The Bible tells us, in
the beginning was the word,
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and the word was with
God, and the word was God.
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It says to receive with
meekness the implanted word,
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which is able
to save your souls,
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and to be diligent to present
yourself approved to God,
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rightly dividing
the word of truth.
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Join us now for the
3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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Our study today is
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"The Holy Spirit
and Spirituality."
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Happy Sabbath and welcome
to 3ABN's Bible Study Panel.
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We are so
appreciative that you are here.
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If it wasn't for you,
we wouldn't be necessary.
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Is that not the truth?
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We are here to share with you
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what God has
laid upon our heart,
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and our prayer today is
that the power of this word
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will penetrate all of our hearts
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and change us into the
very image and likeness
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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We are in the sixth lesson
of our Bible Study quarterly.
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The title is the Holy
Spirit and Living a Holy Life.
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And if you don't have a
copy of the Bible Study,
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let me tell you how to get it.
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You go online at
absg.adventist.org.
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You can go there
right now. Click that in.
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It's on the screen, put
that address in your computer,
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you can then either
watch on your device,
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your iPad, your iPhone
or download it, copy it off
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and you will have
your Bible Study guide too.
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And we would love to
have you with us, with us,
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get your Bible.
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You need to
follow the scriptures.
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Faith comes by hearing
and hearing by this word.
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Amen.
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Let me now
introduce this panel to you.
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We've got an illustrious panel.
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And to my left, we
have Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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Kenny, it's always a
joy to have you with us.
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I always
appreciate the enthusiasm
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that is not man inspired,
but Holy Spirit inspired
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that you bring to our panel.
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Thank you for
being here with us.
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It's good to be here.
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I thank you for the
opportunity to be here.
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And, you know, to study
with the people that join us.
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You know, every week
that we're here, you know...
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And when we study, I
automatically in my mind
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realizes more than just
a few maybe they are here.
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There's multitudes
out there that will listen
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and we're speaking and
talking and studying with you.
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Thank you for joining us.
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To my left,
Brother Brian Hamilton.
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God bless you, friend.
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It's always good
when you're around.
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You come up with
something good every time.
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The Holy Spirit
inspires you. Well, thank you.
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It inspires us.
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Thank you for joining us.
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And to my left is Jill.
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Jill is a teacher at heart.
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She teaches music.
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Has taught music for many years.
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Yes.
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She is also a
student of God's word
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and teaches God's word.
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Jill, it's good to
have you part of our team.
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Thank you so much, Brian.
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It's just a
privilege to open up God's word
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and to study
about the Holy Spirit.
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And I'm just
privileged and humble to be here
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on the panel
with each one of you.
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And, Mollie, I'll
toss it back to you.
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Mollie is...
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One of the things
I love about Mollie,
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is that her heart is
open to what the word of God,
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what the Holy
Spirit tells her to do.
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I've seen that
over and over, Mollie.
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You will say, "Well, the
Lord convicted me of this.
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The Lord showed
me this in my life."
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And so you have a
spirit that is open to God
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and we're just blessed
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that you're
moderating our panel today.
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Well, thank you very much.
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And something that, I think
we all are aware of, is that,
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any conviction or anything
that God does in your heart,
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it's a work of the Holy Spirit.
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And if it wasn't for that
working of the Holy Spirit,
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we would be of omen in
such a desperate situation.
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Thank God for this study that
we're doing on the Holy Spirit.
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You know, we're going to
share our memory verse now
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and after we
share our memory verse,
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I want Jill to open in prayer.
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And our memory verse, I
want you to read along with us.
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It's 1 Thessalonians 5:23.
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So let's all read the memory
verse together if you will.
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"Now may the God of peace
himself sanctify you entirely,
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and may your
spirit and soul and body
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be preserved
complete without blame
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at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ."
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Amen. Jill, open in prayer.
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Holy Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus
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and we thank You for Sabbath.
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We thank You for this
time we have to come apart
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and to open up Your word.
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We thank You for
our brothers and sisters
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who are joining with us.
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And we ask, as we
open up this holy pages,
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that You would by
the power of Your spirit
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open up and enlightened
our minds, our understanding
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that You will
give us ears to hear
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what Your Holy
Spirit has for us today,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Amen. Thank you.
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Now our lesson study
today, it's lesson number six
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is the Holy Spirit
and living a holy life.
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Wow.
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And I think I want to
start out with this question.
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How do we even begin to
grasp the holiness of God
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with our nature in such
a fallen carnal condition?
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And what's the nature of God?
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Perfect, holiness.
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And we with this finite
mind ought to understand
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the infinite holiness
of a pure and holy God.
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And we're asking even now,
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Father, by the
power of Your spirit
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quicken this,
this holiness to us
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and let us see
that it is possible.
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Do you remember when you
first became a Christian.
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Think back, Ken, it will take
us way back to there, Kenny.
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When we first became Christians,
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everything was new,
we were very sensitive
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to the prompting
of the Holy Spirit.
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We could just
have an ugly thought
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and you would
be quick to repent.
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And now I ask...
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Now maybe this isn't
true with any of you,
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but have things
changed through the years?
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It's a process
called desensitization.
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I'm sure, I got
that word just right.
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We get desensitized.
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What desensitizes us?
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We're living in this world.
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We're in this world,
we're not of this world,
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but we're living in this world.
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And we see and
hear things everyday
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that would have
appalled our grandparents
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and our parents would
have whipped us for it...
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Now, that's the truth.
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Because, I mean, you
can't even walk through the mall
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and not hear things
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that you don't want
going into your ears.
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We're to, to guard
our hearts and our eyes.
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Guards our heart
without diligence.
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Above all that you guard,
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because out of it
flow the issues of life,
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but living in this world,
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we're going to be exposed
to things that desensitize us.
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The goal of every Christian
and I'm sure it's true for you
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is to be like Jesus.
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Isn't that what we want to be?
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We want purity and
holiness working within us.
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We've to be imitators.
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It's Ephesians 5:1-2.
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And I know we, we
read this quite often.
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But the scripture says,
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"Therefore be imitators
of God as dear children.
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And walk in love, as
Christ also has loved us
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and given Himself for us,
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an offering and a
sacrifice to God..."
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I like this.
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"..for a sweet-smelling savor."
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Our lives are to be a
sweet-smelling savor to God.
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So here's our
questions for today.
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I'm full of
questions I think today.
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Are we a sweet-smelling
aroma to God, and if not,
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how can we become a
sweet-smelling savor to God?
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Now my topic for
Sunday is the Holiness of God.
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And 1 Peter 1:14-16, and
turn, turn in your Bible there.
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1 Peter 1:14-16,
the scripture says,
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"As obedient children,
not conforming yourselves
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to the former lusts,
as in your ignorance;
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but as He who
called you is holy,
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you also be holy
in all your conduct,
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because it is written,
'Be ye holy, for I am holy.'"
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Wow. That is powerful.
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For us who have not an
inkling of what holiness is
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and we confess sins and,
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and we're gonna look
at this a little later.
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Oh, He's faithful and just
to forgive us and to cleanse us.
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And we can stand there and
be in a right relationship,
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maybe have a few
moments of actually being
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in a righteous condition.
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But then something
always comes along.
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And, so God is
calling us to holiness.
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What is holiness?
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That's being separated from sin.
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And, and we know we
can't be separated from sin
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in this world.
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It goes on all around us.
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Where are we to be
separated from sin?
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Within ourselves.
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We can have sin separated
from us in our actions,
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in our thoughts
and all these areas.
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And is it
difficult to do? Sure it is.
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Because we're carnal man,
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but by the power
of the Holy Spirit,
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He is drawing us out
of darkness and into life.
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Amen.
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You know, I actually
think rather than the scripture
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I just read where God
says, "Be holy for I'm holy."
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I think, I like
1 John 4:8 better.
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It says that God is love.
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Oh, I can identify with that.
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God is love. He loves me.
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But to say God is love,
that is a description of God.
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And thank God, the love of
God is shed abroad in our heart,
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but that is to help us
move into a holy condition.
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Holiness describes the
purity and moral perfection
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of God's nature.
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His holiness means,
that He is perfectly good
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and completely free from evil.
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However, it is His holiness
that is the very foundation
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of all of His other attributes.
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Without that holy nature,
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His love wouldn't have
the power or the effect
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that it must have.
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Thank God.
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What would we want or would
you want a omnipotent God...
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What is omnipotent?
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Oh, knowing all powerful.
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One that has infinite power,
or omniscient God, all knowing,
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perfect, omnipresent, God
is everywhere at all times.
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Would you want a God that
has all of those attributes
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and He wasn't morally
perfect in His holy nature?
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See, if you've got something,
if you've got a God...
