"Beware False Doctrines And Deception" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency, what is your location?

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Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, that you win this war.

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And I thank you, Father God, that you already have won.

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Jesus, you told us, the kingdom is within us.

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That's where the battle really is.

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You know, yeah, we see it all around us, outside of us, but

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this war within, Father God, becomes the real battle front.

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And so I pray that today you give us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to be encouraged

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in the thing, the place that we find ourselves as the enemy rages all around us

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to try to confuse and divide and destroy us, Father.

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And I thank you, Jesus, you defeated him when you died on the cross

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and he couldn't stop you from raising from the dead.

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And you brought our petitions before the high court of heaven

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and God granted us salvation, grace, forgiveness, eternal life.

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And I thank you that that's finished, that is done.

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We don't have to work for that, you worked for that.

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And I thank you for giving us now wisdom and understanding.

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You said, I give you power over all the power of the enemy.

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Nothing shall by any means hurt you.

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You shall tread on serpents and scorpions.

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And so, Father God, there's plenty of serpents and scorpions and snakes and pythons

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and boconstrictors and leviathans out there, Father God.

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And I pray that you give your people courage, encourage their hearts and their minds today.

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I thank you for all who listen, thank you for taking the time to listen.

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And I thank you, God, now for the promise that no weapon formed against us will prosper.

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Ignorant of the enemy's devices.

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And we are diligent to make sure that we have made our petitions known to you,

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which you already know them, that you fortify our positions, Father,

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internally, externally, in our relationships.

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You give us wisdom to know how to answer people

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because you sent the Holy Spirit to live inside of us.

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That means we follow you.

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And so, Father, again, that no witchcraft, no practices of evil against us,

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that we have divine protection over ourselves, our families,

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those who work for us, pray for us and love us,

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that you cover and keep us in our health and safety from all of the demonic, divisive attacks,

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whether they're subtle or obvious,

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that you protect our physical bodies from the contaminations, the pollutions,

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all the devil's sorceries.

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Just protect us, Lord God, and give us wisdom and joy.

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And, Father, we thank you for the victory in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. Well, we're looking at John chapter 21.

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We're just going to use this as a starting point here today.

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John chapter 21, the setting is after Jesus was raised from the dead

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and he restores Peter.

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You know, Peter had denied Jesus several times, three times,

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but Jesus came to Peter, restored him.

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And here's a little bit of the conversation in John chapter 21, verse 20.

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Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following,

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that would be John, the disciple John,

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who also had leaned on his breast at the supper and said,

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Lord, who is the one who betrays you?

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Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, Lord, what about this man?

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He said, what about John now? What's going to happen with him?

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And Jesus said to him, if I will that he remains till I come,

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what is that to you? You follow me.

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So we are our brother's keeper, right?

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So he's concerned about, OK, well, what's John going to do?

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And but Peter said, don't worry.

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Jesus said to him, don't worry about that, Peter.

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You just go ahead and follow me.

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We all have our separate paths or individual paths that God has sort of laid out for us.

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It's a path that he is wanting to walk with us on that journey.

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And so with that comes the revelation of destiny,

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because each individual made an image of God, which we are, has a purpose.

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God didn't just create us for no reason.

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And so following him reveals that purpose.

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Reading his word reveals that purpose.

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Well, another thing, too, is that we're part of the body of Christ.

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We're interdependent. We need one another.

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We're an important part of the body of Christ.

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And so but yet we have an individual walk

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and we have choices to make within that individual walk with the Lord.

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And then we're going to jump over here to Second Timothy.

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And I'll call Paul in.

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Timothy is a young man.

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The apostle Paul is basically his mentor, training him and encouraging him.

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And he's talking here in Second Timothy.

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We're starting with chapter two, breaking into chapter two and verse 16.

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And then we're going to look at a little bit in chapter three

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and then maybe one verse in chapter in chapter four.

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And so there's there's he's Paul is comparing and contrasting.

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He's saying, here's what's going to be going on in the world.

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Here's what you're going to be facing as a servant of Christ.

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He says, but he says, others might be doing this, but here's what you are to do.

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OK, one of the first thing he says, he says,

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he says, well, let's look at first beginning with verse 14 in Second Timothy chapter two.

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He says, remind them of these things.

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Timothy is called to be like a pastor over overseer.

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Remind them of these things,

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charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit.

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To the ruin of the hearers.

