Sunday Service - 2025-09-28

Sunday Service - 2025-09-28

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The New Covenant
Hebrews 8

Pastor Chris Bonner

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Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.

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If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.

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Thank you for joining us today.

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Now, if you would, why don't you turn to Hebrews chapter 8.

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And we're going to be talking today about the New Covenant.

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Aren't you glad we're under the New Covenant?

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All right, we're not striving to be saved.

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We're not striving to be righteous, striving to be holy.

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It's what Christ has already done, right?

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By the blood of Christ, like Ron was saying,

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we've been washed clean of all of our sins.

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Are you glad your sins are washed away

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and that He will choose to remember them no more?

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Think about that.

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No more, no mas.

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No more.

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He will not remember our sins any longer.

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I mean, praise God for that, you know.

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And this is the New Covenant that we're talking about.

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And as we saw throughout Hebrews so far,

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there's kind of rippling themes that are spoken about

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and they come back and come back.

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And Jamie did a great job last week

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talking about our eternal advocate.

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And we'll see a touch of that in here.

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But we're going to be focusing today

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as we read through Hebrews 8.1, just one thing.

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And really, it's the New Covenant, okay?

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Because those other things we have talked about

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as far as Christ being our high priest

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and what that really means.

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And so, if you would turn to Hebrews 8,

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we're going to read right through the whole chapter

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in one shot and then discuss the New Covenant.

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So Father God, I thank you for our brothers and sisters here.

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Most of all, Lord God, we thank you

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that your Holy Spirit is here, Lord,

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because without your Holy Spirit,

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we would not have enlightenment.

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We would not be able to interpret what we're about to read.

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We would not be able to comprehend it

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the way you want us to.

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So Lord God, we ask your Holy Spirit

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to take the sword of the Spirit,

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the word of God, and Lord,

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impute understanding into us

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so that we can even derive something

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we've never even thought about before as we read this.

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And so Lord, we thank you in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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All right, ready?

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Hebrews 8, verse 1.

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Now, this is the main point of the things we are saying.

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We have such a high priest

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who is seated at the right hand of the throne

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of the majesty in the heavens.

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A minister of the sanctuary of the true tabernacle

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which the Lord erected, not man.

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For every high priest is appointed

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to offer both gifts and sacrifices.

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Therefore, it is necessary that this one

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also have something to offer.

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For if we, I'm sorry, if we were on earth,

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if he were on earth, he would not be a priest

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since there are priests who offer the gifts

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according to the law.

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In other words, the Levites.

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Who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things.

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As Moses was divinely instructed

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when he was about to make the tabernacle.

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For he said, see that you make all things

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according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

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But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry

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in as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant

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which was established on better promises.

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For if that first covenant had been faultless

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then no place would have been sought for a second.

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Because finding fault with them he says,

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behold the days are coming says the Lord

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when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel

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and with the house of Judah.

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Not according to the covenant that I made

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with their fathers in the day when I took them

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by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt

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because they did not continue in my covenant

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and I disregarded them says the Lord.

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For this is the covenant that I will make

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with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord.

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I will put my laws in their mind

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and write them on their hearts

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and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

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None of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brother

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saying no the Lord for all shall know me

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from the least of them to the greatest of them.

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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness

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and their sins and their lawless deeds

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I will remember no more.

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In that he says a new covenant

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he has made the first obsolete.

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Now what is becoming obsolete

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and growing old is ready to vanish away.

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Wow I know that's a lot there right?

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But I think it was good to like pack it all in

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because we're gonna start kind of with the last part

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and that is the first covenant is becoming obsolete.

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Obsolete now you probably know what the word obsolete means

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but the Greek word means similar to make

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ancient or old worn out

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about to be repealed or done away with obsolete.

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You know as I was thinking about

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you know the word the law was a good thing you know

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I mean the law is good right?

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It's from God and it's good

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and yet it's obsolete

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and I was trying to think of what is obsolete okay?

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That is good and yet I mean it was very good

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it was like the best and now it became obsolete

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and for some reason the Lord gave me a vision

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of an aircraft carrier.

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Now you're gonna say what are you talking about

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an aircraft carrier?

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Well my brother was in the Navy for six years

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and most of his stint in the Navy as a nuke

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he was on this nuclear ship the USS Enterprise.

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He's a nuke right?

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And so he would be working on this ship

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and this ship is massive.

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I mean he showed me I never got to go on

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I kind of remembered going on

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but I asked him and he says no you never got on there.

