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Welcome back to our study of the book of Hebrews, today we’ll be looking at Hebrews 6:9-12. It’s important to constantly recall the background to this letter in order to properly interpret the Scriptures. The writer was writing to Jewish believers who were undergoing severe persecution as a result of their belief in Jesus. Many were being tempted to go back to Judaism to avoid the current persecution. After giving his readers a strong warning about the dangers of spiritual immaturity- falling away and a rejection of the perfect for the imperfect. The writer is now shifting gear and writes to encourage his readers.
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hello good morning and uh welcome back
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to our study of the book of hebrews
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today we're going to continue with
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chapter 6 and we're going to look at
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verses 9 and 12.
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and uh
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i want to recall what we've already
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talked about now before we get into it
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it's important to recall on the
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background to this letter excuse me
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because if we don't recall the
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background it's hard to like interpret
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the scriptures and to properly
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understand um what is going on
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so
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the writer of the letter of hebrews who
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i believe is paul again that's what i
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believe i'm i'm not sure if it's part
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but i think it is paul because the way
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he writes is consistent with paul's uh
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letters
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so he was addressing jewish believers
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and those people were going through a
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severe persecution
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and that's because they believe in in
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the word of god in jesus and many were
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being tempted to go back to the old ways
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and to judaism
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because they wanted to avoid the current
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persecution
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so
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we saw last week that the writer has
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been giving his readers and warnings
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about spiritual immaturity because he
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told them that listen at this time you
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guys need to know
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about certain things certain basic
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things about the doctrine of jesus and
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he talked about repentance from dead
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works and faithful to god and then
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baptism and washings and then eternal
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damnation and also he talked about the
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resurrection he said at this point you
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guys have been believers for a while so
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those things should be the basics your
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abc's you need to know this if you don't
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know this and there are consequences and
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we talked about the dangers of our
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spiritual immaturity and some of the
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dangers those people were facing was
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falling away
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and a rejection of the perfect for the
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imperfect so since the beginning he's
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been proving that jesus is indeed on the
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son of god and he's also proved that
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jesus is a greater high priest in the
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order of melchizedek
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now he wanted to talk to his audience
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about melchizedek because melchizedek
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priesthood was far higher than the
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levitical priesthood so he wanted to
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tell them about it but unfortunately
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some of them were still at the level of
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an infant in christ so he talked to them
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he said listen you guys need to stop
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because spiritual immaturity is not
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without consequences and the
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consequences are falling away because
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when you you are spiritually immature
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you don't have a strong foundation and
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we looked at uh
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the parable of the soil and we talked
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about how those that don't have strong
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roots can fall away because they believe
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for a while and in terms of persecution
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they may fall away as a result of their
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lack of
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foundation so now
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at this time you can imagine that his
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readers are like frightened they're
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probably questioning their own uh
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salvation maybe they're saying am i not
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saved what's going on yeah am i falling
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away
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what's going on so there is fear
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probably okay so now the right is going
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to shift gear and i is going to write to
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encourage his uh reader so we're going
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to look at um verses 9 to 12 today we're
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going to see how he encouraged his
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readers because it is important for us
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because we all
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have times where we grow weary and we
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we may face persecution and we need to
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see how the writer dealt with it so we
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can also encourage one another so i'm
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going to read verses 9 through 12 and
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again i'm reading from the esv version
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and then after that we are going to look
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at the verse the verses one at a time
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so now listen to what he says
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though we speak in this way
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yet
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in your case beloved we feel sure of
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better things
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things that belong to salvation
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for god is not unjust
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so as to overlook your work
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and the love that you have shown for his
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name in serving the saints as you still
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do
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and we desire each one of you to show
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the same earnestness to have the full
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assurance of hope
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until the end
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so that you may not be sluggish
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but imitators of those who through faith
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and patience
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inherit
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the promises
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so this is the word of god and now let's
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get into it
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so the first set of verses we're going
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to look at are verses 9 through 10.
