
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,800
down at your works and you do 
your Works. 

557
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,000
Don't tell me about Works. 
Everything we do is working and 

558
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,100
doing and moving. 
And that's because we're alive, 

559
00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:05,900
and we're moving forward and 
we're passionate about 

560
00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:07,700
everything that we're doing. 
So yeah, you're going to work 

561
00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:08,800
something. 
You might as well say. 

562
00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:11,400
I'm going to stay righteous. 
How do you stay righteous? 

563
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,100
Practice righteousness. 
O. 

564
00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:17,200
If I said a person who's 
practicing sin is someone who is

565
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,400
making a choice. 
I'm not going to do what God 

566
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,000
said. 
Well then the opposite for 

567
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,400
righteousness would mean I'm 
going to do what God Said and 

568
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,500
that behavior and that attitude 
and that heart is righteous. 

569
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,700
So don't be deceived a person 
who practices righteousness. 

570
00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:39,500
That's a righteous person. 
Just as he remember, Capital H, 

571
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,100
I just told you that you should 
have written that down. 

572
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,900
He is righteous the one who 
practices sin is of who, the 

573
00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:51,100
devil for the devil has sinned 
from the beginning and the Son 

574
00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:54,200
of God appeared for this 
purpose, to destroy the works of

575
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,500
the devil. 
No one. 

576
00:32:56,500 --> 00:33:05,400
Who is born of God practices 
sin. because, There you go, 

577
00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:09,600
because his seed abides in him, 
and he cannot sin because he is 

578
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:14,000
born of God. 
There's a lot, there's a lot to 

579
00:33:14,008 --> 00:33:15,200
be said, go back to the last 
slide. 

580
00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:20,200
Okay. 
So in keeping life simple. 

581
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:26,000
The person who practices 
righteousness is what a person, 

582
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,300
who habitually practices sin is.
Of sin. 

583
00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:34,300
And as of who is of the devil 
for the devil, has sinned from 

584
00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:37,400
the beginning. 
And the Son of God Jesus 

585
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:42,800
appeared for this purpose. 
To destroy what? 

586
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,400
What are the works of the devil?
Don't say sin? 

587
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,500
Don't do not, do not do that. 
To me, you're going to leave 

588
00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:51,500
here. 
And your children are going to 

589
00:33:51,508 --> 00:33:53,900
ask you what you learn about, 
you like sin, because that's 

590
00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:55,300
what they do to you in class. 
You know. 

591
00:33:55,300 --> 00:33:57,700
We taught him a whole lot more 
in a cafe Church than that, big 

592
00:33:57,700 --> 00:33:58,600
walk. 
I say what you learn about, 

593
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,400
Jesus. 
What about Jesus? 

594
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,300
Don't do that to me. 
The Works that it's got to be 

595
00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:07,600
deeper than that, right? 
So let's find out what we're his

596
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:08,500
works. 
From the beginning. 

597
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,600
Let's look at it. 
Let's go to Isaiah chapter 14. 

598
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,199
This is the first account that 
we have of something that was 

599
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:15,699
taking place before planet 
Earth. 

600
00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:21,600
Before the creation, there was 
this whole coup that happened in

601
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:27,900
heaven. so, if we pick up in the
stories, Where's it at? 

602
00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:31,600
See, I told you if it happens 
going to call you by name, 

603
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,699
Kevin. 
There we go. 

604
00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:38,800
Everybody say thank you, Kevin. 
He's the man. 

605
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,500
I'm telling you, he's one of the
best that I've got back there. 

606
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,400
Isaiah Chapter, 14, verse 1 
through you, you saw it 32. 

607
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,300
We're not going to read all the 
way there, but it says when the 

608
00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:50,600
Lord. 
Wait wait, hold on. 

609
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:59,400
Skip ahead for me to verse 12. 
Almost. 

610
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,100
Here we go. 
So we pick up in the prophet, 

611
00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:07,900
Isaiah's, getting this picture 
of something that happened in 

612
00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:10,900
heaven before the creation. 
It says, and how you have fallen

613
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:14,900
from heaven Oh, star of the 
morning. 

614
00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:17,400
O, son of the Dawn. 
You have been cut down to the 

615
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:22,000
Earth, you who have weakened the
nation's but you said in your 

616
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,300
heart. 
So get this. 

617
00:35:23,300 --> 00:35:26,400
This is the devil. 
This is Lucifer and his 

618
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,400
beginning. 
The first time that we see 

619
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,000
rebellion in God's kingdom. 
He says, you said in your heart,

620
00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:36,000
I will say, I will, I will 
Ascend to Heaven. 

621
00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:40,500
I will say I will. 
I will raise my throne above the

622
00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:45,400
stars of God and I will say, I 
will I will sit on the Mount of 

623
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,600
the assembly in the recesses of 
the north, and I will see, you 

624
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,800
got it Ascend above the heights 
of the clouds. 

625
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:59,100
And I will make myself like the 
most most high. 

