Jason Bobis – Class 1: The Importance of Faith and What God Thinks of You Once You Are Baptized

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Twos and Logan people.
That was quite interesting.

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I’m very thankful to be with you
around God’s word and it’s such

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a lovely thing to be back here.
In the Detroit area, with all of

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you, I love this area and
moreover I love the people in

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this area.
You guys are very special to me.

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So it’s always nice to spend
time around God’s word together

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with you.
It’s been useful for me to look

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again at this topic of faith of
biblical faith and really to

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refine my thoughts since I
shared this information with the

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brothers and sisters at Enfield
and South Australia as a pair of

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Wednesday night classes about
seven months ago.

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Or so I say refine my thoughts
because in a very real way I

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have to admit from the outset
that what I hope to share with

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you really aren’t my thoughts
and I think, you’ll think that

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you’ll soon.
See that.

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These Concepts and thoughts are
from scripture, they’re not my

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thoughts.
But I want them to be my

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thoughts.
I know how I naturally think.

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And what I’ll share with you
isn’t natural to me by any

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stretch, I have to admit that
even by knowing and sharing some

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of these principles which can be
helpful for working on our faith

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daily, it’s still difficult to
put these things into practice,

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but it is worthwhile It’s just
something that I’ve been

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confronted with between the time
of delivering.

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These talks the first time in
really.

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Now this time it’s just
important to remember that we’re

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learning and we’re growing in.
Sometimes we do better than

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others, spiritual growth is
recursive, in other words, it’s

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three steps forward, and it’s
two steps back.

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And three steps forward, and two
steps back.

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And that’s how fighting the
flesh is life, is like that

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brothers and sisters for all of
us myself, very much included.

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And so I have Admit that the
thoughts that I’ll share have

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been compiled from a range of
sources in trying to answer

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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 assumed that everyone in

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

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It 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, Could the less I

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seem to find.
So you may know that, I teach it

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Heritage College, which is a
crusade, Alfie and school, and

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Adelaide.
And if we were there and we’re

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not, but if we were, this is
what the learning intention

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would be your really, what the
aim would be for this.

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This session, it’d be pretty
straightforward.

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We are learning to develop
biblical, strategies for growing

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

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I have to admit that really,
this question is come from

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asking another one first and
that is well, what can I do for

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God?
What can I give God?

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As you know the cattle on a
thousand hills are his anyway

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and if we’re honest and
reflecting about what it is that

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we can give God, will you
realize pretty quickly that

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everything that we have God has
given us in the first place.

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So what is it that we can give
him?

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Well, really the only thing that
we can give God, who has created

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the Earth and all things in it
is our faith in him in short my

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confidence, my trust.
And from that, trust comes a

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love for him that he so desires
to see in his children.

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And so we want to ask, we want
to start the weekend together by

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asking a simple question.
Why is the Bible putting so much

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importance on this topic of
faith?

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And how important is Faith?
Why is it the hinge point for

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every good work that follows?
Well in short faith is the very

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basis of the expression of God’s
character in us.

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It’s the gateway to that.
So we take a look at the verse

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that Paul just read in Hebrews
11 and verse 6. there, it says,

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But without faith, it is
impossible to, please.

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God, please God for.
He, that comes to God, must

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believe that God is, and that he
is, a rewarder of them that

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diligently seek him.
So, so you mean to say that if I

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give all my money to the poor,
and I go and work in a soup

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kitchen and faith in God, wasn’t
the motivating factor.

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That I haven’t pleased God.
Really, without faith, whatever

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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 verse 25 says,

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have you offered unto me
sacrifices and offerings in the

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wilderness, these 40 years, o
House of Israel.

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And in Acts chapter 7 and verse
22. 42.

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It says, OE House of Israel.
Have you offered to me, slain

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beasts, and sacrifices by the
space of 40 years in the

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wilderness.
Hebrews chapter 4, and verse two

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hints.
At the reason, why he didn’t

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even take any notice.
And that’s because the element

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of Faith was missing.
The writer to the Hebrews says

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that their carcasses, which are
akin to dead animals fell in the

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wilderness and they didn’t enter
the promised land because of

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unbelief.
Hebrews 4 verse 2 says For unto

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us, the gospel is preached as
well intended as unto them but

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the word preached did not profit
them, not being mixed with faith

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in them that heard it.
Without faith brothers and

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sisters.
It is impossible to please God.

