As you're well aware,
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we're living in
unprecedented times.
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Join us now for
Today special program.
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and a great big welcome.
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We're glad
you're joining us today
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on 3ABN Today.
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We really have a Bible subject
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that you just
don't want to miss.
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It's one that
could go and go and go.
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And maybe it needs to be,
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there needs to be some clarity
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and we pray by
the grace of God today
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that it will be clear
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as we take time to
study the Word of God.
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As most of you know, when
we do a program like this,
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sometime we go
into parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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we're gonna try
to get by with one
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but you know if we
don't so what, why?
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Because they're
so very important
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and the subject is,
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again, one you've
heard a lot victory over sin,
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or what must I do to be saved?
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That should be a question
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that each one of us are
asking every day of our life,
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what must I do to be ready
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for the soon coming of Jesus
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with the condition of the world
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the way that it is?
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These questions are being asked,
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I want to say by the
millions of people every day.
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Many are examining their life,
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many are looking
at signs of the times
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and they're saying
Lord Jesus is soon to come.
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And then they look around say,
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am I really ready?
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And I think that
pertains to, to Christian...
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Amen.
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As Christian, not
just the world but to us,
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am I really ready to meet Jesus
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when He comes in
the clouds of heaven.
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And in our lesson,
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we're looking at the
slippery slope of sin.
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That's right. That's right.
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And it is, and so
we're gonna examine
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because we have sins
that we need to deal with.
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We have our faults,
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we have different things
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that I'm gonna
say repeated failures,
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repeated failures,
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do they really need to
take place in our life?
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Or does God have an answer
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for all of these that
He's going to give us grace
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and strength and power
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to be more than
conquerors through Christ?
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It's going to be some questions.
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We believe that each one of you,
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we pray you'll
have answer here today.
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We're going to use
as our foundation here,
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but I'd like to
have prayer first.
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Then go into Isaiah,
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it gives you time
to get your Bible,
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pencil and paper
and write this down.
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We're going to
read Isaiah 1:16-20.
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Isaiah 1:16-20,
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and I'm going to ask
each one to just read a verse,
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there happen to be
five of us and five verses.
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So that'll get us warmed
up and get us ready to go.
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Amen.
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Don't be shy and
get your Bible out.
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But first of all,
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we need to have prayer.
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This is again such
an exciting subject
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and I want to pray the
power of the Holy Spirit
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and, Brother Eric,
would you pray for us please?
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Absolutely, Kenny.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
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we are so
thankful to be here today,
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discussing a subject that
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that resonates in
all of our hearts.
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It's a subject
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that we can all learn from Lord,
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and please help us to
learn from this subject.
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Amen.
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Please fill each
of our hearts, Father,
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here with the Holy Spirit,
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and those watching
and those listening,
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so that we can
all gain from this
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and grow from this.
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We thank You,
Father, and we praise you
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in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Praise the Lord.
Thank you very much.
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I guess it'd be nice
maybe to maybe introduce
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the ones that are
here helping today
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and working along with us.
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We praise God for,
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it takes time and
energy and effort,
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but it's always such a blessing
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as we come
together to study the Word.
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And to my right my
wife, Sister Chris.
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Glad you're here as usual.
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Yeah, I'm glad to be here.
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Right arm,
sitting on my right side.
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Right arm, right?
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I'm very grateful
and thankful for her
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and for her love for Christ
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and always willingness to share
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Are you happy in Jesus
today? Oh, yes, no better place.
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Let show on your
face. There you go.
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Yes, no, I'm with you.
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Yeah, there's no better place
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where the Lord wants you to
be and working in his vineyard.
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Amen.
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Because it not
only blesses others,
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we pray but it's
a blessing to us.
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It flows both directions.
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Amen. Who do you
have on your right?
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I have Brother Ryan Day,
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our brother in the Lord,
our neighbor in the community
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and a good friend.
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We really
appreciate him and his family,
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and I know he
wears a lot of hats here.
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And before we start recording,
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they talked about singing
and it was kind of interesting.
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He said, you know,
everybody has a different gift.
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And I said,
would you like to talk
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about that some more.
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But we are blessed
by his singing as well.
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Praise the Lord. So
I'm glad that he's...
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I'm thankful he's...
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To me he's a
spiritual workhorse.
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Yeah. Can I say that?
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Spiritual workhorse,
because he just loves,
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he like the more that's put on
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and the more he
accepts it as ransom,
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says by the grace of God.
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Amen. Yeah.
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Praise God. I love it.
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It's good to be here. Amen.
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And then to your right
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with Sister Marilyn.
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Marilyn Durant. Good. Okay.
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So nice to have
them here, isn't it?
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It's a pleasure to be here.
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Thank you. Amen.
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You have somebody to your right
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that you're
familiar with, I'm sure.
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I do, my husband, Eric.
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Eric Durant, all right.
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It's good to be here.
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Yeah, I'm very, very blessed
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to have a wife and
a ministry to serve.
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And I just praise the Lord.
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Tell us a little about
what you do here at 3ABN?
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I'm the manager
of the call center
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and we take care
of all those orders
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and shipments going out.
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And it's a
wonderful group that I have.
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So...
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I know in the past,
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I've appreciated your
work over there very much.
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Sorry about
that. Eric, go ahead.
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Okay. I'm one of
the engineers here.
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And I basically
fix what's broken,
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do a lot of installing,
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right software
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and preach as much as I can.
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Whoo, glory.
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Everyone I can.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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I think maybe
he's doing it today.
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Oh, that's right.
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Working in a
little different area,
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but working for
the saving of souls.
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Praise God for that.
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Praise the Lord. Good.
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We'll gonna just jump
right into our lesson here.
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But Isaiah Chapter 1,
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and Sister Marilyn,
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we're going to ask
you to read verse 16.
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We let the ladies go
first 16, 17, Brother Eric 18.
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Brother Ryan 19,
and I'll do verse 20.
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Okay, Isaiah 16,
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"Wash yourself,
make yourself clean.
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Put away the evil of your doings
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from before my
eyes cease to do evil."
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"Learn to do
well, seek judgment,
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relieve the
oppressed, judge the fatherless,
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plead for the widow."
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"Come now, and let
us reason together,
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saith the Lord.
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Though your sins be a scarlet,
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they shall be white as snow.
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They shall be red like crimson,
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they shall be as wool."
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Hallelujah.
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It says, verse 19,
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"If you be willing and obedient,
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you shall eat the
good of the land."
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Amen.
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Verse 20, "But, starts
out, if you refuse and rebel,
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you shall be
devoured with the sword,
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for the mouth of
the Lord has spoken it."
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Man, that's pretty heavy duty.
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So we're gonna,
you know, description
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in Ephesians about God's Church,
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His glorious church
and how it's going to be
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when He's going
to come right here.
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But you know, it says here,
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but putting what
we're going to be talking
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about today in reality,
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you know, character changes.
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And I'll be, oh,
that's easy. This is a fight.
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This is a struggle,
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isn't that what
you read in Scripture.
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That's right.
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We fight we're
going to struggle,
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we need to
persevere, we have to endure.
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So this is more
than just saying, okay,
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well, I just know that
there's some character changes
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that need to take place
in our hearts, in our lives.
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And this next
paragraph is powerful.
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And then we begin
question number one, honey.
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Would you just read that for us?
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Sure.
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Well, you mentioned
that a lot of people think
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it's easier said than done
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now to live up
to the Word of God
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to have these
character changes in our lives.
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And this next
paragraph just reads,
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we believe that this
thought is a discouragement
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straight from the enemy
of souls and self, the devil.
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If he can discourage us
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to the point that
we no longer strive
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to turn away from sin,
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or to the point of giving
up and just trying completely,
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he claims
victory over our souls.
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The good news, listen to this,
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the good news is
we don't strive alone,
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our source of strength
and help us from above.
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It comes from the one
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who overcame the temptations
of the devil himself.
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And, of course, all of
us know at least I hope,
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you know, that is Christ
Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
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So there's good
news to start off with,
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you know, the devil
likes to discourage,
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he likes to make us depressed,
he wants us to give up.
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And I mean, a lot of
people have been in that valley.
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I've been in that valley.
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I've been in that
valley to the point
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that I wanted to just say,
okay, goodbye to the world,
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you know, but
praise God, by His grace,
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He kept making me
think about my kids
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and who's gonna
take care of them,
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who's gonna raise them
and so on and so forth.
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But that is the
work of the enemy,
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Jesus says, "I'm here.
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I'm gonna give you
strength, I want to help you.
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I'm gonna lift you up
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with the right hand
of My righteousness.
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One of my most favorite promises
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in Isaiah 41:10.
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So this is a
good place to start.
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Oh, isn't it though.
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Praise the Lord.
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So that's what we're praying.
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Right, we
already, you have prayer,
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and we've been
praying before the program,
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this will be a blessing.
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Again, we'll answer
some of the questions.
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That is,
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there's a big debate
going on, Brother Ryan.
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There's a debate going on.
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And you mentioned
something before the program,
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you get my attention on it.
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I think it'd be good
to share with the viewers,
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because of people say,
"Well, I know what it says."
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But it comes back
as a but sometimes.
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But this is the way we feel.
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So would you share
some of those thoughts?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So, you know, first of
all, I just want to highlight
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the fact going
back to Isaiah 1:18,
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actually that Eric read.
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I love how it starts out.
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It says come now and
let us reason together.
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Okay, this is,
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sometimes we
have to come together
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and reason together.
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This is one of those subjects,
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where the Lord
encourages us to come together,
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put our minds together,
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based upon the Word of
God and the Word of God alone.
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And let us reason
together in God's Word,
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to come to the conclusion
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of what God's Word
is actually saying,
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not our own perceived
theories, not our own ideas,
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not our own perceptions,
or personal theories.