626
00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:02,000
But then it says nevertheless, 
you will be thrust down into 

627
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,200
sheol to the recesses of the 
pit. 

628
00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:07,300
So the first time that we see 
sin or what we could call 

629
00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:13,800
original sin because it doesn't 
get any more original or Was it 

630
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:19,000
precedent-setting than this? 
The route of the first fall in 

631
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:26,300
sin, was selfishness. 
The devil said, I will do what I

632
00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:29,900
want. 
Above what God wants. 

633
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,800
That's the work. 
The first work of the devil that

634
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,800
we just read was in the 
beginning. 

635
00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:43,400
So then the very next time that 
we see him show up and start. 

636
00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:47,800
Doing his work in the earth is 
in Genesis chapter 3. 

637
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:56,200
Starting in verse 1. 
I deserve this because I did 

638
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,200
this to Pastor last week, I made
him. 

639
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:03,100
Wait, Genesis chapter 3 verse 1.
It says now the serpent was more

640
00:37:03,100 --> 00:37:05,500
crafty than any beast of the 
field which the Lord God had 

641
00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:06,600
made. 
Do we know who that is. 

642
00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:17,700
And he said to the woman indeed 
has God said You shall not eat 

643
00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:21,500
from any tree of the garden. 
And didn't we read earlier that?

644
00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:25,100
God told Adam, eat freely of any
tree but do not eat of the tree 

645
00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:26,200
of the knowledge of Good and 
Evil. 

646
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,200
That's in the middle of the 
garden. 

647
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,000
Don't do it. 
The only command God gave that 

648
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,400
was an either, or the only one 
is the first conversation, the 

649
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,800
enemy brings up. 
Why didn't he talk about 

650
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,900
anything else? 
Why did he make up any other 

651
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:40,400
sin? 
Why didn't he get Eve to try to 

652
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,100
cheat on her husband? 
Or why didn't he get her to go 

653
00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:45,200
and try to steal from something 
or, or do any other kind of 

654
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,800
detestable thing that we can 
think of? 

655
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,400
What did he try to tempt her say
you should murder Adam. 

656
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:57,600
Think about it. 
The only thing that he wanted to

657
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,300
happen was to find. 
What has God said, all I want to

658
00:38:01,308 --> 00:38:04,500
get them to do is disobey it. 
He didn't tempt her with 

659
00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:07,800
anything else. 
So he comes in. 

660
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,200
He says, indeed has God said, 
You shall not eat from any tree 

661
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,800
of the garden that has he said 
that don't eat from anything. 

662
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,700
Then that just soundless, you 
crafty. 

663
00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:18,500
God said you can't eat, right? 
Like you're not allowed to eat 

664
00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:20,800
at all. 
Well no. 

665
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,100
Oh okay, let's have a 
conversation then sneaky sneaky 

666
00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:27,100
sneaky snake. 
It says the woman said to the 

667
00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:29,300
serpent from the fruit of the 
Trees of the garden. 

668
00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:33,000
We may eat but from the fruit of
the tree which is in the middle 

669
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,300
of the garden, God said, do not 
eat from it or touch it or you 

670
00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:40,700
will die. 
Now whether she added or didn't 

671
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,300
not my concern, but this next 
part is interesting of all the 

672
00:38:45,300 --> 00:38:48,400
things he could have told her or
had her do and all of the sin 

673
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,900
that is that is in the Earth and
all the options and 

674
00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:53,700
opportunities. 
The only thing he came after was

675
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,700
what God Said. 
Think about it. 

676
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,000
If the word of God leave this up
here, the word of God is so 

677
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,900
valuable. 
That God himself said, I exalt 

678
00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:08,100
my word above my own name. 
He's got the name above all 

679
00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:10,100
names, but he said there's one 
thing that's higher than that. 

680
00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:13,100
And that's my word. 
In fact, the way he created the 

681
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:16,300
whole universe was with his 
word, whenever mankind fella 

682
00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:19,800
says, he sent forth his word. 
So the most powerful entity in 

683
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,900
the whole universe, is the word 
of God. 

684
00:39:21,900 --> 00:39:24,100
And that's the only thing, the 
devil cared about even in the 

685
00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:29,100
garden and he shows up. 
And he says, what did God say? 

686
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,300
Then the serpent says what God 
Said won't happen. 

687
00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:39,000
You won't die for God knows that
in the day that you eat of it. 

688
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,700
Now listen, listen wait, go 
back, go back. 

689
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,300
Listen to how the conversation 
then turns. 

690
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,700
Because at this point, Adam and 
Eve have purpose. 

691
00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:51,600
They've been given a mandate 
they've been given their terms 

692
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,700
and conditions of what keeps 
this Dominion mandate. 

693
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,600
And all they know is, God said 
it, we're doing it. then the 

694
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:06,100
devil says, listen, God knows 
that in the day that you eat of 

695
00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:10,700
it, you know, we kind of read 
through this quickly, but he 

696
00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:14,700
made it personal He said it in 
the day. 

