In this message; Pastor Robert shares about how you can walk in victory by letting God’s Word reign in your life.
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Pastor Robert Morris Ministries | Stay in the Word | July 16, 2021
- ROBERT MORRIS: Think about this.
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- He would love for you to think about yourself
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- the way He thinks about you.
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- He would love for you to know what He wants
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- and desires for your life,
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- and He would love for you to know how He feels about you,
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- rather than what the devil tells you that He feels about you!
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- ♪ ♪
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- ROBERT: So, today's message is called,
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- "Stay in the Word."
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- We're talking about "Three Steps to Victory,"
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- and last week, "Stop Believing Lies."
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- This one is "Stay in the Word."
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- And I want you to think about why would a person, a believer,
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- ever walk away from the Father, because we've all done it.
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- Maybe it was a few years for some of you,
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- maybe it was a few months, maybe a few weeks, maybe a few days,
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- maybe a few minutes.
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- So, don't be judgmental of someone who's walked away
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- for a few years and you say, "Well, I've never done that."
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- Well, you've done it for a few minutes, I guarantee you.
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- So, the reason we do is because we're three parts.
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- I know that doesn't sound like that's an amazing revelation,
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- but we're three parts - spirit, soul, and body.
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- We are a trichotomy, not a dichotomy.
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- There are just a few that say we're a dichotomy
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- and we only have two parts, but it's not true.
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- Biblically it's very easy to show we're three parts.
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- As a matter of fact, Jesus, when He was on this earth,
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- His body went in the tomb.
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- Scripture says, "You will not leave His soul in Hades,"
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- or "Sheol," says the Old Testament;
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- the New Testament, "Hades,"
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- which is the place of the waiting of the dead.
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- So, His soul during those three days went to Hades,
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- and then on the cross He said, "Into Thy hands,
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- I commit My Spirit."
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- See the three?
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- Body, soul, and spirit.
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- Genesis 2, when God created man,
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- you'll see all three in one verse.
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- Verse 7, "And the Lord God formed man
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- of the dust of the ground."
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- He didn't form his soul or spirit
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- of the dust of the ground, He formed his body.
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- "From dust your body came and to dust your body will return."
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- So, that's his body.
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- "And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,"
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- this is the word for spirit.
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- Spirit, so there he became a spirit.
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- "And the man became a living soul."
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- See what I'm saying? So, spirit, soul, and body.
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- Everyone get that?
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- God created our spirits to relate to Him.
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- He created our souls to relate to Him and His creation;
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- His creation, including other human beings as well,
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- plants, animals, trees,
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- all the things, you know, that we relate to, His creation.
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- We can climb a mountain, we can swim in the ocean,
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- and He created our bodies to relate to His creation.
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- And that's where I was going with we can swim in the ocean,
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- climb a mountain, and something like that.
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- So, our bodies He created to relate to His creation.
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- Our spirits He created to relate to Him.
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- Our souls He created to relate to Him and His creation.
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- Here's the problem.
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- When Adam and Eve died -- when they sinned, pardon me.
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- When they sinned, their spirits died.
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- If you remember, God said if you eat that, you will die.
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- Their bodies didn't die.
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- Now, death set in and eventually they died.
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- But, their bodies didn't die immediately.
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- Their souls didn't die, because Adam said,
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- "I heard You walking in the garden and I was afraid."
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- That's an emotion.
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- And so, I made a choice in my will to hide,
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- because I thought that would be the best thing to do.
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- See what I'm saying?
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- His mind, will, and emotions were still working,
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- but his spirit died.
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- Because God said, you eat that, you'll die.
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- What died? Their spirits died.
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- Ephesians 2 says, "We were dead in our trespasses and sins,
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- and He made us alive when we came to Christ."
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- Jesus said -- we quote this verse,
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- but we kind of miss the first part:
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- Jesus said, "I've come that you might have life,
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- and that you might have it more abundantly."
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- It's great to talk about abundant life,
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- but listen to what He actually said.
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- "I've come that you might have life."
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- You're not even alive without Me.
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- You're existing, but you're not alive.
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- "I came that you might have life."
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- Are you all following me?
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- So, our spirits died.
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- So, the problem is that Adam and Eve learned to relate to God
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- only, without their spirits, only by what they could reason
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- in their own minds, what they wanted,
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- and what they felt was best; mind, will, and emotions.
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- Mind is what we think.
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- Will, what we desire.
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- Emotions, what we feel.