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But we want to know
what does the Bible say?
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And you know,
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we're asking the
question here today,
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we're talking about,
you know, victory over sin.
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You know, the big sin
issue is, it's what separates us
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from the Lord,
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the Bible teaches
us that very clearly.
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And so, you know,
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there's so many
people out there that
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they're going to
answer that question,
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if you were to ask the masses,
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is it possible to have victory
over sin now in this life?
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The majority of
the Christian world,
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sadly to say would
probably answer that
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with a resounding no
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and it's based on
some misconceptions,
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some lies that
have been passed down,
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some deceptions that
have been passed down,
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not based upon the Word of God,
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but based on man's
theories, the devil's twisting
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and
manipulation of certain texts
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and ideas that are
not found in Scripture.
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And, you know,
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we're going to talk
about this, I'm sure.
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But the Bible says it...
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First of all
let's ask the question,
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what is sin?
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We're talking about sin. Yes.
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We can, can we have
victory over sin? What is sin?
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The Bible
teaches us in 1 John 3:4,
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that sin very simply put
is transgression of the law.
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It's transgression of God's law.
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And so if sin is
transgression of God's law,
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here's the question,
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then what is sin in
relation to my nature?
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I know that's a
big concept there.
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I just threw that out there
and someone right now may say,
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whoa, what is that?
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What did you just say
in relation to my nature,
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if sin is transgression
of the law, simply put,
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then is now sin a choice.
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In other words,
when I commit sin, right?
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I sinned against the
Lord and my choosing to do so.
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Or here's where this concept
of original sin comes in. Okay.
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And this is a very
dangerous ideology,
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a very dangerous teaching.
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But many, many Christians today
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believe in what's
called original sin.
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It's a... I'm just
gonna put it out there.
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It's a Jesuit Catholic doctrine
is not founded in Scripture.
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But it was written and
created by a Catholic scholar
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many, many, many centuries ago.
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And the idea is, is that well,
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you know, we inherited
this fallen nature from Adam.
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That's true, right?
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But because we've inherited
this fallen nature from Adam,
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then that means
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that I've
inherited this bad equipment,
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and I'm going to
have this bad equipment
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until Jesus comes
back in a second coming.
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Therefore, here's the logic,
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then I must be sinning
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all the way into the
second coming of Jesus.
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And so the idea is
from a person's perspective
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that believes in
this original sin concept
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that believes that
sin is not a choice,
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but rather who they
are, their natural response.
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I've heard somebody say, "Well,
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I sin almost as
constant as I breathe."
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Because they believe that
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because I've got
this bad equipment
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that's just what I do, I sin,
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I'm gonna always sin
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until Jesus comes
back until He changes me.
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Yeah. We're
asking, is it possible?
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Does the Bible teach this
all that I've just described?
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Or does the Bible teach us that
we can have victory over sin
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now in this life?
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And the question is, what
did Jesus come to die for?
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Jesus tells us
we're going to see
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as we go through these
texts, as we talk and discuss,
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you know, can we have
victory now in this life?
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Does Jesus want to give
us victory now over sin?
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Or are we going to
continue to live in sin
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until He returns
at a second coming?
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And that's what we're
going to be discussing.
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Right. Right.
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Amen. That's powerful.
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And you say a mouthful, isn't it
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when you think about
what he's talking about here?
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It just kind of
balance it up a little,
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thinking about living a
life that Christ live in you
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brings peace, you know,
and hope and encouragement,
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you know, a victory,
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and yet we, you know,
some teach that oh, my,
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you can just continue
on sin after sin after sin.
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That sounds more like
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a miserable Christian
than a happy Christian.
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What do you think?
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I've noticed,
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and I talk to a
lot of Christians.
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Okay.
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And they seem to think
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that Christianity
is a license to sin.
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Well.
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And I always
default to the argument.
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If you're pulled
over by a police officer
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and by grace, he lets you go.
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Does that give you a
license to continue speeding?
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And the answer is always no.
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So grace is not
a license to sin,
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neither is Christianity.
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That's right.
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And when I make that argument
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they can never
counter that argument.
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So we shouldn't use
Christianity as a license
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to do evil things.
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It's not. Okay.
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If we love the Lord, we
will keep His commandments.
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That's right. Amen.
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Amen.
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So, yeah, to me, it's a
good stepping stone here
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as we begin
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because again,
victory over sin is something.
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I mean, I read in Scripture,
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and I jotted
some of them down just
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and I don't
want to go into them.
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But I just want to
get in more stepping.
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When I read the Bible,
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and it says
certain things so clear
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and yet people interpret on the,
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maybe the way they would like
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their lifestyle maybe to go,
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or they just figured,
well, that's not what it says.
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Romans 6, it said, "I
need to be dead to sin."
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That's right.
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And then Romans
again 6 and 7 says,
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"We need to be free from sin."
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You know, like,
what does that mean?
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That, you know, again,
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sin shall not
have dominion over you.
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You know, when I read
that, what does it mean?
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Again, Jesus
said, will talk more,
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go and sin no more.
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What are these things really,
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He's able to
keep you from falling?
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So when you
look at these things,
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does it really
mean what it says?
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I always won... Go ahead.
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I always wondered
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if you could
continue sitting sinning,
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what's the purpose
of being born again?
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Right.
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There's no purpose
in being born again
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if I can continue sinning.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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It just never
made any sense to me.
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You know, I'd like to go
back because a lot of people,
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in fact, someone had just
wrote in recently to 3ABN,
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asking about,
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you know, how do we
have victory over sin?
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And a lot of people with
what you were talking about
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with predestination
and all this stuff,
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that you ask,
what is the law to us?
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You know, Paul
says, "It's against us,
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that we're no
longer under the law."
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So people take that,
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and they misinterpret
what that actually means.
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We're no longer under the
law, because we are under grace,
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and we're obeying the law.
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And so the law is
no longer against us,
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because we're living it out.
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And he does go on
and give examples of how,
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you know, what he means by that.
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And you can go
to Romans Chapter 6
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and let's just look at
verses just real quick.
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Let's just look at verses 14.
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Okay.
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And then 15, it says,
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"For sins shall
not have dominion
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over you for you are no,
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you're not under the
law, but under grace.
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What then?
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Shall we sin,
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because we are
not under the law,
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but under grace?
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God forbid.
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Know ye not,
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that to whom ye yield yourselves
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servants to obey,
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his servants ye
are to whom ye obey,
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whether of sin unto death,
or of obedience unto life?
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So it's still
black and white issue.
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You know, we either
gonna yield our lives,
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our hearts, our minds,
our obedience to the enemy...
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That's right,
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You know, which leads to sin,
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which is
disobedience of the law of God,
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and or we're gonna
be under God's grace,
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we're gonna do it by
His strength and His power,
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we're going to
live up to the law
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as best as we possibly can.
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We're also told if we fail,
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we have an
advocate with the Father.
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Again, that's Jesus Christ.
He's the way, He's the door.
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He's everything,
He's every breath we take,
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you know.
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So we have a choice here.
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And that's what Paul is saying,
we're no longer under the law,
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because we've
accepted Jesus Christ.
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Paul was living for Christ.
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So the law wasn't
against him anymore,
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or it was against him.
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But you know what I'm saying?
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It wasn't
something that he was under,
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he wasn't in that
penalty of death anymore,
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because he was living in
the light of Jesus Christ.
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So there is, there is
so much here to cover.
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But it's really,
really, really good news.
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Because I've heard this argument
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for so many years,
we just can't do it.
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Why try?
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I mean, especially
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when people
believe in once saved,
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always saved, I
believe in Christ, I'm saved.
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But yet they'll
drink, they'll smoke,
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they'll watch anything.
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They don't go to church.
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Well I accepted Him
when I was 12 years old,
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I'm saved.
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You know, may rob
a bank, I don't know.
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They don't have to obey,
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because they believe
they're in a saving condition.
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But is that what
the Bible teaches?
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Does it teach that Christ
says, well, Sister Marilyn,
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I just want you to obey
the laws some of the time,
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I just want you to
sin some of the time,
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just kind of pull
away from some of them,
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but you can keep
some, or does he say,
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we need to do away
completely with sin?
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And then what does that
mean? And how do we do that?
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And I think the
reason we get so discouraged,
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is because we
know we're failures,
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we know ourselves
better than anybody.
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God knows us better
than we know ourselves,
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but than anybody else.
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We know how we
think, we know our desires.
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So is there a process
that we as Christians,
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who have accepted
Christ into our heart
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and want Him as
our Lord and Savior?
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Is there a process
that we can daily live by,
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that will create in us a
new heart and a right spirit?
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Is there a process...
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Hadley selected
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the first
question then that really.
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You think about here.
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Is it even possible to
have a new birth in Christ
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and overcome sin in our lives?
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I mean, that's just
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a great big open
door right there.
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Eric?
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I think surrender
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is one of the most
difficult things for me
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as a Christian.
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But if you surrender,
you despise your sins.
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You don't want to sin anymore.
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You're disgusted by it
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if you're
surrendered to God and His will.
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In the military,
they've taught us
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never surrender.
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Never give up.
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Jesus says surrender.
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Surrender your heart to Me,
00:20:22.42\00:20:23.75
so that I can put
the Holy Spirit in you
00:20:23.79\00:20:26.02
that makes you
disdain your sins.
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Amen.
00:20:27.79\00:20:29.49
You mentioned
while ago, new birth,
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you know, why a new
birth if we continue on to do
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what we did things that
Paul says, I once loved,
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you know what?
00:20:37.27\00:20:38.60
I now hate, so
everything changes in our lives.
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That's right.
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Why go through a
new birth experience?
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What's the purpose of it,
but yet we see it stressed.