697
00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:15,700
You eat of it. 
Go back. 

698
00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:19,500
Go back, go back. 
For God knows that in the day 

699
00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:22,400
that you eat, now, you can go 
forward from it. 

700
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,200
Your eyes will be opened. 
All of the sudden they went from

701
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:31,200
this God, focus of purpose. 
And what God has assigned them 

702
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:36,200
to your eyes will be opened. 
When you eat your eyes will be 

703
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,500
open. 
Doesn't this sound like his work

704
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:40,900
in the beginning? 
When he said, I will do what I 

705
00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:42,900
want. 
I'll have the only way that he 

706
00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:45,900
could get them on board, with 
his way of thinking, is to get 

707
00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:51,000
them to say, but you will have 
your eyes opened. 

708
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,700
And you will be like God knowing
Good and Evil. 

709
00:40:57,300 --> 00:41:00,100
And then here's where the whole 
shift takes place. 

710
00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:03,300
Before the fruit was eaten in 
verse six, everything falls 

711
00:41:03,300 --> 00:41:06,100
apart right here. 
In this verse, it says, when the

712
00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:12,200
woman saw that the tree was good
for food, When the woman saw was

713
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,500
she blind before, did she see 
the tree before? 

714
00:41:15,500 --> 00:41:17,300
Did she know that it was there 
because she saw it. 

715
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,800
So this is a different kind of 
seeing This is when the woman 

716
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,500
saw that the tree was good for 
food and that it was a delight 

717
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:31,000
to the eyes. 
And it was desirable to make one

718
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,200
wise. 
She took. 

719
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:41,100
She fell right into the Trap. 
the same trap that every 

720
00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:45,600
believer, Will fall into if they
don't know where they are in 

721
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,600
this Kingdom. 
And that is the choice between. 

722
00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:54,900
Do I get what I want or do I do 
what he wants? 

723
00:41:55,300 --> 00:42:00,000
Is my focus on what the king 
says or is my focus on what it 

724
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:05,400
does for me? 
But I want see that's dangerous.

725
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,100
Talk. 
I need some me time. 

726
00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:12,300
How about it? 
Just all be his time whatever 

727
00:42:12,300 --> 00:42:16,100
I'm doing. 
I know the Lord. 

728
00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:20,100
I feel like the Lord has drawn 
me that but I careful careful 

729
00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:22,700
because you're not sounding like
Jesus. 

730
00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:24,900
You're not sounding like 
Kingdom. 

731
00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:29,900
We read Genesis 1:26 and God 
says, let them rule. 

732
00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:35,100
They don't sound like ruling. 
Because the moment that she he 

733
00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:39,100
was able to get her to focus on 
herself more than what God Said.

734
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,900
Then she fell to the Temptation 
and did what we call Sin. 

735
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,100
She disobeyed the word of the 
king all sin stems from you. 

736
00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:49,400
Choosing what you want above? 
What God Said. 

737
00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:57,600
That's the root of all sin. 
A selfish choice to take what I 

738
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,900
want instead of what God has 
said and every day, that's all 

739
00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:02,300
you're faced with is that 
choice? 

740
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,400
That's your tree everyday self 
or God. 

741
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,900
So God could talk to Modern 
Believers this way. 

742
00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:12,300
He could say listen. 
Any good thing that I've ever 

743
00:43:12,300 --> 00:43:14,900
made for you everything. 
I've said in my word is all at 

744
00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:17,600
your disposal, take all of it 
and choose all of it. 

745
00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:19,400
There's just one thing you can't
choose. 

746
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:24,300
That's yourself. 
The moment you eat from the Tree

747
00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:34,200
of self. 
You destroy your Dominion. so, 

748
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:39,100
if we need to be saved, Couldn't
we say the greatest thing that 

749
00:43:39,100 --> 00:43:42,500
Jesus saved me from I could say 
this, the greatest thing he 

750
00:43:42,500 --> 00:43:48,900
saved me from was myself. 
I don't have to side with myself

751
00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:51,100
anymore. 
If I come to a situation where 

752
00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:54,400
my own selfish desires rise up, 
I don't have to choose me. 

753
00:43:54,700 --> 00:43:57,900
I can choose him. 
And in that moment, I don't need

754
00:43:57,900 --> 00:44:00,300
saving from a consequence. 
I'm saved because I don't have 

755
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:03,200
to have a consequence. 
I'm not in curing more and more 

756
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,900
and more consequences every day 
because I'm just a sorry sinner.

757
00:44:06,900 --> 00:44:10,400
Don't be deceived if you're a 
sinner, you practice sin and 

758
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,900
that's what you are. 
But if you're righteous, you 

759
00:44:12,900 --> 00:44:16,300
practice righteousness. 
It's really simple. 

760
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,800
I love how that verse remember 
it started, I said, oh, little 

761
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,000
children, That means this is 
Elementary principal. 

762
00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:26,000
The one who practices 
righteousness is, what the one 

763
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,600
who practices sin is what a 
sinner and belongs to. 

