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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue

Lawson Perdue - Our Relationship with God (Part 1)

January 28, 2026 | 27:29

Lawson Perdue - Our Relationship with God (Part 1)
Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ
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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Our Relationship with God (Part 1) | January 28, 2026
  • (ambient introductory music)
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  • - hi, friends.
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  • Today, we're gonna begin a brand new series
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  • On our relationship with god.
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  • This is one of my favorite subjects
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  • From one of my favorite books, the book of 1 john.
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  • And we're gonna be answering the question today
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  • On where can we find true joy?
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  • Let me give you a hint.
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  • It's not in more money.
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  • It's not in more power.
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  • It's not in more friends.
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  • It's not in more stuff.
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  • There's only one place to find true joy.
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  • (uplifting music)
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  • But we're gonna begin in verse 1 through verse 3.
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  • In the introduction, he says, "that..."
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  • Or we could say him.
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  • He's speaking about jesus.
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  • "him who was from the beginning,
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  • "who we have heard,
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  • "who we have seen with our eyes,
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  • "who we have gazed upon and our hands have handled."
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  • We came into a personal relationship with jesus.
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  • "with the word of life.
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  • "for the life was made known, it was revealed.
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  • "and we have seen him and bear witness of him.
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  • "and we show you that eternal life."
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  • Jesus' life changed our life.
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  • "and we're sharing that life with you,
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  • "that life which was with the father
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  • "and revealed to us.
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  • "him who we have seen and heard, we declare to you
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  • "that you might have fellowship with us."
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  • This is our goal.
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  • We want you to have fellowship with us.
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  • "and truly our fellowship is with the father
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  • "and his son, jesus christ."
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  • Now, when you look at this word, fellowship,
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  • This word fellowship in the greek
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  • Is the greek word koininia.
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  • And what it means, it means a partnership, a sharing, right,
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  • Communion, communication, right, a joint effort.
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  • We're working together.
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  • How many of you are glad that you're not on your own?
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  • - [congregation] amen.
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  • - how many of you are glad jesus said,
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  • "i'll never leave you or forsake you"?
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  • - [congregation] amen.
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  • How many of you are glad that the bible says,
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  • "the fellowship of the holy spirit be with you all,
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  • "the grace of our lord jesus christ
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  • "and the love of god and the communion,
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  • "the fellowship of the holy spirit"?
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  • So we have a relationship with god through christ.
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  • And the holy spirit has come to live on the inside of us.
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  • So what do we learn as we walk with god?
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  • Well, one of the first things that we learn
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  • Is that you can't find joy, true joy, anywhere else
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  • Than your relationship with jesus.
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  • And so that's the very first thing
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  • That john addresses right here.
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  • In verse 4, he says, "these things we write to you
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  • "that your joy may be full."
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  • There's lots of places that people are trying to find joy.
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  • Sometimes, people are trying to find joy
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  • Through relationships.
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  • And it's good to have positive relationships.
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  • But you know what?
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  • If you don't know how much jesus loves you,
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  • There's nobody that can love you enough.
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  • Amen, you've gotta find true joy
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  • In knowing how much jesus christ loves you.
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  • Sometimes, people are trying to find joy
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  • Through their identification, maybe with their job.
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  • You know what?
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  • You can't find true joy through, you know,
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  • Your position at work or power in this world.
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  • Some people are trying to find joy
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  • Through their possessions.
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  • Ecclesiastes says, "he who loves silver
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  • "will not be satisfied with silver."
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  • You know what, it leaves you empty at the end of the day.
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  • You know, the only place that you can find true joy
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  • Is through knowing god through jesus christ.
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  • I remember years ago, barbara and i,
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  • We were going to visit her grandma.
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  • She lived over in paonia on the west slope.
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  • And so we got this deal in the mail.
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  • And it said, "hey, you can come
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  • "and spend a free night at vail, colorado,
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  • "but you gotta listen to our sales pitch in the morning."
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  • So i'm like, "hey, i'd like to spend a free night in vail,
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  • "it's a nice place."
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  • And i'm pretty good about turning down sales pitches.
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  • So anyway, we spent the night.
