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Welcome to from the pulpit and classic sermons

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too This week we have Carter Conlon with

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his message deal with sin Christ is coming

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deal with sin Christ is coming Deal with

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sin Christ is kind of folks the time

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for fancy titles and fancy messages is over

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It's deal with sin Christ is coming Romans

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chapter 7, please if you'll turn there in

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your Bibles Father I thank you Lord for

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the anointing of the Holy Spirit Lord you

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only ever speak to us for good and

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never for evil God you you want us

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to know peace You want us to know

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freedom and security?

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You said to Jerusalem how I long to

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gather you as a hen would gather her

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chickens under her wings But God the people

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in that season wouldn't come Would you help

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us Lord?

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Do you help us to hear?

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Do you help us to respond?

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Would you help us to know that this

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is love speaking to us?

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Would you help us God?

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Would you help us to get beyond seeing

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your word as an infringement on our daily

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activities Help us God to understand That you

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want to cover us.

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I Pray God that you just give me

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your heart in this you give me the

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power Lord to to go into every prison

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place To make a declaration that this is

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the hour.

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This is the day.

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This is the time of freedom Thank you

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for this God with all my heart Lord

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break every chain of sin in this house

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break the power of evil Break bondages God.

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I'm asking today that you give freedom to

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some who have come into this house and

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are living in despair Saying in their heart.

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Will I ever get free?

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Will I ever know the freedom that the

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Word of God speaks about?

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I pray that that cry be answered Today

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and I ask it in Jesus name Deal

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with sin Christ is coming Romans chapter 7

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Beginning at verse 7 Paul says what shall

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we say then is the law sin God

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forbid Nay, I had not known sin, but

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by the law for I had not known

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lust except the law had said thou shalt

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not covet But sin taking occasion by the

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commandment wrought in me all manner of Concomitants

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for without the law sin was dead For

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I was alive without the law once but

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when the commandment came Sin revived and I

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died and the commandment which was ordained to

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life.

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I found to be unto death for sin

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taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and

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by it slew me Paul Says sin taking

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occasion by the commandment wrought in me all

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manner of Concomitants now, here's what Paul is

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really saying There was a time in your

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life and in mine.

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Let's let's bring it home to where we

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live now There was a time when you

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could lie and not even bat an eye

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about it I'm talking about now there might

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still be some people here that feel that

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way But I'm talking about for the sincere

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Christian there was a time that you could

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have an overnight stand you could lie you

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could go out and get drunk You did

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what you wanted to do.

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You went where you wanted to go.

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There were no pangs of conscience Because you

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were outside of the Word of God.

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You're outside of the boundaries as it is

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that God has written down for acceptable human

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behavior in his sight and then one day

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you either Somebody quoted you the scriptures or

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you you came into the house of God

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room in a drawer somewhere and you began

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to read and you began to understand that

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there is a prescribed way of behavior for

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those who belong to God and This is

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God's writing and as Paul says it was

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ordained to life.

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It was it was to show me the

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way and And many people many sitting here

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today when you first saw the Word of

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God when you first began to read the

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Word of God You were so gladdened in

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your heart and you knew in your heart

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and you said this is what I've longed

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for all my life I've I've longed for

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truth I've wanted to know what the truth

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is And now I've found the truth and

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now I want to walk in the truth

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and I want to live in the truth

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I want to be a man or woman

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of truth.

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And so you set out to read your

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Bible and This is exactly what Paul is

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speaking about in Romans 7.

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He's talking about The entire human condition.

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It's not just his life.

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It's the condition of all people born unto

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this world He says when this law of

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acceptable conduct and behavior given by God himself

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came into my conscience I became aware of

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my corrupt condition and When he says it

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worked in me all men of concupiscence It

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means an awareness of an inward and active

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desires Which are the result of the diseased

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condition of my soul In other words, I

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I became aware that my thoughts are not

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God's thoughts My heart is not God's heart

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my I became aware when when I would

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say something I shouldn't say do you ever

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notice that after you became a Christian?

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You've not gone four feet from your your

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conversation and suddenly this voice in the back

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of your mind is saying Why did you

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say that?

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You know how uncharitable that was or that

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was not completely true Wasn't a lie.

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It was an embellishment, which is really just

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a lie in a tuxedo.

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That's all it is It's a fancy lie

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and So you're walking away and you're you're

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if you are a sincere Christian if you

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are sincerely come to Christ you are now

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aware of there's an inner corruption and Paul

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says it I Was alive without the law

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once I felt I was alive.

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I felt like I Like Peter I got

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up in the morning.

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I addressed myself I went where I wanted

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to go and at the end of the

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day felt quite satisfied about myself before I

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knew the Word of God But when the

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commandment came sin revived and I died In

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the commandment, which I thought was ordained to

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life I found to be unto death for

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sin He says in verse 11 taking occasion

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by the commandment deceived me and slew me

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in other words sin found its strength in

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my personal efforts to make its crooked ways

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straight and The sinful nature in me deceived

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me into thinking that on my own I

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could win this battle a lot of Christians

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get depressed and discouraged they go the End

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up in this very place that Paul speaks

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about I was deceived because of the sin

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in me Into thinking I could change myself

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into thinking I could just read the Bible.

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Okay, and I can do this Only to

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find out I can't do it Only to

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find out that it's it's boundaries as Paul

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says later Even though I delight after the

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Word of God in the inner man.

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There's a death that work inside of me

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There's a corruption in me that I want

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to do it, but I can't find the

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strength Where do I get the strength to

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do the Word of God?

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How do I ever get the victory and

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Many many people who sit in the house

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of God never get beyond this point never

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never get beyond this place where sin is

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actually dealt with Send they make peace with

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sin Remember Jesus said in one of his

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parables.

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He said You have to sit down and

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count the cost of going to war with

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10,000 soldiers against somebody that comes against

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you with 20,000 and if you don't

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fully Understand the battle you'll end up sending

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ambassadors out and you'll make peace with your

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enemy And there are many many people sitting

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in the house of God who have sent

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this Ambassadorship out as it is with sin

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and have made peace with it Well, that's

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just the way I am the devil comes

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and says it's just the way you are

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That's the way he still lies just as

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he did in Eden That's the way it's

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going to be you're never going to change

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you're always going to be in this struggle

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So why don't you just relax?

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Why don't you just accept it and just

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go to church and just raise your hands

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and thank God anyway even though you're not

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living in victory stay in the prison house

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and Pretend that everything is okay shout hallelujah

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sing songs But don't live in victory and

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many many people have made peace with sin

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Paul says eventually I lost heart and all

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hope within me that I would ever change

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Died that's what he's saying in verse 11

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sin taking occasion by the commandment, which is

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the Word of God Deceived me and then

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slew me sin my own sin nature made

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me think I could win the victory and

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So I set out to do it and

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couldn't do it Make all the promises you

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want to God you can't keep them anymore

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than all the New Year's resolutions You kept

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before you came to church You can't keep

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your promises to God neither can I but

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the sin nature will come in and try

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to say you What is the essence of

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the sin nature that you can be as

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God remember?

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Satan come into the Garden of Eden And

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he said to Adam and Eve if you

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partake of what I'm presenting before you you'll

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become just like God And that's the essence

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of the sin nature No, I have the

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power to get out of this.

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I have the power to chart my own

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course I can thank you very much.

