When I wake up
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Early in the morning
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As I watch the bright sunrise
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I thank you Jesus for the vision
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the sight you given to me
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in my eyes
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Ohhhhh, In the
morning when I rise
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When I rise, In
the morning when I rise
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I thank God
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That I am alive
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Ohhhhhh
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I can hear the
sweet song of a bird
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As they sing a
new melody in my ear
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Ohhhhhh, I can taste
the beauty of your love
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all these blessings
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they come from above
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Ohhhhhh, Ohhhhhh In
the morning when I rise
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When I rise In the
morning when I rise
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I thank God
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That I am alive.
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Ohhhhhh
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Lord as I move
my feet and my hands
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I'm so amazed that
I'm alive once again.
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another new day
that you have given to me
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Your grace and Your
mercy Lord have made me free.
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And much to my surprise
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I thank you God that I am alive.
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yes, when I arise when I arise
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when I rise, when I rise
In the morning when I rise
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when I arise I thank you Jesus
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I thank you
Daddy that I am alive.
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Yes! In the morning when I rise
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Your my strong tower,
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My Deliver, my Healer,
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my Conqueror
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When I rise,
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You are my friend
my Prince of Peace,
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my King of
Kings, my Lord of Lords,
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Yes, yes, yes,
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Yes when I rise,
I thank you Jesus
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It thank you
Daddy, that I am alive
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Ohhhhhh, yeah, yeah, yeah
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yeah, yeah,
yeah, I thank you Jesus
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That I'm alive
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yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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I thank you today
Jesus that you took the time
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to look upon me and have mercy
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That Your finger of love
that you kissed and touched me
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To allow me to live one more day
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in the name of Jesus
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in the morning, in the
noonday, in the night time
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In the morning, I thank
you Jesus, that I'm alive.
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Halleluiah!
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Amen and Amen!
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Tonight's title
subject is Les Miserables
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And we want you to remember that
on tomorrow evening we take a
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little break to rest
and we are back on Tuesday
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and the title or message is
Soul Man, on Tuesday evening
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so you will want to
be back with us for that.
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Tonight is Les Miserables
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Turn with me if you
will to 1 Corinthians 15,
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what book did I say?
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1 Corinthians 15, we will
give you a moment to find it
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and then we will pray and
then we will launch out into
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our subject for this evening.
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1 Corinthians 15, you are
turning with me to it, having
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found it let's bow our
heads as we ask God's blessing
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upon our meeting tonight.
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Father God, we thank
you once again for the power
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of Your word.
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We thank you for the
power of the word of God
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that it is alive
and a quickens us and
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that it is sharper
than any two edged sword
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we thank you that there is
living powering in your word.
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Help us Lord to hear
Your word and to do Your word,
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for time is running short and
we want to be ready when Jesus
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comes, forgive us for every sin,
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take hold of our hands
even this day and walk us in
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the path of righteousness.
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We asked these things
and thank you blessed Father,
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in Jesus name, Amen!
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I tend to like to spend
some time at old bookstores
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and rummage sales.
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I found years ago, in fact
forty years ago I was just child
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and I found at a church
rummage sale a violin that
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was made in Germany in 1898 and
I picked it up for two dollars
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in 1961 and I had it
appraised some years ago
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and I think the price had
on up then about six or seven
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hundred dollars, and the fellow
as to just hold onto that violin
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because once it passes the
hundred year mark the price
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will go up again.
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Maybe by the time it's
done it may be worth 1800 or
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2000 dollars, which I
thought was not a bad investment
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on a two dollar violin
that I got one of his 8 or 10
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years of age.
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But I also like old books and
I have a number of old books,
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I don't know if
they are worth anything.
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I never had them appraised,
it just tend to like old
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books and one of the old
books I have in my library is
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an edition of the book,
Les Miserables from the 1800's.
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The book was originally
written by Victor Hugo in 1862.
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I remember being in high
school and we had to read it
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and study it.
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It is a novel and I don't really
promote reading of novels,
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but it is a
classic and it has a very
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interesting premise.
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What is interesting about Les
Miserables that since the age of
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film, since movies have been
made in the last century there
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has not been a
period when either a film
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was being made about this
book or a film was actually
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been shown about this book.
