049: James Diliberto – Exhortation: Be Ye Not Deceived

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I talked this week is an
excitation that was given by

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brother James diliberto at the
Ecclesia in Mount Waverley and

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the class that he gave I just
found it to be a really good

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look at the excitation on the
sinfulness of our flesh and how

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we tend to be careless with the
way that our mind thinks and the

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way that we can almost deceive
ourselves and the title of his

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excitation is be not deceived
and frequently.

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I feel like a lot of times were
talking about, you know, not

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being tricked by other people in
the world are being deceived by

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what the Has to offer to us and
James and his excitation takes a

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really good look at the way in
which we can basically justify

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things to ourselves or can make
excuses for ourselves and why

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we’re able to push boundaries
and instead looks at the way

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that Christ lived his life about
keeping us as far away from

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temptation as you can just
putting a completely out of his

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mind putting it in a place where
you’re not even within Arm’s

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Reach of it.
So often I feel at least I know

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sometimes in my own Life it can
be.

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Easy to think.
Well, I can be in the same room

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as something and it won’t bother
me and James makes an excellent

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point going into it about how
that we shouldn’t be anywhere

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near it.
He makes a really great

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connection as he’s looking
through being deceived.

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He starts by looking at the
deception in the garden with Eve

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and Adam and the serpent and
makes it really awesome

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connection that I hadn’t heard
anybody bring up before making

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the connection to the symbology
that Christ used when he’s

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referring to the scribes and the
Pharisees in the New Testament

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talking about them being a brood
of vipers.

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Uppers and it was a really good
choice and looking at the carnal

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minds and how the
decision-making that those

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religious leaders of the time
were making but were being

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driven by their carnal mind
rather than the spiritual mind

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that Christ was coming from so
it’s a little bit of a shorter

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expectation about 30 minutes or
so, but I found it really really

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encouraging one to listen to
really got got your pumped up

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and really forced you to take a
look at yourself and the choices

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you’re making so one.
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So with that we’ll turn it over

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to brother James diliberto for
his excitation be not deceived

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my title.
This morning is be not deceived

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The Lies We Believe over the
past years readings particularly

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through the New Testament.
I’ve been picking up on this

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repeated phrase be not deceived
and some that are To it.

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And when I suggested that I
would speak to this topic to

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Charlotte.
She said well isn’t that a bit

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negative for an excitation and I
said to her.

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Well, it’s better than the first
option that I had which was sack

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cloth and Ashes rituals of
lamentation.

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So perhaps for a Bible class
someday, I promise you there’s a

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very good positive turn around
at the end and as the prophet

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habakkuk said if it seems slow
wait for it, it will surely

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come.
You know one of the worst things

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in the world, I’m sure you would
agree is the feeling that we’ve

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been deceived isn’t we recently
bought a new car and during the

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price negotiation the deal are
offered to throw in an extended

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warranty instead of the price
reduction that I was asking for

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good and some good New York
negotiations.

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And while I felt like I got a
good deal.

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Unfortunately a few months
later.

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We received a bill in the mail
for the Amount of the premium

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Now surprise be called up the
dealer only to find out that the

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phone was disconnected and upon
further investigation that the

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business had actually gone out
of business only a few weeks

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after we bought the car and they
never paid the premium.

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Of course we were up for it.
We have been deceived.

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It was one of those feelings
like You feel like you know,

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you’ve been deceived and perhaps
maybe you feel like if you were

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a bit smarter, you could have
done something about it.

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Well deception like that.
Unfortunately everywhere in this

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world is prevalent.
I’m sure all you have to do is

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read the news and you find that
there’s corruption and there’s

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fraud in the government and in
Banks and in business any of

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those like myself who were in
business, unfortunately you

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realize that the ception is
actually for some people a big

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Part of success and it’s a real
shame and we even see it.

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Unfortunately in the world’s
governments don’t week as we see

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with the recent government
situation deception is common

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among human relationships and
fundamentally deception is part

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of our very nature as we had in
our two readings.

