Hello, friends, grab
your Bible and a friend,
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and sit back as we
explore God's word together
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on this edition of House Calls.
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Friends, welcome,
welcome to House Calls,
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the most politically non-correct
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Bible program on the planet.
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Isn't that right, John?
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It's not about
politics, it's about God's word.
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And if you want it undiluted,
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one that will
counter-act the counterfeit,
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keep the dial set right there,
lock us in for week to week,
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and you will hear
as God word's says it.
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Good to have you
here, John. Good to be here.
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It's not July 4, but we have
red, white, blue going on here.
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We do, it's a,
it's a good thing.
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It's a good thing.
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You know we always have
great topics here we cover,
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we are in the middle of
a topic about repentance
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and this is part two on it.
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And it's a dynamic topic
and you don't want to miss it,
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so get your friends and
family members together.
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We're gonna have
prayer in a moment.
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And before we go
to our Bible question
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and all of that, those
things that you sent to us,
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we're gonna ask the Lord
to bless in our time together.
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So John... Let's do that.
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Pray for us.
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Dear Father in heaven,
we invite your spirit here
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to be with us as
we open your word.
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Guide and direct our
thoughts in everything we do
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and say may be to
your honor and glory,
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and may be to the
understanding of those
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that are searching for you.
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In Jesus' name. Amen.
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Amen.
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So, John, why don't
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into the Bible
question and lets us know
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what we have
today for our audience.
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This is a fairly long question,
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so I'm just gonna
abbreviate this one.
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Go for it. But
Dennis is writing in...
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and he says he
appreciates our programming
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and things that
are very essential
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for spiritual
health and well-being.
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But he has a little
bit of a challenge here
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with some of the
things that we have said,
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and one of those specifically
is in regard to stating,
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what he says a
politically correct point.
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That's interestingly fitting
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that you opened our
program here with this.
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But he says, "It seems to be
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that as you have
expressed on 3ABN
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that God's people reside in
virtually every denomination
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that may be little
politically correct
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but also can be
dangerous to say."
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And he writes some
other things too here,
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and I think we
need to be very careful
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first of all not
to be judging, okay?
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Because God does
not ask us to judge,
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but he does ask us to live
according to the Word of God.
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And so when we
made this statement,
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so this is kind of a
clarifying statement.
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When we have said
that God has people
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throughout all of Christendom,
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in other words
many denominations,
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and even those
that are not Christian,
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he has people that he's working
on hearts drawing to him,
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that are really talking about
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an extension of
a verse that Jesus,
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where Jesus states in John 10:16
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that "Other sheep I have
which are not of this fold."
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So here he's talking about,
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you know, he's
with his disciples,
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they're not just the 12,
it's an extended discipleship.
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It's extended followers
and he's saying there are some
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that are not of this fold,
that are not of just us here
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that are following me.
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But here's the,
here's what where we need to,
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kind of, qualify that statement
because he goes on, he says,
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"Them also I must bring
and they will hear my voice
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and there will be one
flock and one shepherd."
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So when we make this statement
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that God's people
are in everywhere,
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we're not saying that God
wants to leave them everywhere.
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Jesus wants his people as
his world body of believers
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to be one, to be unified
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and that means to
be unified within a,
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the Christian
faith in its purest form
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according to the
Word of God, okay.
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Now I'm the
Seventh-day Adventist minister,
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I believe that
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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has those truths, which is why
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a part of my message is
the Three Angles messages,
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which is also repeated
with that other fourth,
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the other angle that comes
down in Revelation 18, saying,
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"Come out of for my people."
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So there's a recognition
there in that message
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that God's people
are still out there
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in many
denomination, in many face,
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but the goal of God's people,
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the ones that are
given special truths,
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truths that are
aligned with God's word.
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Part of that is preaching,
and teaching, and calling them
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out of these false
systems of religion,
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false systems of
error into God's flocks.
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Right.
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And that's when he
will have done his work.
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This is God doing his
work through his church,
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calling people into one flock,
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having one shepherd
and then he will come.
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And also that is really what it,
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the last day events
are really all about.
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They're about
gathering the flock into one.
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And so the message we
have is a unique message.
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It's not a message that
doesn't mater where you are.
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God loves you, its okay.
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It's, no, God loves you
and he want what's best for you
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but there is a truth that
we want you to come in to,
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he's preparing his
people who are waiting
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for the second
coming to come into
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and that's part of
the message that we have,
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that is called the
Everlasting Gospel.
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That is right, and in
the Everlasting Gospel,
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John, you segue perfectly,
the Everlasting Gospel
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is to be preached to
every nation, every kindred,
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every tongue, every people.
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Why do that if God doesn't
want people from every nation,
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every kindred,
every tongue, every people
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to come to the
response of this massage?
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And this gospel of the
kingdom, Matthew 24:14,
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"Shall be
preached in all the world."
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Why would God do that?
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Why would he want us to do that?
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Why would the Lord
say to the disciples,
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"Oh, go ye therefore,
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and make
disciples of all nations."
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If there were not
people in all nations
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that would be
eventually a part of this fold.
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Why would he
say, "I send you forth
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as lambs among wolves,"
if they are not, he says,
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"Go into the
highways and hedges,
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and compel all men every where."
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The supper is ready.
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See, the whole message of
the gospel is to gathering.
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The Bible says, first,
the message is in two ways,
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"Come unto me all you..."
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We respond to the
call of the Spirit to God.
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That's goal, go make
disciples of all nations
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and the Lord sent
his disciples all over.
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When the day of
Pentecost had come,
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when you read that, the
day of Pentecost in Acts 2,
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the response of the
preaching of the gospel was,
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"How do we hear these Galileans
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speak in the language
from which we were born?"
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And then the question was
all these people from Arabia,
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and Phanphelia, and Crete,
and all these different nations
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gathered in
Jerusalem, they heard the gospel
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and they were told to repent,
and then you have Phillip
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who was one of the
New Testament Apostles
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who were sent to,
to the Ethiopian unit
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to let him understand
what Isaiah 53 was all about.
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Then he took the
gospel back to Ethiopia
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and historically
Ethiopia is the second largest
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and Ethiopia is the
second largest country on Earth,
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or the second place on the Earth
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where the Sabbath
was honored the longest.
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Why? New Testament impact.
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So the gospel is all about
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people being all over the world.
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And so, when we start
getting this exclusive attitude
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that we're the only
ones we become pharisaical
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and that was the
problem with the Pharisees.
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They thought that
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and that's why
they said to Jesus says,
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"Why are you hanging out
with publicans, tax collectors,
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sinners, harlots,"
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and Jesus says Luke 10:16,
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"The son of man has come to seek
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and to save that which was..."
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Luke 19:10 sorry,
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"The son of man has come to seek
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and to save
that which was lost."
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Luke 19:10.
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And so let's look at
this, what's the benefit of it.
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Listen to this, Jeremiah 23.
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Jeremiah 23,
listen to this, verse 1-3
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"Woe to the
shepherds who destroy
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and scatter the
sheep of my pasture,
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says the Lord.
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Therefore thus says the
Lord, the Lord God of Israel
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against the
shepherds who feed my people.
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You have scattered my flock,
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driven them away,"
that's why he says,
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other sheep I have
that are not of this fold.
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"You've scattered my flock,
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driven them away and
not attended to them.
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Behold I will attend to
you for the evil of your doing,
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says the Lord."
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And then verse 3,
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"I will gather the remnant
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of my flock out of all countries
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where I have driven them
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and bring them
back to their folds
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and they shall be
fruitful in the trees.
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I will set up shepherds
over them who'll feed them.
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They shall fear no
more, nor be dismayed,
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nor shall they be
lacking says the Lord."
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And so you find when he says,
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"Other sheep that I have
that are not of this fold,"
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he said they're
out there, go get them.
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That's right.
That's the gospel message.
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The other thing too is
that the devil counteracts
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this
Everlasting Gospel going out
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to all people
throughout all phase,
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throughout all denominations
to bring them into one fold.
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The devil counteracts that
by sending his own ministers,
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his own gospel
workers, his own preachers
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into the same realm to
gather them into his fold.
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That's rights.
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See the devil copies
every thing that God does.
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And he know God is
calling people into one fold,
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he's calling his
people into his one fold.
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He's got a gathering
like God has a gathering
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and so, you know, just because
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we're in the
Christian church this goes,
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you know, if the opposite
just because you're in a church
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that calls itself
Christian doesn't mean that
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you're in the right fold.
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So you have to make
sure that your group,
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your church is
aligned way scripture
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and that's the only
way to tell whether or not
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the minister, the preacher,
the pastor and the leaders
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are of the ones of the truth,
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sharing the everlasting
gospel, or the ones in error
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where the devil has send
out to divide and to concurred.
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So anyway don't wan to
relate to that too much
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but I think it is important
to know both sides of this,
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that God has people every where
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but at the same
time he's calling them
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into one fold
preparing them for his return.
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When you said
that it reminded me
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and I went to 2 Corinthian 11:4,
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"For if he who comes
preaches another Jesus
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whom we have not preached,
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or if you receive
a different spirit
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which you have not
received, or a different gospel
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which you have not accepted
you may well put up with it."
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He says, "For I
consider that I am not all,
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I am not at all inferior
to the most eminent apostles,"
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and then he goes down
and warns the Corinthian
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about what will happen
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and he say,
speaking about those who have
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a deceptive
message, like you said,
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just because
it's labeled Christian
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doesn't mean it's the truth.
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Right.
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Here's what he said
in 2 Corinthian 11:13,
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"For such are false
apostles, deceitful workers,
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transforming themselves
into the apostles of Christ,
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and no wonder for Satan himself
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also transform himself
into an angel of light,"
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and verse 15,
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"Therefore it is no great
thing if his ministers..."
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you just said...
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His ministers, yeah.
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Ministers, "If his ministers
also transform themselves
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into ministers of righteousness
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whose end will be
according to their works."
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So there are
people that look like
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ministers of
righteousness, Satan is the one
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that helps them
get that appearance.
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They are transformed,
he transforms himself,
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they transform
themselves, they look the part
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but they don't
preach the message.
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It even says if
you go on I'm not sure
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it's that passage right
there but it talks about
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how even those in these churches
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where these
ministers are preaching
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that they have itching ears.