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so i'm going to read those again
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the writer says though we speak in this
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way
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yet in your case beloved we feel sure of
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better things
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things that belong to salvation for god
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is not unjust so as to overlook your
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work and the love that you have shown
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for his name in serving the saints as
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you still do
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again
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it's important to recall the background
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to this letter
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to um interpret the scriptures okay
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these are people that are going through
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persecution
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and they are like being tempted to go
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back to judaism because that's more
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comfortable for them and that's because
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if they go back then they won't be
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persecuted so a time of testing have a
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way of like showing what's inside of us
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so they want to go back to goes listen i
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can't i can't put up with this
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persecution so i want to go back to the
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old way because that way the persecution
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will stop so that's like an easy cop-out
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so the writer like if we say
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he issues a strong warning about the
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dangers of spiritual immaturity because
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some of them were spiritually immature
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they didn't have strong roots they
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didn't have their abcs
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in place yet so when that happens it's
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easy to fall away because you don't have
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a strong foundation
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so this is what was happening so he
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tells them listen
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you guys are in danger of falling away
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okay and i'm sure by this time like i
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said in the introduction that they were
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probably frightened so now he's to shift
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gear
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and he writes to encourage his uh
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readers
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okay we talked about the elements of
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spiritual immaturity which is um
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basically not knowing the basics of the
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the doctrine of christ we just talked
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about that so now he's saying to them
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that
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even though
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i might have frightened you with my
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words
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okay i'm very confident that your
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salvation is genuine and as a result is
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going to continue to be evident because
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it will be characterized
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with things that accompany salvation i.e
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like things that go hand in hand with
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salvation uh things that have like a
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symbiotic relationship with salvation
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mainly your sanctification and the
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fruits of the spirit so listen he's
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telling his readers listen
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i know what i've told you earlier i know
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that i've said you may fall away and if
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if if you fall away there's no going
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back to repentance because in your state
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of being falling away you are again
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crucifying christ
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and putting him to public shame but
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i imagine being a listener and reading
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those words in a letter so the tendency
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is to be frightened and to go whoa maybe
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i'm i'm i'm not a true christian maybe
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i'm
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maybe i'm not even saved
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but then he goes back and says listen i
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know what i've said to you but in your
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case beloved i feel sure of better
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things things that accompany salvation
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things that go hand in hand with
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salvation meaning the fruits of the
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spirit he's saying for example for you
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i know that i may have said those things
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but i'm sure of better things i'm sure
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that you are truly saved and is going to
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show because there's going to be the
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fruit of the spirit and god is going to
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sanctify you now he's stretching you and
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now i'm sure i have your attention now
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that i've said those things i know that
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now i have your undivided attention and
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as a result i know that uh i'm going to
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exalt you and i'm going to encourage you
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because the things that are going to
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happen now are going to be things that
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are going to follow salvation
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which is your sanctification okay
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so
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basically uh in the next verse
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which is the next one in verse 10 he
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goes for god is not unjust so as to
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overlook your work and the love that you
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have shown for his name in serving the
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saint as you still do
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so it seems as if uh the writer is
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suggesting that he's suggesting that his
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readers will be recompensed by god
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because of their law for him and the
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things that they have been doing
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to have advanced the kingdom that's what
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it seems like he goes listen i know i'm
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sure of better things for you because
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god is not unjust has to overlook what
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you've done for him
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but that's not the case because it is
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god himself who authenticates us because
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he started to work in the first place
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according to philippians 2 13 the
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scripture says for it is god himself who
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works in you both to will and act
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according to his good purpose so god's
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not unjust to forget the love and hard
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work that the people have done
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and i've shown him
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because his spirit is the one
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working in them to that end because
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because god started the work
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is not unjust because he's going to
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finish where he started so basically uh
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it seems as if like uh
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it's a little hard to explain because on
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the one hand
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we have to be responsible for the things
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that we do but on the other hand uh it
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is god who enables us to work for him
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okay it is god who initiates the faith
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it is god who wields it in us and he's
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god who does the work so again it's like
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two to like it's like
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a simultaneous at the same in the same
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way we have to be responsible but it is
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god ultimately
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through his grace who enables us to work
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on his behalf by his spirit so this is
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why god is not unjust as to overlook
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their work and the lord that they've
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shown him because it is him who plants
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those desires and he continues to plant
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those dessert until the end
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so for example to truly understand like
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both both of these verses i want to look
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at the life of peter and his instance
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okay he denied jesus three times on
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three occasions okay and he surely
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denied the faith and and indirectly he
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crucified jesus as well so he knew the
