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hello good morning this is taiva types.com and today's message is is the gospel
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the wonderful plan god has for your life we're going to talk about that but before i get into it i want to play on
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this prayer by this house democrats that occurred about four days ago and i want to make some quick points
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here before we get into the message so let me play from uh um 2.18
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the god who created the world and everything in it bless us and keep us may the lord make
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his face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us may the lord lift up the light of his
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countenance upon us and give us peace peace in our families peace across
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this land and there i ask o lord peace even in this chamber now and evermore we ask it in the name
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of the monotheistic god brahma and god known by many
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names by many different faiths a man and a woman
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this ought to make you tremble if you believe in christ because this is the prayer and i will
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say that the outset that this is a prayer that was dedicated to demons i mean i don't find it funny he said
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amen and a woman yes this is ridiculous but the things that really grip me was the things that he said
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and i'll go back to it first of all we need to know he's reading numbers 6 24-26 the lord bless you and
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keep you the lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you the lord lift up his countenance upon
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you and give you peace now he is using a biblical prayer of blessing and
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he's using different names and he's trying to play this off and he's really bidding around the bush and he
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wants to be liked of course because he's one of those people that want to be liked by everybody so he has to include all um religious uh
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religions in there so listen to what he says here i want to play that again
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may the lord make his face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us may the lord lift up the light
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of his countenance upon us and give us peace peace in our families peace across
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this land and there i ask o lord peace even in this chamber now and evermore we ask it in the name
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of the monotheistic god okay we ask it in the name of the monotheistic god
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okay and listen to what he says next brahma brahma is a creator
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indian god he's not even talking about the god of the scripture he's talking about some foreign deities and he's mentioning
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brahma he's trying to play this off and this is not funny to me because if you're gonna use a biblical
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prayer then stick to the true god okay and i actually talked about how do
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we know that we serve the true god i have a link for that i'll give it to you in the description so this man is praying a prayer to
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demons so he is using the scripture and ascribing his prayer to another god so let's let's get that
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straight this is serious guys because this prayer was dedicated to
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demons let's listen to what he says next and god known by many names by many
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different faiths god knowns by many names by many different faiths
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so he is including every other religion in there by many different faiths okay
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this is a scriptural prayer so stick to the god of the bible don't try to play this off and
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don't i mean a man and a woman yes that was funny that's the icing on the kick that was funny that was kind of stupid because he shows
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his ignorance but at the same time what he prayed there was a prayer dedicated to demons and it's coming
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i just want to let you know persecution is coming as a believer you're going to be persecuted it's coming
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this is serious guys i mean this prayer because the scripture says we do not wrestle against flesh and
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blood but against principalities and this is exactly what is taking place we see on the physical
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we see that this man is being used by demons and he's praying a prayer dedicated to demons
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and in the heavenly realms we see that this is our planet we don't see because we don't have the spiritual eyes to see
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that but this is what's playing off in front of our eyes this is serious guys okay so brace yourself as a
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believer in christ again i don't want to be all um intellectual this morning this is
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serious man and and in this prayer that he prayed how to open your eyes to what is really
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taking place in in this country so brace yourself anyway now let's jump into um
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the study that i wanted to do this morning so the title is is the gospel the wonderful
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plan for your life they wonder the wonderful plan that god has for your life and i'm
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going to jump straight into my introduction and it is a fitting for us to talk about
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this this morning like preachers no longer want to preach the wrath of god because they want their congregation to
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be comfortable churches are filled with folks who are told sunday after sunday that god loves
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them and has a wonderful plan for their lives and there is nothing wrong with that there is nothing wrong with it
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and now when people preach it's all about the individual and his personal goal in life rather
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than the gospel of god and the gospel cannot be the gospel unless we truly understand
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the wrath of god and paul the apostle when confronted by god on the road to the musket
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damascus he did not think that the gospel was acute personal invitation from christ neither
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did paul think that preaching the wrath of god was old fashioned after his conversion
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so what i'm going to do this morning is we're going to be looking at the portions of romans 1 to understand why
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it's imperative that we begin the gospel with the wrath of god because without the wrath of god without understanding
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what the wrath of god is the gospel does not make sense at all you need to understand the wrath of god and preachers no longer
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want to do that because they want people people's ears to be tingled you know it's all about now oh god
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that's a wonderful plan for your life and they always use jeremiah 29 for i know the plans i have for you
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plans to give you hope in the future which there's nothing wrong with our prayer but at the same time
