Why God Saved Us (02/18/2001)

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Dr. Myron Golden

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Well, praise the Lord it's good to be here this morning, of course when
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I get done, I'll say it's good to be here this afternoon Praise the
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Lord. I'll tell you what I'm 23 years old. Well, I guess I can't say that here.
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Can I I'm 39 years old I'll be 40 this year and the best news I've ever heard is
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Jesus loves me This I know for the Bible tells me so I can't think anything better than that Amen, I Really love coming back here and and there's parts of it
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I like and parts of it. I don't like the parts of it. I don't like or all these kids I can remember when they weren't
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Now they're bigger than me And then I look at some of the guys, you know
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They look like they came in got off the motorcycle and blew their hair up That is so cool, man.
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That is cool. I mean See when I was a kid, we combed our hair to make it look comb now that they're They told me to make it look like they didn't come with a man that's alright, that's okay.
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I used to do cool stuff, too. I Did I I know you guys can't believe this but I really did used to be pretty cool, okay
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And praise the Lord first John chapter chapter number one
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And what I'm gonna do this morning is I'm gonna give you Two different parts of the same message give you the first part this morning the second part this afternoon
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And what I want to tell you is this that The best part is gonna be this afternoon
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So if you got a miss between this afternoon and this morning miss this morning, but don't miss this afternoon. Okay, and So we're gonna save the best for last but I'll tell you what
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I'm having a time of personal revival right now I mean, I've been saved for it'll be 23 years in April And sometimes, you know, if we were honest, we'd have to say that, you know being saved
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We can let it we can let it grow old sometimes, you know, it's just kind of like well, you know I'm just kind of doing those Christian things, you know
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Sometimes folks say we ought to act like a Christian. That's what a lot of us do go around acting like Christians, huh? And you know, we act like a
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Christian No We say what a Christian supposed to say and go where Christians both say we know how to say Amen at the right time and we know how to say, you know, praise the
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Lord at the right time But I want to talk to you about This morning. I don't even know what
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I'm gonna call it this morning The title of the whole both messages together is is how to emerge victorious over your enemies
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But I guess if since we're gonna break it down into parts that would be the title of this afternoon and this morning
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Well, I'll just call it why God saved us Okay first John chapter 1 and we'll read verses 1 through 4 and I've got a little
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Tickly thing in my throat. So y 'all bear with me. It ain't funny, but it's tickling me and First John chapter 1 verses 1 through 4 the
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Bible says that which was from the beginning Which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes.
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I love the Bible. You know, the Bible is an emphatic book He said we've seen it with our eyes. We didn't see it with somebody else's.
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I we've seen with our eyes I like that which we've seen with our eyes, which we've looked upon Which our hands have handled of the
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Word of Life for the life was Manifested and we have seen it and bear witness and show unto you that eternal life
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Which was with the Father and was manifested unto us that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have
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Fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father. I Let me ask you this this morning.
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Can you say? truly My fellowship is with the
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Father Can you say that truly my fellowship is with the Father and with his
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Son? Jesus Christ and verse 4 says and these things right we unto you that your joy may be full father bless your word as We hear it help us to implement it into our lives that we might live this word in Jesus name.
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Amen I've been saved for a long time. To me. It's a long time
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The better half of my life I've been a Christian I've loved the Bible for a long time
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The Bible is just an awesome book when I first got to say I think the thing that affected me the most and the thing
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That impacted me the most was how this book right here has everything to do with my everyday life
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That impact me I mean when I was lost I wasn't My life around It was like it was just for me
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I Didn't know
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It's really exciting or a mystery Discover But just a few weeks ago
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God showed me that the Bible though is all those things mainly it's a mystery love story
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And God revealed something to me that I've never seen before in these verses and when he did
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Man, I just I just I don't know. I just went into personal revival. I'm just having a good old time in the
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Lord Amen, I mean, I'm I'm having I mean, I'm more excited about my salvation.