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You know, Brother
Ryan, well, I see it stressed
00:20:47.94\00:20:49.78
in Scripture over
and over and over,
00:20:49.81\00:20:51.91
that I need to be, I
need to be converted.
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Is that Matthew
18? That's right.
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Where he talks about
00:20:56.42\00:20:57.75
that there needs to
be a conversion process.
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That's what Jesus said to Peter.
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Satan wants to sift
you as wheat, Peter.
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But I'm praying for you
that when you are converted,
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you can strengthen the brethren.
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So there is such
thing as conversion.
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In fact, it's powerful.
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We're talking about
victory over sin overcoming.
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It's funny.
00:21:16.71\00:21:18.04
It's very interesting,
not funny, but interesting,
00:21:18.07\00:21:20.38
that Christ to all of
the different churches
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of Asian Minor in Revelation,
00:21:23.08\00:21:24.48
what does He say to
every single one of them?
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He says, He repeats two messages
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to every single one of them.
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Number one, he
says, I know your works.
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Each and every
one, I know your work,
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I know your
works, I know your works.
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I know your works.
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But at the end of each and
every one of those messages
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as He's giving
that hope to them,
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as He's trying to call
them out of their condition
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of whatever it may be.
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He says to each
and every one of them.
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He says, "To him who
overcomes, to him who overcomes,
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to him who overcomes,
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In fact, Revelation
right there to the Laodicea.
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He says to him
overcomes I will grant with him
00:21:54.04\00:21:56.04
to sit with Me and My
Father, sit with Me on My throne
00:21:56.08\00:21:59.85
as I sit with My
Father on His throne.
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To him who overcomes,
what are we overcoming?
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What is Christ, when He
says to him who overcomes?
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Jesus, excuse me.
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What am I overcoming?
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You're overcoming the world.
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You're overcoming
the sin of the world.
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Yes.
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In fact, it's
amazing when you consider it.
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I want to just
read this for a second.
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Because to me, you cannot even,
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let's say you've
never read the Bible,
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you've never read
the New Testament,
00:22:21.97\00:22:23.34
you're coming to know
this Jesus for yourself.
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And you let's say of all texts,
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or all passages
you want to start with
00:22:28.04\00:22:29.74
in Matthew Chapter 1.
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Let's say you want to
start with the gospels.
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Okay.
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Someone asked me today, Ryan,
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which gospel or which
book should I start with?
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Well, I always
encourage to start with Genesis,
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because the beginning
of the story is powerful,
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and it's important.
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But if you're going
to come to know Christ
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and the life of Christ,
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a good place to start
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would be the very first
gospel, the very first chapter.
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You're not even 21 verses
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into this first
chapter of Matthew,
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you've been introduced to
these genealogies of Christ.
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Now you come down to verse 21.
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And notice what it says,
speaking of Mary he says,
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"And she will bring forth a son,
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and you shall
call His name Jesus,
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for He will save His
people from their sin.
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Hallelujah.
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Okay, so notice there's
some, let's say, there's someone
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who's never read
the gospels before.
00:23:11.59\00:23:13.62
They're 21 verses in and
they're already being told
00:23:13.66\00:23:16.66
that Jesus has come
for the sole purpose
00:23:16.69\00:23:18.66
of saving His
people from their sins.
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Now, what does that mean?
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Right.
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Because if there's
someone right now watching,
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they're gonna say,
"Well, you know, I'm saved.
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You know, I'm saved
00:23:26.94\00:23:28.27
because Jesus
saved me from my sin."
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But what does that mean?
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The best
illustration I can give.
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If you're walking,
let's say we're walking,
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me and a friend is walking out
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in the middle of
the Serengeti in Africa,
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and a hungry lion jumps
out from behind the bush
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and starts mauling my friend.
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And my friend
is there screaming,
00:23:42.78\00:23:44.62
hollering from the distance.
00:23:44.65\00:23:46.82
Save me from this
hungry lion, right?
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Oh, yeah.
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And you stand on the sideline,
and you're clapping and going,
00:23:50.03\00:23:52.39
"Oh, brother, I saved you.
00:23:52.43\00:23:55.96
You're saved."
00:23:56.00\00:23:58.23
And all the while
that lion is just eating,
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you're saved, hallelujah.
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You know, is it one
thing from the perspective,
00:24:03.24\00:24:05.87
that person being eaten
00:24:05.91\00:24:07.98
from that lion, or by that lion,
00:24:08.01\00:24:09.44
they're not going
to stand over there
00:24:09.48\00:24:10.81
and be praising,
oh, praise the Lord,
00:24:10.85\00:24:12.21
while I'm getting eaten by.
00:24:12.25\00:24:13.58
I'm saved.
00:24:13.62\00:24:14.95
No, no, no, you're
not saved from the lion
00:24:14.98\00:24:16.65
until you're saved
from the lion until the lion
00:24:16.69\00:24:19.65
is no longer in your presence
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until it's no
longer attacking you.
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And so the point, I know,
it's a silly illustration.
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But there is a difference
00:24:25.26\00:24:26.59
between saving
in and saving from.
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And so a lot of people
have this concept that saved
00:24:29.23\00:24:31.73
from their sins means
00:24:31.77\00:24:33.10
that they're going to
continue to live in sin.
00:24:33.13\00:24:35.07
But that's not, that's not Jesus
00:24:35.10\00:24:36.91
saving you from your sins.
00:24:36.94\00:24:38.27
That's the false
concept of Jesus saving you
00:24:38.31\00:24:40.74
in your sin,
00:24:40.78\00:24:42.11
which is nowhere
found in Scripture.
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No, it's not.
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Probably one of
the most powerful texts
00:24:44.88\00:24:46.21
that really confirm this.
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And I'm going to go there
00:24:47.62\00:24:48.95
because it's probably
00:24:48.98\00:24:50.32
one of the most
heavy hitting passages
00:24:50.35\00:24:51.69
in all of Scripture.
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And then we can
discuss the language of this
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because it's a
very strong language.
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1 John Chapter 3.
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Let's go to 1 John Chapter 3,
00:24:57.86\00:24:59.19
probably in no
other part of Scripture
00:24:59.23\00:25:01.36
is it made more
clear of God's feelings
00:25:01.40\00:25:04.67
and His attitude towards sin
00:25:04.70\00:25:06.67
than right here in this passage.
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1 John Chapter 3,
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and I'm going to start
reading from verse 4 onward.
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So 1 John 3:4 and onwards.
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So notice what
the Bible says here.
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So we read this earlier.
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It says, "Whosoever commits
sin also commits lawlessness,
00:25:19.88\00:25:22.75
for sin is lawless."
00:25:22.78\00:25:24.12
King James Version says,
00:25:24.15\00:25:25.49
"Sin is
transgression of the law."
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But notice what
John continues to write
00:25:27.72\00:25:29.79
on the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit.
00:25:29.82\00:25:31.59
And tell me if
this isn't powerful.
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Starting with
verse 5 here, it says,
00:25:34.16\00:25:35.86
"And you know
that he was manifest
00:25:35.90\00:25:38.73
to take away our sins,
00:25:38.77\00:25:41.70
He being Christ came
to take away our sins.
00:25:41.74\00:25:45.87
And in him there is no sin."
00:25:45.91\00:25:48.88
Amen. Come on.
00:25:48.91\00:25:50.25
Now a lot of
people want to stop there
00:25:50.28\00:25:51.61
and go praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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And in Jesus there's no
sin, He was perfect, right?
00:25:54.38\00:25:55.72
But notice what it continues
to say, verse 6 and onward.
00:25:55.75\00:25:58.79
"Whoever abides
in Him does not sin.
00:25:58.82\00:26:03.46
Whoever sins neither
seen Him or known Him.
00:26:03.49\00:26:07.63
Little children,
let no one deceive you.
00:26:07.66\00:26:09.96
He who practices
righteousness is righteous,
00:26:10.00\00:26:12.87
just as He is righteous."
00:26:12.90\00:26:15.24
In verse 8, "He who
sins is of the devil,
00:26:15.27\00:26:18.34
for the devil has
sinned from the beginning.
00:26:18.37\00:26:20.34
For the purpose of the
Son of God was manifest
00:26:20.38\00:26:22.64
that He might
destroy the works of,"
00:26:22.68\00:26:24.95
what did He come to do?
00:26:24.98\00:26:26.31
Destroy.
00:26:26.35\00:26:27.68
He came to
destroy, not continue in,
00:26:27.72\00:26:30.09
but to destroy the
works of the devil.
00:26:30.12\00:26:32.19
We're in verse 9,
"Whoever has been born of God,"
00:26:32.22\00:26:34.29
there's born of God,
there's that recreation,
00:26:34.32\00:26:37.23
there's that conversion concept.
00:26:37.26\00:26:39.43
"Whoever is born
of God does not sin
00:26:39.46\00:26:41.40
for His seed remains in him,
00:26:41.43\00:26:42.86
and he cannot sin
00:26:42.90\00:26:44.23
because he has
been born of God."
00:26:44.27\00:26:48.00
Let's address the
elephant in the room.
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Yes.
00:26:49.40\00:26:50.74
Is this passage
saying that a person
00:26:50.77\00:26:52.87
who is converted will
never ever commit a sin again?
00:26:52.91\00:26:56.68
You know, I believe
that this is speaking
00:26:56.71\00:26:58.11
of the habitual practice of sin.
00:26:58.15\00:26:59.91
That's right.
00:26:59.95\00:27:01.28
Christ has come to save
us from that old lifestyle.
00:27:01.32\00:27:04.12
2 Corinthians 5-17.
00:27:04.15\00:27:05.49
Yes. Okay?
00:27:05.52\00:27:06.86
What does 2
Corinthians 5:17 tell us?
00:27:06.89\00:27:09.22
It says that, "All
things have passed away,
00:27:09.26\00:27:12.99
behold all things become new."