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Dangerous.
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I think we'll be scared of him
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to have an omnipotent,
all powerful, all knowing.
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His power would,
would be overwhelming to us.
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It could harm us, but we
know that our God has got
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a holy nature, perfectly holy,
totally holy in every area,
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full of love.
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That is the God
we can be drawn to.
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And, and, see God is,
His power is holy power,
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His mercy is holy mercy,
His wisdom is holy wisdom
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and His love is holy love.
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Holiness
defines His very nature.
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It defines who God is.
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God is holy.
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And He is saying to us,
"Be ye holy, for I'm holy."
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Now I've heard teachings
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and I'm sure you have
on both sides of this.
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There is no way we can be holy.
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No, not within ourselves.
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And, and have you
ever prayed, oh...
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And I know you have.
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God exchange my
weakness for your strength,
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exchange my
unholiness for your holiness,
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in my insufficiency
be my all sufficiency,
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in my weakness, make me strong.
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I need your strength, O Lord.
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See, we know that there is
no good thing working in us
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that we could
never have a holy thought
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except by the
power of the Holy Spirit
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working within us.
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That's right. And
I love Isaiah 6:3.
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See, in the Bible
when God really wants
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to emphasize
something, He repeats it.
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Remember Jesus would say,
truly, truly I say unto you.
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He is telling you,
this is vitally important,
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listen to me.
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He says, open Jerusalem.
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His heart was
breaking over Jerusalem.
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Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
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It was of highest
importance to Him at that time.
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Talking to Martha, remember
He called her, Martha, Martha.
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So we look here in Isaiah 6:3.
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Here is something that
is repeated three times
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signifying, this is
of highest importance.
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Isaiah 6:3, "Holy, holy,
holy is the Lord of hosts,
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the whole earth is
full of His glory!"
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He says, holy, holy is our God
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and He's calling
us into that holiness.
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His hearts desire.
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God's heart desire.
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Do you know
that God has desires?
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His heart's desire is for us to
be like Him, for us to be holy.
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And, and I just want to
touch on this for a moment.
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I did a little earlier.
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It's 1 John 1:9.
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Every single one of us,
better thank God everyday
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for 1 John 1:9.
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What is 1 John 1:9 say?
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"If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and just"
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to do two things, Kenny.
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"He forgives us of our sins"
but he goes one step further.
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"He cleanse us
from all unholiness,
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all unrighteousness."
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If you are cleansed from...
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Brian, if you're cleansed
from all unrighteousness...
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Now I'm gonna
say, at that moment,
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if I can confess my sins,
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God's not just gonna forgive me,
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He's gonna cleanse me.
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I'm cleansed from
all unrighteousness.
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So at that moment,
what does that make me?
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What does it make you
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if you're cleansed
from all unrighteousness?
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Holy. It makes you holy.
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It makes you holy.
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It makes you righteous.
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See, through the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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a pathway has been made.
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Christ rot at that Calvary,
everything necessary for us
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to walk in holiness
and you may have to repent.
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Go back to that repentant table
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and repent, every,
every other few minutes.
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But as, as you have that
pure repentant heart before God,
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you stand before God with
clean hands and a pure heart
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and there is
holiness working within you.
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But, we need to go back to that,
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that repentant
prayer over and over again.
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Do we not? Amen.
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Who's got
thoughts on this, Kenny?
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Well, you know,
you're helping us to think.
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This is good.
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Because the
scripture you're giving us...
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And, and, you know,
the time will come that
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when the Holy Spirit is
impressing someone to go.
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You say to the people, go
there and confess and forsake.
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We need to do it
because there will come a time,
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when we'll live in the side of
a holy God without a mediator.
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We'll not have that mediator,
we'll not have Christ, you see,
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when probation closes.
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So we needed to be
very, very careful.
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So when the opportunity comes,
jump on that, do it right now.
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Do it right now while our
probation is still lingering.
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Well, it
reminds of the beatitude
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of Matthew 5:6.
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"Blessed are those
who hunger and thirst
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for righteousness..."
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And thus, you can put the
word holy in there, holiness.
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Well, in the promise
"For they shall be filled."
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Thank you. Lot
of meaning to that.
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Yes, there is.
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Amen. God wants to change us.
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You know, He wants us to
make us into the image of Jesus.
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And I love that,
because as we come before Him,
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as we ask, as we know that
He forgives us, He cleanses us.
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And I think day by day
we have choices to make,
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to seek first His kingdom,
to spend time in His word.
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When His Holy
Spirit speaks to us,
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to make that choice for Jesus
because every time we do that,
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His character is being
worked in our hearts and lives.
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Amen. And that's
true, that's true.
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And as that convicting power
of the Holy Spirit is upon you,
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for you to confess those sins,
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don't reject the convicting
power of the Holy Spirit.
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Remember, it's
the goodness of God
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that brings us to
repentance and it's...
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The scripture also tells us
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that repentance
is a gift from God.
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So as there is conviction there,
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be sure to have
that sensitivity.
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Oh, God, remove
from us the insensitivity
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to God's Holy Spirit
and quicken this sensitivity
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that we need to
be quick to repent.
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Now on Monday,
the title of Monday
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is the nature of holiness
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and that the panel is
gonna discuss between us.
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And I wanted to start out
with a quote from Sister White
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in Steps to Christ.
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That's another good
book that you can get
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from the 3ABN Call Center.
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It will just help you
in your walk with God.
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Sister White tells us that,
"The closer you come to Jesus,
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the more faulty you
will appear in your own eyes;
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for your vision will be clearer,
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and your
imperfections will be seen
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in broad and distinct
contrast to His perfect nature.
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This is evidence that Satan's
delusions have lost their power
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with the vivifying
influence of the Spirit of God
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is arousing you."
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Amen.
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That gives me hope.
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When I read that
because so many times when you,
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in your journey, at least
in my own journey with Jesus.
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Sometimes I think, wow,
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I didn't know that was in there.
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I didn't know there was
something going on in my heart.
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Thank you Father,
for showing me that,
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but this gives me hope
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because the closer,
the more you look at Jesus,
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the more we see our filthiness
in contrast to His purity.
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Now the closer we
get to that light,
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the darkness in us is exposed.
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Yes, that's it.
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Yeah.
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It's interesting because
when you talk to some people,
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you talk to
them, they will say...
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You might be pointing out.
They may be asking questions.
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They are pointing out.
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Some may say,
well, you know, well,
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I don't see anything
wrong with it, you talk some...
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I don't see
anything wrong with it.
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You know, my first response.
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Well, I don't see
anything right with it.
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But you go back is...
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Remember we just
brought this point out.
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The closer we get to
Him, the more we see our self,
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the choices that we
make, the life that we live
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is unholy, it's unclean,
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there needs to be
some changes made.
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So rather than looking at
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someone's trying to
question it, you know,
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just, you know, look
at and say, you know what?
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He's holy and I
want to be holy like Him.
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Make the right
choices and right decisions,
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and I know God's
gonna bless you for it.
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And don't always
just say, oh, I don't,
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there's nothing wrong with this.
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You know, if it's of the world,
there's a lot wrong with it.
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Okay.
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We're looking at the
nature of holiness, Brian.
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Yeah.
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I was just looking at
that title "The Nature."
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The word, "The Nature."
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And then there's
what is holiness like.
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Is holiness like
the rigid harsh rules
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that one must abide by.
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Rigid heart or
the lesson had us look
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at Ephesians 5:25
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and I have my
Bible open to that.
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Me too.
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I do.
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Husbands love your wife.
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Is that a harsh rule?
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No.
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Love is something warm.
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It's, it's, it feels
good, it is good, it's holy.
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You know, love is a good thing,
it's not a, not a bad thing.
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So it seems to me, part
of the nature of holiness
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is whatever love is like.
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And love is something
good, it is not something harsh,
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it's usually soft, it's...
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I don't know what,
just, how, what verse to use
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to describe this is
love your wife just as Christ
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also loved the church
and gave himself for her.
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So holiness must be like love,
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which is all about self-giving
and not self-getting.
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Self sacrificing. Yeah.
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If you look at
the next verse. Okay.
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Why does He loved the church?
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Why does He
give Himself for her?
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That He might
sanctify and cleanse her
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with the washing of
the water of the word.
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So because of His
love, He sanctifies.
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So He cleanses us.
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He brings us through the fire,
He purges us because of love.
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Because if He loves us
and loves us as His people.
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We cannot live in the
presence of a holy God,
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when there's sin and
spots and defilement,
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and He wants to
prepare us for heaven,
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prepare us for spending
the eternity in His presence.
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Washing of water by
the word, what is that?
