One morning back in 1991, an
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eleven year old girl was walking
to her bus stop in her south
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Lake Tahoe neighborhood
but it was the last time
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anyone would
see her for 18 years
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her name was Jayci Lee
Douger and on that morning
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a man by the name of
Philip Gorito kidnapped her
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and drove to her home to
his home that was 100 miles away
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for 18 years she was
held captive in this man's
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home. During that
time, he repeatedly abused
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and raped her and as a result
of the abuse he even fathered 2
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children through this young
girl for eighteen long years
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no one knew his little secret
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for 18 years no one
knew what was going on
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inside that house, for 18 years
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it was total hidden
from the eyes of the world
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Until one day in
August 2009, somebody
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got suspicious and they called
the authorities and when the
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police search they
indeed found Jaycee Lee Dugard,
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who was then 29, and the
mother of two children herself.
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they promptly rescued her
and her children and returned
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them to their family.
But Mr. Gorito and his wife
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were arained on 29
felony counts of rape,
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kidnapping, and
false imprisonment his bail
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was set at 30 million
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dollars. When this
story hit the airways
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and people were
outranged they angry they were
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appalled that someone could
actually do this to a child
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people were saying
this man a monster that this
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crime is
unforgivable that it act
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is unpardonable and that brings
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us to our question
tonight. Is there a sin
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that God can not forgive?
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Is there an act so
heinous and so evil that
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even God
Himself will not pardon?
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This were we have to this
journey into a subject that is
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called unpardonable
sin, the truth is you will
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very rarely hear this stuff
get talked about in christian
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churches because as I mention
is not necessarily one of these
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happy go lucky subject
that makes us feel real tingly
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good inside. It is not
the kind topic makes one
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want to put money offering
plate, because when you talk
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about the unpardonable sin
the emphasis is on the fact that
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there comes a point in every
persons life where they need to
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make a decision where there is
no more straddling the fence and
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we have to decide
whos side we are on.
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My prayer is as we go
through this subject tonight
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everyone in this
probably is struggling with some
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decsion they need to make in
this christian experience now we
aren't all struggling
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with the same thing cause the
devil deals with us in different
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ways but at some point you and
I to decide are we with Jesus
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100% with all of
out hearts with all of
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souls and with all of or mind
that is what this subject will
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talk about. Now some people
think the unpardonable sin is
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murder. But that can"t
be it, because both Moses
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and King David murdered but
when they sincerely repented
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they were forgiven some
people say the unpardonable sin
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is committing adultery. But
that not it either because Mary
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Magdelene committed adultery
more than once and when she
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sincerely repented Christ
for gave her. Some people think
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unpardonable sin perhaps is
suicide because once you take
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your life they say you don't
have an opportunity to repent,
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but that not it either because
Samson committed suicide and the
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Bible leads us to
believe he to will be saved
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and so that brings us
back to the question then what
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is the unpardonable
sin? In fact what we'll
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discover the
unpardonable sin is not one
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particular sin act that
is worse than all the others
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lets take look at what is
says here 1st John chapter 1
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and verse 9 The Bible says
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If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and just
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to (what?) forgive us
our sins and to cleanse
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us from (most of our
unrighteousness?) all
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unrighteousness. Now do you
notice there is no exception to
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that promise? Yes or No?
It doesn't say all of our sins
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except murder or except adultery
or except suicide or whatever we
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want to put in there. The Bible
assures us that when one comes
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to the feet of Jesus and they
sincerely surrender their heart
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and repent of their sin,
we have the absolute assurance
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that Jesus says he
will forgive us, cleanse us
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and he will give us his
righteousness. Can you say Amen
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that means I cannot fall so low
that God will not forgive me.
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I cannot fall so far
deep into the the pit That God
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in unable to reach down
and to pull me backup as long
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as I can repent
Jesus will forgive
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but that brings us back to
the question well then Pastor
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Dave what is the
unpardonable sin?
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and we're going to
begin our journey by letting
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Jesus himself answer This
question. I want you to take
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your Bibles and
turn Matthew chapter 12
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begnning verse 30 in
fact most of the verses
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we lookup tonight are going
to come straight from the words
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Christ in the four
gospels. Matthew chapter
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12 and we want to go to verse 30
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and in this passage Jesus speaks
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only three verse
that are filled with
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profound princple that
we need to pay attention to
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now bother you know I love
you, but I'm going to tell you
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tonight I'm not going to beat
around the bush, because
particularly in this passage
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Jesus does not speak in
parables, He is not speaking
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symbolism Jesus comes
right out and says it in black
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and white terms simply
because He loves us and He
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want us to able
realize that we need to decide
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who are we going
to follow. Matthew
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chapter 12 and I
want to start in verse 30
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The Bible says,
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He who is not with Me is (what?)
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against Me, and he who does not
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gather with Me scatters
abroad. Now I want to stop
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there, that one sentence
is powerful and profound
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Jesus right away
basically says this;
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if you are not gather
with me, you're scattering
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abroad. In other
words if your not 100%
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with me, in heaven
eyes it is counted as being
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a 100% against
me, you are either
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with Him or against Him
there is nothing in between
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there is no such thing
as straddling the fence
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Jesus is saying I can't have one
foot in the world and one foot
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in Christ. I can't have
one hand in the tradition and
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commandments of man the other
hand in the truth of scripture,
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I have to decide which side
of the fence am I going to be
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on, Are you with me
or are you against me?
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See what Jesus is saying
is he wants all of our hearts,
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a 100% of it 80% is not enough
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90% is not enough not
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even 95% you say boy, Jesus is
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excepting too much
there, if I'm following His 95%
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that ought be good enough, but
you know when you think about
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Jesus is not asking us to do
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anything more than we
expect from our own earthly
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relationships. How many of us
would be willing to say you know
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what I'll be happy if, my wife
or my husband is faithful to me
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90% of the time, that good
enough with me. How many of us
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would be satisfied with
that? No body would we want our
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spouse to be 100% commited to us
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now suppose I said to Margarita
honey you know I love you
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and you have got 95% of my heart
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but just 5% I would like
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to spend time with an old
flame and couple of girl friends
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would that be ok with
you? See what she said
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she said absolutely
not because she knows
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that 5% of my heart
that is not with her has
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the potential to
destroy the whole relationship
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and it is the same in our
realtionship with Christ
whatever part of our
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heart we are withhold from
Him the devil knows that and it
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has the potential for the devil
to bring tempation and deception
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our way and that part of
our heart we are withholding can
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actually destroy the
entire relationshiop with Jesus
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and so Jesus begins by
saying I have to make a choice
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I am either with
Him or I'm against Him
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nothing in between and
then He goes on in verse
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31 and He comes out
very clearly and tells us
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what is the unpardonable sin
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The Bible says,
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"Therefore I say to you,
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every sin and
blasphemy will be forgiven men,
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but the blasphemy against (who?)
