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Hebrews 13:1-6, How to live to please God
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Feb 19, 2025
We have to always remember that when the author was penning down his letter under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, there was no chapter division. Chapter 12 mostly dealt with how God treats those He calls his sons and daughters, the discipline of the Lord, which is meant to lead us to share in his Holiness. Chapter 11 dealt with the concept of faith, and in chapter 12, the writer basically showed us and the original readers how God works in our lives to bring about the Faith that pleases Him. Today we’ll begin Hebrews 13. The writer’s thought patterns continues in this chapter with more exhortations and reminders.
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hello good morning and today is uh
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thursday june the 9th
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and uh welcome back to our study of the
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book of hebrews we are going to begin
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chapter 13 today
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and then we are gonna look at verses one
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through six
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so basically before i start i just
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wanted to give you a quick um rundown of
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what we talked about last week
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again uh when we do these studies
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especially the book of hebrews when the
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writer
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and i suspect he's the apostle paul but
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i may be wrong i'm just saying i suspect
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because the writing is kind of similar
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to his writing we don't know the author
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but when he was writing the letter we
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have to remember there was no chapter
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division it wasn't like he goes this is
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chapter one chapter two there was a
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something that he was conveying today on
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the audience in this case hebrew
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believers and his strain of thought
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never ceased it was one thing to the
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next thing so to help us today we have
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the chapter division so originally the
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scriptures were not written like that
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the epistles were not written in
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chapters there was no chapter division
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it was just
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him writing and then sending that to the
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to the
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um hebrew church and then they had to
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read it and then people had to
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understand what paul was i said paul it
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wasn't paul or he may have been paul but
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whoever was writing that letter
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um he wanted to convey something so
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chapter 12 as we saw last week uh as we
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ended it uh he mostly dealt with how god
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treats those he calls his son and
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daughters and we talk about the
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discipline of god which is meant to lead
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the believer and us
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to share in his holiness again we have
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to remember that that's key
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god disciplines us for our good that we
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may share in his holiness he doesn't
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just do it for the sake of doing it
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there's a purpose behind it okay in
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chapter 11
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dealt with the con the concept of faith
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in chapter 12
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the writer basically shows us and the
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original readers how god works in our
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lives to bring about the faith that he
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that pleases him so that's the whole
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thing chapter 11 talked about faith in
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chapter 12 talked about how
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faith comes about because of the
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discipline of the lord he brings about
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faith he brings about this attitude
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attitude by which we begin to rely on
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god and share in his holiness that's the
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whole purpose of the gospel the gospel
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we came to be saved that we might be
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what the first fruit of god we might be
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like his son jesus so he saved us so
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that we might be made in the likeness of
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his son that's the whole reason why
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jesus came to die for our sins so that
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we might be the righteousness of god
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that we might be indwelled with the holy
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spirit of god that we might be called
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sons and daughters of god that we may
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have the spirit of god living in us so
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that we may love the things of god
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that's the whole purpose god talks about
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in the book of
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in the old testament in ezekiel he says
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he will put a new spirit in us and that
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spirit he will write his laws on our
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hearts and our minds that we might do
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what pleases him
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so jesus came to be the propitiation and
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expiation for our sins so
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the the writer of the book of hebrews
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the entire time he has been trying to
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prove that to his readers the old
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covenant was meant to lead us to the new
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covenant under christ so that's the
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whole when he gave us the law god gave
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the torah the five books of moses so
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that people as they saw their depraved
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condition will look to the promised
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messiah because he was the abraham seed
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that was promised in the old testament
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and through him we have access into the
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holy of holies because of his work on
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the cross that's the whole pretty much
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what the writer was trying to
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communicate to his readers now he talked
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about faith and how does faith come
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about
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faith comes by hearing and hearing by
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the word of god but god works through
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the discipline through the trials that
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we face to bring about this faith now
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today we're going to begin chapter 13
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and chapter 13 is basically um he goes
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from
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teaching to like encouraging so there's
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like a
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there's a pattern that has continued
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throughout the entire um book of hebrews
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there's exaltation of reminders and then
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teaching and then he exhort so i'm so
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glad that god does that because he
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doesn't always pound us down yes there
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is conviction but the conviction comes
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encouragement because god has given us
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his spirit so that we might live in a
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way that pleases him so the title i
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think that's fitting for this uh today's
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session should be how to live to please
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god okay from the the book of hebrews
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perspective so we're going to be looking
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at chapter
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13 and we're going to look at verses 1
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through 6 so let me read this in the i'm
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going to read this in english standard
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version so the scripture says and you
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can follow along on my screen
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the script the scripture says let
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brotherly love continue
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do not
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neglect to show
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hospitality to strangers for thereby
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some have entertained angels unawares
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remember those who are in prison are
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still in prison with them
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and those who are mistreated since you
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also are in the body let marriage be
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held in honor among all and let the
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marriage bad be undefiled for god will
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judge the sexually immoral and
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adulterous
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keep your life free from love of money
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and be content with what you have for he
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has said
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i will never leave you nor forsake you
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so we can confidently say
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the lord is my helper i will not fear
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what can man do to me
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this is the word of god
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take it as such
