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Chapter 10, look down at your Bibles in verse 22, it says,

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Let us draw near with the pure heart in full assurance

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of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil

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conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

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Let us hold fast the profession of our faith and I want you to notice this without wavering without

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Wavering for he is faithful that promise and so much from this morning is overcoming doubt

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Overcoming doubt I want to talk about the subject of doubt this morning and what the Bible says about doubt and how

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To have victory over our doubts how to overcome our doubts how to be people who profess our faith

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without wavering as it says here in

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verse 23. Now what does it mean to doubt? Well doubt is a state of uncertainty in

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which a person wavers between belief and unbelief right questioning whether

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something is true or not.

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And in the context of spiritual matters, it's what a person wavers or hesitates

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Okay in believing the promises of God as found within the Bible. Okay, it's when we stagger

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It's when we question things and I think everyone can

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Agree that we at any given time or another

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Regardless if you are a babe in Christ if you're mature in the Lord

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We all struggle with doubt in our lives, right? There are instances where we question

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Thank you.

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Whether God is going to provide, whether he's going to come through, whether he's going to show himself strong on our behalf,

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whether he's actually going to fulfill his promises or not.

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And quite frankly, I'm going to be honest with you, I've been saved going on 20 years next year,

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and I've read the Bible scores of times, I've read the Bible, you know, cover to cover,

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I've memorized a lot of scriptures, I've been serving God, but yet even I struggle with doubt sometimes.

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There are instances that my person...

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life where I'm like, well I know this is what the Bible says, I know you know God

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has shown himself strong in the past, but man is he gonna do it again though?

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Will he actually provide this time? Will he actually come through on this instance?

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Will he actually show himself strong on my behalf today as he did in the past?

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What is that? It's called doubt.

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And it's very normal for every Christian to experience this from time to time

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where you doubt whether God is actually going to fulfill his promises or not.

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This is a struggle that many Christians have from season to season, time to time.

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Mark chapter 9, you don't have to turn there.

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This is an

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straightway the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe.

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And I love what he says here.

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Help thou mine unbelief.

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And I think all of us have experienced that one time or another, right?

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Like, oh, no, no, I believe for sure.

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I know this is true, but help my unbelief, though.

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OK, this is essentially demonstrating

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that within every Christian, there is a percentage of our heart.

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that can struggle with doubting God and doubting His promises and doubting His power

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Now look folks, it's important to note that doubt in and of itself is not a sin

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Okay, it's not a sin to doubt

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It only becomes a sin when it prevents you from obeying God

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Okay, it becomes a sin when it prevents you from obeying God

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and it becomes a sin when it causes you to fear

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And make no mistake about it. Fear is a sin in the Bible.

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The Bible tells us that God did not give us the spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.

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The Bible tells us that fear has torment, right?

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Bible tells us that the fearful are part of those who go into the lake of fire and so forth demonstrating how severe

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The sin of fear is in God's eyes

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Matthew chapter 14 and verse 30 says this but when he saw the wind boisterous

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He was afraid and beginning to sink

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he cried saying Lord save me this is referring to Peter when he walked on water to walk towards Jesus and

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Immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said to him

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O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

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So we see here Peter had enough faith to come out of the boat

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but then eventually he wavered, began to sink

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and in doing so God essentially corrected him and said

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you have little faith, why did you doubt?

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Matthew chapter 21 and verse 21 goes on to say

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Jesus answered and said unto them, verily I say unto you

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if ye have faith and doubt not

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Shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree

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But also if ye shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea it

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Shall be done first Timothy chapter 2 and verse 8 also says I will therefore that men pray everywhere

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lifting up holy hands without wrath and

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Without doubting now look folks even though doubting is a normal thing for us to feel we shouldn't live in doubt, right?

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We shouldn't be Christians that are character

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by doubt because the longer you remain in doubt the more likely it is that you're

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going to become a fearful person and if you could become a fearful person in

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turn you will become a disobedient Christian a disobedient person and that

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for sure is a sin in the eyes of God so what's the answer the answer is this we

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need to increase our faith by overcoming our doubts increase our faith by

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overcoming our doubts go to Matthew chapter 19 if you would Matthew chapter

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19

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Now there's two parts to this sermon and I'm going to cover both in this sermon but I'm going to spend the bulk of it in the first section.

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And then we're going to talk about doubting your salvation.

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Let's talk about having doubts about salvation.

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Now obviously in our church we're very explicit when it comes to our gospel presentation.

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What we believe about the doctrine of justification, what the Bible says about that.

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But that's not to say that sometimes people won't doubt, right?

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that people doubt, they go through seasons of doubt, and there's a variety of reasons why that happens.

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Why do people doubt whether they're saved or not?

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Man, did I really get saved or something? And let me just explain something before I get into my first point,

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and that is to get saved you obviously have to place your faith in Jesus Christ exclusively to be saved, right?

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And sometimes people get into these like navel gazing type questions like, yeah, but how much faith though did I do, did I put?

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It just, whatever faith you had, okay?

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You're like, well, what if I'm a person of little faith?

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Then just take that little faith

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and put it in Jesus Christ.

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Like, how did I know that I put 100% of that faith?

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Well, if you believe that Jesus Christ died

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and he resurrected and that you can't lose your salvation

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and you're trusting only him, that's, you got it, okay?

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That's pretty much it.

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And you don't need to like, you know, make a graph or a chart of your heart and say like,

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I believe this much and what about the rest of the...

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It's nonsense, okay?

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If you believe that, guess what? You're saved.

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And look, you know, I'm gonna get into some of the reasons why people doubt their salvation.

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The first reason is the reason why I think that people should doubt their salvation, okay?

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And so if this is you, yeah, you should doubt.

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whether you're saved or not.

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You should question it, you should doubt,

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it should cause you to fear and not sleep at night.

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And be afraid, be very afraid,

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because it's the most important one,

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and that is that people sometimes doubt

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because they believe in a false gospel.

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So if you believe in a false gospel, you're like, man, I'm doubting my salvation.

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Well, what do you think you have to do to be saved?

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Well, I believe you have to believe in Jesus, but I also believe you have to repent of your sins.

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I believe you have to keep God's commandments.

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Well, yeah, that's why you're doubting, because you believe in a false gospel.

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And it's just like, well, you know, what if, you know, you believe,

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but you don't repent of your sins, although you're not saved?

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Okay, then you're not saved.

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Okay, because if that's what you believe, then obviously that's the reason why you're constantly questioning whether you're saved or not.

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Let me explain to you, the reason you're doubting is because you're constantly striving for a standard that you will never be able to meet.

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You're like, oh man, I don't know if I'm good enough. You're not good enough.

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And it's just like, oh yeah, and here's the thing folks, like Catholics are major culprits of this.

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Because they speak about the things of God as though they're just like the masters of theology here.

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They know all about salvation.

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But if you're to ask them, are you 100% sure?

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Like, well, no one's 100% sure.

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Like, how can you not be 100% sure?

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The Bible, no one can be 100% sure.

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The Bible says these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.

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Listen to this, that ye may know that ye have eternal life.

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Well, you don't have the authority to interpret that.

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You need the authority of the Church Fathers to interpret that.

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But somehow you're going to tell me what the right salvation is, what the right doctrine is, but you don't even know what it takes to be born again.

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It's like Nicodemus who was a master of Israel.

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Bro is supposed to know everything about theology and the history of Israel, but he didn't know how to be born again.

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And what did Jesus say? Are thou a master of Israel? No, it's not these things.

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And it's just like, how can a man go into his mother's womb again?

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It's just like...

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This is what happens when you have people who study church history and doctrine without being saved.