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So, why would I bring that up on
a Sunday morning as we focus on

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the memorials?
Well in most cases the Bible’s

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warnings on this particular
topic are with respect.

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Get to some of those things that
I was talking about, which is

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the common lies that we might
believe that come from others.

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But while there are many
expectations in that regard the

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one that surprised me.
Was the fact that the vast

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majority of the warnings
brothers and sisters in this

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topic are the ways in which we
deceive our own selves.

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You see we get frustrated when
we feel like we’re deceived by

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someone else and we look to
figure out why it happened and

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could we have known it and you
know, the ones that catch us

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off-guard and where we need an
excitation this morning.

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All of us is a ways in which we
can deceive ourselves and I

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think that happens in two broad
ways that the Bible speaks about

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and I think will be encouraged
this morning thinking about it

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one.
It’s the lie that our sinful

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nature tells us that we actually
are not as Bad as we are and

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another one and where we’ll
finish in the Glorious focus on

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the gospel.
And what Christ has done for us

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is that he is not as good as he
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Both of those lies brothers and
sisters will deceive us out of

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living the life that God has
called us to live in Holiness

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and righteousness before him and
II will pry our hold off of the

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crown of Salvation that the Lord
Jesus Christ died to make make

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available to everyone who puts
their faith in him.

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So I pray this morning that this
message will both challenge you

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as we ought to and all of our
expectations, but also encourage

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you I am so grateful for this
word that I hold in my hand the

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word of God and the reason why
I’m so thankful for it.

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Probably more than any other
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because it is the only mirror in
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Me who I really am.
And to that effect, I would like

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to quote from a book that I read
recently about this topic that

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would accuracy of the Bible and
it goes like this the first

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reason I trust the Revelation
and teaching of Christ and the

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Bible apart from all of the
philosophical historical and

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prophetic arguments is its
accuracy and honesty of its

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description of human nature. for
centuries on end we have held in

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our hands that which describes
and defines what your heart and

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my heart is like it is the most
accurate and exhausted

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explanation of mankind and the
way he thinks but she’s so

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thankful for this word of God
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It’s the one thing that will
never lie to us about who we are

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about what we are about the
trappings of humanity.

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And about the Forgiveness that
despite our humanity is

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available to us this book this
word of God that I know that you

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love along with me.
But aren’t you so thankful for

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that?
And in that regard then

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therefore this morning, we’re
going to start off with some

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challenges some challenging
passages of scripture that I

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hope that despite that making
you possibly feel a little bit

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uncomfortable about yourself.
You’ll be thankful for it

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because it’s the truth and we
speak the truth in love to one

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another as the Apostle Paul
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And so does the Bible it speaks
the truth to us in love

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foundations are important.
I’m sure you would agree.

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Sure, you guys do plenty of
first principle foundations

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here, and I’m so thankful that I
had my foundations growing up

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and we spent a lot of time
looking at the foundations that

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come from the book of Genesis.
And of course in Genesis is not

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chapter that we had read for us
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We find the first great moral
conflict in history, which is in

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the records own words.
The Serpent versus Eve the

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mother of all living or that old
serpent as Revelation has it The

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Serpent versus Eve now in that
conflict in Genesis chapter 3

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verse 1 it says now the serpent
was more subtle.

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Yes, V has crafty than any of
the other Beasts of the field

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that the Lord God had made he
said to the woman did God

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actually say did God actually
say You shall not eat of any

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tree of the garden and after
clarification of the matter by

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Eve.
She says this to our topic this

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morning.
She says.

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The serpent deceived me and I
the serpent deceived me and I

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ate the serpent said to the
woman you shall not surely die.

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It was a lie.
She would die.

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The serpent deceived me and
that’s how he you’ve felt Eve

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felt that she had been deceived.
Perhaps should she have listened

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perhaps there was more
interaction with Adam.