00:27:13.03\00:27:14.43
He wants to
create a new creature.
00:27:14.46\00:27:16.73
And so in this case,
our old habitual sinful life
00:27:16.77\00:27:20.30
is passed away.
00:27:20.34\00:27:21.77
Now He's created
in us a new heart,
00:27:21.80\00:27:24.31
a new desire, a new way of life.
00:27:24.34\00:27:26.91
That doesn't mean that a
righteous man won't fall.
00:27:26.94\00:27:29.61
Remember Proverbs Chapter 24,
00:27:29.64\00:27:31.41
a righteous man
may fall seven times,
00:27:31.45\00:27:33.31
but the difference
between the righteous man
00:27:33.35\00:27:35.48
and the unrighteous
is that the righteous man
00:27:35.52\00:27:37.35
gets back up and presses forward
00:27:37.39\00:27:39.49
and does not
continue to live in that sin.
00:27:39.52\00:27:42.52
And so, I know I've
unpacked and unloaded a whole.
00:27:42.56\00:27:44.59
I feel like I've
just machine gunned
00:27:44.63\00:27:46.09
that just there.
00:27:46.13\00:27:47.46
But nonetheless, we're
talking about is it possible?
00:27:47.50\00:27:50.13
That's what
question one is asking.
00:27:50.17\00:27:51.83
Is it possible to
have that new birth?
00:27:51.87\00:27:53.80
And I've just mentioned
two or three different passages
00:27:53.84\00:27:56.17
just in this last few minutes,
00:27:56.20\00:27:57.97
but the Bible is
overwhelmingly clear
00:27:58.01\00:27:59.81
that Christ has come
to save us not in our sin,
00:27:59.84\00:28:03.31
but from our sin.
00:28:03.35\00:28:04.68
Amen. Amen. That's right.
00:28:04.71\00:28:06.55
In Hebrews, if we sin,
00:28:06.58\00:28:10.05
we have an
advocate with the Father.
00:28:10.09\00:28:12.95
I think that just kind
of goes along with that.
00:28:12.99\00:28:15.59
So if we happen to
slip, if we happen to fall,
00:28:15.62\00:28:17.69
but you know, again,
there's character changes,
00:28:17.73\00:28:19.89
there's things that
take place in our life,
00:28:19.93\00:28:21.66
that we're not willfully sin.
00:28:21.70\00:28:24.93
Can I get... Yeah, sure.
00:28:24.97\00:28:26.43
In your lesson
here you talked about us
00:28:26.47\00:28:27.84
giving an illustration or story.
00:28:27.87\00:28:29.30
Let me illustrate
this for a moment.
00:28:29.34\00:28:30.67
Good. Okay.
00:28:30.71\00:28:32.04
Years ago, before
I was a Christian,
00:28:32.07\00:28:33.81
before I truly gave my
heart genuinely to Christ,
00:28:33.84\00:28:37.08
I had a really,
really bad anger problem.
00:28:37.11\00:28:40.45
I had a very filthy mouth.
00:28:40.48\00:28:44.29
I was, I cursed
with every other word.
00:28:44.32\00:28:46.86
That's my past.
I'm not proud of it.
00:28:46.89\00:28:48.49
But that was my old man.
00:28:48.52\00:28:49.99
That's who I was.
That was me pre Christ.
00:28:50.03\00:28:52.99
And so that was, I mean,
00:28:53.03\00:28:55.26
it was almost a
part of my vocabulary.
00:28:55.30\00:28:57.23
I was an angry
person, I spoke angry.
00:28:57.27\00:28:59.80
When somebody had a
conversation with me,
00:28:59.83\00:29:01.70
you could tell
that I was a bitter man.
00:29:01.74\00:29:04.17
And so the point is,
00:29:04.21\00:29:05.54
that before
Christ came into my life,
00:29:05.57\00:29:07.21
it was my habit.
00:29:07.24\00:29:08.58
It was a part of
my, myself, my old man,
00:29:08.61\00:29:11.28
that that's just who I was.
00:29:11.31\00:29:12.75
That's how I acted.
That's how I chose to speak.
00:29:12.78\00:29:15.58
Yes. Now enters Christ.
00:29:15.62\00:29:18.12
When I accept
Jesus into my heart,
00:29:18.15\00:29:19.92
and I had a
conversion experience, okay?
00:29:19.95\00:29:23.16
Jesus, as I came to Him,
00:29:23.19\00:29:25.19
and I asked him
to come into my heart
00:29:25.23\00:29:27.60
and to change me, He
sanctified me from that.
00:29:27.63\00:29:31.67
He took that from me,
00:29:31.70\00:29:34.00
because I gave
it to Him willfully.
00:29:34.04\00:29:35.47
And I said, "Lord,
00:29:35.50\00:29:36.84
I don't want to
be like this anymore.
00:29:36.87\00:29:38.21
I don't want to
speak like this anymore.
00:29:38.24\00:29:39.57
What I generally
want You to change me."
00:29:39.61\00:29:41.24
Now, in that first,
you know, week or two,
00:29:41.28\00:29:43.85
sometimes I would slip up,
00:29:43.88\00:29:45.71
you know, and I
might say something that,
00:29:45.75\00:29:47.28
but nonetheless,
00:29:47.32\00:29:48.65
I started to notice a week out,
00:29:48.68\00:29:50.85
two weeks out, three weeks out,
00:29:50.89\00:29:52.75
four weeks out, a
month out, six months out.
00:29:52.79\00:29:55.42
Before you know what?
00:29:55.46\00:29:56.79
Eight months down the road,
I'm looking back and I'm like,
00:29:56.83\00:29:58.69
"Whoa! What has happened?"
00:29:58.73\00:30:00.80
I'm not the same person
because Christ changed me.
00:30:00.83\00:30:04.13
He took that old
man, He wiped it away,
00:30:04.17\00:30:07.50
He cleansed it and
now I became a new person.
00:30:07.54\00:30:09.84
My vocabulary
changed, my attitude changed,
00:30:09.87\00:30:12.91
my perception on life
changed, my spiritual vision,
00:30:12.94\00:30:16.54
my understanding changed.
00:30:16.58\00:30:18.21
Now, here's the thing.
00:30:18.25\00:30:19.58
Let's fast
forward, I don't know,
00:30:19.61\00:30:22.95
13 years later, okay?
00:30:22.98\00:30:25.15
Does that mean
00:30:25.19\00:30:26.52
that I would have
never ever dropped
00:30:26.55\00:30:29.72
an accidental bad word?
00:30:29.76\00:30:31.36
Okay, the point is,
00:30:31.39\00:30:32.73
you know, there's
really it's no accident.
00:30:32.76\00:30:34.10
You choose to do
that when sin is a choice.
00:30:34.13\00:30:36.10
But nonetheless, have I?
00:30:36.13\00:30:37.47
I'm not going to sit here
00:30:37.50\00:30:38.83
and like, what, I've not sinned.
00:30:38.87\00:30:40.20
I've not cursed in 13 years.
00:30:40.24\00:30:41.70
But what is the difference?
00:30:41.74\00:30:43.10
It might have been 10
years before I said that word.
00:30:43.14\00:30:46.24
And then one day it
came, it popped in my mind.
00:30:46.27\00:30:48.38
I said it.
00:30:48.41\00:30:50.28
And I immediately went to
the Lord in prayer and said,
00:30:50.31\00:30:52.38
"Lord, my old man
came back for a moment."
00:30:52.41\00:30:54.38
Yeah.
00:30:54.42\00:30:55.75
"Lord, I'm
praying in Jesus' name
00:30:55.78\00:30:57.12
that You crucify
that old man entity."
00:30:57.15\00:30:59.35
You're telling us the key
here about victory over sin
00:30:59.39\00:31:01.79
is if we sin, we slip.
00:31:01.82\00:31:04.99
In other words, the
devil catches us unaware.
00:31:05.03\00:31:06.63
We're not thinking
about it, boom, boom.
00:31:06.66\00:31:08.26
But if our mind is
stayed upon Christ,
00:31:08.30\00:31:09.93
that will happen, but if we...
00:31:09.96\00:31:11.30
Okay.
00:31:11.33\00:31:12.67
But what do we do immediately?
00:31:12.70\00:31:14.04
Immediately we go
and we confess that sin.
00:31:14.07\00:31:16.10
We don't leave out till
the right time or prayer time.
00:31:16.14\00:31:18.84
Right then and there,
00:31:18.87\00:31:20.21
oh, Lord, I
shouldn't have said that.
00:31:20.24\00:31:21.58
The difference between
the one person I used to be
00:31:21.61\00:31:23.78
and the person then is that
00:31:23.81\00:31:25.95
before it was
my habitual choice,
00:31:25.98\00:31:28.42
my habit of
life to live in that.
00:31:28.45\00:31:31.05
Now I don't, that's
not my habit anymore.
00:31:31.09\00:31:33.39
I don't do that every day.
00:31:33.42\00:31:34.76
I don't say
those things every day.
00:31:34.79\00:31:36.12
I'm not like that anymore.
00:31:36.16\00:31:37.49
But when I, if I
occasionally make
00:31:37.53\00:31:39.69
that bad choice,
00:31:39.73\00:31:41.06
because for a moment I
take my eyes off Christ.
00:31:41.10\00:31:43.23
I'm quick to flee
to the throne of grace
00:31:43.26\00:31:45.00
and repent and say,
"Lord, take that from me."
00:31:45.03\00:31:46.97
And again, that righteous
men may fall seven times,
00:31:47.00\00:31:49.60
but he gets back up
and he learns from it.
00:31:49.64\00:31:51.81
And he moves forward,
because he's not the same man
00:31:51.84\00:31:54.44
that he was before.