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  • And then we had to spend about an hour the next morning
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  • With these people.
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  • And this lady sat down.
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  • Finally, you know, i was just not buying it, right?
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  • So finally, she said, "what could i do to make you happy?"
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  • And i said, "well, i am happy."
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • And it's like i just rained on her parade.
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  • Because you know what?
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  • I just said, "jesus is the one who makes me happy.
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  • "and it's not some thing that's gonna make me happy."
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  • So true joy can only really be found through knowing jesus,
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  • Through knowing god in your relationship with christ.
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  • You know, isaiah says this in isaiah 12:3.
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  • He says, "therefore with joy will you draw water
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  • "from the wells of salvation."
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  • You get joy from salvation.
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  • Amen?
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  • When you're born again,
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  • When you have a relationship with god in christ,
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  • You have the joy of the lord in your spirit.
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  • Paul wrote in galatians 5:22-23,
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  • "the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
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  • "longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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  • "meekness and temperance.
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  • "against such, there is no law."
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  • If you're born again, if christ lives in you,
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  • You have all of the fruit of the holy spirit
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  • On the inside of you.
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  • You have the joy of the lord on the inside of you.
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  • Now, david talked about joy in psalm 51.
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  • He had actually backslidden.
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  • He went the wrong direction.
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  • But he was coming back the right direction.
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  • And he said this in psalm 51:8-12.
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  • "make me to hear joy and gladness,
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  • "that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
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  • "hide your face from my sin.
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  • "blot out all of my iniquities.
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  • "create in me a clean heart, o god,
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  • "and renew a right spirit within me.
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  • "do not cast me away from your presence.
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  • "take not your holy spirit from me.
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  • "restore unto me the joy of your salvation
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  • "and uphold me with your free spirit."
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  • Praise god.
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  • David was talking about, i wanna be right with god.
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  • I wanna walk, you know, in a good conscience with god.
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  • Now in psalm 16, there's a prophecy
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  • About the resurrection of jesus.
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  • And in verse 10 and verse 11,
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  • It's actually about the death and resurrection of jesus.
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  • He says, "for you will not leave my soul in hell.
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  • "neither will you suffer your holy one to see corruption.
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  • "you will show me the path of life.
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  • "and in your presence is fullness of joy.
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  • "at your right hand, there are pleasures forevermore."
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  • Where do we get joy?
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  • We get joy in our relationship with god in christ.
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  • Paul wrote in philippians 4, "rejoice in the lord always.
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  • "and again, i say rejoice."
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  • We rejoice in the lord, in our relationship with god.
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  • Jesus talked about the day the holy spirit would come.
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  • And he talked about the day
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  • He was resurrected from the dead.
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  • I'm gonna read some verses here in john 16:23-24.
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  • He says, "in that day, you will ask me nothing.
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  • "verily, verily, i say unto you,
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  • "whatever you ask the father in my name,
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  • "he will give it to you.
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  • "before now, you have asked nothing in my name.
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  • "ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full."
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  • Again, we have joy through our relationship with god,
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  • Through our relationship with jesus christ.
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  • That's the only place that we can really find true joy.
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  • Peter talked about it in 1 peter 1:8.
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  • He said, "whom," speaking of jesus,
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  • "you have not seen but you love him.
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  • "and in whom now even though you don't see him,
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  • "you believe in him, and you rejoice
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  • "with joy unspeakable and full of glory."
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  • Even though we physically have not seen jesus,
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  • We believe in jesus, and we rejoice in him with joy.
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  • Peter says, "it's unspeakable and full of glory."
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  • Paul wrote about it in romans 14:17.
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  • He says, "the kingdom of god is not meat and drink."
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  • The kingdom of god is not a bunch
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  • Of religious rules and regulations.
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  • How many of you are glad about that?
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  • But it's righteousness, right standing with god.
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  • How do you receive righteousness?
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  • By faith in jesus.
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  • It's peace.
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  • Amen, we have peace with god.
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  • Romans 5:1 says, "therefore, being justified by faith,
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  • "we have peace with god through our lord jesus christ."
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  • And it's joy in the holy ghost.