764
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,200
How are we over comp? 
Yeah, thank you. 

765
00:44:35,300 --> 00:44:38,000
Being a light bulb. 
It's not just the shine on my 

766
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:43,000
head. 
See, I knew that joke would go 

767
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,500
over. 
Well, it's not in here. 

768
00:44:44,500 --> 00:44:46,000
I didn't write it down. 
Pastor Marcus would have. 

769
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,000
I did not so note that So again,
when Jesus shows up as our 

770
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,400
ultimate example, he didn't show
up as a person who continually 

771
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,000
blew it and all we see is his 
pattern of making a mistake and 

772
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,100
how to get out of the mistake 
and making a mistake and how to 

773
00:44:58,100 --> 00:44:59,700
get out of mistake and make a 
mistake and talking to the 

774
00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:01,400
father. 
That was not his pattern. 

775
00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:05,400
His pattern was only dominating,
it was only Rising above 

776
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,500
Temptation and saying I don't 
have to succumb to it. 

777
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,400
It was only being faced with 
situations that he said I'm 

778
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,900
gonna choose God. 
And Jesus is the perfect example

779
00:45:13,900 --> 00:45:16,100
because he always only ever 
chose God. 

780
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,700
But he's Jesus, right? 
Nobody's perfect. 

781
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,500
Hey hey, hey, don't say that. 
You sound stupid because 

782
00:45:25,500 --> 00:45:29,000
somebody was his name is Jesus 
and he's your example and you 

783
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,000
would say I'm a Christian. 
I'm christ-like. 

784
00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:34,700
I'm like Christ in every way 
except I sent all the time, you 

785
00:45:34,700 --> 00:45:37,300
can't be that you can't be in 
Christ and a thinner. 

786
00:45:39,100 --> 00:45:42,400
Doesn't it sound wacky? 
I mean, seriously, there's 

787
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,200
people other Christian radio 
just this week. 

788
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,500
It's why I don't turn it on and 
it came on randomly against my 

789
00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:48,100
will. 
I didn't want it on and it came 

790
00:45:48,100 --> 00:45:50,800
on this person was like, you 
know, we're all just sorry 

791
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,200
Sinners. 
Why is that a coin? 

792
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:56,600
The phrase among the charge If 
you're a sorry sinner, you're 

793
00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:01,100
not in with him. 
Again, in the Old Testament. 

794
00:46:01,100 --> 00:46:03,700
That's what they were Abraham. 
All them could get together and 

795
00:46:03,700 --> 00:46:05,200
sing together. 
We're all sorry. 

796
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,700
Sinners saved by grace. 
Let me they were Sinners. 

797
00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:12,200
It was inevitable in their life 
but Jesus is work in his death 

798
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,700
burial and Resurrection saved. 
You from the inevitability of 

799
00:46:15,700 --> 00:46:19,900
sin, it is no longer what just 
happens with you. 

800
00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:24,700
We're all human. 
Yeah, we're all human, but I'm 

801
00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:28,300
in a different kind of humanity.
I'm in a redeemed, Humanity, I 

802
00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,200
got born again. 
I came into this Kingdom, and I 

803
00:46:31,208 --> 00:46:34,100
know where I am. 
I'm not lost in the woods. 

804
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,700
I know where I'm supposed to be.
Ask me what I've been saved 

805
00:46:38,700 --> 00:46:40,000
from. 
I've got an answer. 

806
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:50,900
It's good. 
The last question that we really

807
00:46:50,900 --> 00:46:53,300
last is what are we saved for? 
Because again, if this was 

808
00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:56,600
really just about Jesus coming 
and dying so that you could just

809
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,200
go to heaven, one day, he didn't
have to do that. 

810
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,700
He came to empower your daily 
living. 

811
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,400
He didn't save you for an end 
goal. 

812
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,700
He saved you for now, in fact 
all through the gospels, Jesus 

813
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:11,500
was always addressing people's 
present tense life. 

814
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:15,700
Present tense. 
This Kingdom that we preach is 

815
00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:19,000
not a just a future tense. 
Its present tense, right now. 

816
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,100
When you got transferred from 
the domain of Darkness, could 

817
00:47:21,100 --> 00:47:24,100
do, we all understand this? 
This passage, we were 

818
00:47:24,100 --> 00:47:27,000
transferred from the domain of 
Darkness into the kingdom of his

819
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,200
beloved Son in whom, there is 
redemption and forgiveness of 

820
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:33,000
sins. 
When are we there? 

821
00:47:38,900 --> 00:47:41,700
Maybe. 
When are we there? 

822
00:47:41,700 --> 00:47:44,400
When did that happen? 
Are you in the Kingdom right 

823
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:45,200
now? 
Where does that happen? 