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They're actually setting
up for themselves ministers,
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they want to
hear something smooth
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and so when we preach
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something like
this program does,
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it's no wonder
that we would have those
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that are very
opposed to what we share.
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Here is, we're
talking about straight truth
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and they do that
with several things.
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There's a movement out
there that has gotten so large
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and so wide spread
throughout denominations
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that it is really making them
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incapable of
discerning truth from the error
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and that is this higher
criticism of the Word of God
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where everything is allegorical,
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it's a story form,
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it's not really that it happened
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but here's the lesson behind it,
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or my opinion is this.
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We don't read the
plain scriptures any more.
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I was just talking to
somebody who said, you know,
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you really believe that
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God really created
the world in six days?
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You know, how
much of Christianity
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has labeled this, you
know, they kind of combine,
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or accepted a form of evolution
by calling it Theistic,
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see, they labeled
it, Theistic evolution.
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The Bible doesn't
accept Theistic evolution.
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The Bible says
creation in six days
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and on the seventh you rested.
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Right.
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That's what it says,
that's what it means.
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It's not a story
about something else
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so be careful how your preachers
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are teaching
these kinds of thing
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because it makes
it very difficult
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to discern right from wrong
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if you take the
Bible in that way.
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That's right, theistic evolution
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another terminology that is,
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kind of, like
opening a poisoned tap
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to a big vat of clean water.
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Just keeping
dripping it, dripping it,
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dripping it, dripping
it and after a while it
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just pollutes the entire thing
and that's what the devil does.
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He gradually pollutes the
truth by these little tiny drops
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and you'll say
what's the big deal,
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you still have a
ton of clean water.
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All it takes is
one drop of poison
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in many gallons of waters to say
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it's all unfit to be swallowed
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and that's what
happens in the Bible,
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you know, the one
you were referring
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to was in 2 Timothy 4 verse,
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"Preach the word
and be ready in season
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for the time will come
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and they will not
endure sound doctrines
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but according to
their own desires
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they're heart turn to
teachers having itching ears
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and they'll turn away
from the truth to fables."
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We're living in that
time, John that's why...
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Truth to fables, wow.
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From truth to fables
so that's why we are doing
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the work of an evangelist.
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That's why we are
proclaiming it undiluted.
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That's why I said this
in the most politically
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non correct Bible
study you're gonna to get.
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We're not
tip-toeing to the tulips,
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nor meandering in
the maze of mediocrity,
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nor pondering at
the pool of popularity,
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nor negotiating at the
table of the enemy, okay?
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That's not what
we're doing here.
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Anyway I have
another question here.
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Yes go. Let's go on.
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Hi, Pastor
Lomacang, I would like to know
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what is born again?
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If we don't have a spirit
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and we are only
body plus breathe,
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when I was saved at
the blank church at age 15,
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I was told that I
was born spiritually dead
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and when I received Christ
that my spirit was reborn.
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Can you explain more,
what is to be born again?
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Thank you, David.
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I appreciate
your question, David.
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There are couple
of question in there,
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one is
presupposing that we have a body
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and we have a spirit, you see.
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That is, that is Neo-Platonism,
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it's a big
phrase but look it up.
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Neo-Platonism, the
idea that the body,
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the spirit and the
soul are separate entities,
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that when you are born again
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that now all of a sudden
your spirit has a chance.
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That's, that's not scriptural.
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Let's go to John 3
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and look at this
in the proper context.
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And well, some might say,
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"Well, the Bible says
body, soul and the spirit."
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Exactly.
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But the key there is the
word the way you share that,
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the way you said that.
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These are not
separate entities...
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Right, not separate at all.
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These are depended
upon each other for life.
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They're parts
that make up man kind
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and that's the key.
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And by the way,
the body and the soul
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are in fact in
concert with each other
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because there's no separate soul
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and there's no separate body.
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The body with the
spirit equals the living soul.
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The body plus the
spirit of God that was breathed
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into the nostrils
of man, Genesis 27:9.
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Genesis 7.
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Genesis 27.
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No, no, Genesis 3:7
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Yeah 2:7
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Genesis 2:7. 2:7. Yes.
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You know, what I was thinking,
I was thinking of Job 27:3
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which is, "All the
while my breathe is in me
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and the spirit of
God is in my nostrils,"
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I was getting my Job text
merged with my Genesis text.
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But yeah, Genesis
2:7, is the body receiving
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the breathe of God and
becoming a living soul.
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Not separating the two.
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Let's go ahead and go to John 3
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and let's look at
this whole thing about
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being born again.
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Now John 3:3,
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Jesus speaking to Nicodemus
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the one of the most
famous stories in the Bible
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where, you know, for God
so loved the world is here.
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"Jesus answered
and said to him,"
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that's Nicodemus,
"most assuredly I say to you,
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unless one is born again,
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he cannot see
the Kingdom of God.
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Nicodemus said to him," verse 4,
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"How can a man be
born when he is old?
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Can he enter a second time
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into his mother's
womb and be born?"
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He knew he couldn't.
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Jesus answered, "Most
assuredly, I say to you,
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unless one is born
of water and the spirit,
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he cannot enter
the Kingdom of God".
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And this in not talking about
a separate birth from the body,
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this was talking
about the fact that
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being born of the
water and of the spirit.
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When you receive
Christ something happens
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that you're not
able to do prior to that.
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This birth that is talked about,
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and I think
that what your Pastor
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may have meant in a...
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I'm not trying to
qualify his statement
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but if I were to put this
together in the proper sense,
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we are all dead in sin
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until we are born of the spirit.
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We're all dead in sin
until we're born of the spirit.
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Go with me to Romans 6
and John, I want you to read
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Romans 6:11-13.
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This is really the
process of being born again,
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is we die to who we are
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and we live, and
Jesus lives in us to,
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to now develop in us
that spirit and that life
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that is connected to Christ.
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John, Romans 6,
start with verse 10.
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Okay, for the...
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This is speaking about
Jesus, by the way, first of all.
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Yes, "For the
death that he died,
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as he died to
sin and once for all,
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but the life that he
lives, he lives to God".
00:20:07.10\00:20:09.60
That's speaking
about Jesus. Now...
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"Likewise you
also reckon yourselves
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to be dead indeed to sin
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but alive to God in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Therefore do not let sin
reign in your mortal body
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that you should obey its lusts.
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And do not present your members
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as instruments of
unrighteousness to sin
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but presents yourselves to God
as being alive from the dead,
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and your members as instruments
of righteousness to God."
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Exactly and then
ending right there
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so what's happening is
when you come to Christ
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when you go back
further in Romans 6
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what dies is
that old man of sin.
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You see, we are
born bound to a nature
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that if we stay there will
condemn us to eternal death
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so in order to be
delivered from death,
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you know, the Bible
says in Romans 6:23,
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"The wages of sin is death
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but the gift of
God is eternal life
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through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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So we're all bound from
birth, we're all set for death.
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That's just where we're headed.
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Jesus interrupts that and says,
"You have to be born again,
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you have to be born of the water
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and of the spirit."
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Now what does it mean
to be born of the spirit?
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You know, when we are...
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Let me go head and
go now to Romans 8.
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Romans 8, what does it
mean to be born of the water
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and of that spirit?
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Okay, let's, Romans
8:1, John, start there.
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"There is
therefore now no condemnation
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to those who are in Christ Jesus
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who do not walk
according to the flesh
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but according to the spirit."
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Okay.
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"For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
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has made me free from
the law of sin and death.
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For what the law could not do,
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in that it was
weak through the flesh,
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God did by sending his own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh
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on account of sin he
condemns sin in the flesh
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that the righteous
requirement of the law
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might be fulfilled in us,
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who do not walk
according to the flesh
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but according to the Spirit."
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Okay so what's,
what's happening now
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when it says walking
according to the flesh
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that means if we
follow our natural tendencies
00:22:05.39\00:22:09.62
as what, as what the Bible says,
00:22:09.66\00:22:10.99
let me go to John 1
and hear it in a moment.
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If we follow our
natural tendencies
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we are geared to be wicked.
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The Heart, Jeremiah 17:9. Yes.
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"The heart is
deceitful above all things
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and desperately wicked."
00:22:24.14\00:22:26.04
That ain't even slightly wicked
it's so desperately wicked,
00:22:26.07\00:22:29.38
you'll not even know
what you're gonna say
00:22:29.41\00:22:31.11
until somebody
step on your little toe.
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Oliver Henry Wright says,
with the word flesh, he says,
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"Take off the 'H'
now read it backwards,"
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with the word
flesh take off the 'H'
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and now read it backwards.
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Self, wow.
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He says, "Every where you put
flesh substitute it with self."
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Wow. I love
that... That's a good one.
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Else, S-E-L-F.
00:22:53.60\00:22:55.67
Thank you elder Wright.
00:22:55.70\00:22:57.31
He's always right.
He does a good job.
00:22:57.34\00:22:59.47
No matter what, he's
always Wright, W-R-I-G-H-T.
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But that's, that's what
happens so you cannot walk
00:23:04.08\00:23:07.15
according to the
spirit unless Jesus is in you.
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You see the spirit
comes and 1 Corinthians 6:19
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and 20 says, read
that, read that for us,
00:23:15.36\00:23:18.09
why you going...
00:23:18.13\00:23:19.46
I was going somewhere else
but where do you want to go?
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1 Corinthians 6, speaking
about the spirit of God.
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The spirit of
God comes into you,
00:23:25.67\00:23:27.30
you are born of the
water, that's the baptism.
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1 Corinthians 6:9 and 20.
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"For do you not know
that your body is a temple
00:23:33.11\00:23:35.08
of the Holy
Spirit, who is in you,
00:23:35.11\00:23:37.38
whom you have from God
and you are not your own
00:23:37.41\00:23:40.22
for you were bought at a price.
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Therefore glorify God in
your body and in your spirit
00:23:41.72\00:23:44.12
which are God's."
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Okay so there you are,
the spirit is in you now
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but that spirit's not coming in
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while this body is dedicated
to the old way of life.
00:23:50.16\00:23:53.29
So what happens
now the Lord comes
00:23:53.33\00:23:55.20
and takes that old
nature, spiritually speaking
00:23:55.23\00:23:58.43
and kills it, born of the water,
00:23:58.47\00:24:01.80
drowns it but you come out
00:24:01.84\00:24:04.01
to walk in the newness of
life and I'll just go ahead
00:24:04.04\00:24:05.64
and read the
process here in Romans 6.