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Again, it's the word of
God, with the Holy Spirit
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breathed initially
in the first place,
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that's what we're cleansed with
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and now go back to, I
think it's Psalms 119.
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It might be 189, but I'm not
sure what the scripture says.
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It's not...
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The entrance of
thy word gives life,
00:22:09.76\00:22:11.96
it gives
understanding to the simple.
00:22:11.99\00:22:14.36
I know it's
Psalms 119. I'm looking.
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And so as the
entrance of God's word enters,
00:22:16.60\00:22:19.30
it exposes the darkness and it,
00:22:19.33\00:22:22.50
the light then will
dispel that darkness.
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Let's go along
with that scripture.
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That he might
present her, her what?
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Her the church to
himself a glorious church
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not having spot or
wrinkle or any such thing
00:22:34.92\00:22:39.05
but that she should be
holy and without blemish.
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God wants us to be holy
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and He is doing
everything necessary
00:22:47.50\00:22:49.90
to bring that holiness into.
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You know, when
He says the church,
00:22:52.40\00:22:54.10
you can say, oh,
that's the church,
00:22:54.14\00:22:55.84
that's all those
people out there.
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No, you're part of the church,
00:22:57.54\00:22:58.94
you have to take those
scriptures to yourself.
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So holiness has to have what,
you mentioned yourself love
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because holiness
is Christ's likeness.
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It has to be so, you know,
God is certainly is love here.
00:23:07.98\00:23:11.72
But I have a question
because I hear people say this
00:23:11.75\00:23:14.22
all the time, we
might want to discuss it
00:23:14.26\00:23:16.29
because we talk
about perfection,
00:23:16.32\00:23:17.79
we talk about holiness.
00:23:17.83\00:23:19.16
Now jot it down.
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It says, some people say
00:23:20.56\00:23:21.93
being holy does not make
a person perfect or sinless.
00:23:21.96\00:23:28.64
But as the Holy Spirit comes in,
00:23:28.67\00:23:31.97
they can start to live
a pure and holy lifestyle.
00:23:32.01\00:23:36.11
Now, I'm trying to figure out
00:23:36.14\00:23:38.78
in my poor little
mind the difference.
00:23:38.81\00:23:40.98
Now notice what it
says, "Make a person...
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Read that one more time.
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Makes a person perfect,
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some says holy does not
make a person perfect or sinless
00:23:45.52\00:23:50.33
but as the Holy Spirit comes in,
00:23:50.36\00:23:53.36
they can start to live
a pure and holy lifestyle.
00:23:53.40\00:23:58.67
That sounds to
me like perfection.
00:23:58.70\00:24:01.94
Still sounds like holiness
00:24:01.97\00:24:03.30
if you're talking about
pure and holy lifestyle.
00:24:03.34\00:24:06.64
It's like we kind of went
around the barn with that,
00:24:06.68\00:24:09.38
but again Hebrews 12:14
says, you know, pursue holiness,
00:24:09.41\00:24:14.65
notice, without
which no man will see God.
00:24:14.68\00:24:18.12
That's right.
00:24:18.15\00:24:19.49
So this is something
we need to take serious.
00:24:19.52\00:24:20.86
We may be haven't for
years in among God's people
00:24:20.89\00:24:23.59
His last day church,
00:24:23.63\00:24:25.09
is God means
exactly what He says.
00:24:25.13\00:24:28.43
As you take Matthew
5:18, I've heard people...
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May I use a word butchered.
00:24:31.87\00:24:33.50
It says, you know, be
ye perfect as a father
00:24:33.54\00:24:35.47
which art in heaven is perfect.
00:24:35.50\00:24:37.24
They'll say, well, it
doesn't really mean that.
00:24:37.27\00:24:38.84
No, it means just that.
00:24:38.87\00:24:40.58
And can give you probably
30 Spirit of Prophecy quotes
00:24:40.61\00:24:42.98
on that itself
if we have doubts.
00:24:43.01\00:24:45.45
Be ye perfect as a father
which art in heaven is perfect.
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Desire of Ages, 311, quickly,
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"The ideal of Christian
character is Christ-likeness.
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As the Son of man was
perfect in His life..."
00:24:55.39\00:24:58.56
The Son of who? The Son of man.
00:24:58.59\00:25:00.16
Jesus here in the
flesh just like us.
00:25:00.20\00:25:02.60
As He was perfect in His life
00:25:02.63\00:25:04.70
so His followers are to
be perfect in their life.
00:25:04.73\00:25:09.07
His character is to be ours,
00:25:09.10\00:25:11.11
so we realize
it's His character,
00:25:11.14\00:25:12.84
but they still has to come in,
00:25:12.87\00:25:14.54
when you invite him in,
changes our heart and our life.
00:25:14.58\00:25:17.95
Rather than
trying to push it off
00:25:17.98\00:25:19.31
and say well, it'll
never happen that way.
00:25:19.35\00:25:21.22
We need to be
careful about that.
00:25:21.25\00:25:23.69
Because we need to
be holy as He is holy.
00:25:23.72\00:25:26.49
That the word
perfection is at least
00:25:26.52\00:25:29.99
sometimes a
little bit scary sounding
00:25:30.03\00:25:33.50
because in the
English definition
00:25:33.53\00:25:36.33
of perfection is
like in ultimate state.
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Coming to a point of ultimate,
00:25:41.44\00:25:46.91
where nothing is
ever wrong, you know.
00:25:46.94\00:25:50.28
And you go, well, you
look at yourself and you say,
00:25:50.31\00:25:52.81
man, I have not arrived,
I don't know if anybody else
00:25:52.85\00:25:56.38
that I have seen
that has arrived.
00:25:56.42\00:25:58.72
So how do I handle this perfect?
00:25:58.75\00:26:01.82
I think the
biblical view of perfection
00:26:01.86\00:26:05.66
is something that
is always out there
00:26:05.69\00:26:10.97
that you always
live for and strive for
00:26:11.00\00:26:14.44
and you grow in,
in a continuous way.
00:26:14.47\00:26:17.71
It's, it's kind of
like climbing a mountain,
00:26:17.74\00:26:19.71
then there is another
one on the other side,
00:26:19.74\00:26:21.24
and you climb that one,
and then there is another one,
00:26:21.28\00:26:23.48
and there is joy in that.
00:26:23.51\00:26:27.05
God is the only
being that I know
00:26:27.08\00:26:28.88
of that is infinite perfect.
00:26:28.92\00:26:32.52
In other words, an end
point, He isn't becoming.
00:26:32.55\00:26:35.62
He is, He is not becoming,
00:26:35.66\00:26:38.36
but we have the
privilege of always becoming..
00:26:38.39\00:26:42.36
Because Christ
came here to do what?
00:26:42.40\00:26:45.07
He set the example
that in the human flesh
00:26:45.10\00:26:48.00
of what could happen to
the power of the Holy Spirit
00:26:48.04\00:26:50.91
that you can
live a perfect life,
00:26:50.94\00:26:52.31
He had no edge
over us, you know,
00:26:52.34\00:26:55.34
whatsoever so we have to
look at it in the reality of it.
00:26:55.38\00:26:58.85
There will be a people
00:26:58.88\00:27:01.25
when His character is
fully reproduced in us
00:27:01.28\00:27:04.32
He will come,
Christ's Object Lessons.
00:27:04.35\00:27:06.25
He's not waiting
for the Sunday Laws,
00:27:06.29\00:27:07.62
He's not waiting for a
bunch of all this other stuff
00:27:07.66\00:27:09.39
to take place even
though it will happen.
00:27:09.42\00:27:11.46
He is waiting for His character
00:27:11.49\00:27:12.89
to be perfectly reproduced in us
00:27:12.93\00:27:15.36
and then He will come.
00:27:15.40\00:27:18.53
Says quickly, it
says, "First the blade,
00:27:18.57\00:27:21.20
then the ear and what?
00:27:21.24\00:27:22.57
The full corn. The full corn.
00:27:22.60\00:27:24.07
Let me ask you a question.
00:27:24.11\00:27:25.44
When the blade first comes
up, is it perfect in that stage?
00:27:25.47\00:27:28.04
It is.
00:27:28.08\00:27:29.41
Absolutely, then the
corn and then the full corn,
00:27:29.44\00:27:32.15
so it's sanctification work
for lifetime is still going on.
00:27:32.18\00:27:35.35
Right. Perfect in its sphere.
00:27:35.38\00:27:36.72
Because of grace of
God and forgiveness of sin,
00:27:36.75\00:27:38.85
we can live that
life when the Holy Spirit
00:27:38.89\00:27:40.66
simply says to
you need, you know,
00:27:40.69\00:27:42.52
get on your knees
and ask forgiveness.