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I ever was before I'm I feel like I just got saved a few days ago And here's what he said he said that which was from the beginning
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Which we have heard what we need to do if we're going to Emerge victorious over our enemies and we're going to Comprehend the reason
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God saved us. We need to go back to the beginning We need to realize the purpose of our existence what happened in the beginning
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God created everything We need to come to the realization of our art the purpose of our existence
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We need to discover why God made us as we look around the world and people seem so aimless
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And they seem so purposeless The reason is they've never looked in the
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Word of God and found their purpose the Bible tells in Revelation chapter 4 verse 11
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Thou art worthy. Oh Lord to receive glory and honor and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure
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They are and were created God made Everything for his pleasure
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God made me for his pleasure God made you for his pleasure God put the moon and the Sun in the heavens to please him
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God decked the heavens with the stars to please him God smoothed out a chaotic earth and scooped out a place, put the water in it, tied it down with a rope of sand and caught it oceans
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All to please him God put a garment of green over the valleys and the mountains and the hills and buttoned up with lilies and garlands
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All that God did my friend for one reason and one reason only he did it to please himself
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And I want you to know this morning Young and old alike, man and woman alike, boy and boy and girl alike
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If you're not seeking to please God with your very breath with every breath you take you are wasting your life
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That's why God made you a pleaser We live in a society that says please self
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Huh looking out for number one That's right, we ought to look out for number one
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The purpose of our existence is to please him the
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Bible tells us in Proverbs chapter 16 verse 4 the Lord hath made all things for himself Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil
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The Bible tells Romans 11 36 for of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever
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Amen, if you are not pleasing God if you're out to please yourself
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You're out to do your own thing. You are Wasting your life
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Now I know we all have these ambitions and desires and all these other things we want to do
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Because we think because our world revolves around us that the world revolves around us
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But it doesn't We need to understand the purpose of our existence, but we also need to discover the purpose of our election.
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Why did God save us? The Bible tells us in first John chapter 3 verse 3 The Bible says that which was from which we have seen and heard we declare unto you that you might have fellowship with us
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And then he said and truly and the reason he said it truly He was saying that fellowshipping with us is not a big deal
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He said the reason we want you to fellowship with us is because we fellowship with him And if you fellowship with us, you're gonna be fellowship on him and with his son
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Jesus Christ The reason God saved this is for fellowship And I don't know big deal
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Little The word
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Oh Here We think of it as being passionately consumed
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Oh Oh Oh Do you know just a lot of the pictures of salvation in the
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Bible or a picture of oneness Jesus said except you eat my flesh and drink my blood
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We don't go around people's blood What was she saying when you eat something when you drink something in the company
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The purpose of our salvation Is to be one with God God saved us for one reason
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God saved us for him In that awesome
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And that the most exciting thing you ever God saved me for him Now I God don't need me but I leave him and yet he saved me for him
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Do you know what Christ practiced that oneness
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Jesus said I and my father one Jesus said the Father works hitherto
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I work Jesus practiced that oneness Christ prayed for that oneness for us
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Did you know that Christ Jesus as our example practice that ones but as our intercessor he prayed for that one
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Jesus said in John 17 9 through 11. I pray for them I pray not for the world but for them which now has given me for they are thine and all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified
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In them and now I am no more in the world But these are in the world and I am come to thee
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Holy Father. Keep them through thine own name Those keep through thine own name those who now has chosen given me that they may be one as we are one
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How are they one? Well, thank you Christ was one In practice with God Christ was one in purpose with God Jesus prayed for our oneness and purpose with God remember when the disciples came back to Jesus and Jesus See that one
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God wants us to walk in oneness with him in purpose Then you're not going to think of nothing more exciting than walking our very few things
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But if I am walking in oneness with God in purpose Because when I walk with God in oneness of purpose
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Guess what happens? 100 % of my prayers end Huh?
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Whenever I'm walking in oneness with God in purpose 100 % of my prayers end See if my prayer is over here and here
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God's prayer is over here And I'm praying over here for God to do all this stuff over here God said talk to your man
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I ain't hearing you Huh? But when
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When I begin to pray God begins to draw me closer to himself And closer to his purpose
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And before long men overlap And right there In that little spot right there where they overlap Everything I pray here is going to be answered
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Men are going to get perfectly overlapped And all I want is what he wants for me Huh?