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  • The kingdom of god is not about all these outside things.
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  • It's about right standing with god.
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  • It's about peace with god.
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  • And it's about having joy in the holy spirit.
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  • See, jesus gives you a joy that the world can't give
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  • And the world can't take away.
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  • I thank god that i have joy in my relationship with jesus.
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  • But john doesn't stop there.
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  • He goes on and he talks about some other things
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  • That we find when we walk in a relationship with god.
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  • Notice in verse 5-7,
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  • "this then is the message which we have heard of him
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  • "and we declare to you,
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  • "that god is light and in him is no darkness at all.
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  • "if we say that we have fellowship with him
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  • "and walk in darkness,
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  • "we are lying and not telling the truth.
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  • "if we walk in the light as he is in the light,
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  • "we have fellowship with one another
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  • "and the blood of his son, jesus christ,
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  • "cleanses us from all sin."
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  • So what happens when we walk in a relationship with god?
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  • Well, if you're walking with god,
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  • You're gonna be walking in the light.
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  • You know, there's a scripture that i love
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  • From ephesians 5:8-9.
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  • And i'm gonna turn over there and read a few to go with it.
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  • But in ephesians 5:8, paul says this:
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  • "you were sometimes darkness."
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  • He's talking about before you came to know christ.
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  • You were in darkness.
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  • "but now, you are light in the lord."
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  • You need to recognize who you are in christ
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  • And who christ is in you.
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  • Then he says, "walk as children of the light."
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  • If you begin to identify with christ on the inside of you,
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  • That he is light, guess what?
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  • You're going to begin to walk in the light.
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  • You know, for years, i grew up in a church
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  • That said, "get saved, don't sin, repent.
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  • "don't sin, don't sin, don't sin, don't sin.
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  • "repent and don't sin."
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  • So you know what we did?
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  • We got saved, and we went and sinned,
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  • And we repented.
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  • And we went and sinned and sinned.
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  • And we went and repented because that's what we taught.
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  • But then, i came into a new revelation
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  • Of who i was in christ.
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  • And when i got that revelation,
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  • I began to walk in a different way.
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  • And we'll say, "that's darkness and this is light."
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  • And you know what i did?
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  • I walked right out of the darkness
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  • And i walked right into the light.
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  • Amen?
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  • - hallelujah.
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  • And i found out, i'm a new creation in christ.
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  • I'm the righteousness of god.
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  • I'm sanctified by the blood of jesus.
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  • Amen?
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  • I found out that "greater is he that's in me
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  • "than he that's in the world."
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  • I found out, i've got the love of god, the life of god,
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  • The light of god on the inside of me.
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  • I found out who i am in jesus christ.
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  • And it changed the way that i live my life.
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  • And you know what, it'll work for you.
  • 00:12:55.083 --> 00:12:56.685
  • Now, he doesn't stop there.
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  • He goes on to say in ephesians 5:9,
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  • "for the fruit of the spirit is in all, in everyone,
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  • "goodness, righteousness, and truth."
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  • Listen, if it's not good, right and true,
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  • You don't need to be involved in it.
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  • Amen?
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  • He says, "proving..."
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  • You've gotta walk out.
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  • "prove out what is acceptable to the lord."
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  • He goes on in verse 11 through 13,
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  • "and have no fellowship
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  • "with the unfruitful works of darkness,
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  • "but rather reprove them or expose them.
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  • "for it is a shame even to speak of those things
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  • "that are done of them which are in secret.
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  • "but all things that are reproved or are exposed
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  • "or made manifest, they're revealed by the light.
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  • "for whatever does make manifest is light."
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  • You know jesus in john 3:21, he said,
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  • "whoever comes to the light, or comes to me,
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  • "whoever's works are wrought in god,
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  • "they're founded in god,
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  • "comes to the light."
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  • Amen, when you know that your works begin in god,
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  • You can come to the light.
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  • Praise the lord.
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  • And you don't have to be ashamed of all the darkness
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  • And of all the difficulty and all the problems
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  • That are in this world.
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  • Now, as we go back, what happens
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  • When we begin to walk in the light,
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  • When we begin to walk in the right relationship with god?