00:27:42.56\00:27:43.93
You stay at that point,
the time will come again
00:27:43.96\00:27:46.49
we will not have
a mediator so like.
00:27:46.53\00:27:48.33
It's something we
really need to look at
00:27:48.36\00:27:50.03
and not just throw it off
like it doesn't really matter.
00:27:50.07\00:27:53.03
Kenny, it sounds to me
like you've already started
00:27:53.07\00:27:55.04
on your portion
which is Tuesday...
00:27:55.07\00:27:56.84
Ooh, glory, I probably have.
The agent of sanctification.
00:27:56.87\00:27:59.24
I did want to
throw in Psalms 119:160,
00:27:59.27\00:28:02.54
I hate to leave somebody
00:28:02.58\00:28:03.91
without the scripture reference.
00:28:03.95\00:28:05.28
The entrance of
thy word gives like,
00:28:05.31\00:28:07.25
gives
understanding to the simple.
00:28:07.28\00:28:08.82
Kenny, tell us
about sanctification?
00:28:08.85\00:28:10.69
Sanctification, we call
the agent of sanctification.
00:28:10.72\00:28:13.15
First passage of
scripture we've to be quickly
00:28:13.19\00:28:15.22
in Hebrews 12, Hebrews 12.
00:28:15.26\00:28:20.06
You know, as we look at
these, these are going to be
00:28:20.10\00:28:22.20
we're calling
agents so we're going to
00:28:22.23\00:28:24.33
define sanctification,
true sanctification,
00:28:24.37\00:28:27.94
but you also need to
see, is that God's really say,
00:28:27.97\00:28:30.54
His really, His plan for us?
00:28:30.57\00:28:32.31
Hebrews 12, we've read
it several times verse 14,
00:28:32.34\00:28:35.74
Hebrews 12:14, the Bible says,
00:28:35.78\00:28:40.42
"Follow peace
with how many men?"
00:28:40.45\00:28:42.08
All men.
00:28:42.12\00:28:43.45
"All men and holiness without
which no man will see God."
00:28:43.49\00:28:50.13
So this is God's plan for us.
00:28:50.16\00:28:52.43
Turn back a few
chapters there, 1 Thessalonians,
00:28:52.46\00:28:56.13
1 Thessalonians 4,
1 Thessalonians 4:3-4.
00:28:56.16\00:29:01.84
This is what the Bible says,
00:29:01.87\00:29:03.20
that's why you have
your Bible out at home,
00:29:03.24\00:29:04.57
you have your guide
so you can get in on this
00:29:04.61\00:29:06.78
where there's good discussion.
00:29:06.81\00:29:08.14
Notice verse 3,
1 Thessalonians 4,
00:29:08.18\00:29:11.11
"For this is the will of
God even your sanctification
00:29:11.15\00:29:15.62
that you should
abstain from fornication,
00:29:15.65\00:29:18.39
that everyone of you should know
00:29:18.42\00:29:20.26
how to possess
his vessel in, what,
00:29:20.29\00:29:24.09
in sanctification and honor."
00:29:24.13\00:29:27.13
God's plan certainly
is still, still for us.
00:29:27.16\00:29:31.03
Let's read 1 Thessalonians
I think it's in 5:23,
00:29:31.07\00:29:35.37
we're already right
there, 1 Thessalonians 5:23,
00:29:35.40\00:29:40.08
I'll find it here, I've got it.
00:29:40.11\00:29:41.68
It says, "And the very God
of peace sanctify you" how?
00:29:41.71\00:29:45.88
Partly. Completely.
00:29:45.91\00:29:47.25
Completely.
00:29:47.28\00:29:48.62
"Holy, completely, I pray God
00:29:48.65\00:29:49.98
your whole spirit, soul
and body be preserve" how.
00:29:50.02\00:29:54.16
Blameless. With a
little bit of Blame...
00:29:54.19\00:29:55.66
"Blameless unto to the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ."
00:29:55.69\00:30:00.90
This kind of gives us an idea,
00:30:00.93\00:30:02.30
2 Thessalonians
just one more quick,
00:30:02.33\00:30:03.83
2 Thessalonians
2:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:13,
00:30:03.87\00:30:10.74
I always like to say,
this is what the Bible says...
00:30:10.77\00:30:12.37
..that ends it
for me. That's right.
00:30:12.41\00:30:13.81
Is what the
Bible says, verse 13,
00:30:13.84\00:30:15.98
"But we are bound to
give things always to God
00:30:16.01\00:30:19.08
for you brethren
beloved other Lord
00:30:19.11\00:30:20.98
because hath from the beginning
00:30:21.02\00:30:23.18
chosen you to
salvation through" what?
00:30:23.22\00:30:26.65
Sanctification.
00:30:26.69\00:30:28.02
"Sanctification of the
spirit and belief of the truth."
00:30:28.06\00:30:30.76
Belief of sanctification,
preparation for heaven,
00:30:30.79\00:30:34.03
kind of put it, kind of plain,
sanctification for heaven.
00:30:34.06\00:30:38.33
Sanctification and
true sanctification,
00:30:38.37\00:30:40.64
let's just to go through.
00:30:40.67\00:30:42.00
Remember sanctification to me
is a continual growth in grace.
00:30:42.04\00:30:46.27
So we have to
balance the issue here
00:30:46.31\00:30:47.98
and not get too
far out on the limb.
00:30:48.01\00:30:49.84
But still we're to
seek the character of Christ
00:30:49.88\00:30:52.61
or still to be like Him.
00:30:52.65\00:30:54.38
He came, He lived,
00:30:54.42\00:30:55.75
He set the example
with no edge over us.
00:30:55.78\00:30:57.69
So something He set for us.
00:30:57.72\00:30:59.59
It's growth in grace
00:30:59.62\00:31:01.52
and it's daily
conforming to the will of God.
00:31:01.56\00:31:05.79
That'd be
sanctification, isn't it?
00:31:05.83\00:31:07.46
Conforming to the will of God.
00:31:07.50\00:31:09.43
So it continues on.
00:31:09.46\00:31:10.80
Sanctification then,
there is about nine things
00:31:10.83\00:31:12.83
I want to just run by quickly.
00:31:12.87\00:31:14.50
Sanctification is accomplished
by beholding Christ,
00:31:14.54\00:31:18.07
that makes sense to me.
00:31:18.11\00:31:19.44
By beholding Him we become what?
00:31:19.47\00:31:22.11
We become changed. That's right.
00:31:22.14\00:31:23.85
Only by faith in
Christ can this be attained.
00:31:23.88\00:31:28.02
It's by the power
of the Holy Spirit
00:31:28.05\00:31:31.02
that sanctification comes about.
00:31:31.05\00:31:33.66
Again daily
conforming to the will of God.
00:31:33.69\00:31:39.13
Sanctification is a...
00:31:39.16\00:31:41.43
For me it's like
everyday dying to self.
00:31:41.46\00:31:44.80
I've often said,
self is my biggest enemy.
00:31:44.83\00:31:46.37
Absolutely.
00:31:46.40\00:31:47.74
It's not the
preacher, it's not the teacher.
00:31:47.77\00:31:50.91
We say it's not the
enemy but, you know,
00:31:50.94\00:31:52.37
the enemy is part
of the self business
00:31:52.41\00:31:53.94
but us were our biggest enemy.
00:31:53.98\00:31:57.35
Daily dying to self,
that's why Jesus said
00:31:57.38\00:31:59.65
in Isaiah 1 in all the other.
00:31:59.68\00:32:01.65
Purity then brings
Christ like purity.
00:32:01.68\00:32:04.52
So we seek that
sanctification that purity
00:32:04.55\00:32:07.32
because it helps it
to be pure like Christ.
00:32:07.36\00:32:10.39
Sanctification is the
work of a lifelong obedience.
00:32:10.43\00:32:15.13
Always obey, we've
talked about that several times,
00:32:15.16\00:32:17.43
by obeying a lifetime, you
see this is sanctification.
00:32:17.47\00:32:22.10
Sanctification is
truth received in the heart
00:32:22.14\00:32:26.27
and it's then
carried out in my life,
00:32:26.31\00:32:27.94
it's not, we often
said, to have it where?
00:32:27.98\00:32:30.51
In our hearts. That's right.
00:32:30.55\00:32:31.88
We have to carry
it out in our life.
00:32:31.91\00:32:34.05
Why do I need to be sanctified?
00:32:34.08\00:32:36.72
Why we worry
about being sanctified?
00:32:36.75\00:32:38.22
You know why?
Because I'm a sinner.
00:32:38.25\00:32:39.59
Right.
00:32:39.62\00:32:40.96
I'm a sinner and
I need to change.