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- Mind, what we think.
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- Will, what we desire or want.
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- And emotions, what we feel.
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- Now, listen to me.
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- This is why Christians have problems,
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- because we get into a situation and we make a decision
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- based on what we think, what we want, and what we feel.
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- And I'm gonna say something very strongly to you.
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- I don't care what you think, what you want, or what you feel!
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- I care what God wants, what God says, what God thinks,
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- and what God feels, and what God wants!
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- And that's the only way to make the right decision,
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- is to find out what the Word says
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- about what you want to decide.
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- So, when you make a soulish decision,
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- it's selfish until your soul matures.
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- You need to make a spiritual decision.
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- So, here's the problem.
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- Here's point number one - the soul is selfish.
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- The soul is selfish.
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- Matter of fact, the soul means self.
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- Soulish, selfish.
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- The soul is selfish.
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- And, we came into this world with a dead spirit.
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- So for years, we related to God, and think about this,
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- with our minds, only our minds.
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- Now, we still could use our minds, but remember,
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- we need to renew our minds.
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- We need to have the mind of Christ.
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- We need to convert our souls, the Bible says, which again,
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- your mind, will, and emotions.
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- But we come in thinking -- think about how many people,
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- when they're trying
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- to figure out God and they're not saved yet,
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- they have a dead spirit, how off they can get.
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- All of these different religious sects,
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- how screwed up they can get, because they're only relating
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- to God by what their own intellect can figure out,
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- their own minds. So, I'm gonna just --
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- Now we're talking about the soul is selfish,
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- but we've got mind, will, and emotions.
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- I don't have time to cover the other two,
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- but I'm just gonna do a little study on mind.
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- Let me tell you a little bit about your mind,
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- and then I'm going to tell you a spiritual truth
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- that's gonna help you a lot.
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- So, your mind is the best computer
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- possible on this earth today,
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- and they will never, never, ever invent a computer
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- better than the human mind.
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- When you talk to scientists who actually understand the mind,
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- they'll clarify it.
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- They will back up what I'm saying.
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- Your mind's unbelievable.
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- Your mind knows everything that you've ever seen, heard,
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- or experienced, and it's categorized it; everything.
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- You following me?
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- This is how you can meet someone and not like them immediately.
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- You'll be in a restaurant with your wife,
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- and you're walking out, and she says, "Oh, Honey, wait, wait.
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- This is Susie. You remember Susie.
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- I work out with Susie.
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- I told you about Susie."
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- And of course, the answer then is, "Oh, yes, I remember."
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- You don't have a clue, but you just say,
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- "Oh, yeah, I remember Susie."
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- And Susie says, "This is my husband, Bill."
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- And you say, "Hi, Bill, how are you?"
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- You walk out of the restaurant, and you get in the car
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- and you say to your wife, "I don't like that guy."
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- And she said, "Well, you just met him.
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- You don't even know him."
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- "Oh, yeah, I know him.
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- I know his type."
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- Because your mind said, "Have I ever met anyone like this?
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- Yes, you've met 364 people who are like this guy,
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- who are similar.
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- You've met 47 people who are very similar,
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- and you met 3 who are almost identical,
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- and one of them pulled your shorts down in gym class
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- in the seventh grade."
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- [Laughter]
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- And your wife again said, "You don't know him."
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- "Oh, I've got a whole file on him.
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- I know exactly what he's like."
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- Are you all following me?
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- That's how brilliant it is.
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- Okay, so you say, "Why are you telling me this?"
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- Here's why.
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- Because when you come up against a problem that causes you
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- stress or tension, your mind says,
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- "Have I ever experienced this before?"
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- And your mind tells you how to respond.
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- This is called, in the Bible, a stronghold.
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- This is how a stronghold works.
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- If you have a stronghold, you might not want to admit it,
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- but just, you don't have to do it out loud,
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- but just to yourself - a stronghold of lust,
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- or a stronghold of anger, or a stronghold of pride,
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- or insecurity, or inferiority, or if you have some addiction.
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- This is exactly how addiction works, exactly.
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- Scientists will agree with this.
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- Unless they're Christian, they don't understand
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- the spiritual part.
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- This is what happens: You come in,
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- you see an experience that is similar to something
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- you had before, and your mind says, "I need a drink.
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- I need a drink to handle this, 'cause every time I've come
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- to this situation before, I've had to have a drink."
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- Are you following me? So that's why we read --
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- Listen, remember the title of the message, "Stay in the Word."