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That's what happens because the natural man received not the things of the spirit of God,

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neither can he know them for their spiritually discerned. So if you doubt your salvation,

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you know first of all you need to check your theology. You need to check your

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justification doctrine and that is what do you believe about salvation?

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If you believe in a gospel that is anything outside of the biblical form of salvation,

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then yeah, there are major reasons to doubt.

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If you think it's because you have to keep God's commandments, yeah, that's why you doubt,

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because you believe in a false gospel, because no one can keep all of God's commandments perfectly.

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There's not a just man upon earth to do with good and sin and not.

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The Bible says that therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

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You know, the Bible tells us, whosoever keepeth the whole law,

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yet a fendant at one point, he's guilty of all.

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So you know what, I can understand why people, when they believe a false gospel, why they doubt.

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Because you don't really know.

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You don't know!

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How many commandments do you have to keep?

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How many times you have to, you know, how many sins you have to repent of to be saved?

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How many times you have to be baptized?

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Well, we just believe you have to repent of your sin.

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So you're saying you can stop sinning?

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Well, no, I just mean you have to want to stop sinning.

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And then just constantly moving the goalpost, constantly moving the standard,

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and you wonder why you're always questioning whether you're saved or not.

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And look folks, I know what I'm talking about because I've gone door knocking for many years

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and you know what? We're always talking to people of a variety of different churches.

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They go to Calvary Chapel, they're Catholics, they're Orthodox, they're this, that, and the other,

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and they're always giving the wrong answers and that's why they don't know if they're saved or not.

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You know, they want to school you on church history, they want to school you on doctrine,

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but then when you ask the most basic question about salvation it's like,

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I don't really know, I don't think anybody knows.

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You know, that's something I never really got, you know, I never really figured out.

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Yeah, you're doubting because you just you're not saved. Okay, and that's because you believe in a false gospel

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You're in Matthew 19. Let me read to you from Matthew 23 verse 13 says but won't you scribes and Pharisees?

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Hypocrites for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men for ye neither go in yourselves

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Neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in these Pharisees are supposed to be the ones who teach the Bible

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They have the corner of truth in Israel supposedly but yet the Bible says that they're not going into the kingdom of

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And they're trying to hinder others from going in as well. So you have pastors today

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You have these preachers and teachers in these churches that want to make themselves the standard of doctrine

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But they themselves are not even going into the kingdom of heaven because they don't believe in the right gospel. Okay

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Look folks, salvation is through believing on the Lord Jesus Christ exclusively.

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It means that you're trusting Christ alone outside, you know, at the exclusion of literally everything else.

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Outside of Mary.

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Let me repeat that again. Outside of Mary.

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Sometimes people think, I witness to this Catholic and they say they claim to believe exactly like I do

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and they even agree with believing on Jesus Christ

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Yeah, but you're going to have to open this other door and say, what about Mary though?

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Oh yeah, you have to believe in her too

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And that's a little piece of information they kind of leave out when you're talking to Catholics

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This is why it's important folks that we ask the right questions

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You know, we need to make sure that people believe right and let me also say this, you know salvation is yes believing on Jesus Christ

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But you know what it comes included with that what comes included is believing you can never lose your salvation for any reason whatsoever

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Because then at that point, why are you even trusting in Christ?

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At that point why even say you trust in Christ if you don't believe that it's eternal

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Why do you even believe and talk about eternal life if you think you can lose it at any given moment?

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Then at that point it's not even everlasting.

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And so eternal life, the everlasting life is the gospel.

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And you know what? If someone believes they can lose their salvation, that is a different gospel.

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Like how so? If they trust in Christ, if they believe it's only by their faith in Jesus Christ,

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but they just believe you could lose your salvation, well then ask them, how do you lose it?

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And if they say, well, if you sin, so based upon that answer,

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you're asserting that you have to keep God's commandments in order to stay saved.

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Because sin is the transgression of the law.

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Meaning that you believe that you have to keep God's law in order to keep your salvation.

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And that is a false gospel.

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Right.

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Okay.

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Look at Matthew 19 verse 16 here.

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It says here in verse 16,

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And behold, one came and said unto him,

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Good master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?

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Now, I think all of us can collectively agree this guy doesn't know if he's saving or not.

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Right?

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Why are you asking?

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If you know, why ask?

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I'll tell you why, because he doesn't know.

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Verse 17, he said it to them, why call us thou me good?

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There's none good but one, that is God.

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But if thou will enter into life...

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Keep the commandments notice he didn't say eternal life just life keep the commandments

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He said unto him which jesus said thou shalt do no murder thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not steal

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Thou shalt not bear false witness honor thy father and thy mother and thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself listen to this

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The young man saved unto him all these things have I kept for my youth up what like I yet

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Oh, it sounds like you're already saved then, huh?

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No, it's not because you don't keep god's commandments to be saved and we have an example here of some

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who thinks they've kept all of God's commandments and yet they're still asking

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what must I do to inherit eternal life? Well that demonstrates to me that if

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someone thinks they have to keep the law to be saved you know what they're not

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saved and they don't have the assurance of salvation as noted by the fact that

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this guy didn't know. Let me tell you folks if you don't know beyond a shadow

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of a doubt that you're saved based upon what you believe you better get saved

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today. Do not wait to tomorrow

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You know, to have the opportunity. Well, I'll just think about it. You better not think about it too long.

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Today is the day of salvation. Now is the appointed time.

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Now is the time to say, you know what? I believe wrong about salvation, but I want to believe right about salvation.

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Because I don't want to walk out these doors, get hit by a car, and die and go to hell.

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Get saved today. Why not?

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You know, and you say, well, what does it take to be saved?

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Well, obviously it takes for you to humble yourself to recognize that you're wrong.

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about whatever it is that you're believing in for salvation

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and to place your faith exclusively upon Christ, call upon him

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in faith and you can have it right then and there. You're saying that

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I just have to pray a prayer? Yeah, yeah. Based upon what you believe

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yeah. Well how's that biblical? How about this? That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth

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the Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised them from the dead thou shalt be saved.

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You know, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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Oh, that sounds like the sinner's prayer.

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You got it?

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That's, you know, and let me just tell you this.

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Every prayer that a person prays is a sinner's prayer.

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Got that?

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Oh, I don't believe in the sinner's prayer.

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I mean, there's plenty of sinners that pray in the Bible.

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And every person who asked for salvation had to pray and they were sinners.

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What is the sinner's prayer?

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I'll tell you what the sinner's prayer is.

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How about the thief on the cross?

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Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

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How about that?

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Today thou shalt be with me in paradise.

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It's called the sinner's prayer because the thief on the cross was a sinner and he asked the Lord to save him

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Now obviously he didn't have to go through the same exact words, but the Lord knew what was in his heart

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He knew that what he was asking for was salvation

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You say then what's the little prayer do you guys got going on there?

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It's just a systematic way to help someone to call upon the name of the Lord based upon the presentation of the gospel

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Well, I just think that baptism saves you

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You have to be baptized.

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And the funny thing about that is that most people who believe that

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believe in the sprinkling baptism.

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Right?

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It's just like if you believe,

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wouldn't you want to get all the way in first and foremost?

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You're just trying to save your head or something like that or what?

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But secondly, you know, there's nothing in the Bible

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that states that water baptism washes away all of your sins.

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And in fact, the Bible consistently says that it's the blood of Jesus Christ that washes away your sins.

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Okay?

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And here's the thing folks, it's such a contradictory statement to say that baptism can save you,

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and that it can wash away your sins, because the same people who believe that believe you could lose your salvation.

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How does that work?