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I can set my own destiny and I'll

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get through it and and I'm so thankful

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for the Word of God that tells me

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how I'm supposed to live this thing But

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I'm gonna do it in my own strength

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and that's sin and it's a there's a

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deceptiveness of sin It's sewn in the fabric

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of every person ever born into this world

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And it's that inner nature that fallen nature

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that says I can be as God I

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can be powerful I can get out of

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this I can do this if I just

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try harder if I just read a little

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more if I just pray a little longer

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I Can't get out of this only to

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find out You find it a lot I

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used to travel as a revivalist and you

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find Traveling in churches where some of the

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oldest saints have been in bondage the longest

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they know the scriptures They they've studied they've

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gone to conference after conference listen to tapes.

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They know the Hebrew they know the Greek

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But they know everything but how to get

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out of the prisons of a gossiping tongue

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of a bitter heart the experiences that have

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come and that I've taken up residence within

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them and they can't get out and Eventually

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just simply make peace with it And the

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only way they can look holy from that

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point onward is they have to destroy everything

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around them that looks like it has life

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Genesis chapter 3 tells us that sin finds

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its power in this unsurrendered desire to be

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as God leading us to believe that we're

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free to determine our own course in actions

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and Falsely believing that there'll be no adverse

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consequences from it.

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Remember Satan came to Adam and Eve and

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he said you shall not surely die God

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knows that in the day you eat this

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of thereof your eyes will be open and

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you shall be as God's knowing good and

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evil Oh, you'll be just as God if

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you partake of this fruit, you'll be able

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to chart your own course determine your own

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destiny You'll be able to get out of

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your own prisons Everything that you're supposed to

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be you're going to be Now we're going

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to see the ugliness of sin in Genesis

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chapter 4 verses 6 and 7 this ugliness

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is almost immediately manifested First of all, it

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produces a false covering.

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That's what sin will always do what did

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Adam and Eve do they make coverings of

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fig leaves and attempted to meet with God

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covering their sin as it is and The

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human effort will always cover its sin and

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attempt to meet with God How many have

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come in today with some besetting sin in

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your life something?

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You've got not gotten the victory over but

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you're covering it covering it with a sense

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of holiness You're covering it with a sense

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of I'm worshiping God.

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You're covering it just by a church attendance

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thinking somehow that is sufficient For God But

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it's really the ugliness of sin lies and

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blame come into Nobody's willing to take responsibility

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Adam blames Eve Eve blames the serpent everybody

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now is blaming somebody and that's a sin

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nature you ever notice in society Almost all

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of the corridors now and in our present

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world.

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Everybody is blaming somebody for the mess that

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we're in It's your fault, it's his fault.

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It's her fault.

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It's their fault Everybody's blaming somebody but that's

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the sin nature folks.

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That's what sin does.

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That's how sin manifests itself lies and blame

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And in the first child produced by Adam

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and Eve is a murderer Don't have to

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go very far to see the fruit of

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sin the murderer John 844 Jesus said he

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that means Satan was a murderer from the

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beginning And he says you seek to kill

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me a man which has told you the

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truth and you do the deeds of your

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father other people were so offended because they

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were they were constant attenders at the synagogue

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How dare you say to us that it

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with all of our tradition and all of

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our covering and all of our heritage That

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we're not born of God That we have

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an inner Problem and this problem is going

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to lead us to try to actually kill

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the Son of God himself The Messiah who's

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come into our midst Cain when he had

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his first encounter with God had a fallen

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countenance.

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He was dealing with a feeling of rejection

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He had an inner hatred of his brother,

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which was born of envy which would eventually

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lead to murder in Verse 9 of Genesis

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4 he had an arrogance even against God

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God came to him and said where is

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your brother?

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And he said well, how do I know

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my my brother's keeper?

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You can just see the arrogance in the

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heart of men If God were to even

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come into this sanctuary today and say to

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us, where's your brother?

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What are you doing to help your brother?

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What are you doing to alleviate human suffering

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in the world?

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What are you doing for the widow and

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the orphan the oppressed and the addicted?

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How is your life making a difference and

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you'll find that sin will produce an arrogance

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even against God.

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Hey Listen, you're God.

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I'm not You should if you don't know

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where he is then don't ask me I

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have no idea where he is If I

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might have I been planted on this earth

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to look after my brother That's a question

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that you and I need to ask ourselves

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because the answer obviously is yes That's why

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as a church we've been left in the

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world Then he says if you don't do

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well sin is lying at the door if

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it's not going well For people who've come

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into this sanctuary today if it's not going

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well for you right now If you're troubled

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on the inside If you're dealing with envy

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on the job if you're having a hard

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time to be honest in your finances If

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you're if you're if you're dealing with issues

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in the heart God comes to Cain and

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his mercy and he says if you're not

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doing well sin is lying at the door

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In other words sin is waiting to accompany

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you through your day lying at the door

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Waiting at your doorstep sleeping there.

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Good morning You get up and let's go

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the office let's hate everybody together Let's get

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out the books and let's falsify the financial

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records.

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Let's do it together.

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So sin goes with you Waiting at the

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door if you're not doing well sin is

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at the door folks Going in and the

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conscience all day is bothered because you're in

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Conversations you're doing things you're in relationships.

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You're in places that you know are not

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right and that you come home And there's

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sin lying at the door when you get

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home saying come on in come on in.

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Let's sit down I've got some comfort for

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you Some of its in the refrigerator put

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in the glass and then let's go to

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the internet and have a look there And

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there's some things on the internet that are

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going to comfort you Sin lies at the

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door goes out with you in the morning

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and is waiting for you to come home

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again at night But then the Lord says

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something very strange to Cain He says but

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and it shall desire to be your master,

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but you shall have the mastery over it

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now He's not talking to Cain because Cain

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from after that verse murders his brother, but

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he's talking about to humanity itself Sin will

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desire to master you but you shall have

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the master over it You're not under the

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dominion of sin any longer when you've come

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to Jesus Christ Now again in Romans chapter

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7 Paul Continues on to speak of this

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power of sin in verse 14 He says

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for for we know that the law is

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spiritual, but I am carnal sold under sin

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For that which I do I allow not

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for that which I would that do I

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not but what I hate that I do

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If then I do that which I would

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not I Consent to the law that it

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is good Now then it's no more I

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that do it But sin that dwells in

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me for I know that in me that

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is in my flesh dwells For to will

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is present with me but how to perform

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that which is good I find not now

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if I were to ask for a show

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of hands today I think this this this

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is a verse that many here are familiar

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with if you're willing to be honest with

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God You say I know what to do,

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but I don't know how to find the

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power to do it I know I shouldn't

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be doing what I'm doing and I know

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I should be doing Paul says what I'm

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not doing But where do I find the

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power to do this for the good verse

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19 that I would I do not but

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the evil that I would Not that I

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do Now if I do that which I

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would not it's no more I that do

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it But sin that dwells in me now

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Paul is not abdicating himself of the blame

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He's just saying basically it's if there's a

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there's a power at work in me That

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is stronger than my own will no matter

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how hard I try I can't get out

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of this struggle.

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I Find in a law that when I

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would do good evil is present with me

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verse 22 says for I delight in the

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law of God after the inward man, but

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I see another law in my members warring

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against the law of my mind and Bringing

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me to captivity to the law of sin,

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which is in my members Oh wretched man

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that I am who shall deliver me from

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the body of this death Thank God for

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verse 25 Because we've just gone through almost

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a whole chapter of how do I do

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this?

