Eat the bread,
you will have life.
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Eat my flesh,
you will have life.
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Drink My blood,
you will have life.
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The evidence is
our willingness to hear
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and to obey the Word of the God,
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especially since we
realize this is God speaking.
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This is not an ordinary
book we are talking about
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this morning this
is the word of life.
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This is the Word of God
we have in His presence.
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The Holy Spirit's
ability to inspire.
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Let's bow our heads together
as we get into God's word.
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Father in heaven,
thank You once again
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because of the
ability of Your word
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to revitalize weak
sinful human beings
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and restore within them
not only the image of Jesus
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but the very vitality of Jesus.
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Once again this
morning refresh us in Your word
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especially with this
vital subject Father,
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so that You can be glorified
once again in an through us.
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In Jesus
precious name, amen. Amen.
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I don't know why
we have to wrestle
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with the issue of overcoming.
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And the Book of
Revelation is crystal clear
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the message to
the seven churches,
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each message ends with
the same thought doesn't it.
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To him who continues to
sin right till the very end.
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Is that how the
Washington version reads?
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No. Oh, thank you, God.
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How does the
Washington version read?
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To him that overcometh.
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To him who over
cometh, that's repeated,
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over and over again.
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To him who overcometh
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and the 144,000 are
called the first fruits
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and they are the first
fruits because they have moved
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into overcoming in their lives
and God is able to seal them.
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Why do you think Revelation
14 begins with the 144,000?
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It moves into the
three angels' messages
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and then the harvest
of a great multitude.
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It is sequential when God
finally has a sealed group.
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You can be
confident they are overcomers
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but the one word
that you won't hear
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from their lips
is the declaration
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of their own perfection.
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Amen.
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Because the closer we
see the perfection of Christ
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the more clearly we
see our own imperfection.
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Amen.
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Isn't God good to us? Amen.
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He saves us from that
extreme agony of thinking
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that we might be perfect.
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Nothing could be
further from the truth.
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That's right.
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But there is no
question about it,
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the Great Controversy cannot end
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until God has a
people who finally prove it
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that God is not an unjust God,
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His laws are not impossible,
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He can actually restore
them within our own minds.
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We can have the law of
God written in our minds
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instead of on tables of stone.
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We can do by nature
the things that glorify God
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because it's actually God
in us who makes it possible.
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Amen.
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I'm more convinced than
ever that it's not our ability
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to baptize more people or
reach the rest of the earth.
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It's the fact that God
waiting with longing desire
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to the manifestation of
His character in His children
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because then He will be
free to pour out His spirit
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and a great multitude
much bigger than any of us
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can comprehend is
going to be awakened.
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Do you believe it? Yes.
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That the earth in fact,
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it's gonna be
lighten with His glory.
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I can't wait for that moment.
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How is your faith
this morning? Amen.
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So once again I'm choosing
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to address the
subject of victory.
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I don't know why it's
not on every one's lips.
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It's almost like a
foreign word today.
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People come then I say,
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that I'm only
human that I know who
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but God understands that that
I'm always gonna be like this.
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I said, well, interesting
enough that's not God's plan.
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The Bible talks about of people
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who are no longer slaves to sin.
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Amen.
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They are slaves
to righteousness.
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Four steps to victory.
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Look at the
description of those who receive
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the grace of God in Romans 5,
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there's four loaded
words for you describing
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individuals upon whom the
grace of God is poured out.
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Romans 5:6 has
two of them in it.
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"While we were
still..." Without strength.
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"Without strength" my
version says, "helpless"
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other version say "powerless."
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Hear it while we were powerless
without strength helpless.
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What did God do for us? He died.
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He died for us and
the rest of the verse
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of course is even more radical.
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The end of this 6,
Christ died for the?
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Ungodly. Ungodly.
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I have to actually be willing
to acknowledge my ungodliness.
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The Pharisees were unreachable
because they felt holy.
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They didn't need what
God was wanting to offer them
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because they had it, they
were doing all the right things.
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They felt righteous
in the sight of God.
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That's why Jesus said,
"Unless your righteousness
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exceeds that of the
scribes and Pharisees,
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you will not see
the kingdom of heaven."
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Because their righteousness
in their own eyes came about
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from doing all the right things
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and even making it
more burdensome than ever.
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To impress God with the
fact that they were deserving.
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Bad news for you this morning,
none of us is deserving.
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Amen.
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I can't point one thing
in my own life that I could
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actually feel
free to offer the God
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one thing of my own doing
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because it mean all
of my own good things.
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Was any goodness,
if there is any love,
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if there is any unselfishness,
any purity, any holiness.
