Book of Romans - Ch. 9, Vs. 18-Ch. 10, Vs 4 (07/14/2002)

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We're in the ninth chapter of the book of Romans and we'll start

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With the verse 18 So open your

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Bibles to Proverbs 16 Proverbs 16 4

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David will you read that nice and loud for all of us? Now if you didn't know that would blow your mind

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The Lord has made all things for himself That pretty well says it

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Even the wicked he's made even the wicked He made them wicked for the day of evil

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The wicked can do only that which they have been programmed to do

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Mm -hmm verse 18 therefore

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Because of this He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardeneth

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Now Archie that seems pretty settled to me Not doesn't leave much room for argument

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Whom he will he hardeneth as he did

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Pharaoh You remember Pharaoh? He hardened him by continually

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Asking him To face questions that caused him to harden his heart he continued

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Pharaoh on earth and Suffered him under judgments and mercies to act out his wickedness and thus grow harder and More wicked than he was before That doesn't sound like the

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God that I serve But it is 19

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Thou will say then unto me Why doth he yet find fault for who has resisted his will?

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The reason that God can justly judge Is what?

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Why is it God can judge justly? Archie Well man does

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All right, man Man operates on this earth We have a reason for doing what we do but How can

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God Judge me justly when he has made everything and causes everything to be for himself

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Who said that? Put up your hand.

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I'm not kidding. I can't see okay He knew the end from the beginning well, is he working toward that end

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All Right Greg, how can

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God judge justly? When man does what he wants to as far as he knows he does

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All right The reason God can justly judge everybody is simply because man does that that he wants to do

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He's held responsible for that that he does He never never knowing that what he does is the will of God We don't know that so God took

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Pharaoh He hardened his heart He kept him here on earth as long as was necessary He got a good lesson out of it and everything's already been done

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Everything has all ready been finished This is what

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Archie said Now if everything is already finished everything already done.

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He can see the end from the beginning He can see the middle from the beginning Then he could justly say

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Nay, but old man who art thou that replies against God Shall the thing

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Formed say to him that formed it. Why have you made me thus?

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Shall the thing formed What is the thing? David You and I the whole world every individual

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All of creation every rock every tree everything come out of God There is no sure

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Demonstration in any matter Because it is grounded upon this principle that the will of God is the rule of righteousness an amplification of the former answer taken from a

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Comparison by which to also appear that God's determinate counsel is set by Paul as The highest of all causes

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So that it depends not in any way on the second cause But rather shapes and directs them

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What do I mean by the cause of the first cause Greg?

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All right the first cause of the first cause

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He is that cause Man always looks at everything as cause and effect

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He was the first cause God was first he caused everything

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I've got to force myself to remember that Hath not the

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Potter power over the clay? You have a lump of clay here and you want to make something out of it.

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Does the clay dictate to me? No, I dictate it.

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The clay is just an inert mass But I can form something beautiful He says hath not the

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Potter power over the clay of the same lump lump to make one vessel unto honor

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And another unto dishonor Now I have a rather difficult question for you

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Does God reason and if so, why and if not why?

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Dennis All right

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Well, that's not reasoning

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He explains what we need to know of himself Well, then does

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God make decisions David It's hard for me to not think in sequence

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In fact, I can't do it Because I'm in time 20 yes

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Jesus what? Well, he can reason with us in trying to get us to see his view not

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But Jesus is the same way Jesus doesn't change his mind either

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Yes Oh All right

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Romans 922 What if God willing to show his wrath and To make his power known endured with much long -suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction

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There are those people in this world that after their assigned work is finished or Satan they go into hell forever

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You believe that do you believe that don't be afraid to answer

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Everything in existence is Just for the Lord All of creation came because God wanted to please himself

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There is nothing made that he needed And he needed nothing that he made

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Man was not necessary and neither were the angels 30 23

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And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy

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Which he had afore prepared unto glory. When did he make us? Yes, I just hadn't come into existence yet now just as certain ones are made and After they finish their work they go to hell.

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There are those that are made for heaven and You can't go anyplace else

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He's taking it all out of our hand. Well, it never was in our hands There'll be no one in hell or heaven

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Because of you you understand that you can't send somebody to hell or heaven

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This means that no matter how poor a witness you are you will not send them to hell

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I Remember when I first discovered that Lloyd Allison was in the group

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And he says you mean to tell me that I can't send somebody to hell

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That's what I mean He said boy that takes a load off my mind

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Too long people have been taught that If you don't go and witness to that person he could slip into hell

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Sin is a composite of human effort and divine judgment Is what sin is 24 even us whom he hath called not of Jews only but also of the

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Gentiles as He saith to OC. I will call them my people which are not my people and Her beloved which was not beloved

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Salvations of the Lord not of man But most people believe that man must accept it is that true

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Greg No, you do not accept salvation you receive it

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As long as you are believing that you accept it. I Can't say you're lost but 26 and It shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them

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You are not my people there shall they be called the children of the living

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God There shall they be called the sons of God so that They needed they need not leave their own country to come to Judea He can save you any place you are in the world.

