Hello.
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I'm Shelley Quinn
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and I welcome you to
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"Exalting His Word".
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Today will be discussing
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how to plant God's
promises in our heart.
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I'm so happy
that you could join us
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for this
wonderful Bible teaching.
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You know, there's power
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in the promises of God.
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Power to change your lives.
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I'd like to take just a moment
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and explain our
theme text which is found
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in Psalms 138:2.
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And what that verse says is that
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God exalts His name
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and His word above all things.
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And He magnifies His word
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even above His name.
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In other words
God exalts His word
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above all things!
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If you're a regular viewer
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you know that I like
to take a moment each week
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and dwell on the deep
and beautiful truth of
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this Scripture as we begin.
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I was impressed today to do this
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just a little
bit differently than
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the pattern that
I've been following.
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Let's review this
verse from a different angle.
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Let's talk about how
WE can exalt God's word
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in the same manner that He does.
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If we follow God's example
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and exalt His
word above everything
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that means that nothing
will be more important to us.
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God's word will be
our number one priority.
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We would promote His
word to the highest rank of
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importance looking to the Bible
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for all the answers to
all of life's questions.
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We will give the word of God
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the highest position of praise.
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Which means we will
demonstrate our worship for Him
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by walking in
obedience to His word.
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If we do as God does
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and exalt his
word above everything
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it means that we will recognize
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the creative
life-giving power of His word
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to transform our lives.
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We'll become like
the ancient patriarch Job
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and esteem and
treasure God's word
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more than our daily food.
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It's interesting to
look at this definition from
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a different point
of view, isn't it?
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For a number of programs
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we've looked at this
from God's perspective
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and to look at
how He views his word.
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And maybe we
thought we were beginning
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to understand what it
means to exalt God's word.
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Now that we look at
it from our perspective
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does it make you
realized that we still have
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a way to go to
learn to exalt God's word?
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The Bible clearly and
repeatedly states that
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obedience is the pathway
to all of God's blessings.
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But we can't obey God
by our limited human power.
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We must live in
absolute dependence
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upon the
transforming power of his spirit
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and his word to walk in
the pathway of blessings.
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Before we began a
program let's ask the Lord
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to bless the study of his word.
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Heavenly Father we
come today to ask that
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you would send your Holy Spirit
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to teach us Father God
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how to plant your
promises in our hearts.
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That we might partake of
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Christ's divine nature
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and escape the evil
corruption of the world.
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Lord we thank you.
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We know we're praying
according to your will
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and may it be
done for your glory.
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In Jesus name, amen.
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I heard a story about
an Eskimo and two dogs.
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Evangelist Billy
Graham told it but
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I don't recall if the
story is his original.
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What I do remember it
is the moral of the story.
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I'd like to share
by version which I call
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"Sinbad and The Junkyard Dogs".
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Sinbad was a hard
hearted sort of fellow
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and he was a notorious gambler.
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He owned a junkyard
and two prize biting dogs.
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A pit bull and a
white German shepherd.
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Every weekend Sinbad
would take these animals
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to the dogfights
out in the country
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where he would match them
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against each other
in the finding pens.
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Sinbad established the odds
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and the spectators
placed their bets with him.
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Most often for
their favorite dog.
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Now the pit bull
often soundly whipped
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the German shepherd.
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Still much to the
amazement of the onlookers
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the shepherd sometimes
pinned down the pit bull
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within moments
rendering him helpless.
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Now Grady was a regular gambler.
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And he tried to pick the winner
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based on the odds.
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Poor Grady!
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He rarely won.
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And he observed
that Sinbad seldom had
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to pay off on these bets.
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Well Grady was fascinated
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and he was greedy for gain.
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So he made Sinbad
a conditional offer
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to purchase this dog pair.
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He went to him and he said
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"Sinbad I'll tell you what...
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I'll pay you a
handsome fee for these dogs
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if you'll just tell
me what is your system
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for winning.
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I don't understand how
the pit bull appears to be
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so much
stronger on some weekends
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but the German
shepherd just beats
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the day light
out of him on others.
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Once they agreed
on the selling price
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Sinbad grind and he
said, "Grady it's simple.
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"The one...
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"I simply feed
one dog one weekend
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"and starve the other."
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And he said "so
one who gets fed wins".
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You know the moral of the
story applies to you and me.
