044: Jason Bobis – The Pursuit of Biblical Faith, Class 1 and 2

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Welcome to the good Christian
talks podcast.

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I’m Levi.
And I’m Chris.

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Thank you so much for joining us
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With a short intro beforehand to

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And now let’s hear more about
this week’s talk.

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This is the first two classes
from a study done by Brother,

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Jason vobis in Detroit, that the
title of the series is called

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the pursuit of biblical faith.
And I’ve decided to post the

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both the introduction, which is
the first class and the second

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class, which is the Thorns of
our faith of the things that

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kind of get in the way.
I really found these glasses to

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be super excellent.
And I think really building on

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each other.
So I wanted, we wanted to go

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ahead and try it.
Seeing both classes at once.

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I will post, I will post a
little, the music in between the

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classes.
So you’ll know when one class

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ends in the other class begins
but still found the family’s two

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classes to just to just be
really helpful for me actually

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just studying and that’s what it
really is.

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Is it really feels like a very
specific study on faith.

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Jason does a really good job
focusing on the majority of

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scripture.
There’s tons of verses that that

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touch on this topic of of having
a real and biblical Faith having

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a having a real faith and
letting that be active and real

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and alive in us.
And and then that’s that.

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He makes a lot of assertions in
the introduction that I think

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are actually helpful helpful to
hear and helpful to hear all

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together before.
When he goes into the later

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classes where he kind of
explains those points.

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But then the second class has
the has kind of the challenges

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that will To, to a real faith
and how how the message of the

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Bible and the reality of our
faith can defeat those things.

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So again, I felt it was worth
including both of these.

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That’s what we’ve, that’s what
we’ve done here.

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So really excited to share these
classes.

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This is the pursuit of biblical
Faith by Brother.

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Jason, vobis the introduction
and the Thorns of our faith.

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It’s be useful for me to look
again at this time.

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Topic of faith of biblical faith
and really to refine my thoughts

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since I shared this information
with the brothers and sisters at

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Enfield in South Australia as a
pair of Wednesday night, class

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is about seven months ago or so
I say refined my thoughts

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because in a very real way I
have to admit from the outset

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that what I hope to share with
you really aren’t my thoughts

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and I think, you’ll think that
you’ll soon see that these

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Concepts and thoughts are from
scripture.

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They’re not my thoughts but I
Them to be my thoughts.

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I know how I naturally think.
And what I’ll share with you

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isn’t natural to me by any
stretch, I have to admit that

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even by knowing and sharing some
of these principles which can be

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helpful for working on our faith
daily, it’s still difficult to

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put these things into practice,
but it is worthwhile It’s just

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something that I’ve been
confronted with between the time

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of delivering.
These talks the first time in

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really.
Now this time it’s just

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important to remember that we’re
learning and we’re growing in.

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Sometimes we do better than
others, spiritual growth is

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recursive in other words, it’s
three steps forward, and it’s

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two steps back.
And three steps forward, and two

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steps back.
And that’s how fighting the

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flesh is life, is like that
brothers and sisters for all of

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us myself, very much included.
And so, I have to admit that the

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thoughts that I’ll share have
been From a range of sources in

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trying to answer really one.
Rather fundamental question for

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myself.
And that is, what am I doing

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daily to develop my faith in God
and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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It’s a question that is so basic
that I assume that everyone in

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this room and in Australia, had
ask themselves that question at

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some point, very early in their
spiritual life.

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And yet, ironically, the more
that I search for answers or

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materials like this, in the
Brotherhood, the less I seem to

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find So, you may know that, I
teach it Heritage College, which

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is a Christian School and
Adelaide.

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And if we were there and we’re
not, but if we were, this is

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what the learning intention
would be your really, what the

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aim would be for this.
This session, it’d be pretty

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straightforward.
We are learning to develop

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biblical, strategies for growing
our faith in God and the Lord

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Jesus Christ on a daily basis.
I have to admit that really,

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this question is come from
asking another one first and

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that is well, what can I do for
God?

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What can I give God?
As you know the cattle on a

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thousand hills are his anyway
and if we’re honest and

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reflecting about what it is that
we can give God, we realized

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pretty quickly that everything
that we have, God has given us

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in the first place.
So what is it that we can give

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him?
Well, really the only thing that

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we can give God, who has created
the Earth and all things in it

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is our faith in him in short my
confidence, my trust.

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And from that, trust comes a
love for him, that he so desires

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to seeing his children.
And so we want to ask, we want

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to start the weekend together by
asking a simple question.

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Why is the Bible putting so much
importance on this topic of

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faith?
And how important is Faith?

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Why is it the hinge point for
every good work that follows?

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Well in short faith is the very
basis of the expression of God’s

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character in us.
It’s the gateway to that.

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So we take a look at the verse
that Paul just read in Hebrews

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11 and verse 6. there, it says,
But without faith, it is

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impossible to, please.
God, please God for.

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He, that comes to God, must
believe that God is, and that he

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is, a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.

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So, so you mean to say that if I
give all my money to the poor

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and and I go and work in a soup
kitchen and faith in God, wasn’t

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the motivating factor, that I
haven’t pleased, God really,

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without faith, whatever that is.
I cannot please God, it’s

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impossible.
Is what the scripture says, for

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example, in a most chapter 5 and
in Acts chapter 7 we’re told

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that God took no, notice
absolutely zero notice of the

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Israelites, sacrifices and their
offerings in the wilderness for

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40 years.
Amos chapter 5 and verse 25

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says, have you offered unto me
sacrifices and offerings in the

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wilderness?
These 40 years, o House of

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Israel.
In Acts chapter 7 and verse 22.

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42.
It says, Bowie House of Israel.

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Have you offered to me?
Slain beasts, and sacrifices by

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the space of 40 years in the
wilderness.

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Hebrews chapter 4, and verse two
hints.

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At the reason, why he didn’t
even take any notice.

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And that’s because the element
of Faith was missing.

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The writer to the Hebrews says
that their carcasses, which are

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akin to dead animals fell in the
wilderness and they didn’t enter

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the promised land because of
unbelief.

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Hebrews 4 verse 2 says For unto
us, the gospel is preached as

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well intended as unto them but
the word preached did not profit

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them, not being mixed with faith
in them that heard it.

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Without faith, brothers and
sisters.

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It is impossible to please God.
Later in Zechariah, God took

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absolutely, no, notice of the
Jews ritual fastings for 70

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years.
They did this.

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And so the profit is sent in to
rebuke them and to correct them

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to do, the fasting with
humility, which will find is the

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very basis of faith.
And so as we work through this,

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stay together, what we’re going
to find is that if we want to

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increase our faith, we have to
decrease our self-importance.

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We have to be humbled.
That doesn’t mean being

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downtrodden and wallowing in the
mire.

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That doesn’t mean you having
long faces and being miserable.

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It simply means that we have to
see ourselves as we truly are If

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Christ said, I can do nothing of
my own self.

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Why should we ever think to
ourselves, right?

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I’ve got this.
Without Christ, we are nothing

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but through Christ, we are made
to ride upon the high places of

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the earth.
We can do all things through

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Christ, who strengthens us?
In fact, we are more than

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conquerors.
We are the sons and the

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daughters of the Living.
God.

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We are Mighty ones and how is
that possible by faith?

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So why does the bible put so
much importance on this concept

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and how important is it?
Well, you probably know Paul’s

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famous dissertation about love
and First Corinthians 13 and

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you’ll know that he ends that
passage with this he says.

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And now abideth faith, hope, and
love these three but the

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greatest of these is love.
And what I want you to consider

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is that Godly love is born out
of faith.

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In other words, you cannot
demonstrate the love of God

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unless you first have faith that
God exists, you can’t extend the

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love of God to others until
First perceive through faith,

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the love that God has towards
you.

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And so the range of what we
think and know, and thus, what

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we can do is limited by what we
fail to notice.

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And appreciate this is exactly
what Jesus taught in.

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John chapter 5 and verse 19.
He says the son can do nothing

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of himself, but what he sees the
father, do for what so

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everything he does.
These also the son does

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likewise.
It was about what the sun

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noticed, the father doing and
the point here.

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Is that that Faith proceeds
Love.

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Therefore, it’s clear that
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It’s impossible to love like God
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You can have compassion people
who don’t know God by all human

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definitions love their children.
For example, but the quality of

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the love that God is looking
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In his children is one that is
inspired by his love and that’s

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the love of First Corinthians
13, that kind of love mother

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never fails.
It doesn’t get tired.

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It’s energizing it’s without
limit because its source Is

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unlimited.
And if you can tap into that

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kind of love, you won’t be weary
in well-doing because the energy

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comes from faith in God.
Who Powers Your Love, sure we

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may lose the plot sometimes and
need to be stirred up by way of

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remembrance, but the love of God
is a force without limit.

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It won’t happen without faith
first.

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In Ephesians, 2 8 verse 8.
This is what we read.

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We read for by Grace, you are
saved through faith and that not

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of yourselves.
It is the gift of God, not by

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works.
Lest any man should boast.

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And so four times in this verse
God reiterates to us, that it is

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his work by grace.
But the role of Faith does play

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an important part.
In other words, we cannot be

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saved by God’s grace, unless we
have faith.

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That’s the process.
That’s how important faith is

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without it.
Not only can we not please God,

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can we not manifest his love,
but there is no no salvation..

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And that’s exactly what Paul
told his son in the faith.

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Timothy and second Timothy
chapter 3, verse 14 and 15 he

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says, but continue thou in the
things which Outhouse known and

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has been assured of knowing of
whom thou Hast learned them that

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from a child thou Hast known the
holy scriptures, which are able

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to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith, which is in

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Christ Jesus.
Now, you probably know that the

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just shall live by faith, have a
cook and Hebrews 10 and numerous

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other scriptures tell us that
the just shall live by faith.

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But, but did you know that?
It’s by faith that we Gentiles

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were brought It into the family
of God.

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And how do we know this?
Well, Peter spoke to the

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judaizers in Jerusalem, when
they questioned him about the

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Gentiles and he told them that
God had purified.

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The Gentiles Hearts through
faith and the evidence of this

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was that God gave the Gentiles,
the Holy Spirit.

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And there was no denying the
Miracles that were wrought in

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them.
That’s in Acts chapter 15 and

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verse 9.
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the circumcision doesn’t make
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you righteous before God.
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that it was the circumcision of
the heart that matters and as we

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will soon, learn the heart is
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heart.
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that avails you anything is
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Love.
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signs of religion.
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surprise that we find Faith as
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atonement turn with me.
If you would to Romans chapter 3

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and we’ll start at verse 23 and
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the chapter.
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want you to look for the concept
of faith.

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I count seven times.
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circle around the word faith or
believe which is the same

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concept.
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the atonement.
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For all have sinned and come
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justified, freely by his grace
through the Redemption that is

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in Christ.
Jesus, by whom God has set forth

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to be a propitiation through
faith in his blood, why to

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declare his righteousness, for
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past through the forbearance of
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I say at this time, God’s
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just and a justifier of him,
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Verse 27, where is boasting
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It is excluded by what law of
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Faith.
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man is justified by faith
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Is he the god of the Jews only?
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Yes, of the Gentiles.
Also seeing it as one God which

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shall justify the circumcision
by faith and the uncircumcision

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through faith.
Do we then make void the law

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through faith by no means.
Yea, we establish the law and

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this is the critical passage
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This, this is how God is
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The world unto himself and seven
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the term faith.
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into it.
This is how we’re saved brothers

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and sisters.
Now, what are the weightier

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matters of the law?
If I was to make this a pop

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quiz, I wonder if you could
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It’s in Matthew 23, verse 23.
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Lord upgrades.
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focusing on small, things like
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law.
And here they are judgment mercy

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and Eighth.
The Lord says these Bochy have

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to done.
Sorry these you ought to have

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done and not to let leave the
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In the first Epistle of John.
What is the victory that

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overcomes the world?
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Whatsoever is born of God,
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It says, and this is the victory
that overcomes, the world even

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our faith who is he that
overcomes the world but he, that

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believes that Jesus is the son
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And it just goes on and on.
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Why was the Gospel of John
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For example, tells us clearly at
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verse 31 says, but these things
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believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the son of God, and that

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believing continuous.
You might have life through his

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name, be a simply wasn’t written
for our learning and our

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admonition, but for the
development of our faith or our

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connection to God, Now, this is
an interesting one, Paul opens,

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and he closes the book of Romans
with this phrase, The Obedience

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of faith.
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that the obedience to the faith,
which implies that, this is the

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way the one true Faith.
Walk you in it.

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It becomes very powerful when
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the diag lot and many other
translations renders it The

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Obedience of Faith.
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Because it instructs us that our
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of the reality of God in our
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Our obedience is a function of
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In other words, without belief
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obedience.
I believe Paul is saying I am

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writing this letter to you to
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Yes, of the way to life in Jesus
Christ, the faith, the one true

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faith, and he’s saying, but I’m
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you into to obedience.
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Brothers and sisters by law?
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Later towards the end of the
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Paul says in some matters of
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severe impact on whether or not
you sin and if you don’t act in

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faith yusin he says for
whatsoever is not of faith is

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sin.
And there are so many other

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additional verses that we could
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this context.
In this content Concept in

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scripture, and if you’re
actively listening, you’re

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probably your minds are probably
ticking over with all sorts of

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other ones to add to the list.
But what’s the point that the

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topic of faith is a theme that
is woven throughout the entire

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Bible will clearly it, is that
you now agree with me and I have

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your attention moving forward.
Well, I hope so but that’s not

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the point.
The point is As a man thinks in

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his heart.
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23 and verse 7.
It sure seems like the point and

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the intention of scripture is to
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that we think that.
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God’s words and Christ sayings
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that we think.
And what we think about and what

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we dwell upon and those things
will always have an impact on

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our reality.
The more we live in, the more we

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learn our minds, we figure out
that our minds are generative

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and our minds are creative.
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what it is, we think about, we
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We don’t desire In other words,
we create our circumstances and

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by what it is, we think about
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subconsciously believe or have
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Now, we’ve all experienced that
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We’ve made some bad choices,
perhaps we didn’t even realize

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it at the time and we’ve had to
live with some consequences that

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we wish we wouldn’t have to we
wish we were more conscious of

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of when we made the moment made
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You see what we have faith in
brothers and sisters and what we

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actually believe regardless of
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We profess to believe creates
our reality for as a man thinks

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in his heart.
So is he?

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Advertisers know this.
And so what they do is they

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layer things over and over, and
over into our subconscious mind,

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to get us to believe lives such
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If we do, what we know feels
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Now even though later down the
track, it’s going to harm us and

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wreak havoc on our lives.
And when we can’t also help but

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ask the question in the Bible,
why is God angry with what are

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called Sorcerers or magicians?
We know that there is no such

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thing as magic or sorcery in the
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We know that there’s only one
power and all the universe.

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Isaiah 45 tells us that concept
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But why is God so angry and
condemning a man like Simon the

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Sorcerer.
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well what he was doing is he was
bewitching people with his

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sorceries and all that.
That means This man was meddling

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with the gateway to God.
This man was meddling with

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people’s beliefs.
He was toying with people’s

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beliefs and that’s serious
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And so, we understand that this
world is very, very capable of

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shaping our beliefs and that’s
why we should have nothing to do

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with it.
That’s why we should guard our

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hearts and that’s why also
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speech in The Sermon, on the
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addresses.
The Part of the issue and he

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teaches us that we have to get
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It’s where it all begins.
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Our thoughts to God’s thoughts,
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Direction and in, ask your his
insight and prayer to direct our

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steps.
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believe that he does direct our
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We have to look for God’s hand
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Sometimes I think we sometimes I
get the impression that we The

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way that we approach living the
truth is that if we can, simply

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refresh our mind with Godly
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When the challenges of life
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simply pick the right principle
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and that we’ve done the right
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And then the great frustration
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When we don’t seed widely enough
or remember enough biblical

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principles to make better
decisions, we miss the mark and

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that we just didn’t know our
Bibles better.

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And we self rebuke, And so to
keep ourselves from falling, all

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we really need to do is just get
down to the study desk, more and

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develop a wider perspective.
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that we’re just not disciplined
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And that exhortation.
The one that says, you really

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aren’t trying as hard as you
could, is one, that is always

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true.
We could do more.

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And each of us would be fools to
decry discipline, but but you

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try it, and if you’re anything
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not about self-will.
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I should be better, but I’m not.
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because I’m not who, or what I
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I’m trying and I assume that you
all are trying to keep

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yourselves from sinning to.
But so often what I tell myself

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and what I hear in exhortations
and in classes, it is that we

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need to try harder to the best
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Well, let a man examine himself,
but when I do, I am dismayed

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with my ability to lead a Godly
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I’m sick with myself.
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the question, isn’t there a
better way?

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I have little to no power to be
the man that I want to be in

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Christ unless unless I
apprehended in faith, you see

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there is a better way and that
is the way of faith in Christ

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Jesus.
Our lord who can work in me and

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do things that I just can’t do.
Surely, I’m not the only one who

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feels frustrated by The Daily
Grind of fighting the Flesh and

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there’s an irony to this because
we of all mankind, should be

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most happy.
We are supposed to be, liberated

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free from sin because of the
sacrifice of Christ and sadly we

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can go on for a long time
without feeling the joy of being

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free from sin and I know that
we’re still in this body and

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we’re going to fight it.
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Sometimes I do feel that Joy, a
feeling feeling truly forgiven

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and free from sin.
And that’s the joy that Christ

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talks about in the upper room.
And this usually happens for me

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at the breaking of bread and in
the love of Christ, breaks my

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heart.
But I want to live liberated

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from sin.
Not just in the Kingdom age, I

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want to serve god without fear
and faith now, but what happens

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for so many of us.
Anyways, that week by week, we

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come to the table of remembrance
and we fear with a grave fear

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that we don’t condemn ourselves.
By disrespecting the Lord’s

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table.
And so and very solemn

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self-examination, we scour our
mind and we reflect on every

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rotten thing that we’ve done and
we’re really hard on ourselves.

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And rightfully, so we should
hate sin and we walk away

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committed to try harder in the
next week to not keep making the

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same mistakes and sometimes
brothers and sisters, our

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willpower rides high.
And we do, in fact, do better

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and sometimes by Sunday
afternoon, we feel ashamed yet

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again that we have fallen short
of the glory, A of God and we

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say to ourselves what a Wretched
Man that I am.

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How is it that we end up at the
breaking of bread week by week

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with the same or similar sins?
Now I imagine I’m not the only

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one here that’s had this sport
sort of experience in living the

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truth.
And what I want to get across in

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these studies is that it is not
a willpower issue, it is

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actually a faith issue and yet
strangely, we are not talking

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about fighting the good fight of
Faith with faith.

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And that’s exactly what I
believe Paul is talking about

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when he says at the beginning in
the end of Romans The Obedience

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of faith.
Faith.

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You see faith in Christ has to
be the way in which we could

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become obedience.
It has to be the way in which we

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overcome our natural desires.
And so, what I want to do in our

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time together, this weekend, as
I want to talk about fighting

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the good fight of Faith by
faith, and so that’s the aim.

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That’s that’s the learning
intention.