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Okay so it's all in my mind

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I wanted to make sure before I share it

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but I was on the decks looking at on the you know

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the pier like staring at this humongous

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and you know this thing is 1123 feet long.

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If you stood it up on its stern

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it would be only like 120 feet

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shorter than the Empire State Building.

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Think about that.

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Imagine the Empire State Building floating on the ocean

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I mean that's how huge this thing is.

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It was the first nuclear vessel in the world

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the USS Enterprise.

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I remember when my brother shared when Tom Cruise

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filmed the first Top Gun remember that movie?

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That was on this ship okay on the USS Enterprise.

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None of the crew which there's about 4600 in the crew

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were allowed up on the decks of course

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while Tom Cruise was filming his Top Gun film

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but like it has a lot of history

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and the fact that it was the largest ship ever constructed

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I mean this ship is impressive

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and yet now it's been mothballed.

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It's been decommissioned.

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It's no longer in use.

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In fact they've taken all the things out of it

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so that they couldn't even put it in the ocean

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and run it again if they wanted to.

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As I'm thinking about wow something so big

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so impressive is suddenly now obsolete you know

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and yet we can look at the law and the old covenant

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which we're going to get into in a second

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what that's all about

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but we can look at that and see that was so instructive.

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That was so amazing because you know the law is the tutor.

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Did you ever read that in Galatians?

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How the law is the tutor that guided everyone

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in Galatians 3, 24, 25 that guided everyone to Jesus Christ.

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There's benefits in religion as long as it's leading you to the Savior.

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The problem sometimes is that religion becomes the Savior.

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Do you know what I'm saying?

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If you've ever been in religion they guide

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but instead now they want you to like fulfill

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all these requirements that they have placed

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and it doesn't lead you to God right and that's what religion is

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and that's it's not a relationship with a God

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it's hurdles and an obstacle course is what it is right

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and so the law is good and yet now it's obsolete.

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We just read you know as I was thinking about things

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that are obsolete there's some things

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that just should be obsolete right in this world.

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I was thinking about different things

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like way back wearing the beeper being in business

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have you guys ever some kids are like a beeper

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what are you talking about?

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We used to actually have to wear a beeper for business

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you'd get a beep and you have to go find a payphone

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to actually call back and you guys are like you're kidding me

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but yeah that's no and then we had the bag phone.

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Anybody remember a bag phone okay?

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I mean those things I remember getting a bill one time

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for $700 for one month for that stupid bag phone

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because it was new everything was expensive you know

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but now we have our mobile phones our smartphones

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that do absolutely everything so things became obsolete

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and it's a good thing I remember again a lot

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because I think in terms of business

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I remember the the thermal fax paper

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do you remember that that you'd like roll it in there

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and it would be going through

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you remember that anybody know what I'm talking about

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but again now everything's PDFs everything's emailed

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all electronic how about filing again in my company

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we had a wall of file cabinets okay

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because we had to keep loans for about I forget

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like seven years or something and then we had other file cabinets

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for older files somewhere else piles of file cabinets right

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for all this paper and now it's in the cloud

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it's like it's nowhere there's no file cabinets anymore

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so there's some things that are good the fact

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that they're obsolete in the favor of something better

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how about paying bills you know I remember

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I always had a lot of bills and just two times a month

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just putting all the statements there getting out all the you know stamps

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and one by one writing checks oh no I'm out of checks you know

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and just writing and sending them it was a real drag

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but now auto pay now everything's Venmo cash app Zelle

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I kind of like it I don't know about you but I kind of like it

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and I know some of you're saying yeah but I'm afraid

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they're gonna steal my money I guess it's a possibility

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but but the convenience is good some things are better

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being obsolete in the favor of good things right better things

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like we just said a better covenant with better promises right

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and that's what we are in a new covenant the problem is in this world

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okay this world sometimes treats people as becoming obsolete

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spouses I'm just kind of tired of this old relationship

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I need to trade up I need to trade younger I need to trade different you know

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or else an employer saying you know this employer mind they're they're obsolete

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I gotta get a better one a newer one right I mean you know what I'm like

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this is the the world that we live in when people are tired of you

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they I'm done with you I'm through with you you know

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and because of that a lot of us feel like we're on edge

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our value is is determined by what people think about us

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or how they label us or how they value us right

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but with Christ he values us not because of

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our value to him because he just loves us we don't have to do anything for him

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to value us that's the new covenant he died for the sins of the world

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that means for everyone now you have to receive that gift that's the thing

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and that's that's the that's the obstacle because it's a narrow