824
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:49,700
When you die? 
Does it change the way you live 

825
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:51,300
right now? 
Or will it just be better when 

826
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:55,400
you die? 
Is there something you need to 

827
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,100
do? 
Is their responsibility for you 

828
00:47:58,900 --> 00:48:01,600
because I found most Believers 
when they're lost in the woods 

829
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,900
is because they have allowed sin
to come in and have such a 

830
00:48:04,900 --> 00:48:06,400
strong hold. 
That it breaks off their 

831
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,100
dominion. 
And even though they're supposed

832
00:48:08,100 --> 00:48:11,600
to dominate, they fall into the 
Trap of trying to dominate while

833
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,400
being dominated and it'll never 
happen. 

834
00:48:14,700 --> 00:48:17,600
If something dominates you, 
you'll never dominate the planet

835
00:48:18,100 --> 00:48:20,100
and if your purpose is to 
dominate the planet and 

836
00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:22,700
something's dominating you, 
you'll never enter your destiny.

837
00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:25,300
And I found so many times, when 
somebody says what's my purpose,

838
00:48:25,300 --> 00:48:26,300
you know, I just want to know my
purpose. 

839
00:48:26,300 --> 00:48:28,400
It's a big question, guys. 
It's a huge question. 

840
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,200
How do you find your purpose? 
I mean, it's one of the biggest 

841
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,100
challenges you'll ever have is 
finding and entering into the 

842
00:48:34,100 --> 00:48:36,200
assignment that God gave you 
before you were born. 

843
00:48:37,300 --> 00:48:40,400
But so many people can't find 
their purpose because the 

844
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,700
foundation of their purpose is 
to dominate yet. 

845
00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:45,700
They constantly allow other 
things to dominate them and they

846
00:48:45,700 --> 00:48:47,500
you can't dominate while being 
dominated. 

847
00:48:50,500 --> 00:48:52,500
I've got this addiction and, you
know, God just, he's just 

848
00:48:52,500 --> 00:48:54,700
forgives me and I just go back 
to it from time to time, but 

849
00:48:54,700 --> 00:48:57,300
it's just because it's just, you
know, I'm just only human. 

850
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:03,000
I gave up only human when I got 
into Christ. 

851
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,900
I became a god human. 
I came a human with the spirit 

852
00:49:07,900 --> 00:49:09,900
of God living inside of me. 
That's different than only 

853
00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:14,800
human. 
So, I'm not only human, I'm no 

854
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,100
longer mirrored in the Apostle. 
Paul say that we're no longer 

855
00:49:17,100 --> 00:49:20,600
mirror, we're something greater 
because the greater one is in 

856
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,100
US. 
Okay, well, let's look over 

857
00:49:24,100 --> 00:49:25,600
here. 
Let's go to Ephesians chapter 2 

858
00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:27,900
because what were we saved for? 
Why did we be saved? 

859
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:32,000
Why does this matter? 
If he's ins 2:1. 

860
00:49:33,300 --> 00:49:36,200
Says and when you were dead in 
your trespasses and sins, we've 

861
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,700
covered clearly before Christ. 
We were this, right? 

862
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,200
We were dead in our trespasses 
and sins. 

863
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,900
Then it says in which you 
formerly walked according to the

864
00:49:44,900 --> 00:49:47,400
course of this world, according 
to the prince of the power of 

865
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,900
the air of the spirit that is 
now working in the sons of 

866
00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:55,400
disobedience. 
The sons of Disobedience sin is 

867
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,300
simply disobeying the word of 
the king, which means these 

868
00:49:58,300 --> 00:50:00,700
people are just operating. 
It's in verse 3, says among 

869
00:50:00,700 --> 00:50:03,700
them. 
We too all formerly lived in the

870
00:50:03,700 --> 00:50:05,900
lusts of our flesh. 
Important to note the word 

871
00:50:05,900 --> 00:50:11,700
formerly, he's not talking to 
Believers at the church of 

872
00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:14,700
Ephesus and saying we to all 
presently live in the lusts of 

873
00:50:14,700 --> 00:50:16,800
our flesh because we're all just
sorry. 

874
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:21,000
Sinners saved by grace. 
No. 

875
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,300
He said, we formerly lived in 
the lusts of our flesh. 

876
00:50:24,700 --> 00:50:27,200
Indulging in the desires of the 
Flesh, and of the mind. 

877
00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:32,600
And by Nature, we were children 
of Wrath, even as the rest verse

878
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:39,200
4, but God being rich in Mercy. 
Let me just tell you, you didn't

879
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:43,500
deserve his saving. 
We didn't deserve it again. 

880
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,200
Nobody's given the argument 
that. 

881
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,400
It's not of it's not of Works. 
Lest any man should boast. 

882
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,200
It wasn't something we did to 
earn his saving us. 

883
00:50:54,500 --> 00:50:58,300
But now that he's saved us, 
don't diminish what he's done 

884
00:50:58,300 --> 00:51:00,500
because you want to go back to 
what he saved you from. 