00:31:54.48\00:31:55.81
I can guarantee though,
00:31:55.84\00:31:57.18
I can guarantee
you it wasn't just the,
00:31:57.21\00:31:59.51
I accept Jesus
and then it was done.
00:31:59.55\00:32:02.75
You were walking
through the sanctuary
00:32:02.78\00:32:04.62
that why way oh God,
that's what you think.
00:32:04.65\00:32:05.99
You're sorrow for it.
00:32:06.02\00:32:07.36
You're sorrow for it,
00:32:07.39\00:32:08.72
not only that,
but you were praying,
00:32:08.76\00:32:10.29
you were
studying, you were sharing.
00:32:10.33\00:32:11.89
That's right.
00:32:11.93\00:32:13.26
You know, in the
first compartment
00:32:13.29\00:32:14.63
of the sanctuary,
00:32:14.66\00:32:16.00
we learn about those things.
00:32:16.03\00:32:17.37
Those things are vital
00:32:17.40\00:32:18.73
that we eat of
the word every day
00:32:18.77\00:32:20.20
that we drink of it every day
00:32:20.24\00:32:21.94
that we're sharing with
others what God is doing for us.
00:32:21.97\00:32:24.81
That's how it began to change.
00:32:24.84\00:32:26.71
That's when your life changes.
00:32:26.74\00:32:28.24
I've said it many, many times.
00:32:28.28\00:32:29.84
You know, for years,
00:32:29.88\00:32:31.38
I didn't have a
real good study habit.
00:32:31.41\00:32:34.25
But once I began to say,
00:32:34.28\00:32:35.78
"Okay, before I
eat any physical food,
00:32:35.82\00:32:37.82
I'm gonna eat of
the spiritual food."
00:32:37.85\00:32:39.75
My life began to change
00:32:39.79\00:32:42.59
and things were different.
00:32:42.62\00:32:43.96
I want to share
something that just reiterates
00:32:43.99\00:32:45.89
what he read in Scripture.
00:32:45.93\00:32:47.30
And then I want
to throw it to you,
00:32:47.33\00:32:49.50
my dear sister,
because I don't think
00:32:49.53\00:32:51.60
we've heard enough
of your sweet voice.
00:32:51.63\00:32:53.64
And I'd like for you to
answer question number one.
00:32:53.67\00:32:55.87
We're giving it in
a roundabout way here,
00:32:55.90\00:32:58.14
but I think you can bring
00:32:58.17\00:32:59.51
into a concise
manner for us, okay?
00:32:59.54\00:33:01.88
This quote is found in
Desire of Ages pages 311.
00:33:01.91\00:33:05.68
It says, "God's
ideal for His children
00:33:05.71\00:33:08.42
is higher than the
highest human thought
00:33:08.45\00:33:10.59
can reach."
00:33:10.62\00:33:11.95
Isn't that beautiful?
00:33:11.99\00:33:13.32
He doesn't see where
you are Brother Eric,
00:33:13.36\00:33:15.26
He doesn't see where I am.
00:33:15.29\00:33:16.69
He doesn't see where I've been.
00:33:16.73\00:33:18.06
Yeah. He sees what I can be.
00:33:18.09\00:33:19.89
I like that now.
00:33:19.93\00:33:21.63
That's exciting.
That is exciting.
00:33:21.66\00:33:24.33
"Be ye therefore perfect,
00:33:24.37\00:33:26.87
even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect."
00:33:26.90\00:33:29.87
We know that's a
quote from Scripture.
00:33:29.90\00:33:31.97
This command is a promise.
00:33:32.01\00:33:34.78
Listen to this.
00:33:34.81\00:33:36.14
The plan of
redemption contemplates
00:33:36.18\00:33:38.01
our complete
recovery from the power...
00:33:38.05\00:33:40.58
our complete recovery
from the power of Satan.
00:33:40.62\00:33:45.45
How did Daniel stand in faith
00:33:45.49\00:33:48.62
and be thrown
into the lions' den?
00:33:48.66\00:33:50.56
How did Shadrach, Meshach,
00:33:50.59\00:33:52.23
and Abednego stand in faith
00:33:52.26\00:33:54.13
and not bow down
to that false worship,
00:33:54.16\00:33:56.87
that false image?
00:33:56.90\00:33:58.23
That's right.
00:33:58.27\00:33:59.60
They had enough faith
00:33:59.63\00:34:00.97
that they were
willing as Christ did to die
00:34:01.00\00:34:03.17
rather than sin.
00:34:03.20\00:34:04.54
So part of this
perfection is faith in Jesus,
00:34:04.57\00:34:09.58
faith in His Word.
00:34:09.61\00:34:10.95
Even if we don't
fully understand it,
00:34:10.98\00:34:13.01
this is what God's Word says.
00:34:13.05\00:34:14.48
I believe it.
00:34:14.52\00:34:15.85
I accept it, and
I'm gonna stand on it.
00:34:15.88\00:34:17.89
Okay, let me continue.
Whoo! I just lost my screen.
00:34:17.92\00:34:20.79
Can I say
something before we go...?
00:34:20.82\00:34:22.16
Yes, right, go ahead.
00:34:22.19\00:34:23.53
It's a 180
degree transformation.
00:34:23.56\00:34:26.49
Amen. Yes.
00:34:26.53\00:34:27.86
And I claim that transformation.
00:34:27.90\00:34:29.46
Praise God.
00:34:29.50\00:34:30.83
Because when I look at
who I was a gang member
00:34:30.87\00:34:33.57
in Brooklyn,
00:34:33.60\00:34:34.94
Brooklyn and
Queens running the streets
00:34:34.97\00:34:36.67
doing all kinds of wickedness.
00:34:36.71\00:34:38.41
And I tell Marilyn
some of these stories.
00:34:38.44\00:34:40.68
She says, I
don't see that in you.
00:34:40.71\00:34:42.04
Good.
00:34:42.08\00:34:43.41
That's the best
feeling in the world.
00:34:43.45\00:34:45.95
It's not wariness.
00:34:45.98\00:34:48.55
I'm ashamed of
it, not proud of it.
00:34:48.58\00:34:50.82
No. Can't do it if you paid me.
00:34:50.85\00:34:53.25
It's 180 degree transformation
in your character.
00:34:53.29\00:34:56.52
Yes.
00:34:56.56\00:34:57.89
Do I slip up
every once in a while?
00:34:57.93\00:34:59.26
Do I get angry
every once in a while?
00:34:59.29\00:35:01.00
You can't stop the birds
from flying over your head.
00:35:04.13\00:35:07.64
Oh, look out now.
00:35:07.67\00:35:09.00
But you can keep them
from camping out in your hair.
00:35:09.04\00:35:11.64
Now I don't have
a lot of hair left,
00:35:11.67\00:35:13.01
so I don't have to
worry about too much.
00:35:13.04\00:35:15.24
But I heard a
pastor say that once.
00:35:15.28\00:35:17.15
Yes. And I always remembered it.
00:35:17.18\00:35:19.28
You fall on your
knees like David did.
00:35:19.31\00:35:21.28
And you repent
and you move forward.
00:35:21.32\00:35:22.75
Amen.
00:35:22.78\00:35:24.12
You know, that's
something remind me there.
00:35:24.15\00:35:25.49
Marilyn, you can
go ahead with that
00:35:25.52\00:35:26.86
is one day I was
working doing all kinds of stuff
00:35:26.89\00:35:30.36
and I was in the truck.
00:35:30.39\00:35:31.73
And I just kind of
looked up to Lord, I said
00:35:31.76\00:35:33.40
everything in the
world has went wrong.
00:35:33.43\00:35:35.56
You know what I mean.
00:35:35.60\00:35:36.93
Everything I've went you
know, going to do is wrong.
00:35:36.97\00:35:39.47
Couldn't it really get,
you know, how you sometime
00:35:39.50\00:35:41.50
couldn't really get any worse.
00:35:41.54\00:35:43.61
And I had my arm out the
window sitting in the truck.
00:35:43.64\00:35:45.67
I said, couldn't
really get any worse.
00:35:45.71\00:35:47.38
About that time
a bird flew over.
00:35:47.41\00:35:50.15
I said, you know,
it just got worse.
00:35:50.18\00:35:52.58
You know, it's
just illustration,
00:35:52.61\00:35:53.95
the birds.
00:35:53.98\00:35:55.32
Like you said, I kept my arm in.
00:35:55.35\00:35:56.69
That's right.
00:35:56.72\00:35:58.05
Had I kept my walk with Christ,
00:35:58.09\00:35:59.42
maybe things
wouldn't have gotten worse.
00:35:59.45\00:36:01.02
And one things
is very interesting
00:36:01.06\00:36:02.92
is my mother always
gave the illustration
00:36:02.96\00:36:04.86
she said one
time to me, she said,
00:36:04.89\00:36:06.39
she did the pillow slips.
00:36:06.43\00:36:08.90
I might have
talked about it before.
00:36:08.93\00:36:10.90
Pillow slip for, I don't know...
00:36:10.93\00:36:12.33
Embroidery. Embroidery.
00:36:12.37\00:36:14.00
I've got it all together.
00:36:14.04\00:36:15.37
Embroidery, pillow
slips with pictures on them.
00:36:15.40\00:36:18.71
And so she showed me one time,
I thought man that looks good.
00:36:18.74\00:36:20.94
Oh, wow, that's, how's that.
00:36:20.98\00:36:22.51
She had it wrong
side out, number one.
00:36:22.54\00:36:24.48
She said, "Look at this."
00:36:24.51\00:36:25.85
It was like a water spaghetti.
00:36:25.88\00:36:28.12
There was thread
going over this way
00:36:28.15\00:36:30.55
different colors going here.
00:36:30.59\00:36:31.92
It was a
biggest mess I ever saw.