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gate that goes through and he is the way the truth the life like we're just

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singing right the way the truth the life he's the

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only way through wide is the gate that leads to

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destruction and many go through it but only few find

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that narrow way Jesus Christ but he did it for the world

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so he's saying all can come in but only few choose to

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and I still scratch my head and say why why would you ever refuse to enter

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through and it's a it's a lack of faith but see

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the Lord doesn't see us that way he does not see anyone as obsolete

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or past their prime or not worth saving he already paid for them

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they just don't know it yet remember the criminal on the cross

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what did he have to offer except rebuke his friend on the other side of

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Jesus and say what are you saying we deserve this he doesn't

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that's all he can only muster up a couple of words to his other criminal

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friend but the Lord said today you will be

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with me in paradise see he doesn't see us the way we may

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even value ourselves right we're never going to be

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obsolete to him because we're in the new

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covenant he's seeing with us that he has an eternity with us

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forever you know the soul lives forever you know this tent will become obsolete

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you know in fact every year i know it more and more okay

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this tent is becoming obsolete you know i'm like what is happening

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you know suddenly pain is places it never was before and

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you know what it's like not you young people don't but you will

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someday but your soul is eternal it's never obsolete and the Lord wants that

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soul with him forever amen you know so we're in a new covenant and

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i was thinking you know the covenants okay what does the word covenant mean

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okay and then we have a slide up here and you know it's funny i put the greek

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word and i always know how it's pronounced but by the time i look at it

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up there i'm like why even bother but that's the greek word okay diaficae

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um but it's a promise okay as you would think it is it's a promise

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it's an arrangement or it's an agreement between two people or more it's a

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covenant it's like the marriage covenant you know it's an agreement

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and in these covenants okay there's two kinds there's one that's

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conditional or bilateral that means like two people

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have to participate to make that covenant come to fruition so each has

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to give something for it to go through okay it's a

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bilateral conditional commitment or covenant and the other is an

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unconditional or unilateral one that means only one person

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is going to fulfill it doesn't matter what the other person does

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you know and in a sense when Christ died for the sins of the world he died

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for everyone but they still have to receive it

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so maybe it's a blend of the two because he already did it

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but if they don't receive it then they can't have it so we have the

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the covenants in the bible just uh the primary ones if you could put that

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next slide up to go through them we have covenant of

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works or the edenic or adamic uh covenant and that's of course with

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adam and eve in the garden and he's going to bless them you can eat from

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any tree you know only tend the garden it's

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you know it's easy peasy okay i already did it all you just have to

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tend the garden but if you eat the tree of knowledge of good and evil

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you will die and of course he met spiritually and eventually

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physically right so what would you say is that

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bilateral or unilateral covenant little test

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see if you guys are paying it's what do you think

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it's it's it's it's conditional isn't it

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you know as long as you don't eat that tree

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you're good but once you do you're not and that's that's the

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that's the example the next is a noah noahic

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covenant went after the flood on the earth

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and he made a promise to noah and he said no longer will i curse the ground

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as a result of what adam and eve did but also i will never flood the earth

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again it didn't matter what noah did it's

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what God was going to do so that's a unilateral right it's a

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unconditional he's just going to do it the next abrahamic covenant

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he made a promise to abraham three things he will make he will

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give him many descendants imagine how abraham abraham at the time is

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wondering like i don't even have any kids yet how can you see how many

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descendants right but he will have many descendants in

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other words a holy nation right you will have land and then the

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final thing you will have is you will be a blessing to all nations and of

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course that happened because Christ came through

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through that and the next thing we have is the mosaic

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covenant or the sinai covenant and this is

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really what we are talking about in this scripture here

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because this is the old covenant the old law and it's here that that God

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says you know if you do this then i will do that

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okay you know you'll be blessed if you obey you'll be cursed if you don't

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okay that's another bilateral or conditional and then the final one is

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the davidic covenant and that is he told david i will bring

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a ruler through your seed that will rule on

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earth forever and of course that's unilateral it's

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unconditional because that's Jesus Christ right he is the king of kings and

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Lord of Lords so that's just kind of a for memory

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lain's sake that's what a covenant is and those are the covenants primary

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covenants in the bible but as we could see in

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exodus 19 five and six is God spoke to

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to moses and he said now therefore if you will

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if if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant

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then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people

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for all the earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and holy

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nation these are the words which you shall

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speak to the children of israel so it's the if

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and the then that is the old covenant as long as you do what i say

