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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Necessary Ingredient (Part 2) | January 17, 2025
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- [announcer] from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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- Of dallas, texas,
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- This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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- Personal problems can produce two very different outcomes.
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- Problems can strengthen our relationship with god,
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- Or problems can destroy our faith in god.
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- The difference comes down to one single word,
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- And that word is faith.
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- Well today, we'll admire several people
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- Who courageously face their problems
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- By placing their complete faith in god.
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- My message is titled "the necessary ingredient"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- [narrator] in a world filled with noise and clutter,
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- Cain and abel were the first two children of adam and eve.
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- And remember god said to them,
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- "i want you to bring a sacrifice to me."
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- And he prescribed the kind of sacrifice he wanted.
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- And abel brought a sacrifice,
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- He was a shepherd and so he brought one of his animals
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- And offered a blood sacrifice to god.
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- Cain decided that he would try
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- To offer his own sacrifice to god,
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- And he brought some of the produce that he had raised.
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- And the bible says that god accepted abel's offering,
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- But he rejected cain's offering,
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- And cain was so despondent over the fact
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- That god rejected him,
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- That he became enraged at his brother abel
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- And killed him the first murder in the bible.
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- Why is it that god accepted abel's sacrifice
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- But rejected cain's offering?
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- I've heard pastors speculate about that.
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- I've read bible commentators who said,
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- "well, it was in their attitude."
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- Abel brought his sacrifice as an act of love,
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- But cain brought his to satisfy a religious ritual.
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- And it was their attitude that made the difference.
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- That sounds so good, but it's so wrong.
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- I mean, the fact is the bible tells us exactly
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- Why god accepted abel's sacrifice and rejected cain.
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- Look at verse four.
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- By faith, abel offered to god
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- A better sacrifice than cain.
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- Apparently in words we don't have recorded,
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- God told both men exactly what he wanted.
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- He prescribed a blood sacrifice,
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- A blood offering of an innocent animal
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- That would foretell the coming many years later
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- Of the lamb of god, jesus christ,
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- Who would take away the sins of the world.
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- And abel, although he didn't understand why god said that,
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- He couldn't see down the corridor of history
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- To jesus christ,
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- It made no sense to him
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- To kill an innocent and good animal.
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- He obeyed god.
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- He believed what god said and acted accordingly,
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- But not cain.
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- He thought he could come to god any way he wanted to.
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- In fact, did you know in the new testament, jude 11,
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- The writer says, "avoid the way of cain."
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- You know what the way of cain is?
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- It's trying to come to god on your own terms.
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- And the world today is filled with people
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- Who say they can come to god any way they want to.
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- Doesn't matter what you believe.
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- It's like you can approach god
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- Any way you want to from any direction
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- And still go up the same mountain of truth
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- And approach the same god.
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- God says, "no, you cannot come to me any way you choose.
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- You must come in my way."
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- And for us today,
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- It means believing in jesus christ to be our savior.
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- Jesus said in john 14:6,
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- "i am the way, the truth, and the life.
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- No man comes to the father except by me."
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- The way to god is not broad, it is narrow.
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- There is one way,
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- And that's what abel and cain illustrate to us.
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- It was by faith that abel offered a better sacrifice.
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- Let me stop here and just say
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- I have people ask me all the time,
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- Well pastor, how could abel be saved?
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- How could anybody be saved
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- Before jesus christ gave his life on the cross for us?
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- Have you ever wondered that,
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- How were the old testament saints saved?
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- I've heard people say, "well, in the old testament,
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- People were saved by works,
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- But in the new testament, they're saved by christ."
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- Have you heard that before?
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- No, god hasn't changed, since the beginning of time,
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- We've all been saved in the same way.
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- In fact, i was studying this passage yesterday morning
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- Just going over it and trying to think,
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- How can i best illustrate this?
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- And this little phrase came to me,
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- And i want you to write it down.
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- If you ever wonder how it is we are saved,
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- I want you to write this down, our forgiveness,
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- Because that's what salvation is.
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- It's the forgiveness of our sins,
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- Our forgiveness is,
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- And then underneath it, write these three things.
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- Number one, based on god's grace.
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- It's based on god's grace.
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- Secondly, it's paid for by christ's blood.
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- And thirdly, it is received through our faith,
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- Our forgiveness,
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- And anybody's forgiveness in history,
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- Is based on god's grace,
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- It is paid for by christ's blood,
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- And it is received through our faith.
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- Remember ephesians 2:8-9?
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- For by grace, you have been saved through faith,
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- And that not of yourselves, it is the gift of god,
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- Not as a result of works so that no man,
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- No person may boast.