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  • Number one, we begin to walk in the light.
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  • But what's he say then?
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  • He says in verse 7, 1 john 1:7,
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  • "if we walk in the light as he is in the light,
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  • "we have fellowship with one another."
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  • We come into relationship with other people
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  • Of like faith, right?
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  • "and the blood of his son, jesus christ,
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  • "is cleansing us from all sin."
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  • So we have fellowship with one another.
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  • That's a natural effect when we begin to walk in the light,
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  • When we begin to walk in a right relationship with god
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  • That we have fellowship with one another.
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  • You know, i can tell a lot about who you are
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  • By who you hang around,
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  • By your closest associations.
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  • Amen?
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  • You know why?
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  • Because people that walk in darkness,
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  • They love darkness and they don't really like the light.
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  • But when you walk in the light as he is in the light,
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  • You have fellowship with one another.
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  • And guess what's happening?
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  • The blood of jesus is cleansing you from all sin.
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  • You know, in john 8, these religious leaders
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  • Wanted to catch jesus in a trap.
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  • So they went down to the local brothel.
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  • That's what i believe happened.
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  • They dragged out a woman.
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  • They said, "hey, this woman was caught in adultery,
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  • "in the very act."
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  • Now, they really didn't care about the woman.
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  • They were trying to catch jesus in a trap.
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  • "and moses in the law said, 'stone her.
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  • "'what do you say?'"
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  • Jesus said, "i'll tell you, whoever has not sinned,
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  • "i want you to throw the first rock."
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  • And you know what, then they went away,
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  • From the oldest to the youngest.
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  • You know, the bible says in romans 3:21 that,
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  • "by the law is the knowledge of sin."
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  • They were good students of the law.
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  • So they knew not only someone else's sin well,
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  • They knew their own sin, and they all left.
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  • Jesus then looked at the woman and he said,
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  • "woman, where are your accusers?"
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  • She said, "no man, lord."
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  • He said, "neither do i condemn you.
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  • "go your way and sin no more."
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  • You know, jesus was the only one who never sinned.
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  • Jesus is the only one that had a right
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  • To hold this woman in judgment.
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  • And you know what jesus did?
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  • He forgave her and he freed her.
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  • That's exactly what the gospel does.
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  • When you receive forgiveness, you also receive freedom.
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  • Thank god for the freedom that the gospel gives us.
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  • He went on to say in verse 12, "i am the light of the world.
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  • "he that follows me shall not walk in darkness
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  • "but shall have the very light of life."
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  • Jesus is the light of the world.
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  • But he didn't stop there.
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  • In other scriptures, he said,
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  • "you are the light of the world."
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  • Amen?
  • 00:17:07.302 --> 00:17:08.236
  • "i'm the light of the world.
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  • "he who follows me is not gonna walk in darkness,
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  • "but they're gonna have the very light of life."
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  • What happens when we walk with god?
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  • Well, we begin to walk in the light.
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  • And it says, "if we walk in the light
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  • "as he is in the light," in verse 7,
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  • "we have fellowship with one another."
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  • It brings us into sweet communion,
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  • Not only with jesus but with one another.
  • 00:17:29.591 --> 00:17:32.760
  • And when we do that, he says,
  • 00:17:32.760 --> 00:17:34.329
  • "and the blood of jesus christ
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  • "is cleansing us from all sin."
  • 00:17:36.664 --> 00:17:41.069
  • Now, i personally believe that there are two aspects
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  • Of this cleansing.
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  • First of all, i believe there's a vertical aspect
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  • Of this cleansing.
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  • And that's talking about our relationship with god.
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  • Let's go to colossians 2.
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  • I wanna look at colossians 2:13.
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  • We'll read verse 13 through verse 15.
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  • He says, "and you..."
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  • He's talking about identification with jesus.
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  • "and you being dead in your sins
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  • "and the uncircumcision of your flesh
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  • "has he made to live together
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  • "with him having forgiven you all trespasses."
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  • How many sins?
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  • - [congregation] all.
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  • - has he forgiven us for?
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  • All of 'em.