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Later in Zechariah, God took
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Jews ritual fastings for 70
years, they did this.

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And so the prophet is sent into
rebuked them.

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And to correct them to do the
fasting with humility, which

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will find is the very basis of
faith.

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And so as we work through this,
stay together, what we going to

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find is that if we want to
increase our faith, we have to

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decrease our self-importance.
We have to be humble.

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That doesn’t mean being
downtrodden and wallowing in the

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mire.
That doesn’t mean you having

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long faces and being miserable.
It simply means that we have to

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see ourselves as we truly are If
Christ said, I can do nothing of

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my own self.
Why should we ever think to

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ourselves, right?
I’ve got this.

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Without Christ, we are nothing
but through Christ, we are made

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to ride upon the high places of
the earth.

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We can do all things through
Christ, who strengthens us?

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In fact, we are more than
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We are the sons and the
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God.
We are Mighty ones and how is

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that possible by faith?
So why does the bible put so

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much importance on this concept
and how important is it?

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Well, you probably know Paul’s
famous dissertation about love

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and First Corinthians 13 and
you’ll know that he ends that

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passage with this he says.
And now abideth faith, hope, and

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love these three but the
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And what I want you to consider
is that Godly love is born out

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of faith.
In other words, you cannot

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demonstrate the love of God
unless you first have faith that

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God exists, you can’t extend the
love of God to others until

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First perceive through faith,
the love that God has towards

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you.
And so the range of what we

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think and know, and thus, what
we can do is limited by what we

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fail to notice.
And appreciate this is exactly

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what Jesus taught in.
John chapter 5 and verse 19.

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He says the son can do nothing
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father, do for what so
everything he does.

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These also, the son does
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It was about what the sun
notice, the father doing and the

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point here, 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
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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 kind of love, he won’t

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be weary in well-doing because
the energy comes from faith in

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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
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It won’t happen without faith
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In Ephesians 2 at verse 8, this
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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 thou he has known

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

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that from a child thou Hast
known the holy scriptures, which

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are able to make thee wise unto
salvation through faith, which

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

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were brought in The family of
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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,
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And there was no denying the
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them.
And that’s in Acts chapter 15

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verse 9.
He also said to the Jews that

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the circumcision doesn’t make
you special and it doesn’t make

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you righteous before God Paul
would later get go on to say

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that it was the circumcision of
the heart that matters and as we

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will serve him soon.
Learn the heart is where Faith

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takes root the heart.
But Peter said, the only thing

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that avails you anything is
Faith working through.

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Love.
That’s what matters not outward

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signs of religion.
Now, it probably comes as no

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surprise that we find Faith as
an integral part of the

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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
will read through to the end of

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the chapter.
And what I want you to do is I

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want you to look for the concept
of faith.

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I count seven times.
If you want, you can put a

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circle around the word faith or
believe which is the same

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concept.
So faith is an integral part of

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the atonement.
Romans, 3 verse 23.

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For all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God being

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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
the remission of sins that are

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past through the forbearance of
God to declare.

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I say at this time, God’s
righteousness, that he might be

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just and the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus.

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It’s verse 27.
Where is boasting then?

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It is excluded by what law of
Works, nay, but by the law of

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Faith.
Therefore, we conclude that a

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man is justified by faith
without the Deeds of the law.

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Is he the god of the Jews only?
Is he not also of the Gentiles?

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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.
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through faith by no means.
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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 in seven
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the term faith and that Concept
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This is how we’re saved brothers
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Now, what are the weightier
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If I was to make this a pop
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answer that question.
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and this is where the Lord, the
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leaders for focusing on small,
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cumin.
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the weightier matters of the
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Eighth.
The Lord says these Bochy have

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to done sorry these.
These you ought to have done and

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not to let him leave the others
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In the first Epistle of John.
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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
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our faith who is he that
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Why was the Gospel of John
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verse 31 says, but these things
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believe that Jesus is the
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believing continuous.
You might have life through his

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name.
It simply wasn’t written for our