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- All of us are saved by god's grace, never by works.
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- It's always been by god's grace. that's what he says.
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- He doesn't say for by faith you have been saved.
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- He says by grace you have been saved.
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- We are saved by god's grace.
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- We receive that grace through our faith,
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- Grace through faith.
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- Let me illustrate the difference for you this way.
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- Let's imagine you're walking downtown,
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- See a crowd gathered together
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- Underneath a building by a building.
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- Firetrucks are there.
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- Everybody's pointing up to the same direction.
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- They're pointing up to the sixth floor ledge
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- Where somebody is standing
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- Out on the ledge of a burning building.
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- The firemen are below with a safety net,
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- And they're urging the person up there
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- On that sixth floor ledge to jump
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- Before he's destroyed by the fire.
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- And so that man is trying to decide,
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- Am i going to jump into that net or not?
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- Finally, he, in a leap of faith, takes a leap of faith,
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- And he jumps from that building.
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- He lands safely in the net and he is saved.
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- Now if you witnessed that
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- And somebody were to ask you, how is that man saved,
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- Would you say he was saved because he jumped?
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- Was he saved through his jumping? no.
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- There have been people who have jumped from buildings before
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- And ended up splattering on the concrete below.
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- Jumping isn't what saves you.
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- That man was saved by the net the fireman had provided.
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- But as long as that man was standing on the ledge,
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- That net did him no good.
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- The fireman offered him a provision for salvation.
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- But the way he took advantage of that provision
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- Was by faith,
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- Believing that that net would hold him.
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- He was saved by the net
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- That he accessed through jumping.
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- It's the same way for us. it's not faith that saves us.
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- We cannot conjure up enough faith to save us.
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- Faith demands an object.
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- It's believing that jesus christ died for our sins.
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- And when we trust in what jesus did,
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- We are saved by god's grace,
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- Which is paid for by christ's blood
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- And received through our faith.
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- And that's what abel did. abel believed what god said.
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- He was saved by god's grace,
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- Which he received through his faith,
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- Which was ultimately paid for
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- By christ's death on the cross.
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- When people say,
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- "yeah, but that happened before christ paid the debt,"
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- I tell people abel was saved on credit.
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- His faith was on credit, as was all of the old testament.
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- God isn't bound by time like you and i are.
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- We see past, present, future.
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- In god's mind, it had already happened,
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- The death of christ, he was saved on credit,
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- But it was all by god's grace.
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- That was abel.
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- He demonstrates a faith that saves.
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- But you know what?
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- Faith is not only necessary for our salvation,
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- But also for our sanctification,
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- For our becoming more like christ.
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- Look at verse five.
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- That's demonstrated in the life of enoch.
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- By faith, enoch was taken up
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- So that he would not see death,
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- And he was not found
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- Because god took him up for he obtained the witness
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- That before his being taken up, he was pleasing to god.
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- Underline that word pleasing.
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- We find the story of enoch
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- In genesis 5:21-24.
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- The bible says enoch lived 65 years
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- And became the father of methuselah.
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- Remember methuselah,
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- The oldest man in the bible, lived to be 969.
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- Well enoch was his father.
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- Enoch lived 65 years,
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- And then he and his wife gave birth to methuselah,
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- And then enoch walked with god 300 more years
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- After he became the father of methuselah.
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- Isn't that interesting?
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- Enoch is known as a person that walked with god,
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- Even though he spent the first 65 years of his life
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- Living apart from god.
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- He made a change in his life.
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- Perhaps it was the birth of his son that made him realize,
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- I need to start walking with god.
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- I need to be an example to my child.
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- I see that all the time.
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- Maybe young adults have wandered away from god,
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- But when they have that first child,
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- They see how important it is to be back in church
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- And be rearing their children to know christ.
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- That was enoch. he wasted the first 65 years of his life.
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- But isn't it good to know,
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- It's not how you start in life,
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- It's how you finish that counts.
- 00:14:18.781 --> 00:14:21.116
- Maybe you're living in the far country away from god,
- 00:14:22.184 --> 00:14:25.521
- Or maybe you've just recently come back to god.
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- God doesn't care about your past,
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- He cares about your future, not the direction you've been,
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- But the direction you're going in.
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- That's what makes a difference to god.
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- Enoch spent the rest of his life serving god.
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- So all the days of enoch were 365 years.
- 00:14:39.668 --> 00:14:42.671
- Now look at this, verse 24, enoch walked with god,
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- And he was not for god took him.
