Hello.
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My name is Shelley Quinn
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and I welcome you to
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Exalting His Word.
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Today we will discuss
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righteousness by faith
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and how to demonstrate
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our love for God.
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We are going to learn
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how to take
scriptures on these two topics
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and make God's
testimony about us
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our life affirmation.
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I encourage you to get a pen
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and paper ready because
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you're probably going to
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want to take some program notes.
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Today's program
will be similar to
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a Bible workshop exercise.
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You are going to learn
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how to plug in to
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the transforming
power of the word of God
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and I think
you're going to love it!
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Before we begin,
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let's review our theme text
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which is Psalms 138:2.
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And in that verse
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the Bible says that
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God exalts His name
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and His word
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above all things.
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And He exalts His word
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even above His name.
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What does that mean?
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I had to do a study in
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Hebrew to really see
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the depth of the
meaning of this verse.
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It means that
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God has promoted His word to
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the highest rank of importance.
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Nothing is more important to God
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than His word.
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He has assigned
the highest position of
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praise to His word.
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God exalts His word
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more than anything else because
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He has granted creative,
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life giving power to His word.
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Power to
accomplish all of His will.
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And today,
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we're going to learn
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how to exalt God's word.
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Let's go to the Lord in prayer
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and ask Him to bless our study.
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Heavenly Father,
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we come before you today to ask
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in the Name of Jesus that
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the Holy Spirit
will be our teacher.
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And Father God,
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we ask that you
would sanctify us
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by Your word today.
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We thank you Father for
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the privilege that
you have given us to be
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called your children.
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In Jesus Name, amen.
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Today's program is going to be
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like a "good ole" Bible study
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with a slightly
different outcome.
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I want to show you
how to take scriptures
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and speak God's
truth over your life.
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Let me show you
an affirmation that
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I developed from a
number of scriptures.
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Then what we're going to do is
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take it apart line by line.
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And we will look at
the Bible verses that
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support this affirmation.
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So here's our first
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Life Affirmation from Scripture.
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Now, are you ready to see
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how I came up
with this affirmation?
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Let's look at it line by line
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with the scriptural support.
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The first line said,
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"I am the righteousness of God
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"in Christ Jesus."
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You know,
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II Corinthians
5:21 says that about us!
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It says
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"God made Him
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"who had no sin
to be sin for us.
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"So that in Him,
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(in Christ),
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"we might become
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"the righteousness of God."
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And in the second line says that
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"God has credited
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"Christ's righteousness to me."
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The Bible says that
in I Corinthians 1:30.
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I want to read to you from
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the New Amplified version.
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"But it is from Him (from God)
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"That you have your
life in Christ Jesus.
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"Whom God made
our wisdom from God
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"our righteousness."
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Which the amplified says,
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"Thus making us upright
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"and putting us in
right standing with God
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"and He became
our consecration."
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Which means that
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He makes us pure and holy.
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And our redemption.
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He provided our ransom from
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the eternal penalty for sin.
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So there we see that
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Christ is our righteousness,
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our consecration,
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and our redemption.
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And also,
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Isaiah 61:10
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That verse says,
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"My soul shall
be joyful in my God.
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"For He has clothed me with
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"the garments of Salvation.
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"He has covered me with
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"the Robe of Righteousness."
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Then the next line says that
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righteousness by faith is
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the only
righteousness that exists.
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Isaiah 64:6 says this,
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"But we all are like
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"an unclean thing,
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"and all our righteousnesses are
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"like filthy rags."
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When we stand in the shadow of
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the Holiness of God
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the very best
that you and I can do
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by our human effort
can not measure up to
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anything that God can do.
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Our righteousness,
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our righteous acts
are as filthy rags.
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We have to rely on
God to work in us to do
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things His way.
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And in Jeremiah 23:6 says this;
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"Now this is His Name.
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"The Lord our Righteousness."
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Even in the Old Testament
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God was always
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the righteousness of His people.
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It has always been
righteousness by faith.
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And Romans 9:30 says this...
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"Gentiles who did
not pursue righteousness
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"have attained
to righteousness..."
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Notice this...
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"Even the
righteousness of faith."
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Now our next line says...
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"Being made righteous
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"I now put it into practice
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"by following God's
way of thinking and acting.
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"I am obeying His commandments
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"by His
righteousness within me."
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You know we always want to
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have a balanced message.
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Yes, we are
righteous by faith but
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I John 2:29 says this...
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"If you know
that He is righteous
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"you know that everyone
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"who practices
righteousness is born of Him."
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And I John 3:7-8 says this...
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"Little children
let no one deceive you.
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"He who practices
righteousness is righteous
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just as He is righteous."
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It goes on to say...
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"He who sins is of the devil.
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"For this purpose
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"the Son of God
was manifested that
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He might destroy
the works of the devil."
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Psalms 85:10-13 says...
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"Righteousness
will go before him
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"and shall make His
footsteps our pathway."
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Now, let's take all of that
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and put it back together
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and we can declare
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with our living voice
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the testimony of God about
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what He says you
and I are in Christ.
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And that is...