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He says, be diligent to present yourself approved to God,

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a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Then he says this.

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And there's a lot of there's a lot of butts in the Bible.

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But that conjunction, I guess, is not what it is.

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It's a conjunction.

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It's giving the other side.

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But he said, shun verse 16, shun profane and idle babblings,

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for they will increase to more ungodliness.

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So he's saying, OK, think of it now is you.

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It's you.

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You and the Lord, you following the Lord in the context of the body of Christ.

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He said, OK, all this is going to be having what you're going to find out.

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There's going to be profane and idle babblings.

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Do we have any of that today, Marjorie?

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Oh, Lord God, have mercy on controversy, division, everybody.

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And, you know, the thing is, again, we're trying to figure out what there was no

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Internet then, right?

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That was a blessing back then.

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But they already had problems.

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But just even in human interactions are always the devil's always trying to bring

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some contention, conflict or chaos.

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I mean, that's his his plan to buy and conquer people on the Internet.

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You can spout off and on the reels and all the different things on TikTok

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and they can spout off about anything they want and go on about anything they

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want. Doesn't have to be true.

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Everybody's got a little, you know, axe to grind or something.

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Opinions of every sort.

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He says, don't get caught up in those kinds of discussions.

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In what does it say?

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Profane and idle babblings.

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Don't get caught up in those.

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Well, gossip and opinions and stuff going on.

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You know, things that can cause irritations, frustrations, offenses, I guess,

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is a good word.

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Yeah. And just distraction and confusion.

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But then let's look at Chapter three of Second Timothy.

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Here's another. But he says, but know this, that in the last days,

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perilous times will come.

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The word perilous mean times of danger, times of evil, times of stress.

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Do we have that here right now?

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Are we there?

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No, that be aware of there.

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He says, don't let that surprise you.

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Men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers,

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disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unforgiving,

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unloving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal,

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despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty,

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lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness.

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They'll be religious in the midst of all this stuff.

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This is this is this is just like a description of our world today, isn't it?

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Yeah. Having a form of godliness, but denying its power.

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We've got all this religion. We've got all these churches and church buildings

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and religions all, you know, everywhere, everywhere.

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Overwhelming. But there's no form of godliness, no power, no power.

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You know, going back to the first part of that, the last days, perilous times.

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Men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money.

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That pulls me into Luke chapter 16, where Jesus is talking to the Pharisees.

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Luke 16, 14, he says, now the Pharisees who are lovers of money.

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So you see, the lovers of money or the greed or the covetousness goes along with religion.

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It goes along with, you know, that self-righteous arrogance that I'm better than you because I'm a Pharisee.

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Well, there's but anyway, he says, you know, who will be lovers of money

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also heard all these things and they derided him.

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And he said, derided, what does that mean? Turned over, resisted, scolded, yeah, scoffed at him.

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And he said to them, you are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts.

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For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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The law and the prophets were until John.

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Since that time, the kingdom of God has been preached and everyone is pressing into it.

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It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the law to fail.

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In other words, he's all his words, all his dots and commas are going to be preserved

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and be held in place as the final reckoning begins.

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And then he says, you justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts.

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This is very important to know that God knows your heart.

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A lot of times the devil will come and accuse you of you should have, couldn't have, it's your fault, why didn't you?

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You take responsibility, blah, blah, blah, you sinned, it's your fault, you're guilty.

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But God, Jesus knows your heart.

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So go back to the truth. You don't even know your own heart.

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The Bible says, if my heart condemns me, God is greater than my heart and knows all things.

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So let God judge you and not your opinions, not your demon impersonators and protectors and not other people.

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Surrender your heart to God and say, Lord, forgive me, have mercy upon and bring me to the truth.

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Because in these last days, truth is the only thing that's going to protect us.

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So they were also justifying themselves, loving money and God, Jesus, that's an abomination to God.

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And then he says, everybody was pressing into the kingdom.

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The kingdom is being preached and everyone is pressing into it.

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That's exactly where we are right now.

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There's that dividing line. People are pressing in, they're pressing in or they're being pushed out.

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So that's where we're at.

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And there's a great declension he talks about in verse six.

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For of this sort, he continues, the form of God is denying the power.

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Turn away from such people.

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Verse six, for of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various.

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Can I speak to that for a second?

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How do you creep into a house these days?

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You know, we've got smoke alarms and dog alarms and, you know, how do you sneak in?