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I got news for you
this morning that ain't me,
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I know me it's
not me, it's God in me
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and I'm grateful that
the holy God of heaven
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even dares to dwell
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in a wretch like me
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and to give me the
privilege of having His holiness
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seen even through me.
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What an
overwhelming privilege that is?
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I'm not-- I'm
thankful to God this morning
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that I'm not alluding
myself in that respect.
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It's by grace we
are saved through faith
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and even that is the
gift of God not of works
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lest any man should boast.
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But thank You, God,
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for a willingness
to acknowledge the fact
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that I'm
helpless, I'm powerless.
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I like the translation
that says without strength.
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I'm without strength.
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And going on to verse 8,
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"God demonstrates
His own love toward us,
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but while we were yet" Sinner.
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Sinners.
Another word kicking in.
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Sinners and
finally down in verse 10,
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"even if we were enemies."
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Look at all these words,
without strength, ungodly,
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sinners, even enemies of God
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He has poured
out his love upon us.
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I declare this morning
that I want to be the first
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to acknowledge
the truth about myself
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that in me dwells no good thing,
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I have nothing to offer God
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that could ever be
considered as righteousness.
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Not one little thing.
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So our willingness
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to acknowledge
our true condition
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and I know many people
that can't take that first step.
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They are denied the
grace of God in their lives.
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Oh, yes, they
believe all the doctrines,
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they have the right words to say
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but they are denied
the privilege of the power
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of the living God in their lives
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because they
cannot bring themselves
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to acknowledge the
truth about themselves.
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But no matter how hard I try
I cannot manufacture holiness.
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I've tried it and everything
I touched has not become holy
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it goes in the opposite
direction if I'm on my own.
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Have you proved that? Amen.
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So that's just the
first point out of the way
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because the big
points are now going to come.
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Romans 6:11, point number two.
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Romans 6:11, it
begins in my version
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with the word
"Even so consider."
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When Paul says
consider he doesn't mean feel.
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He doesn't mean work
toward producing this.
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He means by faith
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choose to believe again
this morning that you are what?
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Dead to sin.
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Why, because you are feeling
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a little more holy this morning?
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No. Look at the
verses around it.
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This is Paul, he is been
building up an argument here.
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Look at verse 6, "We
were crucified with Him."
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Verse 8, "If we
had died with Christ."
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But when he says consider
yourself to be dead to sin,
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He means that you
have come to the cross.
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And you have seen
in the death of Jesus
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your death taking place.
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Come to the cross. Amen.
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Come to the cross. Amen.
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And see the atoning death
of Jesus and with gratitude
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look up and
consider yourself to be what?
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Dead.
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Dead to sin and
praise God it's got nothing
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to do with how you feel.
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Amen.
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It has to do with how
Jesus felt in the likeness
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of sinful human flesh.
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Because incredibly
God has asked Jesus
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to resolve the
sin problem not me.
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Thank you, God. Amen.
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I consider myself to be
the one hanging on the cross
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that was my death that
took place in His death.
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It's an active faith to
believe that I'm not beating
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myself up every
day like Martin Luther
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lying on the floor
and so whipping himself.
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Trying to show God that
he is truly sorry for sin.
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I have died to sin in Him. Amen.
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I don't have to beg God
to put me to death every day.
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I come to the cross and I
recognize afresh every day
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that my death took
place in His death.
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Amen.
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God in His infinite mercy
has accepted Jesus in my state.
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That's a miracle.
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I don't
understand that kind of love
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but I sure appreciate it.
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Don't you? Amen.
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So consider yourselves
this morning to be dead
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this intake hold of everything
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that the death of Jesus is
offering you and believe it.
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This is the
first great step really
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that leads to
victory in our lives.
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We are not focused on ourselves,
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we are focused on the amazing
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and atoning
death of Jesus Christ.
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Romans 8 of course
picks this up again.
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Slip over to Romans 8:1, 3.
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Come to the cross, I'm
gonna write it up here,
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and believe
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I'm dead to sin.
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Are you actually seeing
yourself as God sees you?
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Well, have you
allowed your eyes to fall down
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to the mirror of
your self reflection
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and that becomes the mirror
of how well you are doing.
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Romans 8 picks it up again.
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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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That's my challenge
to be in Jesus Christ
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every day of my life.
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And I've got
news if you are coming
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to the cross
every day of your life
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God's response is to bring
the living Christ into you.
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You don't have
to sweat for that,
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you don't have to beg
God to make it possible.
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He will bring the
mind of Christ into you
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as you come to the cross.
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Amen.
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And the good news
is as you put on Christ
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let this mind be in you
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that is also in
Christ, Philippians 2:5.
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Thank you. Let
this mind be in you.