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truth okay peter knew the truth he had
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been with jesus for three years he
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tasted the holy spirit because
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uh he actually was one of those who also
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casted out demons and stuff like that so
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he did all those things but
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his fear of the persecution led him
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to turn away from jesus okay he was
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still spiritually immature after even
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after three years of being with jesus
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there's still uh immaturity to some
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extent because he denied the faith and
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even after those three years spent with
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jesus
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but guess what happened he was restored
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by jesus after the resurrection
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and though peter fall away he was
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restored so we can take some kind of uh
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relief in that like hope that even when
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we having
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we are in a situation like that god is
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able to restore his children like so
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peter had shown on several occasions his
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zeal for the lord again and yet at the
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most pivotal moment
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he fell away just like the other 11 10
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disciples that were there judas already
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we know about judas
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okay but the fall in the way of peter
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was
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temporal it wasn't
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going to be like that it wasn't going to
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be lasting it was temporal because jesus
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restored peter after and the
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resurrection and jesus also restored the
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other disciples that also fell away they
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ran away from him okay and they were
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strengthened and gained um boldness
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through the spirit to serve god in the
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same way the writer of the book of uh
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hebrews he's telling his readers listen
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i know what i've said about you i know
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what i said
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but
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i know that for you there are going to
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be better thing because i'm going to now
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encourage you and exalt you to better
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things because i know that it is god
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himself who started to work and god is
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not unjust asked to forget what you've
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shown him the lord that you've shown in
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the work that you've done and you still
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do because it is god's spirit who still
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works in you so god is faithful to his
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word and whatever he started in you he
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would take it to full completion
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so basically uh he's he's
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encouraging his readers because they are
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the one that have truly entered the rest
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of god which we talked about in earlier
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chapters in chapter three and four we
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talked about the rest of god so
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again this is like a way to tell them
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about godly sorrows because godly
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sorrows as we know lead to repentance so
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he's writing here to lead them to
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repentance he's not saying it's not he's
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not leaving them hopeless or condemned
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okay so that's that's that's uh there's
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like two things
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condemnation gives no
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hope but conviction
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leads you to repentance
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and that repentance leads you to
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a better sanctification okay
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so in this way the writer when he writes
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to his readers he's leading them to
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repentance godly sorrows because they
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have fallen away and some of them were
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pretty much
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i've turned away from christ he's
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telling them listen
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don't do that
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if you have ears to hear hear what i
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have to say to you and though some of
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those people probably heard it and were
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like you know what i don't even care but
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those that god has chosen
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these words will resonate within their
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ears and they will change and there will
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be repentance because it's gonna cause
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godly sorrows so that's what he's saying
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here
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now we're going to jump on to verses 11
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and 12. now listen to the scripture
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and he goes and we desire each one of
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you to show the same earnestness to have
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the full assurance of hope until the end
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so that you may not be sluggish
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but imitators of those who through faith
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and patience inherit the promises
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so what are we told here
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see the people were probably growing
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like wary okay tired and overwhelmed by
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the persecution and trials they were
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facing
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so the temptation to go back to the old
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system was always always working around
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it was always in the back of their head
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okay you know it's easy to grow weary
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like when you go through
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life and and you read the scripture you
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see how
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god promises um us uh eternal life and
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he promises that he will be with us but
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sometimes he feels as if where is god
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in the process what is god i'm tired you
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know why do i have to go through this i
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just want to go back to what is
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comfortable so they wanted to go back to
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what was comfortable but he said to them
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listen
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i want you i decide that each one of you
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shows the same earnestness don't grow
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weary i like the way this verse is
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reading uh the niv translation i'm gonna
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read that to you listen to how the niv
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translation reads this
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we want each of you
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to show
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the same
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diligence to the very end so that what
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you hope for
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may be fully realized
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so
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uh
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so the writer is basically telling his
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readers to not grow weary
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but to show the same earnestness and
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zeal they had in the beginning until the
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end
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why in order that they may obtain the
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goal of their faith which is the
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salvation of their souls okay what they
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hope and and what we hope for is our
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ultimate deliverance from this body of
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death
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we've been trapped in you know you know
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i don't know about you but there are
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many days where i feel like lord i can't
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take it anymore
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and i was actually talking to one of my
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uh our friend in church the other day
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and and it's easy to to to like think uh
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you are sanctified and you really love
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god like i remember a couple of weeks
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ago we were at church
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and we had um
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um
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communion
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and the day we have communion church
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seems to be a little longer