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He's put you there. He can save you The sayest also cried concerning Israel though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the seed a remnant shall be saved believe on the

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Lord Jesus Christ and who makes profession of his name and truth the number of those who will be at that last eternally saved will be but a comparative few out of this world

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Remnant, it's always been a remnant. It will always be a remnant 28

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For he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness Because a short work will the

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Lord make upon the earth these appear to be forensic terms and Referred to the conclusion of the judicial judgment

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The Lord has tried them found them guilty and will immediately

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Execute upon them the judgment that their sins bought not brought bought

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The judgment will be swift There'll be no change of venue no reversal of the judgment and as Isaiah said before Except the

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Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed We had been as Sodom and have been made like unto

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Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah had perished on account of their sins

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The most abominable sin of all Had it not been for God's mercy

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Israel would have been blotted out for the same cause years ago What shall we say then that the

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Gentiles which followed not after righteousness Have attained to righteousness even the righteousness which is of faith

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Greg what's he talking about in that verse? church members

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That think they're good enough to be saved Cannot be taught the word You realize that?

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Church members that think they're good enough to be saved Cannot be taught 31

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But Israel which followed after the law of righteousness hath not attained to the law of righteousness

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Why? Why David why? Why is it that Israel Has not attained righteousness pride

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They cannot overcome pride Wherefore because they sought it not of faith

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But as it were by the works of the law for they stumbled at the stumbling stone

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Dennis who was the stumbling stone to the Jew? Christ Christ Jesus Archie what made him such a stumbling stone to the

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Jew? That's right and even his disciples were expecting him to set up an earthly kingdom

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But he went away They couldn't fathom that Wherefore because they sought it not by faith

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They did not look for it by faith It was here that they had their mistake being ignorant of God's righteousness of his method of saving sinners

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Saving us by faith In Christ They went about to establish their own righteousness which

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Archie says they could not Their own method of obtaining

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Everlasting salvation It has to be done the way of the

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Lord now Salvation is not the end product.

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I'm not striving to get salvation But the method that he uses was against their reasoning as It is written behold.

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I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense and Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed

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Of course, this is talking about Jesus Christ But so far shall any be from confusion or Disappointment who believe in Christ Jesus that on the contrary every genuine believer shall find salvation the remission of sins here and eternal glory hereafter

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Now I want to open Chapter 10 And I'll ask you a question as we go in Greg look up Matthew 22 23

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Archie turned to Mark 12 27 David go to Luke 20 38.

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Do you have that?

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All right, who has Matthew 23 22 23 32? No, I know

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Yes No 22 22 33 22 32

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Mark 12 27 Luke 20 38

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All right. He is the God of the dead or the living The living what if I could prove to you that he is the

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God of the dead and the living Go to Romans 14 9

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Read that Greg Well, we found a mistake haven't we do you want to say something

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Claire well Think about that We'll come back to it

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Romans 10 1 Brethren my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved

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He would not have prayed this had there been absolutely if they had been absolutely condemned

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For I bear record that they have zeal of God But not according to knowledge.

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They have zeal but not according to knowledge Zeal without knowledge is like this

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It is like a blind man looking for a black cat in a coal bin at midnight

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He gets exercise But doesn't accomplish anything Zeal without knowledge

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For they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness

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Have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God For they being ignorant of God's righteousness

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Isn't it amazing People can read the Bible all of the time and be ignorant of his teaching to them

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It's for somebody else We must be taught that we are to submit ourselves to him every day

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I Don't hear this in churches today This is their schedule

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Monday they have basketball Tuesday football Wednesday They have volleyball

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Thursday baseball Friday they just have a ball They have the people so busy

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That you never have time for the Bible scripture must be obeyed with The obedience of belief

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For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth Philippians 1 29 for unto you it is given in behalf of Christ Not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake and Philippians 2 13 for it is

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God It is he Which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure

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It is he that is working in you in me now

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Greg Does that leave any time for me to work?

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Why is it that we don't recognize that? I'll thank you're right

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Everything that happens is under his control Everything comes from him.

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I don't care how Destitute you are God put you there

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We should not find fault with people Yes The anointing of God is the end is the end of the law

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There had to be a body there had to be somebody here to do that. That was Jesus Jesus the

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Christ He was the anointed He came he was

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God he came as God as man He was anointed.

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He was the end of the law That's right

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Does that answer your question? You're the first person

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I have found that looks at that like I do Jesus the

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Christ Christ is God Christ is the anointed

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Christ is that Essence that came It was housed in a man called

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Jesus Jesus Christ was just as free of sin as God is

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But Christ Was the anointing? It was applied by Jesus.

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There had to be a man here To do that and that was

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Jesus Jesus is the Christ in 1st

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John 3 22 and whatsoever we ask We receive of him because we keep his commandments and Do those things that are pleasing in his sight?

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Greg turned over to that 1st John 3 22 and let's look at something else Yes, read it and then the following verses

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That's that's it We keep his commandments plural Commandments because we kept his commandment and His commandment was to believe on Jesus Christ You see that where one little letter makes a difference

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We keep his commandments all of them Because we keep his commandment

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Loyalty in action gives assurance in prayer Loyalty in action gives assurance in prayer

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Did Jesus keep the law for us? No Why did he keep the law?

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That enabled him to do what? David He kept the law

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So he could be my substitute In pleasing God well,

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I Want to stop here We'll start with five More or less and don't forget your question.

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I'm your answers you gave me Is there anything from anybody

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Well, is there nothing from nobody there? We have a visitor with us this morning.

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I Don't know if you all know her or not. I didn't Natalie Holmes Let's stand and Greg will you dismiss us, please what?