00:36:31.95\00:36:33.82
Right.
00:36:33.86\00:36:35.19
And then she turned
it right side, I looked,
00:36:35.22\00:36:36.56
there's a beautiful picture.
00:36:36.59\00:36:37.99
She said, from
heaven God looks down
00:36:38.03\00:36:40.76
and He sees the finished product
00:36:40.80\00:36:42.70
and what you can be through Him.
00:36:42.73\00:36:44.57
We look up, we
see a spaghetti mess
00:36:44.60\00:36:47.37
going in every
different direction
00:36:47.40\00:36:48.74
and there's no hope,
00:36:48.77\00:36:50.11
except we go to the Scripture.
00:36:50.14\00:36:51.47
So remember, God's looking
at what you can be through Him.
00:36:51.51\00:36:55.51
Marilyn, what do
you think about that?
00:36:55.54\00:36:56.88
Can I say is that possible?
00:36:56.91\00:36:58.25
If you don't mind
let me just finish this.
00:36:58.28\00:36:59.61
Go ahead.
00:36:59.65\00:37:00.98
And I want to say
00:37:01.02\00:37:02.35
can you imagine this is exactly
00:37:02.38\00:37:03.72
what Nicodemus
wanted to understand
00:37:03.75\00:37:05.09
when He talked about
being born again, right?
00:37:05.12\00:37:07.06
But I want to finish this quote
00:37:07.09\00:37:08.69
from Desire of
Ages again, page 311.
00:37:08.72\00:37:11.63
Christ always
separates the contrite heart
00:37:11.66\00:37:14.66
that truly
repentant heart from sin,
00:37:14.70\00:37:18.77
He came to destroy
the works of the devil,
00:37:18.80\00:37:21.34
and he has made pro...
00:37:21.37\00:37:22.74
He, Christ has made
provision that the Holy Spirit
00:37:22.77\00:37:27.41
shall be imparted
to every repentant soul
00:37:27.44\00:37:31.58
to keep him from sinning.
00:37:31.61\00:37:34.25
It's not our strength.
00:37:34.28\00:37:36.22
We don't have
strength within ourselves.
00:37:36.25\00:37:39.05
It's all about
allowing Him to come in
00:37:39.09\00:37:41.92
to repent from our sins.
00:37:41.96\00:37:43.49
Now, Sister
throwing it back to you.
00:37:43.53\00:37:45.43
All right. Okay.
00:37:45.46\00:37:47.53
Is it possible for us to
overcome sin in our lives?
00:37:47.56\00:37:50.40
Absolutely.
00:37:50.43\00:37:51.77
I think every day
it's a conversion.
00:37:51.80\00:37:54.40
Every minute we
have to look to Christ
00:37:54.44\00:37:57.34
to give us that strength.
00:37:57.37\00:37:58.71
And I think you all
have made valid points.
00:37:58.74\00:38:01.64
When we start out as Christian,
00:38:01.68\00:38:04.08
you know, we don't
have all the answers
00:38:04.11\00:38:08.78
but as we grow in
our walk in Christ,
00:38:08.82\00:38:11.52
we become stronger in
our as we lean on Him,
00:38:11.55\00:38:16.32
old habits are passed away.
00:38:16.36\00:38:18.59
Come on now. It's right.
00:38:18.63\00:38:20.30
Yes. So, yeah.
00:38:20.33\00:38:21.66
So I believe that I, you know,
but you have to stay in Christ
00:38:21.70\00:38:26.53
each and every day,
00:38:26.57\00:38:28.24
because Satan is always
there ready to tempt you.
00:38:28.27\00:38:32.57
And, yeah, so.
00:38:32.61\00:38:35.01
Isn't it?
00:38:35.04\00:38:36.38
I mean, isn't that wonderful
you think about and it's...
00:38:36.41\00:38:38.75
I don't wanna say story,
00:38:38.78\00:38:40.12
it's sharing
your life experience.
00:38:40.15\00:38:42.08
Brother Ryan did, Eric you did.
00:38:42.12\00:38:43.95
And each of our
hearts in our lives,
00:38:43.99\00:38:46.15
we see changes and
I look in the mirror,
00:38:46.19\00:38:48.46
I'm not happy with all that.
00:38:48.49\00:38:50.29
I know there's more
changes that need to take place.
00:38:50.33\00:38:53.06
And I noticed when if you slip
and you fall you do something,
00:38:53.09\00:38:56.00
he says what is it?
00:38:56.03\00:38:57.37
2 Corinthians 3:18.
00:38:57.40\00:38:59.00
You know, we look in that glass.
00:38:59.03\00:39:00.37
That's right.
00:39:00.40\00:39:01.74
And it's by
beholding we become changed.
00:39:01.77\00:39:03.10
That's right.
00:39:03.14\00:39:04.47
If I'm not
beholding on a regular basis,
00:39:04.51\00:39:06.21
the enemy is going to behold me.
00:39:06.24\00:39:07.58
That's right.
00:39:07.61\00:39:08.94
He's going to
take charge in my life.
00:39:08.98\00:39:10.31
So I need to behold Him.
00:39:10.35\00:39:11.81
And just quickly,
00:39:11.85\00:39:13.18
I think we start we
look at that question.
00:39:13.21\00:39:15.25
Is it really a reality?
00:39:15.28\00:39:16.82
And Isaiah 6:1-5.
00:39:16.85\00:39:20.56
Isaiah was given a in a vision
00:39:20.59\00:39:24.46
the throne, oh, glory,
the throne room of God.
00:39:24.49\00:39:26.33
That's right.
00:39:26.36\00:39:27.70
I mean, I'm getting
goosebumps right now.
00:39:27.73\00:39:29.46
He was on the throne,
00:39:29.50\00:39:30.83
again, the holy
and the Holy of Holies
00:39:30.87\00:39:33.84
he beheld glory of God.
00:39:33.87\00:39:36.77
And as he was beholding
the glory and the purity
00:39:36.81\00:39:39.27
and the majesty
and the power of God,
00:39:39.31\00:39:42.31
it changed his whole life.
00:39:42.34\00:39:45.21
You're thinking,
he's a man of God.
00:39:45.25\00:39:47.08
Woe is me. Good.
00:39:47.12\00:39:48.75
Bottom line, he
looked as he was beholding,
00:39:48.78\00:39:50.99
he said, "Woe is
me for I'm undone."
00:39:51.02\00:39:54.59
That's right.
00:39:54.62\00:39:56.46
If we come to that
point in our Christian life
00:39:56.49\00:39:58.39
and could have been
so can I say, puffed up,
00:39:58.43\00:40:01.50
so prideful sometime,
that we've got it made.
00:40:01.53\00:40:04.83
We got the message, you
know, we have the experience.
00:40:04.87\00:40:08.07
And as lady come to
me one time she said,
00:40:08.10\00:40:10.01
"Well, I know, pastor,
00:40:10.04\00:40:11.47
I've lived seven
years without sin."
00:40:11.51\00:40:14.04
I said, "Well, praise God.
00:40:14.08\00:40:15.41
Today, you might
have just blown it."
00:40:15.44\00:40:17.05
Well, be careful.
You know what I'm saying?
00:40:17.08\00:40:18.41
We need not have that,
00:40:18.45\00:40:19.78
you following
what I'm saying here?
00:40:19.81\00:40:21.15
Yes.
00:40:21.18\00:40:22.52
It's not try to
judge or to criticize her
00:40:22.55\00:40:23.89
for saying that.
00:40:23.92\00:40:25.25
It was the idea, if
sometime if we think
00:40:25.29\00:40:26.69
that we're not
striving to be more like Christ.
00:40:26.72\00:40:29.99
How many of us can
say, I'm just like Christ,
00:40:30.03\00:40:33.23
I have the mind of Christ.
00:40:33.26\00:40:34.93
So I told the story
many times, I pray for years,
00:40:34.96\00:40:37.13
Lord, I want to be,
I want to have wisdom,
00:40:37.17\00:40:38.83
spiritual
wisdom, not of the world,
00:40:38.87\00:40:40.37
I don't care
much about the world.
00:40:40.40\00:40:41.97
But give me the
Wisdom of Solomon
00:40:42.00\00:40:43.34
in spiritual things.
00:40:43.37\00:40:44.71
That's right.
00:40:44.74\00:40:46.07
And so the Lord returned,
00:40:46.11\00:40:47.44
after years of
going and doing that.
00:40:47.48\00:40:48.81
He finally said to
me, in my spirit one day,
00:40:48.84\00:40:50.18
"Kenny, what's
wrong with being like Me?"
00:40:50.21\00:40:53.88
That's what the scripture said.
00:40:53.92\00:40:55.25
It never said, "To pray
to be like Solomon", did it?
00:40:55.28\00:40:57.09
And, of course, the
end results, my lands.
00:40:57.12\00:40:59.72
But he said, "Pray that
we have the mind of Christ."
00:40:59.75\00:41:03.09
I have to have
the mind of Christ,
00:41:03.12\00:41:04.53
so that He helps
me and gives me power
00:41:04.56\00:41:06.49
to make the right
choice and decision.
00:41:06.53\00:41:08.53
Because I'm not
going to do that,
00:41:08.56\00:41:09.90
for years of
growing up in the church,
00:41:09.93\00:41:11.73
I beheld more of the
world than I did Christ.
00:41:11.77\00:41:14.30
So like each one of
you were talking about
00:41:14.34\00:41:16.10
those were things
in my mind at first,
00:41:16.14\00:41:17.91
just like that.
00:41:17.94\00:41:19.27
As I grew up, I
always had, I was...
00:41:19.31\00:41:21.34
Can I say smart tongue?
00:41:21.38\00:41:24.15
Not that way so much
and will more praise God,
00:41:24.18\00:41:25.81
but I'm just saying that,
you know, I had an answer.