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and in my mind i'm complaining i'm not
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ah we have communion today ah man that's
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that means that we're gonna have more
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time in church
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and i have to catch myself and go what's
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wrong with me
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like
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this is supposed to be a time where i'm
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like longing
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for for to know what god has done for me
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in jesus but why am i feeling this way
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is because of
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the sinful nature
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there's still that battle so my hope is
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that i can't wait to be clothed with the
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perfect i can't wait to have a body in
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which i can no longer sin
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because the temptation is always here
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like whenever you think oh man i've made
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i'm man i've grown spiritually
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that's a dangerous place to be because
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pride can settle in and this is when you
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can easily fall so
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we have to constantly
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come under the like the holy spirit's
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power because without him we can do
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nothing jesus said it
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apart from me you can do nothing
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so
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the hope that we have and the hope that
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the writer is telling his readers is
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listen you know what you hope for okay
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keep working towards that goal keep
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working don't lose your fervor now don't
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grow weary now because you are right
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there continue to show the same
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diligence to the end because it is the
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spirit of god himself who works in you
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and i want you to continue to move
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forward if you go to romans 8 verse 22
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to 25 we read on the following because
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it redefines the hope that the writer is
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mentioning and i think it's important to
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bring it up listen to the scripture
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we know that the whole creation has been
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groaning as in the pains of child birth
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right up to the present time
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not only so but we ourselves will have
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the first fruit of the spirit
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grown inwardly as we eagerly await
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we eagerly
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we wait eagerly for our adoption to
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sonship
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the redemption of our bodies
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for in this hope
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we were saved but hope that is sin is no
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hope at all with hopes of what they
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already have
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but if we hope for what we do not yet
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have
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we wait for it patiently
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so basically the writer is saying to his
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readers the evidence of your faith will
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be determined by your endurance until
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the end your long suffering it is not
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how someone starts but it is rather how
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their faith is sustained until the end
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so he's insane here like you have to be
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self-determined like this is not like
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self-willer i'm gonna do this today and
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i'm gonna try to listen i'm gonna try
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and follow god that's not something you
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can do
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because it is the spirit of god himself
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who works in you
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so basically the writer is saying to
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them listen your genuine faith will be
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tested by your endurance you'll get to
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the end and this is the work of the
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spirit of god and we enables you and we
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enables all believers to endure till the
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end so do not grow weary because your
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endurance your patience is being tested
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we read in james chapter one what did
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you say consider the pure joy whenever
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you face trials of many kind because the
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testing of your faith produces what
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patience and let patience run its course
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so that you may be mature and complete
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lacking in nothing so basically this is
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the same thing the writer is saying to
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these readers here show your the same
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earnestness to the end that's what we
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want so that you may not be sluggish
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but emitted those who through faith and
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patience inherit the promises now paul
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said it best when he say that i worked
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harder than all the other apostles yet
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not i but the grace of god in me if you
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go to first corinthians 15 listen to
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what paul says in first corinthians 15
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verse 9 to 10
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for i am the least of the apostles
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unworthy to be called an apostle
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because i persecuted the church of god
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but by the grace of god i am what i am
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and his grace toward me was not in vain
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on the contrary i worked harder than any
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of them though it was not i but the
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grace of god that is with me so paul
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understands that his work and his desire
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to show the same earnestness to have the
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full assurance of hope until the end
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even though he's the one doing the work
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he understands that it has been made
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possible
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by the spirit of god it is the spirit of
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god who does all the work so these words
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are meant to tell their readers and to
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tell the readers and to tell us today
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listen don't grow weary depend on the
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spirit of god keep going back to the
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source because the scripture says when
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we believe in him
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rivers of living water will flow out of
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us that's the spirit of god it is the
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spirit of god who gives us that
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earnestness it is the spirit of god
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which gives us the desire to be to not
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be sluggish it is the spirit of god who
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enables us not enough to not fall away
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so this is the call to depend on the
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holy spirit it's a call to to reassess
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where we are in our lives and say lord
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where am i today am i following am i
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enduring or am i growing worry and is
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there stagnation in my life so he's
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telling his readers please
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wake up
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and then in verse 12
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we just read it
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um
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he's saying here like resting in god
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doesn't mean laziness or stagnation
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and we already talked about the dangers
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of idleness and consequences of
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spiritual immaturity we've been talking
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about since chapter six now since the
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beginning of this letter he's been
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warning his readers against drifting
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from the world neglecting this great
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salvation god worked through jesus
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and now he's telling them
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he's giving them an exhortation and he's
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saying
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imitate your predecessors okay imitate
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those who are before you the older and
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the other sent because they exuded the
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kind of faith that is typical of the
