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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Winning In Life (Part 3) | June 11, 2025
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- - praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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- I'm so glad that you've tuned in.
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- I am sharing today about winning in life.
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- God wants you to win,
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- But you've gotta believe it to receive it.
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- And it all comes through a relationship
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- With jesus christ and his word.
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- Not everyone who hears the word believes the word,
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- Receives the word and does the word.
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- But if you do that, you're gonna receive
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- What god has for you.
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- Stay tuned.
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- I believe that it's possible
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- For every born again believer to win in life.
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- And if you're not born again,
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- I believe you can get born again.
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- That's a gospel possibility,
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- And you can take a gospel possibility
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- And make it a gospel reality,
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- When you believe it.
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- But what do you believe about it? amen.
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- So let's go here and let's look into the word of god.
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- We're gonna begin in deuteronomy chapter 30:11.
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- We're gonna read through verse 19,
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- And then we'll go into verse 20
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- But we'll first do through verse 14.
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- "for this commandment, which i command
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- "you this day is not hidden from you,
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- "neither is it far away.
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- "it is not in heaven that you should say,
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- "'who shall go up to heaven and bring it down to us
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- "'that we may hear it and do it?'
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- "neither is it beyond the sea that you should say,
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- "'who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us
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- "'that we may hear it and do it?'
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- "but the word is near you, in your mouth
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- "and in your heart that you may do it."
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- In other words, did you know what?
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- Opportunity is available to every person everywhere
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- If they will hear the word,
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- Believe the word and act on the word.
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- - [congregation] amen.
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- - it's not up to somebody else.
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- It's not just up to god, it's not up in heaven.
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- Jesus already came.
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- Jesus already died on the cross, already went to the grave,
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- Already conquered the devil, already rose again.
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- When you read this in romans 10:6-10
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- You understand what he's talking about.
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- He's talking about jesus has made the promises
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- Of the gospel available to you,
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- In his death, burial and resurrection.
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- And when you believe it,
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- You're gonna say something about it.
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- - [congregation] amen.
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- - amen? praise god.
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- It's a gospel possibility,
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- And it can be a gospel reality,
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- If you will believe it.
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- What do you believe in today?
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- Amen. it's important what you believe.
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- If you're gonna win in life,
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- You need to believe what god says about you.
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- You need to believe what god says about him,
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- And you need to believe what god says about life. amen.
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- The second thing he goes on to talk about
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- Is the power not only of faith or the power of believing
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- Is the power of choice.
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- Verse 15 to verse 19.
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- "see, i have set before, you this day,
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- "life and good,
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- "death and evil, in that i command you today to love god,
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- "walk in his ways, keep his commands
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- "and his statutes, his judgments
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- "that you may live and multiply
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- "and the lord god will bless you
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- "in the land where you're going to possess it.
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- "but if your heart turn away."
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- It is a possibility that your heart
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- Can turn away.
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- Not everybody who starts out well, finishes well.
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- "if your heart turns away so that you will not hear
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- "but be drawn away."
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- You can be drawn away
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- "and worship other gods and serve them.
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- "i denounce to you this day that you will surely perish,
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- "that you will not prolong your days on the land
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- "where you go to pass over jordan to go possess it.
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- "i call heaven and earth to record today against you."
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- God says, "i have witnesses."
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- The witness of heaven
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- And the witness of earth.
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- "i have given you a choice, i have set before you,
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- "life and death,
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- "blessing and cursing.
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- "therefore, choose life
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- "that you and your seed may live."
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- We said god made a choice in christ on the cross
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- For every person, and it's a good choice.
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- God wants everyone to be saved
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- And come to a knowledge of the truth.
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- But god still has given us a will
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- And our choice is a secondary choice.
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- That's what this is talking about.
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- It's your choice to believe on jesus.
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- It's your choice to believe the promises of the word of god.
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- What are you gonna do with what you hear?
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- Are you gonna believe it so you're gonna receive it
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- Or are you gonna doubt it so you do without it?
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- He says, "choose life that both you and your seed live."