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And he finally says I thank God through

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Jesus Christ Our Lord, that's all we really

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have to say even from that verse.

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I Thank God now go to Job, please

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chapter 41 And I know you're wondering how

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in the world does Job have anything to

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do with what we're talking about You'll see

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that in a moment Now God in Job

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41 is speaking directly to a man Going

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through a terrible personal battle And he gives

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him a description which I believe is a

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veiled description of the the battle the ferocity

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of the battle That all men face and

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then he leads them to the only remedy

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now I personally believe and this is my

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belief you're free to acknowledge or reject it,

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but I believe you're going to see You're

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going to see sin Satan and the Savior

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in these verses of Scripture There's a veiled

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reference to what is really the center core

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because you remember remember Job Doesn't understand why

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the battle is going on all around him.

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He doesn't understand why distress has come into

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his life He he has tried in himself

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to be righteous He's believed that he's walked

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a holy walk, and he doesn't understand why

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all of this is going on around him

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now The Lord unveils to him as much

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as his mind is able to comprehend Another

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battle much greater than his own and folks

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no matter what we're going through there is

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another battle Fought in a whole different arena

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much greater than our own and there has

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been an incredible victory.

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This is where we're going today Now verse

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40 chapter 41.

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He's talking about us a sea monster really

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Leviathan and some say it's an elephant some

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say it's a huge Prehistoric crocodile, let's just

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say it's a sea monster for lack of

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a better Understanding now.

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Here's what he says to him Can you

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draw out Leviathan with a hook or his

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tongue with a cord which you let down

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in other words?

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Can you tame this beast?

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Can you tame this thing that is unconquerable?

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There's there's no man alive that has the

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power in other words He's saying very clearly

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do you have the power to subdue this

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now?

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We're talking still in the context of Romans

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7 so try to draw the two together

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if you can Can you put a hook

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into his nose or bore his jaw through

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with a thorn?

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Will he make many supplications to you will

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he speak soft words to you now think

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about the contrast between sin Satan and The

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Savior and Christ himself now Satan will not

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speak softly to you except to deceive you

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and will condemn you What's once you've come

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to Christ his voice will rise against you

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almost every day and condemn you he is

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the condemner He will not come to you

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with soft words.

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He'll not come to you saying this is

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the way out This is the path walk

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in it.

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He'll come and say give up hopeless.

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You failed God God's angry with you Why

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would God put up with you?

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Why will God deal with you?

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Why would God even endure you one more

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day?

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Look at your failings.

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Look at your sin.

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Look at your their struggle That's in your

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life.

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Why would God want any part of you?

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And that's why he says will he make

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supplications to you verse 3 will he speak

540
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:05,280
soft words to you?

541
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Will he make a covenant with you?

542
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,740
First four or will you take him for

543
00:22:10,740 --> 00:22:11,640
a servant forever?

544
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Think of Christ.

545
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,840
He made a covenant With the Father and

546
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,000
we are in that covenant because because of

547
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,640
faith in his atoning work on Calvary Will

548
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:22,800
he make a covenant with you?

549
00:22:22,820 --> 00:22:25,380
He's talking about this sea monster as it

550
00:22:25,380 --> 00:22:27,400
is Will you take him for a servant?

551
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,380
Remember the Son of Man did not come

552
00:22:29,380 --> 00:22:32,500
to be served but to serve the greatest

553
00:22:32,500 --> 00:22:32,960
among you.

554
00:22:33,060 --> 00:22:35,900
He said will be your servant Will you

555
00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:37,240
play with him as with a bird?

556
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,980
Think about when Jesus Christ was brought into

557
00:22:40,980 --> 00:22:43,980
the court of judgment and when people were

558
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slapping his face and they were mocking him

559
00:22:46,580 --> 00:22:48,260
and they were Put a robe on him

560
00:22:48,260 --> 00:22:49,920
and ripped the robe off and they would

561
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,320
walk around them and say prophesy to us

562
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,620
without Christ Who is it that smote thee?

563
00:22:55,180 --> 00:22:57,340
He says will you play with him as

564
00:22:57,340 --> 00:22:59,200
with a bird or will you bind him

565
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:00,100
for your maidens?

566
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,080
remember as he was heading to Calvary the

567
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:07,960
women in Jerusalem weeping and crying and Will

568
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,380
you when he says will you bind him

569
00:23:09,380 --> 00:23:10,120
for your maidens?

570
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,240
Shall the companions make a banquet of him?

571
00:23:13,860 --> 00:23:15,480
Shall they part him among the merchants?

572
00:23:16,180 --> 00:23:18,000
Think about Jesus on the cross and what

573
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,820
did they do with his last remaining earthly

574
00:23:19,820 --> 00:23:20,520
possessions?

575
00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:22,680
Did they not make merchandise of it that

576
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the soldiers not gamble for it?

577
00:23:24,900 --> 00:23:28,740
He's talking now about the contrast Can you

578
00:23:28,740 --> 00:23:31,540
fill his skin with barbed irons or his

579
00:23:31,540 --> 00:23:32,600
head with fish spears?

580
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,560
Think of the pointed thorns that were pressed

581
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,900
into the head of Christ and the barbed

582
00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:39,480
irons that were put through his hands and

583
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:40,140
through His feet.

584
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I don't have any doubt about what this

585
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,060
is speaking about He's talking about the power

586
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of evil itself and where evil originated from

587
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in the Garden of Eden You have to

588
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keep in mind folks that God has never

589
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changed his mind all the way through the

590
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,580
Scriptures He lost that which was created in

591
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his image in Eden and it's been in

592
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his heart all the way through the Scriptures

593
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to get Mankind back again.

594
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He's not he's not just randomly speaking for

595
00:24:03,820 --> 00:24:04,420
the fun of it.

596
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,980
He's never lost sight of the goal He's

597
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never lost sight of what this was about

598
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That he was going to come as a

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man into the earth walk among us for

600
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33 years He was going to go to

601
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a cross God was going to go to

602
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a cross all-powerful.

603
00:24:17,620 --> 00:24:21,140
God Was going to be crucified mocked among

604
00:24:21,140 --> 00:24:22,880
men He was going to be made a

605
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,020
banquet of maidens were going to laugh and

606
00:24:25,020 --> 00:24:27,340
dance As the God who created the universe

607
00:24:27,340 --> 00:24:29,960
was taken to a cross Failing to understand

608
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he was dying to break the power of

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sin and the penalty of sin off of

610
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those who had trusted him Can you fill

611
00:24:36,660 --> 00:24:38,560
his skin with barbed irons verse 7 or

612
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his head with fish spears?

613
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Lay your hand upon him Remember the battle

614
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and do no more.

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That's verse 8 says remember the battle the

616
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in other words the power There are the

617
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possibility of conquering evil in your own strength

618
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Cannot be done Look at the strength of

619
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your adversary lay your hand upon him.

620
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He says and do no more Behold the

621
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hope of him or the hope of conquering

622
00:25:08,540 --> 00:25:11,080
him is in vain Shall not one be

623
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cast down even at the sight of him?