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then you can be my people well Christ changed all that because when

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he died on the cross he said i will if you put your faith and trust in me

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i will fulfill all these things through you it's not what you're going to do

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it's what Christ has already done isn't that awesome

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to think he's already done it for us amen amen you know this is the new

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covenant in fact we when you think about it

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the new covenant okay is about receiving by believing

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right you believe you receive that's it okay

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but the old covenant covenant is earning by serving you only earn

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righteousness if you serve okay well Christ did away with all of

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that because now we're in a new covenant and

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what is the new covenant well you know we just read it

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the new covenant okay and again we're in a better

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covenant with better promises we're in the covenant of grace

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but we just read what the new covenant is in hebrews 8 verse 10

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if you can put that slide up thanks nicole

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for this is the covenant says the Lord i will put

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my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts and i will be their God

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and they shall be my people he puts it into us like

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without the Holy Spirit we don't want what God wants

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we just don't we might say we do we might try to

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we might be good for a little bit of time and then all of a sudden the old

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lust the old carnal nature the old sin nature

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just kicks in and then we're right back to the same old stuff

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right because we have no ability in ourselves

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to save ourselves it's only what Christ puts

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in us i love the verse mike hayes by the way if

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you guys who didn't come out to the men's breakfast you missed a good one

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but one verse that mike hayes brought up is he said

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that uh if you delight yourself in the Lord he will give you the desires

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of your heart you know when you come to Christ you receive the Holy Spirit

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he downloads his desires into you you suddenly have new desires

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and you also start to have hatred towards the old sin that you used to

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engage in right i mean i'm sure you've experienced it

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the things like man that is so sick like i'm just so shameful about like

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those things because it's just not who i am anymore

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i'm a new creation right i'm born again i don't have the

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old nature anymore again we can start to fall back into it

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but we know this is not who i am this is this is the old me it's not the

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new me you know it's so important for us to realize that

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he does it all when we come to him he's the one who comes alive in us i love

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second peter chapter one this is probably one of my favorite

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set of verses when i first got saved right and i was reading you're a new

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creation i'm like yeah but am i really you know because

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when i first prayed the prayer of salvation you know roman's 10 9 10 i'm

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like you know i i gave my life to the Lord

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and i told jill we left that conference and i got in the car and i said this

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is bogus i i did i said i'm the same as i

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walked into that place like nothing new happened

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and it was a long road the next year of just wrestling with God i was like

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jacob on the other side of the little brook like wrestling trying to like

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prove myself worthy to be saved to God like

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it can't be that easy i'm not any different

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and it's finally when i just surrendered to God i was balling my

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eyes out the Holy Spirit just came in like a wrecking ball

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and just blew away all my pride all my confidence he just like he just

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really stripped it all away and says you are saved now will you just

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trust me will you believe and receive and stop

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stop trying to serve and earn right and i finally just surrendered and man i

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was mush i was just mush you know for days i

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could just cry on the drop of the hat you know i

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joe and i were just talking about that hell when you're

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when the spirit's marinating your heart you know he's just massaging you he's

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like he's just like he's breaking down all

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the callousness the hardness of your heart

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and you're just getting marinated in that Holy Spirit can you relate to

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this at all when the Holy Spirit's just like will

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you just stop fighting will you just surrender and your heart

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is becoming more and more pliable more and more relaxed more and

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more like look you got it all in control Lord

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like you saved me i don't know why but you did

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this is what you got and it's amazing it's just like

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it's you can you can cry so easily you could just

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you could just just love so much more because what he's already done in you

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amen so when i read this scripture i'm just

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like yes yes like this is the truth right here

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his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life

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and Godliness through the knowledge of him who called

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us to his his own glory and excellence by which he has granted to us

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his precious and very great promises so that through them you may become

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partakers now that's the key words right there

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partakers of the divine nature do you realize you have a new DNA

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divine nature always when you come to Christ you have a new DNA i'll bet you

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if they had the right uh instruments they could test a believer

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against an unbeliever and they would see our brains are different

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our blood is different ourselves are different i believe it

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because we are new creations we have a divine nature i mean that's amazing

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isn't it having escaped from the old corruption

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that is in the world because of sinful desires see he does it all

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he imputes it into us that's the new covenant he paid the price his blood has

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washed us clean and now it's just a matter of him imputing

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his righteousness into us and we just receive it

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that's a wonderful new covenant isn't it it's a better covenant it's the best

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covenant with the best promises amen amen you know covenant

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also means like a testament you ever hear a will and testament you know so when