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We’ve pontificated on this topic
much in our occlusal discussions

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as we should but the
fundamentally the feeling of

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even the testimony of the
scripture is that she felt like

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she was deceived now as we are
taught to do when we interpret

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the Bible we let the Bible
interpret itself now, Like to

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turn to a passage where Jesus
interprets this for us and he

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interprets it in such a way that
I think leaves us a lot that we

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can learn and this is in his
interaction with the Pharisees

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know sometimes we can have a
look at the Bible and we make

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the antagonist the other one and
we are the protagonist for the

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moment this morning.
I’d like you to perhaps put

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yourself into the Pharisees
shoes and maybe listen to the

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Lord Jesus words as a rebuke as
a bit of an excitation.

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John chapter 8 verses 43 to 45
You can see the clear links here

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to Genesis 3.
The Lord Jesus said why do you

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not understand what I say?
Just reading out?

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Yes be here.
Why do you not understand what I

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say it is because you cannot
bear with my word.

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It’s going to be important for
later.

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You cannot bear to hear my word.
You are of your father the devil

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and your will is to do your
father’s desires.

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He was a murderer from the
beginning and has nothing to do

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with the truth because there is
no truth in him.

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When he lies he speaks out of
his own character for he is a

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liar and the father of Lies, but
because I tell you the truth,

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you do not believe me skip down
to verse 55 Jesus says, but you

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have not known him, but I know
him and if I were to say that I

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do not know him.
I would be a liar like you but I

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do know him and I keep his word.
You see how In this passage

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Jesus juxtaposes himself with
the Pharisees on the one hand he

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Finds himself with the father
and unfortunately, he aligns the

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Pharisees with their father
where at least the figurehead in

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which Jesus uses the devil or as
we have in the Greek the die

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Abalos which means a slander or
a false accuser or a liar and he

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says to them you are of your
father the devil, you know,

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Jesus and John the Baptist both
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I believe when they both open
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Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven
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to him they both said You brood
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So what he said see he’s making
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chapter 3, he’s saying that
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live the way that they think the
way that they process

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information and make decisions
is just like that old serpent in

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Genesis chapter 3, you know how
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8 the carnal mind.
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It’s a deceiver and as we had in
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Nick.
Chapter 12 all of that metonymy

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comes into one verse all of
those symbols from Genesis to

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Revelation the Lord Jesus in his
Revelation ties them all up in

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the one verse and he makes it
absolutely clear what we’re

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supposed to understand when we
read things like The Serpent and

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the devil and Satan.
It’s all tied up in this one

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verse look at verse 9.
It says in the Great Dragon was

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thrown down now if we have any
understanding of what they see

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is that ancient serpent who is
called the devil and Satan the

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deceiver of the whole world.
He was thrown down to the Earth

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and his angels were thrown down
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Here’s a good news and I heard a
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the salvation and power and
Kingdom of our God and the

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authority of our Christ has
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But finish the verse for the
accuser of our brothers has been

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thrown down who accuses them day
and night before God now we can

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read the book of Revelation
through the historical

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understanding and try to
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in the big picture.
However Revelation is punctuated

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with these little moral
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dacians and I think that this is
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we’re Eve felt that serpent had
deceived me whatever that might

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be.
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conquered by the blood of this
man that we remember this

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morning.
Paul says Adam was not deceived

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but the woman was deceived and
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and sisters fundamentally.
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The carnal mind is a deceiver.
All we have to do is read how

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James describes James chapter 1
where he explains all that is in

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the world, which is what John
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tempted when he is drawn away of
his own lust and enticed and

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then when lust has conceived it
bringeth Sport sin and sin when

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it is finished bringeth forth
death, if you know what he says

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right after that we often don’t
finish their because we often

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finish their because we think
that in at least in my Bible the

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paragraph goes to the next one.
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It says do not be deceived my
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He see I wonder if James was
actually tying it to those

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previous verses that’s like a
memory verse that’s when we get

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in our foundations, but verse 16
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I think it should.
Be included then desire when it

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has conceived bringeth forth sin
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brings forth death do not be
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You see how James is appealing.
He’s saying in light of this

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deception.
Be careful.

