"Recognizing False Truths" 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, we know, we know the war is all around us.

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The war is within us.

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We are quite aware, Father.

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We thank you that your will be done.

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Your kingdom come in this war, that your purposes, your plan,

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your will, your kingdom, your will, all of it,

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yours be done on earth and in through us as it's being done

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and declared in heaven.

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That will and that kingdom begins in within us,

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inside of us, inside of our own hearts, minds, and understanding.

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So Lord God, open our eyes today, open our ears today, cause

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and let us allow the Holy Spirit to bring his conviction to

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us today, his correction, his counsel, that we will be led

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and not misled by the deceptions of these last days.

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And I thank you, Jesus, that you've surrendered to the will

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of your Father, submitted completely, thy will be done, thy

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kingdom come, you said, and you did what had to be done.

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And thank you for dying for us, exchanging your life for

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ours, and putting us in the place of salvation and safety

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rather than destruction and death.

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And I thank you also, Lord, for giving us your holy word.

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And may we rightly divide your word today as we seek to

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understand some of the more, I don't know, more deep or

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complicated issues of life.

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And I thank you that you quicken us by the power of your

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Holy Spirit to reveal those things to us at a level of

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understanding that we can grasp.

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And I thank you for the promise, the surrounding protections

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and promises you've given us that according to your covenant

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with us, that no weapon formed against us will prosper, that

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the words and deeds of the enemy will not take effect, will

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not take hold, cannot bring forth fruit in our lives, in

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the lives of our loved ones, in our purposes to which you've

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called us, in our destinies, that everything that Satan has

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tried to do to plot against us will re-backfire and turn out

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together for our good and blessing.

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Father, we ask these things in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Well, there's a very intriguing verse in the Bible.

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It says, that says, if the light that is in to be darkness,

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how great is that darkness?

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What is God saying in that, you know, riddle, so to speak?

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If the light, if what you believe to be true and are acting

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on as true in your life is not the truth, then how deep and

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deceptive is that darkness?

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Yeah, also in Isaiah chapter 5 verse 20.

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It says, woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who

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put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter

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for sweet and sweet for bitter.

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It says, woe to those, continuing on in 21, who are wise

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in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight.

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So their source of wisdom, their source of prudence, is

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coming from within a place, a source different than the

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Lord himself.

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So it's a true deception.

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You know, when you're deceived, you don't realize you're

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being deceived.

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And then what you think is true and right, if it's not true

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and right, but you believe it to be so, Jesus said, that

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darkness is very deep, very scary.

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Because you don't even know you're being deceived.

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It's one thing for you to deceive, tell lies, tell lies

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to others.

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But when we are believing the lies ourselves and don't recognize

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them as lies because we have been so deceived and conned

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and the cunning of Satan has pulled us into that agreement.

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It becomes terrifying.

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Jesus said in Matthew 13, he said, blessed are your eyes

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for they see and your ears for they hear.

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So he's saying there is a place where we are actually blessed

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where we can know the truth.

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And so the question becomes then, how can we know if the

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light that is in this is light or darkness?

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How can we tell if we don't know what is the light in the

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first place?

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How do we discern?

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And a lot of times the problem is, you know, with our

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discernment is we're looking at things through a lens, a

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lens of a belief system, generational curses, behaviors,

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other people's.

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We're looking at our lives through a lens and we're trying

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to determine truth by looking through a dirty, muddy lens

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and it doesn't work because the lens is not the Lord and

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not the word.

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So those dirty, muddy lenses are formed by our experiences

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and what we've grown up with.

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You know, we've grown up with different maybe religious

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ideas, ideas about God, ideas about life, and we think that's

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that's the way things are.

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That's the way it is.

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And it may be totally far from what the truth really is.

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And so yeah, it's the truth.

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It's the truth that is that sets us free, but it's the truth

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that is the standard.

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So you have to have there's a standard.

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There's a truth.

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I mean, it's all the lies in this world system is full of

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lies.

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Yeah, and we're constantly presented as the truth, presented

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as truth, presented as good.

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You know, we have you don't have to think very far these

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days to see where all the things, the perversion that is

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put forth as good as the truth.

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Yeah, this is good.

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Well, that's called it's not good.

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Yeah, everything from, you know, advertising on television

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to stuff on the Internet.

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It's stuff is presented as something as truth is something

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that's good, not evil.

