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Now, I know you're all awake, so if you go to sleep, I know what you're going to do.

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If you go to sleep, I know what the difference was.

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Man, that's exciting, isn't it?

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I praise the Lord for God's genius with these people.

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If you would like further comments on the subject we've been talking about today, the Lordship of Jesus,

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I will give you six pages of probably 200 scriptures that relate to faith, saving faith,

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because I think we really need to talk about it.

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It's a great schism in the world today, and I notice a very popular thing that most of us would agree with,

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saving faith and what the Bible says about it.

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I'd be willing to loan that to you too.

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There's a great split right now in the house of God among the many churches,

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and it's a much discussed thing, and let's just see what the Bible has to say about it.

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Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gift of life, for the exquisite day,

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be with those who aren't with us today, whatever be their reason,

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especially guide and guard those who are on the highways,

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guard those who are in jeopardy of their soul.

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Forgive us of our sins, we thank you for Jesus who gave us hope for eternal life,

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in whose name we pray.

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Amen.

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I'm not very bright.

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Here's David talking about evaluating people.

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He's a straight A student and how he worried about it.

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I never worried much about it, and I wasn't a straight A student,

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but authority is really something.

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You know the kind of test I like to take is one I know lots about,

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and you know that's really what it's all about, isn't it?

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That if you're prepared, you're ready to take that.

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There are times I just would say,

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Teacher, would you get on with it?

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I want to take this test, because it was about something I was prepared for.

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Let's have it.

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I want to show off.

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That was the deal.

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You can make As that way, even though I didn't make straight As,

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I found that what I was interested in, I did well at.

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Now listen, I was thinking the other day,

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why in the world is it that America with more churches,

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more preachers, more Bible schools, more bookstores,

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and more Bibles than any people on the face of the earth,

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is probably one of the most Godless nations on the face of the earth.

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Why should that be?

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And then you see, I'm not very smart.

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Boom, it finally came to me.

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Because being Godly has to do with the authority of God in your life,

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the Lordship of Jesus.

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How many times have you heard people say,

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just get down on your knees in front of the radio,

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and you'll be saved?

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Well, that's a start, but I don't believe salvation is in that alone.

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And it's been too easy for people to say,

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Lord, Lord, and not change their lifestyle,

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because saving faith does that very thing.

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I see that there was no authority in the home.

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We've discussed that lately.

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It's a big concern to me.

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The man's supposed to be the head of his house.

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If you're not, you better get your Bible out

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and find out why you're not.

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Secondly, there's no authority in the church.

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Most churches today have dropped the eldership.

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Literally, the biggest Protestant group in the country here in America

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has dropped the eldership.

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It doesn't mean anything.

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For a while, I wondered if that wasn't the Christian church view of things too,

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a nominal eldership, and he's a nice guy until you disagree with him.

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That's not what it's about either, is it?

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And you remember the Dark Ages came on the world

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when there was only one chief elder.

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That was the Dark Ages,

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and if you think it can't come back, you're wrong.

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We need to restore the eldership authority in the house of God.

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And thirdly, there is no lordship or authority in our private lives,

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and that's why America, with all of its richness and spirituality,

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is not a very spiritual place.

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The word lord is used 618 times.

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Lord means the only really analog that we would have in today's life

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would be the idea of an old king, a king, lord,

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who is over our destiny, our function, our avocation, our vocation,

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who is literally determining every aspect of our existence.

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That's the lord, not just savior, so to speak.

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Christ, which means the same thing, one who is anointed, you see,

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as Messiah, and we mean, that's just the anglicized,

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or it came to us from the Greek, the word Christos.

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Christ is the anointed one, the Messiah.

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That happened only to prophets, to priests, and to kings,

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all of which have a great deal to do with our destiny.

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A priest is a goal between the king and the lord of our life,

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and prophet is one who determines our spiritual destiny,

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what's going to happen in our future, you see, lordship of that.

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Savior, interestingly enough, in the New Testament, has used just 15 times.

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How many times I heard it say, you know,

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man, once you're saved, you just get on the bandwagon

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because you don't have to do anything else beyond that.

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There is nothing that you can do that is important to God after that.

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Well, pure baloney, pure perfidy, it is not true.

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There is a lordship in our life, and we need to ask our question,

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how is lordship of God shown in your life and in my life?

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It needs to manifest it, so we're looking at a Christian nation

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which has no lordship in the way that the Christian act in that great nation.

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Listen to Romans 10-9.

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If you confess with your mouth Jesus as lord

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and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,

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you will be saved, Jesus as lord.