00:24:05.67\00:24:07.61
So this is something,
00:24:07.64\00:24:08.98
and keep in mind,
process I died daily.
00:24:09.01\00:24:12.91
This is something that
has to happen all the time.
00:24:12.95\00:24:14.58
That's right. This
isn't a one time event.
00:24:14.62\00:24:16.52
You know, he's talking to me
like Nicodemus about conversion
00:24:16.55\00:24:19.42
and yes that conversion
begins at a point in time
00:24:19.45\00:24:21.89
but it continues
throughout your life.
00:24:21.92\00:24:23.26
You have to be
converted every day.
00:24:23.29\00:24:25.16
That's right.
00:24:25.19\00:24:26.53
And that means letting self go
00:24:26.56\00:24:28.80
which is your own
spirit and letting differing,
00:24:28.83\00:24:32.30
yielding to the Spirit of God
00:24:32.33\00:24:33.94
which is the Holy
Spirit working in you
00:24:33.97\00:24:36.74
and that is the converted
walk and life in Christ.
00:24:36.77\00:24:40.84
I'm glad you said that.
00:24:40.88\00:24:42.21
It's the converted walk
rather than conversion everyday.
00:24:42.24\00:24:44.58
It's continuing to
submit to the conversion
00:24:44.61\00:24:46.88
because what we are to be, whoa.
00:24:46.92\00:24:49.25
I'm just so excited about
00:24:49.28\00:24:50.62
what I'm about to say right now.
00:24:50.65\00:24:51.99
What we are to be,
what we going to be,
00:24:52.02\00:24:54.86
we are becoming.
00:24:54.89\00:24:56.22
Yes.
00:24:56.26\00:24:57.59
1 John, 1 John 3:1 and
2, read that for me John,
00:24:57.63\00:25:01.83
he's turning to all the
text that I want him to turn to
00:25:01.86\00:25:03.47
but I have one right here
00:25:03.50\00:25:04.83
that I don't want
to turn away from.
00:25:04.87\00:25:06.20
Now he just said, the converted,
00:25:06.23\00:25:08.40
the day by day I died daily,
00:25:08.44\00:25:10.44
you have to die
daily, you know why?
00:25:10.47\00:25:12.31
Because this is
a process going on.
00:25:12.34\00:25:14.31
Let's took at the
construction site.
00:25:14.34\00:25:15.68
Let's go ahead
and say I went ahead
00:25:15.71\00:25:17.25
and signed a
contract with some builders
00:25:17.28\00:25:19.78
that they're gonna
build me a new house
00:25:19.81\00:25:21.15
and they say, "John all we
ask of you is sign the contract.
00:25:21.18\00:25:25.02
We'll do the work
and when we're done
00:25:25.05\00:25:26.76
you'll be shocked
about what we could do."
00:25:26.79\00:25:29.12
But I come back and say,
00:25:29.16\00:25:30.49
"Well, I don't like the
color paint, I don't..."
00:25:30.53\00:25:31.86
He said look, "You
hired us to do the job.
00:25:31.89\00:25:34.73
We promised what we
began, we're gonna finish
00:25:34.76\00:25:37.47
but you got to keep
your hands off the job.
00:25:37.50\00:25:39.30
We do this, this is
what we do for a living
00:25:39.33\00:25:41.24
but I can't see
how it's gonna...
00:25:41.27\00:25:42.60
That's not..."
00:25:42.64\00:25:43.97
"You can't, of
course you can't see this.
00:25:44.01\00:25:45.34
You're not a builder."
00:25:45.37\00:25:46.71
So we're trying to
interrupt a process
00:25:46.74\00:25:48.08
that Jesus has started
through the in-dwelling spirit
00:25:48.11\00:25:50.35
and because we can't
see how it's gonna work
00:25:50.38\00:25:52.11
we put our hands in the process
00:25:52.15\00:25:53.55
and he says, "Let
me tell you something.
00:25:53.58\00:25:56.08
I'm dealing with an
extreme make over here,
00:25:56.12\00:25:58.22
would you please let me
tear down all the junk you had,
00:25:58.25\00:26:01.39
empty all those old
selves and when I'm done
00:26:01.42\00:26:04.33
you're gonna say when
that bus is moved, huh.
00:26:04.36\00:26:07.00
Unbelievable.
00:26:07.03\00:26:08.36
So you can't see
what it's gonna be,
00:26:08.40\00:26:09.73
now go ahead John.
00:26:09.76\00:26:11.10
But what you need to
know is while you can't see
00:26:11.13\00:26:12.83
what's gonna
happen you need to know
00:26:12.87\00:26:15.37
that we are
still on this contract,
00:26:15.40\00:26:17.37
we still have an
agreement, you are...
00:26:17.41\00:26:19.07
I'm your father, you're my son,
00:26:19.11\00:26:20.74
we are still under this contract
00:26:20.78\00:26:22.21
just let me do my job
00:26:22.24\00:26:23.58
and you'll be
shocked when I am done."
00:26:23.61\00:26:24.95
Go ahead and see it, read it.
00:26:24.98\00:26:26.31
"Behold, what manner of love
00:26:26.35\00:26:27.68
the Father hath
bestowed upon us,
00:26:27.72\00:26:29.05
that we should be
called children of God."
00:26:29.08\00:26:30.72
Exactly.
00:26:30.75\00:26:32.09
"Therefore the
world does not know us
00:26:32.12\00:26:33.46
because it did not know him."
00:26:33.49\00:26:34.82
Okay, now the next one.
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"Beloved, now we
are the children of God
00:26:36.22\00:26:38.23
and it has not been
reviled yet what we shall be."
00:26:38.26\00:26:41.40
Okay stop, don't go yet.
00:26:41.43\00:26:42.93
It has not yet been reviled
what we're gonna look like.
00:26:42.96\00:26:45.70
Right. Go ahead.
00:26:45.73\00:26:47.80
"But we know that,
when he is reviled,
00:26:47.84\00:26:50.31
we shall be like him for
we shall see him as he is."
00:26:50.34\00:26:54.34
Isn't that an amen? Yes.
00:26:54.38\00:26:56.21
So it doesn't yet...
00:26:56.24\00:26:57.78
This whole new birth
process of being born again...
00:26:57.81\00:27:00.55
See baptism is just a contract
00:27:00.58\00:27:03.39
and when baptism is
taking you off of death row,
00:27:03.42\00:27:07.36
saving you from certain death
00:27:07.39\00:27:10.69
daily it saving you
from the power of sin
00:27:10.73\00:27:15.23
that, that one time
transaction when you baptize,
00:27:15.26\00:27:18.50
saving you from
the penalty of sin.
00:27:18.53\00:27:21.00
You're taken off of death
row you're not gonna die anymore
00:27:21.04\00:27:23.51
but the Lord has
to every days say
00:27:23.54\00:27:25.67
John you got to die today again,
00:27:25.71\00:27:27.28
you got to die today again,
you got to die today again
00:27:27.31\00:27:29.24
because as long as
you're willing to die
00:27:29.28\00:27:31.55
you'll be safe
from the power of sin
00:27:31.58\00:27:34.62
and if you're safe
from the power of sin
00:27:34.65\00:27:36.65
I can keep
working inside of you.
00:27:36.69\00:27:38.29
But the moment you
let that power of sin
00:27:38.32\00:27:40.06
take over again it's
gonna rain in your mortal body.
00:27:40.09\00:27:44.59
So I'm gonna try and
put the rap around this.
00:27:44.63\00:27:46.59
Go ahead.
00:27:46.63\00:27:48.06
John 14, in this passage
it's about the transitioning
00:27:48.10\00:27:52.97
of Christ in his work,
00:27:53.00\00:27:54.50
in his mission to the disciples.
00:27:54.54\00:27:56.14
That's right.
00:27:56.17\00:27:57.51
He's meeting with
him in the upper room
00:27:57.54\00:27:58.87
it's right
before his crucifixion
00:27:58.91\00:28:00.24
he's saying the
work that I started
00:28:00.28\00:28:01.61
you're gonna finish and
then he says in verse 16,
00:28:01.64\00:28:06.98
"I will pray the Father
00:28:07.02\00:28:08.35
and he will give
you another helper".
00:28:08.38\00:28:10.69
I like the New
King James Version,
00:28:10.72\00:28:12.05
the best of the translation
00:28:12.09\00:28:13.42
because in context
Jesus is saying I'm giving
00:28:13.46\00:28:16.02
someone who will
help you do this.
00:28:16.06\00:28:17.86
That's right.
00:28:17.89\00:28:19.23
Okay, now just a
comforter, right.
00:28:19.26\00:28:21.80
But he's gonna help you.
00:28:21.83\00:28:23.73
He's gonna be the one
that enables you to do this
00:28:23.77\00:28:26.90
and it says, "He may
abide with you forever,
00:28:26.94\00:28:28.67
the Spirit of truth;
whom the world cannot receive,
00:28:28.70\00:28:30.71
because it neither
sees him nor knows him
00:28:30.74\00:28:32.27
but you know
him," listen to this,
00:28:32.31\00:28:34.54
"for he dwells with
you, and will be in you."
00:28:34.58\00:28:36.61
That's right.
00:28:36.64\00:28:37.98
Now these are powerful words,
listen to this next statement.
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Jesus then brings
it back to himself.
00:28:40.32\00:28:42.28
"I will not leave you
orphans, I will come to you."
00:28:42.32\00:28:45.52
That's right, I
may sense in a while
00:28:45.55\00:28:46.89
that it's gonna be me.
00:28:46.92\00:28:48.26
"I will come to you."
00:28:48.29\00:28:49.62
The holy spirit
moving in... That's right.
00:28:49.66\00:28:51.93
Brings Christ into
your life. That's right.
00:28:51.96\00:28:54.23
When you hear Christians
say I have Christ in me
00:28:54.26\00:28:57.33
it means the Holy
Spirit is empowered
00:28:57.37\00:29:00.14
and is motivating
in me and helping me
00:29:00.17\00:29:01.97
do everything that God
has asked me to do in my life.
00:29:02.00\00:29:06.21
And so I asked
the question, John.
