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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - The Royal Law of Love (Part 2) | October 14, 2025
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- - friend, welcome to the broadcast.
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- We're gonna be talking about the royal law of love.
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- We're really gonna be sharing about loving god's word
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- And loving god from your heart.
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- What does that look like?
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- Did you know jesus said,
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- "out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."
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- And if you don't like what you're receiving today,
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- You need to change what you're believing at a heart level.
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- Our bibles tonight to mark 12.
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- We're talking about the royal law of love.
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- We began here last week.
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- I'll begin reading again in verse 28, it says,
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- "and one of the scribes came having heard them
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- Reasoning together and perceiving
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- That he had answered them well asked them,
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- 'which is the first commandment of all?'
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- And jesus answered him,
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- 'the first of all the commandments is here, oh israel.
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- The lord our god is one lord.
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- And you shall love the lord your god with all your heart,
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- With all your soul, with all your mind,
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- And with all your strength.
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- This is the first commandment.
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- The second is like it, namely this,
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- You will love your neighbor as yourself.
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- There is no other commandment greater than these.'
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- And the scribe said unto him,
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- 'well master, you have said the truth,
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- For there is one god and there is no other but he.
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- And to love him with all the heart,
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- With all the understanding, with all the soul,
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- With all the strength,
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- And to love your neighbor as yourself
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- Is more than the whole of burnt offerings and sacrifices.'
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- And when jesus saw that he answered him discreetly, he said,
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- 'you are not far from the kingdom of god.'
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- And no man after that ask him any questions."
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- Now this is really unique
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- Because most of the time when jesus spoke to the sadducees,
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- The pharisees, and the religious leaders,
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- Most of the time, he was very much less than complimentary.
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- But when they asked him this question and he said,
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- "the greatest of all commandments is to love god
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- With all your heart, all your soul, all your mind,
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- All your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself,"
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- They said, "you've answered well."
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- And because they said that, jesus said,
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- "you are not far from the kingdom of god."
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- So jesus actually responded positively to this.
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- And we talked a little bit last week
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- About loving god with everything in us.
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- And we said, really, when we think about it,
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- You know, a lot of times, it's a heart issue.
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- And when the bible talks about heart,
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- A lot of times people don't understand
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- What the bible really means when it's talking about heart.
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- So years ago when i would read certain authors,
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- They would say, "well the heart is the spirit."
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- But if you study the scripture,
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- Less than 10% of the time in the scripture, the bible,
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- When it uses the word heart,
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- Is actually talking about the spirit.
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- Over 90% of the time when the bible is using the word heart,
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- It's talking about the soul.
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- So the spirit, your spirit is where god lives, right?
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- And dr. sumrall defined the operation of the spirit
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- As the intuition, communion, and conscience.
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- It's where god lives, okay?
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- Your soul is your mind, will, and emotions.
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- Oral roberts, dr. lester sumrall, andrew womack,
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- All defined the soul as being the mind, the will,
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- And the emotions.
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- But when you begin to talk about the heart,
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- The heart is really talking about what is central, you know?
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- So most of the time
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- When the word heart is used in the scripture,
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- It's either talking about a operation
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- Of the soul, the mind, the will, and the emotions,
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- Or a combination of the entirety
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- Of the spirit and the soul,
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- What is central to man, the heart of the issue, okay?
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- The center of the issue.
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- So for instance, when the bible says in proverbs 23:7,
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- "as a man thinks in his heart, so is he,"
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- It's not talking about your spirit,
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- It's talking about your soul.
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- Now an example of the word heart being used
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- As spirit is when ezekiel prophesies
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- Of the new birth in ezekiel 36:26-27
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- And god said, "i'm gonna take the stony heart out
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- Of your flesh and i'm gonna give you a heart of flesh
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- And i'm gonna put my spirit in you
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- And i'm gonna cause you to walk in my statutes
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- And judgements and do them."
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- That's actually talking about spirit.
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- But most of the time when the word heart is used,
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- It's talking about either a combination of the spirit
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- And the soul or the soul.