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the Holy Spirit shall
not be forgiven to men.
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Anyone who speaks a word against
the Son of Man, it will be
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forgiven him; but
whoever speaks against the
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Holy Spirit, it
will not be forgiven him,
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either in this age
or in the age to come.
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Thats a serious
statement isn't it?
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I mean Jesus just
comes right out He says the
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unpardonable sin
the sin against the Holy
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Spirit now for
some us that is a bit
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of a new concept since
we're thinking I didn't
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even know you could sin against
the Holy Spirit how do you do
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that what does it
mean to sin against the
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Holy Spirit of God?
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so in order for us to better
understand this subject guess
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what we have to do We're
going to have to do a study of
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what the Holy Spirit
role is in the believer's life
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what does the Holy
Spirit want to do in our heart
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and minds because
once I understand the
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Holy Spirit's activity in
my life, then I will better
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be able to
comprehend the meaning to sin
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against Him. If that make
sense, can you say Amen? If the
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unpardonable sin is a sin
against the Holy Spirit. The in
order for me to know exactly
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what that is. I'm going to have
to understand what does the Holy
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Spirit seek to do in my life.
Amd here is what we're going to
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discover if you were to put
it in one simply sentence the
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unpardonable sin is when we
choose to resist the convictions
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of the Holy Spirit when
we choose ot close our ears
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to his voice when we
are no longer willing
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to listen to what he
says. That's what it means
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to resist the holy spirit
of God. So lets look up a few
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verses where Jesus will
describes for us, what does the
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Holy Spirit wants to do in
the christian life, So take your
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Bibles and I want you
to go to John chapter 16
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and we are going
to start in verse 7
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John chapter 16 verse 7
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John 16 and verse 7 Now
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this is the Words of
Jesus basiclly chapter 16
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is Jesus talking about
what is the work of the
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Holy Spirit, explaining
even what is the Holy Spirit
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I want you to notice
two verse here in John 16
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John 16 and verse 7.
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The Bible says, and
this is Jesus speaking
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Nevertheless I tell you
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the truth. It is to
your advantage that I go
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away; for if I
do not go away, the
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Helper will not come to you;
but if I depart, I will send
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Him to you. Now lets pause there
for a second all throughout
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chapter chapter 16 and ven
before that, Jesus was always
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reminding the disciples that
he would not always be with them
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he kept saying things like
a little while longer and I am
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with you, and He would
hinting at the fact He would be
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arrested, that He would be tried
before the Jewish leader, that
He would nailed upon a cross
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and rise the third day and for
reasons that maybe hard for us
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comprehend the disciples could
never quite understand what that
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meant and so whenever Jesus
talked about leaving them it
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caused them sadness and
partial depression you might say
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and so Jesus said
to them listen it is
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actually better for you that
I go because I'm not go to leave
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you alone, I am going
to sending you the helper
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or the comforter as some
version we would know him
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as who? The Holy
Spirit. Now why did
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Jesus say it is actually to
your advantage that I go, will
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think about it. When
Jusus came to this earth
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he was fully divine,
but He came in human form
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meant he was restricted in
the sense He could be in only
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one place at
one time, He was not
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omnipresent when He came in
human form, but the Holy Spirit
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is able to do
taht. The Holy Spirit can
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it can be in more than one
place at the same time and He
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can be working with multiple
people at the same time and so
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Jesus said it is actually to
your advantage that I go and the
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Holy Spirit will
come. And then in verse 8
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Jesus says what the
Holy Spirit wants to do
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in there life
verse 8. Jesus says
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And when He has come,
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He will convict the world
of sin, and of righteousness,
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and (what?) of
judgment: I'm going to put
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those three things on the
screen. He clearly says the work
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of the Holy Spirit is convicting
of you and I of sin
righteousness and judgemenet
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you say what does that mean?
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lets say there is some
sin in my life that I'm
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not willing to
give up some weakness
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some part of my
heart, maybe some part of
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scripture that I am not willing
to follow Jesus completely
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and it is the Holy Spirits job
to convict me of that so that I
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can give myself up to Jesus all
my heart. all mind. and all my
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sousl. For example
lets say I struggle with
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Pornography for example,
and the holy spirit convicts my
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heart says David you
shouldn't have that in your life
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that not something good
for the christian, it is
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going cause you to have an
impure mind, your going to look
at women as objects
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it is going to destroy your
marriage and relationships David
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you need to rid of that
and it is that conviction
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that burden comes heavy
upon my heart I got two choices
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#1 I can choose to
surrender and I come to
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Jesus Lord your're
right I sorry I don't know why
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I ever open the door, now I
caught Lord I ask You to forgive
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me. I am asking you Lord
to take desire out of my life
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I don't it any more. please
give me victory over this sin
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and as I surrender my
heart Holy Spirit can come in
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and He transform my
mind. Can you say Amen? I can
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surrender. The
other option is I can
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choose to resist I
can choose to rationalize
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I can choose to make excuses oh
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Lord is no big deal all my
friends are doing it, well Lord
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it's ok I can look
as long I don't touch.
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Oh Lord my wife doesn't spend
enough time with me I need to
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have this, I deserve it and the
more I resist that Holy Spirit
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the more I am sin
against Him closing my
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ears to His Conviction
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maybe he wants to convict me
of righteous or of some decision
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I need to make, maybe
when I go out here in the
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parking lot I find a
wallet somewhere in the grass
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and lo and behold I pick it
and there is money inside that
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wallet cash would you belive
that. At that point on the way
home the Holy Spirit
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starts to convict me to and
says Dave the commandments thou
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not steal a
disciple needs to live
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with honest and integrity David
you need to try the owner of
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that wallet because if it you
want someone to do that for you
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and I got two
chooses, one I can surrender
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I can say Holy Spirit
your right I can't keep
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this for myself I have to make
effort to return this proper
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owner I got
tobe an honist person
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or I can
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choose to resist
again I can make excuses
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and compromise and
rationalize I could say oh
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Lord know how it is.
finders keepers losers what?
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weepers you know Lord he should
be more careful with his money
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that his dum fault. Or you know
I could even twist scriptures
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around to be in my favor
I could say Lord I just read
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in Malachi that when I am
faithful in tithe, You will open
the windows of heaven
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and pour down a blessing and
Lord I'm faithful in my tither
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thank You for the blessing Lord.
You see sometimes the devil
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causes us to twist
what the scripture said
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as a reason to be
disobey to the word of The Lord
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whenever the Holy spirit
convicts there always two
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choices I can
surrender or I can choose
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to resist. What are the
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convictions the Holy
Spirit has laid on your heart
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what are the decisions that you
and I are struggling with right
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now I dont know your decisions
you dont know mine but the one
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thing we both know we got a
choice. Surrender at foot of the
cross and give it all to Him
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or we can continue
walking down a path
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of resistance and
compromise and excuses
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that is why Jesus said,
your either gathering with Me
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or your're scattering abroad
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Now Jesus goes on in
verse 13 He describes
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something else the Holy SPirit
wants to do in our life. Lets go
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there just a couple
verses down. John 16 verse 13
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The Bible says, and again
this is the words of Jesus.
