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2 John 1:4-11, Continue In The Truth, Abide In The Love Of God & Expose The Heretics
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Feb 19, 2025
We kicked off the second book of John several days ago, and gave our attention to verses 1-3, the salutation. Before John even begins his letter, he preaches the gospel in his greetings to the addressee. We’re going to continue today and turn our attention to verses 4 through 11. John exhorts his readers to continue in the Truth, to abide in the love of God and to resist the heretics and their deceptive ways.
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welcome back uh to our study of the book
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of second john
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we started last week and we talked about
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verses one two three
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and in verses one through three uh john
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basically just gives
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a salutation i'm gonna read it and then
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we're gonna recap what we talked about
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and then we're going to jump into the
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rest of the episode
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so basically john says in the beginning
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they let the elder to the elect lady and
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her children mumma love in truth
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and not only i but also all who know the
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truth because of the truth that abides
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in us and will be with us forever
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grace mercy and peace will be with us
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from god
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the father and from jesus christ the
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father's son in truth and love
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and the last week we talked about how
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from the get-go before he even begins
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his
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letter john preaches the gospel he talks
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about
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the elect lady basically saying that she
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was chosen by god
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again and people like i said uh last
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week
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some people don't like this doctrine of
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election because
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they say that's not fair as if god owes
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us
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to to actually save us he doesn't owe us
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god again says i will have mercy
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on whom i have mercy and i will have
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compassion on whom i have compassion so
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god is the one that does the choosing
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and we talked about it we also talked
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about how john mentions that he loved
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the lady and her elect children uh in
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the truth and we talked about what that
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means
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uh we talked about the love of god and
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we said that the love of god was not
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a love that was based on human emotions
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and human reasoning or
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it doesn't come from man but it is a
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love that is
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gifted by the holy spirit it is the love
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that is planted in our hearts by the
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holy spirit and when we love people
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like that we show the true love of god
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because the love of god
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pretty much says that i'm going to love
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you in such a way that
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he preserves the righteousness of god it
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is a love that seeks to honor god
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and then preserves and maintain the
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integrity of his character
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so we talked about how john says this is
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how i love you
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this is how i love people because we
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have to all have to love people like
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that because
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as god's children we are indwelled with
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the holy spirit
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and he enables us to love like god loves
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so we talked about that and we also
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talked about how
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john mentions jesus being the father son
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which
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makes jesus co-equal with god of the
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same
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substance and we talked about what that
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meant so this is just the introduction
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and and then john talks about how grace
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mercy and peace come from
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god the father and the son jesus christ
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and he said
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that without truth and love you can't
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have grace mercy and peace because god
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has to maintain the integrity of his
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character
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so when jesus was nailed on the cross he
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was the expiation and propitiation for
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our sin so god was shown that he was not
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going to just
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let sins slide by so he punished sin
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and when jesus was nailed to the cross
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he showed that god
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excuse me maintained the integrity of
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his character
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he maintained justice but he also shows
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his mercy and grace
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now mercy god did not have to accept
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jesus
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sacrifice but he did it by using but
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by his mercy and grace he extends his
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mercy to us
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he extends his grace to us he doesn't
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have to but god did it
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okay so we talked about all that last
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week this is just the introduction
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before john even begins his letter
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he makes sure that he presents the
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gospel okay
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now we're gonna go and then read verses
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four to the last verse and then we are
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going to look at it one verse at a time
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so
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second john four second john 1 verses
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4 to the rest of the chapter so that's
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what we're going to be reading now
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and i'm going to be showing you on the
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rest of the verse
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in the under on the screen so the title
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of that
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um subsection is working in truth
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and love so this is what john says here
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i rejoiced
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greatly to find some of your children
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walking in the truth just as we were
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commended by the father
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and now excuse me i ask you dear lady
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not as though i were writing you a new
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commandment
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but the one we've heard from the
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beginning that we
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love one another and this is love
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that we walk according to his
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commandment and this is the commandment
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just as you've heard from the beginning
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so that you should walk in it
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for many deceivers have gone out into
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the world
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those who do not confess the coming of
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jesus christ
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in the flesh such a one is a deceiver
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and the antichrist
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watch yourselves so that you may not
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lose
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what we have worked for but may win a
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full reward
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everyone who goes on ahead and does not
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abide in the teaching of christ
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does not have god whoever abides in the
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teaching has both the father
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and the son if anyone comes to you and
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does not bring
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this teaching do not receive him into
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your house
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or give him any greeting for whoever
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greets him
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takes part in the wicked in his weekend
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works and then
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the final greetings do i have much to
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write to you
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i would rather not use paper and ink
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instead instead
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i hope to come to you and talk face to