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- Very few times, it's actually just talking about the spirit.
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- Does that make sense?
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- So when we're talking about the heart,
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- We're talking about what's central to a man.
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- So we're talking about what's center to define the heart,
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- We would say it's the spirit and the soul,
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- The center of who we are, everything in us.
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- So when jesus says love god,
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- The greatest of all commandments is love god
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- With your whole heart and your soul
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- And your mind and your strength.
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- He's just saying love god with everything you have,
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- Love god with everything in you.
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- And so, you know, there are promises to people
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- Who have a good heart.
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- We read some of those promises last week.
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- The scripture says in 2 chronicles 16:9
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- That god will show the eyes of the lord run to
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- And fro throughout the whole earth
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- To show himself strong on the behalf
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- Of him whose heart is perfect towards him.
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- So there's a promise that god wants to show himself strong.
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- There's a promise of direction.
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- Proverbs 3:5-6,
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- Trust in the lord with all your heart.
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- Lean not to your own understanding.
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- In all your ways, acknowledge him.
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- He will direct your paths.
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- There's a promise of desires, delight yourself in the lord.
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- Psalm 37:4.
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- And he will give you the desires of your heart.
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- There's also promises of fruitfulness and blessing.
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- Now when we looked at that,
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- We talked about how good or evil proceeds from the heart.
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- In matthew 12:35, jesus said this.
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- "a good man out of the good treasure of his heart
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- Brings forth good things,
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- And a evil man out of the evil treasure
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- Brings forth evil things."
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- We said having a good heart will lead
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- To having a good harvest.
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- Luke 8:15 in the parable, the sower,
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- Jesus said these are those
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- Who are sowed on good ground in a honest and good heart.
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- They heard the word and they keep it
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- And they bring forth fruit with patience.
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- So we said the condition of our heart determines
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- The quality of our harvest.
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- The second thing we talked about is
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- What we meditate becomes our master.
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- Today, i want to go forward from there
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- And i want to talk a little bit more about the heart
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- And some different aspects.
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- But i have this question,
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- Have you ever seen a born again believer
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- Who has a sin problem?
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- I'll raise both my hands, okay?
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- If a born again believer is having a major sin problem,
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- There's either one of two things going on
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- According to the scripture.
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- Number one, let's turn to 1 john 3:6, and read this.
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- It says whoever abides in him, in christ, sins not.
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- So that's actually talking about your spirit.
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- So when you're born again, your spirit is not sinning.
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- If your spirit was sinning when you're born again,
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- Then you couldn't go to heaven if you died.
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- Because sin can't stand in god's presence.
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- So your spirit is not sinning.
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- So he says in here,
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- And to understand this scripture,
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- You have to understand spirit, soul, and body.
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- But he says whoever abides in him sins not,
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- That's talking about the condition of your spirit.
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- However, he goes on and says this
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- In the last part of verse six, whoever sins,
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- So if you're in a habit of sinning,
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- Has not seen him neither known him, right?
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- So if you got a sin problem,
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- You don't really know who he is
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- Because when you see him, right?
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- If you go back to this, go back to 1 john 3:1,
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- Notice what it says.
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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 sons of god.
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- Therefore the world knows us
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- Not because it did not know him,
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- Beloved now we're 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 will be like him, for we will see him as he is.
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- He says here in verse six,
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- He that sins has not seen him or known him.
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- So if you're having a major sin problem,
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- You've not never really seen him,
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- And you don't really know him.
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- The ultimate goal of the gospel is to know him.
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- Paul said, "i may know him in the power
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- Of his resurrection being made conformable to his death."
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- Philippians 3:10.
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- He goes on and says this in verse three,
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- "every man that has this hope in him,
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- The hope we have in christ purifies himself
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- Even as he is pure."
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- So when you see him for who he really is,
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- And you get to know him, right?
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- Every man who has this hope in himself
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- Purifies himself even as he is pure.
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- So if there's a sin problem, number one,
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- People don't know him.
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- They haven't really seen him and they don't know him.