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We are learning to develop
strategies for increasing our

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faith in God, and the Lord Jesus
Christ on a daily basis.

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And, and so what you see on the
screen in front of you is simply

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a roadmap for how we’re going.
Do that.

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As you can see right there, we
have a tree which is

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illustrative of the principle
that if you get the root of the

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tree, right?
It will bear fruits.

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We know that Christ is the root,
the root and The Offspring of

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David.
Sometimes we have to focus

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sometimes what we end up doing
is we focus on the fruit of the

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spirit and we wonder why it’s so
hard to see it in ourselves when

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what we should be doing is
focusing on the route or abiding

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in the vine is John 15 says it’s
a simple analogy, Our Roots in

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Next is our faith.
And then above the line, You’ll

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see, those are the roots down
there and then you see a line.

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And so above the line are our
good works.

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And those are produced by faith
in Christ, The Works, and the

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fruit But sometimes brothers and
sisters are things that choke

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our faith, thorns and thistles,
so to speak.

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Yeah, they’re small and very
Insidious and sometimes we don’t

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even know that they’re there,
which is why David says in

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Psalm, 19 Lord reveal unto me.
My secret faults Now, I think it

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only makes sense to talk about
these Thorns to our faith

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because we can know how God
generates faith in us and we can

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know what we should do to
cultivate our own faith.

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But if we have thorns choking
our faith, or if we have

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sticking points or obstacles are
roadblocks, the other bits might

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make all the sense in the world
and Theory, but they won’t be

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received.
The principal is sometimes.

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We have to sweep the house
clean, before we can put

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something better back in.
And so, we will look at Thorns

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through our faith in ways that
God generates our faith in our

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time together.
Lord willing.

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And So eventually in our time
together will do is we will look

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at ways in which God works on
our faith and ways in which we

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can increase our faith day by
day until our faith is turned to

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sight.
And finally, what we’ll do

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together.
Lord willing, we will remember

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
Tomorrow morning is, we’re going

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to see how all these Concepts
come together in our master.

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But first, we have to ask the
question.

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What are we even talking about?
What, what is Faith?

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And it’s easy to say, faith is
the substance of things hoped

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for the evidence of Things Not
Seen, but I’m not necessarily

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sure that that’s clear.
So, we’ll begin with the

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question.
What even is Faith and the most

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simple way I can put it is
Faith.

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Is your thoughts?
Your thoughts, which have

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substance, your faith is your
connection to God and Christ.

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Your faith is your connection to
what they’ve Said with a

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promise.
And everything that we read in

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scripture, your faith is your
belief.

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It’s your trust and to put it in
a modern term or modern

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parlance.
It’s your signal strength to

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God.
One little question is, can it

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be literal can these things
actually shape?

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Our daily experience?
Can our faith have a literal

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effect on our lives because you
wrap your probably remember, the

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scripture talks about having
faith to move mountains.

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First, Corinthians 13, verse 2.
And for example, in Matthew 17

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and verse 20, the disciples were
not able to heal a boy, who was

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having these epileptic seizures
and they wanted to know why and

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Jesus said unto them because of
your unbelief for The, I say

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unto you, if you have faith as a
grain of mustard seed, you shall

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say unto this mountain, remove,
hence To Yonder place and it

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shall remove and nothing shall
be impossible into you.

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Faith to move mountains.
Is that a metaphor must be a

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metaphor?
A mountain is an is an obstacle,

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for example.
And if you have faith that you

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can do all things through
Christ, who strengthens you?

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Well, well, you will be able to
overcome those obstacles that

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are in your path, but the can it
be taken literally.

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And I think that it actually can
brothers and sisters because of

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scripture Zechariah 14.
Verse 4 tells us that our feet

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shall stand with his on the
Mount of Olives and that Which

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is before Jerusalem on the East
and the Mount of Olives show.

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Cleave in the midst thereof
toward the East and toward the

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west and there should be a very
great valley and half the

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mountain to remove towards the
North and half show, remove to

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the South.
And so yes, those that live

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lives of faith will see the
literal combination of their

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belief when the Lord comes to
Reign on Earth and we will be

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with him by his grace in that
day.

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But moreover, our faith does
have a profound impact on our

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daily experience.
And so the question we have to

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ask next is well where does
faith?

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Find Roots?
Where is it generated in Romans,

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6, 10?
And verse 6 tells us the answer

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she turn there with me.
I’m going to read about four or

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five verses Romans 10:8 verse 6
and we’ll read down through

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through verse 10.
So where does faith?

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Find root?
Where is it?

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Generated the heart?
Romans 10.

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Verse 6, but the righteousness,
which is of Faith speaks on this

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wise, say not in thine heart,
who shall Ascend into heaven,

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that is to bring Christ down
from above, or who, shall

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descend into the deep that is to
bring Christ again from the

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dead, but what?
Saith it.

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The word is near unto you even
in your mouth and in your heart,

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that is the word of faith.
Which we preach verse 9, that if

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Thou shalt confess with thy
mouth, the Lord Jesus.

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And shalt believe in thine heart
that God has raised him from the

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dead.
Thou shalt be saved for with the

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heart.
Man, believes unto righteousness

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and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.

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And so, where does faith find
root?

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It’s in the heart.
In other words, in the Inner Man

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in your thoughts.
And now you see how this

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presents a problem brothers and
sisters because we know Jeremiah

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17:9 where it says the heart is
deceitful above all things and

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it’s desperately wicked who can
know it and we know it.

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But if all the challenges to
that limit our faith and we’re

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going to look at these later.
Fear, or sin or Pride or looking

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at oneself.
Instead of looking at God wrong

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beliefs, that choke our faith,
or lack of perception, and

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awareness.
The cares of this life,

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overwhelming us or not
understanding our purpose.

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In our destiny, destiny.
The greatest obstacle, I believe

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to Growing our faith.
Is is not believing that God is

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in every detail of Our Lives.
So what limits Faith?

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What grows Faith, the degree to,
which you believe this?

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That God is active and he is
present in our lives.

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And that’s what I mean.
By God being in every detail,

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God being in everything in the
life of a Believer.

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And yet we know these scriptures
brothers and sisters.

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Psalm 34 verse 7, the angel of
Yahweh.

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Encamps around those that fear
him and he delivers them, Isaiah

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55 verse 11.
So shall my word be that when it

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goes out from my mouth, it shall
not return unto me void, but it

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shall accomplish that which I
please.

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And it shall prosper in the
thing.

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Whereto, I sent it Philippians 1
at verse 6 says be confident of

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this very thing that he which
has begun a good work in you.

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He will perform it until the day
of Jesus Christ.

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Now I know that it’s hard to
believe from personal experience

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that God is in every detail of
our lives.

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Especially when there were times
in the life of a disciple, in

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which we hit rock bottom, and we
feel like our prayers are only

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going up to the ceiling and no
further.

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It’s especially difficult to
believe in the midst of great

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sorrow and suffering.
And I’m sure at one point,

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especially in the midst of
suffering, I would have found

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what I’m about to say, quite
hard to accept quite

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confronting.
Offensive.

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But nevertheless, it is true
that in the life of God’s

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covenant people who have
surrendered their will to him at

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baptism.
He is in every aspect of Our

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Lives, even the very hairs of
our head are numbered, God is in

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every aspect of our lives.
But how either by creating

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scenarios in which we grow or at
the very least, by allowing

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situations to come into our life
to generate and to grow Faith to

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bring us to receive the end of
our faith, the very salvation

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One of our souls, The more I’ve
looked into scripture, the more,

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I am convinced that what you
believe about?

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This idea has an enormous impact
and whether your faith grows,

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whether it’s stagnates, or
whether it shrinks back, and

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00:34:20,400 –> 00:34:23,400
there are numerous examples of
men and women in scripture, who

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believe that God was in
everything in their lives, and

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they are the people that you and
I want to be like in moreover,

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they are the people that God
wants us to emulate.

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Why?
Because that’s the level of

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connection that God wants to
have with his children.

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Now, it’s important Also to
clarify from the outside outset

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what God is not in.
God is not in sin.

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God has nothing to do with sin,
and although he has made

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provision for it in the lives of
his children because he knows

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our frame that we are, but dust.
And that we will, in fact sin,

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despite our best efforts and
intentions, not to let’s be

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clear.
God hates sin.

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The portrait of Jesus Christ on
the cross is God’s view of our

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sin.
It is worthy of death.

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It is not something to be winked
at and never should our Liberty

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in Christ.
Breed license to sin.

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And as we know when we sin we we
separate ourselves from God.

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He hides his face from us.
So to speak the the Caribbean

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cover their eyes and we are left
most alone, we have disobeyed

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the word of God, it doesn’t mean
that God, abandons us forever.

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He still works with us and
reforms us to bring us back to

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him, but he’s not in sin, he
doesn’t permit it, he doesn’t

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condone it.
And although he has made

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provision for it, let us never
forget that that provision is

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the blood of his only begotten
son.

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We have to understand how God
generates or creates faith and

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it’s critical that we spend some
time considering what God thinks

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of us once were baptized, you
see, everything changes when we

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publicly confess at are baptized
baptism that we are worthy of

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death.
When we surrender our will to

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God.
And we make an Everlasting

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Covenant, with the creator of
all the world.

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There’s been a change of status
or his brother.

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Thomas says, there’s been a
change in We are a new creation

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is what Colossians and is
someone that is admitted that

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there once was a way that seems
right unto me but that way LED

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to death, there has been a
significant change.

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Why is it so important to
realize what it is that God

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thinks of us?
Well, sometimes brothers and

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sisters, we don’t see ourselves
as God sees us and seeing how

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special we are to God.
According to his words,

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generates faith.
Next, what we’re going to have

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to do is we’re going to have to
look at, why that’s so hard to

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believe that God is involved in
every detail of our life and one

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of the great challenges to our
faith comes in suffering.

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We all know that it’s easy to
believe that God is involved in

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the good things.
But what shall we shall?

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We receive good at the hand of
God and shall we not receive

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00:37:09,600 –> 00:37:12,600
evil?
Why is it hard to accept that

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00:37:12,600 –> 00:37:14,100
God is in the great challenges
of life?

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00:37:14,100 –> 00:37:17,200
Well, fundamentally it
challenges, our sense of

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justice.
The question we all face

656
00:37:19,600 –> 00:37:22,300
internally is why is this
happening to me?

657
00:37:22,600 –> 00:37:24,700
In other words I’m a pretty good
guy.

658
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I go to meeting three times a
week and I care about the things

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of God.
This isn’t fair and that’s where

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00:37:31,500 –> 00:37:34,300
we get derailed and thinking
that we should be able to

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00:37:34,300 –> 00:37:39,300
justify ourselves to God.
That’s a workspace mentality and

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00:37:39,300 –> 00:37:40,700
one that cannot bring us to the
kingdom.

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An intellectual level.
We know that God is the

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justifier of them that believe
in Jesus, that’s the atonement

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00:37:48,100 –> 00:37:50,500
that come.
What may God Is Right that

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00:37:50,500 –> 00:37:54,800
Christ died to declare God’s
righteousness and that God is a

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00:37:54,800 –> 00:37:57,700
justifier of him, which believe
in Jesus.

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That’s Romans 3, the first 26
but it’s easy, brothers and

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sisters to lose perspective when
were under stress and so it’s

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helpful to have a reminder of
what it is that God says about

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his people.
And finally, what we Endeavor to

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00:38:12,300 –> 00:38:14,800
do together is to look at
biblical examples of lives that

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00:38:14,800 –> 00:38:17,700
are transformed by the belief
that God is in everything in

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their life.
These are men and women through

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00:38:19,800 –> 00:38:24,100
whom God has done The Impossible
by faith will look at examples

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00:38:24,100 –> 00:38:28,600
from Jacob’s life from Joseph.
David Elijah will look in the

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00:38:28,600 –> 00:38:32,100
Psalms we’ll look at the Lord.
Jesus Christ, the author and

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00:38:32,100 –> 00:38:35,200
finisher of faith and we’re
going to look specifically at

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the mind of faith in the upper
room at the breaking of bread.

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Tomorrow morning.
God willing.

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00:38:40,600 –> 00:38:43,500
But before we finish this
session, I have some homework to

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set.
And what I’m challenging you to

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do is to let God in on every
aspect of your life.

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For the next two weeks, put it
to the test.

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Just try when you struggle with
something, however, small pray

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about it.
Pray without ceasing how you do.

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One thing is, how you do
everything.

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00:39:03,000 –> 00:39:06,200
He who is faithful in little
will be faithful in much when

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something good happens to you in
the next week.

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Thank God for it.
Praise His Holy.

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He named connect with them and
rejoice in his loving-kindness

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00:39:14,400 –> 00:39:15,900
and something challenging
happens.

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We’ll ask for his help.
I hope this doesn’t sound too

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touchy-feely for you or to
Pentecostal.

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I’m not looking for a men’s and
I hope you don’t roll in the

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aisle.
Just pray fervently with

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00:39:27,600 –> 00:39:30,800
respects and with, reverence,
just just test it out.

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00:39:30,900 –> 00:39:34,100
Have faith, that God is in
everything and that he is

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00:39:34,100 –> 00:39:36,200
bringing things into your life,
for the development of your

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00:39:36,200 –> 00:39:40,200
faith or allowing things to take
place in your life too.

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00:39:40,400 –> 00:39:43,600
A shape and develop you and make
you fit for his Temple, call

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00:39:43,600 –> 00:39:46,000
upon His holy name, in faith,
whatever it is.

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Your lot is for the next two
weeks, brothers and sisters, the

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00:39:50,207 –> 00:39:53,300
scripture abounds with examples
of why we should believe that.

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00:39:53,300 –> 00:39:55,700
God not only wants to be
involved in all aspects of her

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life, but he is crafting and
even allowing situations and

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00:39:59,300 –> 00:40:03,200
circumstances to prepare us for
the kingdom and one objection.

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00:40:03,200 –> 00:40:06,500
You might have that, I had been
thinking along these lines, is

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he is God Almighty, isn’t he too
busy running?

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Universe holding the planets and
places putting the the

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presidents and dictators in
place to bring about the battle

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of Armageddon.
Making stars.

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Do you seriously think that God
wants me to believe that he is

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interested in my little
troubles?

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In short.
Yes, he is.

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Even the very hairs of your head
are numbered.

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And so we have to start by
considering what it is that God

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actually thinks of us, not what
we think, God thinks of us.

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But what the scripture says, and
what God thinks of us, when he

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looks at us through the blood
covering sacrifice of the Lord

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Jesus Christ, we have to see
ourselves as God sees us through

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the sacrifice of his son, and
Lord willing.

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That’s where we’ll begin our
next session in about half an

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hour.
Brothers and sisters.

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00:41:14,408 –> 00:41:18,500
I recognize that there is a lot
of information that I hope to

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00:41:18,500 –> 00:41:21,900
share with you in the course of
a very short space and time.

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00:41:21,900 –> 00:41:24,200
And that’s part of the reason
that there is a handout is

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because I don’t expect you to
take in everything that I’m

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saying.
But really one of the things

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that has encouraged me about
being able to share this is that

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it’s created a conversation and
that’s really one of the goals

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as well.
Just to continue the

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conversation and if we don’t get
to everything, we don’t get

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Everything.
But we’ve made a good start and

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it’ll give you some food for
thought.

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I pray as we go forward.
Over time, I’ve learned that at

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the breaking of bread when we
examine ourselves, there has to

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be a point in which I shift my
thinking from that, which I’ve

739
00:42:00,400 –> 00:42:04,500
done a Miss over the last seven
days to to thinking about the

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sufficiency of, Christ’s
sacrifice that in him, is the

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Forgiveness of sins that I so
need.

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00:42:11,000 –> 00:42:13,900
I don’t know how it works for
you, but At the point of

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00:42:13,900 –> 00:42:17,300
delineation for me, is usually
when we take the cup, when I

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00:42:17,308 –> 00:42:19,900
take the bread, I usually think
of my Hang-Ups.

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00:42:20,100 –> 00:42:23,300
And when I take the cop, I thank
God for the Forgiveness of sins.

746
00:42:24,000 –> 00:42:27,500
You see, the emblem of wine
isn’t designed only to represent

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00:42:27,500 –> 00:42:31,700
the blood of Christ and thus a
life of total dedication and

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00:42:31,700 –> 00:42:34,300
obedience poured out, it’s
personal.

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00:42:34,900 –> 00:42:39,800
It also represents the fact that
my sins are covered by his blood

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00:42:40,300 –> 00:42:43,300
and he did it for us.
Paul felt this.

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00:42:43,900 –> 00:42:48,000
In Galatians 2, where it says
the life that I now live in the

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flesh, I live by the faith of
the Son of God, who loved me and

753
00:42:53,200 –> 00:42:55,400
he says, who gave his life for
me.

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00:42:56,000 –> 00:42:59,300
You see it was intensely
personal for him, but there has

755
00:42:59,300 –> 00:43:01,600
to be a point at which I
personally stop looking at

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00:43:01,600 –> 00:43:05,300
myself and all my Hang-Ups and I
Endeavor to remember the Lord

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00:43:05,300 –> 00:43:08,800
Jesus Christ for me, personally,
that’s when I would take the

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00:43:08,800 –> 00:43:11,800
wine.
I say that I had to learn that

759
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over time because there was a
portion of my life in which the

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00:43:13,900 –> 00:43:18,200
breaking of bread, wasn’t a very
joyful thing that the scrutiny

761
00:43:18,200 –> 00:43:20,400
with which I would examine
myself consumed me.

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And it made me feel immense
guilt.

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00:43:22,400 –> 00:43:24,400
And while that is critically
important to the part of

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00:43:24,400 –> 00:43:28,200
examining oneself at the
breaking of bread Christ,

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00:43:28,200 –> 00:43:32,500
initially instituted it for us
to remember him, it’s a memorial

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00:43:32,500 –> 00:43:36,200
service.
So there has to be a break from

767
00:43:36,200 –> 00:43:39,800
looking at oneself in, clear
terms and Loathing the flesh to

768
00:43:39,800 –> 00:43:43,800
looking One that saves us from
what we deserve, the Corinthians

769
00:43:43,800 –> 00:43:46,600
they were guilty of not even
looking at themselves whatsoever

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00:43:46,900 –> 00:43:48,800
and thus, they didn’t even
realize that the spirit of

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00:43:48,800 –> 00:43:50,600
Christ was not at their
memorial.

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00:43:51,100 –> 00:43:53,600
This was proven by the fact that
Paul had to write them a letter

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00:43:53,600 –> 00:43:56,800
to instruct them as to what the
whole thing was even about that,

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00:43:56,800 –> 00:43:59,700
they shouldn’t get drunk at the
memorial and that they should

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00:43:59,700 –> 00:44:02,400
share their food with one
another and that they should

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00:44:02,400 –> 00:44:04,000
Terry.
Or wait for one another.

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00:44:04,900 –> 00:44:07,900
You see the problem that I was
dealing with is that I was not

778
00:44:07,900 –> 00:44:12,700
actually seeing myself as God
sees me, but when you go back

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00:44:12,700 –> 00:44:16,400
through scripture, it’s quite
astonishing what God says about

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00:44:16,400 –> 00:44:18,500
Those who commit their lives to
him.