00:32:40.99\00:32:42.96
Born in the sinful
world, we've all sinned
00:32:42.99\00:32:45.06
and come short
of the glory of God.
00:32:45.09\00:32:47.03
I need a change to take place.
00:32:47.06\00:32:48.56
Sanctify to me is
being preparation for heaven,
00:32:48.60\00:32:52.30
and only those who are like
Christ will make it to heaven.
00:32:52.33\00:32:55.44
Living up to every ray,
every bit of light that we have,
00:32:55.47\00:32:59.51
I hope that make sense.
00:32:59.54\00:33:01.38
We behold Him, as we behold Him,
00:33:01.41\00:33:03.78
we become like Him.
00:33:03.81\00:33:05.68
So we need it because our
natures need to be changed
00:33:05.71\00:33:09.15
in that sinful to sinless.
00:33:09.18\00:33:12.92
Holiness helps
us to look to Jesus.
00:33:12.95\00:33:15.89
Something else I
want to read here quickly
00:33:15.92\00:33:17.43
because time is running out.
00:33:17.46\00:33:18.79
2 Corinthians we
realized 3:18 just quickly,
00:33:18.83\00:33:21.86
'cause we said, by
beholding we become like Him.
00:33:21.90\00:33:24.47
2 Corinthians 3:18,
00:33:24.50\00:33:25.83
but we all with an open
face beholding him in a glass
00:33:25.87\00:33:30.17
the glory, I
like it, of the Lord,
00:33:30.21\00:33:32.31
we are changed from what?
00:33:32.34\00:33:34.04
From image,
what? Glory to glory.
00:33:34.08\00:33:36.01
From glory to glory even
as by the spirit of the Lord.
00:33:36.04\00:33:39.91
Continue growth
process glory to glory
00:33:39.95\00:33:42.25
we're always upward and onward
00:33:42.28\00:33:43.82
and being more and more
like Christ as we behold Him.
00:33:43.85\00:33:49.22
I believe it's Manuscript 1890
says this, listen carefully.
00:33:49.26\00:33:52.36
"When the soul is
brought into close relationship
00:33:52.39\00:33:55.46
with the great
author of light and truth
00:33:55.50\00:33:57.50
which you brought out here.
00:33:57.53\00:33:59.53
Impressions are made upon it
00:33:59.57\00:34:01.70
revealing its true
position before God.
00:34:01.74\00:34:05.11
Then self will die,
pride will be laid low,
00:34:05.14\00:34:09.74
Christ will draw out His image
in deeper lines upon the soul.
00:34:09.78\00:34:14.52
A progressive work
when we behold Him,
00:34:14.55\00:34:18.19
we see our true position.
00:34:18.22\00:34:20.36
Again Hebrews 12:2,
we're looking unto Jesus
00:34:20.39\00:34:23.32
who is the author and
the finisher of our faith.
00:34:23.36\00:34:27.46
You know, He that
has begun a good work
00:34:27.50\00:34:28.96
and He will do, what?
00:34:29.00\00:34:30.37
He will bring it to
completion. That's right.
00:34:30.40\00:34:32.03
If He begins it
and it's not completed,
00:34:32.07\00:34:33.94
oh, we're in a bad position.
00:34:33.97\00:34:36.74
It says, I'm
gonna complete that work
00:34:36.77\00:34:38.27
so I believe by
the grace of God,
00:34:38.31\00:34:39.87
He started on
you, He started on me.
00:34:39.91\00:34:42.08
And I ask Him daily to
please finish that work, why?
00:34:42.11\00:34:45.45
Because I recognized,
I need to be finished.
00:34:45.48\00:34:47.88
I realized, He's
still working on me,
00:34:47.92\00:34:49.48
I'm still seeing
that little tent.
00:34:49.52\00:34:50.85
He is still working on me.
00:34:50.89\00:34:52.22
I do not use that
as an excuse to sin.
00:34:52.25\00:34:54.49
I do not use that to say,
well, that's why I'm weak,
00:34:54.52\00:34:56.86
and that's why I
do this and that.
00:34:56.89\00:34:58.43
There is no...
00:34:58.46\00:34:59.79
Ellen White says this, she said,
00:34:59.83\00:35:01.16
"There is no
excuse for sinning."
00:35:01.20\00:35:02.56
Well, that hit me pretty hard.
00:35:02.60\00:35:05.37
But you know what? I
did not back up from it.
00:35:05.40\00:35:07.47
By the grace of God,
I looked at and said,
00:35:07.50\00:35:08.84
you know what,
you're exactly right
00:35:08.87\00:35:10.21
because of the power
that's offered to me,
00:35:10.24\00:35:12.67
because of what
heaven offers me, you know.
00:35:12.71\00:35:15.54
All of heaven would be empty
00:35:15.58\00:35:17.05
rather than see me
go the wrong direction.
00:35:17.08\00:35:19.25
All of heaven was empty.
00:35:19.28\00:35:20.62
All of heaven
would be emptied again,
00:35:20.65\00:35:22.28
sister Mollie, if you
really need that help,
00:35:22.32\00:35:24.72
it would be emptied for you.
00:35:24.75\00:35:26.39
That's how
special you are, you know.
00:35:26.42\00:35:28.72
Have we resisted?
00:35:28.76\00:35:30.59
I thought about
this, and I said,
00:35:30.63\00:35:31.96
no, I haven't resisted.
00:35:31.99\00:35:33.33
Have you resisted unto blood?
00:35:33.36\00:35:35.90
You see, until we come to that
point, somebody stay with me.
00:35:35.93\00:35:38.80
Until we had rather
die than willfully sin,
00:35:38.83\00:35:43.51
we're in trouble.
00:35:43.54\00:35:45.14
That means you
resist in the blood.
00:35:45.17\00:35:46.51
Jesus resisted unto blood.
00:35:46.54\00:35:48.71
Before He would
sin, He gave His life.
00:35:48.74\00:35:51.31
I'm so grateful
and thankful for that.
00:35:51.35\00:35:53.11
I'll tell you
just, it makes me happy.
00:35:53.15\00:35:55.22
I'll say this as reminder,
our time is going down.
00:35:55.25\00:35:58.12
For those of you making little
excuses, bless your heart.
00:35:58.15\00:36:00.76
There is no biblical
sanctification for anyone
00:36:00.79\00:36:05.33
who cast aside
part of any truth.
00:36:05.36\00:36:09.93
We will be judged by
the light that we have
00:36:09.96\00:36:13.07
or have opportunity
to come in contact with.
00:36:13.10\00:36:16.60
I mean, that's
pretty heavy duty,
00:36:16.64\00:36:18.21
but you know, we live in a time
00:36:18.24\00:36:19.64
where I believe it
needs to be heavy duty.
00:36:19.67\00:36:22.18
We don't need to be
dancing around the barn.
00:36:22.21\00:36:24.31
We don't need
to be mincing words
00:36:24.35\00:36:25.75
or try to agree
with this person or that.
00:36:25.78\00:36:27.88
I want to come in agreement
with what the word of God says,
00:36:27.92\00:36:30.72
regardless of how it might seem,
00:36:30.75\00:36:32.85
because I know
what help awaits me
00:36:32.89\00:36:34.89
and what help
awaits each one of us
00:36:34.92\00:36:36.69
if we just call on
that dynamic power.
00:36:36.73\00:36:39.79
So when this
work of sanctification
00:36:39.83\00:36:41.93
comes to full completion, Brian,
00:36:41.96\00:36:44.23
what is our condition gonna be?
00:36:44.27\00:36:45.83
That of holiness,
and you're gonna give us
00:36:45.87\00:36:48.17
the rules of
holiness in God's law.
00:36:48.20\00:36:51.24
Okay.
00:36:51.27\00:36:53.68
Kenny, I appreciated
that what you shared there.
00:36:53.71\00:36:58.21
I just have a little
something I wanted to add to it
00:36:58.25\00:37:00.95
if I could.
00:37:00.98\00:37:02.65
The title was the
agent of sanctification.
00:37:02.68\00:37:06.62
Sanctification
that work of a lifetime,
00:37:06.65\00:37:08.69
but how is that possible?
00:37:08.72\00:37:11.46
It takes an agent. Amen.
00:37:11.49\00:37:13.80
And 1 Corinthians
defines that to us is
00:37:13.83\00:37:18.77
Chapter 6 in verse 11.
00:37:18.80\00:37:23.44
But such were some of you,
00:37:23.47\00:37:26.07
in other words,
there were good things,
00:37:26.11\00:37:28.74
but such were some
of you but you're washed
00:37:28.78\00:37:32.25
and that's the
Holy Spirit doing it.
00:37:32.28\00:37:33.72
Come on now.