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when you keep telling people that every day every sunday every day every sunday when they hear that they no longer have a reference for for
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god because scripture says somewhere the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom
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there's no more reference that's because all we do is preach the love of god
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god loves this is why he is just and this is why he is righteous okay true love begins with hating
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what is evil because this is what scripture says genuine love must hate what is evil and
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we no longer want to talk about that we just want to focus so much on love that we turn this into some kind of emotionalism so let's jump
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into it and i'm going to go to romans 1 and we're going to read the portion of scripture that i chose for this morning okay
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so are you ashamed of the gospel and then let's read uh romans 1. we're going to
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go from verse 16 to 25 i think actually we are going to read from 16 to 32
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okay i'll start for i'm not for i'm not ashamed of the gospel
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for it is the power of god for salvation to everyone who believes to the jew first and also to the greek
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for in it the righteousness of god is revealed from faith and for faith as it is written the
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righteous shall live by faith for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
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and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth for what can be known
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about god is plain to them because god has shown it to them for his invisible attributes
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namely his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in
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the things that have been made so they are without excuse for although they knew god
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they did not honor him as guard or give thanks to him but he became futile in their thinking
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and their foolish hearts were darkened claiming to be wise they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal
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god for images resembling mortal men and birds and animals and creeping things
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therefore god gave them up in the lust of their hearts to impurity
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to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about god for a lie and
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worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever
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amen for this reason god gave them up to dishonorable passions for their women
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exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature and the men likewise gave up natural
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relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another men committing them
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shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves they do penalty for their error
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and since they did not see fit to acknowledge god god gave them up to a debased mind to do
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what ought not to be done they were filled with all men of unrighteous and righteousness
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evil covetousness malice they are full of envy murder strife deceit maliciousness they
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are gossips slanderers haters of god insolent haughty boastful inventors of evil disobedient
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to parent foolish faithless heartless ruthless though they know god's righteous decree
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that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do them but give approval to those who
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practice them okay i like this on this question here that says
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inventors of evil that man that just spoke that prayer this is exactly what he did he invented
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a new form of evil which is adding a man and a woman this is this is crazy
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this is the word of god and this roman 1 verse 16 to 32 ought to make you tremble
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because this is truth that paul is speaking and we are going to get into it now
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so why is paul not ashamed of the gospel because he said
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in verse 16 to 17 for i am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of god for salvation
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to everyone who believes to the jew first and also to the greek for in it the righteousness of god is
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revealed from faith and for faith as it is written the righteous shall live by faith
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so why is paul not ashamed paul is saying paul is saying it because he knows that
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all that's all we have basically the gospel is all that we have that's not all that we need but that's
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all that we have and i'm paraphrasing paul washer as well because that's all we have that's the
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only hope that we have and i will explain see i've asked myself this morning and
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several other times what is the gospel we need to understand where we stand before god prior
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to our regeneration before you were saved before you were converted did you know where you stood before god
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the whole world is doomed and we are objects of his wrath and destruction because we are objects of
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destruction because we have greatly offended god see we have broken his law
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consistently and daily and he absolutely hates it god does not look at our sins and go
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that's okay i love them that's not what happens he hates that
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he hates sinners but yet he still saves sinners but he hates sin and he
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hates and we are the object of sin so we are the one committing the sin so he's not gonna send sin to hell he's gonna send sinners to
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hell so you need to understand that before your conversion where did you stand
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okay god hates that we have broken his law he hates it so scripture says that there is none
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righteous not one we've all sinned and we have all fallen short of the glory of god
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and deuteronomy 6 5 says you shall love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul and with all your
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might and we need to understand what that means none of us has been able to keep deuteronomy 6 5. when was the last time
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you loved the lord with all your heart with all your mind and all of your strength when was the light when was the last time you did that
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nobody came and the thing is this we don't truly understand the nature of god so when because we don't understand the nature
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of god we think of god as us we think we are just like god where when we forgive somebody we we kind of
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have this idea like god is like this grandfather like uh santa claus sitting there and just like
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oh it's okay son i know you did something wrong today but that's okay i understand no he is holy in two ways he's holy