00:29:06.24\00:29:08.88
If someone's not converted,
00:29:08.91\00:29:10.81
if they're in only
the conviction state
00:29:10.85\00:29:12.68
so there's no conversion,
00:29:12.71\00:29:14.05
there's no Holy
Spirit moving in,
00:29:14.08\00:29:15.72
can Christ dwell in you?
00:29:15.75\00:29:17.09
No. No, you can't, it can't be.
00:29:17.12\00:29:19.65
So I like what CA
Murray says, he says,
00:29:19.69\00:29:21.66
"We need a lot more converts
00:29:21.69\00:29:23.43
in the church
instead of convicts"
00:29:23.46\00:29:25.09
That's a powerful statement.
00:29:25.13\00:29:26.46
I had been coining that,
I had been repeating that
00:29:26.49\00:29:28.60
so many of us are convicts,
we're convicted to the Sabbath,
00:29:28.63\00:29:31.30
convicted of die,
convicted of the state of dead,
00:29:31.33\00:29:33.84
convicted of the 2,300 days,
00:29:33.87\00:29:35.20
convicted of the right teaching
of what happens when you die,
00:29:35.24\00:29:38.67
who are not converted.
00:29:38.71\00:29:40.04
Yeah.
00:29:40.08\00:29:41.41
So don't get
doctrinal conviction
00:29:41.44\00:29:43.11
mixed with spiritual conversion.
00:29:43.14\00:29:45.08
Last text, Romans
8:10 and this is the death
00:29:45.11\00:29:49.28
that the Pastor may have
been talking to you about
00:29:49.32\00:29:51.55
and if Christ is in
you the body is dead
00:29:51.59\00:29:54.82
because of sin but
the spirit is alive
00:29:54.86\00:29:59.46
because of righteousness.
00:29:59.49\00:30:01.20
This whole body is
gonna be traded one day.
00:30:01.23\00:30:05.13
It's mortal flesh
00:30:05.17\00:30:07.00
but because of the spirit of God
00:30:07.04\00:30:08.37
living in your life,
00:30:08.40\00:30:09.74
he's able to hold
that body and check.
00:30:09.77\00:30:11.97
So you don't do
what you want to do
00:30:12.01\00:30:14.51
and the only way
that you could daily
00:30:14.54\00:30:16.54
hold that body and
check is Galatians 2:20,
00:30:16.58\00:30:19.81
"I have been
crucified with Christ.
00:30:19.85\00:30:23.69
Nevertheless I live,
it is no longer I who live
00:30:23.72\00:30:27.69
but Christ who
lives in me and the life
00:30:27.72\00:30:31.29
which I now live in the
flesh," this moral body,
00:30:31.33\00:30:34.46
"I live by faith
in the Son of God
00:30:34.50\00:30:36.87
who loved me and
gave himself for me."
00:30:36.90\00:30:41.04
Don't fit it.
00:30:41.07\00:30:42.40
Just allow the
construction process
00:30:42.44\00:30:44.44
to continue every day,
read the construction plan,
00:30:44.47\00:30:47.91
God's word, familiarize yourself
00:30:47.94\00:30:50.38
with the builder, Jesus,
00:30:50.41\00:30:52.21
he's gonna finish and
put a corner stone in there
00:30:52.25\00:30:55.12
and then you'll be just
like him when you're done.
00:30:55.15\00:30:56.99
Praise the Lord,
praise the Lord for...
00:30:57.02\00:30:58.45
when he's done,
we'll be just like him.
00:30:58.49\00:31:01.26
Albright, let's
transition, John.
00:31:01.29\00:31:02.72
Any questions you
have send those questions
00:31:02.76\00:31:04.89
to this following
address <housecalls@3abn.org>,
00:31:04.93\00:31:09.16
that's <housecalls@3abn.org>.
00:31:09.20\00:31:12.60
We thank you
for those questions,
00:31:12.63\00:31:14.30
we've been getting
some good questions
00:31:14.34\00:31:16.81
and praise the Lord
for those good questions,
00:31:16.84\00:31:20.21
and thank you for
your participation,
00:31:20.24\00:31:22.31
we can't do this
program without you.
00:31:22.34\00:31:24.41
Now John, let's
dive back into our topic.
00:31:24.45\00:31:26.98
We started on repentance
and there are so many doors
00:31:27.02\00:31:31.42
there in the
topic of Repentance.
00:31:31.45\00:31:32.79
Yeah.
00:31:32.82\00:31:34.16
Let's go ahead and...
00:31:34.19\00:31:35.52
Well, we talked about
the need for repentance,
00:31:35.56\00:31:36.89
how that's the key part
of saving us from our sins
00:31:36.93\00:31:39.89
and the promise that the
Lord will do that if we repent.
00:31:39.93\00:31:43.40
So there's, there
is a part that we play
00:31:43.43\00:31:46.23
in the salvation process
and that part is to repent.
00:31:46.27\00:31:49.47
That's right.
00:31:49.50\00:31:50.84
But there are things
that go with that repentance,
00:31:50.87\00:31:52.54
there are parts
of that repentance
00:31:52.57\00:31:54.04
and that's what we're looking at
00:31:54.08\00:31:55.41
in these seven aspects.
00:31:55.44\00:31:56.78
The first one
was the examination,
00:31:56.81\00:31:58.61
which is the examination
of self, what's in us,
00:31:58.65\00:32:01.42
Lord search my heart
00:32:01.45\00:32:02.78
see if there's
any wicked way in me,
00:32:02.82\00:32:04.15
reveal all those things to me,
00:32:04.19\00:32:05.52
and number two was condemnation,
00:32:05.55\00:32:07.82
in other words recognizing
that we are condemned,
00:32:07.86\00:32:10.49
we are judged and in fact
00:32:10.53\00:32:12.56
we didn't read one verse
that we added to that one too.
00:32:12.59\00:32:15.16
Why don't you read that one?
00:32:15.20\00:32:16.53
you have...
00:32:16.56\00:32:17.90
1 John 3:20 and
21, setting it up,
00:32:17.93\00:32:21.57
this condemnation we wrestle
as we talked about that word,
00:32:21.60\00:32:24.51
condemnation, because you know,
00:32:24.54\00:32:26.01
it almost sounds
like to be a Christian
00:32:26.04\00:32:28.14
you need to just
say, "I'm a bad person,
00:32:28.18\00:32:29.78
I'm a horrible
person, I'm a terrible person,
00:32:29.81\00:32:31.41
I just have to flog
myself and beat myself
00:32:31.45\00:32:33.75
till I'm gushing with blood
00:32:33.78\00:32:35.25
and the worse I
feel, the better I am.
00:32:35.28\00:32:37.29
That's not what
we're talking about.
00:32:37.32\00:32:38.72
We're talking about recognizing
and accepting your condition.
00:32:38.75\00:32:41.96
You know, if
you have a toothache
00:32:41.99\00:32:43.32
and your tooth
keeps aching you say,
00:32:43.36\00:32:45.79
"I'm okay, I'm
aright, " "Hey you need help?"
00:32:45.83\00:32:50.33
"No, I'll be just fine."
00:32:50.37\00:32:51.97
Before you know
it's gonna be abscess
00:32:52.00\00:32:53.44
and then you're
gonna need a root canal,
00:32:53.47\00:32:54.80
and maybe if you ignore that,
your teeth starting falling.
00:32:54.84\00:32:57.47
Hey, have you seen
that recent YouTube thing
00:32:57.51\00:33:00.68
with the Girl with
the nail on her head?
00:33:00.71\00:33:02.81
No.
00:33:02.84\00:33:04.18
I have to show it to you later.
00:33:04.21\00:33:05.85
You know, the
adage is that the men
00:33:05.88\00:33:08.02
don't listen to their wives,
00:33:08.05\00:33:09.38
they want to fix
their wives problem,
00:33:09.42\00:33:10.79
but they're just
not good listeners,
00:33:10.82\00:33:12.19
you know, some woman
just want to be listened to.
00:33:12.22\00:33:14.79
Well, she's
talking to her husband
00:33:14.82\00:33:16.16
and she's got a nail
sticking out of her head
00:33:16.19\00:33:18.23
and he's trying to help her
remove the nail to reveal that,
00:33:18.26\00:33:21.13
this is why she has headaches,
00:33:21.16\00:33:22.50
this is why
she's having a problem
00:33:22.53\00:33:24.17
but she keeps stopping him.
00:33:24.20\00:33:26.13
It's not about the
nail and then it goes hard,
00:33:26.17\00:33:29.14
but it's obvious,
it's the nail on her head.
00:33:29.17\00:33:31.94
I'll show it to
you afterward but...
00:33:31.97\00:33:33.54
And you know what?
That's what I like.
00:33:33.58\00:33:35.24
It's so true. It's
the nail in my head.
00:33:35.28\00:33:37.21
It is. Nail head.
00:33:37.25\00:33:38.71
That's a thought to think about.
00:33:38.75\00:33:40.08
But I love this verse.
00:33:40.12\00:33:41.45
This verse was really good
and I'm glad you added that
00:33:41.48\00:33:43.55
to this piece of...
00:33:43.59\00:33:44.92
Because it really clarifies
00:33:44.95\00:33:46.29
why we stuck with
the word condemnation.
00:33:46.32\00:33:48.19
Here it is, 1 John 3:20
and 21, "For if our hearts,
00:33:48.22\00:33:54.20
if our heart condemns us
00:33:54.23\00:33:57.37
God is greater than our
heart and knows all things.
00:33:57.40\00:34:02.17
Beloved, if our
heart does not condemn us,
00:34:02.20\00:34:06.41
we have confidence towards God."
00:34:06.44\00:34:08.48
Now I want to, I want to
add another text to this.
00:34:08.51\00:34:11.51
Hebrews 10:16,
00:34:11.55\00:34:13.62
"How could your
heart condemn you
00:34:13.65\00:34:15.95
unless there's something
that the Lord placed there,
00:34:15.98\00:34:20.06
that lets you
know your condition."
00:34:20.09\00:34:22.59
Hebrews 10:16, go there.
00:34:22.62\00:34:24.96
"How could your
heart condemn you?
00:34:24.99\00:34:27.60
Unless the Lord
placed something there,
00:34:27.63\00:34:29.73
to help you..."
00:34:29.76\00:34:31.10
10:16 you said? Hebrews 10:16.
00:34:31.13\00:34:32.53
Okay.