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- Number two, if there's a sin problem,
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- I'm not talking about just slipping up,
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- I'm talking about if there's a major sin problem
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- And you're stuck, right?
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- The second thing that happens, if people,
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- It's either they don't know him,
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- Or number two, they don't understand his love.
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- See, some people think that when you teach grace,
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- That grace is gonna cause people to sin more,
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- But teaching grace will not cause people to sin more.
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- I see some people shaking their head yes.
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- Teaching grace will actually cause people to sin less.
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- Number one, because they understand how much god loves them.
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- But number two, because they find out really who they are.
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- And when you find out who you are,
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- He that has this hope in himself
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- Purifies himself even as he is pure.
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- But you find out in your spirit, you're sinless,
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- You begin living that out.
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- Friend, thanks so much for being part of the broadcast.
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- We've been teaching on the royal law of love,
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- And i have a lot more to share about this subject.
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- If you don't like what you're receiving in life,
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- You can change it.
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- And the way you change it is by focusing on your heart
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- Because your heart is directing your life.
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- Get this teaching, it'll be a blessing to you.
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- - hi friends.
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- We are so excited to encourage you to save the date
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- For rejoice women's conference 2026.
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- It is gonna be awesome.
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- The beginning of february.
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- Honey, we're starting the year off with a bang.
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- Everyone is welcome and invited, even you.
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- - and we've got some great things happening
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- And great teaching.
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- Cathy duplantis will be our keynote speaker.
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- Rejoice 2026, make plans to be here.
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- (upbeat music)
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- Years ago, when my son aaron went to college,
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- He was a freshman in college.
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- And so we hunted around for a church
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- When we went out there with him,
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- We found a good one, but it was 28 miles away,
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- And he didn't have a car.
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- So he had to rely on other students to drive him out there.
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- They weren't like us.
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- We actually met the administrator
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- Of admissions at carnegie mellon
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- At that church at a saturday night service.
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- So he said if aaron has any problems, he'd come talk to me.
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- So aaron wasn't able to get rides about half the time,
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- Because you know, we go to church, right?
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- Unless we're dead.
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- And then if we go to church, if we're dead,
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- We go to church and raise you from the dead.
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- Okay? hallelujah.
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- Some people can testify to that right here, amen?
- 00:14:00.015 --> 00:14:03.852
- But anyway, you know, i mean,
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- We are used to going to church.
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- We have a regular habit of going to church
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- And aaron was like that.
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- Aaron made decisions when he was a young person
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- And god has honored the decisions that he made.
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- And you can see the fruit of it in his life.
- 00:14:18.566 --> 00:14:21.069
- But anyway, aaron went to this church for a while
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- And then he had to find another one.
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- So he went and saw this administrator of admissions.
- 00:14:25.073 --> 00:14:27.876
- And when he went to see him, he said,
- 00:14:27.876 --> 00:14:28.977
- "well go try out this church."
- 00:14:28.977 --> 00:14:30.278
- And it was the largest charismatic church
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- In the pittsburgh area.
- 00:14:32.514 --> 00:14:33.648
- So the first day there was a minister
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- That i knew, aaron didn't know him,
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- And i knew andrew wommack knew him,
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- And i knew my opinion of him wasn't too great.
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- Andrew wommack, he's a very famous minister.
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- Andrews wasn't too great,
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- But i didn't tell aaron, i just,
- 00:14:48.463 --> 00:14:50.765
- I wanted to see what he would say.
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- So aaron went to church.
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- He didn't have a cell phone either then, so that afternoon,
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- Sunday afternoon, about 3:00,
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- It would've been about 5:00 there,
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- Aaron called me up after he went to this church
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- And heard this guy that i knew about,
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- But i didn't tell him about
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- Because i wanted to see what he had to say.
- 00:15:07.682 --> 00:15:09.651
- And he said, "dad, do you know about this guy?"
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- I said yes.
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- And he said, "can you believe this?
- 00:15:14.222 --> 00:15:16.624
- He was trying to teach that the love
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- Of god will keep you out of sin
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- Or the love of god won't keep you out of sin,
- 00:15:20.362 --> 00:15:22.397
- But the fear of god will."