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However, when He, the
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Spirit of truth, has
come, He will guide you
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into all (what?) truth;
for He will not speak on
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His own authority, but
whatever He hears He will speak;
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and He will tell you things
to come. Well that's interesting
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did you notice? What is the name
Jesus gives the Holy Spirit in
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verse? The Spirit of Truth
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so in other words
another job of the Holy Spirit
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He is leading us into
truth back to the truth
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of scripture and
Jesus specifically says
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here. He says that He
will guide you into all
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truth He will not
speak on His authority
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now what does that
mean? See the Job of the Holy
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Spirit is not to create
some kind of new doctrine or new
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teaching that is not in the
Bible, He not going to speak on
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His own authority He will only
speak what He has heard from the
Father, what He has heard from
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Jesus Christ. The job of the
Holy Spirit is to lead us back
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to the truth of scripture that
for wahtever reason we have been
00:21:44.93\00:21:48.94
neglecting He is to lead us back
to the commandments of God that
for whatever reason
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for whatever reason maybe
I've turned a blind eye to
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He is not going to make up
things He simply going to lead
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back to the truth reminding
us of the words of Jesus Christ
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that is His job as the
Holy Spirit. and it is just
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as powerful accoring to Jesus,
as though Jesus were here face
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to face walking right beside
us that is the job of the Holy
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Spirit He is our
personal friend Amen
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he brings conviction
into live now when it says
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He leads us into truth
the Bible gives three primary
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definitions of truth I
want to put them on the screen.
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Now lets really
take these three things
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and lets really
apply them personaly
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If Jesus is the truth what about
when the Holy Spirit convicts
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me that I need
to give all to Him
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maybe I need to the make the
chose of being baptized maybe I
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need to get serous with God
in these last days and maybe I
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choose to resist I say you know
Lord I dont want that serous
00:23:09.05\00:23:13.05
I am not ready to give up
the pleasures of the world, Lord
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my friend will think I'm crazy,
my family might make fun of me
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Lord I'm not ready to give it
all to Jesus even though I know
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He is the truth and we resist
the path that the Holy Spirit
00:23:25.03\00:23:29.04
is trying to lead
on. The Bible says that's
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that is a serious thing. or
maybe the Holy Spirit is leading
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me to take Gods law
seriously and I recognize
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His law was not
nailed to the cross, that He
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wants principle of happiness
and write it on my heart
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and my mind so that I can be a
witness for Jesus in this world
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but maybe I begin
to resist and I say
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well Lord I keep 8
out 10, Lord I'll keep
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9 out 10 but don't ask me
to love with all of my heart
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Remember it says
in the book of James
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when brake on we
break them all, because
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that of my heart that I
am with holding from Jesus
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for whatever the reason
may be that the devil an open
00:24:17.12\00:24:21.12
door to break his way
in and start to damage
00:24:21.12\00:24:25.13
my relationship with Jesus and
spiritual live you are either
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me or your against
me, that what Jesus said.
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Now it also says God's
word is the truth what do
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I do when the Holy Spirit leads
me to a connviction of truth
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that I didn't know
before or truth maybe I do know
00:24:41.14\00:24:45.15
but for whatever reason in
my life I just wasn't willing to
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follow but now
conviction has set in I
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know it is the voice of the
Holy Spirit, I see scripture
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speaking to me
and I have a choice
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I can surrender and say yes Lord
I bleieve the Bible is above
00:25:01.26\00:25:05.20
every other authority. I
can say Lord I believe truth
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is above
tradition or I can resist
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and I can say Lord I
know what your word says
00:25:13.17\00:25:17.21
but we have been doing it
like this for thousands of years
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Lord I know what your
word says, but my pastor
00:25:21.22\00:25:25.22
says it is not important
Lord I know what your word says
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but it is not part
of my churches doctrine
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and we choose to follow
churched instead of Jesus
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we choose the follow a
religious leader instead of the
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Bible clearly says.
That why Jesus says either
00:25:41.24\00:25:45.24
are scattering with Me
or your scattering abroad.
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Noe brothers and sister even
though I speak plainly tonight
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we are all in the same
boat together you probably
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resisting things from the Lord
in live as am I, now we may not
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be struggling the exact same
thing, there maybe things in
00:26:01.32\00:26:05.29
scripture that we
happen to be weak upon,
00:26:05.29\00:26:09.30
but you know one area I see
where people resist quite a bit
00:26:09.30\00:26:13.30
and I am just going to
be very blunt, it's the area
00:26:13.30\00:26:17.31
of the Sabbath. When people come
00:26:17.31\00:26:21.31
to the scripture and they study
like they have never they study
00:26:21.31\00:26:25.31
before and they see WOW the
sabbath was given a creation
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it is a symbol of God's creative
00:26:29.35\00:26:33.36
power a memorial of His creation
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it show that He is the greatest
authority in the universe
00:26:37.36\00:26:41.33
they see it is in the very heart
of God's law, they that Jesus
00:26:41.33\00:26:45.37
honored the Sabbath the
early Church in Acts honored the
00:26:45.37\00:26:49.37
Sabbath Isaiah that we are going
to keep the Sabbath even in the
new heaven and the new earth
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and when sometimes we understand
00:26:53.38\00:26:57.38
that Sunday come
from tradition that Sunday
00:26:57.38\00:27:01.38
comes from Rome the
very power that Revelation
00:27:01.38\00:27:05.42
identifies as the
beast of revelation
00:27:05.42\00:27:09.42
and I get to the point where
I am willing to say Lord I see
00:27:09.42\00:27:13.46
what Your word says all
throughout scripture but it
00:27:13.46\00:27:17.43
is not convenient for me.
00:27:17.43\00:27:21.44
It is too much of a
challenge for my life
00:27:21.44\00:27:25.44
now whether that is in the area
of the sabbath or whether that
00:27:25.44\00:27:29.44
is in the area of some
other principle in scripture
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It's true following Jesus all
the away sometimes presents
challenges, doesn't?
00:27:33.48\00:27:37.52
The devil is never one
who wants to make it easy.
00:27:37.52\00:27:41.49
But there is one thing I do
know, I don't know all the
answers that for sure.