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Well, here's how you sneak in.

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You sneak in through the Internet, through the TV.

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You creep into their house and make captives of gullible women, women who are busybodies, not, you know, bored, trying to kill time.

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That just doesn't mean women.

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It means kids and dads as well.

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So the devil is trying to creep into our houses through the Internet, through the TV to try to distract us from the truth of what's really going on.

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Mesmerize us.

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Give us a way of escape.

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You know, you know, kind of passively destroy us because we're not resisting this evil that's crept into our house.

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And in verse seven, Second Timothy three, seven, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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So we've got more education and less wisdom than we've ever had in the United States.

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Because our foundation is wrong.

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And so when you're building on a crooked, broken, you know, skewed up foundation, your building is going to be crooked.

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And the truth that we're holding as truth, as the truth, as the absolute truth, for the most part, our conglomeration of, you know, what we think, what other people say, what's been done in our traditions, what the church says, what the politics say.

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And it's all it's not a foundation at all.

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The only foundation you can have is in the word of God.

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So if you are confused, it's just allow the Lord to just sweep off, you know, even bulldoze down that old deprogram you in those ways that you think.

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And let the Lord begin to lay this thing line upon line, precept upon precept, understanding who God is, understanding why Jesus came, understanding how Jesus handled human, the human race.

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And just begin to know the truth that's already been put in you in your spirit by God.

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And the word of God deprograms you and reprograms you with the truth.

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And he said, now, verse eight, and now as jannies and jamborees resisted Moses, those are the magicians.

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Yeah, I was going to say musicians.

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Well, they could have been magicians.

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So that pulled the snakes out of their rods.

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They're the snake guys.

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So so do these resist the truth.

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Men of corrupt minds disapproved concerning of the faith.

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And he says, well, this is what's going on.

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But they will progress no further.

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Their time for their folly will be manifest to all as theirs was also was.

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So I think of that verse of God says we'll all have to give an account before the Lord of what we did both in the body.

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And they're not going to get by with it.

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The time will come when it seems like they get by with it now.

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But every one of us are going to have to stand before God and give account.

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But verse 10, he says, but you, but you, he says, no, you're talking to you.

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Here's what's going on.

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And he says, OK, this is what you're going to be in this kind of crazy, evil atmosphere.

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Crisis.

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But he's torture.

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What you do.

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But you have carefully followed my doctrine.

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Manner of life.

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Purpose.

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Faith.

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Long suffering.

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Love.

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Perseverance.

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Persecutions.

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Afflictions.

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And out of them all, the Lord delivered me.

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So they were in a Paul and Timothy were in like a mentoring relationship.

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I don't like the term mentor.

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No, they were here.

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Disciple.

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God's Jesus.

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Make disciples.

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He says the way we make disciples is he says, you watched me.

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He says, just watch me and do what I do.

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But you notice here what he says.

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You carefully followed my doctrine.

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The doctrine that we follow today is not exactly unless you're reading the Bible very closely

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and observing and absorbing it very correctly.

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The doctrines that we preach now are not the originals that the Lord gave.

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Jesus gave his disciples for the doctors have been traditionalized.

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They've been fossilized.

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They've actually one of the interesting things.

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That's it.

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There's a comment that Jesus made.

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He made disciples.

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And the most deceptive things that will happen to the people in the last days.

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Remember, when you're fishing for fish, you got to know what the fish is hungry for.

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Now, in the last days, which were in the people are going to be the most hungry for the truth.

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And so everything is going to look like the truth.

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Everything is going to be dressed up to look like the truth.

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And so you're going to be the most hungry for the truth.

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Everything is going to look like the truth.

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Everything is going to be dressed up to look like the truth.

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And so we're going to bite on all kinds of false doctrines and, you know, quick schemes

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and shortcuts and all kinds of ways to catch up with rather than the true revelation,

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which is to surrender, allow God to restore you, correct you and remove from us all of this

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indoctrination and programming, much of which is mixed up with the church.

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And that's what people buy into because they want Jesus.

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They want God, but they have no idea what Jesus or what God they are getting.

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In Acts chapter two, verse 42, it says of the early church here,

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and they continued steadfastly in the apostles, apostles, doctrine and fellowship.

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So not only what they were teaching, but how they were.

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So what is the apostles doctrine?

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What is the thing Jesus said to do in Matthew chapter 10, verse six?

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What did he say?