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- Your choices affect other people.
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- Your choices especially affect those
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- That are closest to you.
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- You know what he's talking about?
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- He's talking about generational blessing.
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- In fact, i'm gonna teach a series
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- Not too far in the future
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- On generational blessing.
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- I believe in generational blessing.
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- - [congregation] amen.
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- - i thank god,
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- I knew my great-grandparents on my father's side.
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- They all loved god,
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- Believed on jesus
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- And served jesus.
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- I knew my grandparents on both sides of my family,
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- My dad's parents.
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- I spent a lot of time with them as a young man,
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- And they invested into me.
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- They loved god and they lived by godly principles.
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- My grandparents on my mother's side,
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- I remember going to grandpa donna
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- And grandma evan's house when i was a young child.
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- I remember in the mornings,
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- My granddad would bow down at a chair
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- And he would have his bible
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- And he would do his devotions and he would pray.
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- He had us bowing at a chair
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- And doing our devotions and praying.
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- I thank god for a godly heritage.
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- I thank god for a mother that prayed for me
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- When i was a 14-year-old honorary brat child.
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- I thank god for a mother that prayed for me
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- And took me to a bible study
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- Where i heard the word of god preached in its fullness
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- For the first time.
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- And i began to believe that god was not only god,
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- But that he was a good god.
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- And he not only wanted to save me, wanted to heal me,
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- Wanted to bless me, wanted to help me,
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- And my life was forever changed.
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- I also thank god for my dad.
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- My dad didn't get everything right,
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- But my dad got a lot of things right
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- And my dad invested some things in me
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- In the few years that i knew him.
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- My dad went home to be with jesus
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- When i was just 17 years old.
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- But i wanna tell you really briefly
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- About five things that my dad invested in me.
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- Number one, every sunday we go to church.
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- We went to church,
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- Every sunday.
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- Number two,
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- Every time we get paid,
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- He taught me this when i was four years old,
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- We take 10% and we give it to god.
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- Number three, we honor the word of god.
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- We believe the bible.
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- We always put the bible first.
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- What god says in his word.
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- Maybe we didn't know what it said,
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- But we honored the bible.
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- So when we heard the bible preached in its fullness,
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- We believed it.
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- Number four,
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- You don't live off the government,
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- But you go to work and believe god.
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- - [congregation] amen.
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- - my dad had a physical disability, he had epilepsy.
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- It's a very sad and debilitating disease.
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- My dad could have gotten nearly every kind
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- Of government help that was available,
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- But my dad didn't take government subsidy.
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- - [congregation] amen.
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- - you go to work.
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- If you don't work, you don't eat.
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- "dad, jesus is coming.
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- "why are we doing all this?"
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- The bible says, "occupy till i come."
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- Get to work, you've all heard me preach that,
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- If you've been here very long.
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- Number five, my daddy taught me,
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- You gotta keep a good attitude.
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- (congregant applauding)
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- Amen. if you don't keep one,
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- I'll help you get one right now.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- If you wanna whine about it,
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- I'll give you something to whine about right now.
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- Straighten your attitude up.
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- And boy, when he said it, you did it
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- Because he meant what he said
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- And he backed it up.
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- That's what my dad taught me.
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- That's what enabled me to succeed.
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- When my dad died, when i was just 17 years old,
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- Just starting into my senior year in high school,
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- I've never pulled the victim card.
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- I've never played the victim card.
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- I have believed that i could succeed
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- Because number one, of what god says,
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- But because number two,
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- My dad invested some eternal truths in me.
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- We call that generational blessing.
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- Psalm 112 says this, "blessed is the man who fears god,
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- "who walks greatly in his commands."
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- Do you delight in the commands of god?
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- Do you respect god more than the principles of this world?
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- Do you respect god above everything else?
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- Do you respect the word of god above other things?
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- "his seed shall be mighty on the earth.
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- "wealth and riches shall be in his house."
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- Let me tell you, if you start living that,
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- It's going to offend some people.
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- But i believe it
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- And i'm receiving it.