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face so that our joy may be complete
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the children of your elect sister greets
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you
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and this is the end of the letter so now
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we are going to dissect this and
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understand what john is telling us
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in this letter again the first verse
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john says i rejoiced greatly to find
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some of your children walking in the
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truth
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just as we were commended by the father
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now the object of john's delight is not
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the fact that some of the elects uh
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child ladies children
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have great careers or that they are like
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great fathers
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or have great wealth or a good name
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a great reputation or they've
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accumulated a lot of knowledge and
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wisdom that's not what john is
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delighting
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john's delight he was so thrilled that
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some of her children
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were actually walking according to the
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truth
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we need to know what truth the truth is
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taught by the apostles concerning jesus
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and what he has commanded them by god
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the father to teach
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okay if you go to matthew 28 verse 19 to
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20 listen to what jesus says here
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go therefore and make disciples of
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all nations baptizing them in the name
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of the father
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and of the son and of the holy spirit
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teaching them to observe all that i have
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commanded you
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and behold i am with you always to the
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end of the age
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so the disciples now became apostles and
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they were entrusted with the truth of
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the gospel
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so they were designated by jesus to
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carry out the ministry he had entrusted
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to them
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but they were false teachers in a church
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that were a constant
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threat and we're gonna see that in in
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the later verses
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they were introducing destructive
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heresies and john and the rest of the
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apostles they had to contend for the
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truth
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they had been entrusted with by jesus so
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we're gonna see some specific
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heresies that john was facing but john
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is saying listen lady i rejoice
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because i see that some of your children
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are walking in the truth that we've been
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teaching you
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they are consistent and that is bringing
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john a lot of
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pleasure because he knows listen these
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kids and these children are walking in
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the truth
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i rejoice i'll submit to you do you
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rejoice
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that your children or people that you
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know and people that you've been
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invested in are walking in the truth
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does that give you joy
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because truly speaking there is no joy
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like watching someone
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walking in light in the light of the
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gospel of god
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because like i used to you know when i
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grew up
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it was my dad's uh pleasure that i
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have like maybe a great career i became
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something he that's what my
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my parents that's what i wanted they
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wanted me to go to school
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get a good degree and then get a job and
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have a great family and then
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this is what most most parents want they
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want their children to succeed in life
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and the idea of success
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is pretty much narrow in the sense that
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they just want you to have a great
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career
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this is not what john is rejoicing in
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jones finds his pleasure in the fact
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that
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that lady's children are walking in the
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truth the true version
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what jesus taught them about himself
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so he sees that these children actually
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obeying the words of god
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through jesus they are obeying this
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because the holy spirit lives in them
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and that gives
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john a great uh pleasure he's like i'm
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so
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delighted that your children are walking
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in the truth is that you
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because at the end of the day when we
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die we don't take none of our
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accusations with us all we have is our
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soul
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now are you saved and then for me what i
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want
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for my children is that they walk in the
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truth of the gospel that's what i want
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now we're going to go to verse 5. now
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this is
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listen to what john says and now i ask
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you
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dear lady not as though i was writing
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you a new commandment but the one we've
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heard from the beginning that we love
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one another you see jones was always
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is known as the apostle of love john
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always put a huge emphasis on love
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and when john talks about love he's not
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talking about the love that people know
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like it's not being nice that's not love
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that's not what love is
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according to john according to the
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gospel so he talked about it in his
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first episode
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the command to love one another because
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love
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as us as we see in scripture covers over
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a multitude of sins
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so the love that john is talking about
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is a love that is not whimsical
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is grounded in the truth and the
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character of god is a holy love
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that seeks to preserve the holiness of
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god and to edify the church and keep it
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from being polluted
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by the things of the world so john is
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asking the lady to continue in this love
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he said you should continue to love one
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another
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in that way a protective love a love
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that delights in
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honoring god so john is saying lady this
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is the new this is not a new commandment
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but it's a commandment that you've had
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since the beginning love one another
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in this way in one way by upholding the
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character of god the holiness of god and
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then
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loving people in that way to prevent
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them from living
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in in such a way that is uh contrary to
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the word of god
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so this is what john delights in so he
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tells the lady continue to do this
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continue to do this continue to love one
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another like
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that all right and then in verse 6
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listen to how john defines love again he
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gives us a
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great explanation of love which to me
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was just revolutionary