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Folks, it's nonsense, but if you believe any of those things then yeah, you have reason to doubt and I hope you doubt your salvation

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If you believe that salvation is by works, if you believe that salvation is by repenting of your sin, that it's by baptism

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That it's by persevering in the Christian life by your works. Yeah, I hope you doubt

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I hope you doubt your salvation so you can believe in the right gospel and not have to worry about that ever again

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And it's funny, sometimes I'll get into these conversations with these people who believe

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like you have to do works and they're trying to like condemn me, like you're teaching the

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false gospel, you have to do works, the Bible says to do works.

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And it's just like, well, let's go ahead and take an inventory of your works compared to

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my works.

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Because you're talking to someone who's been serving the Lord over the past 20 years, consistently

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serving the Lord, and I'm looking at you and I'm looking at your Instagram page and it

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looks like all you do is fornicate and drink alcohol.

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So how are you going to condemn me, telling me, trying to school me on how to do works?

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You know, based upon your standard, I'm still more safe than you.

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But thankfully we're not safe by our works, amen?

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You're like, why do you do works?

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Because of rewards.

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Because I love the Lord

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Because I don't want to be punished by God because there there comes consequences to our actions here in this world

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There's a variety of reasons why we do that, but here's the great news, but to him that worketh not

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But believeth on him to justify the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness and

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So go with me if you would to you are in Matthew go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 2nd Corinthians chapter 11

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I'm going to read to you from Galatians 1.6.

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It says, I marveled the year so soon removed from him

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that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel,

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which is not another, but there be some that trouble you that

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would pervert the gospel of Christ.

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Now, when you read through the book of Galatians,

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you end up seeing that the apostle Paul has no quarrels

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with causing the Galatians to question whether they're

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saved or not.

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Why?

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Because these Judaizers were coming into the churches

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preaching a false gospel.

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And so he's telling them like if you believe this then you're done for.

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You've fallen from grace. You're not saved. I'm afraid of you.

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He's not saying that because he's trying to invoke doubt in people

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that already believe in the right gospel. He's trying to invoke doubt in those who

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claim to believe another gospel. And look again if you're in here

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and you believe something contrary that what I'm explaining from the word of God

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then you're not saved.

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And if in your mind you're like, he's wrong about that, he's wrong, I don't believe that,

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that's wrong, you do have to repent, you do have to do good works, you do have to do this,

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that, and the other, then guess what?

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You do believe in a false gospel.

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Okay?

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That's a fact.

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And you know what? We can spar all day long in the Bible and the Bible will always be on my side

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because the Bible consistently, collectively teaches that it's not by works at all.

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And here's this argument that people always propose,

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oh, so what you're saying is that I could just believe and just live however you want.

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You're already doing that. What do you mean?

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You live however you want, even knowing the fact that you believe your false gospel,

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you still live however you want. What are you talking about?

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You hypocrite.

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It's just like, oh, what you're saying, I'm not saying that.

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The Lord's saying that.

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And here's the thing.

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Who said, where in the Bible does it say, oh, yeah,

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you're saved?

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Now have at it.

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Rape, murder, kill, destroy, steal.

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No one teaches that.

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That notion, that example stems from people with wicked hearts

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who are not saved.

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Because there's never been a time when I got saved.

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I've never even met a Christian like this.

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where they get saved, they believe in the right gospel,

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and it's just like, all right, not going to hell,

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so it's time to go bra people.

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Time to go kill my neighbor real quick,

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because I'm not going to hell.

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No one believes that.

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Who saved?

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It's only these unregenerated people.

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And when they tell me that, I'm like,

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I think to myself, this guy is a dangerous person.

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Because out of the abundance of the heart,

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I'm not speaking.

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That's like the thing that's coming out of their mouth.

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They're like, so what you're saying is that...

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And I'm just kind of thinking like on the other side of the screen, they're like,

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so what you're saying...

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Wait a minute, you know?

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They're just kind of thinking of the most devious things that they can do,

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because they're not going to go to hell.

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But you know what? A safe person doesn't really think that.

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You know, over the last 20 years, I've never thought about that to myself.

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Like, you know what?

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Free will.

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I got free will. I'm saved.

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I'm gonna go rob a bank, see what that's like!

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Doesn't exist, my friends.

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I'm not a psychopath. These guys are.

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Philippians chapter 3 verse 9 says and be found in him not having listen to this mine own righteousness

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Which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith

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The point being here is that you know there is a reason to doubt your salvation if you are not saved

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Okay, and you know if that's you today you can get saved today. It's real easy

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Well, that sounds like easy believe ism. Yeah

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Absolutely

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Super easy to be saved. You know why? Because Jesus Christ did all the hard work for you.

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He is the one that died on the cross. He is the one that bore the sins of the whole world

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upon His own body. He is the one, the Bible says, that went to hell for three days and

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three nights, but His soul was not left in hell, neither did His flesh seek corruption.

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Acts chapter 2.

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He's the one that resurrected, He was the one that was delivered for our offenses and raised again for our justification.

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That's what the Bible says.

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He did all the work for us.

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And the Bible specifically tells us that we are kept by the power of God through faith.

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So you don't keep your salvation based upon your works.

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I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man.

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And you're any man.

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Pluck them out of my hand.

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You know, I grow weary.

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these corny cliches corny

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Yeah, but you could walk away. Where are you gonna go?

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Where?

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Yeah, but you could walk away from where you gonna go Jonah could even he couldn't go

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You got swallowed up

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You know David's like if I make my bed in hell thou art there

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You can't run from the presence of God as though you don't even know how to give salvation back even if you tried

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Yeah, it's a gift, but you can give the gift back.

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How?

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How?

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Explain to me how you give the gift back.

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It's a stupid notion, and it doesn't even exist in the Bible.

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There's zero examples of anyone in the Bible giving back

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salvation.

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And here's the thing, folks.

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It's like, again, I've never met a Christian who's just like,

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you know what?

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I think I'm going to give it back.

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I'm done with this.

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They treated it like Costco or something, you know, I'm just going to go give it back,

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the return policy is really easy, just go back and just, hey, I changed my mind, rather

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be orthodox or something.

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And look folks, if there's someone who claims to be a Christian, claims to believe in the

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right salvation and then becomes a Catholic, the Bible, listen to me, the Bible categorizes

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that person not as someone who lost their salvation, they categorize them as being someone

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who never had it to begin with.

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It's called an apostate.

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It's called a fake and a phony.

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And guess what?

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The Bible has proof of that.

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His name is Judas Iscariot.

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No, he lost his son.

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No, Jesus said that he never believed from the beginning.

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That's what it says, actually.

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So if you're going to use the Bible, go ahead and quote it.

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Because that's what the Bible actually

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says about Judas Iscariot.

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He was a devil from the beginning.

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He didn't believe.

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He was a fake and a phony the whole time

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because he wanted to steal the money.

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That's what it was.

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OK?

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Point number two when it comes to doubting salvation,

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point number one we said that people doubt because of the false gospel.

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But let me say this, some people doubt because of bad preaching.

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So the first example has more so to do with people who are just not saved.

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But then from here on out we're going to talk about people who are saved

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who doubt their salvation.

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And let me explain to you why they doubt sometimes.

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It's because they're in a bad church under bad preaching

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using bad terminology.

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And again, we've run into people like this out when we're door knocking, people who have visited our church, and they kind of give mixed answers.

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They're just kind of like mixed up, but then like once you talk to them, once you question them, they basically say well no actually

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It's only by your faith in Jesus Christ

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It's not by giving your life to him or something, but you know what sometimes people get confused

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They doubt sometimes because of the fact that they have some false prophet for a pastor

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Who gets up behind the pulpit and says if you're in sin, I doubt whether you're saved or not

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And it's just like, oh man.

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And if you're saying that to a babe in Christ,

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you're saying that to someone who is tossed to and fro,

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carried about with every wind of doctrine,

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you can cause them to become confused.

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It's called spiritual molestation is what it is.