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What was the job list he gave us?

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The doctrine?

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He says, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, preach the gospel,

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freely receive, freely give.

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And that's it.

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And so what he is saying basically is we are his hands and feet.

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He is working and bringing the kingdom, the harvest, the judgment,

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whatever he's doing to bring restoration to his creation through us and through

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the doctrine of follow me that Jesus gave us.

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Follow me.

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Of course, the core of the apostles doctrine is there is one savior.

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There's no other name given among men whereby we must be saved.

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Exactly.

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And that's the name of Jesus Christ.

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So the doctors, the doctors, the principles of the kingdom are really the

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Beatitudes as we've been given them by the Lord through Matthew and Luke to get to,

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you know, love one another, not judge one another.

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Discern, however, what's really going on.

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God doesn't say to judge, which means to bring final judgment on something,

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but he does mean to say to discern it.

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So he's giving us the gift.

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The Holy Spirit has given us the gift of discerning of spirits because there's a

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lot of things out there that look like Christ that are the Antichrist.

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And what an Antichrist is, is a spirit that comes guised or disguised as Christ to

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destroy the work of Christ.

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This is talked about in First John, chapter two and four.

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Be not deceived.

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Many will come in my name, Jesus said.

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And so you have the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit knows the truth.

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He's not deceived.

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He's not.

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And he's not here to deceive us either.

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He's here to lead us into all truth and triumph.

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That's his job.

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So being connected with a lot of people, I hear all this all the time.

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Jerry, I've got to do this.

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I need to do that.

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I need some more of this.

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I got to try harder.

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I got to get this.

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I got to get my act together.

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I got I got I need to.

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I need to.

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I've got to.

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And, you know, I'm saying, what are you saying?

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What is the Holy Spirit doing?

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You're doing all this stuff.

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You say, well, it's up to me.

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No, it's not up to you.

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It's up to you to follow.

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It's up to you to obey.

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When God's spirit leads you, convicts you to do something.

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That's where you get a chance to do something.

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Follow him.

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Obey him.

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Obey him.

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Submit to him.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, there's a lot of Christians.

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They're sincere in wanting to follow.

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They get so neurotic.

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Jesus didn't say, I've come to give you a neurosis.

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Or anxiety.

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And be careful.

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Be careful.

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Be careful.

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Be careful.

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You know, on your way to heaven, be careful.

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He never said that.

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We're alert to the devices of the enemy.

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Yeah.

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So we don't want to be just sleepy and stupid.

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You'll be afraid.

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Just follow Jesus.

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He said, you know, follow me.

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He said, you know, my job is to follow you.

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He said, you know, my job is to follow you.

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He said, you know, my job is to follow you.

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You just follow Jesus and he said, you know, follow me.

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He said, you know, my yoke is easy.

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My burden is light.

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Just come into me all.

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That labor heavy laden.

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I will give you rest.

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But we don't recognize rest as legitimate.

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We think of rest as being lazy or unproductive.

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Or, you know, just yeah, those things.

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Lazy and productive or stupid.

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So we don't see rest as being a tool to your

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life.

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We don't see rest as productive, as fruitful.

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And yet God says every seventh day you're supposed to rest on the Sabbath.

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And yet people don't take time to do that.

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They take time to catch up on the other things they didn't get time to do during the week

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because they were busy working.

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And so the thing is, rest is one of the things God has called us to do as part of following

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him.

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Abide, meditate, think upon things, ponder, read the word, feed yourself in the spirit.

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And then we might be super busy and there's a peace and there's a rest in the midst of

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all of it.

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He says in verse 13, but evil men and imposters, you know, imposters, people that are impersonators

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will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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Can I say something about that?

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We don't have to say a whole lot about it because it's obvious, but it's not obvious

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because deception is not an obvious thing.

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Oh, I'm being deceived today.

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Oh, I think I'll follow this deception today.

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We don't say that.

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We think it's true.

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That's that's what's deceiving.

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Being deceived is, you know, following something you believe is true.

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That's totally not true.

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And the divination spirit is just going nuts out there because divination is making the

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bad look good and the good look bad by using twisting, you know, twisting logic, twisting

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revelations, partial information, giving only reporting only one side of something or twisting

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it so that it'll look like something different than spinning, that's spinning and perverting

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and twisting.

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And he says, but imposters, you know, we think about I don't know if we even think about

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imposters out there, but they're full.