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Acts 2 verse 36, when the church was being invented on the day of Pentecost,

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listen to what Peter had to say,

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God has made this Jesus whom you crucified, both lord and Christ.

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You see, that demands my attention.

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It means modification of my actions that the lord may be part of my life.

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It is not belief only, and you are not just along for the ride

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having accepted the lord Jesus as your personal savior.

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Now, there are two great styles of looking at this idea of faith.

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I'm just going to touch quickly on it.

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The little thing on pterodactyl tracts has hundreds of scriptures

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that are really worthwhile in trying to help you frame what is faith in my life.

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It's more than just talking about faith, but what is it really, scripturally.

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There was a fellow by the name of Calvin, and he died in 1564.

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He had aped a number of things which was part of Catholicism

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by the great Augustinian, one of the fathers of the church.

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In 430 AD, it wasn't a new concept.

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It was a rehashed one of a previous 1100 years ago.

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The concept of what Calvinism is is seen in an acronym, tulip.

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Tiptoe through the tulips with me.

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Tulip stands T for total depravity.

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I don't think many of us really believe that.

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Depraved, there is no hope.

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What depravity says is that no human can even desire to do any good,

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much less do any good.

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Secondly, you, unconditional election, that we are saved or we are lost

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in spite of our personal will in the matter.

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I really don't believe that, and that's okay if you do.

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But I really believe that my will in the matter is very important

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and your will in the matter is very important.

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And then L stands for limited atonement,

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which really says that he withholds atonement for whom he choose.

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Now, I don't deny God's sovereignty,

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but he's saying that great numbers of people are not ever going to be at one,

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at one month, see, atonement with God.

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Why? Because it's something they did know,

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because of what God chose for them.

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God condemns them in this case, you see.

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And then I is irresistible grace.

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He says, even if you don't believe,

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he'll gonna make you believe or give you the grace to believe.

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I don't really think I'd buy that either.

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That's up to you.

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Preservation of the saints is eternal security.

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And it has many manifestations.

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Once saved, always saved, and all of that.

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And you know, like predestination,

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all that becomes part of that preservation of the saints.

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And there's not a thing in the world that you can do

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that can ever cause you to be separated from the love of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Experience would say we don't understand that,

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because we haven't seen that that's true, have we?

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Not if you've been an elder for 40 years,

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you'd have to believe that is not correct.

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Now, I would include 1 Corinthians 15-22.

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If you had to learn one verse about this subject, please do this.

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1 Corinthians 15-22, which says,

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For as in Adam, all shall die.

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You see, under the law, unless something was changed,

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everyone would die, you see,

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unless God had provided an escape mechanism.

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For, he says, for as in Adam, all.

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Now, we're not being selective here.

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All die.

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All in Christ, all will be made alive.

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You see that?

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How can you say that some are condemned eternally to hell?

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And you know, if you hear one of those snooty preachers on TV

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or on radio or the electric church,

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not a one of them says, I'm just sorry about this.

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Me and my wife and my family, we're not saved.

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God just didn't want that for us,

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but he wanted it for you.

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Usually it's this.

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I'm saved, but some of you aren't.

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You notice how that goes?

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So I think, I said the other day

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that we have a very intelligent doctrine.

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You know, whatever I am,

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if it doesn't make sense intellectually,

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I don't want any part of it.

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That's why I've become a lover of the Bible.

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Hey, there's the mind of God in print

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and if that isn't beautiful and if that isn't magnificent

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and if that isn't logical,

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science is a twit business.

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Because nothing is half as intelligent

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as the mind of God in the Bible, the print,

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the holy word of God.

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It's so significant, so important.

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For as in Adam also died, so in Christ,

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all will be made alive.

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So it doesn't matter what people tell you.

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It is your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Are we condemned forever by Adam's sin?

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It does not matter because

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a mechanism has been provided by God

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that we might be saved.

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I cannot forever cop out saying,

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because of that old Adam,

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I am condemned.

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That is not true.

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And that's why Jesus died for us, you see.

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Now Romans 5.18 says,

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Consequently, just as the result of one trespass

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was condemnation from,

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what was that one trespass?

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Well, he's talking about Adam.

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So also the result of one act of righteousness.

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Now what could that be?

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That Jesus died for sinful men and women.

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I thank God for that.

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He has provided a mechanism

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to transfer us from the kingdom of darkness

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into the wonderful light of the Son of God's love.

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And we should really say hallelujah about that.

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It is worth it.

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So also the result of one act of righteousness

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was justification that brings life

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to all men.