624
00:25:13,220 --> 00:25:16,340
None is so fierce that dares stir him

625
00:25:16,340 --> 00:25:19,820
up You know, we make a grievous error

626
00:25:19,820 --> 00:25:22,880
when we misunderstand the power of our enemy

627
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,420
You remember Jude?

628
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,200
I believe it is He said there's there's

629
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a perverse people in the last days even

630
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,720
they will they will rail against darkness But

631
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,720
they don't know what they're talking about.

632
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,720
They don't understand the power of what they're

633
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,440
railing against Then he gives the the key

634
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,680
right at the end of verse 10 who

635
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:47,760
then is able to stand before me He

636
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,780
said if this is the power that you've

637
00:25:50,780 --> 00:25:53,380
been set out to defeat if this is

638
00:25:53,380 --> 00:25:56,260
where the victory needs to be won The

639
00:25:56,260 --> 00:25:59,220
only hope is me The only power greater

640
00:25:59,220 --> 00:25:59,920
than this is me.

641
00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:02,040
He's saying it very very clearly I am

642
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,300
the only one that no one else can

643
00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:07,640
stand up against I'm the God who formed

644
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,780
the universe and put the stars into the

645
00:26:09,780 --> 00:26:12,980
heavens I spoke everything to existence by the

646
00:26:12,980 --> 00:26:15,260
word of my mouth I looked down at

647
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some dust in the ground and formed it

648
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,640
together with my hands and breathed into it

649
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,980
and it became a living soul I Tell

650
00:26:21,980 --> 00:26:23,800
the Sun to stand still and it stands

651
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,860
still I can I can stop the laws

652
00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:27,620
of gravity for a man like Joshua in

653
00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:29,040
The midst of a battle to prove that

654
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:36,590
I am God God could have folded the

655
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universe as he will one day the scripture

656
00:26:38,230 --> 00:26:40,330
tells us clearly one day He's going to

657
00:26:40,330 --> 00:26:42,430
fold the whole universe and he's going to

658
00:26:42,430 --> 00:26:45,850
remake the heavens and remake the earth And

659
00:26:45,850 --> 00:26:48,030
so I've asked myself the question over the

660
00:26:48,030 --> 00:26:49,850
years especially as the young Christian God if

661
00:26:49,850 --> 00:26:51,590
you're going to do that one day Why

662
00:26:51,590 --> 00:26:53,270
didn't you do it back then?

663
00:26:53,970 --> 00:26:55,910
When Adam and Eve sinned and you knew

664
00:26:55,910 --> 00:26:58,410
that the course of humankind was going to

665
00:26:58,410 --> 00:27:01,070
walk in rebellion Against you when you knew

666
00:27:01,070 --> 00:27:04,710
that men were going to create devices and

667
00:27:04,710 --> 00:27:07,610
inventions and eventually just destroy themselves should you

668
00:27:07,610 --> 00:27:09,710
not intervene when you knew that all creation

669
00:27:09,710 --> 00:27:12,430
was going to suffer as Romans says because

670
00:27:12,430 --> 00:27:15,170
of sin that would bear down and bring

671
00:27:15,170 --> 00:27:16,470
the weight of evil as it is even

672
00:27:16,470 --> 00:27:20,790
creation itself That's why nature's out of balance.

673
00:27:20,850 --> 00:27:22,750
That's that's why animals are suffering.

674
00:27:22,870 --> 00:27:24,510
That's why things in the sea are dying

675
00:27:24,510 --> 00:27:27,590
the whole of creation Suffers because of the

676
00:27:27,590 --> 00:27:29,430
weight of sin that's in the hearts of

677
00:27:29,430 --> 00:27:31,950
men My question to the Lord has been

678
00:27:31,950 --> 00:27:34,510
then God why didn't you just fold it

679
00:27:34,510 --> 00:27:36,530
all just recreate it in the beginning?

680
00:27:36,530 --> 00:27:38,890
Why allow all of this suffering and misery

681
00:27:38,890 --> 00:27:41,110
and the Lord says because I saw you

682
00:27:41,110 --> 00:27:44,450
through the corridors of time I saw you

683
00:27:44,450 --> 00:27:46,130
that's what the Lord's saying to you today.

684
00:27:46,150 --> 00:27:50,270
I saw you And to fold it then

685
00:27:50,270 --> 00:27:52,010
would have meant I would have lost you

686
00:27:52,010 --> 00:27:54,850
for all of eternity I Saw you you

687
00:27:54,850 --> 00:27:55,850
were in the loins of Adam.

688
00:27:55,890 --> 00:27:58,070
I saw you I knew you You're not

689
00:27:58,070 --> 00:28:00,490
a happenstance in this world my brother my

690
00:28:00,490 --> 00:28:02,670
sister You're I don't care if your parents

691
00:28:02,670 --> 00:28:04,430
were married or not married You're not in

692
00:28:04,430 --> 00:28:06,350
this world apart from the permission of God

693
00:28:06,350 --> 00:28:15,930
God says I saw you God so loved

694
00:28:15,930 --> 00:28:17,830
the world that he gave his only begotten

695
00:28:17,830 --> 00:28:20,830
son Not just the generic planet with its

696
00:28:20,830 --> 00:28:22,410
seas and birds and fish.

697
00:28:22,530 --> 00:28:23,570
That's not the world.

698
00:28:23,670 --> 00:28:26,090
It was you he loved God so loved

699
00:28:26,090 --> 00:28:29,190
the world you and me that he gave

700
00:28:29,190 --> 00:28:31,210
his only begotten son that whoever believes in

701
00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:34,110
him should not perish But have everlasting life

702
00:28:35,350 --> 00:28:38,130
Every thorn that Satan pushed down into the

703
00:28:38,130 --> 00:28:40,950
brow of Christ I can see him saying

704
00:28:40,950 --> 00:28:42,910
is it worth it is it worth it

705
00:28:42,910 --> 00:28:45,190
is it worth the suffering and Jesus in

706
00:28:45,190 --> 00:28:45,690
his heart saying?

707
00:28:45,890 --> 00:28:46,790
Oh, yes, it's worth it.

708
00:28:46,870 --> 00:28:49,110
Oh, yes looking down the corridors of time.

709
00:28:49,290 --> 00:28:50,090
Thank God.

710
00:28:50,230 --> 00:28:51,150
Thank God.

711
00:28:51,190 --> 00:28:54,210
He saw me He saw you thank God.

712
00:28:54,310 --> 00:28:55,290
We'd be without hope.

713
00:28:55,570 --> 00:28:57,130
Oh, yes, it's worth it.

714
00:28:57,130 --> 00:29:04,170
Oh, yes, it's worth it I Say 53

715
00:29:04,170 --> 00:29:07,250
tells us the Lord laid upon him the

716
00:29:07,250 --> 00:29:10,190
iniquity of us all He was wounded and

717
00:29:10,190 --> 00:29:14,090
bruised despised and rejected You see him tied

718
00:29:14,090 --> 00:29:15,970
to a whipping post with a cat of

719
00:29:15,970 --> 00:29:19,030
nine tails with a Roman guard probably getting

720
00:29:19,030 --> 00:29:21,190
a lot of perverse pleasure out of what

721
00:29:21,190 --> 00:29:23,270
he was doing to the Son of God

722
00:29:23,270 --> 00:29:26,210
and when those Stones attached or pieces of

723
00:29:26,210 --> 00:29:28,330
glass attached to the end of those whips

724
00:29:28,330 --> 00:29:30,030
would hit his flesh It would tear it

725
00:29:30,030 --> 00:29:30,230
out.