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Now what I'd like to do is
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just take a quick
moment for an announcement
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and we're gonna be
right back to do another
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Life Affirmation
from Scripture so,
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please stay tuned...
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If this dynamic series is
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making a
difference in your life,
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then you should know about
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a special study guide
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written by Shelley Quinn.
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Exalting His Word with
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Life Affirmations From Scripture
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is an in depth
study of the word of God.
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Please send
your love gifts to...
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Now, let's look at an other
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Life Affirmation from Scripture.
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What we're doing here is
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simply taking God's word,
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His testimony about you and me.
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About who we are in Christ.
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And we are
speaking it over our lives.
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That's important to do
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because God says
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His word will not return void
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but will accomplish
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every purpose
for which He sent it.
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Our next affirmation says...
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You know,
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I used to speak
this over my life
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and I would just stop with
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the first part and say,
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I love the Lord my God
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with all of my heart
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soul and strength.
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Because Jesus said in
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Mark 12:30 that
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that is the most
important commandment.
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But then as I would
speak God's word back to Him
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and I would suddenly
just become aware that
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I really wasn't loving God
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with all my heart soul,
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mind and strength.
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And I felt so
pitifully inadequate to do so.
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But I'm gonna show
you as we take this apart
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how the Lord
started teaching me to
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let Him watch over
His word to perform it.
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The first line says
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"I love the Lord my God
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"with all my heart soul,
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"mind, and strength."
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that comes from Mark 12:28-30
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and what happened is
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one of the rulers asked Jesus...
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"Of all of the commandments
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"which is the most important?"
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And Jesus said this...
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"The most important one
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"answered Jesus is this...
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"Love the Lord your God
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"with all of your heart,
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"with all of your soul,
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"with all of your mind
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"and with all of your strength."
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Now, we have to realize that
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we can't even do
this in our own power.
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This is what's
most important to God
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as far as His commandments go.
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Is to love Him with everything!
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Every fiber of our being!
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But as the affirmation says,
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even in this response to Him,
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I am totally dependent upon God.
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God is the source of love.
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I open my heart
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and allow Him to pour
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His love in to me.
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God empowers me to
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respond in love.
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Where I got that
part of the affirmation is
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from Romans 5:5.
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And the Bible says,
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"The love of God
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"has been poured
out in our hearts
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"by the Holy Spirit
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"who was given to us.
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You and I can not love God
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the way He wants us to love Him
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by human effort.
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It is by the infused
power of the Holy Spirit
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and the power of His word.
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It's God working in
us to cause us to will
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and to act that empowers us to
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be motivated by love
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and to let God become
truly our Abba Father.
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The next part of
the affirmation says,
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I am always
mindful of Jesus Christ
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my first love.
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And I'll bet you know
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where I got that one!
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That's in Revelation 2:3-5
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Jesus said this,
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"You have persevered
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"and have endured
hardships for My name
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"and have not grown weary.
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"Yet I hold this against you.
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"You have
forsaken your first love."
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Remember the height
from which you have fallen.
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Repent and do the
things that you did at first."
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Let me ask you this...
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Have you
forsaken your first love?
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Is Jesus still
as important to you
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as the first
day that you enjoyed
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the joy of your salvation?
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If He's not
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and if you're aware that
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there are other things
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other priorities
in you life that are
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standing between
you and your Lord,
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I want to encourage you to
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speak this over your life!
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Because, once again,
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when I first started saying that
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I am always
mindful of my first love,
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I was very aware that
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that was not what
I was experiencing
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in my life.
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But the Bible says
in Romans 4:17 that
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God calls things that are not,
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as though they were.
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And as I began letting that
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be my testimony that
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I was always be
mindful of my first love.
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God's word did not return void.
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But He began watching over
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His word in my
life to perform it
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and within just a
few weeks of speaking
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His word over my life
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as my RHEMA affirmation
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I began putting it into practice
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by God's power!
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So now, let's put all of those
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sentences back together
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and we are going to
reassemble that affirmation.
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I hope you're
beginning to see that
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there's power in this practice.
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Now let's move on to our next
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Life Affirmation from Scripture.
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And that says...
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You know something?
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I meet alot of people
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who call themselves Christians
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who think that
obedience is not important
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and they'll say,
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"Oh, I love the Lord!"
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And it's some type of
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an emotional
feeling that they have that
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they're expressing.
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But what Jesus said
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and where I got this first line
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"This is how I
demonstrate my love for God
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"I obey His commandments."
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Jesus said in John 14:15
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"If you love me
keep my commandments."
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And I John 2:3-4 says this...
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"Now by this we
know that we know Him."
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Now listen...
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IT'S BY THIS THAT WE KNOW THAT
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WE KNOW HIM
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IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.
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In other words,
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if we do not
keep His commandments,
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we don't know Him.
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The Bible says,
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going on in that verse...
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"He who says I know Him
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"and does not
keep His commandments
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"is a liar and the
truth is not in Him."
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I think that's
pretty a stern warning that
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John is telling us here.
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If we say we love Jesus,
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if we say we know Jesus, but,
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we're not walking in
obedience to His commandments,
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then we're lying.