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This is the one book that has
been translated into film more
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than any other
modern work or classic work.
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It is an extremely
popular work of fiction.
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There are those who have studied
Lay Mis and have come away
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with the idea that
there are certain hidden
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Christian messages to
be found in this book.
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And it was not unusual
for secular writers oft times
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back in1800's and 1900's
to interlace with their novels
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certain Christian messages.
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Tolstory did it
Tolkin rather did it.
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There are a number of
authors, C. S. Lewis did it.
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Who often interwove Christian
messages into what were
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ostensibly secular books to
try to get the Christian message
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into the wider population.
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There are those that believe
Les Miserables is one of those.
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The story begins and deals with
a life of a man by the name of
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Jean Valijean.
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At the opening of the
book we find him in prison.
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He is in prison
for stealing food.
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He was hungry, he was
starving and passed by this cart
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of food every day and one
day when his stomach was empty,
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and he was faint from hunger,
he stole a small amount of food
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and he was put in prison.
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There he spent 19
years at hard labor.
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His prison guard was a
man by the name of Javert.
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Later he became
inspector Javert.
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Javert is a mean-spirited
person who believes in law
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and no grace.
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He is possessed of a belief
that people are either basically
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good, or basically
bad, and they do not change.
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This is the one
thing that drives his life,
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people are good, people
are bad, but the bad do not
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become good, and the
good do not become bad.
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You are what you are
and you do not change.
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He cannot believe that
Jean Valijean can change.
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As a boy he is
arrested for stealing food,
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he serves 19 years in prison.
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When Valijean comes out
of prison he steals one more
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time, he actually
steals from a priest.
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But that act and meeting
that priest actually changed
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his life, his life
changes at that moment.
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He goes to work in a
factory, ends up buying that
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factory, changing the
work rules in that factory,
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and making it a
model place to work.
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He does so well at running
this factory that they make
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him the Mayor
of this small town.
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So he is a good
businessman, he is a good Mayor,
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he is a good neighbor,
he is basically showing that
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he is a good person.
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Later on he adopts the
child of a dying person who use
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to work in his factory.
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He raises her as his own.
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He begins to show that even if
at one time he was a bad person
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that he is now a good
person, a converted person,
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a hard-working concerned citizen
of high moral character who
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made a mistake as a child.
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But Inspector
Javert cannot accept that.
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In his mind once a
thief, always a thief,
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born a thief, die a thief.
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One evil act in Javert's
mind condemns you for life.
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So Javert spends his entire
life tracking down, looking for,
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and hounding the life
of Jean Valijean from town
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to town, from city to city.
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He moves to Paris, decade
after decade he is possessed
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by this blind intractable
determination that regardless
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of how much good Valijean does,
he is basically an evil person
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and should be punished.
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It is the center and
circumference of his life.
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His whole life is spent
tracking down this one man who
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got away and in the end he
does indeed catch Valijean.
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Just before he catches
Valijean, Valijean actually
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saves Javert's life.
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But even having his life saved
by his enemy does not convince
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him, so he catches him.
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There with gun to Valijean's
head, at that same instant
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he is forced to the realization
the fact that his entire life
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has been wrong.
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That his twisted sense
of justice has condemned him
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to a life of unforgiveness.
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I want you to
hold on to that point.
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He cannot accept grace,
he cannot accept forgiveness,
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all he knows is
crime and punishment.
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And he has spent his
entire adult life tracking down
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one man and at the point
of capture he now realizes
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that his greatest success
is also his greatest failure.
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He ends up taking his own
life there before Valijean
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and sets Valijean free.
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The side issue that is never
stated, but constantly implied
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is that if you cannot forgive,
you sentence yourself to prison.
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That the owner of an
unforgiving heart is really
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the one imprisoned.
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If you cannot let
go of wrongs done you,
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you are the one who will suffer.
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That unforgiveness
is its own punishment,
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for the person that has
wronged has gone on and lived
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their life and you sit
there, in prison, not forgiving.
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Years ago at the motor vehicle
department and I was standing
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there, actually was the
insurance agency getting ready
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to get some insurance
cards for car that I had gotten.