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00:44:18,900 –> 00:44:22,200
Through a rather simple, yet
serious acts called baptism.

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00:44:22,700 –> 00:44:25,600
It’s amazing.
How God views you once you make

783
00:44:25,600 –> 00:44:31,200
a covenant with him.
We know from acts 15 that God is

784
00:44:31,200 –> 00:44:32,900
calling out a people for his
name.

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00:44:33,400 –> 00:44:36,800
And while we know from the first
chapters of Romans that the holy

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Oracles of God were initially
committed to the Jews.

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00:44:39,400 –> 00:44:43,400
The Gentiles were grafted in and
since the Jews largely rejected

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00:44:43,400 –> 00:44:47,200
the teaching of the Apostles
low, they turn to the Gentiles

789
00:44:47,700 –> 00:44:50,000
and that’s how you and I have
come to know the plan and

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00:44:50,000 –> 00:44:53,700
purpose of God you see God has
been calling out a people for

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00:44:53,700 –> 00:44:56,500
his name, a Remnant throughout
time.

792
00:44:57,000 –> 00:45:00,200
You probably know the metaphor
that the sun is lifting up

793
00:45:00,200 –> 00:45:03,300
little droplets of water out of
the oceans of humanities to make

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00:45:03,300 –> 00:45:06,400
up his cloud of witnesses and
that cloud of witnesses doesn’t

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00:45:06,400 –> 00:45:10,000
just include the faithful of
Ages past, but God is continuing

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00:45:10,000 –> 00:45:12,100
to do it.
I was just talking with Jerry

797
00:45:12,100 –> 00:45:14,800
Asbury.
My sister’s father-in-law

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00:45:14,800 –> 00:45:16,900
earlier this weekend.
We were talking about the new

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00:45:16,900 –> 00:45:21,000
Return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it dawned on me that so long

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00:45:21,000 –> 00:45:24,900
as God continues to call out a
people for his name, I can

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00:45:24,900 –> 00:45:27,900
patiently endure and wait for
Christ’s return.

802
00:45:28,200 –> 00:45:31,600
I very personal reasons why I
want the return of Christ, but

803
00:45:31,600 –> 00:45:34,700
people are still being baptized
and being brought into the

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00:45:34,707 –> 00:45:38,300
family of God.
And what I want to show you is

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00:45:38,300 –> 00:45:41,600
what God thinks of you and me,
once we make a vow unto him at

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00:45:41,600 –> 00:45:46,000
baptism when we make a covenant
with the Living God and the

807
00:45:46,008 –> 00:45:49,000
blood of his only begotten son
covers our sins.

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00:45:49,400 –> 00:45:53,600
Thing changes in clear.
Terms, we go from Death to life

809
00:45:54,200 –> 00:45:56,700
as I mentioned, brother, Thomas
is taught that we undergo a

810
00:45:56,700 –> 00:45:59,600
change in Constitution.
Scripture says we are a new

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00:45:59,600 –> 00:46:02,400
creation created in Christ Jesus
unto good works.

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00:46:02,800 –> 00:46:06,400
And once we emerge out of the
waters and new, we are called

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00:46:06,400 –> 00:46:09,500
Saints.
Now the majority of the letters

814
00:46:09,500 –> 00:46:13,300
of the New Testament open with
to the Saints at Corinth, for

815
00:46:13,300 –> 00:46:16,600
example, to the Saints, in
Ephesus to the Saints at

816
00:46:16,600 –> 00:46:19,200
Philippi to the Saints it classy
and so on.

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00:46:19,300 –> 00:46:22,400
On and it’s rather clear that
the Saints are the Believers

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00:46:22,700 –> 00:46:24,500
now.
The Catholics believe something

819
00:46:24,500 –> 00:46:26,900
that’s completely different,
they believe that that a

820
00:46:26,900 –> 00:46:29,800
canonized Saint in their
tradition, not from scripture

821
00:46:29,800 –> 00:46:32,100
but from their tradition as it
can and I st.

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00:46:32,100 –> 00:46:35,100
You have to perform two Miracles
after you’re already dead and

823
00:46:35,100 –> 00:46:38,300
you’re up in heaven, they have
been, they have to be thoroughly

824
00:46:38,300 –> 00:46:41,300
corroborated by the Vatican and
proven.

825
00:46:41,400 –> 00:46:44,900
And then that Saints is alive
and can receive prayers from

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00:46:44,900 –> 00:46:47,800
those that especially like you
and want to pray to you instead

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00:46:47,800 –> 00:46:50,900
of Christ.
So Have this raft of Patron,

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00:46:50,900 –> 00:46:53,100
Saints.
And so, if you were fond of, for

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00:46:53,100 –> 00:46:57,100
example, the Virgin of Guadalupe
you could pray to that Saints.

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00:46:57,400 –> 00:47:00,300
Now, we know that that’s absurd.
Because we know what happens to

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00:47:00,300 –> 00:47:02,800
someone when they die, they
return to dust and they await

832
00:47:02,800 –> 00:47:04,500
the resurrection and the
Judgment.

833
00:47:05,300 –> 00:47:08,400
But if you do a simple word
study using Strong’s,

834
00:47:08,400 –> 00:47:12,300
Concordance, it teaches us what
that word Saint means.

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00:47:13,400 –> 00:47:15,600
If you have any idea what it
means, this is what it means.

836
00:47:15,600 –> 00:47:20,500
It means sacred It means that,
as a baptized believer, you are

837
00:47:20,500 –> 00:47:25,500
sacred to God, which is why the
psalmist in Psalm 116 tells us

838
00:47:25,800 –> 00:47:29,100
precious in the eyes of God is
the death of his Saints.

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So, Paul tells Ephesians now
therefore ye are no more

840
00:47:33,000 –> 00:47:36,700
strangers and foreigners but
fellow-citizens with the Saints

841
00:47:37,100 –> 00:47:42,100
and your part of the household
of God in Chapter 2, he says you

842
00:47:42,100 –> 00:47:45,300
are the Holy Temple a habitation
of God.

843
00:47:45,600 –> 00:47:47,900
How is that possible?
It’s through the spirit.

844
00:47:47,900 –> 00:47:51,100
Roman says that once you’re
baptized, you are made free from

845
00:47:51,100 –> 00:47:54,900
sin and you became a servant of
righteousness that’s in chapter

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00:47:54,900 –> 00:47:58,600
6.
Jesus says Pence forth from here

847
00:47:58,600 –> 00:48:01,800
on out.
I call you not servants for the

848
00:48:01,800 –> 00:48:03,700
servant knoweth, not what the
Lord do it.

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00:48:03,700 –> 00:48:07,900
But I call you friends for all
things of my father, having made

850
00:48:07,900 –> 00:48:11,000
known unto you and that is
exactly the moniker that’s used

851
00:48:11,000 –> 00:48:13,800
of Moses.
The friend of God, he was, in

852
00:48:13,800 –> 00:48:16,700
fact, the friend of God because
he Did but the Lord commanded

853
00:48:16,707 –> 00:48:19,900
brothers and sisters, it’s even
more intimate than that.

854
00:48:19,908 –> 00:48:23,100
And you can understand this
because you have friends and you

855
00:48:23,100 –> 00:48:25,200
would do a lot for your friends
because you really care about

856
00:48:25,200 –> 00:48:27,300
them.
And if you need help, you help

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00:48:27,300 –> 00:48:30,300
them and they call upon you for
support and for strength.

858
00:48:30,300 –> 00:48:33,700
But then there’s family.
And that’s supposed to be on

859
00:48:33,700 –> 00:48:35,200
another level of connection all
together.

860
00:48:35,200 –> 00:48:37,800
And if you didn’t grow up in a
particularly loyal and loving

861
00:48:37,800 –> 00:48:41,800
family, we can all get some
sense of what Christ mean means.

862
00:48:41,800 –> 00:48:43,300
When he says, we are his
brethren.

863
00:48:43,300 –> 00:48:48,000
We find this in Hebrews To at
first, 10 through 13 and he

864
00:48:48,000 –> 00:48:51,400
quotes Psalm 22 there, this
parallels Matthew 12, where

865
00:48:51,700 –> 00:48:54,200
Christ asked the question?
Well, well, who are my brethren

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00:48:55,000 –> 00:48:58,100
and this is where does found
that we take the name.

867
00:48:58,100 –> 00:49:01,500
Chris delphine’s, is a body of
Believers, the brethren in

868
00:49:01,500 –> 00:49:05,100
Christ Brethren being a word,
that incorporates, both males,

869
00:49:05,100 –> 00:49:07,900
and females.
And in other words, we are ones

870
00:49:07,900 –> 00:49:11,100
who will do the will of God or
we intend to.

871
00:49:12,300 –> 00:49:15,800
Now, what’s so interesting, is
that Hebrews chapter 2 says The

872
00:49:15,800 –> 00:49:21,100
Christ is not ashamed to call us
his Brethren but God takes it

873
00:49:21,100 –> 00:49:24,300
one step further in and Isaiah
chapter 8, verse 18.

874
00:49:24,500 –> 00:49:27,900
It’s quoted and it’s describing
the Saints of the Sacred ones to

875
00:49:27,900 –> 00:49:33,800
be gods and Christ’s children.
I know that children can drive

876
00:49:33,800 –> 00:49:37,100
parents crazy in the same
manner, which students Drive

877
00:49:37,100 –> 00:49:39,300
teachers crazy.
But I also know that good

878
00:49:39,300 –> 00:49:43,100
parents love their kids to B and
how much more does a lot, Lord.

879
00:49:43,100 –> 00:49:47,500
Jesus Christ loved us whom God
has Given him as his children.

880
00:49:48,100 –> 00:49:51,900
And as Christ is God’s son and
we become the children of God.

881
00:49:52,200 –> 00:49:54,900
This is precisely what the
nation’s for says, and it

882
00:49:54,900 –> 00:49:56,500
teaches us.
It says it, once we are

883
00:49:56,500 –> 00:50:01,600
baptized, we have received the
adoption of sons because we are

884
00:50:02,000 –> 00:50:06,100
Sons and Daughters of God, God
has sent forth the spirit of his

885
00:50:06,100 –> 00:50:08,400
son into our hearts.
And we cry.

886
00:50:08,400 –> 00:50:12,200
Abba Father And then Paul
concludes with something that we

887
00:50:12,200 –> 00:50:15,900
already know from Christ where
he says, wherefore thou are no

888
00:50:15,900 –> 00:50:20,200
longer a servant but a son and
if a son then you are an air

889
00:50:20,600 –> 00:50:24,400
through Christ.
John in his first epistle, has

890
00:50:24,400 –> 00:50:28,200
this beautiful verse that has
been turned into a song and I

891
00:50:28,207 –> 00:50:33,000
can sing it for you.
Okay, I won’t say I was thinking

892
00:50:33,000 –> 00:50:36,900
for you but you know this song
and it’s a it’s something that

893
00:50:36,900 –> 00:50:39,400
we can we can sing.
When we lose sight of what it

894
00:50:39,400 –> 00:50:41,300
is, that God thinks of us, it
goes like this.

895
00:50:41,300 –> 00:50:43,900
It goes behold what manner of
love the father has given unto

896
00:50:43,900 –> 00:50:47,900
us that we should be called the
sons of God and it repeats five

897
00:50:47,900 –> 00:50:51,300
times or three times or whatever
and then it tells next important

898
00:50:51,300 –> 00:50:56,500
part of the story and so on.
And John reminds us, he says

899
00:50:56,600 –> 00:50:59,500
when he shall appear we shall be
like him.

900
00:50:59,800 –> 00:51:04,300
I’m not going to sing that song.
We shall be like thankful.

901
00:51:04,300 –> 00:51:07,400
You probably thinking Galatians
3 says, you are all children of

902
00:51:07,400 –> 00:51:10,200
God by faith in Christ Jesus.
For his many of you have been

903
00:51:10,200 –> 00:51:12,300
baptized into Christ.
Have put on Christ, there is

904
00:51:12,300 –> 00:51:14,500
neither Jew, nor Greek nor Bond
nor free.

905
00:51:14,500 –> 00:51:17,700
There is neither male nor female
for you are all one in Christ

906
00:51:17,700 –> 00:51:20,700
Jesus.
You see, we are the family of

907
00:51:20,700 –> 00:51:24,000
God and that trumps any
identifier that we would have

908
00:51:24,000 –> 00:51:26,400
had previous.
Actually, you see, we are

909
00:51:26,500 –> 00:51:30,500
Christ’s Paul finishes and if
you be Christ’s, then you are

910
00:51:30,500 –> 00:51:33,900
Abraham’s seed and you are heirs
according to the promise.

911
00:51:33,900 –> 00:51:37,000
And this is why in first
Thessalonians 5 verse 5, Paul

912
00:51:37,000 –> 00:51:40,400
reminds the Thessalonians and
us, he says, you are all the

913
00:51:40,400 –> 00:51:44,700
children of light and the
children of day we are not of

914
00:51:44,700 –> 00:51:47,900
Darkness.
We are not of the knights and

915
00:51:47,900 –> 00:51:51,800
there’s another song or a CD.
And so again the level of

916
00:51:51,800 –> 00:51:55,100
detail, the level of care that
God has for us continues to

917
00:51:55,107 –> 00:51:58,500
become even more pronounced in
scripture and Matthew 10 and in

918
00:51:58,500 –> 00:52:02,500
Luke 12 Christ, teaches us, that
we are more valuable to God Than

919
00:52:02,500 –> 00:52:05,000
The Sparrows.
And that even the very hairs of

920
00:52:05,000 –> 00:52:08,900
our head are numbered, it goes
beyond that, to almost defy.

921
00:52:08,900 –> 00:52:11,900
Our ability to understand.
Again, in Ephesians, we learn

922
00:52:11,900 –> 00:52:16,100
that God has chosen us in Christ
before the foundation.

923
00:52:16,300 –> 00:52:19,800
The world and that we should be
holy and Without Blame before

924
00:52:19,800 –> 00:52:23,500
him in love that.
He predestinated us to be

925
00:52:23,500 –> 00:52:27,600
adopted by Christ according to
the pleasure of his Goodwill and

926
00:52:27,600 –> 00:52:32,400
to the praise of his grace.
We see, I cannot help but wonder

927
00:52:32,900 –> 00:52:37,300
why God included this concept of
predestination and election in

928
00:52:37,300 –> 00:52:40,400
the Bible.
You know, sometimes it’s hard to

929
00:52:40,400 –> 00:52:43,400
wrap your mind around when you
start considering the idea of

930
00:52:43,400 –> 00:52:45,100
Free Will and it can be very
tricky.

931
00:52:45,500 –> 00:52:48,100
Sometimes I You’re why God
include stuff like that in his

932
00:52:48,100 –> 00:52:49,900
word.
I know a brother that got so

933
00:52:49,900 –> 00:52:52,000
tangled up in this city left the
truth.

934
00:52:53,000 –> 00:52:55,000
I cannot.
But wonder, why would God bring

935
00:52:55,000 –> 00:52:58,400
up the idea of predestination?
Is it just to Simply say, I’m

936
00:52:58,400 –> 00:53:01,800
powerful and I knew you before
you were in the womb, I don’t

937
00:53:01,800 –> 00:53:03,800
think so.
I think he, I believe that he

938
00:53:03,800 –> 00:53:07,000
included it because it’s
intended to relay its intended,

939
00:53:07,000 –> 00:53:10,100
to make us realize how
incredibly special we are to

940
00:53:10,100 –> 00:53:12,500
him.
It’s there to comfort.

941
00:53:12,500 –> 00:53:16,200
Our souls is, we rest our
thoughts in the stability of God

942
00:53:16,200 –> 00:53:18,600
steadfastness.
It’s there to make us feel

943
00:53:18,600 –> 00:53:21,500
incredibly special in to
indicate the depth and the

944
00:53:21,500 –> 00:53:25,100
height, and the breadth of his
For us, he knew us before we

945
00:53:25,100 –> 00:53:28,600
were even in the womb, like he
told Jeremiah and he told him

946
00:53:28,600 –> 00:53:31,700
that to comfort him and to give
him something to believe in.

947
00:53:32,500 –> 00:53:37,300
And so sometimes we believe that
we have chosen God and in some

948
00:53:37,300 –> 00:53:43,600
sense, that’s correct.
But it’s actually that we have

949
00:53:43,600 –> 00:53:47,200
been chosen by God, that’s what
Colossians tells us, God hath

950
00:53:47,200 –> 00:53:50,900
from the beginning, chosen you
to Salvation through the

951
00:53:50,900 –> 00:53:54,700
sanctification of the spirit and
the belief of the truth, we

952
00:53:54,700 –> 00:53:58,300
can’t just believe whatever he
wants just as Christ told the

953
00:53:58,300 –> 00:54:02,200
woman at the well and Samaria,
it’s not just enough to have

954
00:54:02,200 –> 00:54:05,700
faith, we have to have faith in
true things, we have to worship,

955
00:54:05,700 –> 00:54:08,500
not only in spirit, but in
biblical truth.

956
00:54:08,800 –> 00:54:11,800
And so we are exhorted in
Colossians that as Elect of God.

957
00:54:11,800 –> 00:54:15,000
Holy and beloved put on the
bowels of Mercy.

958
00:54:15,300 –> 00:54:18,800
Kindness, humbleness of my
meekness and long-suffering, see

959
00:54:18,800 –> 00:54:22,600
see that’s how he wants us to
respond to his love and we can

960
00:54:23,200 –> 00:54:28,700
if we first accept his love in
faith, What does God think of,

961
00:54:28,700 –> 00:54:31,700
as brothers and sisters?
In Romans 8, it says that there

962
00:54:31,700 –> 00:54:36,100
is no condemnation to those that
are in Christ Jesus, who walk

963
00:54:36,100 –> 00:54:39,200
not after the flesh, but after
the spirit, and if she can

964
00:54:39,200 –> 00:54:42,600
believe that that you’re that,
you’re not condemned and you

965
00:54:42,600 –> 00:54:45,900
won’t be the Judgment seat.
How would that make you respond

966
00:54:45,900 –> 00:54:47,400
if you knew you were going to be
in the Kingdom?

967
00:54:47,400 –> 00:54:49,500
In other words, how would that
make you feel?

968
00:54:49,500 –> 00:54:51,200
And what would that inspire you
to do?

969
00:54:51,500 –> 00:54:54,700
Well, the New Testament, it
inspired men and women to turn

970
00:54:54,700 –> 00:54:58,100
the world upside down because
they fully believe In the

971
00:54:58,100 –> 00:55:01,600
sufficiency of God, God so loved
the world that he gave his only

972
00:55:01,600 –> 00:55:04,800
begotten son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not

973
00:55:04,800 –> 00:55:07,300
perish, but have everlasting
life.

974
00:55:07,700 –> 00:55:10,800
God did not send his son into
the world to condemn the world,

975
00:55:11,100 –> 00:55:13,900
but rather that the world
through him might be saved.

976
00:55:14,000 –> 00:55:17,600
He that believeth on him is not
condemned but he that believeth

977
00:55:17,600 –> 00:55:19,400
not is already condemned because
he hath.

978
00:55:19,400 –> 00:55:22,000
Not believed in the name of the
only begotten son of God.