00:34:32.57\00:34:35.64
"This is the covenant
that I will make with them
00:34:35.67\00:34:37.44
in the last days in
these days, says the Lord,
00:34:37.47\00:34:40.41
I will put my
laws in their hearts,
00:34:40.44\00:34:41.98
and in their minds
I will write them".
00:34:42.01\00:34:43.78
Amah.
00:34:43.81\00:34:45.15
So how could
your heart condemn you
00:34:45.18\00:34:46.51
except when you
look in there and you say
00:34:46.55\00:34:48.02
"Lord, why did you do that?
00:34:48.05\00:34:50.25
What is that?"
"That's my law, look at it."
00:34:50.29\00:34:53.92
"Do I have to?"
"Yes, look at it."
00:34:53.96\00:34:56.93
And you look at it,
"Thou shall not steal,
00:34:56.96\00:35:00.03
" look at it "Thou shall not..."
00:35:00.06\00:35:02.63
"Alright, I got the point."
00:35:02.66\00:35:05.17
"If you didn't
put that in my heart
00:35:05.20\00:35:06.53
I wouldn't feel bad
right now, I know I need you."
00:35:06.57\00:35:08.10
Yeah.
00:35:08.14\00:35:09.47
But if you look at
your heart and you said
00:35:09.50\00:35:10.84
"Thou shall not steal."
00:35:10.87\00:35:12.21
"But I don't
steal." But thank you, what?
00:35:12.24\00:35:13.58
I looked at the
Lord and by your grace
00:35:13.61\00:35:14.98
I don't do those things.
00:35:15.01\00:35:16.58
Oh. I've confidence now.
00:35:16.61\00:35:18.91
This is why we say
00:35:18.95\00:35:20.42
as preachers there are
two kinds of guilt's, right?
00:35:20.45\00:35:21.82
Exactly.
00:35:21.85\00:35:23.18
The one kind of
guilt is the good kind
00:35:23.22\00:35:24.59
and drives us or
causes us to look to Christ,
00:35:24.62\00:35:28.09
the bad kind of
guilt is the kind
00:35:28.12\00:35:30.09
that is this
constant woes me and...
00:35:30.13\00:35:32.46
Yeah.
00:35:32.49\00:35:33.83
And not really recognizing
that Christ righteousness,
00:35:33.86\00:35:36.53
which is the
second part of this verse.
00:35:36.56\00:35:38.13
We have confidence for God.
00:35:38.17\00:35:40.04
We need to move beyond
that guilt once it does its work
00:35:40.07\00:35:43.77
and so this is what
we're saying with condemnation
00:35:43.81\00:35:46.24
guilt's had it's
affect, it's done its work,
00:35:46.27\00:35:47.94
we stand conduct,
we accept judgment
00:35:47.98\00:35:50.61
and now we move to number three.
00:35:50.65\00:35:52.15
And you know, John, in friends,
I know that, you know this.
00:35:52.18\00:35:56.22
When we try to justify
our unrighteous activity,
00:35:56.25\00:36:02.62
we ignore what our
heart is saying to us,
00:36:02.66\00:36:07.70
we ignore what the
spirit is prompting us
00:36:07.73\00:36:10.97
about our own
condition, and when people,
00:36:11.00\00:36:13.23
they, you could
see it sometimes,
00:36:13.27\00:36:14.60
I don't know why you
think I have a problem.
00:36:14.64\00:36:16.24
I don't have a
problem, you have a problem,
00:36:16.27\00:36:17.87
what do you mean
you have a problem?
00:36:17.91\00:36:19.24
Well, I'm telling you that
you're, I said the other day,
00:36:19.27\00:36:22.21
and this will come up in
one of my sermons, hiding,
00:36:22.24\00:36:25.78
being willingly
ignorant about your condition
00:36:25.81\00:36:28.72
is like hiding
garbage in your house.
00:36:28.75\00:36:31.19
You know what, my wife
and I, this came to me,
00:36:31.22\00:36:33.19
we went away once and
we forgot just in hurry
00:36:33.22\00:36:37.23
to take the garbage out
00:36:37.26\00:36:38.76
and we were not
gone for just four days.
00:36:38.79\00:36:40.40
We went to Nash
field and came back.
00:36:40.43\00:36:41.90
When we came
back, you ever had that?
00:36:41.93\00:36:43.50
You open the front
door and you go, "Ooh."
00:36:43.53\00:36:45.33
What was that?
00:36:45.37\00:36:46.97
What is that?
00:36:47.00\00:36:48.50
Oh. I forgot.
00:36:48.54\00:36:49.94
Remember we threw the
stuff off from the fridge
00:36:49.97\00:36:51.77
and forgot it
in the garbage can.
00:36:51.81\00:36:53.74
The garbage can
is like, you know,
00:36:53.78\00:36:55.11
45 feet away from
us but it seems that
00:36:55.14\00:36:58.55
it's at the front
door waiting for us
00:36:58.58\00:36:59.91
to open and say "Got you."
00:36:59.95\00:37:01.82
That's how sin is,
if you try to hide sin,
00:37:01.85\00:37:05.22
it will not only
meet you at the door,
00:37:05.25\00:37:08.12
but it'll grab
your nostrils and say,
00:37:08.16\00:37:10.23
"I told you stop
ignoring me and here I am.
00:37:10.26\00:37:13.16
Now I stink, "
00:37:13.19\00:37:14.53
and that's why you have
people with stink attitudes.
00:37:14.56\00:37:17.60
And their behavior stinks,
00:37:17.63\00:37:22.27
because they
don't examine themselves
00:37:22.30\00:37:25.27
so they are condemned
00:37:25.31\00:37:26.64
because they try to
justify their actions.
00:37:26.68\00:37:29.04
And by the way, as
you go to the next point
00:37:29.08\00:37:30.91
of this verse.
00:37:30.95\00:37:33.21
The ones that
refuse to be self examined,
00:37:33.25\00:37:36.32
the one that
refuse to allow the Lord
00:37:36.35\00:37:38.15
to reveal to
them their condition,
00:37:38.19\00:37:39.65
they'll be, they'll be...
00:37:39.69\00:37:42.12
What's the word here?
00:37:42.16\00:37:43.49
They'll fell condemned also,
00:37:43.53\00:37:45.56
but their
condemnation is to judgment.
00:37:45.59\00:37:47.83
They'll be the ones running
to the rocks in the mountains
00:37:47.86\00:37:49.70
and say hide us from the
lamb who sits on the throne,
00:37:49.73\00:37:52.53
Revelation 6 Those
are the ones that'll say,
00:37:52.57\00:37:55.50
"Okay, I'm guilty
but it's too late then."
00:37:55.54\00:37:58.24
So acknowledge your
guilt now and run to the savior
00:37:58.27\00:38:01.84
who is the only one that
can remedy your condition
00:38:01.88\00:38:04.55
but if you hide it, your
heart is gonna condemn you
00:38:04.58\00:38:07.15
and you'll be self destructing.
00:38:07.18\00:38:08.72
Yeah.
00:38:08.75\00:38:10.09
Albright number
three, so we had examination,
00:38:10.12\00:38:12.05
we have condemnation and
now number three is contrition.
00:38:12.09\00:38:15.09
Okay.
00:38:15.12\00:38:16.73
Albright
contrition, sorrow for sin,
00:38:16.76\00:38:20.66
don't want to continue this way,
00:38:20.70\00:38:22.66
want to move beyond
it, don't want that life
00:38:22.70\00:38:25.13
and really this isn't
just asking for forgiveness
00:38:25.17\00:38:27.90
from God but apologizing to him.
00:38:27.94\00:38:30.71
And I think sometimes...
00:38:30.74\00:38:32.07
Coming clean with it.
00:38:32.11\00:38:33.44
Yeah, well, but I
like the word apologize.
00:38:33.48\00:38:34.98
I think sometimes we
don't say to God, "I'm sorry."
00:38:35.01\00:38:41.22
I apologize how I've
neglected our relationship,
00:38:41.25\00:38:45.05
or I have not
listened to your spirit
00:38:45.09\00:38:48.06
but I got angry anyway.
00:38:48.09\00:38:49.42
I hurt our relationship,
00:38:49.46\00:38:51.16
I apologize, I'm sorry for that.
00:38:51.19\00:38:53.56
I think apologies...
00:38:53.60\00:38:55.03
What is an
apology without sorrow?
00:38:55.06\00:38:57.33
It's nothing.
00:38:57.37\00:38:58.70
You know, go tell your brother
you're sorry, you hit him.
00:38:58.73\00:39:01.34
Do I have to?
Tell him you're sorry.
00:39:01.37\00:39:03.37
"I'm sorry."
00:39:03.41\00:39:04.74
Does that
really do anything? No.
00:39:04.77\00:39:07.21
I'm so glad, you mention,
because in my counseling
00:39:07.24\00:39:10.38
what I say to people,
00:39:10.41\00:39:11.91
I say apologize to
him, apologize to her.
00:39:11.95\00:39:16.58
They begin with
apology but sorrow is something
00:39:16.62\00:39:18.89
that is bound by God
working on your heart,
00:39:18.92\00:39:21.86
and then you come back later
with a humble spirits and say,
00:39:21.89\00:39:23.79
you know, "I am so sorry."
00:39:23.83\00:39:26.56
And they hear that,
but if you say "say sorry,
00:39:26.59\00:39:28.96
" "I'm sorry,"
"I'm sorry too, aright?
00:39:29.00\00:39:31.07
We fine? Good. Now
let's get out of here."
00:39:31.10\00:39:33.23
That's not sorrow, that's...
00:39:33.27\00:39:34.60
apology is the
legal recognition that,
00:39:34.64\00:39:37.31
I did something wrong.
00:39:37.34\00:39:38.67
That's a legal recognition.
Sorrow is Godly produced.
00:39:38.71\00:39:41.64
It's not produced by
the instantaneous moment
00:39:41.68\00:39:43.71
that I got caught
00:39:43.75\00:39:45.38
and when people
say to the judge,
00:39:45.41\00:39:47.78
"Okay, your honor, I'm sorry.
00:39:47.82\00:39:49.15
Can I go now?"
00:39:49.18\00:39:50.72
What?
00:39:50.75\00:39:52.09
You're doing some time,
00:39:52.12\00:39:53.46
that's not the attitude
of a person that's sorrowful.