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listen to what john says and this is
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love
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that we walk according to his
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commandment
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and this is the commandment just as
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you've heard from the beginning so that
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you should walk in it
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so love basically according to john
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is it's a love that seeks to obey the
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commandments of god so
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the way i show love to my brother or
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sister in christ is by obeying god
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so my obedience to god and your
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obedience to god is actually showing
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love to your brother or your sister in
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christ this is how john defines love you
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do you see that
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it's a love that first says i'm gonna
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love god
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correctly i'm gonna love god completely
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so i can love my brothers and sisters in
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christ
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correctly so he's a love that is first
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vertical it's a love that says
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i'm going to live in such a way that
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sorry for the interruption my wife was
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calling my son so
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like i was saying it is a love that
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seeks first to obey the word of god so
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loving one another is directly related
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to loving and obeying the word of god so
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the way
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i show another brother or sister that i
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love him or her
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is through my obedience of the
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commandments of god
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so this is like revolutionary this is
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not how we view it even in the church
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so the way the church defines love when
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i say the church
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i'm talking about the the church today
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like
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not just our church or my church or the
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church in general
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it's like the way i see people define
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love is almost like you have to be nice
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kind of like when you go to chick-fil-a
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and those workers at chick-fil-a are
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extremely nice and polite
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this is how the church defines lord like
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you have to be nice
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love has nothing to do with being nice
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love
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according to the scripture is obeying
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the word of god so the way i show
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love to my brothers and sisters in
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christ is by being obedient
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an obedient child to my father and this
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is what jesus did
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jesus came to be the light he came and
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he says
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my food is to do the will of him who
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sent me
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so jesus he's he's uh jesus
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pretty much his primary function when he
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came on earth
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yes he died for our sins but he wanted
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to obey
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god the father according to deuteronomy
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6
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verse 5 the scripture says you shall
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love the lord your god
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with all your heart with all your mind
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and reward you so basically this is what
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jesus did
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jesus lived his life to please god
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okay and this is the kind of love that
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john is asking us to do to to walk
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according to the commandments of god
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this is something that we can't do
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on a human level this is why this is
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enabled
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only by the holy spirit and this is what
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john is trying to communicate here
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it is a this is why he's rejoicing when
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he sees this lady's children walking in
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the truth because he knows that the
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spirit of god
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dwells in them because no one can love
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like that unless the spirit of god
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lives in them and then we're going to
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look at verse 7.
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john gives the reason why he's telling
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this to the lady he says for many
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deceivers
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have gone out into the world those who
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do not confess
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the coming of jesus christ in the flesh
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in the flesh
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such a one is the deceiver and the
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antichrist
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so in this verse john explains the
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disobedient act
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displayed by those who do not believe
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and do not love the brothers
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so they deny that jesus has come in the
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flesh in the sense that they deny the
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human nature of our savior
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they basically this is what john was
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facing with the gnostic teachers
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they claimed that jesus was never truly
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truly man that it was almost like a
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mirage
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so and this was typical of the gnostic
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teachers
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they couldn't conceive how god became
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flesh
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how this that how the world became flesh
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so they denied that jesus was truly god
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and truly man
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so one of them they are leading teachers
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surrenders
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he actually said that jesus gained the
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god status
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the day he was being baptized and then
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he lost it before
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he went to the cross so basically he
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said that the spirit of god
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left jesus before he went to the cross
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so john is saying this is not the jesus
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that i'm preaching to you
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because don't listen to those that are
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preaching this jesus those are not
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true brothers so john was was telling
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the lady
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listen uh the jesus that i'm preaching
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to you is the jesus that came
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as a human if you go to philippians 2
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the scripture says
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do nothing out of um vain conceit or
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selfish ambition but in humility
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consider others better than yourself
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okay and your attitude should be like
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christ who
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being in very nature god did not
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consider
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equality with god a thing to be grasped
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but he made himself
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nothing by becoming a servant and he
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emptied himself
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didn't mean that he lost his attributes
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but he concealed his glory by becoming a
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human
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so jesus came in the flesh meaning he
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came as a human
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and he became obedient even obedient to
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death on the cross
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so therefore god exalted him and gave
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him the name that is above every name
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the name is the lord so jesus is god so
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the the the the false teachers they
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denied
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the the human nature of christ and they
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claimed that they had secret knowledge
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so what john was saying is this the
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jesus i'm preaching to you is the one
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who we have seen we have touched
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he became a man if you go to john 1 1.