979
00:55:23,200 –> 00:55:25,400
And yet sometimes brothers and
sisters, we act like we’re

980
00:55:25,400 –> 00:55:29,800
already condemned, but right
here, John says that God loves

981
00:55:29,800 –> 00:55:33,100
us and he’s given his only
begotten son for me and you.

982
00:55:33,600 –> 00:55:36,100
And so we have to stop acting
like were condemned.

983
00:55:36,200 –> 00:55:38,900
We have to start acting like our
names are actually written in

984
00:55:38,900 –> 00:55:41,300
the book of life.
This is the admonition of the

985
00:55:41,300 –> 00:55:44,800
Apostle, Paul where he says walk
worthy of your High Calling

986
00:55:45,900 –> 00:55:49,400
Brothers and sisters, Christ,
came to Deliver Us From Fear,

987
00:55:49,700 –> 00:55:54,700
specifically, the fear of death.
And therefore, if you don’t have

988
00:55:54,700 –> 00:55:57,300
to fear death, well, what do we
do at?

989
00:55:57,300 –> 00:56:01,000
What do we have to fear?
It says that he tasted death for

990
00:56:01,000 –> 00:56:03,600
every man and, you know, the
verse because it’s the one that

991
00:56:03,600 –> 00:56:06,200
separates us from the throngs of
trinitarians.

992
00:56:06,500 –> 00:56:08,600
But, let’s take a look at the
verse afterwards.

993
00:56:08,600 –> 00:56:14,000
It’s in Hebrews 2 chapter 2,
verses 14 and 15.

994
00:56:17,900 –> 00:56:22,400
This is where it talks about
Christ coming to Deliver Us from

995
00:56:22,500 –> 00:56:28,200
the fear of death verse 14, is a
first principle verse one that

996
00:56:28,200 –> 00:56:31,700
we know quite well.
It says Forasmuch then as the

997
00:56:31,700 –> 00:56:33,600
children are partakers of Flesh
and Blood.

998
00:56:33,600 –> 00:56:37,900
He also himself likewise took
part of the same that through

999
00:56:37,900 –> 00:56:41,300
death he might destroy him.
That had the power of death.

1000
00:56:41,300 –> 00:56:43,000
That is the diabolo through the
devil.

1001
00:56:43,000 –> 00:56:46,100
The false accuser verse 15 is
the one I want to call your

1002
00:56:46,100 –> 00:56:49,400
attention to and this was part
of the reason that he came.

1003
00:56:50,600 –> 00:56:54,500
And and deliver them who through
fear of death were all their

1004
00:56:54,500 –> 00:56:57,800
lifetime subject to bondage.
Now, can you believe that, that,

1005
00:56:58,000 –> 00:57:00,900
that is part of the expressed
purpose for which Christ came

1006
00:57:00,900 –> 00:57:03,500
forth.
Why should we think that God

1007
00:57:03,500 –> 00:57:06,000
doesn’t really want to be
involved in every detail of her

1008
00:57:06,000 –> 00:57:09,600
life of Christ came to Deliver
Us from the fear of death?

1009
00:57:10,200 –> 00:57:13,500
Or is it that we don’t know and
who invite him in in faith?

1010
00:57:14,700 –> 00:57:16,600
And so, brothers and sisters in
our right Minds.

1011
00:57:16,600 –> 00:57:19,100
We know that it is God’s
intention to save us.

1012
00:57:19,100 –> 00:57:21,900
And yet in our wrong Minds, we
still entertain doubts about

1013
00:57:21,900 –> 00:57:24,600
whether or not God permits
things into our life to develop

1014
00:57:24,600 –> 00:57:26,400
our faith in our connection to
him.

1015
00:57:26,800 –> 00:57:29,900
Sometimes, we think that God is
only in the big things and yet,

1016
00:57:29,900 –> 00:57:31,600
we don’t use scripture to
Define.

1017
00:57:31,600 –> 00:57:34,200
What is a big thing?
What might be a big thing to Me?

1018
00:57:34,200 –> 00:57:36,400
Maybe nothing to you in vice
versa.

1019
00:57:36,600 –> 00:57:39,800
How do we make that
determination on what basis in

1020
00:57:39,800 –> 00:57:41,800
some sense?
It’s akin to saying when

1021
00:57:41,800 –> 00:57:45,000
somebody says, oh only part of
the Bible isn’t Fired in true.

1022
00:57:45,400 –> 00:57:47,500
You say, well, how are you going
to make that determination?

1023
00:57:48,100 –> 00:57:50,200
And they have no basis the parts
that they like, and they

1024
00:57:50,207 –> 00:57:51,700
understand.
Well, they accept that, and

1025
00:57:51,707 –> 00:57:53,100
that’s true.
But the parts they don’t

1026
00:57:53,100 –> 00:57:54,700
understand.
They say it’s not true.

1027
00:57:55,300 –> 00:57:58,100
And we say, in a similar sense,
we use the same logic when we

1028
00:57:58,100 –> 00:58:02,400
say, God’s involved in the big
things, but there’s no criteria

1029
00:58:02,400 –> 00:58:04,600
on which we bake make that
judgment.

1030
00:58:04,800 –> 00:58:07,000
If you’re going to say that God
is only in the big things.

1031
00:58:07,100 –> 00:58:09,000
How are you going to make that
determination?

1032
00:58:09,300 –> 00:58:12,400
What is a big thing?
And so it makes far more sense

1033
00:58:12,400 –> 00:58:14,000
to say no.
God is actually involved.

1034
00:58:14,100 –> 00:58:17,600
In every detail of our lives and
therefore we can call upon him

1035
00:58:17,800 –> 00:58:19,300
and ask for his guidance and
give him.

1036
00:58:19,300 –> 00:58:25,700
Thanks, when when things go well
Curious from the word of God,

1037
00:58:26,000 –> 00:58:28,700
word of God.
This beautiful reassuring verse

1038
00:58:28,700 –> 00:58:32,000
in Hebrews 7 and verse 25.
If you’re in still in Hebrews,

1039
00:58:32,000 –> 00:58:35,900
you can turn over the page, this
is such a stunning verse.

1040
00:58:36,700 –> 00:58:42,100
It says that Christ is able to
save us to the uttermost and all

1041
00:58:42,100 –> 00:58:46,900
them that come unto God by him,
seeing that he ever liveth to

1042
00:58:46,900 –> 00:58:50,300
make intercession for us.
I just think about that for a

1043
00:58:50,308 –> 00:58:53,800
minute he ever liveth.
In other words, one of The

1044
00:58:53,800 –> 00:58:57,100
reasons that Christ is alive, is
to make intercession for me and

1045
00:58:57,100 –> 00:58:59,300
you.
That’s why he laid down his life

1046
00:58:59,300 –> 00:59:01,600
in the first place.
That was his motivation.

1047
00:59:01,700 –> 00:59:04,100
That was part of the joy, that
was set before him.

1048
00:59:04,300 –> 00:59:07,200
That’s how he could in the same
night in which he was betrayed,

1049
00:59:07,500 –> 00:59:10,900
break bread and drink wine, and
leave us a way to remember him.

1050
00:59:11,100 –> 00:59:14,500
He did it for us.
It’s why he gave his life to to

1051
00:59:14,500 –> 00:59:17,400
reconnect us to God, to make
intercession to bridge.

1052
00:59:17,400 –> 00:59:19,800
The gap that we’ve created
between God and us.

1053
00:59:20,600 –> 00:59:25,200
By our sins, our iniquities have
separated us from God but we are

1054
00:59:25,200 –> 00:59:29,500
brought nigh or near by the
blood of Christ and we are saved

1055
00:59:29,500 –> 00:59:33,700
by his life.
Jimmy tells us this is beautiful

1056
00:59:33,700 –> 00:59:37,700
verse praising.
God says, now unto him that is

1057
00:59:37,700 –> 00:59:41,900
able to keep us from falling and
to present us faultless before

1058
00:59:41,900 –> 00:59:45,600
the presence of his glory, with
exceeding Joy to the only wise

1059
00:59:45,600 –> 00:59:49,100
God and our Saviour, be glory
and majesty and Dominion Forever

1060
00:59:49,100 –> 00:59:51,200
both both now and forever.
Amen.

1061
00:59:52,300 –> 00:59:55,500
And yet we think we think
sometimes he’s got to be talking

1062
00:59:55,500 –> 00:59:58,400
about somebody else.
He’s got to be talking about

1063
00:59:58,400 –> 01:00:03,200
anybody but me, and if you go to
Revelation 14, God gives us a

1064
01:00:03,207 –> 01:00:05,200
picture of that very verse being
fulfilled.

1065
01:00:05,300 –> 01:00:08,200
Us being presented faultless
Before the Throne of his Grace

1066
01:00:08,500 –> 01:00:12,900
singing, a new song, When it
comes time for judgment, this is

1067
01:00:12,900 –> 01:00:14,700
what he says about us.
Isaiah 26.

1068
01:00:14,700 –> 01:00:18,300
Tells us What God Says, to his
sacred ones, those that are in

1069
01:00:18,308 –> 01:00:22,400
his family.
He says, come my people enter

1070
01:00:22,400 –> 01:00:26,300
thou into thy Chambers, shut the
doors behind thee, hide thyself,

1071
01:00:26,300 –> 01:00:29,400
as it were, for a little moment
until the indignation be over

1072
01:00:29,400 –> 01:00:33,400
past, for behold, Yahweh comes
out of his place to punish the

1073
01:00:33,400 –> 01:00:35,400
inhabitants of the Earth for
their iniquity.

1074
01:00:36,100 –> 01:00:39,300
The Earth also shall disclose
her blood and shall no more

1075
01:00:39,300 –> 01:00:43,900
cover her slain.
And he hides us from that this

1076
01:00:43,900 –> 01:00:46,400
harmonizes with the words of
Christ, where he says, fear not

1077
01:00:46,400 –> 01:00:49,300
little flock, it is your
father’s, good pleasure to give

1078
01:00:49,300 –> 01:00:53,200
you the kingdom.
And he tells us that detail so

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01:00:53,200 –> 01:00:55,300
that we can hold the vision sure
in our minds.

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01:00:55,600 –> 01:00:57,400
It says he adds a little bit
more.

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01:00:57,400 –> 01:01:00,000
He says, then the king shall say
unto them on his right hand.

1082
01:01:00,100 –> 01:01:02,900
Come Ye blessed of my father
inherit the Kingdom, which was

1083
01:01:02,900 –> 01:01:06,000
prepared for you from the
foundation of the world.

1084
01:01:07,100 –> 01:01:08,800
And so these things is John
States.

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01:01:08,800 –> 01:01:11,800
In his first official epistle,
had been written unto us, that

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01:01:11,800 –> 01:01:15,300
we might believe on the name of
the son of God and that we may

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01:01:15,300 –> 01:01:18,800
know that we have eternal life
and that we may believe on the

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01:01:18,808 –> 01:01:22,700
name of the son of God.
And yet we say, I can’t believe

1089
01:01:22,700 –> 01:01:24,700
it.
There must be some sort of

1090
01:01:24,700 –> 01:01:27,000
qualifier.
What do you mean that I have

1091
01:01:27,000 –> 01:01:28,800
eternal life?
My back hurts.

1092
01:01:28,800 –> 01:01:30,800
When I get out of the chair.
My neck is stiff.

1093
01:01:30,800 –> 01:01:34,400
I feel pretty mortal.
Brothers and sisters, God calls

1094
01:01:34,400 –> 01:01:38,000
those things which are not as
though they are.

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01:01:38,700 –> 01:01:41,600
The scripture is very clear.
It says that we have eternal

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01:01:41,600 –> 01:01:44,600
life and that’s what God thinks
of us.

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01:01:45,400 –> 01:01:47,400
You see, just as Paul was
teaching, the Believers in

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01:01:47,400 –> 01:01:50,600
Philippi our names, are written
in the Book of Life.

1099
01:01:51,200 –> 01:01:54,700
Jesus told his disciples to not
be too pleased with themselves,

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01:01:54,900 –> 01:01:59,700
after being able to, to drive
out spirits and that the spirits

1101
01:01:59,700 –> 01:02:02,300
were subject to them.
And Luke chapter 10 but he said,

1102
01:02:02,300 –> 01:02:04,600
don’t Be so happy with
yourselves for that.

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01:02:04,800 –> 01:02:08,100
He says, Rejoice, that your name
is written in the Book of Life.

1104
01:02:09,900 –> 01:02:13,400
Revelation 3 verse 5 says, a
similar thing and we doubting

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01:02:13,400 –> 01:02:17,200
say I might have done some bad
things this week and perhaps

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01:02:17,200 –> 01:02:19,600
Christ is erased.
My name out of the book.

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01:02:20,800 –> 01:02:23,800
Is that what’s going on Christ,
is erasing, our name out of the

1108
01:02:23,800 –> 01:02:27,000
book and then he’s adding it
back in based on whether or not

1109
01:02:27,000 –> 01:02:29,000
we had a good week.
In other words, can we get our

1110
01:02:29,000 –> 01:02:32,600
names written back into the book
of life based on our works?

1111
01:02:34,000 –> 01:02:37,700
Not so you think he’s tearing
the page for all the rubbing out

1112
01:02:37,700 –> 01:02:41,300
and putting back in that we
think that he’s doing not so

1113
01:02:41,900 –> 01:02:44,000
your names are written in the
book of life.

1114
01:02:44,400 –> 01:02:49,600
You are a son and a daughter or
a daughter of God and with that

1115
01:02:49,600 –> 01:02:55,000
in mind apprehended in faith.
God is simply saying serve me in

1116
01:02:55,000 –> 01:02:58,400
love and appreciation.
Paul.

1117
01:02:58,400 –> 01:03:00,900
Similarly and treats the
Colossians when he says do you

1118
01:03:00,908 –> 01:03:03,000
not know that you are the Temple
of the Living God?

1119
01:03:03,000 –> 01:03:06,000
And that the spirit of God
dwells in you and yet we

1120
01:03:06,000 –> 01:03:08,800
compartmentalize at to say well
yes, as long as we remember

1121
01:03:08,800 –> 01:03:11,200
God’s spirit word and his word
dwells in us and it’s in our

1122
01:03:11,200 –> 01:03:13,700
mind because we know that the
holy spirit is Spirit gifts are

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01:03:13,700 –> 01:03:16,800
no longer in possession as they
were amended and have them like

1124
01:03:16,800 –> 01:03:18,400
they do.
Now is they did in the first

1125
01:03:18,400 –> 01:03:22,300
century, but it’s far more
Dynamic than that brothers and

1126
01:03:22,300 –> 01:03:24,700
sisters.
Those who are the sons and the

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01:03:24,700 –> 01:03:27,600
daughters of the Living.
God are led by the spirit if

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01:03:27,600 –> 01:03:31,000
they continue to commit
themselves to seeking to do the

1129
01:03:31,000 –> 01:03:33,900
will of God prayerfully.
If we don’t lean unto our Not

1130
01:03:33,900 –> 01:03:37,100
understanding.
But we can’t do whatever we want

1131
01:03:37,100 –> 01:03:40,600
and say well I’m like by the
spirit but if we wait on the

1132
01:03:40,600 –> 01:03:43,500
Lord prayerfully and if we look
to him for guidance and

1133
01:03:43,500 –> 01:03:48,000
Direction, he promises to direct
our paths and that’s the way

1134
01:03:48,000 –> 01:03:51,300
scripture explains how all this
works is simply by saying in

1135
01:03:51,300 –> 01:03:54,400
Colossians 1, he says, well,
it’s gotten you.

1136
01:03:55,000 –> 01:03:59,500
It’s Christ in you the hope of
glory and truly, it makes sense

1137
01:03:59,500 –> 01:04:01,500
that God would dwell in us and
do works.

1138
01:04:01,500 –> 01:04:04,900
If we humble ourselves, if we
make a little room in ourselves

1139
01:04:04,900 –> 01:04:07,200
for him, You.
So because that’s it precisely

1140
01:04:07,200 –> 01:04:10,200
the method in which God worked
in the Lord Jesus Christ.

1141
01:04:10,300 –> 01:04:13,200
Jesus Christ said I can do
nothing of my own self Christ.

1142
01:04:13,200 –> 01:04:16,500
Never claimed that the Miracles
that he performed were his in

1143
01:04:16,500 –> 01:04:20,200
any way.
Better said they were performed

1144
01:04:20,200 –> 01:04:23,600
through him.
Philippians 2, says he did not

1145
01:04:23,600 –> 01:04:27,800
grasp at equality with God but
the Miracles were intended to

1146
01:04:27,800 –> 01:04:31,100
work on the witnesses Faith or
on their belief Christ was

1147
01:04:31,100 –> 01:04:36,700
working on their faith.
John 14 says, the Lord says

1148
01:04:37,200 –> 01:04:40,200
believe is thou not that I am in
the father and the father is in

1149
01:04:40,200 –> 01:04:42,700
me the words that I speak unto
you.

1150
01:04:42,800 –> 01:04:46,700
I speak not of myself but the
father that dwelleth in me, he

1151
01:04:46,700 –> 01:04:49,000
does the works.
And right at the end of the

1152
01:04:49,000 –> 01:04:51,700
first chapter of Colossians,
Paul is telling that, that his

1153
01:04:51,700 –> 01:04:54,400
job is to tell the whole world
about something that have been

1154
01:04:54,400 –> 01:04:56,600
hidden for the ages and from
Generations.

1155
01:04:57,100 –> 01:05:00,700
But now he says, it’s made
manifest for us the Saints and

1156
01:05:00,700 –> 01:05:03,500
that is the idea of Christ
dwelling in US.

1157
01:05:03,700 –> 01:05:07,400
Colossians 1 a 27.
He says the mystery that’s been

1158
01:05:07,400 –> 01:05:10,800
hidden from the ages.
Is Christ in you the hope of

1159
01:05:10,800 –> 01:05:14,500
glory as a community, we know
this we call this God

1160
01:05:14,500 –> 01:05:18,200
manifestation.
But is that really possible that

1161
01:05:18,200 –> 01:05:21,500
Christ can dwell in US?
Of course, it is because God has

1162
01:05:21,500 –> 01:05:24,300
promised.
It, this is God’s promise to

1163
01:05:24,300 –> 01:05:27,100
work in us, but but we Short
Circuit the entire process.

1164
01:05:27,100 –> 01:05:30,200
If we don’t believe it to be
possible, you see, you have to

1165
01:05:30,200 –> 01:05:33,500
have faith that this is even
possible for it to happen.

1166
01:05:34,800 –> 01:05:36,900
But it makes sense brothers and
sisters that God would be

1167
01:05:36,900 –> 01:05:40,400
willing to dwell in us both to
Will and to do his good

1168
01:05:40,400 –> 01:05:42,700
pleasure.
Well why does it make sense?

1169
01:05:43,100 –> 01:05:46,500
Well here’s how Romans 8 puts it
says he spared.

1170
01:05:46,500 –> 01:05:52,000
Not his own son but he delivered
him up for us all how shall not?

1171
01:05:52,100 –> 01:05:56,500
He then also with him give us
all things freely.

1172
01:05:57,400 –> 01:06:00,200
If God has not spared his own
son for us.