885
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,000
Again, even as a parent, leave 
that up there as a parent, if my

886
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,900
child went over and got shocked 
in electrocuted in the light 

887
00:51:08,900 --> 00:51:12,300
socket and I rescued them on my 
oh my gosh and we are 

888
00:51:12,300 --> 00:51:14,400
resuscitated him and they came 
back to life and I saved her 

889
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,000
life because I brought them back
to life from them talking and 

890
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,900
they immediately got up and went
back again and I just let him do

891
00:51:20,900 --> 00:51:24,500
it and then I'll just CPR again.
And we just have this cycle 

892
00:51:24,700 --> 00:51:30,700
where every time they get up how
wacky but how many Believers are

893
00:51:30,700 --> 00:51:34,000
doing that the very thing they 
were saved from and rescued from

894
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,700
in the consequence that they had
all the sudden they wake up in 

895
00:51:36,700 --> 00:51:38,800
their salvation and go right 
back to the thing they need 

896
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:43,200
saving from He didn't come to 
save your consequence. 

897
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:44,900
He came to save you from the 
thing that was creating 

898
00:51:44,900 --> 00:51:52,100
consequence. 
But God being rich in Mercy 

899
00:51:52,100 --> 00:51:54,300
because of his great love and 
which he loved us. 

900
00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:59,400
Even when we We're dead in our 
transgressions transgressions, 

901
00:51:59,500 --> 00:52:02,900
he made us alive together with 
Christ by Grace. 

902
00:52:02,900 --> 00:52:07,200
You've been saved and he raised 
us up with him and seated us 

903
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,100
with him in Heavenly places in 
Christ Jesus. 

904
00:52:10,100 --> 00:52:12,900
Say in Christ is their sin and 
Christ. 

905
00:52:13,500 --> 00:52:17,800
Where are you in? 
Christ is their sin and you are 

906
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:21,100
you gonna sin? 
If you do, can you stay in 

907
00:52:21,100 --> 00:52:22,600
Christ? 
Deep question. 

908
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,400
We're gonna keep going verse 7, 
so that in ages to come, he 

909
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:29,800
might show The surpassing Riches
of his grace and kindness 

910
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,000
towards us in Christ. 
Is their sin in Christ. 

911
00:52:33,300 --> 00:52:34,600
If you want. 
What's in Christ? 

912
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,400
Can you get it through sin? 
Okay. 

913
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,400
Just trying to, We're just 
trying to just just do we get 

914
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:43,500
it, you know, I'm just 
wondering. 

915
00:52:45,300 --> 00:52:47,500
For by Grace, you have been 
saved through faith, not of 

916
00:52:47,500 --> 00:52:50,900
ourselves, but is a gift of God,
not as the result of works. 

917
00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:53,900
So that one may boast, but for 
we are his workmanship. 

918
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,200
And, again, we ask the question,
what were you say from? 

919
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,600
But then the next question is, 
what were you saved for? 

920
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:04,000
It's answered here. 
We were his workmanship created 

921
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:09,400
in Christ for, that's a bad word
and it's in the Bible. 

922
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,800
Works as a bad word. 
In fact, I find most of the time

923
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,500
when someone wants to quote, to 
me something about works that 

924
00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:21,300
use this passage It's not of our
works, lest any man should 

925
00:53:21,300 --> 00:53:27,200
boast. but if you just finish 
out the passage, it says, we 

926
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:32,900
were his workmanship created in 
Christ for Good works. 

927
00:53:35,100 --> 00:53:39,300
Which God prepared beforehand so
that we would walk in them. 

928
00:53:42,100 --> 00:53:45,000
I think God is expecting more 
from Believers than Believers. 

929
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:50,900
Are expecting from believers. 
Are we tracking with What's 

930
00:53:50,900 --> 00:53:54,500
Happening Here? 
God, prepared and created us for

931
00:53:54,500 --> 00:53:56,900
good works. 
So you were saved to do. 

932
00:53:56,900 --> 00:54:00,100
The Lord's will and there's 
nothing holding you back from 

933
00:54:00,100 --> 00:54:01,700
always obeying and getting it 
right? 

934
00:54:01,700 --> 00:54:07,100
Every time. 
The only thing that would 

935
00:54:07,100 --> 00:54:09,500
Endeavor hinder you is the same 
thing that would hinder even the

936
00:54:09,508 --> 00:54:11,300
garden. 
The same thing that would I 

937
00:54:11,300 --> 00:54:14,800
mean, who was listen, who was 
Lucifer's enemy? 

938
00:54:19,300 --> 00:54:21,200
We know that in this in the 
story that picks up with 

939
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,400
Humanity, the enemy in the 
garden is the serpent. 

940
00:54:24,500 --> 00:54:26,000
Who was the Serpent's enemy in 
heaven? 

941
00:54:30,100 --> 00:54:38,200
Himself. 
Sometimes we we pray and we want

942
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:39,300
God to Deliver Us from 
something. 

943
00:54:39,300 --> 00:54:41,300
But the thing we really need to 
liver from is our flesh. 