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Do you recognize it?
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It might be helpful to
review a similar message
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from the Bible that's
found in Galatians 6:8
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There it says, "for
he who sows to his flesh
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"will of the
flesh reap corruption.
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"But he who sows to the spirit
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"will of the spirit
reap everlasting life."
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As Christians you and I
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have two natures within us.
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The old flesh nature of sin
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and the born
again nature of Christ.
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If we feed on the
trash of the world system
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our old sin nature
will rear its ugly head
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with a tenacity of
a ferocious pit bull.
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But in contrast if we feed
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our new nature
with the word of God
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the good Shepherd comes forth
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and wins the battle for us.
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The nature we feed wins!
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It's really that simple!
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You know it's sad to say but
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it's also so obvious that what
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I'm about to say
won't surprise you.
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There is a drought in the land.
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A righteousness drought.
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Our Holy and
righteous God abhors evil.
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He hates it because it
is in direct opposition
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to His divine nature of love.
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God's heart is
broken by the pain
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and suffering evil causes.
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Do you think that
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By our attitudes toward evil?
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The Bible says in
Proverbs 4:18 that
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"The fear of the
Lord is to hate evil."
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When this verse
says to fear the Lord
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it means to have reverent
respect and awe for God.
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Now let me repeat that verse.
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"The fear of the Lord
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"is to hate evil."
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You know it seems
that we have a problem.
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It seems that Christians,
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Christians have lost
their reverent respect
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and awe for God.
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We don't hate sin as God does.
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I think maybe that
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the vast corruption
of our world has numbed
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our senses in some way.
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In many instances our
response to sin has been
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diluted to
lukewarm indifference,
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shrugging shoulders,
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and clucking tongues.
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And our apathy grieves God.
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It's really become difficult
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to avoid worldly
images and influences,
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hasn't it?
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We are bombarded
by evil images daily.
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We need to be like the Psalmist
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who recorded his prayer to God
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in Psalms 119:37
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He said "Lord turn my
eyes away from worthless things
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and revive me
in your way Father.
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Are we vigilant
to turn our eyes away
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from worthless things?
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It breaks the heart of God
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when we allow earthly trash
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to gain entrance
and pollute our minds!
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Let me ask you question.
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Have we forgotten that
the Bible warns us that
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friendship with
this world system
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is hatred toward God?
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Look at the way the
Holy Spirit inspired
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the warning to us in James 4:4
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[text on screen]
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He's talking about
spiritual adultery here.
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Christians who are having
a love affair with the world.
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[back to text]
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Now, that's a pretty
stern warning, isn't it?
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It's one that we
should heed as well.
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We need to
recognize sin for what it is.
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One of the reasons we
seem to ignore the warning
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is because the ways of the world
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can sometimes seem so harmless.
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One of Satan's favorite devices
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is to make sin humorous.
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Or to make it entertaining.
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If he can put a cloak
of humor of comedy on sin
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and if he can cause us
to respond with laughter
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then the devil has scored!
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Our laughter
demonstrates our approval
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for practices that go against
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God's righteous decrees.
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The Bible says in Roman 1:32
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that we often know
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and we understand that
the wages of sin are death.
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And that those
who practice evil are
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actually deserving of death.
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But then he goes on
to say in that verse that
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we do the same practices of sin!
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And we approve of
those who practice them.
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Are we the Devil's fool?
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Let me show you
Satan's number one trick.
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Satan does all
within his power...
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[information on screen]
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Do we have to open the
package to realize that...
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[back to statement]
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Oh, may God help us
to hate evil as he does.
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Let us pray that we learn
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to discern between
the pure and the impure.
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We should pray
that God will teach us
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his way of hating the sin
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yet loving the sinner
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with a redemptive love.
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Let us pray ever
more earnestly that
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we don't develop
judgmental attitudes
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towards others.
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None of us is
righteous by our own merit.
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Isaiah 64:6 puts it this way...
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"All of us have become
like one who is unclean
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"and all our righteous acts
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"are like filthy rags."
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In reality we should all
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be saying there but for
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the grace of God go I.
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Did you know
that judging others is
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nothing short
of self exaltation?
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Or self-righteousness?
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And that is the
Devil's favorite trip wire
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to cause our downfall.
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Self-righteousness is a
sinister spirit of pride!
