Lawson Perdue - The Royal Law of Love (Part 2)

October 14, 2025 | 29:55

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 - 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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  • (upbeat music)
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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?
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • And when he went to see him, he said,
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  • "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.
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  • 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,
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  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • 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,
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  • But the fear of god will."
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  • And he said, "dad, that is completely wrong."
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  • 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?
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  • And he said, "so because you're my dad,
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  • I respect you, right?"
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  • 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."
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  • I said, "aaron," i was so excited
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  • Because aaron understood the gospel.
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  • And a lot of people in the church
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  • Don't really understand the gospel.
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  • And a lot of people sit in church,
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  • Even good churches like this for years
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  • And still don't really understand the gospel.
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  • And i was so excited because he understood the gospel
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  • At a heart level.
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  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • So if there's a sin problem in a believer,
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  • Either they don't know him
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  • Or they don't understand his love.
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  • So there's ultimately a heart problem.
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  • And again, we define the heart as the center of our being,
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  • Or a combination of our spirit and our soul.
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  • 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."
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  • 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?
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  • And how do we discern our heart?
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  • Well number one,
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  • Our spirit must be born of god.
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  • So in the spiritual realm,
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  • See, i believe that there's a lot
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  • Of people who claim to be saved
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  • That have never really been born again.
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  • Right?
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  • I don't believe that you get saved and fall out, right?
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  • And get saved and fall out and get saved
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  • And fall out and get, amen?
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  • But if you're born again, right,
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  • And you renew your mind, you should have fruit of that.
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  • So if people are having a sin problem, again,
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  • They're either not born again,
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  • Because there's a lot of people,
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  • Like billy graham used
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  • To think that over 50% of the people that claim
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  • To be christians weren't really born again.
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  • So you must be born again.
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  • Jesus said you must be born again.
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  • But once you're born again,
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  • If you're born again and you're struggling
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  • In sin or whatever, you gotta renew your mind in the word.
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  • Amen?
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  • So we've gotta discern the heart, right?
  • 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:01.916
  • And again, the heart is a combination
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  • Of the spirit and the soul.
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  • So our spirit must be born of god.
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  • There are some people teach
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  • Like renew the mind, renew the mind, renew.
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  • And i believe in renewing the mind.
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  • Don't think that i don't.
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  • And i think our mind needs constant renewal as a believer,
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  • Because you're in a world that's been affected by sin
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  • And satan, but if your spirit's not born again,
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  • Just changing your mind isn't gonna fix it.
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  • So you gotta be born again.
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  • And then once you're born again,
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  • You gotta constantly renew your mind in the word of god.
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  • The reason we have to constantly renew our mind
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  • Is because we're in a world that's been affected by sin
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  • And satan, and it's always working on you, okay?
  • 00:19:43.825 --> 00:19:48.062
  • So in discerning our heart,
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  • Our spirit must be born of god,
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  • 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,
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  • I think i mentioned it last week,
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  • But he says, you know,
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  • He was talking about this and he made a statement
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  • 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,
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  • And the voice of the devil can all sound like you.
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  • So how do you discern?
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  • 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,
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  • And there's a reason people are saying what they're saying.
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  • It doesn't mean they're right.
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  • So you've gotta learn to discern what the voice of god is,
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  • What your personal voice is,
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  • 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?
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  • Some of you are looking at me funny.
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  • 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.
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  • Let's put it this way.
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  • My spirit, intuition, communion, conscience, right?
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  • My spirit is god conscious.
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  • My body,
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  • My earth suit is world conscience.
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  • In my body,
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  • I felt a little cold when i came here tonight.
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  • So i turned on the heat.
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  • While we were in worship, barbara said,
  • 00:21:44.479 --> 00:21:45.747
  • "it's a little hot."
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  • 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?
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  • I can hear from the world,
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  • I can also maybe hear from the devil, and my soul,
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  • 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.
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  • Dr. sumrall said
  • 00:22:09.737 --> 00:22:11.806
  • You need to let your soul, your mind, your will,
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  • And your emotions be servant to your spirit.
  • 00:22:14.075 --> 00:22:19.447
  • And then you make your body the slave.
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  • Let your spirit be king
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  • Or god be king, your soul be the servant, right?
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  • And make your body the slave.
  • 00:22:27.355 --> 00:22:29.624
  • But you can have it on the other side
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  • Where you let your body be in control
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  • 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
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  • Where god wants...
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  • You don't do what really god wants you to do.
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  • Does that make sense?
  • 00:22:47.842 --> 00:22:49.644
  • So how can we discern between the voice of god,
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  • The voice of self,
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  • 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.
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  • What's it say in hebrews 4:12?
  • 00:23:13.634 --> 00:23:17.271
  • (audience speaking indistinctly)
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  • I should have had you guys read it.
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  • Amen, the word of god, the scripture,
  • 00:23:25.546 --> 00:23:28.382
  • The word of god is alive.
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  • It's living and powerful
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  • 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,
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  • And what's coming out of your spirit.
  • 00:24:04.385 --> 00:24:08.923
  • So by the word of god,
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  • It divides piercing to the divining asunder
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  • Of soul and spirit, and of the joints and the marrow,
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  • And is a discerner of the thoughts
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  • And the intents of the heart.
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  • The word of god will discern
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  • What's really coming out of the heart,
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  • And the word of god will show you the difference
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  • 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.
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  • Jesus said, "the words that i speak to you,
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  • 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?
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  • It is the spirit that quickens, john 6:63,
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  • The flesh profits nothing,
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  • 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,
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  • He's talking about that the word is rama, right?
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  • Now i believe when we read the bible, like the word of god,
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  • Like it's talking about here in hebrews 4:12,
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  • The word of god is alive and powerful.
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  • It's actually talking about logos.
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  • But when you read the word on a regular basis, guess what?
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  • The word will speak to you.
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  • It's alive, it's powerful.
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  • Amen?
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  • It will discern between what's coming out of your spirit
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  • And what's coming out of your soul.
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  • And guess what?
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  • You need to know the difference
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  • Between what god is saying to you
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  • And maybe just your soul is saying to you
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  • Or yourself is saying to you.
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  • (upbeat music)
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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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  • If you need prayer, give us a call today.
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  • We have trained prayer ministers that are ready
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  • To receive your call and pray for you,
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  • Ministering to you,
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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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  • "the royal law of love," normally $20,
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  • Is free for you today,
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  • Thanks to the generosity of our monthly partners,
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  • Learn to walk in the royal law of love.
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  • - [announcer] thanks for watching grace for today.
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