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because god is lives in himself and no one can do that because god is eternal
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and he's also holy because he's morally perfect so the little sin is enough to separate you from god
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so when have you ever heard about thought have you ever stolen have you ever thought lawful thought
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have you ever taken something that did not belong to you have you ever said allah i mean all these things are enough for capital
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punishment in god's eyes because the scripture says the soul that sins shall die
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we have to understand it so here's the thing paul says that the
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gospel is the power of god for salvation salvation from what salvation from what
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we need to understand it is salvation from the wrath of god
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salvation from his fierce indignation toward us this is where we stand before god he
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looks at us and he's ready to pour his wrath on us because we hate god
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we hate his lovely nature we hate everything that is good we are not like god and paul understood
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his position prior to his conversion so when he was preached the good news by god himself on the road to damascus on the road to
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damascus he received it as good news indeed he did not think that the revelation he
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received was cute it was a wonderful message in the sense that god has a wonderful plan for your
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life no he did not hear that god had a wonderful plan for his life but he was preached that he needed to repent
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repentance repent for his sins and believe the only way to be saved was to receive
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the forgiveness of jesus christ and receive the holy spirit to be sustained see this is why paul is not ashamed of
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the gospel because that's all we have paul also said that in this good news
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god is demonstrating that he is just and righteous he will certainly punish sins and now we
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need to understand why the wrath of god is see in the gospel god also demonstrate
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that he is righteous because for the longest time
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satan probably thought god i thought you were righteous how come you did not punish david how come did you know send them to
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hell how come they don't suffer your wrath and they were always calling on god and saying to god
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when you say you are just then how are you going to allow these things to happen god had a plan he was going to bring
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jesus in the world to say listen i'm a righteous god and i'm a just god and i will punish sins and on the cross jesus bore the penalty
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for our sins the righteous for only for the unrighteous see by the gospel god is also
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demonstrating that he is god and he is righteous and he is just that sin will be punished okay
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and now we need to understand why the wrath of god is and exist we need to understand that the
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wrath of god see scripture says for the wrath of god
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is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men
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who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth what truth do they suppress we need to
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know because the wrath of god is directed
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against people who are ungodly okay they display attitude that are not consistent with the character of god
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and they also are immoral in their behavior they do things that violate the law of
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god the moral law of god these people because of their immorality they suppress the truth
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they choke stifle repress the truth because of their own immorality and i'll give you some examples i have a
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friend of mine who denies that god exists so i went through a lot of argument with him
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and he he he agrees in the sense that he tries to resist him but he he began he began to understand
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what this meant and ultimately we got to the point where he said to me i want you to do what i
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want to do and i finally understood why he rejected god and the existence of god
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because he wants to be his own master he wants to live a life of sin he wants
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to be immoral so in his immorality he represses suppresses and stifles the truth and
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this is what people do people do think about a giant spring a coil that you kind of press down press down
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press down with all your might at some point it's gonna pop back up so this is what people do these people do
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they suppress the truth because of their own immoral behavior they begin to deny that there is a god
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because they know that if they acknowledge that there is a god and there is a true god
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then it's going to force them to acknowledge that they are wrong in their behavior so what do they do
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they suffrage the truth they repress the truth they press it down they try to find every way to deny that there is a god
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even though the proof is in in right in their eyes so what is that truth what is that truth
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that is suppressed i just told you in verse 19 to 2020 we are told for what can be known about god is plain to them
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because god has shown it to them for his invisible attributes namely his eternal power and divine nature have been
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clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have been made so there
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are without excuse what does that mean it is the truth about his existence paul
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says that god himself god himself has successfully and successfully taught people about his
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eternal power and divine nature through his elderly creation i'll repeat
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that again god himself has successfully taught people about his eternal power and
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divine nature through his orderly creation basically god has so clearly made himself known to
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the general the general revelation that be the things that have been made
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that no man can honestly say that there is no evidence for the existence of god basically when people say that there is
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no god they are being dishonest and they are basically accusing god saying you haven't given me enough
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evidence even though god says it gets through it gets through meaning they know so they are
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without excuse the message gets through to everyone so there is no excuse
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this is why paul said it is the immorality of mankind that leads them to reject the existence of god
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it's not that they don't know that there is a god they know but because of their own immorality immoral behavior they rejected so we are