1173
01:06:01,300 –> 01:06:03,500
What greater gift, can he give
us the net?

1174
01:06:03,500 –> 01:06:08,600
He has given us all things.
And yet, sometimes we think like

1175
01:06:08,600 –> 01:06:11,800
the the second son in the
prodigal story, and we don’t

1176
01:06:11,800 –> 01:06:14,800
even realize that we have access
to it by God’s grace.

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01:06:15,500 –> 01:06:17,400
You see in the parable of the
two lost Sons.

1178
01:06:17,400 –> 01:06:20,900
We learned that the father tells
the other disgruntled son, son,

1179
01:06:21,500 –> 01:06:26,200
Thou Are Forever with me.
All that I have is thine And we

1180
01:06:26,200 –> 01:06:30,400
know that God’s hand is open.
He is the almighty Psalm 84

1181
01:06:30,400 –> 01:06:33,300
reminds us the Lord.
Our God is a sun and shield.

1182
01:06:33,300 –> 01:06:35,200
The Lord will give Grace and
Glory.

1183
01:06:35,400 –> 01:06:38,900
No, good thing.
Will he withhold from those that

1184
01:06:38,900 –> 01:06:43,100
walk uprightly?
First Corinthians 2 shows us.

1185
01:06:43,400 –> 01:06:46,600
Now we have received not the
spirit of the world, but the

1186
01:06:46,600 –> 01:06:51,000
spirit, which is of god, why
that we might know the things

1187
01:06:51,000 –> 01:06:53,300
that are freely given to us of
God.

1188
01:06:53,800 –> 01:06:56,900
Second Corinthians, Paul reminds
us and he says, all things are

1189
01:06:56,900 –> 01:07:00,700
for your sake.
Why that the abundant grace

1190
01:07:00,700 –> 01:07:04,100
might through the Thanksgiving
of many redound to the glory of

1191
01:07:04,100 –> 01:07:10,000
God, that’s in 4:15 and so we
can only conclude that God must

1192
01:07:10,000 –> 01:07:12,900
be involved in Detail of our
lives there.

1193
01:07:12,900 –> 01:07:16,000
While he may not be the cause of
all things in our lives.

1194
01:07:16,200 –> 01:07:19,500
He certainly knows about every
detail and that he’s allowing

1195
01:07:19,500 –> 01:07:24,100
even challenging things.
Even that he’s allowing even the

1196
01:07:24,100 –> 01:07:27,400
challenging things as a
mechanism to grow our faith and

1197
01:07:27,400 –> 01:07:30,500
to deepen, our connection with
him on a daily basis.

1198
01:07:32,100 –> 01:07:34,900
And so, it’s our response to the
issues of life that become,

1199
01:07:34,900 –> 01:07:39,100
especially important.
And that the father wants to

1200
01:07:39,100 –> 01:07:42,400
help us overcome, they were not
going to do it in our own

1201
01:07:42,400 –> 01:07:45,300
strength.
And thus, we must be instant in

1202
01:07:45,300 –> 01:07:47,700
prayer and in everything give
thanks.

1203
01:07:49,100 –> 01:07:51,800
Now I’m some of you will
probably be wondering if I

1204
01:07:51,800 –> 01:07:55,500
simply stack, the deck and I
just bringing up the verses to

1205
01:07:55,500 –> 01:07:58,800
the top to make the point that I
want to make have I presented

1206
01:07:58,800 –> 01:08:02,700
only one side of the argument or
is this actual in an

1207
01:08:02,700 –> 01:08:05,700
intellectual sense.
We know that God is omnipotent

1208
01:08:05,700 –> 01:08:09,900
and omniscient all-knowing and
omnipresence three armies and

1209
01:08:09,900 –> 01:08:13,800
yet we run from him, like Jonah,
we just have trouble accepting

1210
01:08:13,800 –> 01:08:16,700
that God is in everything.
And when I say that God is in

1211
01:08:16,700 –> 01:08:19,399
everything, some of you made a
debate, the idea, In the God is

1212
01:08:19,399 –> 01:08:21,500
not the cause of all things, and
that’s true.

1213
01:08:22,700 –> 01:08:26,600
Man has a will and he exerts
that will and we all know that

1214
01:08:26,600 –> 01:08:29,000
when man’s will collides with
another man’s will.

1215
01:08:29,600 –> 01:08:32,899
We call that a power struggle?
And it causes so much grief from

1216
01:08:32,899 –> 01:08:35,100
this world.
For example, some men have the

1217
01:08:35,100 –> 01:08:39,000
will to drink themselves drunk
and then get in a car and drive

1218
01:08:39,300 –> 01:08:42,000
and others have been the victim
of their drunk driving in have

1219
01:08:42,000 –> 01:08:45,000
died.
And you say, well, how can you

1220
01:08:45,000 –> 01:08:47,899
say that God is in that?
How is God in everything?

1221
01:08:48,700 –> 01:08:52,500
Well, God did not cause the
drunk driver to take somebody’s

1222
01:08:52,500 –> 01:08:55,100
life or to drink beer that, or
whatever it is in the first

1223
01:08:55,100 –> 01:08:57,200
place.
But he certainly allowed it to

1224
01:08:57,200 –> 01:09:00,100
happen.
And this is the very idea that

1225
01:09:00,100 –> 01:09:01,700
makes shipwreck of people’s
Faith.

1226
01:09:01,700 –> 01:09:05,600
This is, this is very personal
stuff and naturally we come to

1227
01:09:05,608 –> 01:09:08,300
questions, like, well why didn’t
you stop it?

1228
01:09:08,899 –> 01:09:14,300
I thought you were a loving God.
When it comes to suffering cause

1229
01:09:14,300 –> 01:09:18,600
is not the issue, the effect is
the issue.

1230
01:09:19,399 –> 01:09:21,200
Does it drive you to connect
with God?

1231
01:09:21,200 –> 01:09:23,800
Like never before or does it
cause you to go on strike from

1232
01:09:23,800 –> 01:09:28,500
God, how you respond is not
change, the fact that God knows

1233
01:09:28,500 –> 01:09:31,100
about it that he permitted it to
happen.

1234
01:09:31,300 –> 01:09:33,700
And that the only reason that
he’s done, so is to strengthen

1235
01:09:33,700 –> 01:09:36,800
our faith, which is more
precious to him than gold.

1236
01:09:37,700 –> 01:09:39,600
That is the only thing that we
can offer him.

1237
01:09:40,300 –> 01:09:43,300
The only thing that will bring
us to sell out to Salvation by

1238
01:09:43,300 –> 01:09:46,899
God’s grace you see on some
level, we know that God is in

1239
01:09:46,899 –> 01:09:48,500
everything.
We know that he’s in the good

1240
01:09:48,500 –> 01:09:50,899
things, the things that we call
blessings which are often just

1241
01:09:50,899 –> 01:09:53,700
the things that we want.
We thank God for the house or

1242
01:09:53,700 –> 01:09:56,800
the car, the job, or the new
clothes are the food.

1243
01:09:57,200 –> 01:09:59,700
We’re blessed to know the truth
is revealed in the Bible, but

1244
01:10:00,000 –> 01:10:01,900
it’s not particularly
challenging to believe that God

1245
01:10:01,900 –> 01:10:05,600
is in what we perceive is, good.
Sometimes it is challenging to

1246
01:10:05,608 –> 01:10:07,300
be thankful, but that’s another
story.

1247
01:10:07,400 –> 01:10:11,000
We will look at how God grows
our faith, in our next session.

1248
01:10:11,000 –> 01:10:14,200
Lord willing.
But have I only presented one

1249
01:10:14,200 –> 01:10:17,700
side of the argument or is this
actually a Biblical perspective?

1250
01:10:18,500 –> 01:10:20,700
You may think that I’m making it
sound as though.

1251
01:10:20,900 –> 01:10:23,700
Once were baptized.
There’s nothing we can do to not

1252
01:10:23,700 –> 01:10:26,700
be in the kingdom and you and I
both know that that’s rubbish.

1253
01:10:27,200 –> 01:10:30,500
We are not Calvinists who
believe once were saved were

1254
01:10:30,500 –> 01:10:34,200
always saved.
The point of God telling us over

1255
01:10:34,200 –> 01:10:36,600
and over and over again of our
status.

1256
01:10:36,600 –> 01:10:41,300
In Jesus Christ is to inspire us
to build our faith in him to

1257
01:10:41,300 –> 01:10:44,800
make us feel loved.
And it’s not a not to allow us

1258
01:10:44,800 –> 01:10:48,100
to run.
Amok I must conclude by finally

1259
01:10:48,100 –> 01:10:51,500
saying that it all these verses
come with a warning, which can

1260
01:10:51,500 –> 01:10:54,800
be summed up, simply by saying
our Liberty in.

1261
01:10:54,800 –> 01:10:58,600
Jesus Christ cannot breed
license to do whatever we want

1262
01:10:58,600 –> 01:11:01,600
in our own eyes.
We cannot say that we’re led by

1263
01:11:01,600 –> 01:11:05,800
the spirit and do unseemly.
Things, can we lose the kingdom?

1264
01:11:06,000 –> 01:11:07,600
Of course, we can lose the
kingdom.

1265
01:11:08,200 –> 01:11:11,500
How well, what we do is we
invert the truth.

1266
01:11:11,500 –> 01:11:15,500
In other words, what we do is we
stop believing In some kind of

1267
01:11:15,500 –> 01:11:17,900
strange sense.
It’s kind of weird to think

1268
01:11:17,900 –> 01:11:21,000
about how we can disqualify
ourselves from the kingdom and

1269
01:11:21,000 –> 01:11:24,000
to be clear, the Bible doesn’t
exactly explain how that

1270
01:11:24,000 –> 01:11:26,000
happens.
Other to Simply identify

1271
01:11:26,000 –> 01:11:27,800
behaviors.
That reveal a mine that stop

1272
01:11:27,800 –> 01:11:31,500
believing for example, in First
Corinthians 6:9 and 10, it says

1273
01:11:32,400 –> 01:11:35,200
know, ye not that the
unrighteous shall not inherit

1274
01:11:35,200 –> 01:11:38,800
the kingdom of God.
You see if righteousness by

1275
01:11:38,800 –> 01:11:42,400
faith, while the unrighteous are
not believing anymore.

1276
01:11:42,700 –> 01:11:45,100
And so we get the description of
the actions of the faithless.

1277
01:11:45,100 –> 01:11:48,400
Mind, when Paul says, be not
deceived, neither fornicators,

1278
01:11:48,500 –> 01:11:52,500
nor idolaters nor adulterers nor
effeminate nor abusers of

1279
01:11:52,500 –> 01:11:55,200
themselves.
With mankind, nor thieves nor

1280
01:11:55,200 –> 01:11:58,900
Covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers nor extortioners, they

1281
01:11:58,900 –> 01:12:01,000
will not inherit the kingdom of
God.

1282
01:12:01,600 –> 01:12:05,300
Galatians 5:19, and 20 says, a
similar thing and it outlines

1283
01:12:05,300 –> 01:12:08,400
the mind of unbelief where it
says, Now the works of the flesh

1284
01:12:08,400 –> 01:12:11,500
are manifest which are these
adultery fornication,

1285
01:12:11,500 –> 01:12:15,300
uncleanness lasciviousness
idolatry, witchcraft hatred

1286
01:12:15,300 –> 01:12:19,500
variance, Emulsion emulations
wrath Strife, seditions

1287
01:12:19,500 –> 01:12:22,500
heresies, envyings murders,
drunkenness revellings and such,

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01:12:22,500 –> 01:12:26,500
like of which I tell you before,
as I’ve told you in past times

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01:12:26,800 –> 01:12:29,700
that they, which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of

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01:12:29,700 –> 01:12:33,100
God.
Paul tells Timothy at the

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01:12:33,100 –> 01:12:35,900
beginning of his first letter
that some haven’t held the faith

1292
01:12:35,900 –> 01:12:37,600
in kept it kept a clean
conscience.

1293
01:12:37,900 –> 01:12:40,600
In fact, some have put away
those things which have

1294
01:12:40,600 –> 01:12:42,600
Shipwrecked or destroyed their
faith.

1295
01:12:42,900 –> 01:12:46,100
If you read the letter to Jude,
for example you’ll see that he’s

1296
01:12:46,100 –> 01:12:48,600
using a very similar metaphor to
paraphrase.

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01:12:48,600 –> 01:12:51,700
He says, some not only have
turned from the one true Faith,

1298
01:12:51,700 –> 01:12:53,900
but they have also stopped
having faith.

1299
01:12:53,900 –> 01:12:58,700
They’ve stopped believing and so
his exhortation is not only to

1300
01:12:58,700 –> 01:13:01,500
contend earnestly for the faith
that was once delivered to The

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01:13:01,500 –> 01:13:06,100
Saints, but it but in verse 20
it says, but you beloved

1302
01:13:06,100 –> 01:13:09,000
building yourself up in your
Most Holy Faith.

1303
01:13:09,300 –> 01:13:12,300
Praying in the Holy Spirit and
keep sight of the love of God,

1304
01:13:12,400 –> 01:13:15,600
which he has for you.
And so, what’s the point?

1305
01:13:16,000 –> 01:13:19,900
The point is that we cannot the
point is that we cannot wonder

1306
01:13:19,900 –> 01:13:24,000
what God thinks of us once were
we cannot let God’s God’s what

1307
01:13:24,000 –> 01:13:26,400
God thinks of us.
Breed complacency like it did in

1308
01:13:26,400 –> 01:13:30,000
those who said off, we have
Abraham as our father, but

1309
01:13:30,000 –> 01:13:32,500
rather the point.
Point is that it’s supposed to

1310
01:13:32,500 –> 01:13:36,200
inspire us and motivate us to
love each other and to love our

1311
01:13:36,200 –> 01:13:39,800
God is he is for shown us but
brothers and sisters let us

1312
01:13:39,800 –> 01:13:42,400
never forget that our God is a
consuming fire.

1313
01:13:43,400 –> 01:13:46,400
Now what I want to do with our
time together is I want to show

1314
01:13:46,400 –> 01:13:48,300
you that there is every reason
to believe that God is

1315
01:13:48,300 –> 01:13:51,300
intimately involved in every
detail of our lives and that he

1316
01:13:51,300 –> 01:13:54,800
cares for us and that the way
you and I should respond, daily

1317
01:13:55,100 –> 01:13:58,600
is in faith.
So what we going to do next is

1318
01:13:58,600 –> 01:14:02,000
we’re going to spend a little
bit of time, looking at the

1319
01:14:02,000 –> 01:14:05,200
Thorns to our faith and then, I
don’t believe there’s going to

1320
01:14:05,208 –> 01:14:08,200
be enough time.
Sadly to look at ways in which

1321
01:14:08,200 –> 01:14:11,700
God grows our faith and ways in,
which we can increase our faith,

1322
01:14:12,100 –> 01:14:13,100
Lord willing.
Those are things.

1323
01:14:13,100 –> 01:14:18,700
We’ll do tomorrow morning.
So, here is the learning

1324
01:14:18,700 –> 01:14:20,200
attention.
We’ve talked about this, which

1325
01:14:20,200 –> 01:14:21,800
is kind of move through this
quickly.

1326
01:14:21,800 –> 01:14:24,500
We’ve talked about the
importance of Faith.

1327
01:14:24,700 –> 01:14:28,000
We’ve talked about what faith
actually is, it’s our thoughts,

1328
01:14:28,300 –> 01:14:31,300
which have substance, we talked
about the getting the root of

1329
01:14:31,300 –> 01:14:33,100
the tree, right?
Which is our faith.

1330
01:14:34,400 –> 01:14:38,000
And we’ve talked about not
simply just working on fruit and

1331
01:14:38,000 –> 01:14:41,700
wondering why it’s not there.
And we are now going to spend a

1332
01:14:41,708 –> 01:14:43,700
little bit of time.
Talking about what limits our

1333
01:14:43,700 –> 01:14:45,100
faith.
Here’s just an overview of

1334
01:14:45,100 –> 01:14:46,600
what’s going to come tomorrow,
Lord willing.

1335
01:14:46,800 –> 01:14:49,400
How does God generate or
increase our faith?

1336
01:14:49,800 –> 01:14:51,200
And then we’ll spend there’s a
lot.

1337
01:14:51,700 –> 01:14:53,800
Not sure how we’ll get through
it, but we’ll do our best by

1338
01:14:53,800 –> 01:14:57,100
God’s grace, and we’ll look at
how we can increase our faith.

1339
01:14:57,400 –> 01:15:00,500
So, so what limits faith, and I,
we talked about this from the

1340
01:15:00,500 –> 01:15:02,900
very beginning, the degree to,
which you believe that God is

1341
01:15:02,900 –> 01:15:06,200
active and present in your life,
has a profound impact on your

1342
01:15:06,200 –> 01:15:09,900
faith, the angel of the Lord
encamps around round about those

1343
01:15:10,000 –> 01:15:16,100
that fear him and he delivers
them No, I asked you to do some

1344
01:15:16,100 –> 01:15:19,200
homework and it’s something that
I hope you’ll do after.

1345
01:15:19,200 –> 01:15:24,300
We spent some time together this
weekend, it’s a challenge, it’s

1346
01:15:24,300 –> 01:15:26,100
a challenge to make these things
tangible.

1347
01:15:26,100 –> 01:15:29,100
And that’s what the homework is
designed to try to do and it

1348
01:15:29,100 –> 01:15:33,400
helps to ask a few questions.
For example, can you suspend

1349
01:15:33,400 –> 01:15:36,500
your disbelief for two weeks and
try to believe that God is in

1350
01:15:36,500 –> 01:15:38,200
everything?
But that he’s permitting

1351
01:15:38,200 –> 01:15:41,200
everything into your life when
something good comes in your

1352
01:15:41,200 –> 01:15:42,800
life.
Do you think out immediately

1353
01:15:43,300 –> 01:15:45,400
Something challenging occurs
will you think to yourself?

1354
01:15:45,400 –> 01:15:49,800
Well, this is about developing
my faith my connection in God in

1355
01:15:49,800 –> 01:15:53,300
sharing this stuff previously.
Some have thought that the

1356
01:15:53,300 –> 01:15:56,500
homework was try to was to try
to figure out how God is in

1357
01:15:56,500 –> 01:16:00,700
everything and and I wish in the
past that I had made the

1358
01:16:00,700 –> 01:16:03,300
homework more clear.
It’s very, very difficult to

1359
01:16:03,300 –> 01:16:06,400
understand how God is involved
in everything even though it’s

1360
01:16:06,400 –> 01:16:08,700
something that we’re all
naturally curious about you.

1361
01:16:08,700 –> 01:16:10,300
Remember that?
That was the Virgin.

1362
01:16:10,300 –> 01:16:12,800
Mary’s question he respected of
her.

1363
01:16:13,000 –> 01:16:15,500
Thief.
She said, how shall this be

1364
01:16:15,500 –> 01:16:18,100
seeing that?
I know not a man, you see,

1365
01:16:18,100 –> 01:16:21,000
rarely do we get to understand
how it is that God works

1366
01:16:21,300 –> 01:16:22,900
instead.
Our attention must first be

1367
01:16:22,900 –> 01:16:25,400
placed in the fact that he is
working in every aspect of our

1368
01:16:25,400 –> 01:16:29,800
lives.
So just to clarify, it’s not the

1369
01:16:29,800 –> 01:16:32,700
point of the homework to try and
figure out how God’s working.