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As you put on the mind of Christ
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you do so with the
profound realization
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that I'm not condemned
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because my condemnation
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has already fallen on Jesus.
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Amen.
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You been to the
cross and the living Christ
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is coming into you
through the Holy Spirit
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for another day of your life.
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The good news this
morning is the whole time
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that you are under going
the process of sanctification
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and how long does it take?
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Lifelong. It's a
lifelong process.
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The whole time that
we are going through
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that daily
experience with Jesus,
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growing up into Him
we are not condemned.
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Amen.
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I hardly know a dozen
people seriously who believe,
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I hardly know a dozen people
because most of the people
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I know if they make a
mistake or they slip back
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or they stumble, you know,
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they start
believing that messed up,
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have lost everything.
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God's taken back from you
all the blessings that I had.
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I've got news
for you this morning.
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What condition you were in
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when God put all
those blessings upon you?
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Ungodly, helpless,
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powerless, sinful,
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even had enmity with God.
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All the blessings of
the atoning death of Jesus
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are not yanked away from
us because we make a mistake
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and especially God doesn't
start unlike some parents,
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God doesn't start heaping
condemnation back on us again.
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It wasn't lifted from
us because we were so pure,
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it was lifted from us
because Jesus was so pure.
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Amen.
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And incredibly God has
accepted Jesus in our state.
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So I sat up the other day
I'm gonna repeat it again today,
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if you mess up you make
a mistake and we all do.
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Do what a child
of God should do.
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Ain't beat yourself up.
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Don't act like somebody
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that God's taken
away all the blessings
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and He is heaping guilt
and condemnation back on you.
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What does a child of God
do when they make a mistake?
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They come back to
their Father in repentance.
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They feel His
around. He restores them.
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He freely offers
them forgiveness.
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Puts His spirit back in them
and incredibly He says, hey,
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you are still My child.
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I'm gonna teach you
how to believe that.
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Trust me this is God.
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Whatever happened to our
picture of God, He is sitting
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up there waiting for each
one of us to make a mistake
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so He can heap
guilt back on us again.
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I praise God every day that
even though I still got a lot
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of growing yet to do.
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He is not placing condemnation
on me afresh every day.
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Amen.
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Because as I come to the
cross I feel it lifting up from,
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I feel like Christian.
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If you ever read
"Pilgrim's Progress."
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Christian with that
great burden on his back
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he goes through life.
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He meets Giant Despair
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and he falls into
the Slough of Despond
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and he almost gives up
and he looks up on the hills
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and he sees an old
rugged cross up on the hill.
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He climbs up on the
hill, he can hardly make
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because the burden
on his back is so heavy,
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in a state of
exhaustion he falls down
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at the foot of the cross
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and the burden lifts up from him
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for the first time in his life.
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He is delivered from the
guilt and the condemnation.
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I need that
every day of my life.
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Amen.
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That's why I need the
habits of coming to the cross
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every day to remind me
how good God has been to me.
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And even though
I look at my life
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and I know God has much
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to do with me yet
you feel the same?
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Yes.
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Especially in
making me like Jesus is.
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As I go through the
pain sometimes the challenge
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of becoming like Jesus I
have the absolute assurance
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that I'm not under
condemnation as I do it.
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Amen. What a gracious God He is.
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I'm actually free now
to enjoy a daily intimacy
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on what with Jesus
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and growing up can
actually become quite fun
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knowing that He is not heaping
the condemnation back on me,
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but He is helping me
to not continue to make
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the same mistakes
over and over again.
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So these steps are crucial.
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We come to the cross, we
put on the mind of Jesus,
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we grow without condemnation.
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You got a very good
translation of the Bible
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that will pick the
continuous tense in Greek.
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It's beautiful if you
actually allowing the tense
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to come through.
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"Do not continue
to go on presenting
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the members of your body to sin
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as instruments
of unrighteousness,
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but present yourselves to God
as those alive from the dead,
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and your members as
instruments of righteousness."
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He was reading
the King James Version
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so when he got to verse 16--
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who has a King James
Version out there this morning?
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Read it to us, would you?
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Let's hear in the King
James as an interesting word.
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Listen carefully here verse 16.
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"Know ye not, that to
whom ye yield yourselves
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servants to obey,
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his servants ye
are to whom ye obey,
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whether of sin unto death,
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or of obedience
unto righteousness?"
00:22:37.12\00:22:39.79
What's the key
word popping up there?
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Yield.
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Yield, yes, thank you very much.
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And look at that verse
again, especially verse 16.
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I'm not sure I can read it here
and this is one of those pages.