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you die you leave your stuff okay for people and

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we know that the bible talks quite often about us having an inheritance

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well Christ had to die to leave his inheritance to us

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isn't that interesting like you know you can't receive an inheritance from

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someone if they don't die first okay and so he died on the cross

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and now we're related to him so we inherit things

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in heaven and he did this when he died on the cross

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he gave us an inheritance that we can now obtain amen and this is a new will

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and testament so what does that matter i just want to read this one

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um first peter one four if you have that verse it says to an

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inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away

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reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God

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through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time so there's

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an inheritance laid up for each one of us now if

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you're like me i don't really dwell too much on that

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because i can't get my brain around it like oh there's something up there it's

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gonna be great okay and i don't mean to make light of

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it it just doesn't resonate in my earthly vessel i just can't

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comprehend that right but i was reminded you know my mom

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my father died in a car accident when i was 20

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and it was it was really it was so like miraculous because you know they

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never made much money you know they're kind of i guess you'd say

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middle lower to middle class and they never had much you know

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and so but my father happened to take uh this extra little clause in his

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insurance policy life insurance policy against

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accidental death and dismemberment maybe i'm telling you too many things

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anyway don't tell anybody i don't know why not but

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but anyway it was an accident and and because of this there was more money

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given to my mom so she said she wasn't rich she just had more money

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so she had some extra money that she could actually take care of herself as

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a widow and she lived never married again for

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decades and decades after that and and in the beginning you know she was

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frifty because she had that you know that money had to last her the rest of

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her life but as she was getting on in age she

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was more and more generous because she realized you know i can't take this

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with me and it's going to get taxed and

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everything i might as well start dispersing it

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now and be generous you know and i was thinking how does that relate to

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God and this inheritance you know and you know you ever hear of a

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living trust well you know Christ is living now

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right you see it the right hand of the father

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and he's alive but we live on a living trust

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i i know a guy who is i guess you'd call it a trust fund baby you ever hear

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them and i i can't relate at all okay

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but he never worked i mean he might have had a job for fun as a kid

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but you know what the fun he's a born again believer an amazing guy he's he

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he donates his time in missions and the church he's always doing things for God

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the most jolly guy you'll ever meet right but he never had to work i'm

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thinking i don't know if i'd even like that

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but you know i i'm just so used to struggling i

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don't know about you but i like the game the work ethic you know but he never had

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to and i'm just thinking like wow imagine what that would be like

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just having that trust fund well you know with Christ we're all living on a

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trust fund because not only do we have an

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inheritance laid up for us in heaven someday

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but he wants to download those gifts now while we need them he's not

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he's not saying you'll get all this stuff when you get to heaven no he's

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saying tap into it now tap into it now start using these

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gifts of the Holy Spirit now start spreading my word

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now enjoy your inheritance here while you're on earth

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because we need it now right this world needs to see a demonstration of the

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power of Jesus Christ and if we're living

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thrifty in terms of our inheritance the Lord's that the world is not going to

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see the richness of his glory right you know he's a he's a rich God

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he owns the cattle on a thousand hills i mean he is

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wealthy and he wants to dote on you he wants you to tap in to that covenant

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now and use it while you need it amen as the worship team comes forward

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the Lord gave me these couple of verses

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from paul and um you know paul's life is just so

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uh an intense life you know i mean he he once he became a believer you know he

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really suffered so much and yet he wouldn't

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have traded it for anything you know he wouldn't have traded for

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because you realize you know i am being poured out as a living

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sacrifice on behalf of Christ it was so rewarding to him

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and he but he really suffered a great deal

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and his last writing that he ever wrote was to timothy in the second letter of

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timothy and he said these words he said you

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know this is a trustworthy statement if we die

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with Christ we will live with him so think about that you know

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when we give our lives to Jesus Christ we actually die with him

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and i know that doesn't make any logical sense but it's a reality

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and i don't know if you've ever that's why he also says you know those who want to

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find their lives will actually lose their lives

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but if you want to if you lose your life you'll actually find it

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in me and maybe today you're here and you've never actually

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died with Christ you would also sit next

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paul said to timothy and if we endure we will also reign with him

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we will reign with him it means like we will we will carry his glory wherever we

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go and demonstrate his kingdom in this

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world right now he says something a little

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troubling but if you deny me i will deny you to my father and that's

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but that's for those who never died with him

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but then he says one other thing he says but if we are

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faithless he is faithful he will never deny himself

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that's almost like a paradox it's like a riddle