00:39:53.49\00:39:55.92
You know, that's why
they always give the criminal
00:39:55.96\00:39:57.83
a chance to say
something to the family.
00:39:57.86\00:39:59.83
Well, and I say this
is well, if sorrow is not,
00:39:59.86\00:40:02.73
is not there in your heart,
00:40:02.76\00:40:04.13
and after
recognizing, examine yourself,
00:40:04.17\00:40:05.87
and recognizing
that you're condemned.
00:40:05.90\00:40:08.30
If sorrow is not
there ask God for it,
00:40:08.34\00:40:10.41
ask God to help that sorrow
00:40:10.44\00:40:15.84
drive you further and further
into a level of repentance
00:40:15.88\00:40:18.95
that result in forgiveness.
00:40:18.98\00:40:20.82
Right.
00:40:20.85\00:40:22.18
'Cause if you don't have sorrow,
00:40:22.22\00:40:23.55
forgiveness doesn't occur.
00:40:23.59\00:40:25.15
it doesn't because you don't
00:40:25.19\00:40:27.16
even feel bad for
your activity, you just...
00:40:27.19\00:40:29.56
"Okay, aright.
00:40:29.59\00:40:31.49
So I'm keeping
the sad but what else
00:40:31.53\00:40:33.23
do you want me to do?"
00:40:33.26\00:40:34.60
You need to get rid
of that bad behavior.
00:40:34.63\00:40:36.20
Yeah.
00:40:36.23\00:40:37.57
You need to acknowledge
that the way you're living
00:40:37.60\00:40:39.83
is not a witness to the
Lord being in your life.
00:40:39.87\00:40:42.80
One of the worse advertisements
to the world is the Christian
00:40:42.84\00:40:45.41
who professes Christ
but don't live that way.
00:40:45.44\00:40:47.91
You know, and
so this contrition,
00:40:47.94\00:40:50.18
but read some of these
texts I think these texts
00:40:50.21\00:40:51.65
you put here are beautiful.
00:40:51.68\00:40:53.01
Yeah, Psalm 34:18,
00:40:53.05\00:40:54.72
"The Lord is near to
those who have a broken heart
00:40:54.75\00:40:58.05
and save such as
have a contrite spirit."
00:40:58.09\00:41:00.39
That's right.
00:41:00.42\00:41:01.76
The contrite spirit is
like, "You're right, I am...
00:41:01.79\00:41:05.83
Lord I confess, I did it." Yeah.
00:41:05.86\00:41:10.37
And that's why this
one is the next one.
00:41:10.40\00:41:11.93
Yeah.
00:41:11.97\00:41:13.30
Psalm 51:17, "The sacrifices
of God are a broken spirit.
00:41:13.34\00:41:16.54
A broken and a contrite heart,
00:41:16.57\00:41:19.14
these, Oh God,
You will not despise."
00:41:19.17\00:41:21.14
That's right.
00:41:21.18\00:41:22.51
Humble heart, humble,
00:41:22.54\00:41:23.88
when you deal with
things in a humble way,
00:41:23.91\00:41:27.18
"Cast me not away
from thy presence Oh Lord
00:41:27.22\00:41:30.85
and take not thy
Holy Spirit from me.
00:41:30.89\00:41:33.22
Restore to me, the
joy of my salvation."
00:41:33.25\00:41:36.86
See David prayed that
prayer 'cause he knew that
00:41:36.89\00:41:39.53
and the Lord, you
know, the Lord forgave him
00:41:39.56\00:41:42.70
because he had
a contrite spirit.
00:41:42.73\00:41:45.43
And when you come
before the Lord that way,
00:41:45.47\00:41:48.04
contrition, sorrow for
sin not just, "I'm sorrow,
00:41:48.07\00:41:51.97
sorry I got caught."
00:41:52.01\00:41:53.98
Which is what most of it is.
00:41:54.01\00:41:55.34
Yes, sorry I mean I
didn't know what came over me.
00:41:55.38\00:41:59.61
That's fake.
00:41:59.65\00:42:01.78
We will pause this there.
00:42:01.82\00:42:03.15
You don't have to
read the whole thing,
00:42:03.18\00:42:04.52
but 2 Corinthians.
00:42:04.55\00:42:05.89
Oh yeah. This is really...
00:42:05.92\00:42:07.26
2 Corinthians 7:9 to 11.
00:42:07.29\00:42:08.62
2 Corinthians 7:9
to 11, "Now I rejoice,
00:42:08.66\00:42:13.40
not that you were made sorrow
00:42:13.43\00:42:15.70
but that your
sorrows led to repentance."
00:42:15.73\00:42:18.77
Beautiful text.
00:42:18.80\00:42:20.34
"For you were made
sorrow in a Godly manner,
00:42:20.37\00:42:23.44
that you might suffer
loss from us in nothing,
00:42:23.47\00:42:27.01
" you know people
that lose everything
00:42:27.04\00:42:29.44
don't have a Godly sorrow.
00:42:29.48\00:42:31.11
The judge says, "I'm
giving you one more chance,
00:42:31.15\00:42:34.15
you could either plea bargain,
00:42:34.18\00:42:37.32
but you got to
acknowledge you did this,
00:42:37.35\00:42:38.82
or you could go
ahead and go to trial
00:42:38.85\00:42:40.46
but if you lose
you're getting 30 years.
00:42:40.49\00:42:42.96
You could try to
justify your actions
00:42:42.99\00:42:44.49
which we know you're guilty of.
00:42:44.53\00:42:46.86
But you can plea
bargain, I'm sorry..."
00:42:46.90\00:42:48.86
Throw yourself on
the mercy of the court.
00:42:48.90\00:42:50.83
You know, always say
people that are guilty
00:42:50.87\00:42:52.60
don't need
justice they need mercy,
00:42:52.63\00:42:54.90
people that are
innocent need justice.
00:42:54.94\00:42:57.81
But it goes on to say,
00:42:57.84\00:42:59.17
"For Godly sorrow
produces repentance
00:42:59.21\00:43:01.74
leading to salvation.
00:43:01.78\00:43:04.01
Not to be regretted,
00:43:04.05\00:43:06.21
but the sorrow of the
world produces death."
00:43:06.25\00:43:09.45
That's what we
just talked about.
00:43:09.48\00:43:11.22
"For observe this very thing
00:43:11.25\00:43:13.49
that you sorrowed
in a Godly manner.
00:43:13.52\00:43:16.36
What diligence
it produced in you?
00:43:16.39\00:43:18.69
What clearing of yourselves?
00:43:18.73\00:43:21.06
What indignation?
00:43:21.10\00:43:22.56
What fear? What
the eminent desire?
00:43:22.60\00:43:24.73
What zeal?
00:43:24.77\00:43:26.10
What vindication?"
00:43:26.13\00:43:27.47
I love how that he
expresses all those things
00:43:27.50\00:43:29.10
that come with
repentance, it's just great.
00:43:29.14\00:43:31.01
in all things,
you proved yourself
00:43:31.04\00:43:34.54
to be clear in this
matter, that's beautiful.
00:43:34.58\00:43:38.08
That's like man
you went to this trail
00:43:38.11\00:43:40.85
and man you came
out, you hung in there,
00:43:40.88\00:43:43.79
you answered the questions,
you were honest, you were open.
00:43:43.82\00:43:46.15
Fest up?
00:43:46.19\00:43:47.52
You fest up,
00:43:47.56\00:43:48.89
we're gonna give
you second chance
00:43:48.92\00:43:50.29
and that's a, that's a...
00:43:50.33\00:43:51.66
that's a whole text, you don't
need to show them that text.
00:43:51.69\00:43:53.86
No. That's a whole text.
00:43:53.90\00:43:55.23
That's what we're
talking about the contrition.
00:43:55.26\00:43:56.60
When a person is
really honestly sorrow,
00:43:56.63\00:43:58.83
people accept that.
00:43:58.87\00:44:00.20
You know, people
care sometimes less
00:44:00.24\00:44:02.40
about your ability and
more about your attitude
00:44:02.44\00:44:05.51
about things and
that's just beautiful there.
00:44:05.54\00:44:07.54
That's the great one, John.
00:44:07.58\00:44:08.91
That's a Praise the
Lord, he lead you to,
00:44:08.94\00:44:10.45
I told you I'm
gonna preach this sermon.
00:44:10.48\00:44:12.51
But I'm not
gonna tell you where.
00:44:12.55\00:44:14.85
Aright, the next one,
00:44:14.88\00:44:16.35
number four, after
contrition, confession.
00:44:16.38\00:44:19.79
Confession, no excuses,
00:44:19.82\00:44:22.22
taking full accountability
for your sin, okay?
00:44:22.26\00:44:25.36
Confess it to God, let him know.
00:44:25.39\00:44:28.43
Be specific, okay,
00:44:28.46\00:44:30.27
these are some of the
things that we need to do,
00:44:30.30\00:44:31.63
not just generalized I mean...
00:44:31.67\00:44:33.60
Yeah, I'm a sinner.
00:44:33.64\00:44:34.97
It is healthy to go in and
say I did this wrong yesterday
00:44:35.00\00:44:39.84
and I confess that.
00:44:39.87\00:44:41.21
Please, forgive me.
00:44:41.24\00:44:42.58
You know, John, as
you read these texts.
00:44:42.61\00:44:43.95
That's why when the police
are examining you they said,
00:44:43.98\00:44:46.31
"yesterday at 11:45
PM, where were you?"
00:44:46.35\00:44:50.89
Well, you know, I
got up in the morning,
00:44:50.92\00:44:52.25
brushed my teeth.
00:44:52.29\00:44:53.62
"Sir, we're not
talking about the morning,
00:44:53.66\00:44:54.99
we're not talking
about brushing your teeth
00:44:55.02\00:44:56.36
unless you brush
your teeth late at night.
00:44:56.39\00:44:57.73
Where were you at
11:45 PM yesterday?"
00:44:57.76\00:45:00.10
"Well, you know I had lunch..."
00:45:00.13\00:45:01.46
"sir, you're avoiding the...
00:45:01.50\00:45:03.20
Where were you at
11:45 PM last night,
00:45:03.23\00:45:06.67
when the crime was committed?"
00:45:06.70\00:45:08.90
"I was home, sleeping."
00:45:08.94\00:45:10.27
"Do you have any proof of that?
00:45:10.31\00:45:12.81
Was anyone
there?" "No. I'm single."