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But when I thinks of Jesus
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lying prostrate on the ground
in the garden of gethsemane
00:27:49.50\00:27:53.50
griping the dirt
with His finders while He
00:27:53.50\00:27:57.51
sweated drops of blood
crying out to the Father,
00:27:57.51\00:28:01.51
Father let this cup
pass from me, but not
00:28:01.51\00:28:05.55
my will but thy will be
done, you see in the garden of
00:28:05.55\00:28:09.55
gethsemane Jesus was struggling
with as to whether He would
going through with the paln
00:28:09.55\00:28:13.56
salvation He knew the what
he the future held. He knew
00:28:13.56\00:28:17.56
that He would be betrayed that
night, He knew that all night
00:28:17.56\00:28:21.60
long He would be taken from to
the other He be arrested bay a
00:28:21.60\00:28:25.57
mob that He appear numeroustimes
before the Jewish Sanhedrin
00:28:25.57\00:28:29.57
dragged off to Pilate
and then over to Herod
00:28:29.57\00:28:33.61
and then back to Pilate
He knew that stand behind
00:28:33.61\00:28:37.61
Pilate while the rest of the
Jewish nation cried out crucify
00:28:37.61\00:28:41.65
Him away this man and
they choose a murder to be free
00:28:41.65\00:28:45.65
instead of the son of
God. When Jesus took the
00:28:45.65\00:28:49.69
that cross and
carried it part way to Calvary
00:28:49.69\00:28:53.70
It wasn't easy
it certainly wasn't
00:28:53.70\00:28:57.67
convenient. When He
scratched out His hand upon that
00:28:57.67\00:29:01.70
wooden cross, His hands were
pierced and His feet and then
00:29:01.70\00:29:05.71
eventually His side and that
crown of thrones was pushed down
00:29:05.71\00:29:09.74
upon His head the blood flow
while He was nailed in agony
00:29:09.74\00:29:13.75
on that cross for six long hours
00:29:13.75\00:29:17.79
Jesus went all the way
00:29:17.79\00:29:21.82
you and me. You see it
wasnt just physical pain that
00:29:21.82\00:29:25.83
killed Jesus. It was
the fact that Jesus had
00:29:25.83\00:29:29.80
to bear the guilt of
every sin that had ever
00:29:29.80\00:29:33.84
been commit yours and
mine, I mean you think
00:29:33.84\00:29:37.91
how you and I are sometimes
racked with guilt cause we can't
even handle our own sins.
00:29:37.91\00:29:41.91
What would it be
like to have to handle
00:29:41.91\00:29:45.91
the darkness and the
guilt of billion and billions
00:29:45.91\00:29:49.92
of sins that will ever be
commited upon the face of the
00:29:49.92\00:29:53.96
earth, feel like you were the
one that raped all those people,
00:29:53.96\00:29:57.99
that you were the one that
merdered and butcher them that's
how Jesus was feeling
00:29:57.99\00:30:01.96
weight of sind that we can
even imagine, He shut out from
00:30:01.96\00:30:06.00
present of God cause He was
experiencing the penalty of sin
00:30:06.00\00:30:10.01
for us it wasn't
convenient for Jesus.
00:30:10.01\00:30:14.04
It wasn't easy,
guess I have to ask
00:30:14.04\00:30:18.11
myself when I am resisting
the truth of His word, when I'm
00:30:18.11\00:30:22.12
resisting His spirit, I
guess ask have to ask myself.
00:30:22.12\00:30:26.15
How can I look at
the cross of Christ
00:30:26.15\00:30:30.16
How can I look at
what He has done for me
00:30:30.16\00:30:34.20
and say Lord I'll got
this far but no further
00:30:34.20\00:30:38.20
Lord I'll follow
you when it is easy
00:30:38.20\00:30:42.24
but don't ask me to follow
You when it is inconvenient.
00:30:42.24\00:30:46.24
if He carried His cross for me
00:30:46.24\00:30:50.28
am I willing to
carried my cross for Him?
00:30:50.28\00:30:54.32
see we don't submit to the
Holy Spirit because we're trying
00:30:54.32\00:30:58.35
to get righteous We
submit to the Holy Spirit
00:30:58.35\00:31:02.42
because we cant resist the
unconditional love of Jesus
00:31:02.42\00:31:06.39
and what He did on that
00:31:06.39\00:31:10.40
hill called Calvary. Why is it
00:31:10.40\00:31:14.44
dangerous to resist the
Holy SPirit, well it's not
00:31:14.44\00:31:18.47
like when you resist the Holy
Spirit the first time that mean
you have committed the
00:31:18.47\00:31:22.51
unpardonable sin, but its a
pattern the Bible advices us not
00:31:22.51\00:31:26.51
to to begin in our live,
because once I resist in one
00:31:26.51\00:31:30.52
in area of my live or in
area of scripture it is easier
00:31:30.52\00:31:34.52
to do next time, it is kinda
like the little boy who groups
00:31:34.52\00:31:38.53
up in the inte city. Yon know
he hangs with the wrong group of
00:31:38.53\00:31:42.50
friends you know and they tease
him and torment him and talk him
00:31:42.50\00:31:46.50
in shoplifting something from a
store, so one day he just steals
00:31:46.50\00:31:50.54
a pack of bubble gum from the
convenience store, first time he
did it oh and he is
00:31:50.54\00:31:54.51
racked with guilt it
bothers him he feels shameful
00:31:54.51\00:31:58.55
he can't even sleep at night,
he is afraid to tell his parents
00:31:58.55\00:32:02.55
but he keeps hanging
with that group of kids
00:32:02.55\00:32:06.55
he does it a second time , he
does it a third time, and each
00:32:06.55\00:32:10.56
time he does it, it gets a
little bit easier and the guilt
00:32:10.56\00:32:14.56
becomes a little bit less.
see that is what happens with us
00:32:14.56\00:32:18.53
when I resist the Holy
Spirit, it start become easier
00:32:18.53\00:32:22.54
it becomes easier the
next time and our heart becomes
00:32:22.54\00:32:26.57
hard and see after
awhile as the Holy Spirit keeps
00:32:26.57\00:32:30.58
calling but I keep resisting,
the voice of the Holy Spirit
00:32:30.58\00:32:34.58
stater to get
softer and it gets softer
00:32:34.58\00:32:38.59
and it gets
softer, and it gets softer
00:32:38.59\00:32:42.59
and softer.
00:32:42.59\00:32:46.59
until you can't hear it anymore
00:32:46.59\00:32:50.57
It's not because
the Holy Spirit left me
00:32:50.57\00:32:54.60
but I've choosen to leave
Him I closed my ears' to his
00:32:54.60\00:32:58.61
voice and that is what Jesus
is saying. It is very serious
00:32:58.61\00:33:02.61
thing, don't start
that pattern in our lives
00:33:02.61\00:33:06.61
I remember when
Melanie in first grade
00:33:06.61\00:33:10.62
and she came home
from school one day and
00:33:10.62\00:33:14.62
we were sitting at the dinner
table discussing something and
00:33:14.62\00:33:18.63
she was telling something she
has learn that day, well she
kinda gotten it just a
00:33:18.63\00:33:22.60
lttle bit mixed up and she
wasn't quite explaining it right
00:33:22.60\00:33:26.60
and so I was trying to correct
her and to explain it the right
00:33:26.60\00:33:30.64
way and you know how first
grades are 5 or 6 year olds
00:33:30.64\00:33:34.64
sometimes, she absolute
insistent that she was right and
00:33:34.64\00:33:38.65
I was wrong and as I continued
to try to expalin it to her.