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actually in a much worse predicament in our day and age because see in in uh
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paul's time didn't have all the advancement in technology and science now in our day and age all sciences
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pretty much most sciences like math um biology whatever you name it in the advancing
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technology they have given us even more evidence of the undeniable proof of the existence of god
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so to deny the existence of god now is actually worse okay and like i said i give you
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plenty of example right now we have so much more proofs that god exists even i talked about
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the telescope in in the in the 1900s that was that approved at the universe at the beginning which means he wasn't it
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wasn't always there so that he had to be created he had to have a beginning and nothing you know screams louder than that that
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there is a god and i gave you i go through this process to show that god really is and if you
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want to look at that i have a i will have a link for in the description so basically what pushes people to deny
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the existence of god is not that they don't have enough evidence because god has given plenty through
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the general revelation that is the created things so what pushes people to reject god is
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their own immorality their own immoral behavior they want to hang on to their
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sins so therefore they reject the truth so let's see what happens when they continue to do that
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so not only do these people reject god but they actually have the audacity
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to blame god for their condition basically they say that the reason why they don't believe
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god is is because there is not enough evidence and paul is saying that they reject god
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like i said because of their own immorality so and then they move to the next step
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which is verse one to verse 21 to 23 for although they knew god
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they did not honor him as god or give thanks to him but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened
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claiming to be wise they became fools and they exchanged the glory of the immortal god for images
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resembling mortal men and birds and animals and creeping things basically what happened is this
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uh highlighted exchanged because when you begin to believe your lie
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long enough it turns into truth for you so in paul's time the people exchanged the glory of god
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for fashionable idols created created by their own hands this is what mankind does
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we reject the undeniable true god and exchange him for idols created by our own hands
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idols we can appease with our own fabricated religious practices we create idols because we
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exchange the glory of god to serve idols that we ourself have created so that we can appease them with
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our own fabricated religious beliefs in paul's time they had like wooden stones wooden and
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stone idols and they could worship those in our day we've created a more suffix
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more sophistic a more sophisticated solu idols which are comfort pleasure
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intellectualism emotionalism humanism relativism just to name a few
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you know you have a lot of people now want to be so they want to they just want comfort in life that's all they want to to the point
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where they idolize comfort they want pleasure and they turn their whole life into pleasure seeking
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pleasure some people want to be so intellectual that they they will deny everything just to hold on to this
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intellectualism some people are all about emotion okay they idolize emotion they are always seeking for this high emotional
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high some people are their own god this is humanism okay they say well i'm my own god and i want
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to do my own thing so you the focus on the individual and relativism is rampant now
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where you believe what you want to believe i believe my truth so therefore you have your truth and i have my truth and therefore now it's funny because
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at that point if there's no objectivity and there's no objective truth so you end up with just what
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chaos but people don't want to acknowledge that again they begin to reject god and they now fall into this idolatry this is idolatry
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at his best being your own god so when you reject god soon enough you believe your own lies
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and you exchange the truth for a lie and that lie becomes your own personal truth and therefore you live by that and you
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think you are your own god and what's the consequence and we're going to read the consequence
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because people insist on living out their immorality by rejecting god here's what happens in
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verse 24 therefore god gave them up in the lusts
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of their hearts to impunity to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves
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because they exchanged the truth about god for a lie and worshiped and served the creature
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rather than the creator who is blessed forever amen amen
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so the wrath of god has already begun see people say god's wrath is going to come at some
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point he's already begun because god gives people up to their own
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desires and they go from bad to worse the judgment of god
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has already started to the one who has been given up to the loss of his own heart to truly understand this i want to
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go to first samuel 2 verse 2 to 17 and verse 22 to 25 let's let's do that right now
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so we're gonna read about eli's worthless sons again i don't i would not want to be
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called worthless now scripture says now the sons of eli were worthless men
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why because they did not know the lord the custom of the priest with the people
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was that when any man offered sacrifice the priest servant would come while the meat was boiling
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with a three plunged fork in his hand and he would thrust into into the pen or kettle or cauldron or
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pot all that the frog brought the priest would take for himself this is what they did a shiloh to all
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the israelites who came there moreover before the fat was burned the priest servant would come and say to
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the man who was sacrificing give meat for the priest to roast for he will not accept boiled
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meat from you but only raw and if the men say to him let them burn the fat first and then take as much as you wish