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learning and our admonition, but
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faith, or our connection to God,
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Paul opens, and he closes the
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The Obedience of faith.
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that the obedience to the faith,
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way the one true Faith.
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It becomes very powerful when
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the diag lot, and many other
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Now why is that so interesting?
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obedience Is a direct function
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lives.
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our faith.
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without faith, you just can’t be
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I believe Paul is saying I am
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inform you.
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Christ, the faith, the one true
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also writing it to you, to bring
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And how does that happen?
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No, by faith.
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book of Romans.
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conscience your conscience has a
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you sin and if you don’t act in
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add to show the importance of
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In this content Concept in
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actively listening, you’re
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ticking over with all sorts of
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East.
But what’s the point that the

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topic of faith is a theme that
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Bible will will clearly it is
that you now agree with me and I

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have your attention moving
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Well, I hope so but that’s not
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The point is as a man thinks in
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So he is that’s from Proverbs 23
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It sure seems like the point and
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fundamentally change the way
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By reading the scripture daily,
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are intended to change the way
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And what we think about and what
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will always have an impact on
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The more we live in, the more we
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that our minds are generative
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And unless we actively choose
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end up living in situations.
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we create our circumstances and
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and what it is that we
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faith in.
Now, we’ve all experienced that

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very same thing.
We’ve made some bad choices,

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perhaps we didn’t even realize
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live with some consequences that
we wish we wouldn’t have to we

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wish we were more conscious of
of when we made the moment made

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the decision at the moment.
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brothers and sisters and what we
actually believe regardless of

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what it is.
We profess to believe creates

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our reality for as a man thinks
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So is he?
Advertisers know this.

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And so what they do is they
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over into our subconscious mind,
to get us to believe lives such

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as it really doesn’t matter.
If we do, what we know feels

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good.
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track, it’s going to harm us and
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And when we can’t also help but
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why is God angry with what are
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We know that there is no such
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Bible.
We know that there’s only one

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power and all the universe.
Isaiah 45 tells us that concept

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eight times But why is God so
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Simon the Sorcerer.
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well what he was doing is he was
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sorceries and all that that
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with the gateway to God.
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people’s beliefs.
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beliefs and that’s serious
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And so we understand that this
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shaping our beliefs and that’s
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with it.
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hearts.
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his first public speech in The
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Matthew, 5, 6 and 7 addresses,
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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 her his in,
Insight in prayer to direct our

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steps and then we actually have
to believe that he does direct

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our steps.
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at work after we pray.
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sometimes, I get the impression
that we the way that we approach

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living the truth is that if we
can, simply refresh our mind

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with Godly principles enough.
When the challenges of life

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arise, all we have to do is
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and we have to apply it in love.
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thing by God.
And the In the great frustration

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comes in.
When we don’t seed widely enough

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or remember enough biblical
principles to make better

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decisions, we miss the mark and
we just didn’t know our Bibles

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better and we self rebuke.
And so to keep ourselves from

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falling, all we really need to
do is just get down to the study

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desk, more and develop a wider
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In other words, the problem is
that we’re just not disciplined

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enough.
And that exhortation, the one

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that says you really aren’t
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one, that is always true.
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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.
It’s actually about belief, I

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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
already All are trying to keep

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yourselves from sinning to, but
so often would I tell myself and

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what I hear an excerpt ations
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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, so I can’t
help, but ask myself the

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question, isn’t there a better
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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

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faith, you see there is a better
way and that is the way of faith

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in Christ 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
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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.
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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
in 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 on 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
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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?
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one here that’s had this sport
sort of experience in living the

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truth.
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these studies is that it is not
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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
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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.
You see faith in Christ has to

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be the way in which we could
become obedience.

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It has to be the way in which we
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And so, what I want to do in our
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want to talk about fighting the
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And so that’s the aim.
That’s that’s the learning

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intention.
We are learning to develop

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strategies for increasing our
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Christ on a daily basis.
And so what you see on the

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screen in front of you is simply
a roadmap for how we’re going to

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do that.
That as you can see right there,

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we have a tree which is
illustrative of the principle

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that, if you get the root of the
tree, right?

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It will bear fruit.
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the root and The Offspring of
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Sometimes we have to focus
sometimes what we end up doing

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is we focus on the fruit of the
spirit and we wonder why it’s so

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hard to see it in ourselves when
what we should be doing is

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focusing on the route or abiding
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it’s a simple analogy.
Our route in Christ is our

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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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in.
So above the line are our good

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works.
And those are produced by faith

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in Christ, The Works, and the
fruit But sometimes brothers and

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sisters are things that choke
our faith, thorns and thistles

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so to speak.
Yeah, they’re small and very

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Insidious and sometimes we don’t
even know that they’re there.