944
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,200
And I'm sorry you can't have a 
Deliverance service for the 

945
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:48,400
flesh. 
You're not gonna come down, 

946
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,800
we're gonna play Canada and I 
look what the lawn and you come 

947
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,400
down and just dance the flash 
off. 

948
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:56,900
You're gonna put on worship 
music in your house and your 

949
00:54:56,900 --> 00:54:59,500
flesh is going to melt away. 
And when you make your daily 

950
00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:01,700
choices and daily decisions, 
you're still gonna have to 

951
00:55:01,700 --> 00:55:04,000
choose. 
Do I side with what I want or do

952
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,700
I side with What God Says? 
Do I side with my flesh? 

953
00:55:06,700 --> 00:55:09,100
Or do I side with my spirit? 
It's Paul was clear. 

954
00:55:09,300 --> 00:55:11,900
You're at War these two things, 
go against each other. 

955
00:55:11,900 --> 00:55:13,000
All the time. 
You're never free from the 

956
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,800
conflict of do I choose flash, 
or do I choose spirit? 

957
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:19,400
In fact, if he delivered you 
from the conflict, he's removed.

958
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:23,600
Your free will. 
The existence of the choice. 

959
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:25,900
Do I choose God? 
Or do I choose me? 

960
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,100
Means you have a free will in a 
God who will never violate that.

961
00:55:30,100 --> 00:55:31,900
And it's such a powerful, 
Eternal principle. 

962
00:55:31,900 --> 00:55:34,900
The devil will never ever 
violated either ever. 

963
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:38,300
The devil is coming after me. 
Yeah, but he's coming after you 

964
00:55:38,300 --> 00:55:41,500
with one thing. 
A choice. 

965
00:55:41,700 --> 00:55:44,800
Always the devil made me do it. 
No he didn't. 

966
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,200
You're a little kid, little kid.
Say that stuff. 

967
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,800
Don't be a little baby about it.
That wouldn't make you do 

968
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:51,900
anything to bed. 
Offered you? 

969
00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:55,300
A choice C was easy for you when
she really just new. 

970
00:55:55,300 --> 00:55:57,300
I'm just gonna do what God wants
and all the sudden, whenever a, 

971
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:01,100
the contrary came in and was 
handed over on a platter, don't 

972
00:56:01,100 --> 00:56:04,900
do what God Said. 
He didn't force her to do 

973
00:56:04,900 --> 00:56:07,700
anything. 
He offered a choice to choose. 

974
00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:09,200
Do you want what you want or do 
you want? 

975
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:10,800
My God doesn't? 
He had a good argument? 

976
00:56:10,900 --> 00:56:15,200
Look what it would do for you? 
Think about you think about your

977
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:18,100
family. 
Think about how tired you would 

978
00:56:18,100 --> 00:56:20,800
be. 
Think about how hard it is, 

979
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,300
raining outside and churches 
today. 

980
00:56:22,300 --> 00:56:24,700
But what if the rain gets you 
really wet before you go in? 

981
00:56:26,300 --> 00:56:28,100
You can listen on YouTube on 
Thursday. 

982
00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:32,800
But God said don't forsake the 
assembling of ourselves together

983
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:34,600
and why would I do that for the 
sake of the weather? 

984
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,000
But what will it do for your 
kids? 

985
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:42,300
They'll get wet to. 
These are the real life 

986
00:56:42,300 --> 00:56:44,500
situations that we deal with. 
We're not I mean not God's not 

987
00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:46,300
tempting. 
Everybody to murder and rape and

988
00:56:46,300 --> 00:56:47,800
steal and plunder with good 
people. 

989
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,400
All he does is he tempts you 
with good things? 

990
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,100
That aren't the right thing that
God said? 

991
00:56:53,900 --> 00:56:56,100
Because in the end all he 
tempted Eve with was, eat some 

992
00:56:56,100 --> 00:56:57,900
fruit. 
Who's going to say that's bad. 

993
00:56:58,900 --> 00:57:01,900
Who ate fruit today. 
Was it bad? 

994
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,500
No. 
So what he did is tempted her 

995
00:57:04,500 --> 00:57:08,500
with something that was good but
not right? 

996
00:57:10,900 --> 00:57:13,700
But we have to be mature enough 
to distinguish between the two. 

997
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:16,600
What has God said that I should 
do? 

998
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,800
What has God said in his word? 
Do I do that thing or do? 

999
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,300
I do what I want? 
The last scripture tonight, 

1000
00:57:23,300 --> 00:57:26,000
we'll look at is this and we 
should leave here tonight. 

1001
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,300
Empowered, we started one way. 
We're ending one way because I 

1002
00:57:29,300 --> 00:57:31,600
do want to make mention to this 
because I just have this 

1003
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:32,700
thought, you know what, it was 
awesome. 

1004
00:57:32,700 --> 00:57:36,800
So I'm going to say it God 
started the whole story with the

1005
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:40,900
tree. 
And when that one fell apart, he

1006
00:57:40,900 --> 00:57:45,600
started a new story with you 
with a tree, the thing. 