726
00:29:30,350 --> 00:29:32,770
Literally when he pulled it back 39 times

727
00:29:32,770 --> 00:29:35,130
and Satan be standing there saying is it

728
00:29:35,130 --> 00:29:35,750
worth it?

729
00:29:35,970 --> 00:29:36,670
Is it worth it?

730
00:29:36,750 --> 00:29:38,190
Oh, yes, it's worth it.

731
00:29:38,210 --> 00:29:40,910
Oh, yes, it's worth it for my bride

732
00:29:40,910 --> 00:29:42,070
my church for you.

733
00:29:42,110 --> 00:29:46,310
It's worth it And every time that cord

734
00:29:46,310 --> 00:29:49,290
every time somebody slapped his face every thorn

735
00:29:49,290 --> 00:29:51,190
that was pushed into his brow every nail

736
00:29:51,190 --> 00:29:52,890
That went into his feet and into his

737
00:29:52,890 --> 00:29:57,310
hands Everything was done for your name for

738
00:29:57,310 --> 00:29:59,290
your punishment to pay for your healing and

739
00:29:59,290 --> 00:30:03,170
for your future And when he came to

740
00:30:03,170 --> 00:30:07,230
his final breath, he finally said it is

741
00:30:07,230 --> 00:30:10,290
finished It's finished father.

742
00:30:10,330 --> 00:30:11,150
I've done the work.

743
00:30:11,170 --> 00:30:12,770
I've broken the curse of sin.

744
00:30:12,870 --> 00:30:21,270
It's finished It's not something I have to

745
00:30:21,270 --> 00:30:24,790
do it's something he did for me Jesus

746
00:30:24,790 --> 00:30:27,810
died for my sin Jesus broke the power

747
00:30:27,810 --> 00:30:30,090
of my sin And paid the penalty of

748
00:30:30,090 --> 00:30:32,790
my sin won the total victory when he

749
00:30:32,790 --> 00:30:34,870
was raised on the third day from the

750
00:30:34,870 --> 00:30:36,930
dead I was raised with him.

751
00:30:37,030 --> 00:30:37,890
You were raised with him.

752
00:30:37,950 --> 00:30:39,470
We now sit at the right hand of

753
00:30:39,470 --> 00:30:43,890
God in Jesus Christ And that full victory

754
00:30:43,890 --> 00:30:46,250
that he won is now mine The good

755
00:30:46,250 --> 00:30:47,950
news of this is I'm not called in

756
00:30:47,950 --> 00:30:50,410
my own strength to win any victory anymore

757
00:30:50,410 --> 00:30:52,510
I'm called to believe that the victory is

758
00:30:52,510 --> 00:30:54,970
mine through Christ and then in that faith

759
00:30:54,970 --> 00:30:56,930
Just put one foot in front of the

760
00:30:56,930 --> 00:30:59,670
other and keep on walking Hallelujah to the

761
00:30:59,670 --> 00:31:06,570
Lamb of God As I was preparing this

762
00:31:06,570 --> 00:31:09,110
message I was thinking about the the first

763
00:31:09,110 --> 00:31:13,630
coming of Christ John the Baptist was raised

764
00:31:13,630 --> 00:31:14,070
up now.

765
00:31:14,110 --> 00:31:17,150
John was a voice And I do believe

766
00:31:17,730 --> 00:31:19,590
That that same voice is going to be

767
00:31:19,590 --> 00:31:21,150
heard in the world and probably is being

768
00:31:21,150 --> 00:31:23,930
heard throughout the world today John the Baptist

769
00:31:23,930 --> 00:31:25,910
was a type of a ministry type of

770
00:31:25,910 --> 00:31:27,590
a cry from the heart of God in

771
00:31:28,610 --> 00:31:30,410
multiplicities of places although it was only in

772
00:31:30,410 --> 00:31:32,290
one at that time would be all over

773
00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:35,950
the world today and John was Sent to

774
00:31:35,950 --> 00:31:38,550
prepare a way and he called to the

775
00:31:38,550 --> 00:31:38,870
people.

776
00:31:39,030 --> 00:31:41,530
What was his message turn from your sin?

777
00:31:42,630 --> 00:31:46,510
Make your crooked ways straight Let every lofty

778
00:31:46,510 --> 00:31:48,130
place all the pride of the human heart

779
00:31:48,130 --> 00:31:51,250
let it be brought down but let every

780
00:31:51,250 --> 00:31:54,130
man woman acknowledge that My ways are not

781
00:31:54,130 --> 00:31:55,650
God's and I can't get through this in

782
00:31:55,650 --> 00:31:57,550
my own strength And he said let every

783
00:31:57,550 --> 00:31:59,950
valley be lifted up in other words Every

784
00:31:59,950 --> 00:32:02,230
person who's come in and you've you're so

785
00:32:02,230 --> 00:32:05,290
under the weight of what you're fighting that

786
00:32:05,290 --> 00:32:07,850
you've lost heart God says let me lift

787
00:32:07,850 --> 00:32:08,110
you up.

788
00:32:08,190 --> 00:32:09,950
I am your glory and I'm the lifter

789
00:32:09,950 --> 00:32:10,450
of your head.

790
00:32:10,950 --> 00:32:12,970
Let me lift you up Let me give

791
00:32:12,970 --> 00:32:15,970
you the victory that you need And then

792
00:32:15,970 --> 00:32:18,090
he went to the religious and he said

793
00:32:18,090 --> 00:32:19,910
who warned you to flee from the wrath

794
00:32:19,910 --> 00:32:22,650
to come He said every tree that does

795
00:32:22,650 --> 00:32:24,910
not bring forth fruit is going to be

796
00:32:24,910 --> 00:32:27,630
hewn down and cast into the fire He

797
00:32:27,630 --> 00:32:29,810
said I baptize with water, but there's coming

798
00:32:29,810 --> 00:32:32,550
one after me Whose fan is in his

799
00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:32,890
hand.

800
00:32:32,930 --> 00:32:34,990
He's going to thoroughly purge his threshing floor

801
00:32:34,990 --> 00:32:36,850
He's going to gather the wheat to himself,

802
00:32:36,990 --> 00:32:39,410
but the the empty chaff that means those

803
00:32:39,410 --> 00:32:41,450
that are empty There's nothing of God inside

804
00:32:41,450 --> 00:32:43,130
of them are going to be pushed aside

805
00:32:43,130 --> 00:32:46,330
and put into unquenchable fire He said but

806
00:32:46,330 --> 00:32:47,950
he's going to come with his fan in

807
00:32:47,950 --> 00:32:49,550
his hand He's going to baptize with the

808
00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:51,950
Holy Ghost and with fire now fire to

809
00:32:51,950 --> 00:32:53,570
burn out and it's God's fire.