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- Thank god generational blessing
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- You and your seed.
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- This blessing, life and blessing is available,
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- But it's your choice.
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- But look at verse 20, this is where we're sharing today,
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- "that you may love the lord your god,
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- "and you may obey his voice
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- "that you may cleave unto him,
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- "for he is your life.
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- "and the length of days that you may dwell in the land,
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- "which the lord swore to your fathers,
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- "to abraham, to isaac, to jacob, to give them."
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- He said, "i want you to love god.
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- "i want you to cleave to god.
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- "i want you to..."
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- The modern english says, "cling to him."
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- It all begins with a relationship with god
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- Through jesus christ.
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- And he says, in this relationship with god, three things.
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- Number one, love him.
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- Love god.
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- Number two, obey his voice.
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- Do what god says.
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- And number three, cleave to him,
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- "for he is your life and length of days
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- "that you may dwell in the land,
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- "that you may inherit the promises of this covenant."
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- How many of you glad that we have a covenant with god
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- Through jesus christ and the blessings of god's covenant
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- Are available to everyone who believes on jesus.
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- (upbeat music)
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- Hi friends.
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- Thanks so much for being part of the broadcast today.
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- I have a lot more to say about this subject,
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- Winning in life and many others.
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- You can get the downloadable audios
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- And downloadable videos, free of charge
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- On our website at charischristiancenter.com.
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- Check us out there.
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- We've got lots of stuff to be a blessing to you.
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- (upbeat music)
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- - so these promises are available to everyone.
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- But let's talk about our relationship with god.
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- Number one, he says, "love god."
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- You know, in mark chapter 12, the scribes came to jesus
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- And they said, "jesus, what is the first commandment?"
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- In verse 28.
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- Jesus answered and said,
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- "the first of all the commandments is here o israel,
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- "the lord our god is one lord."
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- Elohim, the father, the son, and the holy spirit
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- Is one lord jehovah,
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- The self existent, eternal god, the creator.
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- Now, you know, as we study the new testament, we find out
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- That jesus is jehovah.
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- And he said this, "and you will love the lord thy god
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- "with all your heart,
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- "with all your spirit."
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- Love god with everything on the inside of you.
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- "and with all your soul, your mind,
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- "your will, and your emotions."
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- The soul is the central part of you,
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- Of your spirit and your, right.
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- It's your mind, your will and your emotions.
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- Your heart really is your spirit and your soul
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- A combination in some senses,
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- About 2% of the time, it's talking about your spirit.
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- About 98% of the time it's talking about a combination
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- Of your spirit and your soul,
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- The word heart or your soul.
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- But he says, "love god with all your heart,
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- "with all your soul, with all your mind,
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- "and with all of your strength."
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- Did you know not only, is my spirit, the property of god,
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- But my body is the property of god.
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- And like i said, if you're married,
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- Not only is your body the property of god,
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- It's the property of your spouse.
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- Amen. my body is the property of barbara.
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- Barbara has some things to say
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- About what i do with this body.
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- It's the temple of the holy ghost.
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- Amen. and in my spirit, i'm one with the lord.
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- I'm joined to the lord.
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- He that is joined to the lord, is one spirit.
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- When i'm joined to my wife, i'm one flesh.
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- That's scripture, that's bible.
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- But notice what he says, "don't only love god
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- "with all your heart, all your soul,
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- "all your mind, and all your strength."
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- This is the first commandment.
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- "the second is liketh to it.
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- Namely this, "you will love your neighbor
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- "as yourself."
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- In fact, john says in his epistle,
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- "if you can't love your neighbor, who you do see,
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- "how are you gonna love god, who you don't see?"
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- You know, i saw a couple of great examples, this past week
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- Of people in this church they didn't know i was watching,
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- Loving their neighbor.
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- I was at walmart the other day picking a couple things up
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- For the church vehicles.
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- But as i was doing that,
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- I noticed an older man in our congregation
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- Who doesn't drive.
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- And then i noticed just a little bit walking behind him,
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- Another man in the congregation,
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- And i know, he brought him here.