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- Every other person in genesis 5 says,
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- And he died and he died and he died and he died.
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- Not enoch, no, god just took him, he raptured him.
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- Enoch is a picture, a type of,
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- A group of christians in some future age, maybe this one,
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- Maybe another one in which they won't experience death.
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- God will just rapture them,
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- (indistinct) them to catch them up to meet him in the air.
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- Why did god do that with enoch?
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- It's because he walked with god.
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- That doesn't mean he and god took a stroll
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- On sunday afternoons together.
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- To walk with god means to please god.
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- In fact, that's what the bible says,
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- He was pleasing to god, hebrews 11:5.
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- He wanted to please god with all of his life
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- And what gave him that desire to please god?
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- It was faith.
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- You see the relationship to faith
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- In pleasing god beginning in verses six and seven.
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- Look at this, verse six, and without faith,
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- It is impossible to please god,
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- Stay with me on this, this is so important.
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- Without faith, you cannot please god.
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- You cannot walk with god.
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- You cannot obey god without faith.
- 00:16:01.450 --> 00:16:05.821
- Now i want to tell you the way i used
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- To hear people preach this passage and teach it.
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- I used to hear people say,
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- Now you can read your bible, tithe, and go to church,
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- But if you do it without faith,
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- It's not pleasing to god.
- 00:16:15.164 --> 00:16:16.999
- You can stay sexually, morally pure,
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- But if you stay sexually, morally pure,
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- Without faith, god doesn't care.
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- It doesn't count for anything.
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- You can witness to other people.
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- You can share your faith with other people,
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- But if you do it without faith,
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- That's worthless in god's sight.
- 00:16:33.916 --> 00:16:36.151
- And when i heard people say that, i always say,
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- Well how do you read your bible and tithe
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- And go to church without faith?
- 00:16:40.689 --> 00:16:42.591
- What does it mean to read your bible without faith?
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- I don't get it. that's not what this passage is saying.
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- The word faith and please god is a synonym for obey.
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- He's saying without faith, it is impossible to obey god.
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- In other words, you will never consistently read your bible,
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- Tithe, and go to church.
- 00:17:04.746 --> 00:17:06.381
- You'll never consistently stay morally, sexually pure.
- 00:17:06.381 --> 00:17:10.152
- You'll never consistently share your faith
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- With other people without faith.
- 00:17:12.788 --> 00:17:15.657
- Without faith, you just won't do it.
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- Dietrich bonhoeffer said one time
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- Only those who believe are obedient,
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- And only those who are obedient truly believe
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- You'll never be obedient to god without faith.
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- That's what he's saying.
- 00:17:30.172 --> 00:17:31.573
- Without faith, you can never continually please god.
- 00:17:31.573 --> 00:17:34.710
- For the person who comes to god, look at this,
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- Must believe two things,
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- That he is and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
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- You'll never live a life that pleases god until a,
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- You're convinced that god exists.
- 00:17:48.524 --> 00:17:50.659
- That's kind of a no brainer, isn't it?
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- But secondly, you also have to be convinced
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- That he rewards those who diligently follow after him.
- 00:17:55.531 --> 00:18:02.171
- Epicurus was a philosopher,
- 00:18:02.771 --> 00:18:05.174
- Greek philosopher who lived before jesus,
- 00:18:05.174 --> 00:18:07.309
- And he developed this idea
- 00:18:07.309 --> 00:18:09.178
- That our chief goal in life should be pleasure.
- 00:18:09.178 --> 00:18:12.915
- And people today criticize that and say,
- 00:18:13.749 --> 00:18:15.851
- Oh, that's hedonism.
- 00:18:15.851 --> 00:18:16.885
- Eat, drink, and be merry
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- Because tomorrow we die and they discount it.
- 00:18:19.321 --> 00:18:20.722
- But that's not really what epicurus was saying.
- 00:18:20.722 --> 00:18:22.891
- I read one commentator this week who pointed out
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- What he was saying was you ought to decide what you do
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- By that which will give you the most long-term satisfaction.
- 00:18:28.597 --> 00:18:33.835
- And actually that's a good test.
- 00:18:34.469 --> 00:18:36.405
- What is it that will provide the most
- 00:18:36.405 --> 00:18:38.407
- Long-term satisfaction, and it's obedience to god.
- 00:18:38.407 --> 00:18:43.712
- You see, you will never consistently walk with god,
- 00:18:44.746 --> 00:18:47.883
- Obey god until you're convinced
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- It's in your best interest to do so,
- 00:18:50.619 --> 00:18:53.855
- Until you're absolutely convinced that god will reward you,
- 00:18:55.057 --> 00:18:59.294
- Maybe not in the short term,
- 00:18:59.294 --> 00:19:01.463
- But in the long term for your obedience to him.