810
00:32:53,670 --> 00:32:56,570
It's not mine That fire of transformation and

811
00:32:56,570 --> 00:32:58,930
that power to be a witness of the

812
00:32:58,930 --> 00:33:02,430
living reality that Jesus Christ is alive in

813
00:33:02,430 --> 00:33:06,770
my generation Many people were being baptized In

814
00:33:06,770 --> 00:33:08,290
other words, they were putting off the old

815
00:33:08,290 --> 00:33:10,010
way of living and trusting in the mercy

816
00:33:10,010 --> 00:33:12,330
of God for their future They were coming

817
00:33:12,330 --> 00:33:14,790
there was a there would be a stream

818
00:33:14,790 --> 00:33:18,330
of people Coming being baptized and of course,

819
00:33:18,450 --> 00:33:19,670
I don't have time to get into it

820
00:33:19,670 --> 00:33:22,710
was it was John's baptism But it was

821
00:33:22,710 --> 00:33:25,690
a baptism of repentance It was a baptism

822
00:33:25,690 --> 00:33:27,670
of saying my ways are not right and

823
00:33:27,670 --> 00:33:29,570
folks This came to the most religious people

824
00:33:29,570 --> 00:33:32,050
in the world of that day This message

825
00:33:32,050 --> 00:33:35,110
and many people and ironically they weren't the

826
00:33:35,110 --> 00:33:37,150
most religious quite often They were the ones

827
00:33:37,150 --> 00:33:40,210
that were the biggest strugglers in all of

828
00:33:40,210 --> 00:33:43,530
that time And they came to John and

829
00:33:43,530 --> 00:33:46,830
there's a stream of them being baptized There's

830
00:33:46,830 --> 00:33:49,710
there's this this cry in the heart God.

831
00:33:50,110 --> 00:33:51,690
I want to live for you.

832
00:33:52,250 --> 00:33:53,770
I Want to live for God?

833
00:33:54,230 --> 00:33:56,570
I want my life to represent God.

834
00:33:57,690 --> 00:34:00,130
I Want the freedom of God that's available

835
00:34:00,130 --> 00:34:02,730
to all men and women be No to

836
00:34:02,730 --> 00:34:04,990
be known through me and it was in

837
00:34:04,990 --> 00:34:06,670
the midst of these baptisms and there's just

838
00:34:06,670 --> 00:34:10,630
a flood now that the religious were highly

839
00:34:10,630 --> 00:34:14,190
offended at this because they had another sense

840
00:34:14,190 --> 00:34:17,270
of righteousness through their own works and they

841
00:34:17,270 --> 00:34:19,690
were offended at the simplicity of John's message

842
00:34:19,690 --> 00:34:22,929
and The volumes of people that were responding

843
00:34:22,929 --> 00:34:25,429
to it But in the midst of it

844
00:34:25,429 --> 00:34:29,449
all Jesus appears What a day that must

845
00:34:29,449 --> 00:34:32,250
have been when and John said behold the

846
00:34:32,250 --> 00:34:36,510
Lamb of God And I believe With all

847
00:34:36,510 --> 00:34:37,050
my heart.

848
00:34:37,870 --> 00:34:39,650
I See it in the scriptures that there

849
00:34:39,650 --> 00:34:41,590
will be a similar message in the last

850
00:34:41,590 --> 00:34:44,730
days Malachi speaks of it in his last

851
00:34:44,730 --> 00:34:45,110
chapter.

852
00:34:45,210 --> 00:34:48,610
He said Elijah will come that's that's that

853
00:34:48,610 --> 00:34:53,090
voice as it is Elias which Christ said

854
00:34:53,090 --> 00:34:56,250
was John and Will turn the hearts of

855
00:34:56,250 --> 00:34:57,950
the fathers to the children the children to

856
00:34:57,950 --> 00:35:01,230
their fathers There will be this turning back

857
00:35:01,230 --> 00:35:03,710
to God is turning back to truth in

858
00:35:03,710 --> 00:35:06,630
our last days But I believe it culminates

859
00:35:06,630 --> 00:35:08,450
with behold the bridegroom.

860
00:35:09,650 --> 00:35:12,070
I Believe with all my heart something that

861
00:35:12,070 --> 00:35:15,530
God is speaking to me It's time folks

862
00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:20,070
to deal with sin Christ is coming It's

863
00:35:20,070 --> 00:35:22,350
time now that was what John had to

864
00:35:22,350 --> 00:35:24,630
say deal with sin folks the Messiah is

865
00:35:24,630 --> 00:35:28,510
coming and Malachi said that voice should be

866
00:35:28,510 --> 00:35:30,790
raised again Now it's going to be it

867
00:35:30,790 --> 00:35:32,470
was just one person and John better be

868
00:35:32,470 --> 00:35:34,890
a multiplicity of persons in our generation But

869
00:35:34,890 --> 00:35:37,350
it would be birth of the Spirit deal

870
00:35:37,350 --> 00:35:39,650
with sin Christ is coming.

871
00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:41,570
You don't need to play games when the

872
00:35:41,570 --> 00:35:43,410
power of God is here for you to

873
00:35:43,410 --> 00:35:45,210
live a new life But you have to

874
00:35:45,210 --> 00:35:47,430
make this step we all do I'm saying

875
00:35:47,430 --> 00:35:49,850
I'm not living this way anymore I'm not

876
00:35:49,850 --> 00:35:54,010
doing this anymore you've got Get some gravel

877
00:35:54,010 --> 00:35:55,170
in your gut for lack of a better

878
00:35:55,170 --> 00:35:57,530
way of saying it and say My part

879
00:35:57,530 --> 00:35:59,250
is to form the intent to not want

880
00:35:59,250 --> 00:36:00,570
to live this way.

881
00:36:00,710 --> 00:36:02,470
God's part is to give me the power

882
00:36:03,010 --> 00:36:06,350
To make that a reality But I have

883
00:36:06,350 --> 00:36:10,410
to form the intent Christ is coming.

884
00:36:10,950 --> 00:36:11,910
Christ is coming.

885
00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:14,030
Do you realize it folks?

886
00:36:14,750 --> 00:36:18,690
Christ is coming You fully understand the hour

887
00:36:18,690 --> 00:36:21,510
we're living in right now Do you know

888
00:36:21,510 --> 00:36:23,390
why in five nations are on the verge

889
00:36:23,390 --> 00:36:24,080
of failing in?

890
00:36:25,130 --> 00:36:27,330
Europe and the whole of the European currency

891
00:36:27,330 --> 00:36:31,790
is in jeopardy right now anybody who's been

892
00:36:31,790 --> 00:36:35,930
following the The health debate recently you saw

893
00:36:35,930 --> 00:36:37,110
the leaders of this country.

894
00:36:37,630 --> 00:36:39,770
They could only agree on one thing we're

895
00:36:39,770 --> 00:36:43,950
broke For real we're broke as a nation

896
00:36:44,110 --> 00:36:46,130
That seemed to be the only and the

897
00:36:46,130 --> 00:36:49,550
Bible speaks of a perplexities Men can analyze

898
00:36:49,550 --> 00:36:51,270
the problem women can analyze the problem, but

899
00:36:51,270 --> 00:36:52,610
they don't know what to do about it

900
00:36:52,610 --> 00:36:54,490
They cannot agree on a course forward.

901
00:36:54,770 --> 00:36:57,030
It's a perplexity of nations that we're living

902
00:36:57,030 --> 00:37:02,030
in right now Iran has a dictator About

903
00:37:02,030 --> 00:37:04,890
to take over the country They're on the

904
00:37:04,890 --> 00:37:06,030
verge of a military coup.