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the scripture says in the beginning
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was the word and the word was with god
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and the word was god
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and then the word became flesh and made
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his dwelling among us so jesus christ
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came in the flesh so he came as a truly
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human being
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he had all the things that we he he
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thirst
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he hungered he was tired he slept
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so he had a human body it wasn't a
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mirage
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so john is saying those those false uh
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teachers they are deceiving you so don't
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listen to them and by what they are
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doing they are showing that they don't
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truly
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love the brothers because they are
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denying
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the very essence of the nature of christ
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okay so and they weren't teaching what
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was consistent with scriptures
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so that's what john was saying here now
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in verse eight and nine now these verses
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are very
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very difficult so listen to what john
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says watch yourselves
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so that you may not lose what we have
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worked for
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but may win a full reward everyone who
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goes on ahead and doesn't
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does not abide in the teaching of christ
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does not
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have god whoever abides in the teaching
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has both the father
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and the son so you have to read these
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two verses together
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okay we just talked about the false
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teachers and what they were preaching
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so what john is saying in verse 8 is
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this what is the reward that john is
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referring to
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i believe uh john his main purpose was
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to preach the gospel
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so he left his regular job as a
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fisherman to become a preacher
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so that was his work so if he preached
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in order that people might be saved
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so the reward he was talking about was
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probably salvation
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okay so john john was not suggesting
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that people could lose their salvation
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that's not what john is saying
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but what john is saying is that those
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who lose their reward or those who
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lose their salvation if you want to say
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were never truly converted in the first
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place
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so because you cannot lose your
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salvation because salvation comes from
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god it is
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god himself who enables you to receive
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jesus as your lord and savior
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so and and and by people not abiding in
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the teaching of christ
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they show that they were not truly
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converted
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judas was not truly converted but he
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spent time with jesus but he was never
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truly converted
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he didn't abide in the teaching of
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christ and there were many more false
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brothers
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in the church like that they came in the
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church but then they left and john says
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they are leaving
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showed that they were never really truly
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of
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us in the sense that of the church
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pretty much
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they were not really true shepherd they
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were shepherds of death
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so and jesus talks about something
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similar in the parable of the soil which
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i want us to look at it okay i want us
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to look at that because that's important
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in order for us to understand what john
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is saying here so if you go to luke 8
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verse 4 to 15 listen to what jesus is
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saying here
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and when he cried and a great crowd was
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gathering and people from town after
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town came to him
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he said in a parable a sower went out to
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sow his seed
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and as he sowed some fell along the path
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and was trampled underfoot and the birds
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of the air devoured it
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and some fell on the rock and as he grew
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up
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he whitted away because he had no
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moisture
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and some fell among thorns and the
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thorns grew up
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with it and choked it and some fell into
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good soil and grew and yielded a hundred
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fold
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as he said these things he called out he
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who has ears
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let him hear and he gives the purpose he
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explains the parable
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and when he is when his disciples asked
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him what is purple meant
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he said to you it has been given to know
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the secrets of the kingdom of god but
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for others
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they are in parables so that seeing the
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men are see and hearing they may not
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understand
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now the parable is this the seed is the
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word of god
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the ones along the path are those who
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have heard then the devil comes and
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takes away the word
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from their hearts so they may not
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believe and be saved
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and the ones on the rock are those who
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when they hear the word receive it with
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joy
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but these have no root they believe for
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a while and in time of destiny they fall
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away
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and as for what fell among the thorns
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there are those who hear
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but as they go on their way they are
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choked by the cares and riches
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and pleasures of life and their food
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does not mature
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as for that in the good soil there are
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those who
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here in the world hold it fast in an
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honest and good heart
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and bear fruit with patience so you can
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kind of see what john is trying to say
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the same thing here he's saying
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everyone who goes on ahead and does not
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abide in the teaching of christ
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does not have god whoever abides in the
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teaching has both the father and the son
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so those that lose their reward or may
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have may win a full reward are pretty
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much
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those who are never truly converted
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because you cannot lose your salvation
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so if you
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if you at some point veer off and going
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a different
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direction maybe you were never truly
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converted so you you have to read this
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you to to understand this passage you
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have to read the parable of the soil
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okay and then we're going to look at
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verses
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10-11 if anyone comes to you and does
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not bring this teaching
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do not receive him into your house or
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give him a greeting
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for whoever greets him take part in his
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wicked works
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now john is issuing a strong warning
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here
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at the end of his letter so when jesus
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taught his disciples he went from town
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to town
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he will often be invited to like
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people's houses to come and teach