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Yeah, but when you know the truth, you can see you can see

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that you put it up to the standard of the truth, the word

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of God, Jesus Christ, who is the truth, and then it exposed

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the truth exposes the error.

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And that's why the truth is hated.

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But in first in the Gospel of John chapter one, we talk

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about Jesus coming into the world as the true light, you

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know, not the false light, not the darkness that appears

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to be light, but he was the one who was the true light

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which gives light verse 9 chapter 1 verse 9 to light

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everyone who comes into the world.

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So he was in the world and the world was made through

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him and the world did not comprehend him or did not

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know him.

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He came into his own and his own did not receive him.

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So there you have the beginning of the of the false light

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that's trying to blind blinded by the false light so that

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you cannot see the true light.

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So Jesus is the true light.

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He comes to that light examines what we're believing

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examines what we're doing examines and reveals in our

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hearts our intentions our motives our goals and assesses

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them according to the our adherence to the true light

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of God.

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And so in the same Gospel John chapter 3, he's talking

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about verse 19.

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He says and this is the condemnation that light has come

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into the world and man that loved darkness rather than

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light because why because their deeds were evil and evil

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deeds don't want to be exposed by the truth or by the light

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Jesus is the truth.

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He's the light.

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It's kind of the same thing.

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He's the he sets us free with the truth.

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He brings light into our life, but everyone who practices

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evil hates the light and does not come to the light.

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Why lest his deed should be exposed because we don't want

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to be exposed but he who does the truth comes to the light.

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So he who does the truth wants the truth walks in the truth

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that he's created to walk in by the Most High as he made

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us in his image and likeness to love the truth as we walk

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in that in that truth of who we are where we've come from.

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We will those people will come to the light that their deeds

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may be clearly seen that they have been done in God.

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So again, how do we know though Jesus said in Matthew by

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their fruits you shall know them.

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So when we're trying to discern what the light is if it's

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true light or a false light or if it's a light that a darkness

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that appears to be like what we must actually end up doing

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is, you know, very honestly looking at the fruit that's

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coming out of that that following that light that whatever

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we're agreeing with.

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Yeah that in the fruit sometimes it takes a while for the

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fruit to appear.

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It seems like it's so good but you know, you can be

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enticed with you know, something as simple as alcohol

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or drug use or something like that.

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It seems oh so good illicit sex can seem like it's so good.

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But what is it?

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What is the fruit of it?

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What is the long-term fruit of it?

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It's very, you know, he says in James says you sow to the

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flesh and you will of the flesh rape corruption, which is

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destruction is the end of that when we think of something

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that is seems to be good at first but it turns out that

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it's actually darkness, but we don't see it and we ended

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up destroying our lives.

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Well, the Bible says to what the heart is full of the mouth

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speaks are out of the abundance of the heart the mouth

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speaks.

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So you're going to see the fruit of your life beginning

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in the heart what the heart is pondering what the heart

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is can't contemplating what the heart is full of comes

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out of the mouth.

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So that's part of the fruit to its part of revealing, you

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know, whether it's bitterness contention strife control

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envy murder violence all the things that we know are

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unrighteous or is the heart speaking things that that

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pertain to God in the character of God.

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And so again, we can begin to see if we're being deceived

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by a light a false light by if we honestly look at what's

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coming out of our mouth and out of our lives the actions

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the behaviors but the thing is so how do we know if we're

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deceived?

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Well Jesus again, he said by their fruits you shall know

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them.

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So the you know the by their fruits will we look at do

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we want to look at what's really coming out of our life

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or would or do we want to make an excuse or blame someone

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else or blame God or even blame ourselves for the behaviors

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and not allow the Holy Spirit to call those those behaviors

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into the light to let them be examined by the word of

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God.

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So the word of God is light and so when our deeds are

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examined by the word of God do they line up with what

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the the heart of God the fruit of the Holy Spirit

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righteousness peace and joy do what we're doing and

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saying really line up or can we make it just we kind of

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make it try to look like it's lining up with what God

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has for us and a lot of times like what you read there

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in John chapter 3 verse 19.

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We don't want the truth.

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You know, there's a line from an old movie says you

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can't handle the truth.

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But and so truth is a blessing, you know freedom is

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brings freedom the someone said that the truth will

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set you free.

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But at first it will make you miserable or mad because

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we don't want to be exposed.

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We want to be living in darkness.