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It's like bad preaching who are just

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molesting the congregation with heresy and doctrine,

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causing people to become confused.

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And they're just like, oh man, am I saved?

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Like, man, the authority is saying,

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you know, the authority of the church over here is saying

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that if I commit this sin, then somehow that means

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that I might not be saved or something.

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Yeah, you know, people get confused like that.

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And if people are not grounded in the word,

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they can become confused.

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Look at 2 Corinthians 11, verse one.

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What to God you could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me

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For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you a chaste version to christ

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But I fear listen to this let's by any means as the serpent beguiled eve through his subtlety

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So your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in christ

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For if he that cometh preacheth another jesus whom we have not preached

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Or if you receive another spear which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted

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Ye might well bear with him the Bible says so obviously if you're dealing with babes in Christ

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You know, they're they're unskillful in the word of righteousness. They don't know what the Bible says

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They just know the basics of salvation. They don't necessarily know how to defend the faith

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They can get deceived

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And you add on top of that a pastor who just uses all this fake Christian terminology on top of that

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They can become even more confused. You know, give your life to God

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How many times have you run into someone who's like, you know, are you 100% sure you're saved?

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Yeah, I gave my life to God when I was like five, six years old and it's just like

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And then you know you kind of just lovingly kind of bring them along and you explain to them what the Bible says

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And they're like oh, yeah, that's what I believe but they're just parroting what others are saying

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You know give your life to god to god surrender your life to god

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Oh, it's because I just you know, whatever this this liberal talk that people have

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When going to these churches because you know, these big mega churches are only concerned about being theatrical

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And just, you know, having these vainly puffed up words, these great swelling words of vanity.

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And so if you say those terms long enough, what's going to happen is people are going to start using them.

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And look, this is why it's important for us to use the words which the Holy Ghost uses, right?

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To make sure we use biblical terminology when it comes to salvation, when it comes to Jesus Christ,

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when it comes to faith, when it comes to believing, when it comes to the Bible.

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Because then there is no confusion.

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You know?

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Well, you know, I surrendered my life, I gave my life.

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And that sounds noble and everything, but folks, the gospel is not about you giving

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your life to Christ, it's about the fact that Christ gave his life to you.

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That's literally what it is.

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And you know, I've repeated that scores of times over the years, and when a person tells

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me that, they're just like, oh, I gave my life to God, that's why I'm saved.

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And I say, well, the gospel's not you giving your life to him, it's him giving his life

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for you.

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you

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Oh yeah, that's true.

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And it's like a light bulb goes on, they're just like,

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huh, why am I saying that?

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Yeah, it's because you're under bad preaching.

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That's why it's important for you to go to a right church

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that is explicit in their doctrine,

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that uses the right terminology,

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and is not just looking to inspire you, motivate you.

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The Lord loves you.

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And just makes you raise your hands the entire time.

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You know, with the purple lights and the smoke in the mirrors, trying to create this environment

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that mimics a spiritual environment, but all it is is just fleshly services that does nothing

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for you, but just make you even more dumber in the Bible.

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That's a fact.

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Okay?

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And I've never been to a church like that.

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We just have former liberals in our church that have testified of such environments.

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And I'm just like, really, that's a real thing.

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And they're just like, yeah, this is what they say,

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this is what they do.

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And you know what?

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A lot of people like those churches

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because of the bells and whistles, the colors

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and the lights and the music.

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That's mainly the reason why a lot of people

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go to these churches, let me just be honest.

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And look, there's saved people in these churches, by the way.

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There are saved people.

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You may not believe me, but it's true.

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There are saved people in these churches.

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Then why do they go there?

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For the music.

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For the loose standards in the music.

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Because they're just, they like gay music.

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They just really like gay music.

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That music's gay.

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You know, and you may think, oh you're talking about the ladies, some of the dudes like that music too.

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You know?

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You know?

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Guys from churches like this, they prefer Tupac,

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but guys from churches like that, they prefer whatever your mainstream liberal Christian CCM dude is, right?

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The torn jeans and the whatnot.

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I'm not really interested in that, but some people have developed an appetite for that type of music,

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and you know what? You need to change your appetite because it's gay.

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And you know what? If you like that kind of music, don't tell anybody.

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Because that's embarrassing.

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Okay, and if you come to me, I'm not gonna shame you but don't you know don't be surprised if I wince

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Okay

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Like you know just kind of like okay. I'm not gonna approve of them. Just you know if that's that's what you like you know

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Some people like tofu some people like actual meat some people prefer. You know rib eyes some people prefer Beyond Meat

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Some people are are carnivores some people are vegans right and so that's you but but here's the thing

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That's the reason why people go to these types of churches

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But what comes what comes with the package the bad doctrine and the bad preaching?

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And I can't tell you how many times people have told me about like for example Jack Hibbs which by the way is not saved

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He's not a safe person. How do you know? Because he is online, his preaching is online, and you can just make a quick search about what he believes about salvation and he'll give you the wrong gospel.

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He's confused, then he shouldn't be a pastor. Because folks, no pastor should be confused about salvation.

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Congregation? Alright, we'll give him a pass, amen. He may not know better.

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But a pastor who's teaching the Bible?

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Should not be confused about salvation. So either one he's confused or two. He's just a false prophet

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Who's intentionally preaching a false gospel and I'm telling you I met people from that Calvary Chapel from a bunch of different Calvary

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Chapels and I think about their path. I'm like, oh that guy's not in my mind

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I'm like that guy's not safe and they're like, he's a good guy

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You know, I think he's safe

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I don't know, you know, this guy's preaching a false gospel.

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He doesn't believe in the right salvation.

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And that makes people uncomfortable when I say things like that, because they don't like

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explicit stuff like that.

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It bothers them when you can just call out whether someone is saved or not.

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But the Bible does that though.

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And you may not know that because you haven't read the Bible.

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You just listen to the CCM and the weak preaching and all that and you just take that at face value

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But let me tell you the Bible is very explicit and there's plenty of times where like the Apostle Paul

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Questioned the salvation of people

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He didn't care

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That's a fact

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And so you know I'm like oh that guy's not saved. They're like well he's a good guy. What makes him a good guy?

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Because if there's a pastor who's pastoring a church, he's leading a church, he's preaching a false gospel, and he has a lot of influence, that means he's making people believe a false gospel, and if they die, they're gonna go to hell.

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So you tell me how that makes him good.

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Well, he's just really nice.

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You know, oh, he's just, you know, I don't know, I just think he just does well. He's just wrong on Israel.

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No, yeah, he's wrong on Israel, for sure.

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Okay?

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100%

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Okay, he he's definitely like you know an Israeli infiltrator

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You know or he's just you know he's definitely in it. I was gonna say something, but you know he's bad okay?

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Okay

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You know he's definitely a prostitute for Israel for sure

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That's a fact, okay?

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But you know what?

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And you know how I feel about replacement theology and Zionism.

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But let me say this, you know, I would kind of be like, oh yeah, he's like that.

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If he had the right gospel, I'd be like, oh at least he's saved.

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But it's not even that though.

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So he's just wrong on everything.

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Okay.

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Well, then why does he have a big church?

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Because prod is the way.

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that lead you to destruction and many there be which go in there at

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and most of those churches are filled with old women anyways that's all it is

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where's the lie am i capping

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that's a fact they're filled with older women the dudes don't really like to go to that church

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and if there is a dude you know he's like a eunuch or something

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He's missing his stones and you know he's probably just there to please his wife or whatever

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That's a fact

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You know it's true

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And you may be mad at me for saying this but you know it's a fact

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You may be angry at me for saying this but guess what?

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I'm right though you know it's true

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But you know what guys like that confuse people

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They confuse people, they cause people to question their salvation because of their dumb terminology.