1007
00:57:46,100 --> 00:57:50,500
Wow. 
In the Bible, it says that 

1008
00:57:50,500 --> 00:57:52,300
cursed is any man that hangs on 
a tree. 

1009
00:57:52,300 --> 00:57:55,300
Why? 
Because the first curse was 

1010
00:57:55,300 --> 00:57:59,000
hanging on a tree. 
It was taken off the tree. 

1011
00:58:01,300 --> 00:58:07,100
And use selfishly. 
So, be careful with what you do 

1012
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:08,800
with the man who hung on a tree 
for you. 

1013
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:15,600
Because you can take him 
selfishly and miss the gift. 

1014
00:58:18,700 --> 00:58:22,400
that when man fell with the 
first tree, got offered a second

1015
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:30,300
tree, that contained all that 
you would need to overcome 1st. 

1016
00:58:30,300 --> 00:58:36,300
John 4:4 says this you are from 
God little children and you have

1017
00:58:36,300 --> 00:58:43,000
overcome overcome. 
Say I've overcome Because 

1018
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,800
greater is he? 
Remember, look, he with the 

1019
00:58:46,808 --> 00:58:51,900
capital, got it. 
He that is in you, he who is in 

1020
00:58:51,900 --> 00:58:53,500
you than he, who is in the 
world. 

1021
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,700
What could the world come 
against you with? 

1022
00:59:00,500 --> 00:59:02,300
That would force you to forfeit 
your Dominion. 

1023
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:10,900
Nothing. 
The better question is, what 

1024
00:59:10,900 --> 00:59:15,200
could you do and bring against 
yourself to forfeit your 

1025
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:17,500
Dominion? 
Because in the end, whether we 

1026
00:59:17,500 --> 00:59:20,500
do God's will or don't will 
stand before him? 

1027
00:59:21,700 --> 00:59:26,200
Alone, not with our pastors, not
with our parents, not with our 

1028
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:28,900
friends, not with our children, 
not with the person who did us 

1029
00:59:28,900 --> 00:59:35,500
wrong. we're all alone will 
stand there and he'll say, Did 

1030
00:59:35,500 --> 00:59:36,300
you do? 
My will? 

1031
00:59:39,100 --> 00:59:42,200
Or did you do yours? 
And you'll give an answer. 

1032
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:49,300
One of my favorite quotes by 
c.s. 

1033
00:59:49,300 --> 00:59:52,400
Lewis, is he said in the end? 
There's only two kinds of 

1034
00:59:52,408 --> 00:59:55,400
people. 
Those who say to the Lord thy 

1035
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:59,400
will be done and those to whom. 
The Lord says, thy will be done.

1036
01:00:02,900 --> 01:00:07,100
You have the choice and the 
ability to choose God to choose,

1037
01:00:07,100 --> 01:00:09,500
right? 
And to live above sin. 

1038
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:17,200
And only you. 
But again first John, 4:4 and 

1039
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:21,500
you are from God. 
And you have overcome because 

1040
01:00:21,500 --> 01:00:25,600
greater is what's inside of you 
than anything that could come 

1041
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:26,500
against you. 
Amen. 

1042
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:28,400
All right. 
Let's pray father. 

1043
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:30,600
God, we thank you, Lord, so much
for the word tonight. 

1044
01:00:31,300 --> 01:00:34,900
We thank you that you truly have
redeemed, us and saved us, and 

1045
01:00:34,900 --> 01:00:38,100
brought us out of what was 
damaging Our Lives into a 

1046
01:00:38,100 --> 01:00:41,400
lifestyle, that would only 
produce life, and joy and peace 

1047
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,900
at all times. 
Lord, you empowered more than 

1048
01:00:44,900 --> 01:00:48,800
just A consequence in an 
afterlife, but Lord, you 

1049
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:53,200
empowered, our present life and 
our ability to choose right? 

1050
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,800
Right now, So father I pray 
right now. 

1051
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:59,300
I think he that each and every 
one of us Lord, no matter where 

1052
01:00:59,300 --> 01:01:00,400
we've come from. 
No matter what. 

1053
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,200
We've done, we don't focus on 
who we used to be or where we 

1054
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,500
came from. 
But Lord continue to reveal to 

1055
01:01:05,500 --> 01:01:08,700
us the plans in the purposes and
the and the dreams and the 

1056
01:01:08,700 --> 01:01:12,800
things that you have for us in 
our future so that we can truly 

1057
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:15,700
give an answer and say I'm a 
Child of God. 

1058
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:20,800
I was a sorry sinner. 
I was bound by sin but Grace has

1059
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:23,500
brought me and made me a brand 
new person who's no longer 

1060
01:01:23,500 --> 01:01:27,100
hindered by anything. 
This world will throw at me. 

1061
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:39,000
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1062
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,400
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1063
01:01:42,500 --> 01:01:45,600
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1064
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:47,100
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01:01:47,100 --> 01:01:48,900
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1066
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:51,300
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1067
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1070
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