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Do you see how inclusive that is?

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That doesn't exclude anyone, does it?

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To all who at least would believe it,

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who would at least accept it, you see.

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So it doesn't matter what this idea of Adam,

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you know, I know people are kept out

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of the fellowship of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Whether you're a Calvinist or an Arminius,

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that won't separate you and I and our fellowship,

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but it will in many, many churches.

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If you don't believe Lord Calvin, friend,

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you're not a part of that fellowship.

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Paul said, I'm persuaded to know nothing among you,

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same Jesus Christ and his crucifixion, him crucified.

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That's what's important about, are you a believer?

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You believe in Jesus Christ, you believe he was crucified?

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That's really the only decent thing we can ask

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of one another as far as separation

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or as far as inclusion of the fellowship

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of God's people.

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So maybe it didn't matter.

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Adam's sins are therefore not permanent.

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I am not forever burdened down

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by the ugliness of his sin.

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I'm burdened down by the ugliness of my sin.

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That's where it really belongs, doesn't it?

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Not your sin, not Adam's, but mine.

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So Adam's sin really wasn't permanent.

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I never bought that.

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I hope you don't either, Romans 14-12.

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So then each one of us will give an account

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of himself with God, himself, himself.

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Himself, you don't say it very loud, do you?

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If you're a Calvinist, you're liable for what you are.

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See, how much do you love me, Lord?

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I wrote that question down there, enough to give his boy.

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Now you might ask these men and women around here

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what the value of a little boy is, or even a big boy.

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And they're worth a lot, aren't they?

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I know that's the price God was willing to pay

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that sinners like you and me might have eternal life

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and that some of them just capriciously by this sovereign God

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would be excluded from his sunlight, his joy, his peace,

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his eternal life.

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He's not that capricious.

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He is sovereign.

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What he chooses to do, we will accept.

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I will accept.

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But intellectually, you see, I have to believe

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that there was a choice, a living choice,

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and it was in the dying Christ.

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I really reject total depravity.

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I don't know whether you know Adolf Schickelgruber or not,

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but he loved music.

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I don't know whether you like Joseph Stalin

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or maybe Lanine, who killed more people than any man alive.

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He's not intrinsically just totally wicked.

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He's not a total embalmination

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because he saved many lives and some of the things that he did.

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He loved music and he was almost a priest in the house of God.

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He was torn for a long, long time.

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He was not totally depraved, a total degenerate.

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You know from experience, it's a little bit of good

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and a little bit of bad in all of us,

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and so we're successful much in the way of life

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if we let a little bit of good shine out of our life.

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That's true, isn't it?

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Now, I'll admit, there's a lot of folks

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that work off a hard.

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I've had, what, almost 300 sermons

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for people who were dead,

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and I tell you, there are some times

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you can't think of four words that were positive

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and neither can the children,

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neither can their friends.

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As a matter of fact, they didn't have many people there

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in the first place

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because no one cared that much about them,

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but they weren't totally a loss.

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Nobody truly is.

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Why? Because we're made in the image of God, see.

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And what we have to do is to live forever.

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You know, that pudgy little,

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old, mafiosa man that used to say,

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I did it my way.

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Frankie, you know, the girls would go,

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oh, that guy's not a complete degenerate,

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but he did it his way,

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and the world says, well done, Frankie.

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Kudos, well done.

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Fui.

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We need to do it God's way.

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Now, I reject total depravity.

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That's okay.

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I don't really believe that.

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Don't buy all of it.

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2 Peter 3.9, the reason I don't believe that

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is a biblical reason.

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Uh-huh.

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2 Peter 3 verse 9 says,

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God was not willing that any should perish,

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but that all should come to repentance.

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How many did he exempt there?

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He wasn't willing that any should perish,

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but that all, see how often we're using those

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inclusive large words, all, all,

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without exception, see.

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All should come to repentance.

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That's what God wanted was for everyone

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to come to repentance.

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And why the world fights that I'll never know.

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Now, Justin Arminianism,

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Justin Arminianism, Justin Arminius,

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was a Dutch theologian who died in the year 1690.

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Most of us would agree with this philosophy.

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You're not bound by that.

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I do want you to know that Justin had a little different idea

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that we were liable for our sins,

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and we could separate ourselves from the love of God.

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Experience would say you have people who love the Lord,

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who knew the joy of the Holy Spirit,

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and who have now left it.

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You could say, I don't know anybody like that.

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You need to mix with people.

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You need to go calling out here in the neighborhood.