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A fellow came in with a
little boy on his shoulder.
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As he walked in
he was just upset and
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screaming and hollering.
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He was just upset and he
was saying how his wife had
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left him for another
man, and how she got the car,
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she got the home, and all I
had was this little raggedy car
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that he was now
driving and trying to insure.
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How if he ever saw them
again he was going to just
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do awful things to her,
and awful things to him.
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How he could not forgive her
and his face was beat red with
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anger with this little
boy sitting his shoulder.
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The Lord said to me you
need to say something to this
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guy, and I said to
the Lord, no I don't.
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And the Lord said yes you
do, you have to say something.
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He was so loud that
he was making everybody
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uncomfortable in the place.
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Everybody can hear him
how I just hate my wife and I
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have this raggedy awful
car and she's got the house,
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she's got this, and a little
boy sitting upon his shoulder
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and God said C. A.
you need to say something.
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I said, no I don't.
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But after a while I
summoned up the courage up and I
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said to him, how long are
you going to be imprisoned?
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He said what?
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I said how long are
you going to be imprisoned?
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You say your wife has
gone with someone else and that
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she has the house, she's
got the car, and you will
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never forgive her and you
are plotting to do them harm.
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You have a son there on
your shoulder, you have to get
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out of prison, you
have to free yourself.
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Your wife is gone on
and lived her life and your
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response to that is
to put yourself in jail.
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You have to get free, you
have to forgive her to free
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yourself, and he listened.
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I asked him his name and
I said, I will pray for you
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man that God puts the key
to your own jail cell into
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your hand and you
get yourself free.
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That is the burden of the
entire novel, Les Miserables.
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That is the person
who fails to forgive,
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puts himself in jail.
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It occurs to me that we
are most like God when we do
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the thing, that I
suspect God does the most,
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and that's forgive.
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We humans, particularly
Christians, being what we are,
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we really have to go to
God a lot for forgiveness,
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don't we?
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If there's anything that
we really have to go to God
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a lot for, it is forgiveness.
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So let's go now to
1 Corinthians 15:19,
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let's read the word of God.
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Or miserable the
word of God says.
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I am so glad that when we
come to God, we serve a God
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who is ready,
willing, and able to forgive.
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How many here have ever
done anything that you've had
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to ask forgiveness for?
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You see if you don't
raise your hand, you have to
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ask forgiveness for
that because you are not
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telling the truth.
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We have all had to
ask God for forgiveness.
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What is that old axiom?
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To error is human,
to forgive is divine.
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Forgiveness truly is of
divine origin which begs the
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question, is there something
that we can do that God
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will not forgive?
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I'm touching on
the unpardonable sin.
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Is there an act that
you or I could commit that
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God simply cannot forgive?
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In short, what is
the unpardonable sin?
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Well, there are a number
of texts that touch on this,
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that touch on it for us.
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I have spent a fair amount
of time looking at this myself,
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so let's go into the
word of God and see what
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God has to say.
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I'm in the book of
Matthew, what book did I say?
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Matthew 12:31-32.
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When we try to unravel the
mystery of the sin that God will
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not forgive, it begins, ladies
and gentlemen, with attitude.
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What did I say?
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It begins with attitude,
an attitude of resistance and
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unsubmissive attitude
towards the things of God.
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Now we are in Matthew
let's go to verse 24 of that
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same chapter 12.
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Let's look at the context,
the context is Christ had
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just healed a
demon possessed man.
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He was dumb, and to be
more politically correct,
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he was blind and mute.
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After Jesus dealt with him
he could see, hear, and speak.
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Those Pharisees who saw it,
deduced the following, the only
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reason the Devils
obey Him, is because he is
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Prince of the Devils,
and the Devils are simply
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obeying his leader.
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In response to that assertion
Christ gives a long series of
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statements about a house divided
against itself, cannot stand.
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So He says basically, if I
am the Prince of Devils, and
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casting out devils, the
kingdom of the devil will not
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be around very long because
I'm working against myself.
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It simply does not make sense.
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That it is a
blasphemous statement.
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We get a clue to that and
what it means, when we look
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at the unbelief, and the
rejection of Jesus Christ.