905
00:37:06,110 --> 00:37:08,330
It's not even it's not even new it's

906
00:37:08,330 --> 00:37:09,910
been known for some time It's just that

907
00:37:09,910 --> 00:37:11,690
our media is picking up on it since

908
00:37:11,690 --> 00:37:13,570
the Secretary of State has made it public

909
00:37:14,670 --> 00:37:17,490
Iran with a president who considers it his

910
00:37:17,490 --> 00:37:19,530
messianic duty to create chaos in the world

911
00:37:19,530 --> 00:37:23,570
and is pushing fiercely ahead to get nuclear

912
00:37:23,570 --> 00:37:26,650
weaponry That's the hour we're living in right

913
00:37:26,650 --> 00:37:30,630
now earthquakes Tidal waves as the scripture says

914
00:37:30,630 --> 00:37:33,270
in Matthew chapter 24 if you're not aware

915
00:37:33,270 --> 00:37:36,430
of where we're living now It's time now

916
00:37:36,430 --> 00:37:39,530
to deal with sin Remember the foolish virgins.

917
00:37:39,670 --> 00:37:41,310
They just didn't they had no oil they

918
00:37:41,310 --> 00:37:42,830
had no life of God They had no

919
00:37:42,830 --> 00:37:45,010
power that did nothing of God in them.

920
00:37:45,070 --> 00:37:46,670
They had a religiousness, but their lamps were

921
00:37:46,670 --> 00:37:47,030
out.

922
00:37:47,930 --> 00:37:50,050
Oh Beloved Oh beloved.

923
00:37:50,130 --> 00:37:52,510
Would you please hear me this morning Christ

924
00:37:52,510 --> 00:37:56,910
is coming Christ is coming Christ is coming

925
00:38:02,690 --> 00:38:05,670
In John's day in John's day it took

926
00:38:05,670 --> 00:38:07,790
courage because to get up and do what

927
00:38:07,790 --> 00:38:09,910
John was asking them to do meant to

928
00:38:11,110 --> 00:38:13,570
Invoke the ire of the entire religious system,

929
00:38:13,650 --> 00:38:17,810
but the people didn't care They there were

930
00:38:17,810 --> 00:38:19,870
they just didn't care anymore They'd had enough

931
00:38:19,870 --> 00:38:22,190
of the struggle and they just said we're

932
00:38:22,190 --> 00:38:22,950
going with God.

933
00:38:23,290 --> 00:38:25,270
I want to give you a promise today

934
00:38:25,710 --> 00:38:28,390
If you have the courage to turn from

935
00:38:28,390 --> 00:38:31,790
sin The very first thing that will have

936
00:38:31,790 --> 00:38:34,290
you walk in obedience, that's what baptism speaks

937
00:38:34,290 --> 00:38:35,910
about it's not my life It's the life

938
00:38:35,910 --> 00:38:38,170
of God in me The next thing that

939
00:38:38,170 --> 00:38:39,870
will happen is you will begin to see

940
00:38:39,870 --> 00:38:42,930
Christ There be something that opens to you

941
00:38:42,930 --> 00:38:45,850
you'll see him you'll no longer be distant

942
00:38:45,850 --> 00:38:48,170
You'll hear that voice and it will be

943
00:38:48,170 --> 00:38:50,190
God speaking to you behold the Lamb of

944
00:38:50,190 --> 00:38:52,750
God You begin to see him in every

945
00:38:52,750 --> 00:38:54,870
book of the Bible his promises begin to

946
00:38:54,870 --> 00:38:56,810
be real and just like the people on

947
00:38:56,810 --> 00:38:58,370
the road To a mess your heart will

948
00:38:58,370 --> 00:39:01,070
begin to burn Oh God no longer be

949
00:39:01,070 --> 00:39:03,170
just boring in the house of the Lord

950
00:39:03,170 --> 00:39:05,490
no longer reading the Bible and condemned But

951
00:39:05,490 --> 00:39:07,930
reading it reading the Bible with Oh Lord.

952
00:39:07,990 --> 00:39:09,350
I can hardly wait for tomorrow what you're

953
00:39:09,350 --> 00:39:10,810
gonna do in my life again I can

954
00:39:10,810 --> 00:39:13,490
hardly wait for the The changes that are

955
00:39:13,490 --> 00:39:15,470
going to come into my life the victories

956
00:39:15,470 --> 00:39:16,830
that are going to be given to me

957
00:39:16,830 --> 00:39:19,490
the giftings of God That Lord I just

958
00:39:19,490 --> 00:39:21,090
invite you I've seen what you can do

959
00:39:21,090 --> 00:39:23,630
Lord I just invite you to be God

960
00:39:23,630 --> 00:39:25,430
in me take me farther than I could

961
00:39:25,430 --> 00:39:28,290
ever go Lord Let your name be glorified

962
00:39:28,290 --> 00:39:30,350
through this this frail human vessel.

963
00:39:30,950 --> 00:39:32,690
That's that's all that we are any of

964
00:39:32,690 --> 00:39:34,330
us We're just frail human vessels.

965
00:39:34,390 --> 00:39:35,510
I don't really care if you have an

966
00:39:35,510 --> 00:39:38,350
education or no education You're all on everyone's

967
00:39:38,350 --> 00:39:40,470
on the same ground in Christ the ground

968
00:39:40,470 --> 00:39:45,990
is totally level in Christ But it starts

969
00:39:45,990 --> 00:39:49,010
with it turning to God it starts with

970
00:39:49,010 --> 00:39:52,050
a willingness to repent which means turn from

971
00:39:52,050 --> 00:39:55,690
sin The no repentance folks there is no

972
00:39:55,690 --> 00:39:59,510
salvation I'm afraid for this generation of what

973
00:39:59,510 --> 00:40:01,790
we've offered the church when I when I

974
00:40:01,790 --> 00:40:03,690
say we I'm I'm not talking about myself

975
00:40:03,690 --> 00:40:05,690
or this Church, I'm talking about just this

976
00:40:05,690 --> 00:40:06,650
general church age.

977
00:40:06,970 --> 00:40:10,710
We've offered forgiveness without repentance folks that's why

978
00:40:10,710 --> 00:40:12,990
the divorce rate is as high or maybe

979
00:40:12,990 --> 00:40:16,370
higher in the church and in Among those

980
00:40:16,370 --> 00:40:19,430
that are not saved That's why there's such

981
00:40:19,430 --> 00:40:22,730
problems The gospel is the same as it

982
00:40:22,730 --> 00:40:26,150
always has been turn from sin Walk with

983
00:40:26,150 --> 00:40:29,490
God Christ will be revealed to you and

984
00:40:29,490 --> 00:40:31,290
you'll have the power that God has longed

985
00:40:31,290 --> 00:40:34,090
to give you My altar call is that

986
00:40:34,090 --> 00:40:36,870
today for every person in the annex and

987
00:40:36,870 --> 00:40:39,730
here in the main sanctuary You've got to

988
00:40:39,730 --> 00:40:40,710
get to the point where you don't care

989
00:40:40,710 --> 00:40:44,270
what the people think around you The left

990
00:40:44,270 --> 00:40:45,690
or the right of you if you came

991
00:40:45,690 --> 00:40:46,930
with people It's just you just got to

992
00:40:46,930 --> 00:40:48,050
get to the point where it doesn't matter.