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Sin is a choice.
We can choose not to be

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deceived.
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just like I felt perhaps if I
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bit more with the buying the
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Maybe I would have picked up on
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people working there and there
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and he was very very fast to
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my wits about me a little bit
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I might not have been deceived
never mind about cars that

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doesn’t matter.
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When we sin before our God and
we could have known it we could

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have known it and we didn’t
because we trusted our inner

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snake for lack of a better term
now.

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Why do I feel that way?
But you know Jeremiah 17:9 is

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another one of those memory
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deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked who can know

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it our And I’m sure like
Nathaniel Susan her finding out

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and as Nick and Hannah are about
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soon in life this becomes
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kids were having a bath and
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I was just just around the
corner sitting on a chair and I

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heard a loud cry and I ran into
the ran in to see what was

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happening and Audrey immediately
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Lizabeth into the water.
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Gee, I didn’t suggest that you
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giveaway, and I thought to
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I’ve never lied to you in my
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But it’s there.
It’s there that

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self-preservation that escaped
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It’s there.
We want to make excuses.

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It was there in Genesis 3, they
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They all pass the buck.
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You know what we need to do.
We need to accept it when we’ve

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been deceived especially when
it’s been by us and we stand

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against our Holy Father.
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I did it and I come to you for
forgiveness and we can never

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forget this.
This is why the Bible describes

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this as a snake.
Romans 8 verse 7 says because

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the carnal mind is enmity with
God for it is not subject to the

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law of God and this is the part
that’s most important neither

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indeed can be Neither indeed can
be our flesh is not subject to

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the will of God.
It can’t be it has to be

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replaced by something else and
in the minutes and this young

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people will come to some
examples in a minute here young

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people older people.
It doesn’t change it might

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change form and The Temptations
might modify, but fundamentally

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the snake is still there.
That old serpent remains and you

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know what?
I like about that Romans 8 verse

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7.
It’s another call back to

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Genesis 3 verse 15, isn’t it
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Where did that enmity start its
Genesis 3:15 sanity.

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It’s the enmity that was between
thee and the woman and between

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thy seed and her seed it’s
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And Paul interpret it for us and
tells us exactly what it is that

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serpent what it was supposed to
be telling us what we’re

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supposed to learn from this the
reason why the Bible uses these

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consistent metaphors from start
to finish his because we’re

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supposed to see it for what it
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Now we should know not to play
with snakes shouldn’t be

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especially in Australia.
You should think everything on

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Australia’s poisonous.
You shouldn’t touch anything

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that’s reptilian in Australia.
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I actually had a had a python
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surprise.
I did have a snake and and I had

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to get rid of it once because I
started to trust it that a

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little bit too comfortable with
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of it in traded at the pet store
for a chameleon which was Quite

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harmless, but I remembered in
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know this is what we do by
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We can’t help but think it I
thought you serpent that old

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serpent.
I started to trust you brother

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sister my way of excitation this
point Do you trust your snake?

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What chances do you take?
You know, I’ve thought about

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this a number of times.
You know, we take the most

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insane risks with the carnal
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Young people do you attend that
party or that event that you’ve

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know full?
Well, there’s going to be

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inappropriate behavior.
Christadelphians are not to our

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shame. traveling brother
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go out with your colleagues
after work is complete when you

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know full well with the plans
are going to be and just think

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I’ll be fine.
I’ll and all of a sudden trust

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your inner serpent.
You go out of town. often and

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you leave your phone next to
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When you’re doing your tax
returns, do you linger just a

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little bit longer on that
exclusion line or do you do what

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Jesus did and in that moment say
get behind me Satan you are a

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hinderance to me for you are not
setting your mind on the things

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of God, but on the things of
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That’s the self talk that we
need to have that’s the self

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talk that Eve didn’t have but
what our lord Jesus definitely

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Have you ever wondered why Jesus
was so one of those things that

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kind of bothered me for a lot of
years when Jesus identifies