1370
01:16:33,900 –> 01:16:37,600
It’s just to believe that he is.
The goal of the homework, is to

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01:16:37,600 –> 01:16:40,800
develop a mindset which always
affirms that that, which is

1372
01:16:40,800 –> 01:16:43,400
going on right now.
Whatever it may be in my My life

1373
01:16:43,400 –> 01:16:46,400
not only is God aware of but
that he’s permitted to happen

1374
01:16:46,400 –> 01:16:49,100
for the sole purpose of
deepening my connection to him

1375
01:16:49,600 –> 01:16:51,900
part of the Great challenge,
especially when it comes to

1376
01:16:51,900 –> 01:16:54,000
Faith and suffering.
Is that our thoughts?

1377
01:16:54,000 –> 01:16:56,100
Generally go into one of two
directions.

1378
01:16:56,600 –> 01:17:00,600
One, why is this happening to me
and two?

1379
01:17:00,800 –> 01:17:03,800
How is God in this?
In other words, how is this

1380
01:17:03,800 –> 01:17:06,600
going to work out?
I’ve spent time in both camps

1381
01:17:06,600 –> 01:17:09,100
and I’ve tried that homework
before and it can be

1382
01:17:09,100 –> 01:17:11,800
disheartening for the simple
fact that we just don’t know how

1383
01:17:11,800 –> 01:17:14,600
God is working.
We don’t know the path or the

1384
01:17:14,600 –> 01:17:17,300
means the mechanisms, by which
he works.

1385
01:17:17,500 –> 01:17:19,700
We simply have to have faith
that he is working.

1386
01:17:20,000 –> 01:17:21,300
Now, this isn’t just my
thoughts.

1387
01:17:21,300 –> 01:17:25,000
This is scriptural, when
perplexed about, how about how a

1388
01:17:25,000 –> 01:17:28,900
man could be reborn Nicodemus
was not told the process, by

1389
01:17:28,900 –> 01:17:32,300
which the ministering spirits of
the Angels, bring a man to lay

1390
01:17:32,300 –> 01:17:36,400
down his life, symbolically in
baptism, and be reborn, but he

1391
01:17:36,400 –> 01:17:39,300
was required to have faith.
That God could do it, and that

1392
01:17:39,300 –> 01:17:40,600
God could remake.
A man.

1393
01:17:40,600 –> 01:17:44,200
After the spirit, Jesus said to
me, Además, the wind blows,

1394
01:17:44,200 –> 01:17:47,300
where it listed and you hear the
sound thereof, but you cannot

1395
01:17:47,300 –> 01:17:49,200
tell from whence.
It comes with her.

1396
01:17:49,200 –> 01:17:51,400
It goes.
So is every one that is born of

1397
01:17:51,400 –> 01:17:55,900
the spirit.
Now, very simple way of making

1398
01:17:55,900 –> 01:18:00,100
this this practical and viewing
eyes through the life of Faith.

1399
01:18:00,600 –> 01:18:03,400
Came to me from a close friend
and a brother.

1400
01:18:03,800 –> 01:18:08,300
And he said, he said that when
you go to a Bible school or a

1401
01:18:08,300 –> 01:18:11,200
steady weekend or a special
effort or that kind of thing

1402
01:18:11,500 –> 01:18:14,100
that God will bring into your
life, the very principles that

1403
01:18:14,100 –> 01:18:16,800
you are just learning about and
he said that this would happen

1404
01:18:16,800 –> 01:18:20,800
within 48 Hours of the
completion of the study and that

1405
01:18:20,800 –> 01:18:23,700
the point of God doing.
So in bringing this into into

1406
01:18:23,700 –> 01:18:27,000
our Green’s is to move our
understanding from ideas and

1407
01:18:27,000 –> 01:18:31,100
Theory to the experiential to
where you actually experience

1408
01:18:31,100 –> 01:18:32,700
it.
You see when you experience a

1409
01:18:32,700 –> 01:18:36,400
lesson, you don’t forget it but
if you hear it well you tend to

1410
01:18:36,400 –> 01:18:40,400
forget 90% of what we hear.
So I believe that this is akin

1411
01:18:40,400 –> 01:18:43,200
to what the Bible talks about is
enacted Parable.

1412
01:18:43,700 –> 01:18:47,600
You see, at some point in our
lives, we have to go through

1413
01:18:47,600 –> 01:18:50,800
something that God is going
through himself, or what his son

1414
01:18:50,800 –> 01:18:53,400
has experienced.
And the reason that we do so, is

1415
01:18:53,400 –> 01:18:55,100
that we have a better.
Our understanding of his

1416
01:18:55,100 –> 01:18:58,300
feelings and his point of view,
the prophets in the Old

1417
01:18:58,300 –> 01:19:00,900
Testament, went through this
sort of experience to grow their

1418
01:19:00,900 –> 01:19:04,200
faith and their connection.
And so also, the God’s people

1419
01:19:04,200 –> 01:19:07,600
might recognize the principles
in the ways of God manifest in

1420
01:19:07,600 –> 01:19:11,000
the Physical Realm, in short,
and acted parables are a

1421
01:19:11,008 –> 01:19:14,300
teaching Aid now.
Now the skeptic in us would say

1422
01:19:14,300 –> 01:19:17,900
that well, that just becomes a
self-fulfilling prophecy to to a

1423
01:19:17,900 –> 01:19:20,000
hammer.
Everything looks like a nail.

1424
01:19:20,000 –> 01:19:23,300
Once you have that perspective
in mind once you’ve got those

1425
01:19:23,300 –> 01:19:26,000
Bible principles, Rules in mind,
you’re bound to see them

1426
01:19:26,000 –> 01:19:29,600
transpire because you’re simply
thinking about them, you’ve put

1427
01:19:29,600 –> 01:19:32,400
on those sorts of glasses and
therefore, the world can’t help.

1428
01:19:32,400 –> 01:19:36,700
But look the way you expected.
Well, I’m at the persuasion that

1429
01:19:36,700 –> 01:19:40,200
God is active and that he’s
present in our lives and it’s

1430
01:19:40,200 –> 01:19:43,300
his work to draw us closer to
him and that he’s preparing us

1431
01:19:43,300 –> 01:19:46,000
for the kingdom.
I believe that those Myriad of

1432
01:19:46,000 –> 01:19:49,600
angels are actually working and
working diligently to bring us

1433
01:19:49,600 –> 01:19:53,000
to Salvation and not that we’re
creating coincidence because the

1434
01:19:53,000 –> 01:19:56,300
coincidence is because we simply
want to see them, but you can

1435
01:19:56,300 –> 01:20:01,800
test that out for yourself.
When I want to look at next is

1436
01:20:01,900 –> 01:20:06,000
what limits our faith?
In spending some time on this

1437
01:20:06,000 –> 01:20:09,300
topic, I’ve come to conclude
that what you and I think about

1438
01:20:09,300 –> 01:20:12,000
the level of God’s involvement
involvement in our lives.

1439
01:20:12,000 –> 01:20:15,400
Has a profound effect on whether
our faith grows, whether it

1440
01:20:15,400 –> 01:20:17,200
stays the same or whether it
shrinks back.

1441
01:20:17,200 –> 01:20:20,600
In other words, the degree to
which we believe God is active

1442
01:20:20,600 –> 01:20:23,000
and present.
Our life has an enormous impact

1443
01:20:23,000 –> 01:20:24,800
on our faith.
And we’ve gone over some of

1444
01:20:24,800 –> 01:20:28,300
these scriptures already.
Let me just fast forward a

1445
01:20:28,308 –> 01:20:30,900
little bit here in my notes for
the sake of time.

1446
01:20:32,300 –> 01:20:33,900
Let’s take a look at this first
one.

1447
01:20:35,000 –> 01:20:37,600
One of the great Thorns to our
faith is fear.

1448
01:20:37,900 –> 01:20:40,300
Although I don’t think it’s the
opposite of faith.

1449
01:20:40,600 –> 01:20:44,300
I think pride is the opposite of
Faith, but fear is a great

1450
01:20:44,300 –> 01:20:48,000
detriment to our faith.
What really prevents us from

1451
01:20:48,000 –> 01:20:51,200
growing in faith and drawing
closer to God is fear fear in

1452
01:20:51,300 –> 01:20:54,700
all its many forms and varieties
except for Godly fear, which is

1453
01:20:54,700 –> 01:20:57,700
reverence.
And so we read in first John 4

1454
01:20:57,700 –> 01:21:00,900
verse 18, the young, the
instruction of how to overcome

1455
01:21:00,900 –> 01:21:04,300
fear and that is to think deeply
over and over again.

1456
01:21:04,800 –> 01:21:09,000
What about God’s love for us?
You see, John says, there is no

1457
01:21:09,000 –> 01:21:14,200
fear in love, but perfect love
casts out fear because fear has

1458
01:21:14,200 –> 01:21:17,400
torment.
He that feareth is not made

1459
01:21:17,400 –> 01:21:20,700
perfect in love.
Notice that John doesn’t say

1460
01:21:21,100 –> 01:21:23,400
because, you know, that God’s
loving you will never fear.

1461
01:21:23,400 –> 01:21:27,800
Again, it’s not what God is
asking or expecting when Daniel

1462
01:21:27,800 –> 01:21:30,400
was thrown into the lions den,
did he fear?

1463
01:21:30,900 –> 01:21:33,900
Of course he did.
He was human but his faith in

1464
01:21:33,900 –> 01:21:37,600
God was so Developed that.
It overcame, his fear and the

1465
01:21:37,600 –> 01:21:41,500
angel that encamped around him,
shut the mouth of the Lions, to

1466
01:21:41,500 –> 01:21:44,800
the honor in the glory of God,
and to the development of

1467
01:21:45,000 –> 01:21:48,100
psoriasis, the Kings faith and
the faith of countless others,

1468
01:21:48,900 –> 01:21:51,200
but it’s about faith overcoming
fear.

1469
01:21:51,400 –> 01:21:54,800
It’s not that we won’t feel
afraid or doubtful her, or

1470
01:21:54,800 –> 01:21:58,400
stressed out.
And so, what we’re learning is,

1471
01:21:58,600 –> 01:22:01,900
we’re learning what to do when
we feel that pointy edge of the

1472
01:22:01,900 –> 01:22:07,100
thorn of fear and how it can
possibly We caused out.

1473
01:22:07,400 –> 01:22:10,700
What do we do?
When we feel fear, what we pray?

1474
01:22:11,100 –> 01:22:14,900
Lord help my unbelief is Nathan
talked to Nate talked about in

1475
01:22:14,900 –> 01:22:18,600
his prayer few minutes ago.
We boldly say the Lord is my

1476
01:22:18,600 –> 01:22:20,400
helper.
I will not fear.

1477
01:22:20,600 –> 01:22:23,700
What shall men do unto me?
That’s in Hebrews, in the Psalms

1478
01:22:23,700 –> 01:22:27,800
as well.
Because we have not received the

1479
01:22:27,808 –> 01:22:31,300
spirit of bondage again to fear
as Paul tells us in Romans 8.

1480
01:22:31,700 –> 01:22:35,300
But what do we do when we fear,
we cry out to God, Abba?

1481
01:22:35,300 –> 01:22:38,800
Father, which is exactly what we
see in the example of the Lord

1482
01:22:38,800 –> 01:22:41,100
Jesus Christ.
When he suffered, he threatened

1483
01:22:41,100 –> 01:22:43,900
not but he committed himself to
him.

1484
01:22:43,900 –> 01:22:47,800
That judgeth righteously, that’s
what faithful men and women did

1485
01:22:47,800 –> 01:22:51,700
all throughout scripture.
Think of Moses and Joshua, who

1486
01:22:51,700 –> 01:22:57,200
had fear, think of Paul Hannah,
Is a bit thin Mary, there are

1487
01:22:57,200 –> 01:23:01,500
numerous passages in your notes
and your Bibles and examples of

1488
01:23:01,500 –> 01:23:05,300
faithful men and women, who when
they were weak or made strong,

1489
01:23:06,000 –> 01:23:08,900
we see God doesn’t want us to
have a spirit of fear, but of

1490
01:23:08,900 –> 01:23:12,800
power, and of love, and of a
sound mind, that’s what Paul

1491
01:23:12,800 –> 01:23:15,600
told his son in the faith
Timothy, because Timothy, like,

1492
01:23:15,600 –> 01:23:17,900
all of us had this had some fear
to get around.

1493
01:23:19,000 –> 01:23:24,500
But why is this in Luke 18 verse
70 for Zacharias after not

1494
01:23:24,500 –> 01:23:27,200
speaking for many months,
finally breaks forth.

1495
01:23:27,200 –> 01:23:30,500
And says that God is performing
the oath that he has sworn to

1496
01:23:30,500 –> 01:23:32,900
Abraham in the birth of the
Messiah.

1497
01:23:33,200 –> 01:23:36,200
And so that we are delivered out
of the hands of our enemies.

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01:23:36,400 –> 01:23:39,600
And we might serve god without
fear in Holiness and

1499
01:23:39,600 –> 01:23:42,900
righteousness, all the days of
our life, part of the reason

1500
01:23:42,900 –> 01:23:45,800
that Jesus Christ came was to
Deliver Us From Fear.

1501
01:23:47,900 –> 01:23:52,400
Now a second Thorn to our faith
is believing untruths or lies

1502
01:23:52,500 –> 01:23:54,300
and thus, the hardening of our
heart.

1503
01:23:54,600 –> 01:23:57,700
This is exactly what happened to
the children of Israel after The

1504
01:23:57,700 –> 01:24:00,600
Exodus as they March through the
Wilderness in unbelief.

1505
01:24:00,900 –> 01:24:05,400
We get this from a commentary in
Psalm, 81 in verses 11 and 12,

1506
01:24:06,000 –> 01:24:09,500
but my people would not hearken
unto my voice and Israel would

1507
01:24:09,500 –> 01:24:12,100
have none of me.
So, I gave them unto their own

1508
01:24:12,100 –> 01:24:15,400
hearts less, and they walked in
their own councils.

1509
01:24:16,200 –> 01:24:18,900
You may have heard it said
before that, that God loves us

1510
01:24:18,900 –> 01:24:22,400
too much to force us into his
kingdom, that he will not take

1511
01:24:22,400 –> 01:24:26,100
away our free will, if we
stubbornly and persistently and

1512
01:24:26,100 –> 01:24:29,500
defiantly choose to believe lies
or go our own way.

1513
01:24:29,800 –> 01:24:32,700
God will give us over to over to
that mind for a season.

1514
01:24:33,100 –> 01:24:35,400
I don’t believe that he
completely Cuts us off.

1515
01:24:35,900 –> 01:24:38,700
But he because he hasn’t
completely cut off his people.

1516
01:24:38,700 –> 01:24:42,000
Israel, despite all their
unbelief, but he will let us

1517
01:24:42,000 –> 01:24:44,000
taste the Folly of our own
choices.

1518
01:24:44,600 –> 01:24:45,800
Why?
Because he can use it as

1519
01:24:46,000 –> 01:24:49,000
Teaching tool to recover ass
again, it’s not the preferred

1520
01:24:49,000 –> 01:24:51,800
way.
But each of us at times like

1521
01:24:51,800 –> 01:24:55,200
sheep have gone astray.
The other problem with really,

1522
01:24:55,300 –> 01:24:58,500
really with believing the wrong
things is is that it limits our

1523
01:24:58,500 –> 01:25:01,700
spiritual growth.
Now, I’d like to believe that we

1524
01:25:01,700 –> 01:25:03,900
as christadelphians as Bible
students.

1525
01:25:03,900 –> 01:25:06,900
And as Seekers of Truth, have
everything perfect.

1526
01:25:07,000 –> 01:25:09,000
But I’d be surprised if that was
the case.

1527
01:25:09,300 –> 01:25:11,600
I don’t think for a moment that
I think that we have wrong

1528
01:25:11,600 –> 01:25:13,500
Doctrine, I’m not talking about
that.

1529
01:25:14,500 –> 01:25:18,600
My question is, what is so wrong
about what is so bad about wrong

1530
01:25:18,600 –> 01:25:21,100
belief?
And what I think the answer that

1531
01:25:21,100 –> 01:25:25,100
question is that wrong belief
stifles, your spiritual growth,

1532
01:25:25,600 –> 01:25:29,100
wrong Doctrine limits, how much
you can grow spiritually.

1533
01:25:29,100 –> 01:25:32,700
Let me give you an example.
If, for example, you absolutely

1534
01:25:32,700 –> 01:25:35,900
believe that Jesus is God that
he is the father that he is

1535
01:25:35,900 –> 01:25:38,300
Yahweh and he’s come down in the
form of a man.

1536
01:25:38,700 –> 01:25:42,200
You automatically are limited
and limited in your ability to

1537
01:25:42,500 –> 01:25:46,800
overcome the Tendencies of And
if you consciously or even

1538
01:25:46,800 –> 01:25:50,100
subconsciously believe this, you
can’t help but think on some

1539
01:25:50,100 –> 01:25:52,800
level that Jesus could do things
that I could never do.

1540
01:25:53,000 –> 01:25:57,200
He was God on Earth, he was
above Temptation, he was unable

1541
01:25:57,200 –> 01:25:59,400
to sin.
In fact he could never really

1542
01:25:59,400 –> 01:26:02,200
die.
He see the whole method that God

1543
01:26:02,200 –> 01:26:05,600
has given us to overcome that
has been shown to us in.

1544
01:26:05,600 –> 01:26:11,000
Jesus Christ is null and void.
And so what Christ did is he

1545
01:26:11,000 –> 01:26:13,400
looked to the father and that’s
the method that you and I are

1546
01:26:13,400 –> 01:26:15,700
supposed to do.
But if you believe that Jesus is

1547
01:26:15,700 –> 01:26:19,600
God, that whole method for
overcoming Temptation and sin

1548
01:26:20,600 –> 01:26:22,300
doesn’t really exist in your
mind.

1549
01:26:23,200 –> 01:26:26,500
If you understand that he was in
fact in all points tempted as we

1550
01:26:26,500 –> 01:26:29,500
are, then you learn that, he
overcame sin and you learn the

1551
01:26:29,500 –> 01:26:33,400
method and how he did that, and
and you can use the same method.

1552
01:26:33,700 –> 01:26:36,100
It’s the same with the, the
supernet, the doctrine of the

1553
01:26:36,100 –> 01:26:38,300
supernatural.
Devil, if you believe that God

1554
01:26:38,300 –> 01:26:42,100
has allowed a supernatural being
to run around and wreak havoc on

1555
01:26:42,100 –> 01:26:44,900
God’s Earth on some level, you
can’t help.

1556
01:26:44,900 –> 01:26:47,300
But wonder how much does this
God loved me.

1557
01:26:47,900 –> 01:26:50,600
The question that you that
question subconsciously?

1558
01:26:50,600 –> 01:26:52,400
Erodes your relationship with
God.

1559
01:26:52,800 –> 01:26:54,200
Why?
Do you like this being do this?