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- Because what happens is, after a while your mind says,
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- "Have I ever experienced anything like this before?"
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- And your mind says, "Yes, I have."
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- And then your mind will say to you,
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- because you're renewing what your mind says,
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- "I need to get in the Word.
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- I need to call someone for prayer."
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- See, you totally begin to change the way you deal
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- with these strong -- are you all following me?
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- This is really good.
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- If you don't know good preaching, I'm just helping you.
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- This is the way a stronghold works.
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- Three easy steps to victory - number one, stop believing lies.
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- Here's what else I can say on "Stay in the Word,"
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- start believing the truth.
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- Start believing what God says about you,
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- not what someone else says about you, not what Satan says.
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- So, number one, the soul is selfish.
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- Here's number two, the soul must submit to the spirit.
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- The soul must submit to the spirit.
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- Now, Romans 9, remember, everything in the Old Testament
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- happened in the natural,
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- but it's a spiritual truth to us in the New.
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- And many times in the New Testament,
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- they'll quote an Old Testament Scripture and they'll tell us
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- the spiritual truth, and Romans 9 is telling us
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- one of the spiritual truths from this Old Testament Scripture.
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- Here it is.
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- Romans 9:12 says, "It was said to her,"
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- this is speaking to Rebekah about Jacob and Esau,
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- that were in her womb, "The older shall serve the younger."
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- I could have given you several examples of this.
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- This is actually a scriptural principle,
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- "The older shall serve the younger."
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- Now, for those of you who are the older sibling,
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- this is not a natural principle, all right?
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- And for those of you who are younger, don't say, "Yep,
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- I knew he should be serving me."
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- Okay, this has nothing to do with the natural, okay,
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- brothers and sisters, siblings.
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- This is a spiritual principle, and what does it mean?
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- Let me tell you.
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- There are about four applications of it spiritually,
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- but let me tell you one of them - the soul and the spirit.
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- Okay, when you were conceived in your mother's womb,
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- your soul came alive.
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- And then you're born, you go through life, and then for me,
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- I got saved at 19.
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- Now, when you're born, remember, you're born with a dead spirit.
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- "Your spirit is dead in trespasses and sins."
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- That's the Bible.
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- Your spirit's dead.
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- But you come to Christ, your spirit is made alive.
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- So, I got saved at 19. I was almost 20.
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- So, for 20 years, I lived with my soul in charge.
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- I did what I thought was best.
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- I did what I wanted to do,
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- and I did what I felt was best for me.
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- But when I was almost 20, my spirit came alive,
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- and my spirit said to my soul, "I'm in charge now."
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- And my soul, being the kind, and gracious,
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- and humble person that he is, said, "Sure."
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- Or do you think that's what happened?
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- No, my soul said, "Not without a fight, "
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- and my soul's been fighting ever since.
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- But, the more I get in this Word,
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- "Receive the engrafted Word of God," James says,
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- "which is able to save," and that word, "save, "
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- is to make whole your souls.
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- There's all of these Scriptures about converting your souls.
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- It's not talking about your eternal salvation,
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- it's talking about converting, changing, changing your soul,
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- letting your soul grow up.
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- So important for us to understand this.
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- David talked to his soul.
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- Remember, the word "soul" means self, so he talked to himself.
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- He wasn't crazy.
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- He talked to himself.
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- He told his soul to not be discouraged.
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- He told his soul to bless God.
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- He told his soul to be quiet.
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- Let me read you one of them, Psalm 131:2.
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- "Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul,
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- like a weaned child with his mother,
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- like a weaned child is my soul within me."
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- Okay, so he said I've told my soul to calm down and be quiet.
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- but my soul is like a weaned child.
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- A weaned child, but how do you wean a child?
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- Well, you take him off of milk
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- and you put him on solid food, right?
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- Watch again. The Bible is so perfect.
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- 1 Corinthians 3:1, "And I, brethren,
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- could not speak to you as spiritual," spiritual, "people,
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- but as to carnal, as to babes," or babies, "in Christ.
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- I have had to feed you with milk, and not solid food."
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- Hebrews 5:12, "For though by now, by this time
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- you ought to be teachers,
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- but you need someone to teach you again
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- the first principles of the oracles of God;
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- and you have come to need milk and not solid food."
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- He goes on to talk about those who need milk
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- instead of solid food.
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- They're not mature.
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- You've got to grow up.