- 00:19:01.463 --> 00:19:04.900
- Now he gives us one final example of that
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- In chapter 11:7, noah.
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- By faith, noah being warned by god about things
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- Not yet seen in reverence,
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- He prepared an ark for the salvation of his household
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- By which he condemned the world
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- And he became an heir of the righteousness,
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- Which is according to faith.
- 00:19:23.852 --> 00:19:25.854
- Remember the story of noah, genesis 6?
- 00:19:25.854 --> 00:19:29.124
- The world had become so evil that god decided
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- To destroy it with a great flood.
- 00:19:31.326 --> 00:19:33.729
- But verse eight says noah found favor in god's eyes,
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- For no reason other than god's own secret will,
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- He chose noah and he said to noah,
- 00:19:40.335 --> 00:19:42.471
- "noah, i'm going to flood the world.
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- I'm going to send rain for 40 days and 40 nights,
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- Destroy the world.
- 00:19:46.441 --> 00:19:47.609
- I want you to build an ark for you
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- And those i'll tell you to put in that ark."
- 00:19:48.877 --> 00:19:51.813
- And noah obeyed what god said.
- 00:19:51.813 --> 00:19:55.017
- But what's interesting about his obedience is this.
- 00:19:55.017 --> 00:19:57.719
- It says he obeyed god being warned of things not yet seen.
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- You know what that means?
- 00:20:04.393 --> 00:20:06.261
- Up to that point, it had never rained on the earth before.
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- The earth was watered by subterranean fountains
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- That provided this mist.
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- It had not yet rained on the earth
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- According to genesis 2:5.
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- So when god said to noah,
- 00:20:19.207 --> 00:20:21.310
- "hey, it's going to rain for 40 days and 40 nights,"
- 00:20:21.310 --> 00:20:24.613
- That was like saying to noah, hey noah,
- 00:20:24.613 --> 00:20:27.149
- It's going to supercalifragilisticexpialidocis
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- For 40 days and 40 nights.
- 00:20:29.885 --> 00:20:31.887
- Lord, would you say that again, please?
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- He didn't know what rain was.
- 00:20:34.323 --> 00:20:35.691
- Never heard of rain, but he believed what god said.
- 00:20:35.691 --> 00:20:40.996
- He acted accordingly by building that ark.
- 00:20:41.897 --> 00:20:44.499
- And the result was not only the temporary salvation
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- Of himself and his family, but notice what it says here.
- 00:20:49.137 --> 00:20:53.008
- He became an heir of the righteousness,
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- Which is according to faith,
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- Noah is the first person in the bible
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- Who was ever declared righteous.
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- He is in a right standing with god. why?
- 00:21:06.121 --> 00:21:10.225
- Because he believed what god said.
- 00:21:10.225 --> 00:21:12.728
- He believed in a god of grace.
- 00:21:12.728 --> 00:21:16.631
- He received that grace through faith,
- 00:21:16.631 --> 00:21:19.901
- And one day that faith would be paid for
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- By the blood of jesus christ.
- 00:21:23.672 --> 00:21:26.408
- You know one thing you notice as you read
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- Through hebrews chapter 11 is this,
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- All of the men and women we're going to look at
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- In the days ahead had one thing in common.
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- They obeyed god and they died without fully seeing
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- And realizing the promises of god.
- 00:21:41.223 --> 00:21:44.426
- Nevertheless, they kept on obeying god,
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- And they found that as they did,
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- As they exercised their faith,
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- Their faith became stronger.
- 00:21:53.802 --> 00:21:55.937
- As they practiced obedience, it became easier to obey god.
- 00:21:55.937 --> 00:22:01.176
- What is it that gave them the ability
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- To keep on following god,
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- Even when they weren't immediately rewarded for doing so?
- 00:22:07.015 --> 00:22:11.319
- It was their faith.
- 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:13.288
- They believed that god exists
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- And that he is a rewarder of those
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- Who diligently follow after him.
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- And crystal clear water in beautiful island destinations
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- Like santorini, mykonos, and crete.
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- Walk with me and other believers
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- In the very places where god's word was written.
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- Join us as we study his word together.
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- Surrounded by natural beauty,
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- We will seek our creator in his creation.
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- [narrator] reserve your spot
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- On the "pathway to victory"
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- Journeys of paul mediterranean cruise.
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- Call (888) 280-6747, or visit ptv.org.
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