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The book of Exodus quickly chapter 21 Exodus

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chapter 21 I'd like to speak a little

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word this morning maybe tie these two messages

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together in a word of consecration.

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Consecration.

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Exodus chapter 21 and verse number 2.

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If the lion Hebrew servant six years he

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shall serve in the seventh he shall go

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out free for nothing if he came in

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by himself he shall go out by himself

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if you were married then his wife shall

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go out with him if his master have

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given him a wife and she have born

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him sons or daughters the wife and her

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children shall be her masters and he shall

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go out by himself and if the servant

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shall plainly say I love my master my

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wife and my children I will not go

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out free then his master shall bring him

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unto the judges he shall also bring him

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to the door or under the doorpost and

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his master shall bore his ear through with

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an all and he shall serve him forever

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2nd Samuel please chapter 11

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read about demand Uriah the Hittite

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verse 7 for the sake of time and

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when Uriah was come unto him David commanded

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of him how Joab did and how the

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people did and how the war prospered and

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David said to Uriah go down to thy

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house and wash thy feet and Uriah departed

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out of the king's house and there followed

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him a mess of meat from the king

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but Uriah slept at the door of the

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king's house with all the servants of his

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Lord and went not down to his house

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and I guess verse 10 and when they

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had told David saying Uriah went not down

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unto his house David said unto Uriah camest

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thou not from thy journey why then didst

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thou not go down into thine house and

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Uriah said unto David the ark and Israel

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and Judah abide in tents and my Lord

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Joab and the servants of my Lord are

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encamped in the open fields shall I then

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go into mine house to eat and to

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drink and to lie with my wife as

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thou livest and as thy soul liveth I

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will not do this thing and first Peter

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now quickly we're leaving three places to get

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three aspects in which it would do us

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well to be consecrated first Peter in chapter

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2 verse 5 he also as

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lively stones are built up a spiritual house

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and holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices

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acceptable to God by Jesus Christ verse 9

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but he had a chosen generation a royal

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priesthood and holy nation a peculiar people they

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should show forth the praises of him who

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hath called you out of darkness into his

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marvelous light and the Lord of us to

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a serene of his word what we've listened

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to already I'd like to look at consecration

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being set apart in the Old Testament the

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word that we read is is Kodash it

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is consecrated it is sanctified it is set

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apart for God and you've been had a

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foundation that was laid in the baptisms this

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morning and an instruction was given and so

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if we're going to take that which we

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have learned and we're going to go through

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with it we're going to need to be

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consecrated to be set apart for God to

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be dedicated a consecrated Christian is hard to

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find as I look at myself what about

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you completely entirely devoted to the things of

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God three aspects very quickly the servant that

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is consecrated to his master the soldier that

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is consecrated to his king and the priest

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that is consecrated to his sacrifice to offering

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up we read in Hebrews and Peter excuse

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me of a spiritual sacrifice and we also

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read the royal priesthood showing forth the praises

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so very simply three things to continuing in

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Hebrews chapter 21 you've got the Hebrew servant

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and you'll notice in this servant if you

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put yourself in the story how would you

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like to be a bond slave how would

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you like to be bought and now have

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to serve six years for the same man

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day in and day out no doubt in

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your mind there would be a time that

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would come that would be anticipated you would

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look forward to the day of your release

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where do you not oh it's a six

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it's a very beginning I can't wait till

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the seventh year then I'm going to go

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out and I've got all these plans and

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I'm going to get a farm and I'm

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going to farm I'm going to get a

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business I'm going to get a family and

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I've got all these plans that I want

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to do that's the first year that would

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be every one of us would it not

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but time would go on and every day

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as days go by faster and years go

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by faster the time would go by and

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as you would spend time with this one

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that is the master something amazing would transform

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in your mind now we're speaking of a

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master like the Lord Jesus now not like

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any earthly master who's only got you there

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for their own good and for their own

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for their own blessing and maybe in year

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two you're given a wife and maybe you're

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three or four whatever the junior comes along

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and the family comes along and every day

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that you labor with the master you learn

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how he thinks you learn how he loves

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you learn about him intimately because you're with

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him day in and day out and now

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that day comes that you had looked forward

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to for so long and now there's a

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great choice to make you're gonna go out

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free are you gonna stay tough choice what