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The Bible indicates that
rejecting truth is a very
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dangerous thing,
ladies and gentlemen.
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I want to stress that point, it
is a dangerous thing to sit in
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the presence of truth, to be
convicted by the Holy Spirit of
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truth, and then in
turn your back on truth.
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It is a dangerous thing, because
you have to harden your heart
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against the convicting
power and Spirit of God.
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So then, you are resisting
the very presence of God.
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That miracle was accompanied
by a spirit, that touched
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the heart of
those who wanted to see.
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You see the thing about
truth is if you want to see it,
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it's plain to see.
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If you want to be
blind, you can reject truth.
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But you reject truth at
the peril of your own soul.
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The Bible says my spirit will
not always strive with mankind,
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so we are not talking
about a particular act.
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We are talking about
a resistance lifestyle.
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You say, no once, it
gets a little easier to say,
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no the next time.
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And a little easier
to say, no the next time,
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to the point where
the spirit is speaking,
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but you are not listening.
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Let's go to the book of
Acts, what book did I say?
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Acts 17:30.
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You see it is one thing
to not know, it is in other
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to know and not
do, can you say Amen?
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When you don't
know, you don't know.
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But when you know,
God calls you to do.
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Now I want you to
think about something,
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Does God know what you do?
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Does God know what you think?
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Does God know what
you are about to do?
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Does God know what you
could do if you had a chance?
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You see a lot of us
don't sin, not because we don't
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want to, we just
haven't had the chance.
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Do you think that God
knows if you had the chance,
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you would?
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Do you think of the Lord knows
if you found a hundred dollars
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you may turn it
in? And you may not?
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Do you think
the Lord knows that?
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You know why he
knows, a number of reasons.
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One He knows because of your
lifestyle, because last week you
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may have found a quarter
and put it in your pocket.
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Or you may have found 5 dollars.
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You know what I was a
child I went in the bathroom at
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the Manna Temple Seventh-day
Adventist church in Buffalo,
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New York and found 75
dollars on the grounds.
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As I put it in my
pocket I was praising the Lord.
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When I came out of the
bathroom it was like my pocket
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was on fire, I just
couldn't keep it in there.
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I was about 12 years old
and thinking, candy, train set,
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bubblegum, cookies,
and then I said, hell fire.
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I took out the 75 dollars
and gave it to the Deacon.
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I said, I found
this in the bathroom.
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Later on in the service, at the
end of the service the Pastor
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announced that this fellow had
lost 75 dollars in the bathroom,
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and I knew the fellow.
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I began to think to myself,
what if I spent that money
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and I know him.
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But even if I didn't know
him, honesty compels us to do
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the right thing, Amen!
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So God knows, you
cannot surprise God.
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God knows what we will
do and what we would do.
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The fact that you said
that, I do not want to know
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about the Sabbath, so
I'm going to stay home,
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God knows you
should have been there.
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So you're going to be
judged, ladies and gentlemen,
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by what you do, what you don't
do, what you should have done,
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what you could have done, what
you would have done, what you
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think, what you say, what you
could have said, what you would
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have said, what
you should have said
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and didn't say, Amen.
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It all goes in the mix,
do you see why you need Jesus
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if you are going to make in?
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You can't get in on your
own and every time you hear
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truth and turn your back on
truth, it is a strike against
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you because you are responsible
for the truth you know.
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And you were
responsible for the truth you
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should have known.
00:30:08.04\00:30:09.04
I bought a Bible 20
years ago and it's collecting
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dust on the shelf, you
are responsible for that.
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The Lord says
choose ye this day, Amen.
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Why halt between two opinions?
We need to serve the Lord.
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When you know and
don't do you put yourself
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on dangerous ground.
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The book is Acts,
what book did I say?
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Acts 4:20, this is the text
we have read before and I want
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to use it for re-emphasis.
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I said, the other
night, that is a mutually
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exclusive text.
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It says simply, if you
want to go to heaven you have to
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go through Jesus.
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The one name that ushers in
salvation is the name of Christ.
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There are other popular
names, there are other names
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that people go by, but the
name that gets you entrance into
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the kingdom of God,
is the name of Jesus,
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and Jesus alone.