1560
01:26:54,200 –> 01:26:59,000
To me is God really in control,
but if you know that the devil

1561
01:26:59,000 –> 01:27:01,900
in the Bible is human nature and
that’s what we’re fighting

1562
01:27:01,900 –> 01:27:04,800
against in ourselves.
Not just in the government and

1563
01:27:04,800 –> 01:27:07,800
in society in high places, but
the age in which we live and in

1564
01:27:07,800 –> 01:27:11,200
ourselves, you know, what you’re
battling and you can learn

1565
01:27:11,200 –> 01:27:13,200
methods for overcoming and God’s
strength.

1566
01:27:13,200 –> 01:27:16,000
If you don’t know this, well,
you’re fighting a losing battle

1567
01:27:16,200 –> 01:27:18,500
and your relationship with the
Living God suffers because

1568
01:27:18,500 –> 01:27:22,000
you’re believing a lie.
The problem with believing lies

1569
01:27:22,000 –> 01:27:24,600
and untruth, is it limits your
spiritual growth?

1570
01:27:26,400 –> 01:27:29,800
Another Thorn.
To our faith is our lack of

1571
01:27:29,800 –> 01:27:33,100
perception and this I believe is
one of the expressed purposes of

1572
01:27:33,100 –> 01:27:36,700
reading God’s word daily, by
doing the Bible readings makes

1573
01:27:36,700 –> 01:27:41,000
us as Brian Styles would say
more God, conscious, the range

1574
01:27:41,000 –> 01:27:43,800
of what we think and do is
limited by what we fail to

1575
01:27:43,800 –> 01:27:45,900
notice.
We need to become more aware.

1576
01:27:46,200 –> 01:27:49,400
We can’t help or even pray about
that, which we don’t know.

1577
01:27:49,900 –> 01:27:52,700
And We know about things because
of the phone tree or because of

1578
01:27:52,700 –> 01:27:55,900
Facebook or gossip.
No, we have to learn how to be

1579
01:27:55,900 –> 01:27:57,800
perceptive to the needs of
others.

1580
01:27:58,100 –> 01:28:01,000
And moreover we have to be
perceptive to the hand of God in

1581
01:28:01,000 –> 01:28:03,800
our lives.
And so one of the conclusions,

1582
01:28:03,800 –> 01:28:07,500
the writer of the Hebrews draws
and chapter 13 as he draws our

1583
01:28:07,500 –> 01:28:12,200
awareness to, it says in verse
22, but you are coming to Mount

1584
01:28:12,200 –> 01:28:15,600
Zion and to the city of the
Living God and the Heavenly

1585
01:28:15,600 –> 01:28:19,200
Jerusalem and to an innumerable
company of angels, He wants us

1586
01:28:19,200 –> 01:28:21,300
to be aware of this.
Is he says you have come to the

1587
01:28:21,300 –> 01:28:24,600
general assembly of the
Ecclesia, the firstborn which

1588
01:28:24,600 –> 01:28:27,400
are whose names are written in
heaven, you were coming to the

1589
01:28:27,400 –> 01:28:31,700
god to God, the judge of all the
earth into this, the spirits of

1590
01:28:31,700 –> 01:28:34,700
just men made perfect and to
Jesus Christ, the mediator of

1591
01:28:34,700 –> 01:28:37,500
the New Covenant and yet much of
the time we don’t perceive it

1592
01:28:37,500 –> 01:28:40,900
we’re not aware of it.
If we want to grow in faith we

1593
01:28:40,900 –> 01:28:46,100
have to grow in awareness.
Another Thorn to our faith into

1594
01:28:46,100 –> 01:28:50,200
the growth and development of it
is pride and arrogancy her

1595
01:28:50,200 –> 01:28:54,400
arrogance and really self-will.
And this goes hand-in-hand with

1596
01:28:54,400 –> 01:28:56,400
another potential Thorn.
Which we’ll talk about in a

1597
01:28:56,407 –> 01:28:59,300
minute of having too much
ability and relying on one

1598
01:28:59,300 –> 01:29:01,500
strength.
But here’s the classic scripture

1599
01:29:01,500 –> 01:29:06,900
for this one, Paul Proverbs 8,
16 Verse 18 Pride goes before

1600
01:29:06,900 –> 01:29:10,400
destruction and a haughty spirit
before a fall, you know that

1601
01:29:10,400 –> 01:29:13,100
it’s the pride of life that is
one of the gateways of sin that

1602
01:29:13,100 –> 01:29:16,500
we Have to be aware of.
You can also review the pride of

1603
01:29:16,500 –> 01:29:20,700
Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel for and
even in Romans the pride of the

1604
01:29:20,708 –> 01:29:25,100
Gentiles from the respect to the
Jews to see how pride is the

1605
01:29:25,100 –> 01:29:27,900
great enemy of faith.
We tend to think it’s fear that

1606
01:29:27,900 –> 01:29:29,900
the enemy of Faith but really
it’s Pride.

1607
01:29:30,600 –> 01:29:36,800
Nevertheless, these are thorns
The next one and I’d like you to

1608
01:29:36,800 –> 01:29:42,100
turn up a queasy astiz 9 verse
11 Ecclesiastes. 911 with me.

1609
01:29:44,400 –> 01:29:47,200
Now, when we analyze the idea
that God is intimately involved

1610
01:29:47,200 –> 01:29:49,800
in the life of his Covenant
people, either by creating

1611
01:29:49,800 –> 01:29:53,800
scenarios or allowing scenarios
into our life to grow our faith.

1612
01:29:54,400 –> 01:29:57,700
Many brothers and sisters will
automatically bring up this

1613
01:29:57,700 –> 01:30:01,500
verse in Ecclesiastes 911.
So we got to go there and have a

1614
01:30:01,508 –> 01:30:04,200
look.
You’ll probably know it well or

1615
01:30:04,200 –> 01:30:08,000
at least part of this verse.
Well, the part that says time

1616
01:30:08,000 –> 01:30:11,600
and chance happens to all men
but what about the rest of the

1617
01:30:11,600 –> 01:30:14,700
verse?
What’s the context about You see

1618
01:30:14,900 –> 01:30:18,000
it’s a bit tricky to quote from
Ecclesiastes because we know

1619
01:30:18,000 –> 01:30:20,000
that Solomon is working things
through.

1620
01:30:20,000 –> 01:30:22,900
It’s a work in progress and so
the conclusions at the end of

1621
01:30:22,900 –> 01:30:24,400
the book are especially
important.

1622
01:30:24,600 –> 01:30:28,800
But what about chapter 3?
But 9:11, what’s the context of

1623
01:30:28,800 –> 01:30:30,800
this verse?
Let’s read it, slowly and

1624
01:30:30,800 –> 01:30:33,300
carefully.
This is what it says in

1625
01:30:33,300 –> 01:30:37,200
Ecclesiastes 9 11.
It says I returned and saw Under

1626
01:30:37,200 –> 01:30:41,500
the Sun that the race is not to
the Swift, nor the battle to the

1627
01:30:41,500 –> 01:30:43,700
strong neither yet bread to the
wise.

1628
01:30:44,000 –> 01:30:48,100
Is neither yet riches to Men of
understanding, nor yet favor to

1629
01:30:48,100 –> 01:30:52,500
Men of skill, but time and
chance happeneth to them all.

1630
01:30:53,800 –> 01:30:57,900
Hear my questions.
Race to the Swift.

1631
01:30:58,700 –> 01:31:00,300
Is that you?
Is that how you think of

1632
01:31:00,300 –> 01:31:03,700
yourself is the Swift?
The second class of people and

1633
01:31:03,700 –> 01:31:08,400
there are five is nor is the
battle to the strong.

1634
01:31:08,700 –> 01:31:11,400
Are you strong?
Is that how you overcome in your

1635
01:31:11,400 –> 01:31:15,300
strength?
Third class of people is neither

1636
01:31:15,300 –> 01:31:18,600
is their bread to the wise.
Is that how you get your bread?

1637
01:31:18,700 –> 01:31:21,500
Because you’re wise, or you’re
clever, or is it God?

1638
01:31:21,500 –> 01:31:26,300
That’s providing providing the
bread for you to sustain you The

1639
01:31:26,300 –> 01:31:30,300
fourth class of people in that
verse nor yet riches to Men of

1640
01:31:30,300 –> 01:31:32,700
understanding.
Are you rich because of your

1641
01:31:32,700 –> 01:31:35,400
understanding or has got blessed
you that way.

1642
01:31:36,000 –> 01:31:40,500
Number 5, it says, nor yet
favor, two men of skill is your

1643
01:31:40,500 –> 01:31:43,700
skill so high that everything
seems to work out in your favor.

1644
01:31:43,800 –> 01:31:45,200
In other words, brothers and
sisters.

1645
01:31:45,200 –> 01:31:48,900
Is this verse talking about you?
And I, or is it talking about

1646
01:31:48,900 –> 01:31:51,000
someone who trusts in
themselves?

1647
01:31:51,500 –> 01:31:55,000
If Solomon, looking at Believers
in God or everyone else under

1648
01:31:55,000 –> 01:31:58,400
the sun, I don’t think that we
are under the Asun.

1649
01:31:58,800 –> 01:32:02,100
That’s an expression of the
countless masses of humanity,

1650
01:32:02,300 –> 01:32:05,800
who care, not for the things of
the Living, God, I don’t believe

1651
01:32:05,800 –> 01:32:08,300
that this is a verse that’s
talking about those who have a

1652
01:32:08,308 –> 01:32:11,600
covenant relationship with God.
You see, I believe that we are

1653
01:32:11,600 –> 01:32:15,800
under the s0n, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the son of God, that our

1654
01:32:15,800 –> 01:32:17,800
Banner is the Lord, our
righteousness.

1655
01:32:17,800 –> 01:32:20,800
That’s what we’re under, and to
take it one step further.

1656
01:32:20,800 –> 01:32:23,700
When the Apostle Paul saw the
Risen Lord, on the way to

1657
01:32:23,700 –> 01:32:27,200
Damascus, he was enveloped in In
a brightness that was above the

1658
01:32:27,200 –> 01:32:30,500
brightness above the Sun and
that was the countenance of the

1659
01:32:30,500 –> 01:32:31,800
Lord.
Jesus Christ.

1660
01:32:32,600 –> 01:32:35,800
That’s an X 26.
When he’s recounting the story

1661
01:32:35,800 –> 01:32:40,600
to King Agrippa, Now notice at
the end of that verse, it says

1662
01:32:41,000 –> 01:32:44,300
time and chance happens to them
all.

1663
01:32:44,600 –> 01:32:48,000
That’s a qualifier that’s
talking about the five

1664
01:32:48,000 –> 01:32:50,300
categories of people.
In that verse, therefore, I

1665
01:32:50,308 –> 01:32:53,400
don’t believe it’s that time and
chance happens to us all.

1666
01:32:53,900 –> 01:32:55,200
That doesn’t mean that bad
things.

1667
01:32:55,200 –> 01:32:58,900
Don’t happen to us.
Surely, I know that doesn’t mean

1668
01:32:58,900 –> 01:33:02,700
that a man doesn’t have free
will and it opinions Upon Our

1669
01:33:02,700 –> 01:33:04,900
Free Will, as we spoke about
earlier in the drunk driving

1670
01:33:04,900 –> 01:33:07,800
example.
But it isn’t a matter of

1671
01:33:07,800 –> 01:33:10,400
happenstance in our lives
brothers and sisters, it’s not

1672
01:33:10,400 –> 01:33:12,700
chance.
God knows about every detail of

1673
01:33:12,708 –> 01:33:14,900
our life.
Now while we know that he could

1674
01:33:14,900 –> 01:33:19,400
intervene nothing happens, it’s
outside of his control that he

1675
01:33:19,400 –> 01:33:22,000
can’t reverse.
He is the Almighty.

1676
01:33:23,100 –> 01:33:26,000
And so why does God let those
things happen to job?

1677
01:33:26,000 –> 01:33:29,900
For example in 1st Peter 1 verse
7 tells us the answer which is

1678
01:33:29,900 –> 01:33:33,800
what Paul read earlier.
It happens to deepen his faith,

1679
01:33:33,800 –> 01:33:36,800
which is more precious than gold
and by the end of the story,

1680
01:33:36,800 –> 01:33:39,400
jobs, understanding, and his
appreciation for the love of,

1681
01:33:39,400 –> 01:33:43,300
God is all the more enriched and
that’s precious to God.

1682
01:33:44,400 –> 01:33:47,900
If we misunderstand scripture or
the idea of Providence or how

1683
01:33:47,900 –> 01:33:51,000
God works in our life, it can
certainly limit our faith.

1684
01:33:53,300 –> 01:33:55,100
What are other Thorns to our
faith?

1685
01:33:55,100 –> 01:33:58,200
Well, we can have faith in the
wrong things and we’ve touched

1686
01:33:58,200 –> 01:34:02,000
on this already.
You see, God didn’t write 1189

1687
01:34:02,000 –> 01:34:04,800
chapters of scripture for us to
believe whatever we want.

1688
01:34:04,800 –> 01:34:06,900
We can’t just make it up as we
go.

1689
01:34:07,500 –> 01:34:10,400
We’ve already talked about the
woman in the well and worshiping

1690
01:34:10,400 –> 01:34:13,800
in spirit and truth.
But really, this is a battle for

1691
01:34:13,800 –> 01:34:16,800
all throughout.
The Bible is God instructed his

1692
01:34:16,800 –> 01:34:20,200
people from the outset.
Not to worship graven images or

1693
01:34:20,200 –> 01:34:22,900
Idols.
That’s exactly what Paul was.

1694
01:34:23,100 –> 01:34:27,300
Was instructing on Mars Hill and
in Athens in Acts 17, when they

1695
01:34:27,300 –> 01:34:30,800
had an altar to the unknown, God
ignorant Lee worship this

1696
01:34:30,800 –> 01:34:34,400
unknown God, and the Psalms
rightly conclude the idols of

1697
01:34:34,400 –> 01:34:37,200
the Heathen are gold and silver.
They’re works of men’s hands.

1698
01:34:37,200 –> 01:34:41,500
They they are a snare unto them.
You see, our, our faith must be

1699
01:34:41,500 –> 01:34:45,900
in biblical faith and that’s why
Romans 10 tells us faith comes

1700
01:34:45,900 –> 01:34:49,600
by hearing and hearing by the
word of God, it must be God’s

1701
01:34:49,600 –> 01:34:51,300
words.
We can’t have faith in the wrong

1702
01:34:51,300 –> 01:34:54,600
things, you see?
Nobody has faith in something.

1703
01:34:54,700 –> 01:34:58,400
You can’t say I don’t have any
beliefs because that’s a belief

1704
01:34:58,400 –> 01:35:02,300
to actually on some level
everybody has Faith.

1705
01:35:02,800 –> 01:35:05,800
Most of the world doesn’t have
biblical faith and that’s what

1706
01:35:05,800 –> 01:35:09,600
you and I have to strive for
Having faith in the wrong

1707
01:35:09,600 –> 01:35:13,000
things.
Will certainly be a thorn to our

1708
01:35:13,000 –> 01:35:15,400
growth and development and our
connection to God.

1709
01:35:17,400 –> 01:35:21,100
Another Thorn to our faith can
be continually wounding.

1710
01:35:21,100 –> 01:35:24,000
Our conscience.
You see one of the goals are

1711
01:35:24,008 –> 01:35:26,000
reading.
The Bible, must be to develop a

1712
01:35:26,000 –> 01:35:28,800
Godly conscience to be able to
discern, right, and wrong to

1713
01:35:28,800 –> 01:35:32,600
choose the good.
And to eschew the evil, it’s

1714
01:35:32,600 –> 01:35:36,400
pointless to know the right path
and say, well it doesn’t matter,

1715
01:35:36,900 –> 01:35:39,600
I can do such and such and it
really doesn’t affect my

1716
01:35:39,600 –> 01:35:42,700
connection to God.
And so believing a lie one of

1717
01:35:42,700 –> 01:35:46,200
the most famous of which is it
doesn’t really matter is a huge

1718
01:35:46,200 –> 01:35:48,000
Thorn, two are connected.
Should we have God?

1719
01:35:48,600 –> 01:35:51,200
It’s probably the biggest lie
ever told effectively.

1720
01:35:51,200 –> 01:35:53,300
That’s what the serpent told,
Eve in the garden.

1721
01:35:53,300 –> 01:35:55,900
It doesn’t really matter.
If you eat that fruit, thou

1722
01:35:55,900 –> 01:35:58,900
shall not surely die.
It’s the biggest lie.

1723
01:35:58,900 –> 01:36:01,400
And it’s one that we have to
become aware of, and it’s so

1724
01:36:01,400 –> 01:36:04,600
prevalent as young people to be
aware of that.

1725
01:36:05,400 –> 01:36:08,100
He does matter.
And what happens when you

1726
01:36:08,108 –> 01:36:12,100
continually wound Godly God’s
conscience, your Godly

1727
01:36:12,100 –> 01:36:14,500
conscience.
The one that God is trying to

1728
01:36:14,500 –> 01:36:17,000
help you develop through his
living word is that you end up.

1729
01:36:17,200 –> 01:36:19,200
Omitting, all sorts of rubbish
into your life.

1730
01:36:21,200 –> 01:36:25,000
You defile yourself and God
cannot dwell in a filthy Temple.

1731
01:36:25,000 –> 01:36:29,100
He’s who too holy for that.
So what’s the antidote for that?

1732
01:36:29,700 –> 01:36:32,300
Are we lost forever once we go
down the wrong track?

1733
01:36:32,300 –> 01:36:36,900
Well, no Hebrews 11 verse 49.
Verse 9, tells us the only

1734
01:36:36,900 –> 01:36:41,000
antidote is the contemplation of
what Christ does for you has

1735
01:36:41,000 –> 01:36:43,600
done for you personally.
You see, it’s not the blood of

1736
01:36:43,600 –> 01:36:46,900
bulls and goats and animal
sacrifices that can affect a

1737
01:36:46,900 –> 01:36:49,400
man’s heart.
Like the blood of Christ can.

1738
01:36:49,700 –> 01:36:52,200
The only remedy is to Consider
what God has done for you,

1739
01:36:52,200 –> 01:36:54,700
personally.
And then, once the love of

1740
01:36:54,700 –> 01:36:57,400
Christ is broken your heart and
you’ve asked for forgiveness,

1741
01:36:57,800 –> 01:37:02,100
you do is David describes in
Psalm one time when 19, where he

1742
01:37:02,100 –> 01:37:05,700
asked that very question.
Where with wherewithal shall a

1743
01:37:05,700 –> 01:37:09,000
young man cleanse his ways?
And the answer comes back by

1744
01:37:09,000 –> 01:37:14,100
taking heed according to Thy
Word, You see discernment is not

1745
01:37:14,100 –> 01:37:16,700
the ability to know the
difference between right and

1746
01:37:16,700 –> 01:37:18,800
wrong.
It’s knowing the difference

1747
01:37:18,800 –> 01:37:23,100
between right and almost rights
and there probably isn’t a time

1748
01:37:23,100 –> 01:37:25,000
in history.
The history of the world where

1749
01:37:25,000 –> 01:37:28,700
that ability is been more needed
than right now, we live in

1750
01:37:28,708 –> 01:37:32,100
treacherous times.
Now we only have a couple more

1751
01:37:32,100 –> 01:37:35,300
Thorns to to our faith to go,
and we’ll finish up for this

1752
01:37:35,300 –> 01:37:38,000
evening, but another Thorn to
our faith.

