In a small town, Pastor Lawson shares his transformative journey upon discovering God's love in a revelation. As he delves into the book of 1 John, his teachings unfold the power of grace and righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ. Witness a shift in his ministry, family dynamics, and personal growth as he imparts wisdom on overcoming sin, embracing righteousness, and experiencing freedom in God's love. From challenges to triumphs, this inspirational narrative explores the profound impact of a revelation of God's love on an individual's life, inviting listeners to cultivate a deeper relationship with the divine.
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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Our Relationship with God (Part 3) | February 4, 2026
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- - hi, friend.
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- Today we're gonna be talking about getting a revelation
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- Of the love of god.
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- I guarantee you,
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- If you get a revelation of the love of god for you
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- In the person of jesus christ,
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- It will revolutionize the way that you live your life.
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- Did you know i pastored for six years
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- Before i got a revelation of the love of god?
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- It changed my family, it changed my ministry,
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- It changed my church, and it changed me.
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- Bless you.
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- Praise the lord.
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- God is so good.
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- I'm glad you're here.
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- We've been talking from 1 john
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- Sharing about our relationship with god.
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- And we said we could also title this lessons we learn
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- As we walk with god.
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- So john is written by john the beloved.
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- He's the disciple that jesus loved,
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- And he has a revelation of god's love,
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- And he has a relationship with god
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- That transformed his life.
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- And did you know what?
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- If you have a revelation of god's love
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- And a revelation of his grace, it will transform your life.
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- And today we're gonna be in 1 john 3,
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- And we're gonna talk about what happens
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- When we get a revelation of the love of god.
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- What happens when we live in the light of his love?
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- And so in 1 john 3, john says this,
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- "behold what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us,
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- That we should be called the children of god."
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- He says,
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- "therefore, the world does not know us
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- Because it did not know him.
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- Beloved now we are god's very own sons and daughters.
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- We are the children of god, the sons of god.
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- And it does not appear what we shall be,
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- But we know that when he shall appear,
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- We shall be like him for we will see him as he is."
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- There's some people that don't have a revelation
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- Of who jesus is.
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- But he says,
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- We know we're gonna be like him,
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- When he comes for we're gonna see him as he is.
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- When you get a revelation of who jesus really is,
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- It's gonna revolutionize your life.
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- And he says,
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- "every person who has this hope in himself
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- Purifies himself even as he jesus is pure."
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- What happens when we get a revelation
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- Of the love of god?
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- I believe there's a lot of people in the body of christ
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- That really don't have a revelation of his love.
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- I received jesus when i was eight years old
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- As my lord and savior.
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- And you know what?
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- My life got better.
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- We lived in a trailer park over here in penrose, colorado.
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- I definitely got saved.
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- I took almost every child in that trailer park
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- To sunday school with me at one point or another.
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- Amen.
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- I was saved. i was excited about jesus.
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- I was excited about the word, eight years old, 1972.
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- Then in 1978, i got baptized in the holy spirit,
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- And i began to get a revelation of who i am in christ
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- And who christ is in me.
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- I got a revelation that i'm the righteousness of god.
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- I'm sanctified by the blood of jesus.
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- I'm blessed by the most high god,
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- The possessor of heaven and earth.
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- Amen.
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- I can do all things through christ who strengthens me,
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- Greater is he that's in me
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- Than he that's in the world.
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- It is god who works in you
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- Both the will and to do he his good pleasure.
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- And my life was even better.
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- I was 14 years old,
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- But it wasn't until 16 years after that
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- When i was 30 years old;
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- I'd been pastoring at that point
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- For just about six years when i got a revelation
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- Of the grace of god.
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- And when i got a revelation of god's grace
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- Or god's love, it revolutionized my life.
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- It changed my ministry.
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- It changed how i deal with my family.
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- Barb's like,
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- "you're not even like living with the same person.
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- You are so different."
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- Aaron was just six or seven years old,
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- Just turned seven when i got a revelation of the love of god
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- And it changed me.
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- Andrew would've been five, peter would've been three.