00:33:38.65\00:33:42.65
You know what that child did to
me? She put her hands in the air
00:33:42.65\00:33:46.65
covered her
ears, and went lalalala
00:33:46.65\00:33:50.66
I'm not listening, I'm
not listening lalalalala
00:33:50.66\00:33:54.63
I' sure none of your kids have
never have done that to you,
right? But you know
00:33:54.63\00:33:58.63
that when a child
covers their ear they are no
00:33:58.63\00:34:02.67
no longer willing
listen to anything you have
00:34:02.67\00:34:06.68
to say. Even though we
can look at picture like this
00:34:06.68\00:34:10.68
on the screen, we can
gigil at it, the true is
00:34:10.68\00:34:14.68
in many ways that exactly how
00:34:14.68\00:34:18.72
we treat Holy Spirit
00:34:18.72\00:34:22.69
when He convicts me of
something I don't want to hear
00:34:22.69\00:34:29.46
or something I just dont
want to give up, some christian
00:34:29.46\00:34:33.50
principle I just start to close
my ears so I don't here His
00:34:33.50\00:34:37.54
voice and that is a
patter Jesus admonishes
00:34:37.54\00:34:41.61
that we should not
to start in our life.
00:34:41.61\00:34:45.61
See the unpardonable is not one
00:34:45.61\00:34:49.65
particular that worse than
all the other. It to continually
00:34:49.65\00:34:53.72
resist the Holy Spirit in my
life over weeks, over months,
00:34:53.72\00:34:57.76
over Now just so we
understand, sometimes
00:34:57.76\00:35:01.76
people hear this messagethey
come upto me and said oh
goodness I think I have
00:35:01.76\00:35:05.70
committed the unpardonable
sin because there conscience is
00:35:05.70\00:35:09.74
weighed down from the passed.
But I want you to understand
brother and sisters
00:35:09.74\00:35:13.74
if you're worried that you've
commited the unpardonable sin,
00:35:13.74\00:35:17.75
you haven't. Because if you had
committed sin unpardonable sin
00:35:17.75\00:35:21.75
and your ears were totally
closed to the Holy Spirit you
00:35:21.75\00:35:25.75
wouldn't even be thinking about
it you wouldnt even be concerned
00:35:25.75\00:35:29.76
you had committed unpardonable
sin. The fact that your thinking
about it, says that heart is
00:35:29.76\00:35:33.76
still open. Amen? In fact, you
and I will never know if someone
00:35:33.76\00:35:37.80
has commited the unpardonable
sin because the is not something
00:35:37.80\00:35:41.80
that can be seen on the outside,
it can only be seen in the heart
00:35:41.80\00:35:45.77
and God is the only one that can
reach the heart and that tells
00:35:45.77\00:35:49.78
me as a minister and it should
tell all of us, I never point at
someone in this world and
00:35:49.78\00:35:53.82
and you what, that person will
never be saved, they are passed
00:35:53.82\00:35:57.79
God's grace no matter how
horrible they may be, because I
00:35:57.79\00:36:01.79
don't know what is going on in
that heart only God knows, maybe
00:36:01.79\00:36:05.83
they have crossed the line,
but I've got to leave that with
00:36:05.83\00:36:09.80
God's and I still treat them as
a child of the King who needs to
00:36:09.80\00:36:13.80
know Jesus. Can you say amen?
It is a serious thing to resist
00:36:13.80\00:36:17.81
the voice of the Holy Spirit.
You say alright Pastor Dave,
00:36:17.81\00:36:21.81
what should I do when I
sense conviction in my life?
00:36:21.81\00:36:25.81
Instead of me
give you the answer,
00:36:25.81\00:36:29.82
I'm going to let Jesus do it.
Can you say Amen? Turn in your
00:36:29.82\00:36:33.86
Bibles to John chapter 12
and verse 35 John chapter 12
00:36:33.86\00:36:37.83
and verse 35
Jesus gives us advice
00:36:37.83\00:36:41.83
as to what to do
when we sense ocnviction
00:36:41.83\00:36:45.83
in our hearts. John 12 verse 35
00:36:45.83\00:36:49.84
The Bible says:
00:36:49.84\00:36:53.84
Then Jesus said to them,
00:36:53.84\00:36:57.85
"A little while
longer the light is with you.
00:36:57.85\00:37:01.85
Walk while you have
the light, lest darkness
00:37:01.85\00:37:05.85
overtake you; he
who walks in darkness
00:37:05.85\00:37:09.86
does not know where he is going.
00:37:09.86\00:37:13.90
That's just two
sentences there're powerful.
00:37:13.90\00:37:17.87
Jesus is saying walk
while you have the (what?)
00:37:17.87\00:37:21.87
ligth. Now when he was saying
that He was of course speaking
00:37:21.87\00:37:25.87
of himself in the original test
here, He was tell them whiel He
is still with them they need
00:37:25.87\00:37:29.91
follow Him walk in the Light.
But light also repersent truth
00:37:29.91\00:37:33.88
and Jesus is telling us, when
I'm convicted of somthing in my
00:37:33.88\00:37:37.92
life when I see it from the word
of God I know it is the truth
00:37:37.92\00:37:41.96
from scripture I need
to follow it immediately
00:37:41.96\00:37:45.93
don't make excuses, don't
rationalize, don't compromise
00:37:45.93\00:37:49.90
it away. Because when I
start doing that there is
00:37:49.90\00:37:53.90
an individual called the
devil who is watching who goes
00:37:53.90\00:37:57.91
about like a roaring lion
seeking whom he may what? Devour
00:37:57.91\00:38:01.94
And see when the divel see
you hesitate and believe me
00:38:01.94\00:38:05.95
he will watch to see if we
hesitate, all of a sudden he
00:38:05.95\00:38:09.95
will come to put all
sorts of obstacle and challenges
00:38:09.95\00:38:13.96
in our path so we don't walk in
the light , so we don't follow
00:38:13.96\00:38:17.96
whatever that
truth may be I mean I
00:38:17.96\00:38:21.93
can tell you frome experience
people willcome out of the
00:38:21.93\00:38:25.97
woodwork to try to talk you out
of giving yourself totally to
00:38:25.97\00:38:29.97
Jesus I have had that happen
in seminar, people who come open
00:38:29.97\00:38:34.01
the Bible four or five nights
a week and you can see their is
00:38:34.01\00:38:38.01
life is changing you can see
their growthing closer to Jesus
and they want to go all
00:38:38.01\00:38:41.98
the way with Him but when they
share this with someone else
00:38:41.98\00:38:46.02
the person tries talking them
out of it and it may even be a
00:38:46.02\00:38:50.03
religious person it might even
be the same person who told them
to come to the seminar
00:38:50.03\00:38:54.00
in the first place. Why?