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so now let's try to unpack all this this
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is a lot of stuff here okay so in verses
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one
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and 3 he tells us
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let brotherly love continue don't
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neglect to show hospitality to strangers
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because by doing that some have
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entertained entertained angels unawares
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and to remember those who are in prison
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as though they were in prison themselves
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and those who are mistreated since you
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are also in the body so basically
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once he tells his original readers about
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the discipline of god
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and that discipline as we defined works
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in a believer to bring about holiness
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and the faith that pleases god
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now he also warned them about unbelief
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that's in earlier chapters chapter 6 78
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you talked about unbelief and he used
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esau's rejection of his inheritance as
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an example now he's going to encourage
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his readers again and the encouragement
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we can apply that to ourselves as well
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so the heart this has been like a
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recurring pattern in this letter and
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that reminds us of the love of god okay
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so god disciplines us for our good and
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doesn't always accuse us so he god is
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not how to condemn you and i if you are
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a child of god if you have the holy
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spirit living in you then you are no
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longer under condemnation but there is
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conviction and that conviction is to
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lead us to repent and a child of god
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will listen to the voice of god because
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we are keen to his voice because we are
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of god
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by by the holy spirit
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so they
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excuse me
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the pattern of warning warnings and
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encouragement should always make you you
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and i rejoice because that shows us that
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god loves you okay the scripture tells
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us god disciplines the one he loves
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so now the exhortation is brother
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brotherly love is a must amongst
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believers
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and the writer
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starts his exaltation with that very
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word let brotherly love continue and
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what does this brotherly love look like
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and to find the answer we can go to
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first john 5
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verse 2 to 3. listen to what john says
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in
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the book of first john he goes
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by this
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we know
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that we love the children of god
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when we love god and obey his
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commandment for this is the love of god
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that we keep his commandment and his
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commandments are not burdensome so
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basically
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the way you and i
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show love to each other is by obeying
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god and by by doing what places god
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before
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our brothers and sisters in christ so
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basically the way i show you love is by
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obeying the word of god and doing what
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the scripture tells me to do so if i
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want to if you want to show love to a
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brother or sister in christ
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we've misunderstood the word love
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love
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properly defined comes first by loving
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god and doing his comment that's what
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the scripture says this is how we show
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that we love the children of god so the
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way i show you that i love you is if i
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obey god
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and do what pleases god that's premium
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and that's how it starts so in ancient
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times um another thing that he talks
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about here is hospitality okay so in
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ancient times
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hospitality was premium and the writer
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exhorts uh his readers to show a lot of
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hospitality to strangers and to drive
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his point he tells them and he tells us
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today that sometimes we even entertain
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angels without even knowing it now this
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happened in genesis 18 when the angel of
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the lord accompanied by two other angels
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visited abraham and i still think it
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happens today
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or the book of hebrews would not mention
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that so that still happens this is
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something that's there's still a
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possibility
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so basically we are told to show
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hospitality now hospitality should be
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um a characteristic of all believers we
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need to show hospitality
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and we live in a day and age where
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everything is is about itself and we
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don't really show hospitality in ancient
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times it was premium and it needs to be
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something that we practice today yes we
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are not of jewish background but it
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doesn't matter hospitality is something
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that we are commended to do so if the
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scripture says this then we have to
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practice hospitality that's just what it
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is
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and the next thing that he talks about
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is to remember those who are in prison
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are still in prison with them and those
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who are mistreated since you also are in
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the body see
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when we started this book of hebrew we
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talked about the persecution a lot of
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the hebrew believers were being
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persecuted because some of the
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traditional judaizers saw them as uh
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being um i guess
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what was the word i wanted to use
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did they committed treason you know
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because they embraced uh jesus they were
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seen as being traitors
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because listen the traditional judaizers
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if you want to understand this you have
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to go back to the book of galatians the
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traditional judaizers they were saying
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that to be saved you also have to be
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circumcised this is they were adding to
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the work of christ so as a result some
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who said no
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we are not going to
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espouse this kind of teaching we are
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being persecuted and paul was
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was persecuted because
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he was former formerly before his
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conversion he was a traditional judaizer
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and he said um that to be saved and to
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be made right before god he also had to
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do the works of the law now
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there's a whole thing about inhalation
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so i want you to read that so basically
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those traditional judaizers were
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persecuting the jewish convert so it was
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a time of persecution and some of the
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brothers and sisters had been put in
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prison some of them were being put in
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prison and paul actually was
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participating in that before his
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conversion
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so the writer is now saying to his
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readers
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continue to show your solidarity to
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those who are in prison because you want
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to identify with them don't be ashamed
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of them and paul even tells us in one of
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his letters that uh on the sephiroth was
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not was not ashamed of his bonds paul