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We know just like like rats living in the darkness of

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sin.

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We don't want to be exposed but it's a blessing to be

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exposed those that bring us the truth are our true

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friends.

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They're the ones that totally care about us, even

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though we don't like to hear it.

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We don't like to hear it because we realize and it's

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hard.

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It's really hard Marjorie for us to admit that we're

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wrong.

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Yeah, or deceive haven't seen or that we've seen in

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part of it.

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It has to be a revelation, right?

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Because there's pride about revelation because there's

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fear information doesn't get it to get it to you.

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But when you realize oh my goodness, and that's what

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repentance is repentance is simply realizing.

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Hey, I was going in the wrong direction going in the

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wrong direction now, and I agree that Lord you said

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I've been going in the wrong direction, but you have

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provided a correct direction for me and giving us

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well, it's not always easy to correct the direction

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or going in because what is happening inside of us.

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We think it's us making this decision to go in this

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particular direction or do this thin or whatever it

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is, but really it's not us.

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I'm doing what I do not want to do.

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It's not me doing it, but we don't realize we're up

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against a force an entity a resistance the spirit

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of Rebellion a spirit of hardness of heart a spirit

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of deception that is holding us and wanting to keep

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us bound in that place of of deception and in prison

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us in a bondage to a false light.

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that there's an internal battle going on inside of

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us as well.

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It's not just me trying to be good or me trying to

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change or me trying to you know, turn around it is a

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real fight to turn around because there's stubbornness

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there's pride there's there's a shame there's guilt.

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There's all kinds of disobedience and resistance to me

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returning to my true self because my true self made

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in the image of God loves truth and righteousness

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and light and goodness, but the enemy is trying to

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pour me into a mold lock me in a prison a concrete

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prison of bitterness pride fear unbelief doubt stubbornness

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witchcraft Rebellion that keeps me locked in a place

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of just of death actually and a lot of us are you

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know, all of us really are influenced by various

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leaders people who supposedly are the ones who

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give us the truth that influence us and Jesus said

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in John Matthew 15 myth.

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I'm sorry Matthew 15 14.

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He said well in verse 13 hit the answer and said

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every plant that my heavenly father has not planted

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will be uprooted let them alone referring to the

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Pharisees the scribes and so forth.

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They are blind leaders of the blind and if the blind

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leads the blind both will fall into a ditch.

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We have that influence false leaders and you know

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that brings to the point the word Pharisees hypocrisy

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that what that they were these Pharisees that Jesus

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ran to the religious behavior of the self-righteous

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spiritually blind leaders these Pharisees they were

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the guardians of the light.

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They were they were, you know, a self-appointed

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guardians.

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They were experts, you know on interpreting Old Testament

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scriptures.

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They had studied they had awarded themselves the positions

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and titles of Rabbi and scholars and they were excellent

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at disputing the law.

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And so they were really divisive in that they weren't

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bringing the law together to be presented as one thing

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that they were arguing this side of the coin versus

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that said the coin and they had different schools of

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thought and so it was very very difficult for the

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people to come and people to figure out do I go with

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A or B do I go with heads or tails their knowledge

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and their education their higher levels of learning

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and their sophisticated lifestyles kind of excluded

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them cause them to become puffed up and this puffing

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up causes love to shrink.

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They did not see as a as Jesus comments in Revelation.

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They did not see that they are poor wretched blind

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and naked.

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So what we can first discern as a indication that

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we're being following a false light is the fruit of

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what's going on.

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And then of course we have to examine that fruit with

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integrity and say, you know, this isn't what God

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says, you know, we don't want to be just hearers of

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the word but doers also because if you just just

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hear it and don't do it it actually becomes an open

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door to deception as Jesus said.

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Let's bring this home here to those of us who claim

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to be followers of Jesus.

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Okay, Revelation 317 and we're in the discussion

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there about the church at Laodicea.

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They were lukewarm.

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They were not hot or cold.

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I'd rather have you be hot or cold in your house.

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You're lukewarm.

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I feel like I can I want to puke you out of my mouth

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is basically what I'm saying.

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You make me nauseated and they thought they were

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doing so good.

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I mean we go to church.

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We have a great church great building great pastor.

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Everything's going good.

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We you know, we got missions going on all this kind

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of building program going on new campuses popping

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up everywhere campus here campus there.

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But what did Jesus say to them?