1753
01:37:38,500 –> 01:37:42,000
And it might seem to be a little
counterintuitive is being too

1754
01:37:42,000 –> 01:37:44,300
capable.
And what I mean by that is

1755
01:37:44,300 –> 01:37:47,200
leaning on to One’s Own Strength
or one’s own.

1756
01:37:47,200 –> 01:37:50,900
Understanding, God says, in
First Corinthians 1, verse 19

1757
01:37:51,200 –> 01:37:53,400
for it is written.
I will destroy the wisdom of the

1758
01:37:53,400 –> 01:37:56,000
wise and will bring to nothing
the understanding of The

1759
01:37:56,000 –> 01:37:57,700
Prudent.
Where is the wise, where is the

1760
01:37:57,700 –> 01:37:59,400
Scribe?
Where is the disputer of this

1761
01:37:59,400 –> 01:38:02,600
world has not God, made the
fully made foolish.

1762
01:38:02,600 –> 01:38:05,700
The wisdom of this world.
For after that, in the wisdom of

1763
01:38:05,700 –> 01:38:09,300
God, the World by its wisdom.
Did not know God.

1764
01:38:09,500 –> 01:38:12,000
It, pleased God, by the
foolishness of preaching, to

1765
01:38:12,000 –> 01:38:17,000
save them that We’ve you see,
even though you may think what

1766
01:38:17,000 –> 01:38:20,300
you have is a really good
solution to an issue, or you may

1767
01:38:20,300 –> 01:38:24,000
feel really capable of helping
somebody in need, wouldn’t the

1768
01:38:24,000 –> 01:38:27,300
guidance of God In Prayer always
improve things?

1769
01:38:27,700 –> 01:38:31,400
Would it make sense to run it by
the master of the universe?

1770
01:38:32,000 –> 01:38:34,500
And so we get this classic
principle in Zachariah.

1771
01:38:34,500 –> 01:38:40,200
Forward says not by might nor by
power, but by my spirit saith,

1772
01:38:40,200 –> 01:38:44,400
the Lord of hosts.
Proverbs 3 verse 5 says, trust

1773
01:38:44,400 –> 01:38:46,900
in the Lord, with all thine
heart, and lean not unto thine

1774
01:38:46,900 –> 01:38:50,100
own understanding in all, thy
ways acknowledge Him and He

1775
01:38:50,100 –> 01:38:53,300
Shall direct thy paths.
Be not wise in thine own eyes

1776
01:38:53,800 –> 01:38:55,800
fear, Yahweh and depart from
evil.

1777
01:38:59,000 –> 01:39:01,000
Another Thorn to our faith that
we’ve discussed in.

1778
01:39:01,000 –> 01:39:03,800
Great detail is not clearly
understanding what God thinks of

1779
01:39:03,800 –> 01:39:06,300
you and really up until this
point.

1780
01:39:06,300 –> 01:39:09,200
We’ve only talked about what God
thinks of those who have made a

1781
01:39:09,208 –> 01:39:11,800
covenant relationship with him
in baptism, but it’s important

1782
01:39:11,800 –> 01:39:14,900
to realize, especially for the
young people that haven’t been

1783
01:39:14,900 –> 01:39:17,400
baptized that your relationship
with God.

1784
01:39:17,400 –> 01:39:20,000
Begins long before baptism.
Baptism.

1785
01:39:20,100 –> 01:39:23,700
Baptism formalizes it.
You see, God is the initiator of

1786
01:39:23,700 –> 01:39:26,400
our salvation and he begins
working out in our lives.

1787
01:39:26,700 –> 01:39:28,800
Long before we ever get
baptized.

1788
01:39:29,300 –> 01:39:31,900
In fact, one of the reasons
people often get baptized is

1789
01:39:31,900 –> 01:39:34,600
because they can’t deny that.
God has been working in their

1790
01:39:34,600 –> 01:39:39,000
life and calling them and their
baptism is simply a response to

1791
01:39:39,000 –> 01:39:43,400
his to how good he’s been to us
especially when we well and we

1792
01:39:43,400 –> 01:39:45,500
don’t deserve it.
That’s called the gifts of

1793
01:39:45,500 –> 01:39:47,600
Grace.
This is demonstrated by the

1794
01:39:47,600 –> 01:39:50,000
simple fact that God heard the
prayer of this faithful.

1795
01:39:50,300 –> 01:39:53,600
Albeit unbaptized, man named
Cornelius in Acts 10.

1796
01:39:54,200 –> 01:39:57,500
It’s also shown that while we
were yet without Strength Christ

1797
01:39:57,500 –> 01:39:59,800
died for the ungodly, while we
were yet.

1798
01:39:59,800 –> 01:40:03,600
Sinners that God has no pleasure
in the death of the unrighteous,

1799
01:40:03,800 –> 01:40:06,700
he sends the rain on the just
and the unjust got his is

1800
01:40:06,700 –> 01:40:09,800
calling out a people for his
name and while many are called

1801
01:40:09,800 –> 01:40:15,400
few are chosen.
Number 10.

1802
01:40:15,500 –> 01:40:18,400
What are some of the Thorns that
choke our faith and keep us from

1803
01:40:18,400 –> 01:40:20,300
growing in our relationship with
God?

1804
01:40:20,600 –> 01:40:23,400
Well, being overly
self-conscious or looking at

1805
01:40:23,400 –> 01:40:28,800
oneself instead of Christ, and
forgive the example from the

1806
01:40:28,800 –> 01:40:31,200
first class.
But that’s what I was alluding

1807
01:40:31,200 –> 01:40:34,200
to when I said, I had to learn
to stop thinking about myself

1808
01:40:34,200 –> 01:40:37,200
and my Hang-Ups at the breaking
of bread and to shift my focus

1809
01:40:37,200 –> 01:40:40,400
to think about the Lord, Jesus
Christ who I was endeavoring to

1810
01:40:40,400 –> 01:40:41,800
Remember at the breaking of
bread.

1811
01:40:42,600 –> 01:40:45,600
One of the easiest ways to find
the root of any problem.

1812
01:40:46,500 –> 01:40:51,000
Is to find the focus and if the
focus is self, it’s not going to

1813
01:40:51,000 –> 01:40:53,300
go.
Well and we all do this because

1814
01:40:53,300 –> 01:40:55,900
it’s human nature.
The classic example of this is

1815
01:40:55,900 –> 01:40:57,500
Peter walking on the water,
right?

1816
01:40:57,600 –> 01:41:00,300
So as long as he was looking at
Christ, he was doing the

1817
01:41:00,300 –> 01:41:02,500
impossible.
And as soon as he looked at the

1818
01:41:02,500 –> 01:41:06,500
Sea and the waves roaring around
him, he lost focus and began to

1819
01:41:06,500 –> 01:41:09,100
think about himself and began to
sink.

1820
01:41:09,900 –> 01:41:13,800
Looking at oneself is a thorn to
ourselves and to unto our faith.

1821
01:41:15,100 –> 01:41:18,000
Number 11, the cares of this
life have overwhelmed you

1822
01:41:18,400 –> 01:41:20,600
another Thorn to our faith is
that very thing?

1823
01:41:20,900 –> 01:41:24,400
Thus, we aren’t able to look up
lift up our heads to look at our

1824
01:41:24,400 –> 01:41:27,800
provider.
We’re told to cast our cares

1825
01:41:27,800 –> 01:41:30,700
upon the Lord, we’re told that
the Lord cares for us.

1826
01:41:31,200 –> 01:41:33,300
But in this one what I want you
to think about is our

1827
01:41:33,300 –> 01:41:36,300
responsibility is those that are
so-called living in the first

1828
01:41:36,300 –> 01:41:39,100
world to our brothers and
sisters who are living in the

1829
01:41:39,100 –> 01:41:43,400
third world so-called Some of
them are so ground down in

1830
01:41:43,400 –> 01:41:46,700
poverty, that it’s difficult for
them to even lift up their head

1831
01:41:46,700 –> 01:41:49,400
and to God.
And so it is our responsibility

1832
01:41:49,400 –> 01:41:52,900
as the privileged.
It’s our duty to give unto every

1833
01:41:52,900 –> 01:41:55,500
man as they have need.
Which is what we get from acts

1834
01:41:55,500 –> 01:41:58,700
to so that they don’t have to
worry about the necessities of

1835
01:41:58,700 –> 01:42:01,400
life and that they can worship
god without worry.

1836
01:42:02,200 –> 01:42:04,900
The ironic thing that is he the
ironic thing is that even

1837
01:42:05,000 –> 01:42:08,900
despite having all of our
personal needs met, we can get

1838
01:42:08,900 –> 01:42:11,600
caught up in the consumer
culture, which is this Each and

1839
01:42:11,608 –> 01:42:15,100
let the cares of this life crowd
out our relationship with God

1840
01:42:15,300 –> 01:42:18,000
and diminish, our faith in him.
Well, we’re getting too close to

1841
01:42:18,000 –> 01:42:22,900
the end, thank you for your
patience, but here’s another

1842
01:42:22,900 –> 01:42:26,700
Thorn to our faith, not
understanding your purpose, or

1843
01:42:26,700 –> 01:42:29,500
your destiny in life.
And that’s not to mean that we

1844
01:42:29,500 –> 01:42:35,100
should be high-minded, but it
does help to know exactly why we

1845
01:42:35,100 –> 01:42:37,500
are on planet Earth.
And this hopefully isn’t too

1846
01:42:37,500 –> 01:42:41,100
mystical or woohoo.
What does the Bible say about

1847
01:42:41,100 –> 01:42:44,500
your future?
You see, Christ knew exactly.

1848
01:42:44,500 –> 01:42:47,600
It was very clear in his mind
why he was alive.

1849
01:42:47,700 –> 01:42:50,100
And most of the world has no
clue why they’re on planet

1850
01:42:50,100 –> 01:42:52,000
Earth.
Many think well it’s all about

1851
01:42:52,000 –> 01:42:54,500
eating and drinking and being
merry for tomorrow we die.

1852
01:42:55,200 –> 01:42:58,300
But that’s believing a lie.
So clear was Christ.

1853
01:42:58,300 –> 01:43:01,100
Purpose in his mind that under
the great stress of eminent

1854
01:43:01,100 –> 01:43:04,000
crucifixion.
He could clearly articulate.

1855
01:43:04,000 –> 01:43:07,300
Why he was born, this is the
famous exchange of pilot and I’m

1856
01:43:07,300 –> 01:43:11,100
sure you remember it pilot says
unto him Are you a king then?

1857
01:43:11,900 –> 01:43:14,800
Jesus answered.
I’ll say it’s time.

1858
01:43:14,800 –> 01:43:19,400
It came to this end was I born
and for this cause came I into

1859
01:43:19,400 –> 01:43:22,200
the world that I should bear
witness to the truth.

1860
01:43:22,200 –> 01:43:24,500
For every one that is of the
truth, hears my voice.

1861
01:43:25,100 –> 01:43:28,000
And this is when pilate asks
famous question, the one for the

1862
01:43:28,000 –> 01:43:30,000
ages.
What is truth.

1863
01:43:31,300 –> 01:43:35,200
When Christ was 12 years old, he
told his parents wished.

1864
01:43:35,200 –> 01:43:37,900
She not that I must be about my
father’s business.

1865
01:43:38,800 –> 01:43:41,900
Samuel also, from a very young
age, knew why he was alive and

1866
01:43:41,900 –> 01:43:44,700
what his Destiny was.
And he fulfilled the mission

1867
01:43:45,000 –> 01:43:48,400
David understood it, Daniel the
same and scores of others.

1868
01:43:48,700 –> 01:43:52,300
How long will it take us to
figure out and moreover, once we

1869
01:43:52,300 –> 01:43:56,100
have that based on God’s word,
not or not our own, how long

1870
01:43:56,100 –> 01:43:58,600
will it take before?
We actually believe that we are

1871
01:43:58,600 –> 01:44:01,000
destined to live forever in
Christ’s Kingdom.

1872
01:44:01,900 –> 01:44:04,500
You see brothers and sisters.
Our problem isn’t necessarily

1873
01:44:04,500 –> 01:44:06,400
Bible study.
Although each of us can do more,

1874
01:44:06,400 –> 01:44:09,800
I’m sure the issue is actually
believing what we already

1875
01:44:09,800 –> 01:44:12,900
intellectually know.
And while we know that the

1876
01:44:12,900 –> 01:44:16,300
adversary of the Bible isn’t
some Supernatural temper that

1877
01:44:16,300 –> 01:44:19,600
runs around with pitchfork and
scrambles our brain to do things

1878
01:44:19,600 –> 01:44:23,800
that we don’t really want to do.
What that Supernatural devil or

1879
01:44:23,808 –> 01:44:28,100
what the devil is in, the Bible
is that Resident voice in our

1880
01:44:28,100 –> 01:44:32,300
heads, that hears the word of
God and simply refuses to

1881
01:44:32,300 –> 01:44:34,600
believe it.
It’s listening to all these

1882
01:44:34,600 –> 01:44:38,500
verses about what God thinks
about you and me and it’s the

1883
01:44:38,500 –> 01:44:41,500
response that says well yeah
that’s all very well for

1884
01:44:41,500 –> 01:44:44,400
somebody else, but it has
nothing to do with me.

1885
01:44:45,300 –> 01:44:48,800
That’s the Satan of the Bible.
It’s the voice inside us, that

1886
01:44:48,800 –> 01:44:52,100
makes an accusation against God
that calls him a liar.

1887
01:44:52,400 –> 01:44:56,400
And refuses his words, the Satan
of the Bible is the doubting

1888
01:44:56,400 –> 01:44:58,800
voice within each of us.
That Slanders the word of God

1889
01:44:58,800 –> 01:45:02,000
and refuses to believe with the
creator of the universe has said

1890
01:45:02,000 –> 01:45:05,400
about us.
It’s the doubt that he can do

1891
01:45:05,400 –> 01:45:09,000
it, that he is able to present
us faultless Before the Throne

1892
01:45:09,000 –> 01:45:12,200
of his grace and that we can be
without sin with him forever.

1893
01:45:12,200 –> 01:45:14,900
More.
Now I’m not suggesting that

1894
01:45:14,900 –> 01:45:17,800
believing is easy.
I know from experience that it

1895
01:45:17,800 –> 01:45:21,900
requires effort in the sense of
continually continually

1896
01:45:22,200 –> 01:45:24,500
threshing, Andre layering these
things in our mind because we’re

1897
01:45:24,500 –> 01:45:27,800
leaking vessels but there is a
way to dwell in this new

1898
01:45:27,800 –> 01:45:30,900
mindset, the mindset of faith in
Christ Jesus our lord.

1899
01:45:31,300 –> 01:45:34,100
And that’s what I want to talk
about in our session tomorrow

1900
01:45:34,100 –> 01:45:36,200
morning.
How God, generates our faith,

1901
01:45:37,000 –> 01:45:40,000
just give me three more minutes,
maybe five, and I’ll close this

1902
01:45:40,000 –> 01:45:43,600
session please.
The question that we have to ask

1903
01:45:43,600 –> 01:45:48,500
ourselves is that when this is
what God thinks of us, why is it

1904
01:45:48,500 –> 01:45:50,300
that we have such trouble
believing it?

1905
01:45:51,900 –> 01:45:54,400
Well, it’s interesting that on a
first principle levels, we

1906
01:45:54,400 –> 01:45:56,900
rightly concluded that there is
no Supernatural devil.

1907
01:45:58,600 –> 01:46:01,000
There is an entity out there,
running around the world,

1908
01:46:01,000 –> 01:46:03,600
wreaking havoc on God’s
creation, tempting and poking.

1909
01:46:03,600 –> 01:46:05,500
And prodding men and women to do
the wrong thing.

1910
01:46:05,500 –> 01:46:10,800
We know that to be ourselves We
know that Temptation comes from

1911
01:46:10,800 –> 01:46:14,200
man’s hearts and we’re drawn
away of our own lust, but it’s

1912
01:46:14,208 –> 01:46:16,800
important to remember that the
Hallmark characteristic of the

1913
01:46:16,800 –> 01:46:19,100
adversary or the opponent in
scriptures.

1914
01:46:19,100 –> 01:46:21,600
One, who denies the truth.
One, who hears the word of God

1915
01:46:21,600 –> 01:46:24,900
and inverts, it, when who makes
a false accusation against God

1916
01:46:27,300 –> 01:46:29,800
If we believe that way brothers
and sisters, there’s a problem

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in our thinking.
I believe before the foundations

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of the earth, God asked a rather
simple question and I’m not

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trying to be facetious here, I’m
not being flippant.

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I imagine it’s a question that
all good parents ask themselves

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at some point in time about
their children and that question

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is, what a my children need to
be successful.

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It’s one that I can’t help but
ask about my students at

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Heritage College because I only
care about them and want the

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best for them.
In some mushy way.

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I love them right?
I’m only a teacher.

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I’m not a parent but I can
imagine that every good parent

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would ask this question about
their own children.

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What is it that I could provide
whatever it is, I would so that

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they could be successful.
And I reckon in all seriousness

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that God asked his angels before
the world began, what would my

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creation need before?
Giving me the free-will offering

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of their love.
What reassurance would they need

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that?
I deeply care about them and

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desire, them to be with me
forever.

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What would be the ultimate
expression of love?

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That would inspire a reciprocal
love from them.

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I think, you know, the answer,
He said, I will give them my

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only begotten son.
He will declare my righteousness

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that sin is worthy of death and
that the flesh profits nothing.

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He will allow himself to be made
a sign for all generations and

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he will lay down his life for
his friends.

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That is the gift that I will
give them.

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That is the token of my love.
That is the very model of what I

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want to see in them, love
motivated by faith and

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confidence in me.
And that’s the basis for the

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relationship that I desire to
see working in them.

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And this was the grace that we
see Peter, and Paul and and all

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the apostles in Acts preaching,
this was the gift that was on

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offer.
This was the undercurrent of

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their mind.
It’s what gave these men hope

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and what set the world on fire
and it changed the course of

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human history?
It no way.

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Did they set out to prove their
love to God by their Works?

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They wouldn’t have gotten very
far.

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If they did, these men were
energized, first 50, the power

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of the love of God, seen in the
face of Jesus Christ, but

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brothers and sisters, if we
invert the process and we try to

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generate Faith by going out and
doing something nice for others

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without the proper motivation.
We’ve deceived ourselves, we

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will get weary in well-doing
because our willpower is

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unsustainable.
The power of God’s love is

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without limit.
So when we come to remember the

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Lord Jesus Christ tomorrow
morning, let us be thankful

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thankful for him by whom our
sins are blotted out, thankful

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for this unspeakable gift that
God has given us in Jesus

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Christ, and let us go forth in
the motivation of the love of

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Christ.
As seen in the breaking of

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bread, the emblems of bread and
wine and let us become humble so

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that God can work in us and do
his good pleasure.

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