993
00:40:48,150 --> 00:40:49,030
I don't care.

994
00:40:49,110 --> 00:40:49,930
I'm going with God.

995
00:40:50,010 --> 00:40:52,250
It's that simple I don't care who points

996
00:40:52,250 --> 00:41:00,000
their finger at me I Plead with you

997
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,760
in Christ's name This is an important time

998
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,120
for you, I'm not trying to pack an

999
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:05,360
altar.

1000
00:41:05,620 --> 00:41:06,860
It's not about that.

1001
00:41:07,660 --> 00:41:09,960
I Care that you move forward in God

1002
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:15,840
everyone who's dealing with an area Where you've

1003
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:17,280
you've not had the victory and you just

1004
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:18,540
don't know how you're going to get out

1005
00:41:18,540 --> 00:41:20,520
It's it's just when you take that step

1006
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,400
of faith and this altar call is basically

1007
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,400
saying God I can't get free by myself

1008
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,360
But I'm gonna trust you.

1009
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,460
I've heard a word today that the victory

1010
00:41:29,460 --> 00:41:32,660
was won for me And I'm gonna just

1011
00:41:32,660 --> 00:41:34,280
start walking into that victory.

1012
00:41:34,900 --> 00:41:36,840
I'm gonna start believing you God, and I'm

1013
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,760
gonna Ask you to help me not to

1014
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,240
be condemned by the Word of God, but

1015
00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:42,840
to be encouraged by the Word of God

1016
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,160
If that's you today, we're going to stand

1017
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:47,480
and worship for a moment I'm gonna ask

1018
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:48,700
you to come and meet me at this

1019
00:41:48,700 --> 00:41:51,500
altar Balcony would either exit main sanctuary just

1020
00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:52,300
slip out where you are.

1021
00:41:52,420 --> 00:41:53,120
Let's stand together.

1022
00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:57,000
Please come and just meet me And we're

1023
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,880
gonna pray and we're gonna believe God for

1024
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:05,360
freedom today You You'd be surprised where this

1025
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:13,280
will take you to Just come no need

1026
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,760
to be shy Everyone here is a sinner

1027
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:18,540
saved by grace.

1028
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,100
So don't you worry about what anybody else

1029
00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:20,300
here?

1030
00:42:22,620 --> 00:42:26,320
Just come young and old rich and poor

1031
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:31,380
it makes no difference Praise God You're a

1032
00:42:31,380 --> 00:42:33,420
sinner who needs Christ as Savior you come

1033
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,500
In your heart, you just give your heart

1034
00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:36,840
to God.

1035
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:37,720
He'll receive you.

1036
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:45,220
Let's take a moment to worship now Now

1037
00:42:45,220 --> 00:42:46,920
for those that have come to the altar,

1038
00:42:47,060 --> 00:42:49,680
let me take three minutes and explain something

1039
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,400
to you To some the Word of God

1040
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,600
is law as Paul says and to others

1041
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,740
it's Liberty And where did we find the

1042
00:42:58,740 --> 00:42:59,260
transition?

1043
00:42:59,380 --> 00:43:00,180
How does it happen?

1044
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,480
Remember that the inherent plan of sinful man

1045
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,560
is that we can be as God and

1046
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,320
so God says, okay If you think you

1047
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,840
can be holy in your own strength Here's

1048
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,500
a bunch of rules to obey Give it

1049
00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:15,320
your best try in the Jewish culture that

1050
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,000
I think there was 606 of them.

1051
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,360
Paul said it was a yoke We couldn't

1052
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,900
bear it It couldn't be done.

1053
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,160
It was and if you broke one you

1054
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,480
broke them all so you're just constantly condemned

1055
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,000
The whole Experience of the temple was sin

1056
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,520
confessed sin confessed sin confessed and it would

1057
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,300
be get so discouraging after a while That

1058
00:43:36,300 --> 00:43:39,320
people just gave up Covered themselves with false

1059
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,340
garments and developed an extremely hypocritical system of

1060
00:43:42,340 --> 00:43:45,940
religion that ultimately hated God Because it saw

1061
00:43:45,940 --> 00:43:48,660
him as unjust and it set out then

1062
00:43:48,660 --> 00:43:50,660
to produce its own sense of being right

1063
00:43:50,660 --> 00:43:53,620
with God That's why the religion of that

1064
00:43:53,620 --> 00:43:57,420
day killed Christ Because his message was you

1065
00:43:57,420 --> 00:44:00,080
can't do it You know, you can't do

1066
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,620
it You need something greater than yourselves and

1067
00:44:02,620 --> 00:44:05,160
for those who had thought they'd achieved some

1068
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,720
measure of holiness were highly offended at this

1069
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,380
That was the Old Testament It was a

1070
00:44:13,380 --> 00:44:15,500
law where you God says you do I

1071
00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:17,680
do You do this I do this and

1072
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,220
we couldn't do our end of the bargain.

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We just couldn't do it So God made

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a new covenant this time not with you

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and me with his son He sent his

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son into the world.

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He said son you're gonna walk among the

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people for 33 years You're gonna give your

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life and you're gonna pay the price for

1080
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all the sin.

1081
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You're gonna break its penalty You're gonna break

1082
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its power sin is gonna be broken by

1083
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you You're going to die in the place

1084
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of all people on the earth who will

1085
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ever trust in you on the third day

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I'm going to raise you from the dead

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And I'm gonna sit you at the right

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hand of all authority and power Now it

1089
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was the father said that the son said

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back to his father.

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You can read it in John 15 16

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17 Father, I'll go and I'll trust you.

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You know, I'll commit my my my spirit

1094
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into your hands But your part of the

1095
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bargain is that everybody who believes in me

1096
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the total victory I win becomes theirs It's

1097
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that simple And you win it not by

1098
00:45:25,730 --> 00:45:28,550
doing something you win it by believing in

1099
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what was done you begin to walk in

1100
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faith So now the Word of God will

1101
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no longer condemn you the Word of God

1102
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will empower you You begin to see this

1103
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as your inheritance.

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This is the last will and testament as

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it is of God through his son and

1106
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every day you're going to the spiritual bank

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say hey, I'd like to make a withdrawal

1108
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here I'm a little short on love you

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mind.

1110
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I need a little more love than that

1111
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the hand of God comes says, okay It's

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yours in Christ.

1113
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It's yours and it's it's that simple folks

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Paul said don't be turned from the simplicity

1115
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that's in Christ Beware of those who try

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to put you back again under the physical

1117
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labor trying to earn something with God when

1118
00:46:08,110 --> 00:46:10,890
it's all been done for you So now

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you're waiting for me to lead you in

1120
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a prayer, but you see that's works in

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itself, isn't it?

1122
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I Think best thing we can do is

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just shout and give God glory today All

1124
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you can do better than that Hallelujah, hallelujah,

1125
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hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelujah Glory to God glory to

1126
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God glory to God I've got the victory.

1127
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I've got the victory I've got the victory

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I've got the victory In Christ, in Christ

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I've got the victory One more time give

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God a shout of glory You've been listening

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to the from the pulpit in classic sermons

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00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,380
series This week you heard Carter Conlon with

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his message deal with sin Christ is coming

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00:47:02,100 --> 00:47:04,120
Tune in next week to hear Chuck Smith

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speak about the danger of compromise on from

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the pulpit in classic sermons