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himself with the serpent.
He says just as Moses lifted up

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the serpent in the wilderness.
So the son of man also must be

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lifted up.
You know, I think there’s a

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subtle excitation there.
He’s saying I know what I am

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made of And he didn’t let the
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He didn’t that serpent have one
inch he called on the board of

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God.
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And in my opinion, we don’t have
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I could think maybe of one that
when he was confronted by great

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Temptation.
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immediately.
At minimum minimum he called it

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for what it was, you know, those
Temptations in the wilderness

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most christadelphians interpret
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wilderness as being a
metaphorical record of the fight

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that was happening Inside the
Mind of the Lord now, depending

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on whatever your take is on that
fundamentally whether it’s

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external or internal
fundamentally at some point they

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were real Temptations for the
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What are you do?
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God.
He slew the serpent with the

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word of God.
He knew and he took action, you

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know, when I think about how
when I think about how the how

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Solomon reflects on his life
often in the proverbs?

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He writes about some of the
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him that perhaps were strong to
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And he says can a man carry fire
next to his chest and his

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clothes not be burned or can one
walk on hot coals and his feet

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not be scorched.
Can’t play with snake.

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Not like I did.
Unfortunately, not like

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sometimes we all do.
Paul says another one of these

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times.
He says do not be deceived Bad

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Company ruins who character Bad
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Why does he say that?
Why does he say don’t be

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deceived because it’s easy for
us to tell ourselves that it

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won’t but it will you see when
when Moses gave Israel the

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instructions before going into
Canaan he said this Take care.

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Take care lest your heart be
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to serve other gods and worship
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See, it’s the same message.
The Bible has been giving the

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same message to his people for
thousands of years.

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Be careful.
Don’t be deceived.

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It’s within you.
And if you hang around dogs,

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you’re gonna get fleas or at
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say.
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I’m really thankful for as we
turn turn our thoughts to the

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antidote to all of this.
I’m thankful as much as I’m

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thankful for the memory verse of
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I’m thankful for the one that
wasn’t in the memory verse which

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is Jeremiah 17 10 like you to
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Although Jeremiah 17:9 describes
what your heart and my heart is

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life.
I’m thankful for verse 10 which

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says but I Yahweh search the
heart and test the mind to give

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everyone according to his ways.
It’s very similar to the way

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that David implores God in Psalm
139 where he says search me o

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God, no my heart.
Try me and see if there is any

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wicked way with in me and Lead
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The good news this morning is
that with this Bible and with

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the help of Our Lord, we can
navigate that carnal mind and we

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can conquer it with the
spiritual mind, which is the

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whole purpose of Romans 5 to 8
describing that helping us

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understand what it’s like so
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6 verse verse 3.
We do have two options and we

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come here every Sunday to being
H in the second relations

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chapter 6 and verse 3 says if
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something when he is nothing he
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So what do we do when we realize
that we are nothing.

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We’ll skip down to verse 7 and 8
where it says.

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Do not be deceived.
God is Not mocked for whoever

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so’s that which he will also
reap for the one who sews to his

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own flesh Will from The Flesh
reap corruption.

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And that is true.
And that’s what we’ve been

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talking about up until now but
when we sow to the spirit, when

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we invest in this word, when we
invest in our usual activities,

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when we meditate and pray and
focus on the things of the

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spirit, the rest of the verse is
true the one who sews to the

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Will from the spirit reap
eternal life.

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We can choose what we feed.
What is it that we encourage?

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What is it that we feed?
Well Hebrews chapter 3 verses 12

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to 14 describes it in another
way.

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Here’s 3 verse 12.
Again, a common common verse

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that we all know.
Take care.

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My brother’s lest there be in
any of you an evil unbelieving

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heart leading you to fall away
from the Living God, but and

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this is why we’re here this
morning, but exhort one another

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every day so long as it is
called today that none of you be

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hardened by the deceitfulness of
sin.

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For we have come to share in
Christ.

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If indeed we hold our original
confidence firm to the end.