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The ramifications
of that particular text
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are far reaching.
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Those words eliminate
all rivals and pretenders to
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the throne, the name of Jesus
is the one and only name that
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guarantees salvation.
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So then, what ever Jesus
asks us to do, those of us
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who claim to love Jesus
are responsible to do it,
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can you say Amen?
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That is down to the
smallest detail, only one way,
00:32:02.37\00:32:08.10
only one man, and that
puts Christianity in the drivers
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seat, ladies and gentlemen.
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No competition if you want
to make it into the kingdom,
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Jesus is the way.
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If you turn your back on
Jesus, you turn your back
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on the only way.
00:32:27.95\00:32:30.27
John 14:6 is a text
that we know very well.
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It cannot get any
plainer than that.
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If you want to get to
God, Jesus is the way,
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no other way.
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No other road, no other
avenue, you have to give it all
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to the Lord and what
Christ asked us to do,
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God's people have got to do.
00:33:05.54\00:33:08.49
Romans 5:10 talks about Christ
being the reconciliation that
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is wrought through Jesus.
00:33:15.27\00:33:17.61
They saw the Lord manifest
His divinity in that miracle,
00:33:17.65\00:33:23.34
and yet they
attributed it to Satan.
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How does one forgive that?
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There in the presence of
a miracle of God, and your
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disbelieving the evidence
of your own eyes and saying,
00:33:34.93\00:33:39.28
it's got be by the devil.
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Let me show you something,
I'm in the book of John,
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what book did I say?
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John 6:63.
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Christ sent the Holy Spirit,
He dispatched to this world,
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the Holy Spirit to
convince and convict of sin.
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When you are sitting before
a preacher and the words of God
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are digging their way
into your soul, and you begin
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to feel a little uncomfortable,
that is precisely the job of
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the Holy Spirit.
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It's the job of the Holy Spirit
to afflict the comfortable,
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and to comfort the afflicted.
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Can you say Amen?
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If you are a little too
comfortable in that chair,
00:34:49.57\00:34:53.01
it's the Spirit's job to
give you little pinprick.
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But if your life is in turmoil,
and your life is nothing but
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pin pricks, it's the
Spirit's job to rub a little
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salve on the wound. Amen?
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That is the Spirit's job,
to afflict the comfortable
00:35:12.82\00:35:15.76
and comfort the afflicted.
00:35:15.79\00:35:17.82
It is the Spirit the
Bible says, that quickened,
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the flesh profited nothing.
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It's the Holy Spirit's job to
take the truth and seal it into
00:35:24.17\00:35:28.68
your heart and soul.
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God's Spirit is the convincer,
God's Spirit is the convictor.
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We are just the preacher's.
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The power is in the Spirit,
the Spirit is good and to reject
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the Spirit is to
reject the voice of God.
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So if God sends you His word,
and confirms it by His Spirit,
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to reject it puts
you on dangerous ground.
00:35:58.42\00:36:03.21
The unbeliever
makes 4 fatal mistakes,
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let's run
through them real fast.
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The first is found in Psalms
19:13, what book did I say?
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Now what do we mean
by presumptuous sin?
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A presumptuous sin is one where
you know it is wrong, where
00:36:32.94\00:36:39.27
you have a clear outline
and mandate that it is wrong,
00:36:39.31\00:36:42.54
yet you say not me.
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It's like the law says,
65 miles an hour on I-57.
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Not me, I go 95,
that is presumptuous.
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Particularly when you say it's
raining and I have got to get
00:37:05.66\00:37:13.58
there, so God will take
care of me, I will do a 100.
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That's presumptuous.
00:37:17.43\00:37:20.75
David said, keep me back Lord
from presumptuous, when I know
00:37:20.78\00:37:27.22
it is wrong, when I am
presuming on the goodness
00:37:27.25\00:37:29.58
of God, don't let me
fall into that category.
00:37:29.62\00:37:32.65
Don't let me thumb my
nose at the will of God.
00:37:32.68\00:37:35.68
Keep me back
from presumptuous sin.