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And when you think about it
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the spirit of pride is
the spirit of antichrist.
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Which is in direct conflict
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to the absolute
humility of Christ.
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We should always be
mindful of the council that
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we've been given in
Philippians Chapter 2
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"Let this might be in you
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"which was also
in Christ Jesus."
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He humbled himself
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and he became
obedient to the point of death
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even the death of the cross.
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Our spiritual enemy
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comes in like a flood.
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Trying to knock us off
of our sure foundation.
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And pride is his greatest scheme
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to separate us from the Lord.
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Do we feed on the
Devil's slaughter ourselves
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while condemning
others for their sin?
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How easy it is to
fall into this trap!
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We must deprive our
selfish prideful nature
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and partake of
God's divine nature.
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Do you remember what
we talked about last time
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about how we partake
of God's divine nature?
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The answer is
found in II Peter 1:4
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"He (that's God)
has given us his very
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"great and precious promises
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"so that through
them you may participate.
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"Become part takers
off his divine nature
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"and escape the
corruption in the world
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"caused by evil desires."
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That's found in II Peter 1:4.
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By God's
gracious and loving design
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he has given us
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given us everything that we need
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to live godly lives.
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He has a system a
system for escaping evil
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and he wants us to learn it!
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In drawing near to God,
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hiding his word in our hearts
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and living in his promises
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we can escape
the clutches of evil.
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We'll be right back to
discuss a practical way
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in which we can put
God's system into practice.
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Please stay tuned!
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is making a
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is an in depth
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What God wants us to do he
is seeking our cooperation.
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He wants us to
depend on his power
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to develop the
nature of Christ within us.
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His solemn vows are upon us
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and our destiny is
to become like Jesus!
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Hallelujah!!!
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Taking part in his divine nature
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does require effort.
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It requires a vigorous
spirit empowered effort
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to plant God's
promises in our hearts.
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We must sow to the
spirit to reap everlasting life.
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What I'd like us to do now is
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to consider the
potential of the harvest.
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We sow what we reap.
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Excuse me...
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We reap what we sow!!
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Isn't that right?
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We can't plant one thing
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and harvest something else!
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This law of God
can't be violated
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in either the spiritual
realm or the physical realm.
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Ask any farmer
and he will tell you
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if you sow wheat you reap wheat.
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If you sow corn you reap corn.
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Why?
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Because the
potential of the harvest is
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wrapped inside this seed.
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The Bible says
this in Galatians 6.
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[text on screen]
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You're probably familiar with
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the parable of
sowing seed that Jesus told.
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It's recorded in Luke chapter 8
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and I'd like to read
some of that to you right now
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because this really
is going to right in
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with the very
practical application
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to our lives today.
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I'm going to start in Luke 8:5.
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"A farmer went
out to sow his seed.
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" As he was scattering the seed
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"some fell along the path.
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"It was trampled on
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"and the birds of air ate it up.
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"Some fell on rock
and when it came up
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"the plants a withered
because they had no moisture.
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"Other seed fell among thorns
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"which grew up with
it and choked the plants.
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"Still other
seeds fell on good soil.
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"It came up and yielded a crop
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"a hundred times
more than was sown."
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Now, listen to
Christ's explanation
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of this parable.
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This is the meaning
of the parable, he said.
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The seed it is the word of God.
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Those all along the path
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are the ones who hear and then
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the devil comes and takes
the word out of their hearts
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so that they may not
believe and be saved.
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Those who are on the rock
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are the ones who
received the word with joy.
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But when they hear it they...
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they just have no roots
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and they believe for a while
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but at the time of
testing they fall away.
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And then it says the
seed that fell among thorns
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stands for those who hear it
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but as they go on their way
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they are choked
by life's worries,
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riches and concerns.
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And they do not mature.
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But the seed on good soil
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stands for those with
a noble and good heart
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who hear the word and retain it
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and by
persevering produce a crop.
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Well, as Christ explained
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the meaning of this
parable to his disciples
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do you remember he said
the seed is the word of God?
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Let me paraphrase the
rest of his explanation.
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Some of us hear a
message from God's word
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and because our heart
is burdened and hardened
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the devil comes and
easily snatches away
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the seed of the word.
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Others hear are
promise from the Bible
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and we receive it with joy but
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we just don't
cling to it long enough
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for it to take root.