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was in prison and somehow deserted power
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because they were ashamed of it but
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as believers we are told when someone is
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put in prison because of the work of
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because of the the name of jesus we
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should be willing to identify with them
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now isn't it prison is that is not just
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the only thing it could be shame it
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could be
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somebody being persecuted because of the
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name of jesus we have to identify with
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these people we don't have to be ashamed
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of that because this is how we show our
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solidarity now we live in a day and age
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where
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the woke church has pretty much poisoned
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a lot of our churches and now people get
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so funny and they can't even talk about
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the word of god boldly they have to
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always play this game of trying to be
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nice and trying to be uh i don't even
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know what word to use so that's not what
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we are told to do yes i don't mind if
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i'm being
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persecuted because of the name of christ
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because of righteousness that's okay i
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don't care if i'm being bullied or you
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know your job as a believer is to
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identify with those who have been
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bullied and were being thrown in prison
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for the name of christ if they're doing
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it the right way
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now i'm not saying you can go out there
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and just being a big rude and stuff like
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that and expect people to to show
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solidarity now in this case it was a
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persecution because these people had
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made the resolution that they were not
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going to to to um
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to espouse
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a salvation by works
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so i think it was the primary objective
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so they were being persecuted so
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basically how do you show solidarity he
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was telling them you should visit them
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you can visit them you can intercede for
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them and more importantly
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don't give up your profession of faith
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just because somebody's thrown in jail
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just because somebody's suffering
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doesn't mean that we get afraid and we
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begin to like oh no i don't want to do
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this christian thing anymore so the
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writer was telling them listen
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identify with them all the way don't be
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ashamed of their bonds identify with
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them remember them and the only way you
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can do that is by praying interceding
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visiting them and then also don't give
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up your professional faith and he was
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also saying that some were being
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mistreated
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and he was exhorting them to also
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identify and remain united with those
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who have been mistreated for the cause
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of the gospel of christ and we ought to
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do the same in our day and age
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because there are christians worldwide
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that are being persecuted and the way we
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show our support is by standing firm and
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not capitulate under pressure
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we have to stand firm and that's what we
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have been told in verses one through
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three here
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now the next thing that he talks about
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in verses four through six again this
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hits home is let marriage be held in
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honor among all and let the marriage
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bear be undefiled for god will judge the
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sexually immoral and adulterous and keep
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your life from the love of money and be
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and be content with what you have
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because god has said i will never leave
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you nor forsake you so therefore as a
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result the scripture says that we can
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confidently say the lord is my helper
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i would not fear what can man do to me
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basically he moves to more personal
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matters in verses four through 6
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because there may have been somewhere
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being tempted to follow the perfect like
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the perversion of the
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their time the the sexual perversion so
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paul um keeps saying paul the writer
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reminds his readers and you and i about
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the christ exalting
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marriage it must be free of any
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impurities and full of loyalty
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and we can go to ephesians 5 verse 23 to
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37 to read about the marriage that
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pleases god listen to what the scripture
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says how do you leave to please god he
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gives exhortations and he gives
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instructions to both husbands and wife
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listen to what the scripture says
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for the husband is the head of the wife
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even as christ
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is the head of the church his body and
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is himself his savior now as the church
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submits to christ so also wives should
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submit to in everything to their
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husbands husbands love your wives as
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christ loved the church and gave himself
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up for her
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that he might sanctify her having
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cleansed her by the washing of water
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with the word of god so that he might
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present the church to himself in
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splendor without spot or wrinkle or any
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such thing that she might be holy and
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without blemish in the same way
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husbands should love their wives as
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their own bodies he who loves his wife
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loves himself for no one ever hated his
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own flesh but nourishes and cherishes it
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just as christ does the church because
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we are a member for members of his body
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therefore a man shall leave his father
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and mother and hold fast to his wife and
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the two shall become one flesh this
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mystery is profound and i'm saying that
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it refers to christ and the church
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however let each one love his wife as
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himself and let the wife see that she
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respects her husband now you see how the
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scripture tells us how a marriage a
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christ and a god exalting marriage are
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to look like now marriage has been
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redefined in our society you have men
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lusting after other men
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women lusting after other women and just
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perversion in in the marriages there's
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crazy madness going on and the society
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just sits and relax like i was sick into
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my stomach
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you go on foot locker's website you go
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on finish line website you go on all
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these retailers website and all they are
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promoting now
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is the
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um
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same-sex
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marriage
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they have all this thing shoving i mean
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they're putting in your face to the
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point where you become desensitized it
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doesn't make us go this is an
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abomination before god we don't even say
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that anymore because we're getting used
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to it we've been groomed to accept it
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but as christians we have to stand firm
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the scripture tells us that the marriage
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bed must not be defiled okay there must
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not be any hint of sexual perversion
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within the marriage relationship