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He said Because you say I am rich and have become

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wealthy and have need of nothing.

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Yeah, and do not know that you are wretched poor

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miserable poor blind and naked.

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So the deception is that they're they have all

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this luxury on top of it all is wonderful the Pharisees

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they were honored and you know, we've got everything

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and everything looks good.

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But underneath we're poor wretched blind and naked

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and we don't if you don't get to that place where

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you can actually admit that that's what's really

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going on.

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That's really the fruit of what's going on in your

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life.

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You're poor wretched blind and naked or you're

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trying so hard to control things so that you can

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be okay.

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It's it's it's a game.

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It's a it's a we're caught up in the devil's snare,

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you know, and even Paul again.

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He talks about this.

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He says in first, I mean second Corinthians 11.

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He says but I fear less somehow as the serpent

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deceived Eve by his craftiness.

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So your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity

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that is in Christ.

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So Satan is trying to deceive with lots of complications,

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you know, making things look complicated and like

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there's no there's a third kingdom and we can't

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really know these things and we've got to just

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you know, whatever that all looks like just do the

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best we can but he also in that same chapter talks

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about the false Apostles the deceitful workers

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of those who are trying to be look like their

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Apostles like they've really paid the price, but

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they haven't false Apostles deceitful workers

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transforming themselves into Apostles of Christ

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Satan himself also transforms himself into an

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angel of light.

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This is the gimmick.

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This is the process where Satan wants to be God.

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He wants to look like God to you.

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He wants to be your Savior.

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He wants to set up a problem and bring the solution

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so you can look like he's you know, resolved it

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and saved you but these are angels of light that

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are running in and about in the context of the

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gospel of Jesus Christ.

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So the gospel of Jesus Christ has been infiltrated

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contaminated with these lying spirits that pretend

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to be us they pretend to be with us for us.

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They pretend to be one of us and they're actually

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leaders that you know wolves and sheepskin it

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receives that clothing Isaiah talks about this

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and Isaiah chapter 56 verses 10 and 11 his

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watchmen are blind.

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Now if you watchman supposed to be looking

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after everything making sure things are okay

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and being able to give warning his watchmen are

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blind.

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They are all ignorant.

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They are all dumb dogs that they cannot bark

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sleeping lying down loving to slumber like an old

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dog laying on a porch that is not barking anything

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that's coming down the road anymore.

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Yes verse 11.

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Yes.

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They are greedy dogs which never have enough

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and they are shepherds who cannot understand

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that's a kind of a blindness.

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I would say right.

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Yeah, and they all look to their own way everyone

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for his own gain from his own territory.

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They got their own little realm going on and we

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people both believe it follow it because we are

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not we're ignorant of what's really going on in

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the battle for truth and the deceptions that dress

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up to look like the truth these unfalse shepherds

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but so there's there's deception without people

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can lie to you and mislead you pretend to be

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something that they're not but by their fruits

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again, you shall know them going back to checking

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out.

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What are they?

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What is what they're saying matching up to who

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they what they're behaving and their fruit of their

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life.

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But the other part of that is that lens Satan puts

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a lens over our eyes so that the way you see life

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this way you see the light coming through is is

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corrupt.

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It's dirty.

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It's filthy.

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It's full of pain judgments.

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It's full of error religious self-righteousness

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error things that aren't rightly divided not not

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correctly dividing the word of God.

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So these people that we think we look through

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these lenses and we think we have the truth you

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look through those road rose-colored sunglasses.

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You think everything is pink you take off the

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glasses.

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Ah, it is not pink.

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It has many colors.

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And so the false sense of truth.

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They're believing the things that are not Jesus

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if the truth that is in you be darkness like again,

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how great is that darkness?

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How are we going to discern that if you think it

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is or want to continue to pursue it as the truth

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you are deceiving yourself if we are refusing,

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you know to listen to the Holy Spirit who has

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been sent to lead us into all truth and triumph

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if we resist his counsel by continuing to embrace

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the lie, then we are going to be victims of the

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lie.

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What we're believing is what we're used to it's

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familiar.

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It's comfortable.

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We're being deceived and we don't even know it

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again.

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Jesus is the light he will expose the darkness,

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but we have to be courageous enough to let the

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Holy Spirit convict us of sin and righteousness

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and judgment and not just be settled in it is

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what it is or I am what I am and I'm not going

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to change and I was born this and I'm not going

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to whatever all that resistance resistance to

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the Holy Spirit is resistance.