00:37:33.75\00:37:35.08
And you were sanctified, again
that's the Holy Spirit doing,
00:37:35.12\00:37:38.09
and you were justified,
again that's Jesus' blood,
00:37:38.12\00:37:41.96
in the name of Lord
Jesus by the spirit of our God.
00:37:41.99\00:37:47.00
Amen. Amen.
00:37:47.03\00:37:48.36
So the agent for any of
us to accomplish anything
00:37:48.40\00:37:52.90
in the way of
holiness and sanctification
00:37:52.93\00:37:55.64
has to be and
only the Holy Spirit.
00:37:55.67\00:37:59.27
Amen, absolutely. Amen.
00:37:59.31\00:38:02.18
The lesson in Wednesday
start out with the question
00:38:02.21\00:38:05.35
I had never ever thought about.
00:38:05.38\00:38:09.68
It was like and when I read it,
00:38:09.72\00:38:11.55
it was like, what?
00:38:11.59\00:38:13.15
This is a...
00:38:13.19\00:38:14.52
I mean why even
ask the question.
00:38:14.56\00:38:16.56
Why should we keep His law
if we can't be saved by it?
00:38:16.59\00:38:22.63
Interesting.
00:38:22.66\00:38:24.00
It's a good
question, I never thought that.
00:38:24.03\00:38:25.60
That's kind of like saying,
00:38:25.63\00:38:27.57
why should I
keep the laws of the,
00:38:27.60\00:38:31.84
you know, traffic of
driving a car, you know,
00:38:31.87\00:38:35.58
you have to go and read the book
00:38:35.61\00:38:37.18
and take the test.
00:38:37.21\00:38:38.55
Why should I keep
any of those rules
00:38:38.58\00:38:42.45
if I won't get a
ticket for breaking up?
00:38:42.48\00:38:45.85
Well...
00:38:45.89\00:38:47.22
Well, let me think now.
00:38:47.26\00:38:49.26
Come to a red light, I
can just go right through it.
00:38:49.29\00:38:53.96
I won't get a
ticket. Well, if you want to.
00:38:54.00\00:38:55.73
Yeah.
00:38:55.76\00:38:57.60
I can, if I want to
go 110 miles an hour
00:38:57.63\00:39:01.20
on a country road out
here in Illinois, I can do it,
00:39:01.24\00:39:03.97
I'm not gonna
get a ticket for it.
00:39:04.01\00:39:05.74
Oh, oh.
00:39:05.77\00:39:07.11
Well, that is kind of the dumb.
00:39:07.14\00:39:08.78
Yeah.
00:39:08.81\00:39:10.85
I mean, I could lose my
life going through a red light.
00:39:10.88\00:39:13.72
I could take
somebody else's life
00:39:13.75\00:39:15.48
going through a red light.
00:39:15.52\00:39:17.09
I could wreck my nice
truck I have, you know,
00:39:17.12\00:39:22.39
by going 110 miles an hour
on a country road, you know.
00:39:22.42\00:39:26.29
There's all kinds of reasons
00:39:26.33\00:39:27.86
why you would
want to keep God's law
00:39:27.90\00:39:31.23
even if the fact is we
aren't saved by doing that.
00:39:31.27\00:39:34.94
That's right.
00:39:34.97\00:39:36.37
So that's what, you know,
00:39:36.40\00:39:38.54
I thought that
was an interesting way
00:39:38.57\00:39:40.14
to start the lesson is,
00:39:40.18\00:39:42.31
why should we keep His law
if we can't be saved by it.
00:39:42.34\00:39:46.72
Well, let's turn to Romans 7:12.
00:39:46.75\00:39:52.95
We're looking for reasons,
00:39:52.99\00:39:55.29
why we would
want to keep God's law
00:39:55.32\00:39:58.23
even though
we're not saved by it.
00:39:58.26\00:40:00.60
But let me ask this,
you can help me on it.
00:40:00.63\00:40:04.07
Why is it that we aren't
saved by keeping the law?
00:40:04.10\00:40:09.00
The law has a function.
00:40:09.04\00:40:10.94
Romans 3, I think tells us
00:40:10.97\00:40:12.47
the law simply
points out what sin is.
00:40:12.51\00:40:14.94
That's the function of law.
00:40:14.98\00:40:16.41
So the law can't
remove our guilt.
00:40:16.44\00:40:18.75
No.
00:40:18.78\00:40:20.32
And it can't absolve us
once we have broke the law.
00:40:20.35\00:40:24.42
That's right. Okay,
so we need a savior.
00:40:24.45\00:40:26.29
Amen. Amen.
00:40:26.32\00:40:27.66
So that's the reason
why keeping the law isn't...
00:40:27.69\00:40:31.53
that if we don't
keep it to be saved,
00:40:31.56\00:40:34.56
we have a savior
and we need a savior.
00:40:34.60\00:40:36.50
Praise the Lord.
00:40:36.53\00:40:37.87
But, okay, Romans 7:12,
00:40:37.90\00:40:41.94
"Therefore the law is holy
00:40:41.97\00:40:46.01
and the commandments
holy, just and good."
00:40:46.04\00:40:51.61
So it seems to me
one of the reasons
00:40:51.65\00:40:53.35
why we would
want to keep God's law
00:40:53.38\00:40:56.79
is because it's good.
00:40:56.82\00:40:58.15
Good. Amen.
00:40:58.19\00:40:59.52
It's just good.
00:40:59.55\00:41:00.89
A good thing to do, you
know, it's not a bad thing.
00:41:00.92\00:41:03.63
No. We want to do what's good.
00:41:03.66\00:41:07.10
You know, that's God's character
00:41:07.13\00:41:09.06
is reflected in His law.
00:41:09.10\00:41:10.67
Yes.
00:41:10.70\00:41:12.03
And we want God's character
reflected in our lives.
00:41:12.07\00:41:14.94
Lives. Amen.
00:41:14.97\00:41:16.30
So it seems like to
have God's character
00:41:16.34\00:41:18.01
reflected in our lives,
00:41:18.04\00:41:19.37
we would want to order ourselves
00:41:19.41\00:41:21.64
after His good, His character.
00:41:21.68\00:41:25.15
Amen.
00:41:25.18\00:41:27.02
There was a sentence in
the middle of the paragraph,
00:41:27.05\00:41:31.19
right in the middle of the page.
00:41:31.22\00:41:32.65
In fact I did
mine in a colorful red,
00:41:32.69\00:41:36.16
you know, color.
00:41:36.19\00:41:37.53
You know, I think
there is the camera I guess.
00:41:37.56\00:41:39.33
I did mine in red
because it's really...
00:41:39.36\00:41:42.76
To keep the law is not legalism.
00:41:42.80\00:41:47.07
Think about that. That's good.
00:41:47.10\00:41:48.44
Keeping God's law and
that's usually what someone,
00:41:48.47\00:41:52.17
when Seventh-day Adventist
present the law of God,
00:41:52.21\00:41:55.98
the first thing coming
from back out is legalism.
00:41:56.01\00:42:00.02
You guys are
just legalistic, okay.
00:42:00.05\00:42:03.15
That's it for. No.
00:42:03.18\00:42:05.25
To keep the law is not legalism,
00:42:05.29\00:42:07.72
it is faithfulness.
00:42:07.76\00:42:10.56
That's good.
00:42:10.59\00:42:11.93
That thing just
jump out at me, that is,
00:42:11.96\00:42:14.10
I'm gonna remember
that for the future.
00:42:14.13\00:42:16.56
When someone
goes and throws that,
00:42:16.60\00:42:18.60
oh, you're just
being legalistic.
00:42:18.63\00:42:21.40
No, I'm being
faithful. That's what...
00:42:21.44\00:42:24.47
Doesn't it become legalistic
00:42:24.51\00:42:27.08
if we keep it as a
matter of salvation?
00:42:27.11\00:42:29.18
Yes.
00:42:29.21\00:42:30.55
Then it becomes a little, this
is salvation we have to do so,
00:42:30.58\00:42:32.75
then it's legalistic
but we never do that,
00:42:32.78\00:42:34.95
the Bible
doesn't teach it that way
00:42:34.98\00:42:36.38
but they will get
thrown at you, so good point.
00:42:36.42\00:42:38.29
Yeah, so, sometimes people can,
00:42:38.32\00:42:42.66
can keep God's law
in legalistic ways.
00:42:42.69\00:42:47.93
Well.
00:42:47.96\00:42:49.30
And usually those
ways are devoid of love.
00:42:49.33\00:42:52.37
Right. Yes.
00:42:52.40\00:42:54.07
And so you can be minutely
00:42:54.10\00:42:57.07
keeping the
details of a law or a rule
00:42:57.11\00:43:01.71
and be as mean as Satan
himself at the same time.