Because now that this person
00:38:54.00\00:38:58.00
is getting serious with God, it
is a rebuke to the other person
00:38:58.00\00:39:02.00
that was living half hearted
christian and in order to sooth
00:39:02.00\00:39:06.01
their own conscious they want
to try talking this other person
00:39:06.01\00:39:10.05
out of going all the way Jesus
people will come out of the
00:39:10.05\00:39:14.05
woodwork Jesus says
walk while you have the light
00:39:14.05\00:39:18.05
don't give the devil
an opportunity to put more
00:39:18.05\00:39:22.06
obstacles in the path.
00:39:22.06\00:39:26.13
Now I want to say one
more thing about this part
00:39:26.13\00:39:30.07
You know a lot of time when
we are convicted of something
00:39:30.07\00:39:34.07
and like all human
beings we do struggle
00:39:34.07\00:39:38.07
that includes minsters to but
00:39:38.07\00:39:42.08
sometimes we are tempted to
say well you know let me pray
00:39:42.08\00:39:46.11
about it and see what
the Holy Spirit says, well
00:39:46.11\00:39:50.12
obviously we should
alway pray about decision. Amen
00:39:50.12\00:39:54.12
but you know sometimes religious
people use that an excuse
00:39:54.12\00:39:58.13
to not do what is right.
00:39:58.13\00:40:02.10
because it is as though we're
delay and expecting that the
00:40:02.10\00:40:06.13
Holly Spirit going to tell
me something different than what
00:40:06.13\00:40:10.14
the word God says Look if the
word of God it says it, who was
00:40:10.14\00:40:14.14
the word God inspired by?
The Holly Spirit so if the
00:40:14.14\00:40:18.18
Holly Spirit has spoken through
His word the Holly Spirit
00:40:18.18\00:40:22.18
already told us what to do if I
am kinda dilly dallying around,
00:40:22.18\00:40:26.19
now if I sincerely want pray
about it sure. But if I'm doing
00:40:26.19\00:40:30.19
that and use it as a religious
reason, hoping that Holly Spirit
00:40:30.19\00:40:34.20
will reveal to me something
different from the word of God
that Holly Spirit will give
00:40:34.20\00:40:38.20
give me a special felling so can
fell like oh good I came turn
00:40:38.20\00:40:42.20
a blind I to this I can assure
you of one thing, that may
00:40:42.20\00:40:46.24
be a spirit but it ain't the
Holly Spirit because will never
00:40:46.24\00:40:50.25
tells us to ignore
what the Bible says
00:40:50.25\00:40:54.25
remember what Jesus said He will
not speak on his own authority
00:40:54.25\00:40:58.25
he only speaks what He has heard
from Father and the Jesus Christ
00:40:58.25\00:41:02.29
the Holly Spirit teach us
to turn away from what the
00:41:02.29\00:41:06.29
scripture say. That's why
we don't judge everything by
00:41:06.29\00:41:10.30
fealing I mean feelings are good
I am an emotional guy myself, I
have ups and I have downs
00:41:10.30\00:41:14.30
but see feelings
change, the devil can
00:41:14.30\00:41:18.31
manipulate feelings. Now I don't
say that christian should be
00:41:18.31\00:41:22.34
emotionless, because I've been
places that wish some christians
would show a little
00:41:22.34\00:41:26.35
bit of emotion, that sit there
likes bumps on the log we need
00:41:26.35\00:41:30.35
to be afraid of
emotion, God gave us emotion and
00:41:30.35\00:41:34.36
something when we're in tears,
that is exactly where the Holly
Spirit wants us to be
00:41:34.36\00:41:38.39
because He reaching our
heart, but we have to understand
00:41:38.39\00:41:42.40
emotion is not the only criteria
to make the choice. Is it by
00:41:42.40\00:41:46.37
the the Word of God?
00:41:46.37\00:41:50.41
Then comes another question,
My willingness to follow
00:41:50.41\00:41:54.41
Truth is a direct
reflection of my relationship
00:41:54.41\00:41:58.41
with Jesus. You say what do you
mean? Well it's kind of a tuff
00:41:58.41\00:42:02.45
statement, but if I
can look at what Jesus says
00:42:02.45\00:42:06.45
in the scruptures, His
commandments, His princples, His
00:42:06.45\00:42:10.49
truth and I ccame be
convicted and purposely
00:42:10.49\00:42:14.46
choose I'm not going to do
it because is not convenient
00:42:14.46\00:42:18.50
or because I wanna be
comfortable with something else
00:42:18.50\00:42:22.50
or somewhere else that is proof
I don't love Jesus with all my
00:42:22.50\00:42:26.54
heart and all my soul no
matter what my profession my be
00:42:26.54\00:42:30.61
That a hard statement that might
even make some people want to
00:42:30.61\00:42:34.58
through tomatoes but you got
to understand I didn't say that
00:42:34.58\00:42:38.59
God said it, because
wasn't it John who said
00:42:38.59\00:42:42.62
He who says they know him but
doesn't keep His commandments is
00:42:42.62\00:42:46.66
a liar and the truth
is not in him, I know
00:42:46.66\00:42:50.63
that tough it makes me
look my life and say wow, am I
00:42:50.63\00:42:54.67
being sincere. When I look
at truth and don't follow it
00:42:54.67\00:42:58.71
that means there is
some part of my heart
00:42:58.71\00:43:02.71
that I am withholding from
Jesus, any more than if some
part of the marriage
00:43:02.71\00:43:06.75
vow I not keeping I might be
faithful 95% of off my marriage
00:43:06.75\00:43:10.75
vows but the
part I'm holding back
00:43:10.75\00:43:14.79
is telling me I don't
love Marquita with all my heart
00:43:14.79\00:43:18.83
and all my soul. It is no
different earthly relationship
00:43:18.83\00:43:22.83
in fact in book of James many
peope wish the book of James
00:43:22.83\00:43:26.87
wasn't in the Bible, because
James is very straight forward
00:43:26.87\00:43:30.91
but he makes this
statement in Jmaes 4:17, he says
00:43:30.91\00:43:34.94
"Therefore, to
him who knows to to
00:43:34.94\00:43:38.95
good and does not do
it,to him it is (what?)