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You need to go down to the jail.

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Then tell me that isn't true.

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It is true.

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Listen to what Justin based one of his precepts on.

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1 Timothy 3, both 3 and 4, I quote part.

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This is good and pleases God our Savior.

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Say Jesus our Savior.

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God our Savior who wants all men to be saved

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and come to the knowledge of the truth.

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How many does God want excluded from his heavenly fellowship?

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He wanted all peoples to be saved.

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That's very, very important in it.

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Listen to this.

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You know what thrills me about that?

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The greatest poem writer that ever existed in the King's English,

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which is probably the best, most communicative way of talking

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of all the languages since time began.

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He speaks of Satan in hell,

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and this is what Satan is saying.

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I've said it before.

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Which way shall I fly?

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In finite wrath, in finite despair.

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Which way I fly is very hell.

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Myself am hell.

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And in the lowest depth,

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a lower deep still threatening to devour me

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opens wide to which hell I suffer

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seems heaven itself.

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Do you want that for everybody?

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I don't even want that for Satan,

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but that's what Satan's got.

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Go ahead and break God's will.

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Separate yourself from the love of God,

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and there is a punishment for such a thing.

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That's why I find that it makes sense to say,

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I have my choice of that or not.

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It is not forced upon me to be a companion

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to burn forever in the hell fires of damnation

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with that one gross monster, Satan.

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I do not, I cannot believe such is the case.

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Fate is a gift.

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You've heard many people say,

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here's a present.

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Now, honey, would you take this present?

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And the little kid's always eyes light up,

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and he takes it and see.

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Now, is this a present?

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Is this a gift?

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And the little guy says, yeah.

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He said, can I charge you $20 for it?

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No, that wouldn't be a gift.

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See, it's a free gift from God.

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But the preacher sometimes doesn't make the point

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that the little kid had to reach out and accept the gift.

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You mean to tell me that God offers eternal life

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and some folks turn their eyes from it?

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Certainly they do.

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Go out and preach on the corner.

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If you're allowed to preach very long,

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go out and hand out Bibles.

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Chuck could tell you about that,

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and you're not permitted to hand them out

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in a lot of places anymore.

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The gift isn't really capable of being accepted

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by folks anymore, is it?

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And so I tell you,

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there is something involving a free gift.

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You have to accept it,

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or it really wasn't a gift to you, was it?

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You don't have to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord.

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You don't have to have the Lordship of Jesus.

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Why, the biggest church in town

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doesn't honestly believe that.

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That all you have to do is believe

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and take Jesus as your personal savior,

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and that's the end of your obligation to God.

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And I don't buy that,

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and I don't believe that many of you really do.

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And those who are serious in that big church

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don't believe it either, by the way,

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in talking with them.

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Faith is a gift, see,

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but not necessarily received.

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Romans 2, 6, and 7 who said,

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speaking of God who will render to every man

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according to his deeds.

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Have you heard many sermons about that?

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According to his,

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this word works, according to his deeds.

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I'll show you my faith, James said.

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Some people are excluding the book of James

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because it has faith and works

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as being important and going hand in hand.

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It's just that goofy,

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let's get rid of the book

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if it disagrees with our doctrine, you see.

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And so he says,

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listen to this precious passage of Scripture.

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Faith is a gift, I buy that,

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and listen to what it says,

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Romans 2, 6, and 7,

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who would render to every man

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according to his deeds.

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To them who buy, listen to this,

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here's what we're about, saving faith,

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living faith, dynamic faith.

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I'll show you my faith

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by the manifestation of what I do

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for the Lord Jesus Christ, where I am,

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where I park my car, what I say,

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what I do, where I give my money,

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where is my interest in life?

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It has to lie in the Lord.

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He says, I'll show you my faith

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but not just saying, I believe.

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But you know

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that possibly 200 million people

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have perished because they would not say the words

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Caesare regnant,

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oh, what's that?

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Caesar is Lord.

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Regnum, we still use that word.

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It means Lordship.

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Caesar is the Lord of my life.

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Or who?

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Jesus, God, the living God,

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the dynamic Jehovah of the Messiah

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is my Lord.

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Not any of these others.

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None of those at all.

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What proves your Lordship

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in your life?

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If someone had to look at Fat Albert,

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would they say, well, what is he?

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Is he just a guy that preaches?

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Is he mouth?

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Does he give his money?

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Does he go to the jail?

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Or does he go to the hospital?

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Does he give out Bibles?

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Does he teach little kids?

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What the cob does this guy do?

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And then they would say of me,

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that's the one he serves.