00:45:12.84\00:45:15.64
And they thought,
"yeah, he's evading us."
00:45:15.68\00:45:17.91
See this is what
he's talking about.
00:45:17.95\00:45:19.48
Go ahead, read that text,
Psalm 22:5, that's powerful.
00:45:19.51\00:45:22.18
"I acknowledged my sin to you
00:45:22.22\00:45:24.25
and my inequity
I have not hidden.
00:45:24.29\00:45:26.25
I said I will confess my
transgressions to the Lord
00:45:26.29\00:45:29.29
and you forgave the
inequity of my sin."
00:45:29.32\00:45:33.19
Why would you? Why
couldn't he hide it?
00:45:33.23\00:45:35.60
There's nothing hidden to God,
00:45:35.63\00:45:38.13
you're talking
about radar detectives
00:45:38.17\00:45:39.50
and night vision God has it all.
00:45:39.53\00:45:43.47
But you know what, John,
00:45:43.51\00:45:44.84
what I love about this
topic is we're walking people
00:45:44.87\00:45:47.14
through the very
basic elementary things
00:45:47.18\00:45:49.51
of what Christianity is.
00:45:49.54\00:45:51.41
So often we
think Christianity is
00:45:51.45\00:45:52.98
why your denomination teaches
00:45:53.01\00:45:54.38
compared to my
denomination teaches.
00:45:54.42\00:45:56.45
The Lord can always
bring you to an understanding
00:45:56.48\00:45:58.42
of the truth, but you have
to first understand who am I?
00:45:58.45\00:46:01.72
That's right. Who am I?
00:46:01.76\00:46:03.73
What position am I in?
00:46:03.76\00:46:05.09
What difference is
this gonna make in my life?
00:46:05.13\00:46:07.30
So if I
acknowledge and I'm specific,
00:46:07.33\00:46:09.06
I ask, to I asked him
to break the bonds of sin
00:46:09.10\00:46:12.10
that keeps me from
and I've discovered, John,
00:46:12.13\00:46:14.44
and I know you've 'cause
you've talked about your past
00:46:14.47\00:46:16.71
and you were grown up
and you dabbled in drugs
00:46:16.74\00:46:19.14
and in my life I
dabbled in a lot of things,
00:46:19.17\00:46:22.31
and just to be
general and broad about it,
00:46:22.34\00:46:24.98
but what we asked Lord to do is
00:46:25.01\00:46:26.41
to break the bonds that hold us.
00:46:26.45\00:46:28.18
Yeah. Break the
bonds of wickedness.
00:46:28.22\00:46:30.32
Yeah.
00:46:30.35\00:46:31.69
Break down the strong
holds, snap the chain,
00:46:31.72\00:46:34.62
disconnect us from the old
man of sin and it really works.
00:46:34.66\00:46:38.19
But the other one is
really good, James 5:16.
00:46:38.23\00:46:40.46
Yeah.
00:46:40.50\00:46:41.83
"Confess your
trespasses to one another
00:46:41.86\00:46:43.50
and pray for one
another that you may be healed.
00:46:43.53\00:46:46.27
The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man
00:46:46.30\00:46:48.17
avails much."
00:46:48.20\00:46:49.77
I like that and we're not
talking about every little sin,
00:46:49.80\00:46:53.27
confess it to each
other, these are things
00:46:53.31\00:46:55.14
when you have
wronged somebody else.
00:46:55.18\00:46:56.85
Right.
00:46:56.88\00:46:58.21
You need to go confess that
to the person you've wronged
00:46:58.25\00:46:59.71
as well as to God.
00:46:59.75\00:47:01.08
That's right.
00:47:01.12\00:47:02.45
Cause God wants to
heal a relationship
00:47:02.48\00:47:03.82
not only between him and you
00:47:03.85\00:47:05.19
but between that
person and you as well.
00:47:05.22\00:47:06.69
And what's important
about this is sometimes
00:47:06.72\00:47:08.39
we dishonor somebody in public
00:47:08.42\00:47:12.46
and we go ask
God for forgiveness,
00:47:12.49\00:47:14.36
God says you know what,
00:47:14.40\00:47:16.60
if you have awe
between you and your brother,
00:47:16.63\00:47:19.17
you go leave your
sacrifice at the alter.
00:47:19.20\00:47:21.00
Go fix that thing
and then come back.
00:47:21.04\00:47:23.20
Don't be trying to
make any private confession
00:47:23.24\00:47:26.07
of a public
embarrassing situation,
00:47:26.11\00:47:28.18
fix that thing and there
are some people that probably
00:47:28.21\00:47:31.48
need to apologize for the way
that they hurt people publicly.
00:47:31.51\00:47:35.88
I've seen people
do that publicly.
00:47:35.92\00:47:37.59
They'll hurt someone
publicly and they'll go and say,
00:47:37.62\00:47:40.02
"Well, I asked
God to forgive me."
00:47:40.06\00:47:41.39
They just need to
get over it. Yeah.
00:47:41.42\00:47:42.76
I don't even know,
that's why it says...
00:47:42.79\00:47:44.33
That attitude. It's terrible.
00:47:44.36\00:47:46.19
That attitude is just
like it's an unrepentant heart.
00:47:46.23\00:47:50.57
That's why he says
confess your trespass
00:47:50.60\00:47:53.23
to one another.
00:47:53.27\00:47:55.17
Why? That you may be healed.
00:47:55.20\00:47:58.34
That relationship
can be mended again.
00:47:58.37\00:48:01.38
We won't speak of who of course
00:48:01.41\00:48:03.38
but you and I were involved
00:48:03.41\00:48:04.85
in a reconciliation
process years ago.
00:48:04.88\00:48:06.38
Yeah.
00:48:06.41\00:48:07.75
And I remember,
coming to the wife of,
00:48:07.78\00:48:09.58
the husband and wife
on one side of this thing,
00:48:09.62\00:48:12.25
and this was at
church, we pulled her aside.
00:48:12.29\00:48:14.19
And I think you
asked her the question,
00:48:14.22\00:48:17.13
"Will you get together
00:48:17.16\00:48:18.49
to help finish up
this reconciliation process
00:48:18.53\00:48:21.10
'cause your
husband has, will you?"
00:48:21.13\00:48:22.53
She said, "No." Right.
00:48:22.56\00:48:25.13
"Don't you understand that this,
00:48:25.17\00:48:27.44
not only separates you
from him and that family,
00:48:27.47\00:48:29.70
but between you and God?"
00:48:29.74\00:48:31.07
"I don't care." Right.
00:48:31.11\00:48:32.57
I mean, she was flippant,
00:48:32.61\00:48:34.74
she just
wouldn't even consider it
00:48:34.78\00:48:37.21
and sometimes we get so defiant
00:48:37.25\00:48:39.65
that self is risen up so much
00:48:39.68\00:48:41.68
we can't even find
an avenue to repent
00:48:41.72\00:48:44.35
or even have a
remote sorrow for sin.
00:48:44.39\00:48:46.79
And that's so dangerous,
00:48:46.82\00:48:48.36
we don't know
ourselves as we should.
00:48:48.39\00:48:50.46
We need to get
back to the beginning
00:48:50.49\00:48:51.83
and do some self examination
when that happens, right?
00:48:51.86\00:48:54.00
And you know
what, it's about pride,
00:48:54.03\00:48:55.80
pride could kill you,
00:48:55.83\00:48:57.17
you know there are six things
00:48:57.20\00:48:58.53
that God hates the seventh
is pride, pride will kill you.
00:48:58.57\00:49:02.47
It will build your, you would,
00:49:02.50\00:49:04.71
pride will make you
build your own gallows
00:49:04.74\00:49:07.61
and make you hang yourself
00:49:07.64\00:49:09.04
and laugh at you while
you're climbing up there,
00:49:09.08\00:49:10.75
putting the rope
around your neck.
00:49:10.78\00:49:12.31
But if you stop
somewhere along the way,
00:49:12.35\00:49:14.38
that pride could be
put the pride to death
00:49:14.42\00:49:17.32
so that you could live.
00:49:17.35\00:49:18.72
And this whole thing
about self justification,
00:49:18.75\00:49:21.02
self, I put self abdication
that's self sacrifice.
00:49:21.06\00:49:24.79
Self, defeat self rather
than allow self to defeat you.
00:49:24.83\00:49:30.33
And it's really
the whole thing about,
00:49:30.37\00:49:33.90
I've hear people say,
"I don't deserve this."
00:49:33.94\00:49:38.37
Let me tell you,
you deserve death.
00:49:38.41\00:49:40.94
We all deserve death.
00:49:40.98\00:49:42.34
So we have to understand
the community of Christianity
00:49:42.38\00:49:45.18
requires that we handle
each other with such care.
00:49:45.21\00:49:48.75
Confess your
trespasses to one another
00:49:48.78\00:49:50.79
as far as it is
possible with you be at peace.
00:49:50.82\00:49:53.96
In this session, John,
00:49:53.99\00:49:55.32
this session one
confession is huge.
00:49:55.36\00:49:58.03
Cause churches have been
spilt, families have been spilt,
00:49:58.06\00:50:01.90
our communities
have been destroy
00:50:01.93\00:50:03.93
because people say,
00:50:03.97\00:50:05.40
look you got to fix
between you and that's fine,
00:50:05.43\00:50:08.07
You got I'm
talking to many more.
00:50:08.10\00:50:09.97
I'm going to that church.
00:50:10.01\00:50:11.81
She's gonna that church.
I'm moving to this country.
00:50:11.84\00:50:14.68
I know people that
move across the world
00:50:14.71\00:50:16.88
just so not to
deal with that situation
00:50:16.91\00:50:18.61
but In fact their
hearts are still at odds
00:50:18.65\00:50:22.18
with their walk with Christ.
00:50:22.22\00:50:23.55
And the Lord Is saying,
00:50:23.59\00:50:24.92
"Hey, you just
need to buy a ticket
00:50:24.95\00:50:26.29
and go back and fix that
00:50:26.32\00:50:27.66
because you
isn't going into heaven
00:50:27.69\00:50:29.02
as long as you think that,
that situation is on resolve
00:50:29.06\00:50:31.19
and your happy with
that and like a resolution."
00:50:31.23\00:50:33.50
that's why verse this
one, this next one Is great
00:50:33.53\00:50:35.96
about the whole
thing about confession.