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- And barbara's like,
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- "if you didn't get that revelation,
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- I don't think our kids would be loving jesus like they are,
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- Serving jesus like they are."
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- I'm so thankful to god for that.
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- But it changed everything about me.
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- It changed how i do business,
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- Changed how i pastor, changed how i preach.
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- Do you know my doctrine?
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- I've been preaching for about 45 years
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- Since i've been about 16 years old.
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- And my doctrine has never changed.
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- I have never changed the foundation of what i preach
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- And teach as far as doctrine,
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- But my understanding of the gospel has changed.
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- And as i've got more revelation,
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- It's changed how i minister to people.
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- And when i got a revelation of grace,
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- My preaching became a lot more about what jesus has done
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- And a lot less about what we have to do.
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- Where before i probably focused 90%
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- On what we need to do, right?
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- Diligence, faith, right?
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- And it's good to be diligent.
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- It's good to live by faith.
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- But when i got a revelation of grace, did you know what?
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- I preach about 90% about what jesus has done
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- Or with a focus on that,
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- And i preach about 10% on our positive response
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- Towards that.
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- Amen.
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- You see, because when you really understand the gospel,
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- When you understand the love of god,
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- When you understand grace, your faith will work.
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- I have a man here, he was in the first service.
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- He came to the church 15 or 20 years ago.
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- His name is gene.
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- And about six weeks after gene came to this church,
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- He had been in the word of faith church.
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- He understood faith.
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- He was a lot like me before i got a revelation of grace.
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- But about six weeks after he came to this church, he's like,
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- "pastor lawson,
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- You preach faith like nobody
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- I have ever heard preach faith.
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- What is it?
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- What is different about it?"
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- I'm like, "it's because i mix it with grace."
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- The bible actually says this
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- In galatians 5:6, it says,
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- "in christ jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
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- Avails anything but faith that works by love."
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- And it's not talking about our love for one another
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- In that context,
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- It's talking about when you get a revelation of grace,
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- When you get a revelation of the love of god for you,
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- Your faith will work.
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- You're not gonna have a faith problem.
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- You don't have a faith problem if you're born again,
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- But you're not gonna have a operational problem.
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- There are a lot of people who born again,
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- Who have the faith of jesus
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- Who are not really operating in the faith that they have.
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- But when you get a revelation of grace,
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- Your faith will work.
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- Amen.
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- And john talks about this in this narrative.
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- But what happens when we get a revelation?
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- Behold, what manner of love:
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- Stop and think about this, stop and consider this,
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- The father has bestowed upon us
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- That we should be called god's very own children.
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- Well, the first thing he says,
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- "when you get this hope in yourself,
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- You purify yourself even as he is pure," in verse three.
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- Now, notice what he goes on,
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- He talks more about that in verse four through verse 10,
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- Because he said,
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- When you get a revelation of the love of god,
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- When you get a revelation of the grace of jesus
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- What happens is you begin to walk in freedom from sin
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- Through identifying with jesus.
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- Notice what he says in verse four.
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- "whoever commits sin transgresses the law,
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- For sin is the transgression of the law.
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- We're talking about freedom from sin
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- Through identification with christ.
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- So we've gotta identify what sin is, what is in.
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- Well, he says here in 1 john 3:4,
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- "sin is the transgression of the law."
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- So if you overstep god's law, you have sinned.
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- Now, if you understand the scripture,
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- You understand, we've all sinned.
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- If you understand the law,
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- You understand you've probably sinned today
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- You might not know it.
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- The law wasn't made to set you free from sin.
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- The law was made to show you sin
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- So that you would know you needed jesus.
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- By the laws, the knowledge of sin,
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- Romans 3:20-21 says.
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- The more you understand the law,
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- The bible says this in timothy,
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- That the law was not made for a righteous man,
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- But for ungodly, for murders of fathers, murders of mothers,
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- For men stealers, kidnappers, adulterers.
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- You're living like the devil?
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- You can take the law and show you need.
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- You know what's just as dangerous?
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- Religion.
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- Because religion hardens your heart towards the gospel,
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- Hardens your heart towards jesus.