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And you know what? It's not just in Calvary Chapel, it's in independent fundamental Baptist churches too.

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Because you'll have pastors that, you know, they believe the right gospel, they teach the right,

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but then they have some false prophet come in.

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Believing you have to repent of your sins to be saved.

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And it's just like, what's going on here?

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And then the pastor will be like, well, he's just wrong on some areas,

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you know, he's just off in this area or whatever. It's just like...

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Yeah, it's eternal life. He's definitely off on that. We're not gonna see him in the millennial reign. That's not saved

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Galatians 5 once has stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage

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Behold I Paul saying to you if you be circumcised

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Christ shall profit you nothing

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For I testify again to every man that has circumcised the ease of debtor to do the whole law.

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Christ has become of no effect unto you. Whosoever you are justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace.

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For we through the Spirit wait for the adoption of hope, of righteousness by faith.

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For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision,

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but faith which worketh by love. Ye did run well, he says, who did hinder you that ye should not

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obey the truth. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you." So what is the apostle Paul

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saying? Well these Judaizers are coming in saying hey you have to be circumcised to be saved,

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and some dudes went through with it.

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And this is like, if you're circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

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And, you know, sorry that happened to you.

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It's one thing to think you have to keep the law and then you abstain from like shrimp.

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But another thing where it's just like, you got circumcised.

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Right? It's like, man.

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But you know what? Apparently these are babes in Christ who just, they're just

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easily deceived. This is how it is. And look folks, this is why it's important for you to be in a

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church that teaches you doctrine.

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that expounds to you what salvation is and not just salvation let us go on into perfection amen

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to learn about other things so that you can discern for yourself you can prove all things

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hold fast that which is good you can search the scriptures daily to see if these things are so

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you can be like the barians and make sure that you can say well you know what that guy's saying up

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there and what the bible says here are two different things this is not a good this is not good he's a

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false prophet i'm not for this i'm out of here okay

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And so it's important for us to recognize why people doubt.

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Why are they doubting?

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I'll tell you why.

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Because they've been given a false gospel.

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Or two, they just are under bad preaching.

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Go to Romans chapter 8, if you would.

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Romans chapter 8.

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So the first point is more geared towards those

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who are not saved.

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The second point is more geared towards those who are saved, but they're babes in Christ.

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They haven't fully learned doctrine. They can be deceived.

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And they're kind of thinking to themselves like, oh man, he says that I have to like persevere in my works.

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He's saying that like if I don't repent of my sin, then you know, they wonder if I'm even saved or not.

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You know, and that causes people to question.

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Here's another reason why people question. Some people doubt because they're backslidden or they just have a carnal mind.

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Okay?

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This is important, okay?

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Because this can happen to anybody even if they're not a Baven Christ.

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Because you can backslide.

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Christians who have been you know Christians for a long time they've grown in their faith

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But they allow some sin in their life

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They allow some bitterness in their life or whatever they can get out of church and become you know

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They can regress spiritually right and the result of regressing is a carnal mind and when you have a carnal mind

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You're living in sin you can often question man. Am I saved am I really saved even if you believe in the right gospel

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You say how so?

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Because do they believe that not sinning will get you saved?

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No, here's the thing, okay?

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Sometimes people commit sin,

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you know, such grievous sin in the past,

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or they're so backslidden,

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that they're not really walking in the spirit, right?

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And if they're not walking in the spirit,

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they're not being filled with the spirit,

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they're not feeding the spirit,

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they're just feeding the flesh,

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that doubt can come in their mind like...

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I'm not living righteously. I'm not doing right. I'm not like obeying the spirit

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I'm just kind of being carnal am I even saved you know and I've helped people like this all the time and

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Every time I talk to people like this. I always tell them like what do you think you have to do to be saved?

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And they're like believe on Jesus Christ. I'm like then you're saved

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You're saved

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Okay, and I would say like 90% of the time. They'll respond with something like

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I know I just feel like I haven't been living right and I'm not even sure why I'm doubting.

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I'm just like struggling in my mind, you know?

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That's why.

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And you know what?

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That does happen.

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It's called a carnal mind.

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Okay?

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And look folks, you know, we preach hard against doing works for salvation, but we equally

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preach hard to do works just to be a good Christian.

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and to just clean up your mind and to read the Bible

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because the corruptible body is just horrific

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it can just absolutely destroy your mind

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okay

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it can make you weak in the faith

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and you know our old man

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you know the heart is deceitful above all things

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desperately wicked who can know it

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and the heart will just lie to you

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when you are in a carnal state of mind.

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And look, if you've been in the world,

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if you've been backslidden, think about this folks,

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you're not reading the Bible, you're not praying, okay?

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You're consuming pornography, you're playing video games, you're not in church, you're literally just starving the old man.

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And he's still, I mean, you're starving the new man, and he's still there, but you're starving him.

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You're not strong in the Lord and the power of his might.

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You're just constantly feeding the flesh.

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Yeah, you're going to be a cesspool of fear and doubt and anxiety.

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That's exactly the result of doing that.

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This is why I tell you, don't minimize the importance of just being in the Christian life.

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Like being in church, reading the Bible. And you're like, man, I didn't feel like reading my Bible today.

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Read a couple of verses, do something. Give yourself a fighting chance for crying out loud.

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You know? And look, folks, it's important for us to obey the Bible and serve God because

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there's blessings that come with it, but just for the sake of not being destroyed.

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Because look folks, you know, all of us to a certain degree, if you didn't grow up in church, you have a past.

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You have things that happened to you, you have things that you did, you have things that you were exposed to,

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you have things that people exposed you to, and you know what? I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life.

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And that's the harsh reality. I hate to tell you that. You know, I'm not going to get up here like some of these false prophets and say like, you'll never sin again.

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You'll never desire another cigarette again. You'll never watch pornography again. You'll never do this ever again. It's not true

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That's not true

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This flesh is going to stay with us until the day that we die

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And the stinking guy just won't leave us alone

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Just won't leave us alone

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You're gonna be a christian for decades

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And that's that that youthful sin will still creep up on you

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Decades later will always be there

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No, not me.

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I overcame that.

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I don't desire that at all.

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Oh, so you're a liar.

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That's the sin that you struggle with.

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Because everyone battles sin.

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Everyone does.

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And you know what?

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You could be 50 years old, years in the faith.

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You could be 60, 70 years old.

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And I'm telling you right now, you will still struggle

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with the sins of your youth.

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Because that's your old man.

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You say, then what do I do? It sounds hopeless.

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No, it's not hopeless because we also have the new man.

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And the more you feed the new man,

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the more spiritual protein you give the new man,

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the more spiritual exercise you give the new man,

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the more you're in church, the more you read the Bible,

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the more scripture you memorize,

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and the more you starve the old man,

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The less likely it is that you'll go back

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But let me just say this, it starts in strengthening the mind though

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And look, when you got saved, you were forgiven of all sins past, present, future

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Praise God for that

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Meaning that the Lord cast them into the deepest part of the ocean

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He separates our transgressions as far as east is from west

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He cleanses us from all unrighteousness

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So He doesn't dangle that over you

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Once you got saved, you're forgiven.

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Like it's over with.

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Let me just say, just stop bringing it up.

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Because it's done.

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Like the Lord is all about moving forward.

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The Lord is all about forgiving, cleansing, and let's just go

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forward from here.

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He doesn't want you looking back.

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He doesn't want you just ruminating on past sins, past failures, just past things that you've done.

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You know, he wants you to press forward towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of Jesus Christ.

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He doesn't want you to do that. Why? Because he understands, and you should understand, that when you meditate upon old failures and old sins, you're just more likely to like return to those things.