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Look at it's one of
those pages in my Bible
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that is
challenging me but verse 16,
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"Don't you know that when you
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present yourselves to someone
as slaves for obedience,"
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it actually reads if you
continue to present yourself,
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you continue to present
the members of your bodies
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as instruments of righteousness.
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This is dealing with
the establishment of?
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Habits. Habits.
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That can become life
saving things in our lives.
00:23:20.83\00:23:25.10
So the establishment of
habits to go on continually
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presenting the members
of our bodies as instruments
00:23:32.84\00:23:37.08
of righteousness will
lead by the grace of God
00:23:37.11\00:23:40.78
to the production of habits
in our lives that will kick in
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especially when we are
facing serious temptation.
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I hope you believe this? Amen.
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Those habits will kick in
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and we will automatically do
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the things that we have
been engaging in continually
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no matter how
strong the temptation.
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We will do that which is now
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a part of our
habitual experience.
00:24:04.81\00:24:08.94
This is a huge
thing to understand,
00:24:08.98\00:24:11.18
to establish
habits that glorify God.
00:24:11.21\00:24:15.92
You've all had the experience
of thinking some things done
00:24:20.16\00:24:23.09
within your life and then
you stumble back into it again.
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Have you had that happen?
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And you feel so miserable
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its because we fail to establish
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the kind of habits in our
life that will glorify God
00:24:33.34\00:24:36.30
and will kick in at
the moment of the most
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serious
temptations in our lives.
00:24:40.51\00:24:43.98
We will do by nature now
the things that we have been
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continually presenting the
members of our bodies to do.
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Isn't that exciting? Yes.
00:24:51.02\00:24:52.72
And I missed the word
heaven here in Romans 6,
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I should have seen it
00:24:55.46\00:24:56.86
because of the
continuous tense in Greek
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continue to go on presenting
the members of the your bodies
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as instruments of righteousness
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till you become
servants now of Jesus Christ
00:25:07.94\00:25:11.41
the righteous one himself.
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How is your faith this morning?
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Amen. Amen.
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This is a pretty
simple process, you know,
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we complicated of course.
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And the mistake I made was here,
00:25:22.88\00:25:29.12
because I instead of
yielding or surrendering
00:25:29.16\00:25:34.93
I chose to struggle and I prayed
00:25:34.96\00:25:38.17
that self defeating
prayer for many years,
00:25:38.20\00:25:40.67
God make me strong enough
so I can overcome this habit.
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Now I keep digging the
hole deeper and deeper.
00:25:45.71\00:25:49.84
Finally God hit me
over the head one day
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when I was
reflecting and I listen He says,
00:25:51.95\00:25:53.92
hey, there is only
one person in human flesh
00:25:53.95\00:25:57.29
who was over strong enough.
00:25:57.32\00:25:59.95
I'm not asking you to be Him,
I'm asking you to put Him on.
00:25:59.99\00:26:05.43
Let the victorious over
coming one into your mind
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every single day.
00:26:10.10\00:26:13.07
Yield to Him, don't struggle
and beg for help, yield,
00:26:13.10\00:26:18.31
surrender to Him and
His will will now become one
00:26:18.34\00:26:24.11
with your will and you
will have grace to establish
00:26:24.15\00:26:28.08
new habits in your life
00:26:28.12\00:26:30.22
that will bring
great glory to God.
00:26:30.25\00:26:34.32
Amen.
00:26:34.36\00:26:36.39
Let's bow our heads together
as we conclude this morning.
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Father in heaven, what
a merciful God you are.
00:26:41.13\00:26:43.53
Forgive us for our
foolishness, Father.
00:26:43.57\00:26:46.80
Forgive us amen for thinking
if we cry out to You enough
00:26:46.84\00:26:50.34
You will make us strong
enough to make these changes
00:26:50.37\00:26:52.84
in our lives and all along
there's ever been one human
00:26:52.87\00:26:56.95
who was strong enough,
00:26:56.98\00:26:58.81
Jesus who totally
trusted in His Father
00:26:58.85\00:27:02.32
developed the complete life
00:27:02.35\00:27:04.25
which He is
willing to impart to us.
00:27:04.29\00:27:07.29
Give us the grace to
come to the cross every day.
00:27:07.32\00:27:11.09
Give us the strength to
yield instead of struggle.
00:27:11.13\00:27:14.93
Enable us to have the
mind of Jesus every day
00:27:14.96\00:27:18.40
so that Christ in
us can make choices
00:27:18.43\00:27:21.97
that will bring
great glory to You.
00:27:22.00\00:27:23.91
Thank You Father,
00:27:23.94\00:27:25.27
for the assurance of
victory that we have today.
00:27:25.31\00:27:28.61
In Jesus precious name, amen.
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