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- Paul writes in romans 7 talking to religious people,
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- And he says,
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- "the law is holy, and just, and good,
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- But the problem is with me."
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- See, if you're a legalist, right?
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- If you're a law keeper,
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- There jesus dealt with a lot of legalistic people.
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- Paul in romans chapter 7 says,
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- "i wanna do what's right, but i don't,
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- And i don't wanna do what's wrong, but i do it anyway."
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- I don't believe he's talking about
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- The true christian experience.
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- I believe paul is talking about his experience
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- As a legalistic person in not knowing christ.
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- But when he went to came to know christ,
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- It changed his life, right?
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- So roman 6, he talks about death to sin,
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- But romans 7, he talks about death to legalism
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- Because both are deadly.
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- But the law will show you that you're a sinner
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- And you need a savior.
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- And the law will go a lot farther
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- Than any of us would really like to admit.
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- So we're not saved by keeping the law.
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- You know what's interesting,
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- If i bring people in here to teach,
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- And they just go through a list of do's and don'ts,
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- People that have no real revelation of the gospel, say,
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- "hey, that's great,"
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- Because they can understand that from a practical aspect.
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- But if you get a revelation of the gospel,
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- You'll understand it's not about the do's and don'ts.
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- It's about knowing jesus.
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- See, the kingdom of god is not meat and drink.
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- It's not religious rules and regulations.
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- The kingdom of god is righteousness, peace,
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- And joy in the holy ghost.
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- So he says here in verse 4,
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- So we've gotta talk about what sin is.
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- "sin is a transgression of the law."
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- So if you overstep the law, you're a sinner.
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- If you've studied the law,
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- You'll know you're a sinner, right?
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- But sin is also this.
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- James 4:17 says,
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- "to the man who knows to do good
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- And does it not to that man, it's sin."
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- Now you can take that and go a long ways with it.
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- That can affect you in a lot of different ways, right?
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- Knowing to do good and not doing it, that man has sin.
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- Okay?
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- And then the bible says this in exodus 34:7,
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- Moses was talking about knowing god, and he said,
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- "you forgive iniquity, and transgression, and sin."
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- So sin is missing the mark.
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- We've all missed the mark by commission
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- Or by omission, right?
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- That's missing the mark, right?
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- Transgression and missing the mark, sin.
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- The word sin comes from a roman term at that time
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- If you shot an arrow and missed the mark, right?
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- So we've all missed the mark.
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- But what's inequity?
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- Hi, friend.
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- On our relationship with god from 1 john.
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- You forgive iniquity and transgressions.
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- Iniquity is really talking about rebellion.
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- Now, there's one thing that i don't wanna do,
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- Is i don't want to in any way, shape,
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- Or form rebel against god.
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- I don't want rebellion.
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- Sin is a transgression of the law,
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- And sin can be defined as transgression is missing the mark.
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- Sin can also be defined as rebellion.
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- I don't wanna be in that.
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- Now, he says in verse five,
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- "we know that jesus,
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- He was manifested to take away our sins,"
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- How many of you glad that jesus took our sin?
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- "and in him is no sin?"
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- Look at verse six,
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- "whoever abides him in him,"
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- If you take up residence in jesus, you are not sinning,
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- "sins not.
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- And whoever is in," i would like to say,
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- "the practice of sinning has not seen him
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- Neither know him."
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- Really, the problem if you're in the practice of sinning,
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- You don't know him, you haven't seen him,
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- You haven't really got a revelation of who jesus is,
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- Or maybe you haven't got a revelation of who you are in him.
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- "little children, let no man deceive you," in verse seven,
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- "he that does righteousness is righteous
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- Even as he is righteous."
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- In other words,
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- Righteous living is a result of the righteous life.
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- If you really get a revelation of the gospel,
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- If you really get a revelation
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- That jesus is the righteousness of god,
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- And the moment that you believed on jesus,
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- You're made the righteousness of god in christ,
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- It's gonna revolutionize your life.
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- You're not gonna live like you lived before.
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- Amen.
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- Righteous living is a result of the righteous life.
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- Amen.
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- But i'll tell you another thing
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- That a lot of people don't quite have a revelation of.