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happened in those six years you got to

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know someone you never knew before you learn

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to love someone like you've never been loved

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before and now you have a choice to

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make I believe that consecration is a daily

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thing but I also believe that there's a

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moment in a person's life when before God

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in a broken state or maybe an appreciative

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state an individual says God I'm yours use

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me whatever you want me to do Lord

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show me this man now has a choice

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to make he's gonna stay he's going to

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go to the and he's going to plainly

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declare I love my master my wife and

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my children I will not go out free

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so he goes to the door you see

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the story isn't about the servant it's about

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the master and that's what life is about

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isn't it life isn't about the servants of

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God life is about God life isn't about

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the servants of Christ it's about Christ and

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here's a dear here's a man and he's

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got the message because he's come to know

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through relationship every single day that the yoke

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is easy and the burden is light and

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that everything that he needed has been supplied

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by the master it's a no-brainer isn't

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it if I'm with the master I have

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everything and not only me but my family

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my wife and my children he can do

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far better for them than I could ever

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do and so a servant that was consecrated

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and he stays just for the sake of

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argument and some of you have heard this

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line before the next day the another servants

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sixth seventh year comes and he goes and

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in stays and two weeks later there's another

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one then another one what's going on here

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you see it's all about the glory of

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the master the glory of the master judges

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and the judges would confirm that what they

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heard is true what did not resonate with

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their mind what is it about this master

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why everybody stays and serves him what is

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it about him oh I wonder if there's

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ever a day where I find myself that

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needs to have a master maybe he would

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be mine you see in service consecrated the

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man could have went out and free would

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have been absolutely legal would have been a

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legitimate possibility but he was devoted and he

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was consecrated to his master because he knew

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his master could I ask you a question

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today those of you that are facing this

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choice this weekend what are you going to

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do there's so many things in life that

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are appealing there's so many dreams that you

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want to fulfill and yet you know that

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there's a life to believe for God what

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are you going to do we depend on

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how well you know the master how well

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you appreciate him and what he has done

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for you saved you know it's a sad

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thing to see people saved not that part

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but to be saved and say okay Lord

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I'll see you in heaven thanks for a

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wonderful life and you never see him again

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you wonder if they ever got the root

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of the matter what's it going to be

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for you your young person consecrated to the

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master entirely devoted to the God into the

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things of God into the assembly of God

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into the people of God consecration to the

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servant and then I'm going to jump to

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the priest because I want to end with

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the soldier you've got the holy priesthood in

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the royal priesthood every single person that is

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saved is a priest we don't have a

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clergy we don't have a hierarchy in God's

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assembly that's not God's plan God is God

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is supreme God is overall but as Christians

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as those that are saved those in the

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assembly testimony as well you don't have to

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be an assembly testimony to be a priest

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some people have never heard the truth of

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the assembly and are saved but the holy

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priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices to be set apart

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to be consecrated morally to God to offer

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sacrifice spiritual material it's a spiritual sacrifice it

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must be spiritual material where do you get

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spiritual material for a spiritual sacrifice spiritual this

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means not carnal not carnal are you going

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to get spiritual material from the world to

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sacrifice to God no you won't get spiritual

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material from a car world where then do

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we get this material first of all we

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said what it is it is not carnal

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it is spiritual material and when you get

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spiritual material you get it from spiritual places

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spiritual persons you get it from God from

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God I can honestly say I've never had

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an original thought in my life and if

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you've ever honest you will too you let

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everyone from God from the Spirit of God

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you see God teaches us God shows us

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from the Word of God and so you're

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going to be mining in the Word of

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God you're going to be digging in the

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Word of God and you're going to be

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getting spiritual material and there's going to be

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the precious stones that are going to be

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added to the building but it must be

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spiritual material the carnal material the wood and

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the hay and the stubble the things that

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are flammable that's not an acceptable sacrifice is

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it and so you've got spiritual material because

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it is a spiritual sacrifice it comes from

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the Word of God it comes from spending

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time with God it comes from experience with

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God you notice the to the servant it

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was the time with the servant the master

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it was from the master being a Christian

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is a tremendous thing everything that we have

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we've been given from God your salvation was

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a gift was it not absolutely and those

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of you that have toiled and have labored

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with your hands and the Lord has give

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you something did you where did that come

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from there's been people out there work harder