00:41:25.85\00:41:27.55
I had something
all the time going,
00:41:27.58\00:41:28.92
and I didn't mind it to
fuss a little bit and carry on.
00:41:28.95\00:41:31.09
That's right.
00:41:31.12\00:41:32.45
The Lord keeps impressing
my mind sometimes said
00:41:32.49\00:41:33.99
to just listen, you
know, think and pray,
00:41:34.02\00:41:36.76
commit yourself to God.
00:41:36.79\00:41:38.13
So mine is, I'm going
to have to have grace.
00:41:38.16\00:41:40.93
I need to behold.
00:41:40.96\00:41:42.30
We're talking about
victory over sin, are we not?
00:41:42.33\00:41:43.87
Victory over sin.
00:41:43.90\00:41:45.23
I must behold Him,
I must get a vision.
00:41:45.27\00:41:47.70
And as I get a vision of Christ,
00:41:47.74\00:41:49.07
I behold Him every
day, I find myself undone.
00:41:49.10\00:41:52.64
I'm not nowhere near
where God would have me to be.
00:41:52.67\00:41:55.81
I don't know if maybe
you feel the same way.
00:41:55.84\00:41:57.61
Each one of you
feels the same way.
00:41:57.65\00:41:58.98
One of the things that I learned
00:41:59.01\00:42:00.35
during my period
of transformation
00:42:00.38\00:42:02.15
was I read a
scripture that said,
00:42:02.18\00:42:04.85
"Put no evil
thing before your eyes."
00:42:04.89\00:42:07.56
And that was key for me.
00:42:07.59\00:42:08.92
Yes.
00:42:08.96\00:42:10.29
Because I was listening to music
00:42:10.33\00:42:11.79
that was telling me things,
00:42:11.83\00:42:13.29
it was telling me
that I wasn't worthy.
00:42:13.33\00:42:16.00
The world
doesn't care about you,
00:42:16.03\00:42:17.83
treat people this way.
00:42:17.87\00:42:19.63
Get all the money you can,
00:42:19.67\00:42:21.00
it was feeding
me this information.
00:42:21.04\00:42:22.77
So when I read that
scripture, it told me,
00:42:22.80\00:42:25.07
I'm listening
to the wrong thing.
00:42:25.11\00:42:26.91
I'm watching the wrong thing.
00:42:26.94\00:42:28.28
So part of my
transformation was,
00:42:28.31\00:42:29.88
I remember driving
down the highway in Florida,
00:42:29.91\00:42:33.25
going to Tampa, throwing tapes,
00:42:33.28\00:42:35.38
when we had video,
little cassette tapes,
00:42:35.42\00:42:37.75
throwing the
tapes out the window
00:42:37.79\00:42:39.45
of the music I was listening to,
00:42:39.49\00:42:40.82
I was that convicted by it.
00:42:40.86\00:42:42.56
It was still, there was
still a process after that.
00:42:42.59\00:42:45.13
But that started my conviction
that these things had to go
00:42:45.16\00:42:48.30
in order for me to
complete transformation.
00:42:48.33\00:42:49.66
Yes, yes.
00:42:49.70\00:42:51.03
So it was more than
just being convicted
00:42:51.07\00:42:53.03
that was wrong.
00:42:53.07\00:42:54.40
That's again, divinity and what?
00:42:54.44\00:42:57.41
And humanity working together.
00:42:57.44\00:42:59.81
You might that
divinity was impressing you.
00:42:59.84\00:43:01.78
The Holy Spirit
impressing is wrong.
00:43:01.81\00:43:03.71
Our part was then,
00:43:03.75\00:43:05.11
oh, I need not have
these things around.
00:43:05.15\00:43:07.28
That's right. That's right.
00:43:07.32\00:43:08.98
You know, by the grace of God
00:43:09.02\00:43:10.35
that's doing our part
00:43:10.39\00:43:12.15
is to fight the
good fight of faith.
00:43:12.19\00:43:13.82
It's not of works,
it's not only by writing in
00:43:13.86\00:43:15.62
and getting the
calls, oh, you believe,
00:43:15.66\00:43:17.09
you know, it's all about works.
00:43:17.13\00:43:18.63
Our most
righteousness is filthy rag.
00:43:18.66\00:43:20.63
God does not accept anything
00:43:20.66\00:43:22.13
righteousness of
ours, we have none.
00:43:22.16\00:43:24.27
Amen. It's all about Him.
00:43:24.30\00:43:25.63
Jesus says, "If you love
Me, keep My commandments."
00:43:25.67\00:43:28.44
And that means that
you're gonna follow them,
00:43:28.47\00:43:30.61
you're gonna do them.
00:43:30.64\00:43:31.97
And I'm so glad that
you pointed that out,
00:43:32.01\00:43:33.51
because so many
times during this lesson
00:43:33.54\00:43:35.28
and maybe I said it
earlier, I just don't recall.
00:43:35.31\00:43:37.61
But when we begin to study,
we begin to learn what sin is,
00:43:37.65\00:43:41.48
we begin to look at
ourselves differently and say,
00:43:41.52\00:43:44.55
oh, wow, you know,
00:43:44.59\00:43:46.25
and you know, Jesus
says He brought a sword,
00:43:46.29\00:43:49.02
a two edged sword.
00:43:49.06\00:43:50.43
And that's what it is.
00:43:50.46\00:43:51.99
The Bible is a two edged sword,
00:43:52.03\00:43:53.56
it's going to cut,
it's going to separate,
00:43:53.60\00:43:55.06
it's going to divide,
00:43:55.10\00:43:56.43
it's going to point out
things that, like Paul said,
00:43:56.46\00:43:59.60
I once loved now
I know, now I hate.
00:43:59.63\00:44:02.80
You know, because
there's many times
00:44:02.84\00:44:04.57
which leads us into
question number two,
00:44:04.61\00:44:06.78
that there are people
that have sins in their life
00:44:06.81\00:44:09.48
that they love,
00:44:09.51\00:44:10.85
they don't want to get rid of.
00:44:10.88\00:44:12.21
And sometimes we have sins
00:44:12.25\00:44:13.62
that we don't
even realize is a sin
00:44:13.65\00:44:15.28
until we're
studying the Word of God.
00:44:15.32\00:44:17.02
So I know we're
about out of time.
00:44:17.05\00:44:18.42
But let me just jump in here.
00:44:18.45\00:44:20.86
It number,
question number two says,
00:44:20.89\00:44:22.79
"Many people love their sin,
00:44:22.82\00:44:24.96
many people are
addicted to their sin.
00:44:24.99\00:44:28.50
So how will Christ strengthen us
00:44:28.53\00:44:30.57
to walk through this
life of sanctification?
00:44:30.60\00:44:33.17
How will we
ever get to the point
00:44:33.20\00:44:35.80
that's that the sin
that we may now love,
00:44:35.84\00:44:38.47
we will later hate?"
00:44:38.51\00:44:41.21
By building our
relationship with Christ.
00:44:41.24\00:44:43.58
Praise God.
00:44:43.61\00:44:44.95
Yeah, you have to, the
more you draw near to Him,
00:44:44.98\00:44:48.82
the less likely you are
to keep those old habits.
00:44:48.85\00:44:54.36
If you, if
you're an open vessel,
00:44:54.39\00:44:56.19
and you allow God to
pour the Holy Spirit into you,
00:44:56.22\00:44:59.09
He's gonna displace all of that.
00:44:59.13\00:45:01.56
So that when you, when
I drive down the street,
00:45:01.60\00:45:03.73
and I hear the
music that I used to love,
00:45:03.77\00:45:05.80
pulls up next to me, I
have to roll the windows up.
00:45:05.83\00:45:08.84
I'm completely... Okay.
00:45:08.87\00:45:10.57
I don't like it anymore.
00:45:10.61\00:45:12.67
When you're filled
with the Holy Spirit,
00:45:12.71\00:45:14.14
there's no room
for that in your life.
00:45:14.18\00:45:15.51
So you really can't go around
that stuff that used to be...
00:45:15.54\00:45:20.05
No, you can't. An issue, right?
00:45:20.08\00:45:21.98
It's kind of walking on
the precipice on the line,
00:45:22.02\00:45:23.85
or you look at you're gonna go.
00:45:23.89\00:45:25.22
I look at it this way.
00:45:25.25\00:45:26.59
You can force
yourself not to sin.
00:45:26.62\00:45:28.72
You could say,
I'm not going to sin,
00:45:28.76\00:45:30.13
You can stay in your
house not going anywhere.
00:45:30.16\00:45:32.39
Stare in the mirror and not sin.
00:45:32.43\00:45:33.76
You can force
yourself to do it, perhaps.
00:45:33.80\00:45:36.53
But that's not
a change of heart.
00:45:36.56\00:45:38.17
No, it's not. No.
00:45:38.20\00:45:39.63
It's about a
transformation of your heart.
00:45:39.67\00:45:42.17
I mean, I had a man
in New York one time,
00:45:42.20\00:45:44.34
years before he became a
Christian, he was the dancer.
00:45:44.37\00:45:47.31
And people say, oh, well,
anyway, he loved to dance.
00:45:47.34\00:45:50.28
And so he said, you
know certain kind of music.
00:45:50.31\00:45:51.88
This was 20 years later,
00:45:51.91\00:45:53.25
he became a Christian.
00:45:53.28\00:45:54.62
And he's coming.
00:45:54.65\00:45:55.98
He said, Every time
I hear certain beat,
00:45:56.02\00:45:58.32
he said, I don't notice it.
00:45:58.35\00:45:59.69
But my feet are moving
around underneath the table.
00:45:59.72\00:46:02.42
He said, "When
I see them moving,
00:46:02.46\00:46:03.79
I said, Lord, don't
let my feet do that."