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It's full of the environment that is full of imposters imposing their lies, their doctrines

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for money, for scamming.

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There's so many scammers out there.

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But the thing is, the imposter that we most have to wonder or worry about is the one not

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worry, but be aware of actually is the one that tries to impersonate us to ourselves

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to get talks to us through our own language, our own words, our own mouth, to get us to

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believe that the things we're saying and thinking and feeling are us.

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And he's impersonating us to ourselves and we don't catch on.

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And so we we buy into and agree with I am stupid.

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I'm I'm depressed.

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I'm never going to make it.

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I'm a loser.

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I can't do this.

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I am tired.

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We buy into these kinds of things that are coming out of our own mouths because that's

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where Satan tempts us, through our mouth and our mind.

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He says in verse 14, but you must continue in the things which you have learned and have

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been assured of knowing from whom you've learned them.

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Paul is totally credible.

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But you know what?

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A lot of people aren't assured.

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They're not assured because they haven't seen the fruit.

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You know, the Bible says, you know, that there will be signs and wonders.

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The enemy is going to be doing signs and wonders, too.

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So he can impersonate.

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He can do his magic smoke and mirrors tricks.

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He can lead a lot of people.

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So people are doubtful, double minded, not sure, not sure of.

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The only way you're going to be sure of or assured of the doctrine is to follow the Lord

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consistently, know the word and follow the Holy Spirit, you know, listen to the Holy

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Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit is going to lead you into all truth.

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The Holy Spirit is not going to lead you into some goofy doctrine.

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Well, there's a lot of holy people have been let, good people, let into stupid doctrines

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because they don't know what the word of God says.

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That's the foundation.

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Yeah.

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And God left those words there for us to find the truth.

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And then we can throw out this goofiness, you know.

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We'll sniff it out.

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We'll be able to sniff it out.

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There's a lot of doctrines out there floating around that people are thinking are right

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and they're not.

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Yeah.

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You know, you might be a bestseller.

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All right.

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He says, from childhood, you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you

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wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

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His mother, Eunice, and his, I think it was Lois, was his grandmother.

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They would taught him the scriptures.

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And so those of you that have still have young children at home, teach him the scriptures.

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You don't have to try to pound it into him, but.

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Well, live it out before them.

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You know, it's best, it's best caught, not taught in a way.

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I mean, you can sit down and lecture them and read the Bible to them, but if they don't

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see it lived out in your life, they're going to call you a hypocrite and they're going

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to call that scripture worthless.

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And be the, be the Bible to them.

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Yeah.

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Let them be the epistle that they're, you be the epistle that they're reading.

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And he says, all scripture, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable

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for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the

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man of God may be complete, a woman of God, right?

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Thoroughly.

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Be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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And the revelation, Samuel, you go to the old Testament when Samuel was a little boy,

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kind of under the tutelage of the high priest, Eli.

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And it says that the Lord revealed himself to Samuel by the word of the Lord.

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So I want a revelation, well, you know, the revelation is given in writing here.

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And as you, as you meditate and rightly divide it, we talked about that earlier, rightly

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dividing the word of truth.

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Don't just hack it up and grab a verse here and a verse there that doesn't really.

477
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We see this today.

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We see a lot of the young children, young middle, middle school, elementary school,

479
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even kindergarten and going on to their early twenties, you see that God is speaking to

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them through his word.

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They're not getting this in their classrooms and not getting this from parents are not

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getting it from their video games.

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And they're getting God is himself pouring in out of the mouth of babes.

484
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He is beginning to restore the witness.

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But here it says to be, to be that there be an assurance and that this assurance is

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to give us authority by inspiration of God as profitable for doctrine, reproof and correction.

487
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,920
These three things are pretty much missing from the church these days, especially the

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reproof and correction.

489
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Nobody wants to step on anybody's toes.

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Nobody wants to do it.

491
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Paul said in First Corinthians, you know, call out that sin and get that guy restored.

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But you're not going to get him restored until you call a halt to this.

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Call it to the light and, you know, operate that way.

494
00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:46,839
But so correction and reproof and instruction, you know, that's just everybody's truth is

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00:26:46,839 --> 00:26:50,119
your truth is my truth and my truth can be your truth and we don't have to have anybody's

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00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:51,119
to we can just do it.

497
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,040
We want truth, make up our own truth, make up our own truth.

498
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Yeah.