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Delight thyself also in the Lord And he will give you the desires of thy heart A lot of people interpret that to mean
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You delight yourself in the Lord and he'll give you what your heart desires But I believe it means That you delight yourself in the
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Lord and he'll give you what you desire And when he gives you what you desire He'll give you what you desire
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That's why the Bible says If we ask anything according to his will We know we have the petition
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We desire it And our will is one See The mistake we as Christians make
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We think mistakenly That prayer is to get man's will done in heaven
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But the purpose of prayer Is to get God's will done on earth People say well prayer changes
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God No prayer ain't supposed to change God God don't change prayer it's supposed to change me He wanted us to practice
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That oneness with God in purpose He prayed not only that we practice Oneness with God in purpose but also
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That we practice oneness with God In presence as he was one with the Father in presence
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Jesus said the father hath not left me alone Boy now shouldn't that be our prayer Now God doesn't leave us alone
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He's always with us But we're not always aware of the fact
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That he's always with us You know what's amazing You know what amazes me As a father the thing that amazes me
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Probably the most with my children Is The way they will sometimes respond to their mother
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When they think time is on And I believe it And I'll be sitting there in my office
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They'll think I left And my wife will say something to them And they'll give me some of that lip And I'll think to myself
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That boy has lost his mind And he is about to lose his life
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But often times What happens is Just like my boys were not aware
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That I was there We are not aware of God's presence And so what do we do We do those things that don't please the
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Father Why because we're not practicing the presence of the Father We're not practicing oneness with God in presence
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We need to be one at one with the Father Hey you know what prayer is You know what prayer without ceasing is
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It's practicing the presence of God It's being aware that he is with me all the time It's listening for him and then listening to him
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He prayed that we might be one with God in practice
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He was one with the Father in practice Jesus said I do always those things Which please the Father Can you say
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I do always those things Which please the Father No but you can say this I do always those things that please the
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Father When I'm aware of the fact that the Father is with me That's why the Bible says in 1 John 3 verse 6
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Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not But whosoever sinneth hath not seen him Neither hath known him
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In other words when you are sinning You are not aware of the Father's presence Well Christ not only
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Practiced that oneness And prayed for that oneness But Christ also paid for that oneness What does the Bible tell us in 2
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Corinthians 2 Verse 14 and 15 For the love of Christ constraineth us What's that word constrain mean
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It means to hold together Does it hold us together to ourselves No it holds us together to him
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It glues us to him The love of Christ constraineth us Because we thus judge That if one died for all then we're all dead
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And that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves But unto him which died for them and rose again Jesus Christ died in our place
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So that we might live in his Place here Now That's the first two points
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And I'm gonna give you this last point Then we're gonna finish it up this afternoon I want y 'all to think about this Before we even do that Let's read the verse
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Let's go to 1 John 2 1
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John 2 Look at verse 15 -18 1
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John 2 Verse 15 -18 The Bible says love not the world Neither the things that are in the world
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If any man love the world The love of the father is not in him In other words he is not consumed
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He's not passionately consumed You can't be passionately consumed with God And passionately consumed with the world at the same time That's why the
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Bible says in James chapter 4 He adulterers and adulterers Know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God You can't be passionately consumed with two at the same time
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Love not the world Neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world The love of the father is not in him For all that is in the world
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Lust of the flesh lust of the eyes And the pride of life is not of the father But it is of the world And the world passed away
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And the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever Little children it is the last time As you have heard
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That antichrist shall come even now Are there many antichrists Thereby we know
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That it is the last time We need to discover We need to discover the purpose of our enemies
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Did you notice that in verse 18 He said there are many antichrists Did y 'all notice that He said many antichrists
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Now the word antichrist Means adversary Of the messiah
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Now I want to ask y 'all a question This morning y 'all are an intelligent and intelligent Congregation I can see that If The primary purpose for God's Saving your soul
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Is to bring you to an end that would not stand
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A reason of the primary purpose Of the enemy the antichrist The adversary of the messiah
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If you keep that in mind Everybody just wants to say