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Number two, we make a
fatal mistake when we reject
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the plain thus saith the
Lord, wind we thumb our nose,
00:37:46.28\00:37:53.98
as it were, at the truth.
00:37:54.01\00:37:55.52
I'm in John 16:13.
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It is the Holy Spirit's
job to lead us into truth.
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That's why I ask you every
time you come here to listen and
00:38:26.07\00:38:31.95
pray and when you
hear truth follow truth.
00:38:31.98\00:38:36.23
Truth has a certain ring, asked
the Lord every time you open
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the Bible, Lord when I
run into truth, and I will
00:38:39.48\00:38:43.36
run into truth in this
book, convict me of it.
00:38:43.40\00:38:47.24
Convince me of it,
give me discernment.
00:38:47.28\00:38:50.48
Particularly if you are one
who tends to watch preachers on
00:38:50.51\00:38:55.11
television, you have to be
very careful where you get your
00:38:55.15\00:38:59.72
truth from, and make sure
your truth is not mingled,
00:38:59.75\00:39:04.31
or mixed with error.
00:39:04.35\00:39:06.07
Check everybody by the
word of God, if it is of God it
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can stand investigation.
00:39:12.97\00:39:15.31
If it cannot stand
investigation, maybe it is
00:39:15.35\00:39:18.35
not of God and you need
to turn your back on it.
00:39:18.39\00:39:21.00
But once you're convicted
and convinced that it is
00:39:21.03\00:39:23.61
of God; as a person,
a man or woman of God,
00:39:23.64\00:39:27.55
you have got to follow truth.
00:39:27.58\00:39:29.97
I say again, turn
your back on truth puts you
00:39:30.00\00:39:35.95
on dangerous ground.
00:39:35.99\00:39:37.75
So 1. Presumptuous
sin, 2. Rejection of truth
00:39:37.79\00:39:42.47
3. Refusing to
repent, what did I say?
00:39:42.51\00:39:48.47
Refusing to repent, I'm in
the book of Proverbs 28:13.
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Let me ask you a question.
00:40:12.47\00:40:14.19
How soon after
you sin does God know?
00:40:14.22\00:40:20.04
Yeah, He knows when
you are on the way to sin.
00:40:20.07\00:40:29.02
So when it says
confess your sins, does it mean
00:40:29.05\00:40:37.96
inform God that you have sinned?
00:40:38.00\00:40:40.36
So who are you confessing to?
00:40:40.39\00:40:42.72
Who are you informing?
You are not informing God.
00:40:45.88\00:40:51.93
You are simply admitting
to God and yourself that you
00:40:51.97\00:40:57.98
made a mistake.
00:40:58.02\00:40:59.13
You see you never get
found unless you admit that
00:40:59.16\00:41:02.94
you are lost.
00:41:02.97\00:41:04.01
You see my wife and I had
this argument all the time.
00:41:04.05\00:41:06.72
Pull over and asked somebody.
00:41:06.76\00:41:09.65
I'm not lost, ask who I'm
not lost fine, this is just
00:41:09.69\00:41:16.44
an adventure, this
is just an adventure.
00:41:16.47\00:41:20.19
She said, will you
pull over and ask somebody?
00:41:20.22\00:41:21.56
I'm not going to ask
somebody, I'm not lost.
00:41:21.60\00:41:22.87
I bet I'm not the only one
that's had this conversation.
00:41:22.90\00:41:29.13
You never get found unless
you admit that you are lost.
00:41:29.17\00:41:34.40
So when you confess your sins
you are telling God something
00:41:34.43\00:41:39.63
He already knows but
needs to hear from your lips.
00:41:39.66\00:41:43.34
God needs to know
that you know that you
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are fessed up.
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Confess to your sins.
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So if you try to cover
them, the only person that you
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are really playing
games with is yourself,
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because God already knows.
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If you cover your
sins you cannot prosper.
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God can't bless
you lying to yourself.
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He knows you sinned, you
ought to know you sinned.
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So go ahead and admit it and
let the blood of Christ cleanse
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you from your sin.
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Not my favorite text,
if we confess our sins,
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He is faithful and just
to forgive and to cleanse.
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So if you don't confess,
He is not going to forgive,
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and He is not going to cleanse.