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- You've got to take your soul off of milk,
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- get your soul on solid food.
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- Can I just say something right now?
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- It is important where you go to church.
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- It's important that whoever is preaching to you
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- is preaching the Bible, and not good opinions.
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- Good opinions don't help; good news helps.
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- What the Bible says is what helps you.
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- You want to be fed the Word of God.
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- That's what helps you. Okay?
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- So, now why does a child...
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- -- have you ever thought about this?
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- He says it's like a weaned child.
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- What does a child do, let's say that.
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- What does a child do when you try to wean the child?
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- Cries and throws a fit, right?
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- What do you think your soul does?
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- Cries and throws a fit. But, why?
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- Have you ever thought about that?
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- Why does a child cry and throw a fit
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- when you're trying to wean a child?
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- Now, I'm gonna tell you why.
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- Actually, maybe you've never thought of it.
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- Because he thinks you're trying to kill him.
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- You're taking away the only food source he's ever known, right?
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- He doesn't know there's another food source,
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- so he thinks you're trying to kill him.
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- Okay, listen to me, though.
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- In the case of the soul, he's right.
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- You are trying to kill him.
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- Let me read it to you.
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- Here's point three, and then I'll read you the Scripture.
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- Point three, the soul must die.
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- And I'll show you in the Scriptures in a minute,
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- but here's what I mean by this.
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- Your selfish thoughts, your selfish desires,
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- and your selfish emotions, feelings, need to die.
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- They need to die. You need to die to self.
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- That's the only way you're gonna have victory.
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- You have to die to self.
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- What you think, and what you feel,
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- and what you want doesn't matter.
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- But, here's what I want to show you about how the Bible plays
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- the part in this.
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- I'm gonna read you a very famous Scripture that everybody knows,
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- but hardly anybody knows the next verse.
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- Hebrews 4:12, "For the Word of God is living and powerful."
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- Have you ever seen this verse?
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- "Sharper than any two-edged sword," watch this,
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- "piercing even to the division of soul and spirit,
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- and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner,"
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- and would you like to see the soul:
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- the mind, will, and emotions? Watch.
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- "Of the thoughts," that's the mind, "the intents,"
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- that's the will, "of the heart," that's the emotions.
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- The heart is the seat of the emotions we're told.
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- You know, I love you with all of my heart.
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- I feel this way in my heart.
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- How do you feel in your heart about this?
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- That's where your feelings are.
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- That's where your emotions originate.
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- Mind, will, and emotions are all through the Bible.
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- Now, Verse 13, most people have never even read it,
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- or if they've read it, they read right over it, but it's the key.
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- Verse 13, "And," so the thought is continuing,
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- "there is no creature hidden from His sight,
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- but all things are naked and open," remember the word "open";
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- "To the eyes of Him to whom we must give account."
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- Now, I know that that didn't --
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- I don't think that probably meant anything to you
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- as to how that fits in with Verse 12,
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- the Word of God is like a sword that divides
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- between the soul and spirit.
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- I'm gonna tell you how it fits in.
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- Okay, this word, "open," it's a great word.
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- In English, again, we have a very limited language
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- compared to Greek and Hebrew, and we don't have words
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- to translate the way they really should be translated many times.
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- So, the word "open" is a Greek word, "trachelizo."
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- Okay, are you ready for this?
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- I'm gonna show you the exact
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- "Strong's Exhaustive Concordance" definition
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- of the trachelizo,
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- the word, "trachelizo." Are you ready?
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- "Trachelizo" is to bend back the neck of a victim to be slain,
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- to expose the gullet of a victim for killing.
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- Can I tell you something?
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- God has big plans for your soul.
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- [Laughter]
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- That's what He would love to do with your unredeemed thoughts,
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- you unredeemed desires, and your unredeemed feelings.
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- He'd love to kill them and replace them
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- with what He thinks about you,
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- what He wants for your life, and how He feels about you.
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- He would love to do that.
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- [Applause]
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- He doesn't want to kill you,
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- He wants to kill what's killing you.
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- He doesn't want to kill you,
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- He wants to kill what's killing you.
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- Your soulish, selfish thoughts, your soulish, selfish desires,
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- and your soulish, selfish feelings,
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- He wants to kill them. And, think about this.
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- He would love for you to think about yourself
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- the way He thinks about you.
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- He would love for you to know
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- what He wants and desires for your life,
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- and He would love for you to know how He feels about you,
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- rather than what the devil tells you that He feels about you!