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- The righteous life is not a result of righteous living.
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- In other words, you can't be saved by your performance.
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- You can't be saved by your works.
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- You can't be saved by being a good person.
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- My grandmother was raised in a traditional church,
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- And that church, if you looked at the doctrine in the 1940s,
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- Was about the same doctrine that we teach today.
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- It's far from it today.
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- In fact, my grandmother's mother, right?
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- So she was born in the 1800s.
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- She said, when they started teaching more about the birds
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- And the bees in this church than they did jesus,
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- They made a major mistake.
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- And when you leave jesus out of the message,
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- We're doing the church a big disservice, right?
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- But my grandmother in that church got saved at a revival
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- When she was eight years old.
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- Her brother went to that same church
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- All of his childhood, all of his life, grew up.
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- He was like 70 years old.
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- He was a good person, but he was not born again.
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- Now, his son married my pastor's daughter,
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- And they ran a western store
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- That my pastor's dad used to run in lamar.
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- They bought it from my pastor's dad.
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- And so my pastor would go in while he pastored,
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- And he would work sometimes, volunteer at the western store.
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- And my pastor started witnessing
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- To my grandmother's brother,
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- And he got born again after he was 70 years old.
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- He grew up in church his whole life.
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- He was a good person, but he wasn't born again.
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- He didn't know jesus.
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- See, it's not about what you do, it's about who you believe.
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- The gospel is about believing jesus.
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- So righteous living is a result of the righteous life
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- That you receive when you believe on jesus.
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- However, you can not receive the righteous life
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- By righteous living.
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- You can't get it by your performance.
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- You get it by faith in jesus.
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- You get it by faith in his grace.
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- Look at verse eight.
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- "he who commits sin,
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- He is in the practice of sinning, is of the devil."
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- Jesus told some very religious people in john chapter eight,
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- I believe it's verse 44,
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- "you are of your father, the devil,
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- And his lusts will you do.
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- For the devil sins from the beginning.
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- For this purpose was the son of god manifest."
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- This is the whole reason that jesus came.
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- Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.
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- What are the works of the devil?
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- Sin is the work of the devil, right?
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- Including sin, right?
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- Sin is the work of the devil.
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- Sickness is a work of the devil.
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- Amen.
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- You've read the scripture, acts 10:38,
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- How god anointed jesus with the holy ghost in power,
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- Who went about doing good and healing
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- All who were oppressed of the devil.
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- What's another work of the devil?
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- Anxiety, worry, fear,
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- Anxiety is a work of the devil.
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- Jesus not only was wounded for our transgressions,
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- Bruised for our iniquities, sin,
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- The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
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- He took our anxiety.
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- When he was in the garden of gethsemane
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- Before he went to the cross,
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- He sweat as it were, great drops of blood.
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- Only people in the worst mental anxiety
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- Will sweat blood.
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- And by his stripes, we are healed.
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- Sickness is a work of the devil.
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- Anxiety is a work of the devil.
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- Sin is the work of the devil.
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- What's another thing that jesus took on the cross?
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- Poverty.
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- You got it.
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- And i'll show you the scripture later in this message,
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- Because it fits with what john is saying.
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- Poverty is a work of the devil.
- 00:20:18.493 --> 00:20:21.062
- 2 corinthians 8:9 talks about that,
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- That jesus not only took our sin, took our anxiety,
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- Took our sickness, but jesus took our poverty.
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- Amen.
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- "so jesus, for this purpose,
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- Was the son of god manifest
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- That he might destroy the works of the devil,
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- That includes sin."
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- He said,
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- "whoever is born of god does not commit sin."
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- So how many of you been saved for a period of time?
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- I'm gonna lift both my hands, okay?
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- I've been saved for a long, long time.
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- I've been saved for,
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- Wow, 53 years i've been born again.
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- Amen.
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- Have i sinned since i got born again?
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- Yeah, i've sinned.
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- I probably sinned this week, okay?
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- Now, i don't wanna live in rebellion,
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- But what i'm saying is there's different aspects of sin.