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But the moment you do,
He is faithful and just to
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forgive and to cleanse.
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Same book of Proverbs
28:9, this is a strong piece of
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Scripture, powerful text.
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That is a frightening text.
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God says, if you turn your back
on Me, if you turn your back
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on My law and My words,
what are you praying for?
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Why are you
praying? Does it make sense?
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You are not going to
hear Me, you are not going to
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obey Me, you are not
going to follow Me, why pray?
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You are making a mockery of God.
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One of the first
text I committed to memory
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Galatians 6:7, "be not
deceived, God is not mocked,
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whatsoever you sow you reap. "
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If you are not going to
listen to Him, if you're not
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going to obey Him, if you
are not going to follow Him,
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if you are not going to
surrender yourself to Him,
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then why are you praying to Him?
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That's a front, it is a mockery
of God to ask for power from
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God and then not
intend to follow Him.
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"So he who turns his ear
away from hearing the law,
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even your prayer is an
abomination," it works against
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you, rather than help you.
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God told King Saul, "to
obey is better than sacrifice.
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And to hearken, to
listen then the fat of rams. "
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Let's go to another text,
I'm in the book John 12:48.
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Christ is making a
very powerful statement.
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He who rejects me and
doesn't receive my word,
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the word is judging.
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If God says, seek truth
and pursue it and you passed
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truth by, truth is your judge.
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If God says, be kind, and
love, and give, and share,
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and you refuse to do
those things, then those things
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are your judge.
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God does not kick
people out of the kingdom.
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We say, by our actions, I
don't want to be in there.
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I don't want to have God.
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What a mistake it would be for
God to take to heaven someone
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who doesn't want to be there.
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You would be
miserable in heaven.
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We are singing and praising
the Lord and you are out
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back trying to find
a cigarette to smoke.
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Everybody has their doors
unlocked and the streets are
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paved with gold and you are out
back with a hammer and chisel,
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trying to chisel
up the golden streets.
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Why would God takes someone
to heaven who does not want
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to be there, who would
be uncomfortable there?
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Instead of eternal joy,
it would be eternal torture.
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Heaven would be hell for
a person who does not want
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to be there, does it make sense?
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So our actions each and
every day show whether we want
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to be God or not.
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Do you see a pattern?
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What we have described is
not one evil act, it is my
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contention that one
bad act in a life of good,
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will not keep you out of heaven.
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One good act in a life
of evil will not get you in.
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It is a pattern, now
let's think of an act that God
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could not forgive.
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Do we have a case in the Bible
where God forgave adultery?
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Yes, so adultery is
not the unpardonable sin.
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Do we have a case the
Bible where God forgave murder?
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Several, in fact there is
a fellow in heaven right now
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who is an ex-murderer.
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So murder is not
the unpardonable sin.
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Do we have a case in the
Bible where God forgave lying?
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Yes, so murder,
lying, adultery are not the
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unpardonable sin.
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Do we have a case in the Bible
where God forgave covetousness?
00:48:18.24\00:48:22.66
Yes, do we have a case
the Bible were God forgave
00:48:24.27\00:48:28.99
someone who did not
honor their parents?
00:48:29.03\00:48:31.39
Yes, do we have a case in the
Bible where God forgave someone
00:48:33.01\00:48:37.14
who was an Idolater, or
had another kind of God? Yes!
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So we can go down the Ten
Commandments and find cases
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where God forgave the
breaking of all those, because
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they were
confessed and forsaken.
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So is there one
particular act in the Bible that
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cannot be forgiven?
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Yes and no, there is not
one thing you can do that
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would put you
beyond the love of God.
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Can you say Amen?
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Because everything you do,
someone has already done it,
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Solomon says there is
nothing new under the sun.
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In fact, sometimes we
do things that surprise us,
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but they do not surprise Jesus.
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They don't surprise Satan, the
only person that is surprised
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when you do the
things you do, is you.
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And no matter what
we do, God can forgive.
00:49:46.32\00:49:50.62
The only sin that cannot
be forgiven is the one that
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we do not confess,
are you listening to me?
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Every sin you confess
and forsake can be forgiven,
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the one that is not,
is the one that you do not
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confess and forsake.