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children of god those are the one who
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inherited the promises of god and in the
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next verses which we're going to look at
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next week
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is going to give them the example of
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abraham who demonstrated the kind of
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faith and endurance and patience the
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writer is mentioning so in chapter 2 we
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talked about the multi purpose of our
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salvation because one day okay we will
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reign with jesus christ okay because he
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came to restore the mandate that god has
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given to mankind in the beginning to
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have dominion over all this creation so
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we talked about that in chapter two but
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right now
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this isn't the case because we are
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subjected to what suffering
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pain
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death
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persecution and all these things might
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have made like
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the people that he was talking to the
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jewish believers doubt the promises of
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god so in the next verses uh which we're
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going to look at next week he's going to
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show abraham example and he um basically
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showed the kind of patience and
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endurance and faith that pleases god
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so what am i going to say in conclusion
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here in conclusion all we can say is
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this
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i don't know what you're going through
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today and i don't know what your
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spiritual maturity is like i don't know
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you and a lot of you guys if you're
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watching this i don't know maybe maybe
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you know me maybe i don't know but
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the exhortation is to keep moving
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but this is not possible in our own
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strength we have to depend on the spirit
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of god so the call really is to go back
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and to say to the lord i am weak but you
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are strong
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so please help me because god said
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somewhere
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and when paul asked him to take away the
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thorn in his side in his flesh he said
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my grace is sufficient for you i think
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it's in ii corinthians 12 9
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for my power is made perfect in your
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weakness so when we are weak this is the
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best place to be in our weakness that's
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when we find strength in god
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this is why persecutions have a way and
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in trials of life have a way of growing
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us because in those moments that's when
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we see the grace of god at work the best
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when everything is comfortable you don't
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feel like well i don't need god why do i
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need god so he has to really stretch us
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so
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but in the stretching
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some people fall away and they're
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stretching uh we are sifted and the true
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christians are gonna come to the surface
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okay and those that are not really saved
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or those that are still immature we also
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made evidence so
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the the persecution and the trials are
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meant to really um um pretty much
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filter the church
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and then and it stretches so
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the spiritual immaturity is something
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that is pretty rampant in our societies
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today if you go to many churches
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the level of immaturity is at an
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all-time high but i will also say that
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this is this has been a good time
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because a lot of people have also grown
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deeper
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in their commitment to to serve the on
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the gospel
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so
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i don't want to be those who always
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find something negative to say about the
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church any state but i believe these
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times have really
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confirmed and also
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um tested on the entire church since
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kobe started it's been like a
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a shift
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okay if you look at the main churches
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like there's been like the global like a
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lot of the churches have been really
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tested and and somehow fell away and and
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some have stood the test but even if
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you're one of those who have capitulated
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and i've kind of given giving in to the
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temptation to to just
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be um stagnant and and
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pretty much idle i would say
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uh if these words of from the the right
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of on the hebrews are touching your
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heart and it's not too late to restart
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because god is waiting
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and then and when i say wait and i'm not
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saying god is like oh yeah come no
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because you have to without without
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truly mourning over your sins you cannot
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understand the grace of god because
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the scripture says blessed are those who
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mourn for they are the one that will
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receive comfort if you don't mourn over
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your sin if you're not shameful
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of what you've done in the things that
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you've done
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then
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you won't understand
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the grace of god
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because
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it would be something superficial it'd
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be something just easy believism so we
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have to get to the place worth
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understanding that we've offended god
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that sin in god's sight is ugly he hates
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it
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in whatever form it is he hates it and
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he's infinitely
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uh he hits it
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infinitely he's not like saying well
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it's okay like god is not like your
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cosmic mr rogers or he's not like uh
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santa claus that's like oh your granddad
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who's like nice and that
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he's a holy god
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only in two ways he's holy because he's
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in a category of himself there's not
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like god
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he is he's a self-existent self-existent
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one
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okay and not only that but he's also
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morally pure so
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in within him there is no darkness at
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all we read that in first chapter first
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john chapter one
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he says god is light in him there is no
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darkness at all
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so
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we have to take sin very seriously
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because he hates it so if these words
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are like talking to you this morning i
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would encourage you to repent
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following your knees following your face
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before a holy god and realize that what
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you've done have offended him
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all right so next week we're gonna talk
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about abraham
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and the promise that he received from
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god and how that ties into this passage
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today okay so have a wonderful day and
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i'll see you next week god willing thank
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you