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when you when you read that and yet what he's saying is really

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that there's times that maybe we can not

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have much of our own faith and maybe what we feel like we're doubting a ton

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and we're not really sure we haven't really given our lives to Jesus

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or if we did we're not seeing the benefits of it or the result of it

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you know like much like me the first year

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but the Lord says commit to me just guy with me give your life to me

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and you will actually find your life in me

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and whenever you're struggling in doubt whenever you feel

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faithless trust in my faith your faith is an

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interesting thing everyone has been given a measure of

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faith that means everyone has the capacity to believe i believe that

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i don't believe we're created some for salvation and others for damnation

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i don't believe that right i believe everyone has a measure of faith and has

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the potential to believe in Jesus Christ we can we can

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observe and everyone can interpret things that they haven't actually seen

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that's faith right but then faith is even more than

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that because when you exercise that faith

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in Jesus Christ suddenly he pours a spiritual faith into you

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that is far more than yours it's from faith to faith

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you suddenly have a measure of faith that you never had before

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and i praise the Lord i'm in that measure of faith for the last 30 years

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i don't rest in my own faith i rest in Christ's faith

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because he's faithful and and his faith is what carries me through life

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i don't wonder whether there's Jesus Christ i feel him

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alive in me i trust in his faith his faith is what keeps me

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his faith does and maybe you're here today you're saying well

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i need that faith i need Christ faith i need to tap into that Holy Spirit faith

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talked about in second uh second corinthians one

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corinthians chapter 12 i want that faith for me because i don't

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have enough of my own well the Lord says just come to me

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come to me die with me so that you could truly live

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with me and i will give you my faith my Holy Spirit faith to believe even

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more i'm telling you when you're on that train

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of like that Holy Spirit faith you don't worry anymore

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about whether i still believe i used to get up every morning that first year and

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get up in the morning i still believe this

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and then the second year i'm thinking why am i even asking anymore

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of course i do and then you see the evidence of your faith faith is the thing

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hoped for and the evidence of things not seen that means

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when you trust God you will see the evidence

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of your faith i can look back now 32 years

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and see this wake of evidence of my faith that no one can disprove what

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through me because it's evident i can just see it i'm like wow

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who could ever refute this that's going to be you

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that's going to be you when you just say Lord i need your faith today

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Lord i just want to die right now and i want to receive

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from you and i want to just offer this today if you've never done this

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you've never given your life because if we die with Christ

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we will also live in him if you want to live

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in Christ today's the day just just surrender

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now you don't have to raise your hand if you don't want to

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but i just want to pray with you now why don't we all close our eyes

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and bow our heads

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Holy Spirit we ask you to come right now

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we ask your Holy Spirit to come Lord and just anoint

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every one of us but especially the person right now

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who is consider giving them their lives to you right now Lord

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i ask your Holy Spirit to come upon them and just

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weigh heavily on them right now

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and just fill them Lord with confidence to surrender their life to you

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Holy Spirit we just ask you to come in like a rushing wind

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if you want to pray this prayer with me

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it's just something like this father God i am a sinner

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and i need your son Jesus Christ to save me

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today i want to receive that gift that Christ paid on the cross for me

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i want to receive that holy precious blood

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to wash away my sins today i want to receive forgiveness of all of my sins

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past present and future today i want to die with you so i can rise

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again today i give you my life to receive yours

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father God fill me with your Holy Spirit

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in Jesus name amen amen i believe someone did that today

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i don't know who you are you don't have to raise your hand unless you want to

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we'll be celebrating with you but if you'd like to talk more about it come on up

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afterwards but why don't we all stand up

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we're in some peculiar times right now aren't we

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there seems to be a revival happening but you know the enemy can get in there

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too he can do anything you know if if we allow him

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and there's people that are moving towards Christ and yet the enemy

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wants to stop them or interrupt them or have them follow

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something else or someone else and so we need to really

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pray for wisdom during these times so let's pray father God give us the

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sermon and wisdom during these times Lord God we want to

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be your ambassadors your messengers your delegates

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for a kingdom that is on earth as it is in heaven

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so Lord give us power and authority in this world

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that even the demonic is just afraid to even come near us

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because of the power and the authority that you have put upon

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us because greater are we in this world than the antiChrist that is in this

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world Lord thank you that you've clothed us

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with righteousness you've clothed us with Jesus Christ

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with glory from above and we love you in Jesus name

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amen let's give the Lord a round of applause praise God

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thanks for joining us at Lansdale life church as we praise God

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