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Which is why David says in
Psalm, 19 Lord reveal unto me.

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My secret faults.
Now, I think it only makes sense

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to talk about these Thorns to
our faith because we can know

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how God generates faith in us
and we can know what we should

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do to cultivate our own faith.
But if we have thorns choking

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our faith, or if we Have
sticking points or obstacles are

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roadblocks.
The other bits might make all

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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.

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Before we can put something
better back in.

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And so we will look at Thorns
through our faith in ways that

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God generates our faith and our
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

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

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necessarily sure that that’s
clear.

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So, we’ll begin with the
question.

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What even is Faith and the most
simple way I can put it is

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Faith.
Is your thoughts?

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Your thoughts, which have
substance, your faith is your

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connection to God and Christ.
Your faith.

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Is your connection to what I’ve
said what they promised and

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everything that we read in
scripture, your faith is your

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belief.
It’s your trust and to put it in

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a modern term or modern
parlance.

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It’s your signal strength to
God.

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One little question is, can it
be literal can these things

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actually shape?
Our daily experience?

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Can our faith have a literal
effect on our lives because you

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wrap your probably remember, the
scripture talks about having

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faith to move mountains.
First Corinthians 13, averse to,

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and for example, in Matthew 17
and verse 20, the disciples were

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not able to heal a boy, who was
having his epileptic seizures,

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and they wanted to know why and
Jesus said unto them because of

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your unbelief for The, I say
unto you, if you have faith as a

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grain of mustard seed, you shall
say unto this mountain, remove,

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hence To Yonder place and it
shall remove and nothing shall

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be impossible.
And to 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 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 in that Day,

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which is before Jerusalem on the
East and the Mount of Olives

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show.
Cleave in the midst thereof

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toward the East and toward the
west and there should be a very

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great valley and half the
mountain to remove towards the

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North and half show removed to
the South.

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And so yes, those that live
lives of faith will see the

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literal culmination of their
belief when the Lord comes to

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Reign on Earth and we will be
with him by his grace in that

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day.
But moreover, our faith does

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have a profound impact on our
daily experience.

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And so the question we have to
ask next is well where does

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faith?
Find Roots?

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Where is it generated in Romans,
6, 10, and verse 6 tells us the

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answer.
If you turn there with me, I’m

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going to read about 45 verses
Romans 10:8, verse 6 and we’ll

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read down through through verse
10.

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So where does faith?
Find root?

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Where is it?
Generated the heart?

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Romans 10.
Verse 6, but the righteousness,

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which is of Faith speaks on this
wise, say not in thine heart,

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who shall Ascend into heaven,
that is to bring Christ down

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from above, or who, shall
descend into the deep that is to

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bring Christ again from the
dead, but what?

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Saith it.
The word is near unto you even

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in your mouth and in your heart,
that is the word of faith.

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Which we preach verse 9, that if
Thou shalt confess with thy

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mouth, the Lord Jesus.
And shalt believe in thine heart

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that God has raised him from the
dead.

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Thou shalt be saved for with the
heart.

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Man, believes unto righteousness
and with the mouth confession is

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made unto salvation.
And so, where does faith find

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root?
It’s in the heart.

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In other words, in the Inner Man
in your thoughts.

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And now you see how this
presents a problem brothers and

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sisters because we know Jeremiah
17:9 where it says the heart is

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deceitful above all things and
it’s desperately wicked who can

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know it and we know it.
But if all the challenges to

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that limit our faith and we’re
going to look at these later.

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Fear, or sin or Pride or looking
at oneself.

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Instead of looking at God wrong
beliefs, that choke our faith,

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or lack of perception, and
awareness.

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The cares of this life,
overwhelming us or not

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understanding our purpose.
In our destiny, destiny.

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The greatest obstacle, I believe
to Growing our faith.

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Is is not believing that God is
in every detail of Our Lives.

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So what limits Faith?
What grows Faith, the degree to,

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which you believe this?
The God is active and he is

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present in our lives.
And that’s what I mean.

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By God being in every detail,
God being in everything in the

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life of a Believer.
And yet we know these scriptures

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brothers and sisters, 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

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

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but it shall accomplish that,
which I please, and it shall

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prosper in, In the thing, we’re
into ice ended Philippians 1.