00:43:01.74\00:43:04.45
Well. Yeah.
00:43:04.48\00:43:06.51
And is that any good.
00:43:06.55\00:43:07.95
That's like a...
00:43:07.98\00:43:10.05
Like a 1 Corinthians says it...
00:43:10.09\00:43:14.59
Going, a cymbal.
Yeah, cymbal, yeah.
00:43:14.62\00:43:17.49
You know, it's
hollow, nothing to it.
00:43:17.53\00:43:20.06
Good.
00:43:20.10\00:43:22.06
It goes on to say,
that in the paragraph there,
00:43:22.10\00:43:25.30
lawlessness will
be, will increase,
00:43:25.33\00:43:29.27
this is talking
about the last days.
00:43:29.30\00:43:31.31
"Lawlessness will increase
00:43:31.34\00:43:33.88
and the love of
many will grow cold."
00:43:33.91\00:43:37.35
So what is the reason
for keeping God's law?
00:43:37.38\00:43:41.38
Is that if that text is right,
it seem part of a good reason
00:43:41.42\00:43:47.12
to keep the law
is that lawful about.
00:43:47.16\00:43:51.43
Because as people
become more and more lawless
00:43:51.46\00:43:55.20
and we see that in
society around us...
00:43:55.23\00:43:57.50
As God's law is
removed from their hearts,
00:43:57.53\00:44:01.64
their love grows cold.
00:44:01.67\00:44:04.11
And when love grows
cold, the person becomes cruel.
00:44:04.14\00:44:07.91
You know, an
exacting and severe.
00:44:07.94\00:44:12.35
And so to me reason,
at least the big reason is
00:44:12.38\00:44:17.19
do you want love in your heart?
00:44:17.22\00:44:19.35
If you want love in your heart,
00:44:19.39\00:44:21.72
then you want God's
law ruling in your heart.
00:44:21.76\00:44:25.79
Amen.
00:44:25.83\00:44:28.16
So it would say that the
more you live by God's law,
00:44:28.20\00:44:35.10
the more loving
you should become.
00:44:35.14\00:44:39.04
If you're no becoming loving,
00:44:39.07\00:44:41.41
then maybe you're
not living by God's law.
00:44:41.44\00:44:44.78
Okay.
00:44:44.81\00:44:46.15
You know, some extra reading
that I had a chance to review.
00:44:46.18\00:44:52.72
It talked about the
story of the good Samaritan
00:44:52.75\00:44:55.29
and you'll find that in Luke 10,
00:44:55.32\00:44:57.06
we won't turn there,
only half a minute or so left.
00:44:57.09\00:45:00.03
But the good Samaritan
was a story about a man
00:45:00.06\00:45:06.13
who fell among thieves and
left on the side of the road
00:45:06.17\00:45:09.14
bleeding and dying, okay.
00:45:09.17\00:45:11.37
And some people who were
00:45:11.41\00:45:13.61
shall we say
pastors and Bible teachers
00:45:13.64\00:45:16.38
came walking behind.
00:45:16.41\00:45:18.55
And they were
so either concerned
00:45:18.58\00:45:21.22
about their own safety
or about becoming unclean
00:45:21.25\00:45:27.52
and not being able
to do their duties,
00:45:27.56\00:45:30.93
that they couldn't help the
man on the side of the road.
00:45:30.96\00:45:34.66
And so they just
left him and they pass by.
00:45:34.70\00:45:37.77
But then another fella
came by of another culture
00:45:37.80\00:45:43.30
who were despised.
00:45:43.34\00:45:45.64
In fact, they were
enemies of the Hebrew culture,
00:45:45.67\00:45:49.24
Samaritans were not friends.
00:45:49.28\00:45:52.28
And yet he lived out
the law of God in his heart.
00:45:52.31\00:45:57.99
He took pity... Yes.
00:45:58.02\00:46:00.16
He had love and
compassion for the man
00:46:00.19\00:46:02.46
lying on the side of the road.
00:46:02.49\00:46:03.83
That's good.
00:46:03.86\00:46:05.19
And took and helped him,
put him on his own vehicle,
00:46:05.23\00:46:09.03
here I might say is donkey.
00:46:09.06\00:46:10.87
He bound his wounds... Yeah.
00:46:10.90\00:46:13.30
He took him to a nice
motel, not to Motel 6,
00:46:13.34\00:46:17.64
but I mean to a Hilton.
00:46:17.67\00:46:19.01
All right. Okay,
took him to the Hilton.
00:46:19.04\00:46:20.74
All right.
00:46:20.78\00:46:22.11
Paid for his room, he got
breakfast there in the morning
00:46:22.14\00:46:25.11
that was on the
hotel you know, and...
00:46:25.15\00:46:27.55
Paid for him. He
paid for him, okay.
00:46:27.58\00:46:30.12
So that is where the rule of God
00:46:30.15\00:46:35.59
governs a person's life.
00:46:35.62\00:46:37.83
You're more like
the good Samaritan
00:46:37.86\00:46:40.26
than the Bible teachers
and the pastor who walked away
00:46:40.30\00:46:43.57
because they didn't
want to become defiled.
00:46:43.60\00:46:46.17
Amen. Good, amen. That's right.
00:46:46.20\00:46:48.10
You know, the scripture that
comes to my mind of God's law
00:46:48.14\00:46:52.97
is what does the
word say, if you love me,
00:46:53.01\00:46:56.34
how do you show me
you really love God.
00:46:56.38\00:46:58.18
Keep my commandments.
00:46:58.21\00:46:59.55
Keep my commandments.
00:46:59.58\00:47:01.42
Well, Jill, on Thursday,
00:47:01.45\00:47:03.99
you're gonna cap this
off with pursuing holiness.
00:47:04.02\00:47:07.52
Amen.
00:47:07.56\00:47:08.89
The scripture
that came to my mind
00:47:08.92\00:47:10.43
before we jump
into pursuing holiness,
00:47:10.46\00:47:12.29
while you were talking.
00:47:12.33\00:47:13.66
Romans 13:10, "Love is
the fulfilling of the law."
00:47:13.70\00:47:20.20
So it's a good.
00:47:20.24\00:47:21.57
Exactly goes on, love is
the fulfilling of the law.
00:47:21.60\00:47:24.07
So on Thursday, we
look at pursuing holiness,
00:47:24.11\00:47:27.38
becoming like God, becoming
in the character of Jesus.
00:47:27.41\00:47:32.61
And the lesson said,
"Holiness is the precondition
00:47:32.65\00:47:36.45
for enjoying the happiness
of fellowship with God.
00:47:36.48\00:47:39.59
It is also the precondition
for our usefulness to God."
00:47:39.62\00:47:45.16
We're not talking about self
sanctification by self-effort.
00:47:45.19\00:47:50.70
We're talking
about dying to self
00:47:50.73\00:47:53.57
and allowing the Holy
Spirit to do his work,
00:47:53.60\00:47:57.57
the agent of sanctification,
00:47:57.61\00:47:59.54
his work in our
hearts and lives.
00:47:59.57\00:48:02.31
I think of the lawns
of sowing and reaping.
00:48:02.34\00:48:04.71
You know, Galatians,
00:48:04.75\00:48:06.11
"Whatsoever man sows,
that shall he also reap.''
00:48:06.15\00:48:10.12
If we sow a
thought, we reap a feeling.
00:48:10.15\00:48:13.99
So a feeling reap an action.
00:48:14.02\00:48:17.93
So when action reap a habit,
so a habit reap a character.
00:48:17.96\00:48:24.37
So a character
reap your destiny.
00:48:24.40\00:48:27.54
And all goes back
to the beginning...
00:48:27.57\00:48:30.11
With your
thought. What you think.
00:48:30.14\00:48:31.57
As a man thinks in
his heart so is he...
00:48:31.61\00:48:35.28
I remember, Greg
and I were in Florida,
00:48:35.31\00:48:37.01
this is probably a
couple of years ago.
00:48:37.05\00:48:38.75
And we went to the zoo.
00:48:38.78\00:48:40.78
We like going to the zoo,
just seeing God's creation.
00:48:40.82\00:48:44.45
So we were at the
big cats, you know,
00:48:44.49\00:48:47.66
the lions and the
leopards and the tigers.
00:48:47.69\00:48:52.59
So this was one of
the leopard's cages,
00:48:52.63\00:48:54.93
and I don't remember
what kind of leopard it was.
00:48:54.96\00:48:58.10
But I remember he had
a pretty good size cage.
00:48:58.13\00:49:01.20
But when Greg and I were there,
00:49:01.24\00:49:03.00
he walked down
this side of the cage
00:49:03.04\00:49:04.84
right against the wire.