00:43:38.95\00:43:42.98
sin." See alot of
times we think of sin
00:43:42.98\00:43:47.02
as in oh I did commit a
bad act and do something wrong
00:43:47.02\00:43:51.03
and you know one of the fallacy
of the devil is you know what
00:43:51.03\00:43:55.03
even if I don't follow all
the things I'm convicted of, I'm
00:43:55.03\00:43:59.07
better than most people, I
haven't rape anyone, I haven't
murdered anyone, I've lived
00:43:59.07\00:44:03.10
a pretty good life, I'm better
than 75% of the people on this
00:44:03.10\00:44:07.11
earth. So God won't mind if I
over look some of the things
that the Holly Spirit convicts
00:44:07.11\00:44:11.21
me of. Folks that is one of
the bestest lies of the devil
00:44:11.21\00:44:15.22
because the minute I
turn way from conviction
00:44:15.22\00:44:19.25
I'm no longer following Jesus
will all my of heart and see
00:44:19.25\00:44:23.29
Bible is saying if I
know the good I should do
00:44:23.29\00:44:27.30
and I willfully choose
not to follow it is sin
00:44:27.30\00:44:33.20
it is called the sin of
omission, I am omitting to do
00:44:33.20\00:44:37.24
what is right and really isn't
that what happened in the
parable of the good Samaritan
00:44:37.24\00:44:41.28
you the know the priest
and the levite passed him by
00:44:41.28\00:44:45.31
and these were guys who were
rigidly righteous on the outside
00:44:45.31\00:44:49.32
they never do do anything wrong,
but they sinned because they
00:44:49.32\00:44:53.32
refused to do what is right
00:44:53.32\00:44:57.33
that is a
principle we need to remember
00:44:57.33\00:45:01.33
in fact you know there is
an example in scripture of
00:45:01.33\00:45:05.33
someone or a group of people who
were resisting the Holy Spirit.
00:45:05.33\00:45:09.34
Did you Know that? I don't have
this on the screen yet, just
00:45:09.34\00:45:13.34
look up Acts 7 verse 51 I'm
going to thow this one in here.
00:45:13.34\00:45:17.35
Acts 7 and verse 51 I'm going to
show you and example of a group
00:45:17.35\00:45:21.35
people who were
resisting the Holy Spirit
00:45:21.35\00:45:25.35
this not on the
slide Acts 7 verse 51
00:45:25.35\00:45:29.36
Now this is the store of
Stephen when he was preaching
00:45:29.36\00:45:33.43
to the Jews in Jerusalem I want
you notice what he said, now I
00:45:33.43\00:45:37.37
don't recommend begining quite
the way Stephen did, but by this
piont he had been laboring
00:45:37.37\00:45:41.40
for quite awhile and you
will see that his words were
00:45:41.40\00:45:45.41
tuff in verse 51. He was
been preaching to them about
00:45:45.41\00:45:49.41
Jesus, he has shown them for
the scripture, from the prochecy
00:45:49.41\00:45:53.42
this man was the Son
of God who they crucified
00:45:53.42\00:45:57.45
He knew that they knew it was
the truth and they resisted it
00:45:57.45\00:46:01.42
and then He spoke these word
which basically resolted in his
00:46:01.42\00:46:05.43
death Acts 7 Verse 51 The
Bible says, You stiffnecked
00:46:05.43\00:46:09.40
and uncircumcised in
heart and ears! (boy that's
00:46:09.40\00:46:13.40
away to begin
isn't?) You always (do Waht?)
00:46:13.40\00:46:17.41
resist the Holy
Spirit as your fathers
00:46:17.41\00:46:21.44
did so do you.
00:46:21.44\00:46:25.45
Did you catch that?
They knew what the truth was
00:46:25.45\00:46:29.45
they weren't willing to follow
it and the Bible comes right out
00:46:29.45\00:46:33.46
and says they were
resisting the Holy Spirit , but
00:46:33.46\00:46:37.46
in this verse, it
actually gives us the #1
00:46:37.46\00:46:41.43
reason why many
people resit the Holy Spirit
00:46:41.43\00:46:45.43
and resist the truth of
scripture. You what the #1
00:46:45.43\00:46:49.47
reason is? Now I can't prove
this from any statistics, this
00:46:49.47\00:46:53.51
not exactly something you
ask people on a survey chart
00:46:53.51\00:46:57.51
as your fathers did
00:46:57.51\00:47:01.52
so do you
00:47:01.52\00:47:05.49
many people are talked
out of doing what is right
00:47:05.49\00:47:09.52
sometimes because
of family and friends.
00:47:09.52\00:47:13.53
I want you to notice something
that Jesus said, in fact Jesus
00:47:13.53\00:47:17.50
tells us what are some of the
optstiscals we may face. Matthew
00:47:17.50\00:47:21.50
chatper 10 and verse 36 and
wasn't going to cover Acts 7
00:47:21.50\00:47:25.51
but I guess the Holy Spirit
wanting to through that i, I
felt I should read it
00:47:25.51\00:47:29.54
Matthew chapter 10
00:47:29.54\00:47:33.55
verse 36 notice,
what Jesus says here.
00:47:33.55\00:47:37.55
Matthew 10 verese
36 The bBible says
00:47:37.55\00:47:41.59
and 'A MAN'S
ENEMIES WILL BE THOSE
00:47:41.59\00:47:45.63
OF HIS OWN (What?)
HOUSEHOLD.' He who loves
00:47:45.63\00:47:49.56
father or mother more
than Me is not worthy of Me.
00:47:49.56\00:47:53.60
And he who loves son or daughter
more than Me is not worthy of
00:47:53.60\00:47:57.61
Me. And he who does not
take his cross and follow
00:47:57.61\00:48:01.61
after Me is not worthy of Me.
00:48:01.61\00:48:05.61
Jesus recognized that sometimes
00:48:05.61\00:48:09.65
three are sensitive and
painful things that happen
00:48:09.65\00:48:13.66
sometimes in our own families
00:48:13.66\00:48:17.66
whither it is
knowingly or unknowingly
00:48:17.66\00:48:21.63
that actually become an obstacle
to following Jesus all the way
00:48:21.63\00:48:25.63
sometimes our enemies will
be those of our own household
00:48:25.63\00:48:29.70
Now understand Jesus is
not saying we hate our family
00:48:29.70\00:48:33.68
or we should isolate ourself
form our families, that is not
00:48:33.68\00:48:37.71
waht He is saying that is what
cults do, when someone want to
isolate that is a cult
00:48:37.71\00:48:41.72
That is not what Jesus is
talking about, we love our
00:48:41.72\00:48:45.72
family try to work with them and
reach them. What Jesus is saying
00:48:45.72\00:48:49.76
we we cannot let even our family
and friends keep us from putting
00:48:49.76\00:48:53.76
Jesus first in our
life, we cannot let family and
00:48:53.76\00:48:57.80
friends keep us from following
the Bible and the Bible alone
00:48:57.80\00:49:01.77
above everthing else.