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  • Amen, how many of your sins have been paid for?
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  • - all. - all of 'em.
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  • How many sins did jesus blood pay for on the cross?
  • 00:18:31.953 --> 00:18:35.690
  • - all of 'em. - all of 'em.
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  • Past, present, future sin even was already paid for.
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  • Amen?
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  • Now when did you receive the benefit of that?
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  • When you believed jesus.
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  • Right, when you believed jesus.
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  • Now, what happens when your sins are forgiven?
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  • Notice what he says here in verse 14,
  • 00:18:53.474 --> 00:18:55.810
  • "blotting out the handwriting of ordinances
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  • "that was against us, which was contrary to us.
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  • "and he took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross."
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  • - [congregant] amen.
  • 00:19:06.487 --> 00:19:07.655
  • - amen?
  • 00:19:07.655 --> 00:19:09.190
  • You know, the law, "by the law is the knowledge of sin."
  • 00:19:09.190 --> 00:19:11.426
  • It showed man sin.
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  • But jesus took that away.
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  • You know, you don't get closer to god by knowledge of sin.
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  • You get closer to god by knowing jesus.
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  • (congregation responds indistinctly)
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  • Amen?
  • 00:19:24.405 --> 00:19:25.740
  • And so he says,
  • 00:19:25.740 --> 00:19:27.108
  • "and having spoiled principalities and powers,
  • 00:19:27.108 --> 00:19:30.478
  • "jesus made a show of them,
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  • "openly triumphing over them in it."
  • 00:19:32.146 --> 00:19:35.550
  • What gave the devil right to rule over humanity?
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  • - sin. - sin.
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  • So what gives us the right to rule over the devil?
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  • - righteousness. - righteousness, forgiveness.
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  • Right?
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  • When adam and eve transgressed, what happened really
  • 00:19:54.936 --> 00:19:57.272
  • Was satan usurped the authority that was given unto man.
  • 00:19:57.272 --> 00:20:02.644
  • So god sent jesus as the second adam.
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  • Jesus lived on this earth and did no sin,
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  • Died taking our sins,
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  • And then rose from the dead victorious.
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  • You know what he said when he rose from the dead?
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  • "i am he who lives and was dead.
  • 00:20:17.992 --> 00:20:20.628
  • "behold, i am alive forevermore, amen.
  • 00:20:20.628 --> 00:20:23.431
  • "and i have the keys of hell and of death."
  • 00:20:23.431 --> 00:20:27.068
  • And guess what jesus did with those keys?
  • 00:20:27.068 --> 00:20:29.570
  • He gave them to you.
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  • He gave them to me.
  • 00:20:31.739 --> 00:20:33.841
  • And he's given us authority over the devil.
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  • "he whom the son sets free is free indeed."
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  • I have good news for you.
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  • The devil is not who he used to be.
  • 00:20:43.484 --> 00:20:46.154
  • The devil doesn't have power over you.
  • 00:20:46.154 --> 00:20:49.057
  • The devil doesn't have power over me.
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  • The only power the devil holds
  • 00:20:51.726 --> 00:20:54.128
  • Over a believer is deception.
  • 00:20:54.128 --> 00:20:56.731
  • But if you can break his deception, you can break his lies.
  • 00:20:56.731 --> 00:21:00.501
  • And you can begin to walk in authority as a believer.
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  • You can begin to walk in authority
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  • As a child of the almighty god.
  • 00:21:06.741 --> 00:21:09.444
  • - [congregation] amen.
  • 00:21:09.444 --> 00:21:10.511
  • - so we're forgiven for what?
  • 00:21:10.511 --> 00:21:11.946
  • - everything. - every sin.
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  • Amen?
  • 00:21:14.849 --> 00:21:15.883
  • Every time.
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  • Amen, how do we get it?
  • 00:21:17.385 --> 00:21:18.686
  • Believe jesus.
  • 00:21:18.686 --> 00:21:20.054
  • - amen. - amen.
  • 00:21:20.054 --> 00:21:21.589
  • Now, let's go back and look at this a little bit more.
  • 00:21:21.589 --> 00:21:23.291
  • In colossians 1:12-14, let's look at what paul says.