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- So what's does scripture mean when it says
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- Whoever's born of god does not commit sin?
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- Well, let's read the context.
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- See, a lot of new translations,
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- They changed the wording here.
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- And they say,
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- Whoever is born of god is not in the practice of sinning.
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- I agree, but there's more than that here,
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- Because read the context.
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- See in the context, he says this,
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- "for his seed remains in him,"
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- Whose seed is in you if you're born of god?
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- Jesus seed is in you.
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- So is jesus in you sinning?
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- - [congregants] no. - no.
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- So your spirit is not sinning.
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- You may sin in your flesh,
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- You may sin in your mind.
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- But if you're born again, i'm talking...
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- See, in your spirit,
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- You are either 100% a child of god,
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- You're either 100% born of god,
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- You're either 100% righteous,
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- Or you're 100% lost.
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- Amen.
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- In your spirit, you're not 50% righteous and 50% sinful,
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- Or 75% righteous and 25% sinful,
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- Or 90% righteous and 10% sinful,
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- Or 99% righteous and 1% sinful.
- 00:22:53.981 --> 00:23:00.688
- Or get this, i told you last week that barbara
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- And i sometimes were challenged.
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- Sometimes we have disagreements,
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- And we're both very strong-willed, right?
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- Okay.
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- But we work it out and it's good to communicate.
- 00:23:11.766 --> 00:23:14.535
- So she said, "you know why we argue?"
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- I said, "why?"
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- She said, "because i'm always right."
- 00:23:18.172 --> 00:23:20.007
- (congregants laughing)
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- I told my staff that was the same reaction.
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- Then she eased up a little bit.
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- She said, "i am right 99.85% of the time."
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- So she did give me 15 hundredths.
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- (all laughing)
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- Hallelujah.
- 00:23:42.797 --> 00:23:44.031
- Sometimes we have different revelation
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- Or different understanding, okay?
- 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:49.504
- (lawson laughing)
- 00:23:49.504 --> 00:23:51.339
- Made me really laugh.
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- I told you,
- 00:23:52.173 --> 00:23:53.474
- I told her i was gonna tell you that this week.
- 00:23:53.474 --> 00:23:55.409
- So when you're born again, you're not 99.85% righteous,
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- And 15 hundredths percents, 100ths of a percent sinful,
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- Your spirit, when you're born again,
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- You have been given by grace 100%
- 00:24:12.493 --> 00:24:15.997
- Of the righteousness of jesus,
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- Your spirit is either 100% righteous
- 00:24:19.734 --> 00:24:23.237
- Or you're 100% lost.
- 00:24:23.237 --> 00:24:26.374
- Because if you die, you're either gonna go 100% to heaven,
- 00:24:26.374 --> 00:24:30.311
- Your spirit, i'm talking about your spirit,
- 00:24:31.178 --> 00:24:34.682
- Or you're gonna be 100% separated from god and life.
- 00:24:35.750 --> 00:24:41.055
- And that's because of what you do with jesus.
- 00:24:41.989 --> 00:24:42.823
- - [congregant] amen.
- 00:24:42.823 --> 00:24:44.091
- - that's not because of your performance.
- 00:24:44.091 --> 00:24:45.760
- - [congregant] amen.
- 00:24:45.760 --> 00:24:47.161
- And i love something andrew wommack used to say,
- 00:24:47.161 --> 00:24:48.129
- He used to say this,
- 00:24:48.129 --> 00:24:49.463
- "who wants to be the best sinner in hell?"
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- I don't wanna be the best sinner in hell.
- 00:24:51.666 --> 00:24:54.569
- I'd rather be the worst saint in heaven
- 00:24:54.569 --> 00:24:56.771
- Than the best sinner in hell.
- 00:24:56.771 --> 00:24:59.206
- Amen. so be careful who you judge.
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- In fact, i'll tell you something.
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- I think when you get to heaven,
- 00:25:03.511 --> 00:25:05.980
- You are gonna be surprised
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- At some of the people that aren't there.
- 00:25:09.951 --> 00:25:15.022
- And you're also gonna be surprised
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- At some of the people that are there.
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