00:50:36.00\00:50:40.70
You're talking
about the next versus?
00:50:40.74\00:50:42.07
Yeah, I John 1:9,10,
"If we confess our sins,
00:50:42.10\00:50:45.57
he Is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins
00:50:45.61\00:50:49.38
and he cleanse us
all from unrighteousness.
00:50:49.41\00:50:51.98
If we say that we have not
sinned, we make him a liar.
00:50:52.01\00:50:56.18
And his word Is not In us."
00:50:56.22\00:50:57.92
And you know what?
00:50:57.95\00:50:59.29
The other thing about...
00:50:59.32\00:51:00.66
That's powerful, that
confessing and the Lords,
00:51:00.69\00:51:03.99
the Lord says, "Did you do It?"
00:51:04.03\00:51:05.36
"Yeah." "Okay."
00:51:05.39\00:51:06.73
Confess, I'll forgive
you, I'll cleanse you.
00:51:06.76\00:51:11.53
But then you have
the flip side of that,
00:51:11.57\00:51:13.30
he who covers his
sin will not prosper.
00:51:13.34\00:51:16.47
Proverbs 28:13,
"He who covers his sin
00:51:16.50\00:51:20.38
will not prosper
but whoever confesses
00:51:20.41\00:51:22.74
and forsakes
them will have mercy."
00:51:22.78\00:51:25.55
Some people cover their
sins, I will say that, you know,
00:51:25.58\00:51:29.75
when I put this In
the bright context,
00:51:29.78\00:51:31.32
you see, being
cleansed Is not a default.
00:51:31.35\00:51:35.59
The Lord Is the cleanser
00:51:35.62\00:51:37.33
but being
cleansed Is not a default,
00:51:37.36\00:51:39.76
It Is Imparted to
us on contingent basis
00:51:39.79\00:51:43.77
If we confess our sins,
00:51:43.80\00:51:46.13
he Is faithful and
just to forgive and cleanse.
00:51:46.17\00:51:50.84
You know, working...
00:51:50.87\00:51:52.21
You can't wash
your car in a garage,
00:51:52.24\00:51:53.74
you got to take
it to a car wash.
00:51:53.78\00:51:55.34
I mean you could wash it
in your garage technically,
00:51:55.38\00:51:57.21
but this, the
pardoning grace of Christ
00:51:57.25\00:52:00.72
is when you come to him.
00:52:00.75\00:52:02.38
And the
forgiveness and cleansing
00:52:02.42\00:52:03.75
are really two
parts of this process
00:52:03.79\00:52:06.52
because both are
involved in the healing.
00:52:06.55\00:52:10.03
Forgiveness is the, the not
holding it against you part,
00:52:10.06\00:52:14.40
cleansing is helping to remove
even sometimes the inclination
00:52:14.43\00:52:20.74
that is so strong in
someone for that sin.
00:52:20.77\00:52:24.17
So our hearts also need to
be cleansed from the attachment
00:52:24.21\00:52:27.04
we have to the sins
that easily be set us.
00:52:27.08\00:52:29.18
Right? That's right.
00:52:29.21\00:52:30.55
And so they're cleansing,
00:52:30.58\00:52:31.91
I want the cleansing up my heart
00:52:31.95\00:52:33.38
so I'm not
feeling like I keep go,
00:52:33.42\00:52:35.22
wanting to go back
to that sin so much
00:52:35.25\00:52:37.02
and we've all
fought these battles,
00:52:37.05\00:52:38.45
they're in there with us.
00:52:38.49\00:52:39.82
But he needs to
forgive and cleanse us.
00:52:39.85\00:52:42.09
Both are
important. That's right.
00:52:42.12\00:52:43.46
It's very powerful,
00:52:43.49\00:52:44.93
that's good and you know
00:52:44.96\00:52:46.29
the whole thing
about the confessing part,
00:52:46.33\00:52:47.93
confessing not only to the Lord
for what is between you and him
00:52:47.96\00:52:51.10
but to one and another
00:52:51.13\00:52:52.47
and so that
relationships can be stronger.
00:52:52.50\00:52:54.60
And anytime we
see, anytime we think
00:52:54.64\00:52:56.77
that we are better
than the other person,
00:52:56.81\00:52:59.44
it stops
blocking the process of,
00:52:59.47\00:53:01.78
and this next step
is very important to...
00:53:01.81\00:53:04.08
So the next step number
five is submission, okay?
00:53:04.11\00:53:08.42
Submission, and this I
put there pursuing God's will.
00:53:08.45\00:53:11.59
It's more to that
but when we submit
00:53:11.62\00:53:13.76
what we're really
doing is differing.
00:53:13.79\00:53:15.66
We're putting down
self or dying to self
00:53:15.69\00:53:19.09
and we're pursuing what
God's plan for our life is
00:53:19.13\00:53:23.30
so when during our will to God.
00:53:23.33\00:53:25.90
Now we're all
very strong willed.
00:53:25.93\00:53:28.34
Now there is an element of
the survival of the fittest,
00:53:28.37\00:53:31.57
right, in us.
00:53:31.61\00:53:32.94
I mean that's an
evolutionary term
00:53:32.97\00:53:34.31
but there is an
element that wants to survive,
00:53:34.34\00:53:36.95
self wants to be alive and well,
00:53:36.98\00:53:38.88
that's the sin that's
in us that's causing that
00:53:38.91\00:53:41.85
but surrendering to God,
00:53:41.88\00:53:43.28
let him take the
reigns of your life
00:53:43.32\00:53:45.89
that is what submission is about
00:53:45.92\00:53:48.82
and submission doesn't
have a good connotation
00:53:48.86\00:53:50.93
to many people.
00:53:50.96\00:53:52.29
But this submission is really
a willing surrender to someone
00:53:52.33\00:53:56.93
who knows us best
and loves us the most,
00:53:56.97\00:54:00.60
and that's important
00:54:00.64\00:54:01.97
'cause you can
submit to someone like that.
00:54:02.00\00:54:03.84
Right, you can do that.
00:54:03.87\00:54:05.21
You really can
and just a quick text.
00:54:05.24\00:54:08.44
"Seek the Lord
while he may be found,
00:54:08.48\00:54:11.15
call upon him while he
is near, " Isaiah 55:6.
00:54:11.18\00:54:14.62
James 4:8, "Draw near to God
and he will draw near to you.
00:54:14.65\00:54:18.45
Cleanse your hands, you sinners,
00:54:18.49\00:54:20.06
and purify your
hearts, you double-minded.
00:54:20.09\00:54:23.02
And if we and so submission is
so widely important because...
00:54:23.06\00:54:27.16
We could spend a
ton of time on that
00:54:27.20\00:54:28.70
but we want to
move on to number six.
00:54:28.73\00:54:30.43
Yeah.
00:54:30.47\00:54:32.00
Do you want to finish all these?
00:54:32.03\00:54:33.70
We got three minutes. I'm
not sure, there's two more.
00:54:33.74\00:54:37.14
You can finish up
in one more program.
00:54:37.17\00:54:38.91
We could do that.
00:54:38.94\00:54:40.28
Then we'll do that
because there's another element
00:54:40.31\00:54:41.71
I'd like to
finish which isn't here.
00:54:41.74\00:54:43.38
Okay.
00:54:43.41\00:54:44.75
And then it would
really take us out.
00:54:44.78\00:54:46.41
So I think we could
probably finish this part of it
00:54:46.45\00:54:49.25
which is submission
by reading this text
00:54:49.28\00:54:52.09
from 1 Peter 5:6-10.
00:54:52.12\00:54:53.92
Go ahead, read that.
00:54:53.96\00:54:55.29
"Therefore humble yourself
under the mighty hand of God,
00:54:55.32\00:54:58.56
that He may
exalt you in due time,
00:54:58.59\00:55:01.53
casting all your care
upon Him, for He cares for you.
00:55:01.56\00:55:05.27
Be sober, be vigilant;
00:55:05.30\00:55:07.17
because your
adversary the devil walks around
00:55:07.20\00:55:09.44
like a roaring lion
seeking who he may devour.
00:55:09.47\00:55:13.81
Resist him,
steadfast in the faith,
00:55:13.84\00:55:16.44
knowing that the same sufferings
00:55:16.48\00:55:17.81
are experience by your
brotherhood in the world.
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But may the God of all grace,
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who called us to
His eternal glory
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by the Christ Jesus,
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after you have suffered a while,
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perfect, establish,
strength, and settle you."
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So notice the train of blessings
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that come after
humbling ourselves
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before the Lord.
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And that's the
description of submission.
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Submission is the act
of humbling ourselves.
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Submitting ourselves to God,
but then there's another one,
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Ephesians 5:21,
"Submitting to one another
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in the fear of God."
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Oh, that's good. I'm
gonna put that one down.
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"Submitting to one
another in the fear of God,
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" Ephesians 5:21.
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We don't like to
submit to one another.
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You know, and
then Paul also says
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"Submit to those
who are in authority.
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Know those who labor among
you and are over you in the Lord
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and admonish them
for their work sake.
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See, so when we
submit to one another
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in the fear of
God, we're saying "God.
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Close your eyes, I ain't saying
that I'm not apologizing."
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Now, God used to make...
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"Okay, I hear you Lord,
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" you know,
John, I'm really sorry.
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Yeah.
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I understand that
you are in authority,
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I'll submit to your leadership.
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And, you know, leadership,
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that was the
problem in the Israelites.
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They wouldn't submit to Moses,
they wouldn't submit to Aaron.
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You go to every prophet
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that God called
to lead the people.
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And then Steven said
"Which one of the prophets
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that God has sent to you
that you haven't even stoned?"
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Why is it so
important to submit?
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1 Peter 5:5, I'll
just give this last part
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"God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.
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Submit
yourselves to the elders."
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James 4:7, "Submit to God.
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Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you."
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Yeah.
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This year's, I think
we have two or three more
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that we'll
cover in our next one.
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But this is, like you
said, it's very practical.
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This is the basic Christianity
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and this is what we want
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in this to help
people understand
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that surrounds this
subject of repentance.
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And Ellen White
says "All who submit
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to the power of
the spirit of God,
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all who submit to God,
the spirit will consume sin."
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May the Lord
consume the sin in your life
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that you may be all
that he desires you to be.
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God bless you.
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