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This is for sin's sake But he is an Odd with us becoming one with God Because he is an odd with God's purpose
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And God knows What we are actually doing Now it says even now are there many antichrists
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What are the antichrists that he's talking about Well I believe they're mentioned in verse 16 Is what it says
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For all that is in the world The lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes And the pride of life is not of the father
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But is of the world It named three antichrists right there
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Three adversaries of the messiah Three things that will hinder our oneness Our passionate consumption
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Our passion Our intimacy with God there are three things that are named there The lust of the flesh that is my
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Desire to do something The lust of the eyes
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That speaks to the world That's my desire to Have something The pride of life
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That speaks to the devil That's my desire to be somebody Because when
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I'm passionately Consumed with God The only thing that I want to do Is whatever he wants me to do
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The only thing That I want to have is him Hey Abraham came to God came to Abraham And said
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Abraham I'm going to enter a covenant with you I'm going to make your seed as the sand by the Seashore I'm going to make your seed
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As the stars of heaven And Abraham said Lord what will you give me Seeing I go childless
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And God said Abraham I am thy exceeding Great reward
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And we come to the Lord and we say Lord what are you going To give me and the Lord says to us I am thy exceeding
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Great reward I don't want my wife To love me for my money Thank the Lord I want her to love me for me
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I don't want her to love me for what I can do For her I want her to love me for me She wants me to love her
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For her I like having relationships with people With no strings attached just because We are
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God wants us to love him not for What he can do for us though he can do anything for us He wants to he wants us to love him
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For him he comes to us and he says I am Thy exceeding great reward
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No wonder Paul said that I may know Him and the power of his resurrection And the fellowship
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We come back Now hey you know what it's good to know Who the enemy is One reason so many
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Christians live Defeated lives and believe me A very large majority of Christians Live in defeated life
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They walk around getting defeat after Defeat after defeat after defeat after Defeat and they can't figure out why they can't get on top
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You give an invitation they come down here and say Lord oh help me with this problem and that problem And then they get up and they go back and do the same thing
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All over again why because they don't know who The enemies are They don't know how their enemies attack
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They don't know what the enemy's objective is and I'm Going to cover that this afternoon and how Those enemies keep you from Having that oneness with God And it's probably going to surprise you
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But it's in the book Why did God save you
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God wants everybody in this room who Saved by the grace Of God to walk in Oneness with him
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To have an intimate relationship With him not because we're going to heaven not because We ain't going to hell not all the peripheral
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Stuff answers to prayer and all that God wants Us to look at him googly Eyed and consumed
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With him with his person That's what the Christian Life is all about that we might
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Apprehend that For which we have been Apprehended our father
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I thank you for your word Thank you for the fact that there's A power in it And lord
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I pray that you'd help Us to live our lives To be lights in the darkness of This wicked world and help us to Walk in oneness with you and show us how to get
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Victory over those enemies That Want to hinder that walk that oneness
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Walk with you In Jesus name heads bowed Eyes closed I want to ask this question who say brother
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Myron I know I'm saved no doubt in my mind About it I know that I've already trusted Christ as my
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Savior that's your testimony Testify by raised hand Praise the lord and put
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Your hands down who say brother Myron I'm not sure I'm Saved but I'd like to be sure please pray for me Anybody like that not sure
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I'm saved But I'd like to be sure Who say brother Myron please pray for me I want To walk in that oneness
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I don't want to just Go through the motions of the Christian life but I Want to walk in an intimate Relationship With my heavenly father and With Jesus Christ that's your testimony
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Please pray for me god bless you god bless you Praise the lord god bless you Father thank you so much
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Thank you for the work your word does in our Lives and I pray that you'd help us not to let Anything stand between Us and thee
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In Jesus name Amen Let's stand
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I almost hate to go Right to lunch I'd like to think about that Message for a few more minutes I know
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Each of y 'all have thoughts about it throughout Throughout the day wonderful message From the lord
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And I knew that it would be because we have a Faithful man with us today Well Let's see
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Brother bill would you dismiss Us from this service And ask the lord to bless our
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Meal together if you're visiting by the way Today you may not know our practices But we'd like to invite you to have lunch with us
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We have dinner on the grounds here every day Every sunday I wish we had it every day But every sunday
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And then our evening service is at about 1 15 this afternoon so we'd like you to Just have lunch with us and stay for that Brother bill