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The Lord of your life.

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And if someone is the Lord,

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remember the Lord has

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a people,

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has a brown boundary.

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You're either in his kingdom,

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or you're out of his kingdom.

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And you have something to do to serve that Lord.

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And so I'd say the word ministry.

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I wrote it here twice in case I'd forget.

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Ministry.

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What do I do to serve the Lord?

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That's a manifestation of my Lordship.

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Who is dwelling on my life?

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What I want to do all the time,

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are you spending all of your time

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simply keeping yourself and your family happy?

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That's not enough

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if you're seeking the kingdom of God.

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Who is the Lord?

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Who ties up

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every waking moment

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and every bit of energy in your life?

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It should be the Lord.

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Or he is indeed not the Lord of your life.

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And in conclusion I say this

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in Romans 10-9,

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if thou confess with thy mouth

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that Jesus is

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Lord

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and shall believe

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in thine heart

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that God has raised him from the dead,

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thou shall be saved.

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It's not an easy thing

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to manifest the Lordship

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of Christ in your life,

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but it needs to be done.

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Saving faith.

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What is saving faith?

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It's believing to the end

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that there's a great change

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that you have surrendered

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your life to. You not only believe,

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remember the demons believe

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and they tremble with fear.

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They believe more

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than most of us, because when the last time

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you have trembled at what you have done

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before God

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that you've laid awake a night and worried

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because you essentially

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had gone five weeks without doing

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anything that showed

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that there was any Lordship

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in your life except yourself.

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Oh, there's a lot of

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self-fulfilled

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lords

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and they dominate our world.

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Colossians 2.17 says

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just as you receive Christ Jesus

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as Lord

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continue to live

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in him. Now see,

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continuance. Not just to say it,

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but to continuing action.

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See, continue to live in him,

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rooted and build

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up in him,

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strengthened

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in the faith

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as you have been taught. I don't have

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a Bible. I don't take time

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to go through the scriptures,

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but I'd hold the Bible up

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if I had one on me

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and that's what you ought to base your life

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on, rooted in those things

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which are said.

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So many people are fighting this, repent

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and be baptized, every one of you

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for the remission of sins

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and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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Looking for the Spirit of God,

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the presence, the warm, goody-goody feeling

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of God without preceding it

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by repentance, not following it up

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with obedience.

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And listen, if he is the Lord

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of your life, you'll not only repent,

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you will be baptized, you will

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receive the Spirit of God, and you will

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continue in the great, good

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works of God.

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Yesterday I had

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a, oh,

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super day,

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I was on a rim rocks above the lake

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and I found

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the second sister of

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the Alasarith

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not the biggest thing they ever lived,

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but one of the meanest things they ever lived.

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You know, you gotta be

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what you gotta be. They say

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that's necessary to get an army, isn't it?

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You gotta be what you gotta be

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to be what you can be. Be all

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that you can be, they sing you this song

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and it's so easy to find

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little dinosaurs after you

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find out where they like to be.

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They just gotta be where they gotta be.

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And you know what, when you see that

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just remember, even dinosaurs were smart

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enough to know where they belong.

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And if you find out where they belong,

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I can show you tons of dinosaur bones.

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You go up there without that and you're

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gonna look the rest of your life and probably

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not find a thing.

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Why is that so?

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If you belong to the Lord Jesus

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Christ, he is your Lord, there's things

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you're gonna do, there are places you are going

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to be. As we sing our hymn of invitation,

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maybe you need to be

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where you ought to be.

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Maybe you need to be a

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stalwart warrior in the house of the Lord

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Jesus Christ

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and to serve him. Let's stand, please.

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Oh, thank you, Jerry.

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And it's

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431.

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Number 431.

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Number 431.

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I am praying

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for you.

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I am praying

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for you.

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I am praying

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I am praying

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for you.

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When we sing that last verse,

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it's really easy to say

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Lord, Lord, because you remember

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Matthew 70, he says, why call me

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and me, Lord, Lord?

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Are you one of those

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Lord, Lord kind of guys? The name comes easy.

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But

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depart from me

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because of just the word

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on your lips.

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And splashing around my name

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is not the way to eternal life.

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It's

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continued in a living

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faith. When we sing that last

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verse, maybe you need a church hall.

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Maybe as you confess

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Jesus as

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Lord, and what an

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awesome feeling to see a

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great strong man, a beautiful

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woman, a small person

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with tears in their eyes. I say, I want

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him as my Lord.

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Would you come and sing that last verse

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for me?

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I

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