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And so then there's no doctrine.

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There's no authority.

501
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,040
There's no stability.

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And Paul, of course, flies in the face of that.

503
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Jesus had sanctified them, set them apart through your truth.

504
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And John 17, your word is truth.

505
00:27:07,719 --> 00:27:11,640
And let's look here in Chapter four, verse one of Second Timothy.

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I charge you, therefore, as I suggest, he says, do it now, therefore, before God and

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the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead as at his appearing?

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Preach the word.

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Don't preach just theory opinions.

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Preach the word.

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Be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and

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teaching.

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So what happens here is that when you're preaching the word, you're going to run into a lot of

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error.

515
00:27:40,479 --> 00:27:42,079
You're going to run into a lot of opinions.

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00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:44,839
You're going to run into a lot of doctrines.

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00:27:44,839 --> 00:27:52,280
So you are going to be an apologetic, apologetist to restore credibility to the word by helping

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00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:57,719
them to understand line upon line what I said before and rebuking.

519
00:27:57,719 --> 00:28:03,479
Disciples people need to be corrected because they're going the wrong direction.

520
00:28:03,479 --> 00:28:07,359
Exhorting that means to encourage them and be patient, be longsuffering, because you

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know that this is a battle.

522
00:28:08,839 --> 00:28:11,640
You know, the devil is going to come after them and try to talk them out of what you

523
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:12,959
just told them.

524
00:28:12,959 --> 00:28:15,859
And there's going to be as internal battles for over the truth.

525
00:28:15,859 --> 00:28:18,000
Do I believe what God says or do I believe what it looks like?

526
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,040
Do I believe what God says or do I believe what people say or how I feel?

527
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:28,079
So this process of discipling is a longsuffering, patient teaching.

528
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And also don't be a hypocrite.

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00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,119
If you're telling them to do something, then don't do the opposite yourself.

530
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,280
Be credible and be legitimate because I tell you what, the one thing that turns people

531
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:45,079
off faster than anything else is double standards and hypocrisy and injustice.

532
00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:49,160
For the time will come, verse three, when they will not endure sound doctrine.

533
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,439
They won't put up with it.

534
00:28:50,439 --> 00:28:55,800
But according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up

535
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for themselves teachers and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned

536
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:09,400
aside to fables, made up stories, fairy tales, false gospels, feel good gospels, the prosperity

537
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,640
gospels, fables, fables, fables.

538
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:17,719
You know, these gospels that are preached, if you take one aspect of the gospel, say

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00:29:17,719 --> 00:29:19,839
prosperity, for example, just example.

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00:29:19,839 --> 00:29:26,599
Yes, God wants us to prosper and be in health and prosper even as our soul is in health.

541
00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:32,079
But the thing is, if you just make that the whole gospel, then it's like you're not really

542
00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:34,359
giving them a balanced diet of what's really the truth.

543
00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:40,359
Yes, we can believe God for a restoration and supply and blessings and things like that,

544
00:29:40,359 --> 00:29:41,359
of course.

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But there's also the other parts of the gospel, like everyone who lives Godly is going to

546
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,359
suffer persecution for righteousness sake.

547
00:29:48,359 --> 00:29:49,560
There's that side of the gospel, too.

548
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:57,079
So when you have to get a balanced diet in the gospel, by reading the Bible.

549
00:29:57,079 --> 00:30:01,400
Let's look at verse five of Second Timothy four, and this is what we'll conclude with

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here today.

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But you, but you, but all this junk is going on.

552
00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:12,760
False doctrine, false prophets, evil men, seducers were getting worse and worse.

553
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,760
Paul says, OK, I'm letting you know what's really going to be going on.

554
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,239
And that was going on then.

555
00:30:18,239 --> 00:30:19,239
Yeah.

556
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And it's multiplied much more.

557
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,560
Can't even do that multiplication factor.

558
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:26,560
Yeah.

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But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist,

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00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,400
fulfill your ministry.

561
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,319
Be watchful, be alert.

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00:30:40,319 --> 00:30:45,400
Peter says your adversary, the devil walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he

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00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,400
may devour.

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00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,400
Endure afflictions, afflictions.

565
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,599
You're going to have trouble.

566
00:30:50,599 --> 00:30:51,599
There's going to be attacks.

567
00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:54,119
There's going to be trials and all that stuff.

568
00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:55,880
But just keep going.