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The longer you hang onto a
sin, the more it poisoned your
00:50:14.16\00:50:19.82
spiritual barrel, it hardens
you against the convicting power
00:50:19.85\00:50:24.89
of the Holy Spirit, till
you get to the point you can not
00:50:24.93\00:50:29.60
see, you cannot hear and
sometimes even as you pray and
00:50:29.63\00:50:34.27
you do not believe
that you can change.
00:50:34.31\00:50:36.91
That is why it is so sad and so
dangerous to turn your back on
00:50:36.95\00:50:45.19
truth once you know the truth.
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Because you harden your own
heart against the convicting
00:50:48.62\00:50:54.03
power of God and soon you
turn off the Holy Spirit which
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convinces and
convicts you of sin.
00:50:59.47\00:51:02.53
The very fact that your heart
is pricked, your conscience is
00:51:02.56\00:51:08.42
touched means that you
are not too far gone. Amen!
00:51:08.46\00:51:12.76
So don't worry about the
sin against the Holy Spirit,
00:51:12.79\00:51:17.03
worry about accepting Jesus
as Lord and Savior and following
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wherever He leads,
because as long as you
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have made that determination
you don't have to worry
00:51:26.43\00:51:29.32
about the sin
against the Holy Ghost.
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All you have to worry
about is putting your hands in
00:51:32.60\00:51:37.12
the hand of Jesus and
following wherever Jesus leads,
00:51:37.16\00:51:41.64
and when Christ brings
truth to your door step,
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open the door and let
Him in. Amen and Amen!
00:51:46.15\00:51:50.55
Matthew 4:4,
what book did I say?
00:51:53.19\00:51:55.07
Every word, every word,
every word, not just some
00:52:06.84\00:52:10.65
of the words, not just
the New Testament, not just
00:52:10.69\00:52:14.13
the Old Testament, but
every word is important,
00:52:14.17\00:52:17.57
truth filled and life-giving.
00:52:17.61\00:52:19.28
We have to except every word.
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John 15:5.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
sometimes God is going to take
00:52:44.87\00:52:48.22
us through experiences
that we do not understand,
00:52:48.26\00:52:51.58
that don't make sense to us.
00:52:51.62\00:52:54.01
We have to except it and
follow wherever He leads.
00:52:54.04\00:52:59.26
To do otherwise is to
place yourself in danger,
00:52:59.29\00:53:04.44
now I am running out of
time so I want to give you 3
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texts to be as a
home work assignment.
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1 Timothy 4:2, talking
about the conscience seared with
00:53:08.91\00:53:13.01
a hot iron, that is
turning off what the will of
00:53:13.05\00:53:15.66
God tells you, you get
your conscience seared and
00:53:15.70\00:53:18.28
built-up scar
tissue till you can't hear.
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2 Timothy 5:1, the Bible
says "he that lives in pleasure
00:53:20.17\00:53:24.53
is dead while he lives. "
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Important text,
Ephesians 4:18, 19.
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The Bible talks about
"having your conscience darkened
00:53:29.84\00:53:32.81
and being alienated from God
because of consistent refusal
00:53:32.85\00:53:35.78
to hear the voice of God. "
00:53:35.82\00:53:37.91
Ephesians 4:30, a powerful text.
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It says, "do not grieve
the Holy Spirit of God by whom
00:53:42.18\00:53:46.97
you are sealed for
the day redemption. "
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Don't grieve the Spirit,
co operate with the Spirit,
00:53:50.19\00:53:53.96
work with the Spirit and
when God calls you to truth,
00:53:53.99\00:53:58.18
following in that truth for
it is your only safeguard and
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ladies and
gentlemen your life depends
00:54:02.40\00:54:05.06
upon it, Amen and Amen.
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Stand with me please
as we pray, Holy Father,
00:54:09.02\00:54:15.10
we come to You now in
prayer asking You please Lord,
00:54:15.14\00:54:20.60
please Lord, help us to
accept and follow in the truth.
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Not to place tradition before
truth or our ways before truth,
00:54:26.07\00:54:33.00
or any Pastor or any man before
truth but always look to Jesus.
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