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Now the reason why I think that
verse is encouraging although it

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might feel like it’s a negative
verse is that wasn’t true and if

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it wasn’t possible.
He wouldn’t say that the

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excitation will work but it does
work when we come together and

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encourage one another we throw
off the deceitfulness of sin

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because we’re listening to The
Voice of Truth and we’re

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reminding ourselves and so
that’s He encourages them to

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exhort one another lest.
We be hardened.

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It doesn’t have to be the case.
We just have to be able to know

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when it happens by gazing into
God’s mirror as we’ve mentioned

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before.
So let’s turn to Ephesians

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chapter 4, which was our second
reading Ephesians 4 and we’ll

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look at verses 20 to 24.
Okay, now first the excitation

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peace, but that is not the way
you learn Christ assuming that

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you have heard about him and
we’re taught of him as the truth

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is in Jesus to put off your old
self which belongs to the former

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manner of life.
And is corrupt through deceitful

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desires.
But here’s the antidote.

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But to be renewed in the spirit
of your minds and to put on the

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new self that is created after
the likeness of God in true

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righteousness and true Holiness.
He Echoes what James said that

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we’ve read before in James
chapter 1 if you just get down

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to verse 27 give no opportunity
to the devil be not deceived.

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We don’t have to let the serpent
have rule over our life because

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we have the mind of Christ and
we come here to be Build up

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every week in that mind of
Christ, but we can’t do it

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unless we know what we have to
know what we’ve become and

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what’s available.
We have to know what we are by

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Nature.
Test everything brothers and

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sisters and cleave to that which
is good.

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If we ever stop fighting we
already lost.

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We need to practice that
narrative in our mind get thee

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behind me Satan for you are not
setting your mind on the things

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of God.
That’s what we have to ask

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ourselves in every decision we
make Is this decision being made

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00:32:15,900 –> 00:32:17,900
by setting our minds on the
things of God?

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We’re on the things of the
flesh. and when we do that like

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happened for for the Lord Jesus
and as we get exhorted It says

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then the devil left him it says
then the devil left him.

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And just like it will for us.
James says resist the devil and

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he will flee from you.
We don’t always have to be the

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ones on the Run put the Flesh on
the Run.

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We’ve got a mighty savior who
has the answer to every lie that

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are natural Minds will tell us
we just have to be able to

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listen to his answer.
Look at Matthew chapter 15

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00:32:58,600 –> 00:33:21,600
verses 18 to 20.
But what comes out of the mouth

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proceeds from the heart and this
defiles a person for out of the

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00:33:25,600 –> 00:33:30,600
heart come evil thoughts murder
adultery sexual immorality theft

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00:33:30,600 –> 00:33:32,100
false.
Listen slandered.

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These are what defile a person
and if we’re on guard for when

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those seeds start to come they
will never Sprout at all.

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They will be conquered by the
mind of Christ being renewed by

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the spirit of our minds those
who belong to Christ brothers

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00:33:50,400 –> 00:33:55,100
and sisters do what he did which
is why he said the Moses had to

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lift up the bronze serpent in
the wilderness.

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So he would also be lifted up.
So Galatians chapter 5 says

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those who belong to Christ Jesus
have crucified the flesh with

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its passions and desires.
So our expectation this morning

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is that we would do that.
So what’s the good news Well

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brothers and sisters.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t always

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happen and sometimes we get
bitten by the snake, don’t we?

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Well, there’s another lie that I
think we possibly carry into

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every Sunday morning, which is
that the sins that we have

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00:34:29,900 –> 00:34:33,900
committed that the times that we
have been bitten by the snake

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that we carry them in on a
Sunday and we’re going to carry

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00:34:37,199 –> 00:34:40,600
them out now.
They’re 0 way at all that I’m

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making a reference to any sort
of a transactional anything to

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00:34:44,100 –> 00:34:48,199
do with this but in a
metaphorical sense, we need to

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leave here knowing that Christ.
The serpent he crushed it and as

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00:34:54,400 –> 00:34:57,900
he will even though it bites us
he will crush it in his

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00:34:57,900 –> 00:35:03,100
righteousness turn to First John
chapter 3 and look at verse 7

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and 8 first John chapter 3
verses 7 and 8.