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Now,
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well let's go on to
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the next verse
which is I John 5:3,4.
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And it says,
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"For this is the love of God
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"that we keep His commandments
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"and His commandments are
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"not burdensome."
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Let me stop there
for just a moment...
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Why are they not burdensome?
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Because it is God
who is working in us to
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cause us to will
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and to act according
to His good purposes.
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If we're walking in surrender,
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yield in daily
controlled to God,
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God will do an
empowering work in us.
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Remember we
studied the law of liberty?
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We must be absolutely reliant on
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Jesus' power to do a
work in our hearts that
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causes us and empowers
us to walk in obedience.
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And then the scripture
goes on and I love this...
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It's I John 5:4
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"For whatever is born of God
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overcomes the world.
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"And this is the victory
that has overcome the world
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"our faith."
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The next line says,
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"I put His word into practice."
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I got that as
an affirmation from
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Luke 8:21
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Jesus is replying here
to someone and He says,
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"My mother and brothers are
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"those who hear God's word
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"and put it into practice."
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We should be
practicing Christians.
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Luke 11:28
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I'll read this
from the Amplified...
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"but He said, (Jesus said)
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"Blessed rather are those
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"who hear the word of God
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"and obey and practice it."
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Now, the next line says,
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"I am held
accountable for that which
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"He has reveled to me."
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You know,
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I wanna stop
here for just a second
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and say,
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when I really
started studying the Bible
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in a topical fashion
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and when the Lord lead me on
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a really wonderful
study on the Old Covenant
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and the New Covenant.
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And when He lead
me to really take
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a new look at
the ten commandments,
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one of the first
things that I recognized was,
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all of my life I thought
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but I was ignoring
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the fourth
commandment which says,
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"Remember the Sabbath."
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And the reason I was ignoring it
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is because I
had been taught that
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the commandments
were nailed to the cross.
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And the Lord had to
take me to a deep study to
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help me unlearn that err.
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And once He proved that to me,
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then suddenly I was faced with
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an issue that
was very important.
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Because we are held accountable
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for that which has
been revealed to us.
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So, I was very excited
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and thrilled and
nervous in some ways
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about changing my life
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to walk in
obedience to that commandment.
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But the first
time I ever celebrated
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one of God's Holy Sabbaths
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I understood what it meant to
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have complete
freedom from performance.
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To come to that point where
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I was completely relying on God.
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Let me go on...
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I am held accountable for that
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which He has revealed to me.
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This comes from
Philippians 3:16 that says,
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"Only let us hold true to
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"what we have already obtained
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"and walk and
order our lives by that.
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And also in I Corinthians 4:2
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It says...
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"Now, it is required that
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"those who have
been given a trust
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"must prove faithful."
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And then Romans 14:23
from the Amplified says,
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"For whatever does not originate
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"and proceed from faith is sin."
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I like the notation here
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in the Amplified version because
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it helps explain what
the scripture is saying.
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It says,
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"Whatever is done
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"without a conviction
of its approval by God
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"is sinful".
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In other words,
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we must,
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we are held accountable to
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what God's word says.
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And when we say that we're doing
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something by faith,
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just because we
want to be doing it
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and we don't see
anything wrong with it,
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really we're in err!
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We have to be
walking in conviction that
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what we are doing
is approved by God.
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Once again now,
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let's put all of
these affirmations or
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sentences back
together to form affirmation.
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You know,
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it's interesting
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and this may seem a
little strange to you initially
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to be speaking
God's word over your life.
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But it is so amazing how
as we change our testimony,
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I was talking with
someone recently who said
00:25:21.90\00:25:24.72
"It was like
changing yourself talk."
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When we quit speaking
things over our life that
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don't line up with God's word,
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when we start speaking
God's word over our life,
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it is something about
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planting God's
word in our heart.
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Planting His
promises in our heart
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and confessing them
with our living voice.
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There is something
in this process that
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releases the
transforming power of
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the word of God.
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It is a practice that
I've been doing since 1995
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and I can tell you that
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it's amazing how the Lord
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has developed His word
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in me.
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He has empowered me to put
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His word into practice
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and it all came because
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I started speaking
God's word over my life.
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I started
recognizing in this process
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who I was in Christ Jesus.
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And God has filled me with love,
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joy, peace, and zeal!
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I am a very
enthusiastic Christian!
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And I don't know
if you know this but
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the word enthusiasm is really
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if you break that down "enthio"
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means God within.
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Christians
should be enthusiastic!
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We should be joyful.
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Well, I hope that you
can join us next week.
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What we're going
to do then is learn
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how to pray God's
promises back to Him.
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And we're also going to learn
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how we can walk in perfect peace
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and trust God's
plan for our lives.
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May God multiply His mercy,
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His love and His grace to you.
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And may He
watch over His word to
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perform it in your life.
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As you cooperate with Him.
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As you make His word
your life affirmation.
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Returning it to Him because
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it will not return void.
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I hope my dear friends,
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that you will
remember to spend your time
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making that which is
most important to God
00:27:54.10\00:27:56.45
the very thing that's
also most important to you.
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Exalting His Word.
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