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Where does the resistance of the Holy Spirit

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come from where does that argument against the

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truth against surrender?

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Where does that come from?

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It comes from the enemy who is impersonating

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himself to you to get you to believe it's your

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idea and that you are in control of things when

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in fact the enemy is in control of things in

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your life.

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So Paul writes to the church at Colossae and

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this is what he recommends to them in Colossians

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chapter 2 beginning of verse 6 and we'll read

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through verse 8 as you therefore have received

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Christ Jesus the Lord soul walk in him.

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Rooted and built up in him and established in

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the faith not just faith, but the faith.

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This is the body of Christian teaching doctrine.

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We should say as you have been taught abounding

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in it with Thanksgiving.

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In other words stay in the truth.

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Stay in the simplicity that is in Christ that you

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referred to a bit ago.

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Then he says in verse 8 beware lest anyone cheat

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you through philosophy that means a love of

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knowledge right and empty deceit according to

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the tradition of men according to the basic

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principles of the world and not according to

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Christ.

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So they can make lots of laws and you know make

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you follow those laws and think that you're

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following God and twisting all these things around

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to destroy and take away the true freedom and

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peace the fruits of righteous peace and joy

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that come from actually abiding in Jesus Christ.

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There have been surveys a lot of surveys in

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recent years about those who claim to be Jesus's

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followers.

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Okay, and they find out that there's a very

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small percentage of even those that claim to be

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believers in Christ that have actually a biblical

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worldview a worldview according to the truth

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and the spiritual war there defile.

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There's a mixture.

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We've been sold a bill of goods and thinking

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well, you know, this is this is okay.

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This is that okay.

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We're satisfied with the plastic imitations of

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imitations were satisfied with the what we've

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been taught and influenced by the world after

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the traditions of men and not according to

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Christ.

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Well, the true test again is what is the fruit

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of your of your life the fruit of the spirit

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is that was operating in your life and Jesus

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said ultimately finally in the end when things

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got so bad so deceived everybody's just, you

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know, barking up the wrong tree everywhere that

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the only way we would know the true believer

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is by the love they have for one another and

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this is the rest of it's all going to be for

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show and that's going to fall away.

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People are going to get bitter.

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They're going to get controlling.

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They're going to get vindictive all the offended

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all of these things that are already with us,

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but he says that the fruit by the fruit again

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going back to what is the fruit in your life?

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Is it peace righteousness peace and joy?

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Is it know are you anxious and worried?

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Are you striving?

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Are you trying to impress somebody or impress

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God or impress yourself?

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Are you still in that place of fear and anxiety

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or trying to look good?

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When God knows the truth, you know, you can't

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lie to the Lord.

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He already knows all about this.

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He knows the deception.

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He knows how you're being deceived.

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He knows how you where you started out in the

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snake pit what what you were up against what

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lies what programming was already operating

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in your DNA.

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So so are we bottom line?

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Are we willing to live with the illusion of

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holiness with the illusion of following Jesus

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or are we going to walk as fearless warriors

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in the truth because only those who are walking

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the truth will be acceptable before God.

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So it is vital that each of us are exposed to

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the raw truth of the word of God because that

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is the standard.

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That's our compass.

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That's our guide our guide post should we say

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is the constant exposure to the word of God

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but every time and not just reading it with

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religious glasses, but we sometimes we need to

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just pray Marjorie just strip off the religious

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glasses strip off the preconceptions that we

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have about God about God and his word and we

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are and just say Lord just open my eyes.

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I think a lot of what God does is he is doing

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that stripping down to the bare core of who we

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really are because there's been so much false

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added to it so much extrapolation so much

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extravagance so much deception that we don't

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even know who we are but the truth of God's

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word comes from walking in the word and often

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we do not comprehend the light because and but

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if you resist or reject the conviction of the

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Holy Spirit your heart our hearts become harder

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push deeper down into that darkness that we

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think is light and we want to comfort ourself

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with the idea that well, I'm a good person.

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Well, I go to church.

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Well, I do this and that and whatever all that

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looks like but that is not what God is looking

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for. He's not looking for what you do.