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  • He says, "we give thanks to the father
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  • "who has made us sufficient to be partakers
  • 00:21:30.732 --> 00:21:34.168
  • "of the inheritance of the saints in life."
  • 00:21:34.168 --> 00:21:37.372
  • One translation says that,
  • 00:21:37.372 --> 00:21:39.407
  • "he qualified us for god's best blessing."
  • 00:21:39.407 --> 00:21:43.077
  • Say this; say, i'm qualified
  • 00:21:43.077 --> 00:21:45.113
  • - [congregation] i'm qualified
  • 00:21:45.113 --> 00:21:46.214
  • - for god's- - for god's-
  • 00:21:46.214 --> 00:21:47.081
  • - best- - best-
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  • - blessing. - blessing.
  • 00:21:49.050 --> 00:21:50.351
  • - he goes on to say, "who has delivered us,
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  • "who has delivered us from the authority,
  • 00:21:55.923 --> 00:21:58.726
  • "from the dominion, from the power of darkness,
  • 00:21:58.726 --> 00:22:02.163
  • "and translated us into the kingdom of his dear son,"
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  • Or the sons of his love,
  • 00:22:06.567 --> 00:22:09.303
  • "in whom we have redemption through his blood."
  • 00:22:09.303 --> 00:22:14.075
  • Even the forgiveness of sin.
  • 00:22:14.075 --> 00:22:16.077
  • You see, part of redemption is the forgiveness of sin.
  • 00:22:16.077 --> 00:22:21.449
  • Ephesians 1:7 says the same thing.
  • 00:22:22.216 --> 00:22:24.085
  • But it adds on, "according to the riches of his grace."
  • 00:22:24.085 --> 00:22:29.323
  • Amen, so years ago, i had this question for andrew wommack.
  • 00:22:30.491 --> 00:22:35.062
  • And i was talking to him,
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  • You know, about forgiveness, right?
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  • And when i asked him this question about forgiveness,
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  • You know, he took this side
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  • That jesus has redeemed us from the curse of the law.
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  • Galatians 3:13, "being made a curse for us.
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  • "for cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree."
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  • So he took this side, our sins are already forgiven, right?
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  • This happened over 25 years ago.
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  • We were at a meeting in north carolina.
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  • But i took the side, but as a believer,
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  • You need to keep a good conscience before god.
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  • So the next year, i met with andrew and i was...
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  • A year later, talking to him about the same question.
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  • So i took the side that we're forgiven for every sin,
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  • Every time, already paid for: past, present and future sins.
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  • And he took the side,
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  • But as believers, we need to keep a good conscience.
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  • Amen? (congregation laughing)
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  • So both of those are true.
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  • Amen, so what happens
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  • When we walk in a relationship with god?
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  • Well, we begin to walk in the light.
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  • And as we walk in the light,
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  • We have fellowship with one another,
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  • And the blood of jesus christ is cleansing us from all sin.
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  • So there's this aspect that number one,
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  • This vertical relationship has already been dealt with.
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  • "i am accepted in the beloved," ephesians 1:6.
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  • "i'm redeemed from every curse and forgiven for every sin,"
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  • Ephesians 1:7, right?
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  • So this vertical relationship has been taken care of.
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  • But i live in a world that's been affected by sin and satan.
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  • So even though cleansing and my forgiveness
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  • Is already paid for,
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  • I live in a world and it's a dirty place.
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  • So cleansing, right, i still need cleansing.
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  • Right now, the bible tells us this in galatians 1:7.
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  • And it shows us this right there
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  • In the scripture we just read in colossians 1:13.
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  • Galatians 1:4 says this,
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  • "jesus gave himself for us
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  • "to deliver us from this present evil world."
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  • So in one sense of the word, i have already been delivered.
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  • In another sense of the word,
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  • I am being delivered from this present evil world.
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  • And in another sense of the word,
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  • I trust that when jesus comes, i will be delivered.
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  • We could say, "i have been saved,
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  • "i am being saved, and i will be saved."
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  • All those things are true scripturally speaking.
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  • Amen? (peaceful ambient music)
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