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And even if you don't return to those things, you just become defeated in your mind.

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And look folks, you know the Lord wants us to be encouraged

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You know the Bible says that David encouraged himself in the Lord. He doesn't want us to be downtrodden

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Like oh, yeah, i'm just such a sinner

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Yeah, you are but you know like lift up your shoulders a little bit

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hoping the Lord

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God is good. He's all-powerful and you know what? Yeah, you're a sinner. Yeah, you're imperfect. But guess what? God's still using you though

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That's all he's got to work with. Amen

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We're all he has to work with.

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And so it's not worth just having a pity party,

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just being sad for ourselves of what happened in the past

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and the mistakes that we made.

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If you're saved, you've already been forgiven of that.

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And then, I'm gonna get corny right now, okay?

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Just, you know, disclaimer here.

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You have to learn to forgive yourself, okay?

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It's true.

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You kinda have to learn how to forgive yourself

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and just move on.

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Sometimes the Lord is long-suffering, but sometimes I wonder if he's just like,

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I already forgave him.

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You're just constantly thinking about your failures, constantly thinking about,

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oh woe is me.

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But you know what? That's not pleasing to God either though.

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And you may think like, God's not pleased with what I did in the past.

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True, but he forgave you that.

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What he's not pleased with right now is your state of mind right now.

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Because at that time, at this point, you're just kind of relying, it's just all about you

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It's all about me and what I did and what was me and I'm the one who did this and I failed and I did this that and the other

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Whereas God's like, how about you start focusing your attention on others?

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You know, you've already been forgiven, move, take up thy bed and walk

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Go home and tell thy friends what great things the Lord hath done for thee

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Stop having a pity party. I performed a miracle. It's called salvation now go tell other people about it

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And look folks part of just you know having that carnal mind, okay? Yeah, we got to clean it up

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Yeah, you got to stop watching pornography. Yes, you have to stop playing video games

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Yeah, you have to stop being a hermit just enclosed just isolated from everybody

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Yeah, you have to pick up the Bible start reading it memorize scripture be in church

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But how about this just start investing in other people as well?

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You know, stop crying about yourself and start crying about for others.

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Right?

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Stop just, woe is me, just I'm the problem.

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Well, you're the problem right now,

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because you're just making yourself the center of attention.

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Whereas what you need to do is start focusing on others.

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Look not every man on his own things, but every man on the things of others.

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That's what the Bible says.

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I'm gonna tell you right now, one of the greatest ways to restore joy...

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Aside from praying for it, is just literally start serving others.

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Start going, you know, preach the gospel to others. Be a blessing to others.

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Stop focusing and putting all the attention on you. Yeah, you may have had it bad, but I'm just

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gonna tell you right now, there's people who've had it worse than you. Worse than you. Okay?

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You know, I think of my cousin. My cousin's pretty bad shape right now.

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You know, I went and thankfully, you know, I went to go visit him in the hospital and

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he's not in a coma, but he's he's heavily sedated. He can't communicate. He can't open his eyes. He

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can't speak or anything and he's near death. And I gave him the gospel and he nodded. You know,

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I could just say that, you know, he possibly received it because he actually responded when

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I talked to him. He responded when I prayed with him. But you know, he's in bad shape.

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He's literally a 38 year old on his deathbed because of cirrhosis of the liver.

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By the way, side note, stay away from alcohol!

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Oh, moderation. Oh, you know, Jesus turned the water into wine. Turn the water into juice.

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You know alcohol is poison even from a secular

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Medical perspective they literally say no amount of alcohol is good for you at all

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Not even a single drop is just pure poison

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They've literally come out and said yeah, we say it's good for but it's actually not good for the heart

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How'd you find out people die?

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Yeah, that'll do it

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No amount of alcohol is good

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He's literally dying in the hospital right now and you know what he's fighting and so they're like he's progressively getting better

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But it's not a for sure that he's gonna make it but let me say this you know you're better off than that

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You don't have cirrhosis of the liver you're not bedridden right now. You're not completely swollen on dialysis right now

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You're not, looks like you can open your eyes,

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you can open your mouth boldly to make known

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the mysteries of the gospel.

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You got two feet to walk, you have a church

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filled with people that love you.

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Sounds like you gotta stop whining.

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Because there's people in the hospital right now dying.

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You know, it kinda changes things, huh?

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Changes the perspective.

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Yeah, but you know, I just, I'm just sad.

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Stop.

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Just stop being sad.

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Just stop.

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How?

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You have the joy of the Lord.

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And look, folks, here's how you can get out of depression

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and out of sadness.

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You have to stop thinking about that stuff.

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That's literally how you do it.

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You don't need to buy a course, a 15-step program on how

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to get out of depression.

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I'm just telling you right now, it has to do with the mind.

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You're constantly thinking about the negative things

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You're constantly thinking about your problems

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You're constantly thinking, thinking

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And let me say this, on top of that, stop being idle

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Part of the reason why people get into depression

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They're sad, they're just focused on themselves

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Because you're idle and in your time of idleness

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You give yourself time to think about negative things

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You've got to cast down imaginations

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Point that I'm making here is that oh look at Romans 8 verse 5 for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded listen to this is life and what peace

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Do we want peace?

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Well then have a spiritual mind.

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And look, obviously every week is not going to be the same.

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Some weeks are just filled with stress and just you know bad things happen

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But you should not deviate from the path of peace too far when you get into those situations

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Make sure you make a right turn and come back on that road and start being spiritually minded

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Says it verse 7 because the carnal mind listen to this is enmity against God

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For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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Skip down to verse 12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

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For if you live after the flesh, ye shall die. But if ye through the Spirit do mortify the

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deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of

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God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage against a fear, but ye have received

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the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father. And here is the main verse here, verse 16.

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The Spirit itself, beareth witness with our spirit that we are, listen to this, the children of God.

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What does that mean? It means that the Spirit of God that dwells within us reminds us that we're saved.

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You're like, well I feel like I go through times where I'm not reminded. It's because you're carnally minded.

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So the Bible also talks about quenching the Spirit, grieving the Spirit. What does it mean to quench the Spirit?

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The Spirit can be likened unto fire.

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Right? The flames of the spirit are just within us

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and it motivates us to do right, to read the Bible, to participate in spiritual activities

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but we can actually quench that fire by walking in the flesh, by doing participating in carnal activities.

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So the more you quench the spirit, you basically harden your heart,

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you silence the spirit within you, then it's difficult for him to bear witness with you.

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It's difficult for him when you're struggling with your thoughts, with doubts, with all these things

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It's difficult for him to come step in and say, hey this isn't true, this is what the Bible says

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Because you're not filling your mind with biblical content

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Your spirit is weak

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You understand?

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So some doubt because of a carnal mind

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And let me just remind you that if you're saved, you have been forgiven of all sins past, present and future

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And you may think to yourself, well you know

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I have these thoughts in my mind that what if I'm just like a reprobate

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And this is some things that people struggle with sometimes, believe it or not.

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Like, what if I'm not really, what if I'm just like a reprobate?

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What if I'm actually just rejected of God? And this is common.

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Believe it or not, this is a common thing.

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What is a reprobate? A reprobate is someone who is beyond the hope of salvation.

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Someone who is an apostate. Okay?

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And believers cannot become reprobate.

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But believers can struggle with that sometimes.

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We're like, man, am I?

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Well, let me just tell you this.

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If you're questioning whether you are, you're not.

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Number one.

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So how do you know?

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Because reprobates are psychopaths and they don't care.

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Reprobates are just like, I don't care.

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And reprobates hate God.

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Like a reprobate wouldn't be like, am I saved?