00:46:03.83\00:46:06.33
Kind of like the man that
smoked for 20 or 30 years.
00:46:06.36\00:46:09.43
He's given it up 10 to 15 years,
00:46:09.46\00:46:12.00
and he's sitting
there talking to you.
00:46:12.03\00:46:13.54
I've had it happen many times.
00:46:13.57\00:46:14.90
And he's doing like this.
00:46:14.94\00:46:16.50
Right. What is he doing?
00:46:16.54\00:46:17.87
That's a habit.
00:46:17.91\00:46:19.24
A habit he had
for many, many years.
00:46:19.27\00:46:20.61
He didn't even
know he's doing it.
00:46:20.64\00:46:22.54
Brother was Terry,
00:46:22.58\00:46:23.91
one time I said,
Terry, what are you doing?
00:46:23.95\00:46:25.41
He's going like
this. What are you doing?
00:46:25.45\00:46:27.22
He said, "I didn't
know I was doing it."
00:46:27.25\00:46:30.62
So I'm saying those things
00:46:30.65\00:46:31.99
may try to creep
back into our life,
00:46:32.02\00:46:34.32
by the grace of God
know our weaknesses,
00:46:34.36\00:46:36.69
but also know the
strength in the grace of God.
00:46:36.73\00:46:40.56
If you don't know,
here's one of the big question,
00:46:40.60\00:46:42.06
maybe we can talk
about, Brother Ryan,
00:46:42.10\00:46:43.43
you think about is
where does grace come in?
00:46:43.47\00:46:46.00
Where does grace come in
of gaining victory over sin?
00:46:46.03\00:46:49.37
And how do I know
00:46:49.40\00:46:50.74
because one of
the biggest questions
00:46:50.77\00:46:52.11
I get is people
who've been in the movement
00:46:52.14\00:46:53.51
for 20 years say
something like this.
00:46:53.54\00:46:55.68
I don't know if I'm really in
00:46:55.71\00:46:57.05
almost a saving
relationship, are you saved.
00:46:57.08\00:46:58.61
You know what I'm talking about?
00:46:58.65\00:46:59.98
I don't know
that I've been saved.
00:47:00.02\00:47:01.35
After all these years
00:47:01.38\00:47:02.72
of belonging to
church for 40 years,
00:47:02.75\00:47:04.09
I don't know that
00:47:04.12\00:47:05.45
I'm in a saving
relationship with Christ.
00:47:05.49\00:47:06.82
What do I do?
00:47:06.86\00:47:08.19
What advice would we give them
00:47:08.22\00:47:09.56
as four or five
minutes we've got left to pick?
00:47:09.59\00:47:12.09
Well, I mean, I
think, you know, going back
00:47:12.13\00:47:13.83
to the grace
concept, the fact that,
00:47:13.86\00:47:15.73
the fact that the
Bible tells us that,
00:47:15.76\00:47:18.03
that if we confess our sins
00:47:18.07\00:47:21.50
that He is just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us,
00:47:21.54\00:47:25.57
I love this, from
all unrighteousness.
00:47:25.61\00:47:28.81
The fact that Christ
has given us that promise,
00:47:28.84\00:47:31.71
shows the grace and the mercy
00:47:31.75\00:47:33.31
that He has
towards us at all times,
00:47:33.35\00:47:35.92
that if we come to the point
00:47:35.95\00:47:37.42
to where we sorrow
for that sin, and we say,
00:47:37.45\00:47:39.35
Lord, I recognize
00:47:39.39\00:47:40.89
that that's not
according to Your will
00:47:40.92\00:47:42.89
that this you don't
want this in my life.
00:47:42.92\00:47:44.26
And we come to Him
00:47:44.29\00:47:45.63
and we lay that down at His feet
00:47:45.66\00:47:47.00
and we say, Lord,
we humble ourselves.
00:47:47.03\00:47:48.43
Remember that?
00:47:48.46\00:47:49.80
2 Chronicles 7:14,
00:47:49.83\00:47:51.63
"If my people who
are called by My name
00:47:51.67\00:47:53.64
will humble
themselves and pray."
00:47:53.67\00:47:55.67
Really, overcoming
sin is all about humility.
00:47:55.70\00:47:58.81
It's all about
taking upon ourselves
00:47:58.84\00:48:01.21
the mind of Christ, but
through the faith of Jesus,
00:48:01.24\00:48:04.55
in order to humble
ourselves like Jesus did
00:48:04.58\00:48:07.18
in a world that
really He didn't belong.
00:48:07.22\00:48:09.32
Jesus didn't
belong in this world.
00:48:09.35\00:48:10.69
He belonged in His
kingdom, but He humbled Himself.
00:48:10.72\00:48:13.52
He thought it not
robbery to be equal with God.
00:48:13.56\00:48:15.89
He humbled Himself as low
as a servant to serve man,
00:48:15.92\00:48:19.29
and to take on
the nature of man,
00:48:19.33\00:48:20.96
as the Bible says,
not the nature of angels,
00:48:21.00\00:48:23.00
but the nature of a man
He took upon sinful flesh.
00:48:23.03\00:48:26.37
And He subjected
Himself to that to teach us.
00:48:26.40\00:48:29.00
In fact, let me read this,
00:48:29.04\00:48:30.37
I've to read
this really quickly.
00:48:30.41\00:48:31.74
And we're going to get
back to this conversation.
00:48:31.77\00:48:34.61
I want to read this to
you, powerful, powerful quote.
00:48:34.64\00:48:37.51
And this comes
from the Upward Look,
00:48:37.55\00:48:40.45
I found this quote,
and I had to read it,
00:48:40.48\00:48:42.38
because it was just so powerful.
00:48:42.42\00:48:44.45
This comes from the
Upward Look, page 303.
00:48:44.49\00:48:50.26
It says, "Christ took humanity
00:48:50.29\00:48:52.56
and bore the
hatred of the world,
00:48:52.59\00:48:54.76
that He might show men and women
00:48:54.80\00:48:56.97
that they could
live without sin."
00:48:57.00\00:49:00.44
That's powerful.
00:49:00.47\00:49:01.80
And so, if we
consider for just a moment,
00:49:01.84\00:49:04.17
the fact that we do
have access to that grace,
00:49:04.21\00:49:07.18
Christ wants to save
us by grace through faith,
00:49:07.21\00:49:10.31
as the Bible says,
00:49:10.35\00:49:11.68
but we have to humble ourselves
just as Christ humbled Himself.
00:49:11.71\00:49:14.72
We have to humble
ourselves and recognize
00:49:14.75\00:49:16.42
that this sin is
leading us to death.
00:49:16.45\00:49:18.95
And I just also wanted
to bring something else out.
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Also, the question
number two is asking here.
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It's asking, so how will
Christ strengthen us to walk
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through this life
of sanctification?
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Well, what's one
of our favorite texts
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that we often quote John 14-15,
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"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
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And a lot of
people stop right there.
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But notice the verse the follows
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in response to that, he says,
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"And I will pray to the Father
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and He will give
you another helper,
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that He may abide
with you forever."
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How is God
going to strengthen us
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and help us in this time?
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Verse 26, "But the
helper, the Holy Spirit,
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whom the Father
will send in my name,
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he will teach you all things,
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he will bring all
things to your remembrance."
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John 16:8,
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here it is
talking about that helper,
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and he who has come
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he will convict the world of sin
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and of
righteousness, and of judgment.
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And in verse 13,
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when he the
spirit of truth has come,
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He will guide you in all truth,
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for He will, excuse
me, He will guide you
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into all truth,
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for He will not
speak of his own authority,
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and whatever he hears he speaks
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and he will show
you all things to come.
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The Holy Spirit is
given to us as a promise
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to help us overcome sin.
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That's our
strength in Christ Jesus.
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Yes, amen. Praise the Lord.
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You know, we're
getting close to a news break,
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but I'd like to
share number one,
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we need to learn to
claim God's promises,
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we need to make them our own.
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I mentioned earlier Isaiah 41,
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that is such a good
one when you're struggling,
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because God is our strength,
our help and He will uphold us,
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study, study, but this
I want to share a quote
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this is from Testimonies,
volume one, page 158,
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it so sums up what
we're talking about.
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It says a Christian has
victory over his besetments,
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over his passions.
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Are you listening? Oh, mercy.
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I mean, even our passions,
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our thoughts need
to be in subjection
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to our Lord and Savior.
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There is a
remedy, there is a remedy.
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That's good news,
for the sin sick soul,
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that remedy is
Jesus precious Savior,
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His grace is sufficient,
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for the weakest
and the strongest
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must also have
His grace or perish.
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Grace is given us
what we don't deserve.
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I saw how this
grace could be obtained.
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Now listen, here
it is, here's the key.
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"Go to your closet,
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and there alone plead with God:
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'Create in me a clean heart,
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O God, and renew a
right spirit within me.'"
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Psalms 51:10.
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Be in earnest, the Bible
talks about a contrite heart.
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Be sincere, fervent
prayer availeth much.
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And we could go on and on.
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But listen, humanity and
divinity working together,
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we have to make an effort.
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It's not a once and done,
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it's not a once
saved, always saved.
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You know, Christ comes in,
but he's not going to force us.
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We have to invite Him
and it's a struggle for us,
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because He's
showing us what needs to go.
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He's cleaning us up.
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We're in the
hospital of Jesus Christ.
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That's right. So He's
our great physician...
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He's taking care of us
He gives us every breath
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It's wonderful I
better turn it over to you
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Oh, no, praise.
Oh, that's all good.
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And we're having a
little bit of a church
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right here by the grace of God,
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but you know, right now
we're going to just take
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a small news break right now.
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Remember, this is
exciting. Don't go away.
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We'll be back with
some closing thoughts.
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