Pastor admits he was wrong!!!
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Gospel means good news! The bad news is we have all sinned and deserve the wrath to come. But Jesus the messiah died for our sins, was buried, and then raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and right now is seated at the Father's right hand. Jesus said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."
To learn more about the Gospel please read the Book of John.
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- Well I before I begin I need to correct an error that I made last week and a number of people mentioned this and We're gracious enough to point it out
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- So I need to I need to set the record straight about something and the only way to do This is just to be blunt about it
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- Dory was not a clownfish a Number of people pointed that out first and foremost some of my own children over lunch
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- So I called it Dory a clownfish and I blew that my apologies She's actually a blue tang or a royal blue tang or a
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- Pacific blue tech. Sorry blue tang fish Scientifically, I would refer to it as a paracanthropus hepatus
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- I'd prefer that that name and You are wondering Jim how much of your week did you spend trying to get the print the pronunciation of that, right?
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- So that's the scientific name and I would say it again But I stuck the landing on that first time through and I'm not gonna try it again
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- The fish is also known as a surgeon fish Because I have no idea
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- You wouldn't even think that it would be a good idea to have a fish with that kind of memory operating on anybody But it is called a surgeon fish.
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- So I apparently need to spend more time with Pixar movies in sermon prep That's the lesson we can all learn now
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- We are back in verse 23 and we've spent two full weeks now looking at What it means to hold fast the confession of our hope and how to do so without wavering
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- And so we did that and we are reviewing this section that has the three lettuce phrases the three lettuce exhortations
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- Let us draw near let us hold fast and let us consider how we are to prompt one another To stimulate one another to love and to good deeds and we are to do this in light of the fact that we have this
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- Confidence that we have direct access to God We have to do this in light of the fact that we are Have a great high priest over the household of God This is to motivate us
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- To draw near to him to hold fast to the confession of our hope and then to encourage others to do that same thing and Drawing nearers means to hold tight and we are to hold tight to the confession
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- That's remember that objective body of truth that is outside of us the gospel truth What we all agree together and confess that results in our salvation.
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- That is what we are to hold fast to That is the grounding of our hope which is not a wish. It's not a
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- Wishful thinking it's not wish casting. It's actually a confident expectation that we have Our hope is something future primarily.
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- We have a future. Hope we have a present Hope we have an anchor for our soul Which is our hope that we look forward to and we are we are anticipating in the future
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- That is that is our hope and so it's not simply what we just wish for all of that Hope that we have is grounded in the person and the work of Jesus Christ what he has done on our behalf
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- That is our confident Expectation we are anticipating it Is certain and because it is certain you and I are called to hold fast to that without wavering and that word means without wavering without Bending or without leaning or without being inclined towards the fashions of the fickle or the whims of the world
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- We are to stand strong and to hold fast and to not waver and to not bend and to not compromise