- 00:15:22.397 --> 00:15:24.165
- And he said, "dad, that is completely wrong."
- 00:15:25.100 --> 00:15:29.838
- And i said, "yes, that's right. it is completely wrong."
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- He said, "because you're my dad and you love me,
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- And because i know that you love me,
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- I wanna do what you want me to do."
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- Amen?
- 00:15:45.487 --> 00:15:47.055
- And he said, "so because you're my dad,
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- I respect you, right?"
- 00:15:50.692 --> 00:15:53.795
- So he said, "the fear of god grows out of the love of god.
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- Therefore the love of god will keep you out of sin."
- 00:15:57.732 --> 00:16:02.203
- I said, "aaron," i was so excited
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- Because aaron understood the gospel.
- 00:16:05.340 --> 00:16:08.109
- And a lot of people in the church
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- Don't really understand the gospel.
- 00:16:10.245 --> 00:16:13.281
- And a lot of people sit in church,
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- Even good churches like this for years
- 00:16:14.616 --> 00:16:16.818
- And still don't really understand the gospel.
- 00:16:16.818 --> 00:16:19.921
- And i was so excited because he understood the gospel
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- At a heart level.
- 00:16:22.457 --> 00:16:23.725
- And i quoted this scripture
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- To him in 1 john 5:3 that says,
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- "for this is the love of god that we keep his commandments
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- And his commandments are not grievous."
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- That scripture does not say
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- That keeping the commandments will make you love god.
- 00:16:38.807 --> 00:16:43.078
- That scripture does say, if you love god,
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- You'll keep the commandments,
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- The love of god will keep you out of sin, all right?
- 00:16:51.453 --> 00:16:55.757
- So if there's a sin problem in a believer,
- 00:16:55.757 --> 00:16:58.526
- Either they don't know him
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- Or they don't understand his love.
- 00:17:01.062 --> 00:17:04.199
- So there's ultimately a heart problem.
- 00:17:04.199 --> 00:17:07.535
- And again, we define the heart as the center of our being,
- 00:17:07.535 --> 00:17:11.539
- Or a combination of our spirit and our soul.
- 00:17:11.539 --> 00:17:16.244
- So jesus said, "this is the greatest commandment.
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- Love god with all of your heart, with all of your soul,
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- With all of your mind, and with all of your strength,
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- And love your neighbor as yourself."
- 00:17:27.689 --> 00:17:31.826
- Now we'll talk more next week about loving your neighbor.
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- But let's talk about if there's a heart problem,
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- How do we deal with it?
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- Well first of all,
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- We've got to discern our heart, right?
- 00:17:41.870 --> 00:17:46.040
- And how do we discern our heart?
- 00:17:46.674 --> 00:17:48.810
- Well number one,
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- Our spirit must be born of god.
- 00:17:50.478 --> 00:17:54.415
- So in the spiritual realm,
- 00:17:54.415 --> 00:17:56.251
- See, i believe that there's a lot
- 00:17:56.251 --> 00:17:57.986
- Of people who claim to be saved
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- That have never really been born again.
- 00:18:02.624 --> 00:18:09.164
- Right?
- 00:18:09.397 --> 00:18:10.899
- I don't believe that you get saved and fall out, right?
- 00:18:10.899 --> 00:18:14.202
- And get saved and fall out and get saved
- 00:18:14.202 --> 00:18:16.137
- And fall out and get, amen?
- 00:18:16.137 --> 00:18:20.141
- But if you're born again, right,
- 00:18:20.775 --> 00:18:23.444
- And you renew your mind, you should have fruit of that.
- 00:18:23.444 --> 00:18:27.015
- So if people are having a sin problem, again,
- 00:18:27.949 --> 00:18:31.186
- They're either not born again,
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- Because there's a lot of people,
- 00:18:34.522 --> 00:18:35.590
- Like billy graham used
- 00:18:35.590 --> 00:18:36.891
- To think that over 50% of the people that claim
- 00:18:36.891 --> 00:18:40.528
- To be christians weren't really born again.