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He's looking for the you to know who you are

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that you are his son or his daughter and because

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of that because you know who you are then you

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can be who you are created to be and you as out

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of do out of the being and abiding then comes

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the doing but if people are all bound up in

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striving even even striving to follow Jesus, I

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mean, you know, here's a kind of an interesting

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Problem people have in I'm following Jesus, but

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are you just following Jesus when following Jesus

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suits your own will and suits you when he is

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going in the direction you want to go in your

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convenience? Are you really following Jesus when

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you're only following Jesus when you want to do

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what you want to do and you make it look like

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it's Jesus or are we rebuking his will for us

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because it is not our goal. It is not what we

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want to do. So we kind of you know, make our own

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way and and say it's God's way. It's it's you

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know, like when when Jesus rebuked Peter God's

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way was Jesus is going to the cross now. That

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was a painful hard scary almost incomprehensible

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will of God. It wasn't, you know, pleasant. It

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wasn't going to bring forth a lot of immediate

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fruit of peace and joy. And so Peter is rebuking

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Jesus. He's rebuking the actual will of God

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because he could he didn't want to go there and

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yet Jesus and rebuke the spirit Satan who was

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putting this thought in Peter's heart to rebuke

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and resist the will of God. So Jesus saw through

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what was going on Peter was being used by the

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enemy to bring forth a word of resistance to

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Jesus going to the cross and Jesus said Satan

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get behind me. You're an offense to me. And so

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a lot of times, you know, you can say something

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that looks good looks spiritual looks religious

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looks righteous looks like it might be God's

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will want it to be God's will and yet it's not

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God's will and so we want to realize that

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sometimes our own goals our own desires are the

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very thing Satan uses to catch us on the hook

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of the lies, but that our goals become the

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greatest obstacle to God's will in our life. And

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how did we decide on our goals? Was it by

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surrendering to the Lord saying thy will be done

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complete your course in me and to live as Christ

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to die is gain in him. We live and move and have

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our being was that the surrender that you're

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making or is it God? I want you to give I'm

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going to give you my life and here's what I

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want you to do with it. I want you to you know,

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make me smart and brave and wise and a conqueror

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and no noticed by others and a hero. So again,

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what is God doing? He's wrestling with us to

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let us try to cause us to trust him to let go

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of our plan our goals our ways to accomplish

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what we think is God's will and that his

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Holy Spirit take us on that journey where we

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were we're following Jesus. We're to pray Lord

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your kingdom come your will be done on Earth

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as it is in heaven in and through us. Yes in

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us through us that we are now therefore Lord

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your servants we surrender our desires our

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goals and even what we want to accomplish the

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fruit looking at the fruit of our life father

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God let us honestly please Lord clear away the

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the cataracts of deception over our eyes so

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that we can see clearly what is going on in

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our soul because you are the one who leads us

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into all truth and victory and triumph and

655
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sometimes that doesn't look fun. It doesn't

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00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:50,400
look like it's really working. You can look at

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00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,400
your life and say wow, that was a kind of a flop

658
00:32:52,699 --> 00:32:54,900
look at Paul, you know, he was beaten and he

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was shipwrecked and he was homeless and he was

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hungry and he could have said well, you know

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00:32:58,699 --> 00:33:01,800
that wasn't that didn't work. But in fact, he

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was a mighty man of God in the middle of a war

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and he accomplished great things for God. He

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told the truth. He laid down the foundation for

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the truth as he was a God to the epistles and

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so father let us not judge ourselves as Paul

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says I don't even judge myself. Let us not judge

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ourselves. Let us follow you truly and trust

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you completely and be filled with the fruits

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of righteousness peace and joy, which are by

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the power of the Holy Spirit father. We ask

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these things for each of us in Jesus name.

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Amen. Now there's a manual that you have called

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the case for righteousness. Can you tell us

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about that? I like that manual. They just they

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just actually translated that into Romanian, but

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it is a it's a Bible study actually and it's a

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journey you can go on this journey you begin by

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looking at the mess here in the strongholds

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you've been trapped in the the various places

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that Satan is held you bound by fear or rejection

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00:34:03,199 --> 00:34:06,699
or witchcraft we begin at the beginning of where

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we're stuck and then each page of that case

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for righteousness is a Bible study a day a daily

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just study where you can move from that place

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of entrapment to the place of deliverance and

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freedom through getting to the bottom of the

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lies. And so it's a very it talks it takes us

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brings us through salvation discusses issues

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of religion and lover and legalism versus

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can use to walk yourself through into the place

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