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Over 6 says be confident of this
very thing that he which has

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begun a good work in you.
He will perform it until the day

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of Jesus Christ.
Now I know that it’s hard to

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believe from personal experience
that God is in every detail of

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our lives.
Especially when there were times

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in the life of a disciple, in
which we hit rock bottom, and we

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feel like our prayers are only
going up to the ceiling and no

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further.
It’s especially difficult to

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believe in the midst of great
sorrow and suffering.

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And I’m sure at one point,
especially in the midst of

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suffering, I would have found
what I’m about to say, quite

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hard to accept quite
confronting.

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Offensive.
But nevertheless, it is true

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that in the life of God’s
covenant people who have

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surrendered their will to him at
baptism.

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He is in every aspect of Our
Lives, even the very hairs of

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our head are numbered, God is in
every aspect of our lives.

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But how either by creating
scenarios in which we grow or at

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the very least, by allowing
situations to come into our life

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to generate and to grow Faith to
bring us to receive the end of

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our faith, the very salvation
One of our souls, The more I’ve

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looked into scripture, the more,
I am convinced that what you

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believe about?
This idea has an enormous impact

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and whether your faith grows,
whether it’s stagnates, or

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whether it shrinks back, and
there are numerous examples of

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men and women in scripture, who
believe that God was in

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everything in their lives, and
they are the people that you and

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

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wants us to emulate.
Why?

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Because that’s the level of
connection that God wants to

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have with his children.
Now, it’s important Also to

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clarify from the outside outset
what God is not in.

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God is not in sin.
God has nothing to do with sin,

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and although he has made
provision for it in the lives of

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his children.
Because he knows our frame that

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we are, but dust and that we
will, in fact sin, despite our

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best efforts and intentions, not
to let’s be 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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00:33:09,800 –> 00:33:12,000
in Christ.
Breed license to sin.

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And as we know when we sin we
separate ourselves from God, he

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hides his face from a sort of
speak the Caribbean cover their

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eyes and we are left most alone.
We have disobeyed the word of

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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 has been a change of
status or his brother.

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Thomas says, there’s been a
change in Constitution.

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We are a new creation is what
Colossians says and is someone

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that is admitted that there once
was a way that seems right unto

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me but that way LED to death,
there has been a significant

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change.
Why is it so important to

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realize what it is that God
thinks of us?

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Well, sometimes brothers and
sisters, we don’t see ourselves

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as God to sees us and seeing how
special we are to God.

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According to his words,
generates faith.

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Next, what we’re going to have
to do is we’re going to have to

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look at, why that’s so hard to
believe that God is involved in

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every detail of our life and one
of the great challenges to our

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faith comes in suffering.
We all know that it’s easy to

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believe that God is involved in
the good things.

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But what shall we shall?
We receive good at the hand of

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God and shall we not receive
evil?

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Why is it hard to accept that
God is in the great challenges

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of life?
Well well fundamentally it

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challenges our sense of justice.
The question we all face

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internally is why is this
happening to me?

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In other words I’m a pretty good
guy.

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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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we get derailed and thinking
that we should be able to

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justify ourselves to God.
That’s a workspace mentality and

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one that cannot bring us to the
king.

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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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that come.
What may God Is Right that

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Christ died to declare God’s
righteousness and that God is a

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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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do together is to look at
biblical examples of lives that

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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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00:36:12,200 –> 00:36:16,500
whom God has done The Impossible
by faith will look at examples

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from Jacob’s life from Joseph.
David Elijah will look in the

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Psalms and we’ll look at the
Lord.

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Jesus Christ, the author and
finisher of faith.

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And we’re going to look
specifically at the mind of

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faith in the upper room at the
breaking of bread.

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Tomorrow morning.
God willing.

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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 it when you struggle
with something, however, small

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pray about it.
Pray without ceasing how you do.

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One thing is, how you do
everything.

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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 him and
rejoice in his loving kindness

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and something challenging
happens.

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Well, 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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respects and with, reverence,
just just test it out.

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Have faith, that God is in
everything and that he is

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bringing things into your life,
for the development of your

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faith or allowing things to take
place in your life too.

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A shape and develop you and make
you fit for his Temple, call

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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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scripture abounds with examples
of why we should believe that.

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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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circumstances to prepare us for
the kingdom and one objection.

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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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In the universe, holding the
planets in places, putting the

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the 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.