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- He would love for you to know that!
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- So, you came to church to hear some good news.
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- God's trying to kill you.
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- [Laughter]
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- He's trying to kill your old self.
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- Hey, it's all through Scripture.
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- Paul said, "I have been crucified with Christ."
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- I've been crucified.
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- I heard a pastor say one time, "Christ went to the cross
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- so you wouldn't have to."
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- Well, that's not bad.
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- It's not bad when you're talking about eternal salvation.
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- But there's a Scripture we need to reconcile with that.
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- Here's Jesus talking, Matthew 16:24.
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- "Jesus said to His disciples,
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- "If anyone desires to come after Me,
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- let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."
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- Guess what? You have a cross, too.
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- You have a cross, too.
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- And then, Jesus goes further with this truth in Luke.
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- Luke 9:23, "Then He said to them all,
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- "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself,
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- and take up his cross daily."
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- Why'd You have to say the word, "daily?"
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- Can't I just do it once?
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- Can't I just walk down the aisle once and accept Jesus?
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- Yes, and go to heaven,
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- but if you want to live an overcoming life,
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- you're gonna have to crucify the flesh every day!
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- You're gonna have to come to the cross every day!
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- So, it's the Word.
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- Stay in the Word.
- 00:22:50.761 --> 00:22:53.831
- Okay, but, so one morning I was reading the Word,
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- a normal practice for me, and I was a little short on time,
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- but I try to read at least one chapter a day.
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- I like to read through the Bible in a year,
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- so it's so many chapters in the New, so many in the Old,
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- and then sometimes you do Psalms and Proverbs more.
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- But, I have a thing that I'm going to read
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- at least one chapter a day.
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- So, but I was in a hurry, so I kind of read it quickly, okay?
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- So, I read the chapter, closed my laptop, started to leave,
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- and the Lord said to me, "Hey, what did you just read?"
- 00:23:28.866 --> 00:23:33.437
- "'Cause you don't have a clue what you just read, do you?"
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- I said, "No."
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- And the Lord said to me, "Son..."
- 00:23:39.109 --> 00:23:43.080
- now, listen to the whole statement, okay?
- 00:23:43.080 --> 00:23:46.217
- He said, "I'm not asking you to just read the Word every day,
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- I'm asking you to let the Word read you.
- 00:23:51.088 --> 00:23:56.360
- I actually want to speak to you."
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- Now, you know at the end of every message I say,
- 00:24:01.665 --> 00:24:05.302
- "What's the Holy Spirit saying to you
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- through this message," right?
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- Okay, when you read the Bible, I'm giving you another question.
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- You should say, "What's the Holy Spirit saying to me
- 00:24:14.278 --> 00:24:18.716
- through this passage?"
- 00:24:18.716 --> 00:24:23.354
- And if you want to walk in victory,
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- you're gonna have to stop believing lies
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- and you're gonna have to stay in the Word.
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- You're gonna have to.
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- ROBERT: Isn't amazing how much the Word of God
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- can change us, how much power there is in God's Word?
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- I know that's why you watch -
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- and that's why you watch me on television
- 00:24:41.438 --> 00:24:43.207
- and listen to me on the radio
- 00:24:43.207 --> 00:24:44.875
- Because you know God's Word is transforming your life.
- 00:24:44.875 --> 00:24:49.647
- And why want to encourage you not just to listen to God's Word
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- but to also read God's Word on a daily basis
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- because God's Word is the only thing
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- that has the power to change our lives.
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- Even the Holy Spirit, working through our lives,
- 00:25:03.193 --> 00:25:05.763
- works through God's Word in us: speaking God's Word over us,
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- in us, and through us.
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- I am so grateful that you join us.
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- I'm so grateful that you have a hunger for God's Word.
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- I'm going to continue this series next time,
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- I'll see you then.
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- ANNOUNCER: Thank you for joining us for today's program.
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- Victory is something we all desire,
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- and the good news is that as followers of Jesus Christ,
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- victory is already ours.
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- In this band new series, "3 Steps to Victory,"
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- Pastor Robert shares how we can achieve victory
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- in our lives by not believing lies,
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- staying in the Word, and going to church.
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- This series will challenge you, inspire you,
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- and give you the practical steps to become more than a conqueror.
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- We want to send you this series on CD
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- ANNOUNCER: You feel it.
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- Inside you beats a heart for ministry.
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- A sense that you're called to serve God in a greater way.
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