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This is another one of those
ones that just surprised me, but

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I was so thankful that it did
First John 3 verse 7.

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It says little children.
Let no one deceive you.

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Whoever practices righteousness
is righteous.

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Just as he is righteous, whoever
makes the practice of sinning is

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of the devil just like we
started in that early reading

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for the devil has been sinning
from the beginning but look at

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the end of the verse.
The reason the Son of God

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appeared was to destroy the
works of the devil and no one

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00:35:51,800 –> 00:35:56,000
born of God makes a practice of
sinning for God’s seed.

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That’s the other seed from
Genesis 3 God’s seed abides in

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00:36:00,000 –> 00:36:05,400
him and he cannot keep sinning
because he has Born of God.

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So for those of us who make a
practice, it doesn’t mean we’re

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perfect.
But when our life is patterned

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after Christ and we make a
practice.

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That’s why I like how the ESD
puts it King James sound sounds

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too black and white.
It can’t be that way.

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Whoever makes a practice of
doing righteousness is

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00:36:25,200 –> 00:36:28,300
righteous.
Why because of the New Covenant

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00:36:28,500 –> 00:36:32,600
the Lord our righteousness that
when we have faith it’s imputed

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00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:36,500
to us.
For righteousness and we are

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00:36:36,500 –> 00:36:39,900
righteous and we can leave here
because we know that he came to

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00:36:39,900 –> 00:36:43,600
destroy the works of the devil
and we are here to learn how to

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learn rather how to follow in
his steps.

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Let no one there for Colossians
chapter 2 and this is what I

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want to encourage you with whole
beginning is true.

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But let no one beguile you Paul
uses those very words in

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Colossians 2 Verse 18, just like
the serpent.

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Let no one but God.
You of your reward by thinking

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00:37:07,800 –> 00:37:13,800
we have to learn this it says
through voluntary humility and

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00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:16,200
worshipping of angels
introducing into those things

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00:37:16,200 –> 00:37:19,600
which have seen vainly puffed up
in his own fleshly mind.

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He’s talking about that feel
that we also naturally have that

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00:37:23,800 –> 00:37:26,200
we have to be perfectly
righteous.

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In order for us to be attained
righteousness and Paul describes

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it for his own self and says sin
taking occasion by the

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Commandment.
Deceived me and slew me.

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00:37:36,900 –> 00:37:41,000
therefore brothers and sisters
don’t throw away your

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00:37:41,000 –> 00:37:43,200
confidence, which has great
reward.

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For you have need of endurance
so that when you have done the

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00:37:46,900 –> 00:37:52,000
will of God you may receive what
is Promised don’t throw away

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00:37:52,100 –> 00:37:55,600
your confidence.
He is righteous.

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00:37:56,000 –> 00:37:59,000
He lived the perfect life of
righteousness and he crushed the

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00:37:59,000 –> 00:38:02,200
head of the serpent under his
feet because he knew that we

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00:38:02,200 –> 00:38:06,200
wouldn’t be able to but he’s
left us an example that we might

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00:38:06,200 –> 00:38:12,200
follow in his steps.
He said I’m coming soon hold

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00:38:12,200 –> 00:38:16,300
fast to what you have and let no
one sees your crown.

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But I say to you this morning is
not even yourself in either of

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those two ways that one we
forget what we are by nature and

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to we forget what he has become
by the gift of God and when we

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00:38:32,200 –> 00:38:35,700
receive those two things we can
leave here living the life that

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00:38:35,700 –> 00:38:39,100
Christ has left us an example
for and we can leave here

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00:38:39,200 –> 00:38:44,100
declared righteous by the Lord
our righteousness and that we

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won’t throw away our great
reward.

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00:38:55,500 –> 00:38:58,300
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