- 00:18:40.528 --> 00:18:45.533
- So you must be born again.
- 00:18:46.100 --> 00:18:47.468
- Jesus said you must be born again.
- 00:18:47.468 --> 00:18:48.836
- But once you're born again,
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- If you're born again and you're struggling
- 00:18:50.638 --> 00:18:53.074
- In sin or whatever, you gotta renew your mind in the word.
- 00:18:54.242 --> 00:18:57.445
- Amen?
- 00:18:57.445 --> 00:18:58.646
- So we've gotta discern the heart, right?
- 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:01.916
- And again, the heart is a combination
- 00:19:01.916 --> 00:19:05.119
- Of the spirit and the soul.
- 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:06.221
- So our spirit must be born of god.
- 00:19:06.221 --> 00:19:09.357
- There are some people teach
- 00:19:09.357 --> 00:19:10.658
- Like renew the mind, renew the mind, renew.
- 00:19:10.658 --> 00:19:12.660
- And i believe in renewing the mind.
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- Don't think that i don't.
- 00:19:13.895 --> 00:19:15.563
- And i think our mind needs constant renewal as a believer,
- 00:19:16.698 --> 00:19:19.834
- Because you're in a world that's been affected by sin
- 00:19:19.834 --> 00:19:22.437
- And satan, but if your spirit's not born again,
- 00:19:22.437 --> 00:19:27.742
- Just changing your mind isn't gonna fix it.
- 00:19:28.643 --> 00:19:30.578
- So you gotta be born again.
- 00:19:31.179 --> 00:19:33.114
- And then once you're born again,
- 00:19:33.114 --> 00:19:34.649
- You gotta constantly renew your mind in the word of god.
- 00:19:34.649 --> 00:19:38.152
- The reason we have to constantly renew our mind
- 00:19:38.152 --> 00:19:41.089
- Is because we're in a world that's been affected by sin
- 00:19:41.089 --> 00:19:43.825
- And satan, and it's always working on you, okay?
- 00:19:43.825 --> 00:19:48.062
- So in discerning our heart,
- 00:19:48.663 --> 00:19:50.098
- Our spirit must be born of god,
- 00:19:50.098 --> 00:19:51.899
- But then our soul needs direction.
- 00:19:51.899 --> 00:19:55.470
- Now i heard this from one of the men that taught recently,
- 00:19:55.470 --> 00:19:58.072
- I think i mentioned it last week,
- 00:19:58.072 --> 00:20:00.475
- But he says, you know,
- 00:20:00.975 --> 00:20:02.510
- He was talking about this and he made a statement
- 00:20:02.510 --> 00:20:07.215
- And he said, "a lot of times,
- 00:20:07.215 --> 00:20:09.484
- You hear a voice and it sounds like you."
- 00:20:10.351 --> 00:20:14.522
- And he said really the voice of god, your own voice,
- 00:20:14.522 --> 00:20:19.027
- And the voice of the devil can all sound like you.
- 00:20:19.027 --> 00:20:22.597
- So how do you discern?
- 00:20:23.097 --> 00:20:25.166
- Because you know, the bible actually says this
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- In 1 corinthians 12.
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- It says there's lots of voices in the world
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- And none of them are without significance.
- 00:20:32.840 --> 00:20:36.377
- In other words,
- 00:20:36.377 --> 00:20:37.679
- There's a lot of people saying a lot of things,
- 00:20:37.679 --> 00:20:39.881
- And there's a reason people are saying what they're saying.
- 00:20:39.881 --> 00:20:44.652
- It doesn't mean they're right.
- 00:20:44.652 --> 00:20:47.355
- So you've gotta learn to discern what the voice of god is,
- 00:20:48.456 --> 00:20:54.729
- What your personal voice is,
- 00:20:55.330 --> 00:20:59.133
- And what the voice of the devil is.
- 00:20:59.867 --> 00:21:01.202
- Now how can you discern the difference
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- Between the voice of god, between your own voice,
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- And between the devil's voice or the world's voice?