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Hmm, and I'm wondering you know scared no they actually feed themselves listen finish it with me now. They feed themselves with

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without fear

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They don't have fear

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They don't care

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So if you're scared that's more of an indication that you that you are saved and you're not a reprobate

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You said why do people think if they're reprobate well? Let's just be honest sometimes people experience things in their past

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You know, through the will of wicked people imposed upon them

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They do things to them when they're younger or maybe when they're older they're exposed to certain things

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And it causes them to become confused

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And because reprobation is often associated with those activities

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Those abominations, they think to themselves, well if I did that in the past, if that was imposed upon me in the past

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That must mean I'm a reprobate, and here's how we can settle it

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What do you believe about salvation?

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It's by faith in Jesus Christ, you're not a reprobate

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It's not the case.

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But you are carnally minded though.

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You have a carnal, fleshly, weak mind.

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And I cannot emphasize to you how important it is for you to strengthen your mind, my

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friends.

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You need to make sure.

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Don't take it lightly.

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Be like, man, I'm struggling with this.

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Go memorize scripture.

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Go pray.

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You know, instead of being idle, watching, just doom scrolling all day long, doom scrolling, playing video games, just thinking about it.

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You know, you need to get into the fight here.

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And start fighting off these thoughts. And let me just say this, it is a fight.

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You know, I've gone through seasons of depression,

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end times past, where I'm extremely discouraged,

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just completely depressed, just losing the will to live,

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and I recognize like I have to fight this with spiritual means.

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Quoting scripture, praying through it, and it's exhausting.

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Folks, spiritual warfare is exhausting.

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It's tedious.

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It's, it's, it's, it's just, it's tiresome.

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But you have to do it.

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In order to overcome these things go to first John chapter 3 first John chapter 3

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1 John chapter 3.

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1 John chapter 3 verse 19 says this,

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and hereby we know that we are of the truth.

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1 John chapter 3 verse 19,

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hereby we know that we are of the truth

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and shall assure our hearts before him.

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For if our heart condemn us,

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God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.

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Beloved, if our heart condemn us not,

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then we have confidence toward God.

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What is the Bible telling us here?

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It's telling us that you can't really rely upon the heart

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to tell you the truth.

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Your heart can condemn you, it can say,

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because it's desperately wicked.

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And if you're constantly filling your heart with bad things,

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that's what you're going to get back, right?

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You're filling your heart with doubts, fear, anxiety, lust,

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greed, covetousness, carnality.

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That's what you're going to get in return.

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So if your heart is constantly condemning you, what do you do?

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Well then you have to recognize God is greater than our heart, meaning we have to believe

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the witness of God more than the witness of our hearts.

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You know, don't follow your heart.

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What does your heart say?

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That I'm just...

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Evil and wicked and there's something wrong with me and I'm not saved and you know trash

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It's like well. That is that doesn't fit the Disney narrative there like

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What is your heart say my heart says that I want to eat a whole pizza

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My heart says that this cut's not working.

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Just give up.

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Just give it up.

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My heart says I'm still fat.

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No, no, no, but what does it say?

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It says to sleep in.

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Tells me not to read the Bible.

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Tells me not to pray.

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Tells me not to do a lot of things.

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What does your heart say?

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A bunch of cuss words.

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A lot of them.

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So you can't really rely upon the heart.

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So what do you do?

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Well, God is greater than our heart.

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We've got to obey the witness of God.

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And what does the witness got?

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The Bible.

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We have to cleanse our hearts.

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And it says, beloved, if our heart condemns us not, then we have confidence toward God.

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So when you can get to a point where you've cleansed your heart, you've filled your heart with the Bible,

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and it stops condemning you, then we have confidence toward God.

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It's our faith and confidence toward what God says in His Word.

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The point is that sometimes people doubt whether they're saved or not

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because they just are carnally minded and they don't realize how important it is, listen to me,

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to just become strong in the Lord and the power of his might. That's not a cliche.

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That requires effort and work on your end. You have to put in the effort.

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To read the Bible, memorize the Bible, meditate upon the scriptures, get accountability

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You know, wake up in the morning, read the Bible and pray

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Pray throughout the day

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Make this a spiritual battle

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Because you need to saturate your heart with the truth as much as you saturate your heart with lies

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That's what you have to do

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Okay, go to Matthew chapter 4

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Now this next point, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on it, but it kind of works in conjunction with the previous point,

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is that some people doubt because of the accuser of the brethren.

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What is that? Satan.

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You know Satan comes and he tries to cause you to doubt and question?

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All the time, right?

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But we're talking about in the context of salvation, that is a legitimate thing.

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So think about this, aside from the fact that you have your heart.

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Condemning you then you got the devil condemning you to

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Okay, accusing you and you're like well does the Satan really cause you to doubt whether you're saved or not?

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I do think he does sometimes for sure

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Yeah, I think there's season when he tries to get you to just question things because then it can render you fearful

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And cause you to be an ineffective Christian a lot of ways

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But look at this example, look at Matthew chapter 4 verse 3, and when the tempter came

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to him referring to Jesus, he said, if thou be the son of God, command that these stones

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be made bread.

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What is he trying to cause Jesus to question, whether he's the son of God?

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Well, if you're really the son of God, make these stones to turn into bread.

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So what is he doing?

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He's causing him to question, causing him to doubt.

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And look, this is something that I believe Satan does with people.

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He sends the fiery darts. He tries to cause you to question.

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And I think sometimes Christians have a tendency to just give too much of an audience to Satan.

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Like you let like just Satan just talk to you and stuff.

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You let him just cast darts at you, you know, instill your heart with fear and doubts and accusations and railings.

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And you're just like listening to him the whole time.

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But you've got to be like our Lord where he said,

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man should not live by bread alone,

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but by every word that proceed out of the mouth of God.

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Like you need to fight off the accusations of Satan

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with the Bible.

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And just quote scripture, amen.

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Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.

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Quote the Bible.

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Quote the Bible when it comes to your temptation, your sin,

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your situation.

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You have to fight off.

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This is how you resist Satan.

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is by quoting the truth.

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So some people doubt because of the accuser of the brethren.

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Now look, you know, if you've ever doubted

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whether you're saved or not, you know, for whatever reason,

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just because maybe you have a thought in your mind,

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you know, don't feel weird.

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I think a lot of people do that.

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I've done that.

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You know, even as a pastor, you know,

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I've had just fleeing thoughts of just like,

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what if I'm not really saved?

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What if I don't really believe what I,

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all this stuff about salvation?

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You say, what is that?

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So this is what that is, OK?

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If you've ever had that, this is what it is.

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Pay attention, OK?

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Because I've had that.

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It's just like, hmm.

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Are we in a simulation?

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You know, it's just kind of like, do I really believe this?

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What if I'm not really safe?

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What if I've been faking it the whole time?

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What if I just don't really believe it?

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You say, what is that?

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This is what it is.

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You guys listening?

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Stupidity.

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It's called a stupid thought.

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That's all it is.

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The Bible calls it a foolish thought.

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And don't tell me you don't have stupid thoughts.

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I know you have stupid thoughts because some of you have verbalized them.

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We all have stupid thoughts from time to time.

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Now, I don't have those thoughts often.

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I very rarely will I ever have those thoughts.

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And then you say, what do you do?

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Just shake it off.

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And you say, well, that was stupid.

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And reinforce the truth.

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And it's not like I was doubting, like, man, maybe

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I'm not really safe or something.

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It's just like, what if I'm not?

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What if I don't really believe it?

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And you say, well then what do you do?

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Then I go through the scriptures in my mind,

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and I think to myself, well no, I believe that.

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I know that it's my faith, can't lose your salvation.

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Am I sure about that?

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Yeah, because it's what the Bible says.

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Go through the scriptures.

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No, no, I'm saying that was stupid.

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That was embarrassing.

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Sometimes you just have stupid thoughts.