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and both parties must not engage in any
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extra marital relationship the marriage
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must be pleasing in the sight of god
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and this exaltation comes with a warning
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because the scripture says that god will
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judge those who are sexually immoral and
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the adulterous people if you go to
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romans 1 verse 24 to 27 listen to what
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the scripture says
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therefore
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god gave them up in the lust of their
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hearts to impunity to the desiring of
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their bodies among themselves because
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they exchanged the truth about god for a
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lie and worshiped and served the
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creature
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rather than the creator who is blessed
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forever amen
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for this reason god gave them up to
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dishonorable passions for their women
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exchange natural relations for those
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that are contrary to nature and the men
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likewise gave up natural relations with
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women and were consumed with passion for
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one another
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men committing shameless acts with men
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and receiving in themselves the two
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penalty for their error basically what
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we see now
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is the result of god saying you want to
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leave your way i'm reviewing i'm
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removing my hand and i'm going to give
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you up to the lust of your own heart
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this is why we see the senseless things
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that we are seeing right now
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now the next
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warning is that the love of money we all
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fall prey to this okay notice that the
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writer isn't against money but he's
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against the love of money
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and the scripture itself warns us about
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the love of money in first timothy 6 9
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to 11 the scripture says
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but those who desire to be rich
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fall into temptation into a snare into
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many
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senseless and harmful desires that
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plunge people into ruin and destruction
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for the love of money is the root of all
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kinds of evil it is through this craving
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that some have wandered away from the
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faith and pierced themselves with many
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pangs but as for you oh man of god
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flee
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these things and what should you do
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pursue pursue righteousness
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godliness
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faith
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love steadfastness and gentleness
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so this is what we are told so basically
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this is very interesting that the writer
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follows his exaltation against the love
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of money
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by teaching his readers about
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contentment so you can see he's saying
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he went from talking about the love of
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money to being content
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and then if you go to the book of
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ecclesiastes solomon spends a lot of
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time talking about chasing after the
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wind in the book of in that book because
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contentment is being totally
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satisfied with the lot god has given us
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it's been totally consumed with
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loving god that's how contentment comes
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and actually i talked about uh
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satisfaction last week at my church i
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will share a link with it um maybe
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shortly
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basically uh to avoid the love of money
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and to live to pursue righteousness
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godless faith love steadfastness and
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gentleness
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that's a result of finding our pleasure
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and satisfaction in god it is basically
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coming to a place of rest where we no
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longer live to fulfill our own desires
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but basically what we do is we surrender
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everything we are we are and everything
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that we have to god
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and paul teaches us in philippians 4
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verse 10 to 13 how to be content
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let's read uh philippians 4 verse 10 to
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13. listen to what paul says here
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i'm gonna find the verse for you guys i
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should have pulled that up philippian
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for
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let's listen to what the scripture says
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about contentment
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he said
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that um
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[Music]
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i know
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how to be brought low and i know how to
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be a bound to yet to abound in any
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now let me read it again
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verse 12 to 13 i know how to be
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brought low
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and i know how to abound in any and
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every circumstance i've learned the
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secret of facing plenty and hunger
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abundance and need i can do all things
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through christ who strengthens me
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basically paul is saying contentment is
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being able to
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be to find satisfaction in god to be
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able to be content in every situation
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because he's going to give us the
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antidote he's going to tell us why this
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is possible
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basically he teaches us in philippians 4
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verse 10 to 13 how to be content
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right and
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the writer was actually quoting either
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deuteronomy 31 6 8 or joshua 1 5
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and he tells us why we should be content
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because
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god promises
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never to leave nor forsake us so because
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god says i would never leave you nor
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forsake you and the lord is our helper
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we ought to be content with what he has
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given us in life
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why because god himself has become our
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treasure
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in him we have everything that we need
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and jesus talks about contentment in
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matthew 6
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verse 19 to 34
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right
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because because of god's promise to
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never leave nor forsake his saint the
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writer says that we can say with total
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confidence the lord is my helper i will
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not fear what can man do to me now
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basically this is the bold statement of
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the rested believer
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and we can only speak like this when
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we've come to the place where we are
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totally
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surrendered to god and the original
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readers they had grown weary they were
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they were faithful for their lives and
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he wanted them to he wanted them to come
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to a place of peace
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now i'm not talking about peace where
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there's there's no conflicts or there's
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no struggle or trouble but the peace
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that says that no matter what happens
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god is sovereign
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god is in control this is the peace that
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paul mentions in philippians 4 verse 67
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when he says
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be anxious about nothing but in
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everything by prayer and supplication
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with thanksgiving
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let your requests be made known to god
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and the peace of god which surpasses all
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understanding
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will guard your hearts and minds in
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christ jesus so again the writer was
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quoting psalm 118 6.