- 00:21:11.179 --> 00:21:14.082
- Some of you are looking at me funny.
- 00:21:14.882 --> 00:21:17.452
- Okay, let's say i'm a spirit, soul, and body, okay?
- 00:21:17.452 --> 00:21:20.188
- I am a spirit, i possess a soul, and i live in a body.
- 00:21:20.188 --> 00:21:22.457
- Let's put it this way.
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- My spirit, intuition, communion, conscience, right?
- 00:21:24.959 --> 00:21:28.062
- My spirit is god conscious.
- 00:21:28.062 --> 00:21:32.900
- My body,
- 00:21:33.167 --> 00:21:35.269
- My earth suit is world conscience.
- 00:21:36.037 --> 00:21:39.907
- In my body,
- 00:21:39.907 --> 00:21:41.275
- I felt a little cold when i came here tonight.
- 00:21:41.275 --> 00:21:42.844
- So i turned on the heat.
- 00:21:42.844 --> 00:21:44.479
- While we were in worship, barbara said,
- 00:21:44.479 --> 00:21:45.747
- "it's a little hot."
- 00:21:45.747 --> 00:21:47.148
- My body is world conscience, okay?
- 00:21:47.148 --> 00:21:50.184
- So in my body, i can hear from more than god, right?
- 00:21:51.219 --> 00:21:55.356
- I can hear from the world,
- 00:21:55.356 --> 00:21:56.758
- I can also maybe hear from the devil, and my soul,
- 00:21:56.758 --> 00:22:00.428
- Your soul tends to be self conscience.
- 00:22:00.428 --> 00:22:03.030
- Now the soul is like the bridge in between
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- Your spirit and your body.
- 00:22:06.834 --> 00:22:09.370
- Dr. sumrall said
- 00:22:09.737 --> 00:22:11.806
- You need to let your soul, your mind, your will,
- 00:22:11.806 --> 00:22:14.075
- And your emotions be servant to your spirit.
- 00:22:14.075 --> 00:22:19.447
- And then you make your body the slave.
- 00:22:20.248 --> 00:22:21.649
- Let your spirit be king
- 00:22:21.649 --> 00:22:23.050
- Or god be king, your soul be the servant, right?
- 00:22:23.050 --> 00:22:27.355
- And make your body the slave.
- 00:22:27.355 --> 00:22:29.624
- But you can have it on the other side
- 00:22:30.425 --> 00:22:33.795
- Where you let your body be in control
- 00:22:34.595 --> 00:22:37.198
- And your soul just serve your body.
- 00:22:37.198 --> 00:22:40.001
- And then your spirit doesn't really have freedom to go
- 00:22:41.068 --> 00:22:43.538
- Where god wants...
- 00:22:43.538 --> 00:22:44.806
- You don't do what really god wants you to do.
- 00:22:44.806 --> 00:22:47.341
- Does that make sense?
- 00:22:47.842 --> 00:22:49.644
- So how can we discern between the voice of god,
- 00:22:49.644 --> 00:22:53.414
- The voice of self,
- 00:22:53.414 --> 00:22:54.749
- And maybe the voice of the world or the devil?
- 00:22:54.749 --> 00:22:57.718
- We know the difference by the word of god.
- 00:22:58.619 --> 00:23:01.055
- Turn with me to hebrews 4.
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- And let's just read one verse
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- In hebrews 4:12.
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- Y'all there, you're probably ahead of me.
- 00:23:11.199 --> 00:23:13.634
- What's it say in hebrews 4:12?
- 00:23:13.634 --> 00:23:17.271
- (audience speaking indistinctly)
- 00:23:17.905 --> 00:23:20.975
- I should have had you guys read it.
- 00:23:20.975 --> 00:23:24.745
- Amen, the word of god, the scripture,
- 00:23:25.546 --> 00:23:28.382
- The word of god is alive.
- 00:23:28.950 --> 00:23:30.985
- It's living and powerful
- 00:23:30.985 --> 00:23:33.721
- And sharper than any two edged sword,
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- Discerning asunder,
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- Piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul, right?