Now we love our families
00:49:01.77\00:49:05.81
I love my spouse I love my
parents but I have to recognize
00:49:05.81\00:49:09.81
my spouse didn't
die on calvary for me
00:49:09.81\00:49:13.85
my parents didn't did
not bear my sins, my friends
00:49:13.85\00:49:17.85
did not open the
way of heaven to me.
00:49:17.85\00:49:21.89
I have to follow
Jesus first. And when
00:49:21.89\00:49:25.93
I choose to follow
Jesus, many times it can
00:49:25.93\00:49:29.86
be a powerful example
to our family and friends
00:49:29.86\00:49:33.90
because bothers and sister
pastoring for 16 years I can
00:49:33.90\00:49:38.01
tell you there is many a spouce
or many a family member who can
stand up church and say you know
00:49:38.01\00:49:42.04
what my family was against
me following Jesus they were
00:49:42.04\00:49:46.11
against the Bible they were
against the Sabbath or they were
against this or that but when I
00:49:46.11\00:49:50.12
stepped out to follow truth in
a matter of time whether it was
00:49:50.12\00:49:54.16
weeks or months or
years their stand made such
00:49:54.16\00:49:58.23
difference to their families,
their families choose to
00:49:58.23\00:50:02.20
followed them Jesus may
want you to step out not to hurt
00:50:02.20\00:50:06.23
your family, but he may be
asking you to step out because
00:50:06.23\00:50:10.31
he wants to save your family
and He wants you to step first
00:50:10.31\00:50:14.31
Jesus also gives one more reason
00:50:14.31\00:50:18.35
why we sometimes
resist the His Holly Spirit
00:50:18.35\00:50:22.42
John chapture 12 and verse
42 and this actually one of the
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most eye opening tsxt you
will see tonight John chapter 12
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and want you to go
verse 42 I want you to
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notice what Jesus says here.
It is one that we kinda over
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look and we miss the lesson
that is deep within John chapter
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12 and in verse 42
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The Bible makes this
statment The Bible says,
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Nevertheless even among
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the rulers (a
few) believed in Him,
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is that what it
says? many believed in Him,
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but because of
the Pharisees they did
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did not confess Him, lest
they should be put out of the
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synagogue; for they
loved the praise of men more
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than the praise of God.
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Do we understand what that is
saying? There were more poeple
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who believed in Him as the
son of God than the just 12
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disciples but they were not
willing publicly follow and
confess him because
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who? The religious
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leaders of the day
because they knew they
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put out of the synagogue
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and they were more
concerned with the majority
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than stepping out
and following truth in
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the minority. And
folks about what that
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says, the religious
leaders of Jesus, I mean
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speakes to me I'm a religious
leader, the religious leaders
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of Jesus day were the main
obstacles as why people did not
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follow truth. And
what Jesus is telling me
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as much I need to
respect religious leaders
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if I have a Pastor or a Church
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that is telling me not to worry
about something in the Word of
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God that I am being convicted
of, who am I going the chose to
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follow Am I going to
follow a pastor over Jesus?
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Am I going of that church
or institution that is put
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commandments of men above
the commandments of God? At some
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point and I hope it doesn't
happen the anyone but it may
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Jesus said sometimes
we have to make a choice
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Are we following religious
leaders or are following
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what Jesus said. You
know in these last days
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Jesus says he is looking
people who will follow him
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with all there heart
and soul. That why He said
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My sheep hear
(whos voice) My voice,
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and I know them,
and they follow Me.
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Friends do you hear the
voice of Jesus in your life?
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What is it he is
convicting you of?
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What has he shown you from
the Word of God these meetings?
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What has he shown you in your
own pearsonal study what path is
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he leading you on? Because
Revelation says it is Gods
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people that hear the voice of
the Lamb and follow Him wherever
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He goes. You know
pastor Dave I want to follow
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Jesus I want to
follow the truth I have
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learn but you don't
know the obstacles in my path
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you don't understand
the challenges I face
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And I want you to know I don't,
I can't walk in your shoes
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I dont know what
it is like for you
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but there is one thing I do
know. I know the God we serve
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and I know that God
will not lead us into truth
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and then make it impossible
for us to follow that truth
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This is the God who parted
the red sea for Moses and the
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Israelites This is the God who
brought water out of a rock in
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the dessert This is the God who
rained Manna down from heaven
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every day of the week execpt the
Sabbath This is the God rescued
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Shadrach Meschach and
Abednego from the firey furnace
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This is the God who shut
the lions mouths for Daniel
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And so whatever the obstacle
may be it isn't too hard
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for God. All He
ask for you is to put
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your foot in the water and
to start moving forward in faith
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and watch Him part the
water for you but it has
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to start with a
choice. What is the choice
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that you will make? Am I willing
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to follow him
with all my heart soul
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and all of my
mind? Because I know
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our God never
leves usand He never
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forsakes us. Tonight are
you willing to say Lord Jesus
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I want to go
all the way with you
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I want to incorporate
you truths in my life, Lord
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give me the
strength to do what is right
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Lord give me the
strength to make a decision
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I know I need to make
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when you ask Him, He
will be with you and when you
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follow Jesus where he goes there
is peace there is assurance
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and you know
you're on the right side
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I want to invire you to get
out your response cards tonight
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now this is not the generic
responce card that we have been
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using, this a special one
for this particular subject
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It say the Holly Spirit of
truth if you do not have this
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Just raise your hand and your
row host and in any of the blue
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buckets should be able to get
you one, it should say the Holly
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Spirit of truth if you don't
have one just raise your hand
they will be glad to get you one
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I'm goign to briefly go
over what this card says
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The first box says,
I do not want to reject
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the Holly Spirit I
desire to listen to His voice
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if that is the prayer of your
heart tonight and you simply
want to says Lord Jesus
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help me to
always follow your voice
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I invite you the check that box.
The second one says I choose
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surrender my heart and follow
the truth above everything
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else, in other if recognize
this the truth and your saying
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Lord please help me to follow
it. I am going to invite you to
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check that second
box. The third one says
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I would like to be baptized
soon, maybe there is someone
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here your saying I have not
taken that step I have not
baptized by immersion
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I want to do that one day soon.
I would invite you to check that
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box. The I
desire to become part of
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this local church,
your looking for a place
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that wants to honor God's
commands who the truths of
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scripture and just sense this
where He is leading Me, I know
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that Mark and this church would
the doors for you. I would
invite you to mark that box.
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And the lastly,
number 6 says I'm
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asking for special prayer for
something in my life, maybe
there just something
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you want to ask the prayer team
to pray for. You cans check that
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box and write your request on
the other side and this card
well be given to a pray
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team and they well pray for
you by name with whatever you
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chose to write on that card or
you don't have to write anything
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just put your name they will
pray you by name God knows what
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issue is and then can
hand this in the blue buckets
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at the registration table
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The bottom line is Jesus
says when hear voice do not
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harden your heasts,
submit to the holy spirit
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beacuse He will
never lead us astray
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