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- And he took time outta his week, outta his work,
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- Outta his busy time to take care of this person.
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- And then when i was in the parking lot driving out,
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- I saw that man standing there by his truck
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- And the other man who doesn't drive anymore
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- Walking with him.
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- I was touched this past week
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- When a member of our congregation
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- Went to the south end of town and picked up
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- Another member of our congregation
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- That's now in assisted care,
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- Recently was put there
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- And brought her all the way up here
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- To the north side of town to come to church.
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- I'm sure she probably took her out to eat afterwards
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- And then took her back. amen.
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- I was touched for the last couple of years
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- Because i had another member of this congregation
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- Pick this individual up from her house in cascade
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- And drive her to church, nearly every sunday.
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- And if she couldn't, she got somebody else to cover that.
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- That touches me when i see the love of god in action.
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- I went to the hospital yesterday
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- To visit a member of this church
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- That's very close to me.
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- When i got there, i found out,
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- They said, he's already released.
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- He just had open heart surgery on monday,
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- And by the grace of god, he's alive
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- And doing well.
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- So i called john up on the phone and said, "hey, john."
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- He said, "come on over."
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- When i got there, a number of our congregation
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- Had already beat me to it,
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- But john's doing very well.
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- - [congregation] amen.
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- - and he's had a miracle,
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- Or he would've went home
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- To see jesus probably already.
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- So thank god, amen.
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- Just thank god for what he does. amen.
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- But we see the love of god. amen.
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- We see the love of god
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- In how we respond
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- To people on the outside. amen.
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- If you can't love your neighbor who you see,
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- How are you gonna love god who you don't see?
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- Amen. so love god
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- And love your neighbor.
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- Jesus said they come together. amen.
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- The second thing as we look at this,
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- He said, "love god."
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- He said, "and obey his voice."
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- Now, i remember years ago, probably over 10 years ago,
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- Barbara and i were preaching at a grace college.
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- And as we were preaching at this college,
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- Barbara was teaching ahead of me,
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- And she mentioned the word obey.
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- It went over about like a lead balloon.
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- I could tell they really didn't respond
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- To that word obey well, in that grace school.
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- Well, i submit to you, if you really understand grace,
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- That obedience is not gonna be hard.
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- It's not gonna be such a challenge.
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- And so i got up the next hour to teach,
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- And i began with questions.
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- And they said, "how do you mix obedience with grace?"
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- And i said, "well, the scripture says,
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- "by faith, abraham obeyed god."
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- By faith, abraham obeyed god
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- And he went out to a place
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- That he didn't even know where he was going.
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- Hebrews 11:8, did you know what?
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- Faith is never stagnant.
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- Faith is really a walk with god.
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- And you need to be growing in your relationship with god
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- And your relationship with jesus christ. amen.
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- "if you be willing and obedient,"
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- The scripture says in isaiah 1:19,
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- "you will eat of the good of the land."
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- How many of you wanna eat the good of the land?
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- You need to be willing, and you need to be obedient.
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- Obedience is not a bad word,
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- But how is obedience walked out
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- In the sense of the gospel?
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- Amen.
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- Paul says it this way, in romans 10:16
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- He says, "but you have not all obeyed the gospel."
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- Now you understand when we're talking about the gospel,
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- We're really talking about grace.
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- In fact, i had a born again lutheran pastor friend
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- In kit carson colorado.
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- And when i was talking to him about grace,
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- And when i was sharing with him about grace,
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- He said, "oh, you call it grace.
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- "we call it the law and the gospel.
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- "you call it the law and grace."
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- Yeah, we're talking about the same thing.
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- He says, paul says in romans 10:16,
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- "you haven't all obeyed the gospel
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- "for isaiah says,
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- "who has believed our report?"
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- So obeying the gospel is believing the gospel.
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- So what are you doing with the gospel?
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- What are you doing with the good news that jesus came
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- To save you, heal you, free you, bless you,
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- Help you in every area of your life?
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- What are you doing with the,
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- They haven't all obeyed the gospel
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- Because they haven't all obeyed the gospel.