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and i wanted to i wanted us to like read
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that real quick 118 6.
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let's go to what psalm 18 6 says
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i kind of want to read that to you guys
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18 6.
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the lord is on my side
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i will not fear
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what can man do to me basically if god
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is on your side
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what should you fear
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you see what i mean if god is on your
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side
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what should you fear anything basically
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the lord was their helper that's what
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the writer was trying to communicate to
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them and to us also
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he that created everything the entire
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heavens and the earth he was sovereign
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over all things he is the one who is
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their help right and then he
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personalizes it when he uses the word my
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so you can go to the lord as i help her
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to the lord is my helper
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god is not just the whole congregation's
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helper but he's also each
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individual's helper he knows your need
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he knows my need he knows exactly what i
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need to hear
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so he's a personal god who's involved in
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the daily
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lives of his people god is very involved
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god is an ever-present help in times of
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trouble the scripture tells us and there
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are many scriptures that are back to the
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the back of that claim if you go to
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psalm 46 1 we're going to read that
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psalm 46 1 matthew 10 30. see psalm 46
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1.
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this is what the scripture says god is
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our refuge and strength a very
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present hell in trouble that's psalm 46
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verse 1.
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and we're going to go to matthew
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10 30.
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let's see what matthew 10 that he says
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listen to the scripture but even the
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hairs of your head are all numbered
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basically god knows
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they had
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the number of hair on your head and in
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luke 12
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7.
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let's go back to there too
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luke 12
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verses 7
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why even the hairs of your head are all
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numbered fear not you are of more value
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than many sparrows so this is what this
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this was jesus discourse he was talking
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to his disciples that their hair
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is numbered god knows them by name
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so basically according to the writer the
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lord is our helper and why should we
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fear anything or anyone now this is
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again a rhetorical question and you can
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answer that yourself
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you shouldn't fear so to wrap this up
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what have you learned
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we have learned a lot today to show
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brotherly love right to show solidarity
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to those who are in prison and
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struggling and those who have been
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persecuted for the name of christ
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to keep the marriage life and the
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marriage bad on the fire and i talked
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about it intensively and to also
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keep ourselves from the love of money
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but to pursue what righteousness
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god
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godliness
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faith love and steadfastness and then
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finally to be not afraid of anything to
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be content because to to to be able to
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be
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to not have the love of money we have to
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find our satisfaction in god himself
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this is how we need to live to please
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god there's so much more that we can
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talk about but i don't i don't want to
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over talk here so i would encourage you
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to go back and read the book of
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ecclesiastes
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and also we'll encourage you to to go
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back and read this scripture again
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it's just so much that god is trying to
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tell us
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i am struggling with this idea of
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satisfaction because i get rest less
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every day i get up and i feel like i
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have so many things to do and i don't
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know what to do
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to the point where you can get torn
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in different places you can get pulled
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in many directions so the goal is to
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find that sweet tweet spot where
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the thing that fills you with worship
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and praise
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is what you need to be doing how do you
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know that you are satisfied are you
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filled with worship and praise
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when you complete your task when you are
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doing your tasks are you filled with
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worship and praise
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if that's the case then i would say that
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you are pretty much
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doing what you're supposed to be doing
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but you if you're constantly frustrated
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then it's time to ask the lord
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is this what you want me to do i'm
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feeling it right now
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you know and i'm i'm sharing with you so
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i'll encourage you again to go back and
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to read the scripture all right so have
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a wonderful day
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and i'll see you next time thank you