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00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,439
Do the work of an evangelist.

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00:30:57,439 --> 00:31:01,719
An evangelist means sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.

571
00:31:01,719 --> 00:31:05,099
Do that and fulfill your ministry.

572
00:31:05,099 --> 00:31:07,319
What is complete your ministry?

573
00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:10,739
What is God calling you to do specifically?

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00:31:10,739 --> 00:31:15,000
What's interesting that when God says complete and equipped, God will never lead you into

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00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,380
a place where he doesn't give you a way out.

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00:31:17,380 --> 00:31:18,459
God is the God of escape.

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00:31:18,459 --> 00:31:22,819
So even if you're in a tight spot right now, you're cornered on every hand, you can't move

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00:31:22,819 --> 00:31:26,540
forward, you know, you're trapped, whatever that looks like, you can always make one more

579
00:31:26,540 --> 00:31:31,300
move and that's directly going up, up to the Lord, up to the throne of grace, up to God

580
00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:33,660
ask for help and mercy in time of trouble.

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00:31:33,660 --> 00:31:34,660
God has equipped us.

582
00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:38,060
He never abandons us in the middle of the battle.

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00:31:38,060 --> 00:31:40,300
He's given you what you need.

584
00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:42,020
Look to him for the way.

585
00:31:42,020 --> 00:31:43,219
Jesus, I'm the way.

586
00:31:43,219 --> 00:31:48,260
So there's always one way out of every situation that will cause us to be equipped and that

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00:31:48,260 --> 00:31:49,660
we will be complete at the end.

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00:31:49,660 --> 00:31:54,260
And by the way, all of us are going to give and count before God of the things that we've

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00:31:54,260 --> 00:31:56,020
done, how we've walked it out.

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00:31:56,020 --> 00:31:57,319
Now this isn't to scare you.

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00:31:57,319 --> 00:32:00,699
This is to encourage you because we have, there is a reward.

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00:32:00,699 --> 00:32:02,180
There is a day of reckoning.

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00:32:02,180 --> 00:32:06,579
There is a day of redemption, completion of the beginning of the work Jesus did on the

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00:32:06,579 --> 00:32:07,739
cross.

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00:32:07,739 --> 00:32:08,900
And we're looking forward to that day.

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00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:10,939
I know we haven't seen that day yet.

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00:32:10,939 --> 00:32:15,819
I know we can hardly comprehend it because of we're so trapped in the, in this, this,

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00:32:15,819 --> 00:32:17,979
these several dimensions we're in here.

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00:32:17,979 --> 00:32:22,699
But there are dimensions beyond this where the king of kings rules and reigns the Lord

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00:32:22,699 --> 00:32:31,459
of Lords is coming back actually on white horses to deliver justice and rescue those

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00:32:31,459 --> 00:32:32,780
who yet remain on the earth.

602
00:32:32,780 --> 00:32:36,699
So nonetheless, whether you're going to live to see that, or you're going to die before

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00:32:36,699 --> 00:32:38,540
that, we don't know.

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00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:42,140
So be ready in season, in season, out of season, all the time, every day.

605
00:32:42,140 --> 00:32:46,099
We say, well, I haven't served God for 40 years and now you want me to just turn around

606
00:32:46,099 --> 00:32:47,099
and start serving God?

607
00:32:47,099 --> 00:32:48,099
Yes.

608
00:32:48,099 --> 00:32:49,099
Yes.

609
00:32:49,099 --> 00:32:50,099
Yes.

610
00:32:50,099 --> 00:32:51,099
Of course.

611
00:32:51,099 --> 00:32:52,099
Because he's, well, that was all wasted.

612
00:32:52,099 --> 00:32:53,099
No, it wasn't.

613
00:32:53,099 --> 00:32:55,140
Because God was writing his testimony in you to draw you out of that mess, to give glory

614
00:32:55,140 --> 00:32:58,619
to himself about he's faithful to complete the work he's begun in you and to snatch you

615
00:32:58,619 --> 00:33:00,420
out of the hand of the terrible one.

616
00:33:00,420 --> 00:33:04,439
And so everything that's been in your life is rightly accounted for.

617
00:33:04,439 --> 00:33:08,540
But that the point where God gives you salvation is the day is the day of salvation.

618
00:33:08,540 --> 00:33:10,939
And so turn and follow him.

619
00:33:10,939 --> 00:33:11,939
Lay down.