- 00:23:39.126 --> 00:23:45.199
- What's the soul?
- 00:23:45.566 --> 00:23:47.201
- The mind, the will, and emotions, and the spirit, right?
- 00:23:48.302 --> 00:23:53.207
- Intuition, communion, and conscience.
- 00:23:54.008 --> 00:23:55.443
- So the word will discern between what's coming out
- 00:23:55.443 --> 00:24:00.114
- Of your soul, your mind, your will, and your emotions,
- 00:24:00.114 --> 00:24:04.385
- And what's coming out of your spirit.
- 00:24:04.385 --> 00:24:08.923
- So by the word of god,
- 00:24:09.423 --> 00:24:11.025
- It divides piercing to the divining asunder
- 00:24:11.025 --> 00:24:14.228
- Of soul and spirit, and of the joints and the marrow,
- 00:24:14.228 --> 00:24:16.964
- And is a discerner of the thoughts
- 00:24:16.964 --> 00:24:20.668
- And the intents of the heart.
- 00:24:20.668 --> 00:24:23.804
- The word of god will discern
- 00:24:24.405 --> 00:24:27.542
- What's really coming out of the heart,
- 00:24:27.542 --> 00:24:30.511
- And the word of god will show you the difference
- 00:24:30.511 --> 00:24:34.115
- Between what is spirit and what is soul.
- 00:24:34.115 --> 00:24:39.353
- It'll also show you the difference of what the world is.
- 00:24:40.454 --> 00:24:42.723
- Jesus said, "the words that i speak to you,
- 00:24:42.723 --> 00:24:44.992
- They are spirit and they are life in john 6:63," right?
- 00:24:44.992 --> 00:24:51.566
- So he said, what's he say?
- 00:24:52.133 --> 00:24:55.169
- It is the spirit that quickens, john 6:63,
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- The flesh profits nothing,
- 00:24:57.939 --> 00:25:01.609
- But the words that i speak to you,
- 00:25:01.609 --> 00:25:04.545
- They are spirit in their life.
- 00:25:04.545 --> 00:25:06.981
- When he's talking there about the word of god in john 6:63,
- 00:25:06.981 --> 00:25:11.319
- He's talking about that the word is rama, right?
- 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.923
- Now i believe when we read the bible, like the word of god,
- 00:25:15.923 --> 00:25:19.193
- Like it's talking about here in hebrews 4:12,
- 00:25:19.193 --> 00:25:21.896
- The word of god is alive and powerful.
- 00:25:21.896 --> 00:25:23.564
- It's actually talking about logos.
- 00:25:23.564 --> 00:25:26.233
- But when you read the word on a regular basis, guess what?
- 00:25:26.233 --> 00:25:30.204
- The word will speak to you.
- 00:25:30.204 --> 00:25:32.506
- It's alive, it's powerful.
- 00:25:32.506 --> 00:25:36.310
- Amen?
- 00:25:36.310 --> 00:25:37.845
- It will discern between what's coming out of your spirit
- 00:25:37.845 --> 00:25:40.548
- And what's coming out of your soul.
- 00:25:40.548 --> 00:25:42.883
- And guess what?
- 00:25:42.883 --> 00:25:44.418
- You need to know the difference
- 00:25:44.418 --> 00:25:45.786
- Between what god is saying to you
- 00:25:45.786 --> 00:25:48.789
- And maybe just your soul is saying to you
- 00:25:49.690 --> 00:25:52.560
- Or yourself is saying to you.
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- Friend, thank you so much for staying tuned today.
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- Did you know what?
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- Religion looks a lot different than relationship.
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- And today, we are inviting people to a relationship with god
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- Through jesus christ and through the holy spirit.
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- - [narrator] jesus is love.
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- His word is love, and his greatest law is also love.
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- Based on the teachings of mark 12,
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- Pastor lawson dives head first
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- Into jesus' greatest commandment
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- And expounds upon why our god is the god of love.
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