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because some people recognize him as a
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man and tested by god
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and elisha the prophet he also did it
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when the tsunami woman
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received in the old testament so
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hospitality
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especially shown hospitality to the
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messengers of god
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was encouraged so john knew that the
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gnostic teachers were also going from
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town to towns
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to spread their heritage so he was
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strongly warning the church folks to not
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show them any hospitality
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because by doing so they could hurt
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themselves especially if they were
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new converts not grounded in the truth
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and by showing them hospitality
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to to these false teachers they were
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pretty much sharing in their wicked
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works
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and i believe the same principle applied
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to us today
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under no circumstances shall we hide
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under the ban of love
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and kindness and receive any heretic so
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we we we have to turn away from these
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these people especially if they are
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pretty adamant about preaching and
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continuing
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in their heresies and that goes for like
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mormons
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jehovah witnesses and any teaching that
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is not consistent with truth
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found in sacred scripture because a lot
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of these false teachers
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and a lot of church folks they say well
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we have to be nice to them
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i don't need to be nice to someone that
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is preaching a heresy and is assistant
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or not listening to the truth
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you don't need to give me platform you
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don't need to let them come and then
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pollute your ears i don't have time for
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that
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and john is saying don't even wait waste
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your time
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listening to these folks because they
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are not even preaching the truth now you
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can engage
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with them and then and then show them
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the truth and i say listen this is what
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the scripture teaches
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but don't pretty much give them a
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platform don't don't allow them to come
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in
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and dine in and then just sit there and
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like share this
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time as if their brothers they are not
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my brothers they don't believe what i
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believe
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so we don't believe in the same god okay
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we don't believe the truth
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they may have a bible but they don't
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believe the words of the scripture
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they don't believe in the truth are told
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by jesus
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they have a false view of jesus so they
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may name the name of jesus but
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the jesus that they are proclaiming is
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not the jesus of the scriptures
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so john is saying don't welcome these
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people don't give them a platform don't
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give them an opportunity to share their
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heresies
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you can disagree with them you can point
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them to the truth and if these people
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are adamant about
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pretty much insisting on um on sticking
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to their truth and to their view of the
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scripture then you need to just turn
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away from them and don't even receive
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them into your house
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because now what if you do that you are
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encouraging
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them so don't show them hospitality in
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the sense that don't give them a
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platform where they can
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they can pretty much uh promote their
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false
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teachings let's say i have a i have a
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channel
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a youtube channel where i speak about
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the things of god and then i go around
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and
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invite a jehovah witness just to talk to
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him and tell me
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to ask him to to share what he knows
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about i mean i'm not going to do that
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because i don't need people's ears being
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polluted
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my job is to expose the falsehood
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and their heresies as a believer in
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christ
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we have the truth we have it so
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why do we need to encourage someone that
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does not believe the scripture just
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because he names the name of christ
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and i've seen a lot of people say that
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when he talks about jesus
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but this he the jesus that he mentions
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is not the jesus of the scripture
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the gnostic teachers did that they said
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that jesus
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was not truly god because they say that
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he was
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aries for example aries whom from whom
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the jehovah's
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witness find their teaching everyone
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said that jesus was a created being that
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he was the first one
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first born among creation so according
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to aries
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he believed that jesus was created so
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if i give a man like that a platform i'm
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encouraging him to to continue in his
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head says no i'm not gonna give him a
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platform
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i'm not even gonna receive him because
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he's he's polluting people's ears
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so john is saying don't let that happen
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we have to be firm as believers because
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this is
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about hell in heaven okay the wrath of
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god
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comes because of this kind of stuff so
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that's all i wanted to share today now
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the rest of the letter is pretty much
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his greetings
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so this is pretty much the end of the
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book of second john and i hope that
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you've
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you've learned it a little from there
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from here again
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john his main purpose was to to talk
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about
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jesus coming by water and by blood and
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we say by that that jesus came by water
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is the jesus that uh when he came when
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when he was declared by the holy spirit
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to be the son of god
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there was when john performed his
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baptism
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he proved that jesus was indeed the son
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of god and he's the same jesus that
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also died on the cross for the sake of
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humanity
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those that god the father has called
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okay so we talked about john has been
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john's main purpose was
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jesus as coming in the flesh and then
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love one another obeying the word of god
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so in all these letters i see that
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there's a recurring theme
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okay so i just want you to go back and
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read that again because don't don't take
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my words for it go back and read the
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word of god and find it for yourself
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because the spirit of god lives in us
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and he's going to give you and guide you
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into all the truth
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so that's all i have for you today have
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a good evening and i'll see you next
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time