00:49:04.87\00:49:06.21
Down this side,
he got to the end,
00:49:06.24\00:49:07.81
he turned around
and he came back.
00:49:07.84\00:49:09.64
And then he turned around
and he went back and forth,
00:49:09.68\00:49:13.11
and back and forth.
00:49:13.15\00:49:15.78
And the grass was
lush and beautiful,
00:49:15.82\00:49:18.99
but where he was
walking there was no grass.
00:49:19.02\00:49:22.59
And not only wasn't just dirt,
00:49:22.62\00:49:25.36
there was a rut
where he had walked.
00:49:25.39\00:49:28.86
And not only
was he walking there
00:49:28.90\00:49:30.37
that day we were at the zoo.
00:49:30.40\00:49:32.10
He probably
walked there everyday
00:49:32.13\00:49:33.60
in order to
form such a deep rut.
00:49:33.64\00:49:36.91
It reminds me of our thoughts.
00:49:36.94\00:49:38.74
I can think about
things of the world.
00:49:38.77\00:49:43.65
Things of my own selfishness,
my pride, my self pity,
00:49:43.68\00:49:50.02
wallowing that back and forth,
00:49:50.05\00:49:52.82
and back and forth over
by the power of God's spirit.
00:49:52.85\00:49:56.76
I can say, God, I
want to think a new way.
00:49:56.79\00:50:00.56
I want a new thought.
00:50:00.60\00:50:02.93
It reminds me of
Romans 12, it says,
00:50:02.96\00:50:05.80
"Be not conformed to this
world but be transformed."
00:50:05.83\00:50:09.84
In the Greek the
word is metamorphous
00:50:09.87\00:50:12.27
like a butterfly,
completely transformed,
00:50:12.31\00:50:15.31
changed by the
renewing of your mind.
00:50:15.34\00:50:19.75
So God wants to change us
by changing the way we think.
00:50:19.78\00:50:24.65
It all begins
with the way we think.
00:50:24.69\00:50:26.79
So we're going to
look at two questions here.
00:50:26.82\00:50:29.49
Mollie, said I
have questions today.
00:50:29.52\00:50:31.39
We're going to
look at two questions.
00:50:31.43\00:50:33.23
What type of character
does God want us to develop
00:50:33.26\00:50:35.73
and we've been
discussing that this whole time,
00:50:35.76\00:50:37.67
a Holy
character just like Jesus.
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And how is this
character developed?
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Psalm 15.
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Turn in your Bibles to Psalm 15.
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I'm in Proverbs, I
need to get to Psalm.
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It's all right,
you'll get there.
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Psalm 15,
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and my Bible has subtitles
at the start of each chapter
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and the subtitle
for Psalm 15 says,
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"The character of those
who may dwell with the Lord."
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First one, "Lord, who may
abide in your tabernacle?"
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The word abide
literally means sojourn.
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"Who may dwell
in your holy hill?
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Dwell means to
settle down for a while.
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So we're talking about
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who's going to
actually dwell with Jesus.
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You think the tabernacle in
the Old Testament, God said,
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"Let them make me a sanctuary
that I may dwell with them."
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Sit down and settle down.
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He who walks, so
who can dwell with God?
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I think of this is who
can spend eternity with Jesus?
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Who is fit to
dwell with God forever?
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Who can dwell?
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He who walks uprightly,
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and that word uprightly means
complete whole or blameless.
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We talked about
that word blameless.
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"He who walks uprightly,
and works righteousness,
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and speaks the
truth in his heart."
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We don't have time to
read all the verses here.
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They say the Jewish tradition.
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It says that all 613
commandments of the Torah
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are in this one Psalm.
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All the
commandments in this one Psalm.
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And they say you can
even find the Ten Commandments
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in this one Psalm.
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God's character, who
is righteous and holy.
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God wants us to
develop that type of character
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'cause He wants to
spend eternity with us.
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But how is that developed,
let's look at Ephesians 4.
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Now Pastor Kenny talked about,
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I think it was you,
talk about beholding Jesus?
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I love that, beholding Jesus.
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Ephesians 4.
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And as we behold Jesus,
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as we're turning to Ephesians 4,
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I think beholding
Jesus is not a momentary fix.
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It's not a quick.
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I'll spend time in
God's word, I'm done.
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I got it. I go on about my day.
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We're talking
about a consistent,
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constant beholding.
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I remember a story
and my husband Greg
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and he would tell the story.
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Where he was driving on 57
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and you know it's very flat
in same the dotted white line,
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you know not a lot of variety.
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So all of a sudden there
comes a pothole in front of him.
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And he expertly turned the wheel
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and avoided the pothole.
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Well, then he decided to
see how the guy behind him,
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if he avoided
the pothole or not.
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Oh, oh.
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So just when he looked in
the rearview mirror to see...
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Oh, oh lookout now.
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Is the guy behind me avoiding
the pothole like I just did?
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He hit an even bigger pothole
than the one he had avoided.
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So when God calls
us to behold Jesus,
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we don't look behind us and say,
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I wonder how
Brian's keeping up with me.
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And you're ahead of
me, so I'm not saying that
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but I wonder how so
and so is keeping up,
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or we don't look to the
side, I wonder what's going on.
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We just look at
Jesus. Thank you.
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Study Him, behold Him.
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Ephesians 4: 22-24.
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Let's start in 20, "But
you have not so learned Christ,
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if indeed you have heard
Him and have been taught by Him,
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as the truth in Jesus.
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That you put off..."
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This is what He taught, Jesus.
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"That you put off
concerning your former conduct,
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the old man which grows corrupt
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according to
the deceitful lusts.
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So the first thing
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God calls us to put
off the old man surrender.
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Surrender myself
which is my worst enemy,
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surrender the sin that crops up.
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But we don't stop there,
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we don't just put
off and stay there.
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It says, "And be renewed
in the spirit of your mind."
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Amen.
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God calls us to be renewed
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to spend time
in the word of God.
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Amen.
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I think the word of
God is the most powerful
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life changing agent.
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Absolutely. Yeah. I know.
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The washing of
the water of the word,
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God wants to change us.
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Be renewed,
spend time in prayer.
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The lesson had a statement,
"When we are too busy to pray,
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we are too busy
to be Christians."
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Ooh, that's deep.
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Yeah, well.
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Put off the old man, be renewed
in the spirit of our mind
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and then we do
something, put on the new man.
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Amen.
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Which was
created according to God
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in true
righteousness and holiness.
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And I want to look at
one more scripture real fast,
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2 Timothy 2,
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2 Timothy 2: 20 and 21.
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"In a great house
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there are not only
vessels of gold and silver,
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but also of wood and clay",
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we're all different.
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"But some to honor
and some for dishonor."
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Oh, Lord Jesus, I do not
want to be a vessel of dishonor.
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It says, "If
anyone cleanse himself
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from the latter, from
that vessel of dishonor,
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God wants to purify us.
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He will be a vessel for honor,
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sanctified and
useful for the Master,
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prepared for every good work."
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God says, I want to change you
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and to make you
a vessel of honor
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so that you can in turn
pour out to other people.
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Amen. Yes.
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Comments. Yeah.
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We all want to be a vessel.
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We can't be that vessel
until we empty out the old,
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put on the new
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and move in the spirit
and power of the Holy Spirit.
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God will use us, I want to
be that pure vessel for Him.
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You know, something I think
this lesson today has shown us
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is that God has made
everything necessary for us.
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He never ask us to do anything
that He doesn't equip us to do.
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And He says, "Be ye
holy, for I'm holy."
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And then He turns right around
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and gives us
everything necessary
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for that holiness to
be at work within us.
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Amen.
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So life quest,
the life quest. Yes.
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It's not a
moment, just one moment,
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like I did this two
weeks ago and it's over.
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No, this is something that...
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Continue on. Yeah.
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And continue on.
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Amen.
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What I sure appreciate all
of you being with us today.
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Thank you.
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You've shared
beautifully from your hearts.
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And I want to go
ahead and encourage you
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to download next week's lesson,
so that you'll be prepared
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when you come to
watch us next week.
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We're always here
same time, same station.
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But I also want to
encourage you in this,
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if there is a
Seventh-day Adventist church
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in your community
and there probably is,
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find that church,
go and visit them.
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Take that Bible study with you.
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They have Sabbath school,
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every Sabbath morning
probably 9:30, 10 o'clock
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you can find the time.
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It's always good.
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The scripture says,
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"To forsake not the assembling
of ourselves together."
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So we want you to also
enjoy Sabbath school with us.
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So same time, same
station, next week.
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God bless you all.
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