620
00:33:11,939 --> 00:33:15,380
I've wasted too much time and I can't do it and it's too late.

621
00:33:15,380 --> 00:33:18,500
Shut up, enemy, and walk with Jesus.

622
00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,699
Every one of us are called into a specific ministry.

623
00:33:21,699 --> 00:33:27,099
We tend to think of ministry as if you're a pastor or teacher or something like that.

624
00:33:27,099 --> 00:33:29,619
What is God calling you to do?

625
00:33:29,619 --> 00:33:35,380
And just all he expects you to do is just to love him, follow him and do what he tells

626
00:33:35,380 --> 00:33:36,579
you to do.

627
00:33:36,579 --> 00:33:38,780
Go to where he calls you to go.

628
00:33:38,780 --> 00:33:41,339
Be where God calls you to be.

629
00:33:41,339 --> 00:33:43,640
Say what he's calling you to do.

630
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:44,640
Whatever the time.

631
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:51,819
There's a whole wonderful variety of ministry that the Lord has for you.

632
00:33:51,819 --> 00:33:57,300
Ministry is simply serving, doing what he says, being a blessing to others, communicating

633
00:33:57,300 --> 00:34:03,180
the gospel of Jesus Christ in various, various ways in your station, in your home, in your

634
00:34:03,180 --> 00:34:11,659
job, in your community, wherever you are, be a light, be a light for Jesus.

635
00:34:11,659 --> 00:34:17,060
And yeah, and the Lord, the Lord will protect you and Satan cannot snuff it out in the midst

636
00:34:17,060 --> 00:34:18,979
of all this evil Jesus.

637
00:34:18,979 --> 00:34:20,260
We stand.

638
00:34:20,260 --> 00:34:25,860
You will do what he's called us to do regardless of what others are doing.

639
00:34:25,860 --> 00:34:31,060
So Lord, thank you so much for your love and your grace, Lord, for each of us, Lord

640
00:34:31,060 --> 00:34:32,060
God.

641
00:34:32,060 --> 00:34:33,060
And we can look around.

642
00:34:33,060 --> 00:34:34,060
Yeah, we are.

643
00:34:34,060 --> 00:34:35,060
We look around.

644
00:34:35,060 --> 00:34:38,459
We have our brothers and sisters in Christ are doing various things and we want to support

645
00:34:38,459 --> 00:34:43,179
them in and what they are called to do.

646
00:34:43,179 --> 00:34:48,300
We live in the context of the body of Christ, but we have we have an individual role to

647
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:54,179
fulfill, just like individual parts of our body have individual roles to fulfill.

648
00:34:54,179 --> 00:34:58,500
And so, Lord, I just pray that if there's any confusion about, Lord, what the thing

649
00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:05,860
is to our first ministry is to the Lord, to love you, Lord, to to just thank you and praise

650
00:35:05,860 --> 00:35:10,340
you and live in your word and let you love on us, let you teach us.

651
00:35:10,340 --> 00:35:14,179
And then out of that, there will be specific things that he asked you to do.

652
00:35:14,179 --> 00:35:19,219
He said, Jesus, you know, be like I said, Lord, here I am.

653
00:35:19,219 --> 00:35:20,219
Send me.

654
00:35:20,219 --> 00:35:21,219
Amen.

655
00:35:21,219 --> 00:35:26,659
And Father, God, we thank you also for the availability of equipping us through the word

656
00:35:26,659 --> 00:35:33,060
of God and through the the things that are written that you can we can learn the weapons,

657
00:35:33,060 --> 00:35:37,020
the tools, understanding, really understanding is very important.

658
00:35:37,020 --> 00:35:40,100
So you understand the word of God and how it works together.

659
00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:45,340
One of the books that I wrote is called Taking the Devil to Court.

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00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:49,219
We haven't talked about this for a long time, but this is also on Amazon or life recovery

661
00:35:49,219 --> 00:35:50,219
dot com.

662
00:35:50,219 --> 00:35:56,620
And it really gives you the backdrop really quickly on how the enemy works in our lives

663
00:35:56,620 --> 00:36:03,260
to pull us away from the truth and pull us away from our determination to follow Jesus

664
00:36:03,260 --> 00:36:04,260
Christ.

665
00:36:04,260 --> 00:36:05,260
So taking the devil to court.

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Go and check that out and thank you for joining us.

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Do radio cause there's a war for your soul.