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In other words, we're not going to have

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an easy time in this world if we

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are Christians.

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If you went to the 1st century Christians,

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who were being persecuted and chased in 2nd,

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3rd century particularly, running from cave to cave,

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wholehearted disciples, people whose relatives were being killed

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because they believed in Jesus and they wouldn't

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say that Caesar is Lord and they were

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being killed.

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And you went and told them, Hey, you

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know, you got to just trust the Lord,

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man.

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You'll be prosperous and you'll be living in

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a big house.

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You won't be running from cave to cave.

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They'd have straightaway called you a false prophet.

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But today nobody calls such people false prophets.

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You know why?

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Because we love to hear that message that

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in the world you will have prosperity.

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And when we love to hear something which

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is contrary to what Jesus taught, God himself

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will allow you to be deceived.

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Because you don't love the truth.

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See, it says that in 2nd Thessalonians in

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chapter 2.

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I believe this is, I've often said that,

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one of the most frightening verses in the

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whole Bible.

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Because we've spoken about deception.

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And the Bible says in Ephesians 4, I

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think it's verse 22, that our lusts are

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deceitful.

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And it says in Jeremiah 17, that our

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heart is deceitful.

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It says in Revelation 12, verse 9 to

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11, that Satan is a deceiver.

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Do you get it now?

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Satan is a deceiver.

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The lusts in our flesh are deceitful.

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And our heart is deceitful.

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Above all things.

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You know, our only hope against the deception

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of our lusts and the deception of the

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devil and the deception of our heart is

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if God gives us light.

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Then none of these things, we won't be

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deceived by any of them.

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But if God himself also deceives us, then

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there's no hope at all.

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That's why I say this is a terrifying

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verse.

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This is the one verse in scripture where

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it says God will deceive certain people.

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It says here in 2nd Thessalonians 2, verse

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11, For this reason, God will send upon

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them a deceiving influence.

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You can look it up in any translation.

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That's exactly what it says.

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God will send a deceiving, deluding influence on

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people so that they believe what is false.

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Imagine God making people believe what is false

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so that they will be judged.

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Now for this reason, when you read a

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word like for this reason, I really want

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to know why is God, what is the

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reason why God allows people to be deceived?

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And that's in the previous verse.

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They did not receive the love of the

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truth so as to be saved from sin.

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It's not because they didn't get healed of

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their diseases.

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It's not because they didn't become prosperous.

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It's because they didn't want to be saved

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from their sins.

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Thou shalt call His name Jesus, first promise

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in the New Testament, because He shall save

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His people from their sins.

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He didn't come to make us rich.

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He didn't come to make us healthy.

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He came to make us holy.

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He came to save us from our sins.

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And when people don't want to be saved

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from their sins, God will allow them to

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believe what is false.

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And look at the millions who are believing

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that.

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Look at the millions today who don't want

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to be saved from sin, who want to

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be rich, who want some gift of the

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Holy Spirit, who want to speak in tongues,

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who want to fall down when somebody lays

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hands on them, all types of things today.

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But how many of them want to be

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saved from their sins?

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And when we don't want to be saved

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from our sins, look what happens.

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God allows them to believe what is false.

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And it says here about receiving the love

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of the truth.

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There are two types of truth.

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One is the truth in the Bible.

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God's word says, sanctify them.

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Jesus said in John 17, Father, sanctify them

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through the truth.

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Thy word is truth.

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And the other is the truth about ourselves.

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The Holy Spirit is called the spirit of

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truth.

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Jesus said, when the spirit of truth is

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come, John 16, He will lead you into

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all the truth.

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Let's look at that verse.

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John's gospel.

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He's called the spirit of truth.

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And it says here in John 15 and

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verse 26, When the helper comes, whom I

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will send to you, that is the spirit

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of truth who proceeds from the Father.

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And He's gonna come and convict the world

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of sin, etc.

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truth.

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That's also in one of those chapters it

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says.

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Now what is all the truth that the

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Holy Spirit is gonna lead us into?

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First of all, all of the truth of

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God in His word.

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I don't mean truth about whether Christ is

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gonna come before the tribulation or after the

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tribulation.

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That's also truth, but that's not as important

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truth as the truth that helps us to

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be saved from sin.

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Or the truth about whether healing is for

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today or whether all speak in tongues.

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Those are also truths, but they're not as

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important as the truth that saves us from

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sin.

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So there in 2 Thessalonians 2 it says,

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They didn't receive the love of the truth

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so as to be saved.

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Some of these other doctrines, whether women should

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cover their heads or men should not cover

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their heads or whether women should wear ornaments

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or not and whether we should have, wear

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dresses as pastors or be called pastors or

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bishops.

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Well, those are not major truths.

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We're talking about the truth that leads us

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to salvation.

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There are many, many truths in Scripture, but

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here it's talking about the truth that leads

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us to salvation, to be saved from sin.

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The spirit of truth will lead us into

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all the truth.

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In other words, it's possible for us to

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be saved from every known sin.

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Now I may know only 10% of

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my life, but in that 10% I'm

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to be totally saved.

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The other 90%, as little by little as

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God gives light, I can be saved, but

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I can't be saved until I get light

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on something.

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But the point is this, the truth of

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Scripture and the truth concerning myself.

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Now if I don't receive the love of

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the truth, for example, in some particular situation,

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the Lord shows me that I was proud.

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I don't accept it.

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I don't receive the love of the truth.

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The Lord says, you were proud there.

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That's why I didn't give you grace.

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And that's why you fell into sin.

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No, but I don't accept it.

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God says, okay.

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He's not going to force us.

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the truth, we are opening ourselves up to

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the rest of that verse.

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God sends upon them a deceiving influence so

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they believe what is false.

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What will happen to such a man after

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some time?

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I'll tell you.

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He'll believe that he's spiritual when he's not.

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Do you know multitudes of people today in

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the world who think they are baptized in

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the Holy Spirit?

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No, I don't believe one bit they are

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baptized in the Holy Spirit.

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Some of them are the biggest lovers of

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money on the face of the earth.

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How could they be baptized in the Holy

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Spirit?

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But they call themselves pastors, who are spirit

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-filled.

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God has allowed them to believe what is

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false about themselves.

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Do you know the number of people in

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the world who think they are born again?

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Just because they repeated a formula or sat

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in the right church.

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So many people who imagine they are born

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again.

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I'm born again.

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I'm okay.

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God allows them to believe what is false

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because they don't receive the love of the

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truth.

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If you want to marry somebody and you're

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very eager to marry that person, you can

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convince yourself that that person, that boy or

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girl is born again.

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Because you're so keen to marry that person.

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Oh yeah, yeah, he is born again or

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she is born again.

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You don't face up to the truth.