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than you've worked for less you got it

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from God everything we get we have from

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God to be dedicated in spiritual things to

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offer a spiritual sacrifice then you've got the

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kingly priesthood the royal priesthood to show forth

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or to publish his excellence to publish it

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to declare it forth have you stopped

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have you stopped serving God I'm asking hard

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questions today why did you stop have you

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stopped offering spiritual sacrifices have you stopped offering

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the fruit of your lips giving praise to

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God have you stopped digging for the material

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why did you stop digging it's

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one thing to know the truth and to

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be instructed in the truth but to continue

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to not fall out by the way but

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to continue in the Word of God spiritual

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sacrifice and I know I'm just skimming the

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surface but brother let us continue have

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the things of God come to a screeching

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halt have we wasted a year

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why the things of God have not

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stopped maybe your sphere of service has changed

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and maybe you can't work like you used

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to work but the work still needs to

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be done it still needs to be done

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the Lord still must be obeyed the gospel

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still must go forth maybe we need to

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be creative in our methods but the work

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hasn't stopped the worship the sacrifices

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have they stopped how about your own personal

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worship let me go there has it stopped

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well if you've stopped digging for spiritual material

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how has it affected your worship searching question

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my time is about gone I want to

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go to the soldier so you've got the

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happy Hebrew servant you've got the humble Hittite

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soldier in first and second Samuel and what

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I want to focus on here just before

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lunch is this the battle the battle you're

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right I was a mighty man he was

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a lovely character in the Word of God

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I think of this man is one of

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David's mighties as he's listed twice David would

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have loved this man David would have appreciated

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this man but we know the story in

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the earlier part of the chapter that we

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didn't read of David's sin against this man

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and now David with all the plan of

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a cover-up he calls this man with

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a big with a fake vacation and he

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says come with the excuse of tell me

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how the battle is going I wonder what

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Uriah thought what's the matter David you call

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me from the front lines to come and

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tell you how the battle is going you

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know how the battle is going Uriah was

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no fool maybe he didn't know why but

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something doesn't right and so he goes there

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to the king and the king sends him

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home when you see this devoted man he

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sleeps at the door of the king he

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wouldn't go why wouldn't you go home well

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he says why he said in the David

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verse 11 the ark where was the ark

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take it it was at the battlefield and

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then he says in Israel if the ark

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wasn't at the battlefield is speaking to me

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of the presence of the Lord in Israel

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and Judah they abide in tents so the

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ark was in a tent the battle wasn't

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over that's the point here's a man he's

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dedicated and what God had given him to

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do he was a mighty man he was

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a rare man he was he was someone

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that God was using and he was a

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humble man and the battle wasn't over and

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he wasn't going to go home on vacation

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well there was still a battle to be

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fought and his brother and we're still there

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and the honor of God was still to

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fight for he was dedicated as a soldier

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for the king because the battle wasn't over

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it wasn't over he couldn't bring himself to

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do it he says as as the king

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lives as his soul as he would not

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do it he would not do it such

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was his dedication not only to David but

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to God and to the things of God

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and to the purposes of God and for

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the glory of God because Israel was God's

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people and this man had a grip he

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had a grip of his purpose in this

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life brethren the battles not over it's not

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over it soon will be over but it's

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not over yet and this dedicated man he

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finds himself in the heat of the battle

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did he know he was too close to

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the wall he knew it was too close

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to the wall but that's where the battle

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was the hottest and that's where he was

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put you see he was dedicated how dedicated

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are you today and you understand that this

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has been a personal word to me long

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before today am I a dedicated servant of

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Jehovah of God am I a dedicated service

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to Christ the one who has brought me

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with his blood am I a consecrated priest

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in holiness offering spiritual sacrifices to God that

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which God has given you can you give

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it back am I a dedicated soldier today

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the battle is not over you and I

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have fought and as I read this this

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past week I thought you know it reminds

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me of the martyrs of whom the world

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was not worthy the martyrs whom the world

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was not worthy those who went on for

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God and those who served God and those

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who fought God and brethren it's a marvelous

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thing to have a conference but I want

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to say this if we miss out on

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something to challenge us to go on for

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God and God himself we've missed it fellowship

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is important and it's absolutely necessary but we

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need God and we need God today Lord

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bless his word we'll pray