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he will say no you must give it now and if not i would take it by force thus the sin of the young man was very
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great in the sight of the lord for the man treated the offering of the lord with contempt
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samuel was ministering before the lord a boy clothed with a linear ephod and his mother used to make for him a
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little robe and take it to him each year when she she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice
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then eli will bless elkanah and his wife and save me the lord gives you children by this woman for the petition she asks for
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of the lord so then they will return to their home indeed the law of his dead hannah and she conceived and brought three sons
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and two daughters and the boy samuel grew in the presence of the lord now eli was very old and he kept hearing
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all that his sons were doing to all israel and how they lay with the women we were serving at the entrance of the tent of
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meeting and he said to them why do you do such things for i hear of your evil dealings from all these people nor my sons it is
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no good report that i hear the people of the lord spreading abroad if someone sins against a man god will
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mediate for him but if someone sins against the lord who can intercede for him
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but they will not listen to the voice of their father for it was the will of the lord to put
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them to death if verse 25 does not send shields down your spine then you are insensitive
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scripture says but they will not listen to the voice of their father why for it was the will of the lord
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to put them to death this man had so resisted and rejected god that he gave
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them up there was no more redemption for them there was no more atonement for their sins because they were pretty much
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disregarding what was going to atone for their sins they treated the offering of the lord
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with contempt thus insulting and desecrating the offering of the lord and at that moment
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god says that's it they are done all they are waiting now is my
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condemnation and my judgment he gave them up because scripture says for it was the
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will of the lord to put them to death for they will not listen to the voice of their father
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god hard in their heart scriptures say but they would not listen to the voice of their father why
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for it was the will of the lord to put them to death and let's go back to romans basically god gave up the two sons of
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eli to the loss of their own heart because they rejected his counsel and would not turn away from their
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immorality so he gave them up and you don't want to be in that position because there is no returning once you
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are at that stage but are waiting after full wrath of god okay so
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have you been given over to a debate's mind that's next now paul gives a list of things that
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characterize the person who might have been given over to the lost office of her heart and we're going to
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read that in verse 26 2 31 he says here for this reason god gave them up
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to dishonorable passions for their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature
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these are lesbians and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with
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passion for one another again homosexual men committing shameless acts with men
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and receiving in themselves they do penalty for their error so once you've been given a debased mind
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this is the actions and this is the behaviors that you display and since they did not see fit to
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acknowledge god god gave them up to a debased mind to do what uh
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what what ought not to be done they were filled with all manner of unrighteousness
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and he gives the example covetousness malice they are full of envy murder
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strife deceit maliciousness they are gossips slanderers haters of god insolent
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haughty boastful inventors of evil disobedient to parent foolish faithless heartless and ruthless
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faithless okay they don't they have unbelief disobedient to parent inventors of evil
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i mean you can turn on the tv and see all kind of evil filth people have invented these days because
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they've been giving over to the loss of their heart is that you and if it is you are you hearing are you
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hearing the voice of god today that caused you to repent because here's the thing some people will not hear the voice of
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god again in the sense that they may hear the word of god but it won't mean anything to them because just
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like the eli sons scripture says for they would not listen to the voice of their father
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for it was the will of the lord to put them to death i hope that this is not you
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i'm truly hoping because this is the worst day to be in in verse 32 though they knew they know
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god righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do them but
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give approval to those who practice them eventually these people that have been given over to a debate's mind become
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relentless enemies of god and they get to the point where they encourage other people to follow in their
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footsteps and they adding more sins to the existing sins they've been completely giving over they
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are just drifting drifting in life so man praying that that's not you because if i'm speaking this morning you
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hear the voice of god through this and the lord is calling you to repentance i hope that you
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you heed this word this morning and say lord i repent of my sins in dust and ashes because today if you
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are hearing his voice and i i don't encourage you because i've shouldn't say i encourage you i warn you it's a
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warning to repent industrial nation you better repent in dust and ashes because the wrath of god is already here if
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you've been given over and it's these words that i'm speaking mean nothing to you maybe you've been giving over to the enemy
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so if you hear the voice repent and believe the gospel and receive the
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holy spirit this morning because it's coming the wrath of god is
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here and he has began again so if you have been given over to a debased mind there
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is no hope for those but i'm praying that this is not the case for you if you hear the voice of the lord this morning please
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repent and believe the gospel and receive the holy spirit that will sustain you wonderful day