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Now you should not persist in stupid thinking though.

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Because then you're gonna be a stupid person.

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You understand? You need to make sure that when you have stupid thoughts, you cast them down, and you get rid of them, and you quote the truth, and you don't ruminate on foolish thinking.

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Okay, you need to make sure you just like, cast it away. And that's not the only stupid thought that people... we have stupid thoughts about all kinds of things.

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Just dumb thoughts. Some of them make funny jokes, some of them is just, you know, they're funny, some of them are just like, ah, that's embarrassing.

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Because we just have, we're just carnal. We're fleshly, right?

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The point is that when they come in, you need to make sure you cast it out.

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Cast it down, you cast it out, and you don't entertain those thoughts.

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Okay?

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And so, we need to make sure that we recognize that.

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And you know, part of that is just the accuser of the brethren trying to use these things

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against us.

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You're like, I feel like I'm constantly fighting Satan.

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It's probably because, number one, you're not resisting Satan.

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Because the formula is this, he's going to attack and you just have to make sure you resist.

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And what happens when you resist? He leaves for a season.

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But if he's just constantly there, it's because you're not putting up a fight.

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Because you just suck at fighting. You're just not fighting back.

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So he's just bullying you the whole time. He's just bullying you. He's just constantly bullying you.

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He's just like, man, he's just been attacking because you're not putting up a fight.

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You're just an easy target. But if you resist the devil.

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If you fight against the devil, if you're quoting scripture, you're putting your hands up,

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you're not allowing him to, you're not giving place into Satan, he's gonna realize like,

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okay, I'm not gonna be able to knock this guy out, I'm just gonna leave.

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And he will flee from you.

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Satan can flee from you, but he only does it when he realizes

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you're just putting too much of a good fight up.

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You're just resisting too much.

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But if you're like, man, I just feel like he's just coming at me hard,

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and he's been doing it for a long time,

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it's probably because you're not putting up a fight.

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And look, folks, when I say put up a fight,

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you know, I don't mean once a week.

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You know, when I say go to the gym, I don't mean once a week.

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When I say, you know, you want to lose weight, get on a deficit, I don't mean just once a week.

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I don't mean just one meal.

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That's what people expect sometimes. They want these results with just doing it once.

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Just like memorize one scripture, that's it. Read the Bible on Sunday, that's it. Pray, that's it.

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And then they're just like, I don't know why I'm falling apart.

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It's probably because you're not really fighting.

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It requires literally a, it's a daily battle.

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You know what that means?

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It means tomorrow you have to wake up

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already expecting to go into this battle,

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read your Bible, pray, say the right things in your mind,

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speak the truth in your heart.

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And if you still struggle, get accountability.

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And you know what?

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Sometimes we have to do this process for like months on end.

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You say, what happens? Then he flees.

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And then you return and the power of the Holy Ghost becomes strong in the Lord and the power of his might.

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You become a better Christian because of it.

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And so, you know, we need to recognize that sometimes doubt comes from Satan himself.

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Okay, you don't have to turn there.

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I'm just going to read these points off to you real quick.

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How to overcome doubt.

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Number one, feed your faith, starve your fear.

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keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life. stop feeding your fears

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by staying on social media, talking to the wrong people, not getting enough sleep, not eating right,

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not exercising, just constantly thinking about how negative things are and all these things. start

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feeding your faith by just actually reading the bible, disciplining yourself in spiritual matters.

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Number two, meditate upon God's past faithfulness.

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If God has helped you before, why don't you think about that?

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Instead of constantly accusing God, like why aren't you helping me now?

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Why don't you think about the times that he helped you before?

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And use that as a reputable source of what he's going to do today and tomorrow for you, right?

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So meditate upon God's past faithfulness

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Number three, here's one of the best ways, go to James chapter one, this is the last portion of the scripture we'll go to

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Number three, obey even if you doubt.

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One of the best things you can do for your doubt is just obey.

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Just do right anyways, even if it doesn't make sense to you, do it anyways.

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And when you come out on the other side, you pass with flying colors,

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then you realize, God was right, I was wrong.

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You need to make sure that you do that.

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And lastly, number four, how to overcome doubt, pray.

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Sometimes you just have to pray. Okay, if you like man, I'm doubting so much right now. That's a reminder to you

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I need to pray. I need to make sure I take this to the Lord and look just tell the Lord

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I'm struggling with doubt. I believe help down my unbelief

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I'm struggling right now. I'm not strong in the Lord. I'm a fearful person and I need your help with this

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I need you to strengthen me. I need you to increase my faith Lord

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Increase my faith in you because I know that I'm weak in my faith and I need you to make me strong in my faith

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Because I want to believe in the promises of God. I don't want to stagger

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Look at James 1 verse 5 if any of you lack wisdom

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Let them ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and abradeth not and it shall be given him

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Listen to this, but let him ask in faith

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nothing wavering

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For he that wavereth is like the wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed.

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For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.

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A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways."

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So look folks, when you pray, make sure you pray believing that he's going to answer that prayer.

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God, I need this. And this is what you do. This is what I do.

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Here's my recommendation to you.

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So now that I prayed this, I'm just going to expect that you're going to do this now.

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So I'm expecting this.

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That sounds irreverential.

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It's not.

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It's actually an act of faith.

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Like, I'm praying this and since I did so, since the Bible said it, that means you're obligated to answer my prayer.

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So I'll be expecting it too.

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Thank you, Lord.

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In Jesus name, I pray, Amen.

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I can't do that.

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OK, then stay in that same rut.

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Stay in that same rut.

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Have no faith be a doubtful person because I'm telling you right now I do that and my faith has been increased over the years

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multiple times because of that because I believe that you know

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And that's part that that's not me like trying to remind him of his promises that mean that's me trying to remind myself of his

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Promises and you know doesn't the Bible say to come before the throne of the throne of great a throne of God

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Boldly that we may boldly come before the throne of grace to obtain mercy to help in a time of need

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Remember that word boldly? Like, I'm here for that check. I'm here for that provision. You said you

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would give it so I'm just gonna expect it. So I need this particular need. There's no other way I

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can get it so I'm just gonna expect for you to give it to me. Hey Sarah Femmes and Chair Femmes,

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how's it going? Just, you know, boldly come before the throne of grace!

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No, I gotta like, I'm just like a worm, and you're gonna stay a worm.

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Because of the way you're thinking.

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God told us to come boldly, and that's what I'm gonna do.

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You know what? I wanna live my life in doubt.

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Constantly wondering if God's gonna show himself strong on my behalf.

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Constantly wondering, is he gonna come through on this situation?

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I'm just gonna go ahead and just believe it.

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Why? Because the Bible says, he that cometh to God must believe that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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So you want to be rewarded with great faith? You want to be rewarded with being strong, with provision?

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You better believe that he is and that he will reward you.

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Because if not, then a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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Don't think that that man shall receive anything of the Lord.

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Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word.

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Help us Lord as your people when we struggle with doubt that we would never delve into disobedience

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because of it.

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And Lord, I pray that you would help us to fight off the wiles of Satan, the fiery darts.

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We're thankful that salvation and the message of salvation is so clear.

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that even when we are out, we are in our most downed state of mind,

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maybe we're filled with stress and worry and care and fear,

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the truth always reigns and it triumphs.

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Because when we revisit that truth, we know that that's what we believe.

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And so that's our anchor.

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And I pray that Lord, if there's someone here who doubts that they would overcome that with faith,

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and that they would no longer live in that state of doubt.

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I pray that if someone is not saved here,

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that they don't be on a shadow of a doubt that they're saved, that they would get saved today.

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And may you bless us as we go on our way. We love you. We thank you.

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Pray this thing's in Jesus name. Amen.

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