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- Now, then he says this in verse 17, talking about faith.
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- "faith comes by declaration
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- "and declaration by the mouth of god."
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- That's the literal greek.
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- So not everybody you hear preaching is building your faith
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- Because not everybody who you hear preaching
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- Is teaching you, who god said that he is.
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- And god says through the old testament,
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- It's a progressive revelation of who god is.
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- I'm your provider, genesis 22.
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- I'm your healer, exodus 15.
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- I'm your deliverer, your protector, exodus 17.
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- I'm the lord who sanctifies you.
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- Leviticus 20:8.
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- I'm the lord, your peace and your prosperity
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- Or your provision, jehovah shalom, in judges chapter six.
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- I'm the lord your righteousness, in jeremiah chapter 23:6,
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- In jeremiah chapter 33:16.
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- And i'm the lord who is there.
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- I will never leave you or forsake you. jehovah shamah.
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- Ezekiel chapter 48:35.
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- Amen it's a progressive.
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- So when somebody comes and preach to you,
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- That's the seven redemptive names of god.
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- This is who god is, and this is who jesus is,
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- And this is what you have in christ in the gospel.
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- Did you know what?
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- That will build your faith.
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- If they don't tell you the truth about who god is,
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- Who christ is, and who you are in christ,
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- They're not really teaching you the gospel.
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- So we gotta keep teaching people the gospel
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- So they can believe it and receive it.
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- But he says, number one, i want you to love god,
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- Then i want you to obey his voice.
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- Now, what is the primary way
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- That we as believers hear the voice of god?
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- Y'all got it.
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- That's why you're here. amen.
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- That's a good one too. amen.
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- Godly counsel, and many times
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- It can be a husband and wife situation.
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- That's one of five things i teach,
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- The word of god, the holy spirit, the peace of god,
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- Godly counsel, amen.
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- And the last one is the gifts of the holy spirit.
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- Okay, that's the five ways that i teach
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- That you can hear the voice.
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- But let's just start with the word, amen.
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- Because really if you disobey the word, did you know what?
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- Whether you realize it or not, you're disobeying god.
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- So i made a decision as a young man,
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- If the word says that that's the way i'm gonna go,
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- That's the way i'm gonna walk. amen.
- 00:24:27.208 --> 00:24:30.077
- But people respond to the word in different ways.
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- Now, we quoted mark 4:20,
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- Talking about, winning in life.
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- Jesus said this,
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- "that that is sown on good ground."
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- In verse 13 said, he says,
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- "if you can understand this parable,
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- "you can understand the entire kingdom."
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- He said, "that which is sewn on good ground
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- "is he who hears the word
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- "and receives the word
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- "and brings forth good fruit.
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- "some 30 some, 60 some a hundredfold."
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- Not everybody who hears the word
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- Receives the word. amen.
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- Not everybody is really excited
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- About receiving the word.
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- They might hear the word of god,
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- But not everybody's really excited about
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- Receiving the word of god.
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- Shows how faith choices and jesus lead to a thriving life.
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- Learn to overcome challenges and live god's promises.
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- A $15 value, yours free today.
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- Download your free audio and video series now
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- At charischristiancenter.com.
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- Start winning today.
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- (soft music)
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- - hey friends, i want to invite you
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- To charis camp meeting 2025
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- Here at charis christian center
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- Where we have great things for the whole family.
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- We have great teaching with pastor mark hankins.
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- We have great teaching with pastor ben dailey.
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- We have philip renner with worship,
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- And we have great ministry for your children
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- And for your youth.
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- We have great things for the whole family.
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- So come. blessings.
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- (upbeat music)
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- - [narrator] thanks for watching "grace for today."
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- This broadcast has been made possible
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- By our faithful partners.
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- If you would like to become a partner,
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- Please call us at 719-418-4000
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- Or to partner online, go to charischristiancenter.com/give.
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- You can write us at po box 63733,
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- Colorado springs, colorado, 80962.
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- See you next time on "grace for today."
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