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We lose faith as conditions
challenge our believe.
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Sadly we reject
the eternal power
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and truth of God's testimony
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and we accept the
conflicting evidence of
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our circumstances.
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Then there are those
of us who sow his promises
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and with our eyes on Jesus
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are nurtured for awhile.
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Yet, we allow our
focus to be interrupted
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by the demanding
hustle and bustle of life!
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Soon worldly manners begin
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to creep in like weeds
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and they begin
growing out of control!
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And they overcome our mind
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and these weeds and thorns
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just choked the
life of God's word
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right out of our hearts.
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We quit
trusting in his knowledge
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and we returned to our
limited human understanding.
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And our growth as
Christians is studded because
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we no longer
acknowledge God's way of
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bringing us to maturity.
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You know the best way to explain
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how God brings us to maturity
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is described in Proverbs 3:5,6
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There it says...
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"Trust in the Lord
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"with ALL of your heart
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"lean NOT on
your own understanding
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"and in all your
ways acknowledge him
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"and He shall
direct your paths."
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Any time that we quit tending to
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the fertile ground
of the kingdom of God
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that's within us,
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we'll find that
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we have
sacrificed the good seed.
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His word.
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God designed the
potential of the harvest
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to be wrapped inside the seed.
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You should pause
to consider this...
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I want to encourage you
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to sow the seed of God.
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His Holy Word into your heart
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and if you'll
abide in His promises
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He will make certain that
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the life-giving
potential of His seed
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takes root and
develops and matures!
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And He will
develop their nature of
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Christ within you.
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Planting God's
promises in your heart
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can save your
soul from troubles.
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Here's how James put it.
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[text on screen]
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Remember the
Bible is your mirror!
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It reveals a reflection of
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who you are in Christ.
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It shows the new nature that
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God wants to create in you
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by the
life-giving power of His word.
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But you must
cooperate with the Lord.
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You've got to plant His promises
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and by His power allow God
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to start
working His plan in you.
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As Jesus
concluded the parable of
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the "sow-er" and the seed
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this is what He said;
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"But the seed on
good soil stands for
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"those with a
noble and a good heart
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"who hear the word,
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"retain it,
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"and by
persevering produce a crop."
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In this summary
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Christ identifies for us
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the four steps necessary
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to plant His promises
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and partake of
His divine nature.
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Number one...
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[steps on screen]
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Next week... we are
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...Or next time
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we are going to
take a closer look at
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these four critical steps for
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planting His promises.
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This is one of those
great systems of truth
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that God designed
for us to overcome
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our identity crisis.
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If we will learn to walk
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in the law of Liberty
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and know that we can
depend totally on God
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to do a work that is within us.
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And Him to work out
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His power within us.
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And then, if we will rely on
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the miracle
working power of God's word
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and recognize that
all of our potential
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is wrapped inside of His word.
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And that if we
will plant the word
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in our heart that the triumph
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and entry of His word
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will cause this miracle
seed to start functioning.
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To start growing
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if we could just get this
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in our minds that God's word
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is life to us!
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I pray...
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as a matter of fact,
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let's pray
together that the Lord will
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really impress this
on our heart because
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we all from time to time
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need to be
reminded that this word is
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alive and active!
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And when we put it in our hearts
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it's God who is going to produce
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a harvest of
righteousness in us!
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Let's take a moment
before we close and pray.
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Heavenly Father
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I ask in the name of Jesus that
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everything you are
teaching us in this program that
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you will empower us to do
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and cause us Father
God, just to come to you
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seeking to know your will.
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Seeking to know
who we are in Christ.
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Oh Father God in
the name of Jesus
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help us to overcome
our identity crisis.
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Teach us Father
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and cause us to
plant your promises
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in our heart.
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We thank you so
much for your word Lord.
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I praise you Father God.
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I thank you for your word
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and I pray that you
are doing a great work
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in my heart and in the hearts of
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all my brothers and
sisters for your Glory.
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In Jesus name amen.
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Well our time together
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certainly passes quickly.
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I hope the Lord is
encouraging you through
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these studies.
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May God multiply
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His mercy
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love and grace to you.
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And may He watch over His word
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to perform it in your life as
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you cooperate with Him.
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Please remember
to spend your time
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making that which is
most important to God
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the very thing that is
also most important to you
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Exalting His Word!
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