Andrew Wommack: Gospel Truth

Andrew Wommack - Romans Highlights

April 8, 2025 | S25:E73

Andrew elaborates on the first 8 chapters in the Book of Romans.

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Andrew Wommack: Gospel Truth | Andrew Wommack - Romans Highlights | April 8, 2025

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>> welcome to gospel truth
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With andrew wommack.
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Celebrating 25 years of sharing
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God's unconditional love
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And grace on television.
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>> andrew, i'd like to thank you
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From the bottom of my heart, for
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Your teachings. because we
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Cherish your teachings,
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And they've become a
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Big part of our life.
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>> my wife and i are so thankful
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For your steadfastness, your
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Commitment to the work of god.
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>> i thank you andrew.
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>> and now here's andrew.
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>> welcome to our tuesday's
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Broadcast of the gospel truth.
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Today i'm continuing a series
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That i've entitled romans
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Highlights. this is a real quick
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Overview or highlight of
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The first eight chapters
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Of the book of romans
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And i said these things at
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The beginning of this series,
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But the book of romans, is
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But the book of romans, is paul's masterpiece on grace.
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Paul's masterpiece on grace. and i tell you if you don't
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And i tell you if you don't understand the book of romans,
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Understand the book of romans, if it isn't one of your favorite
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If it isn't one of your favorite books, then i'm not saying this
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Books, then i'm not saying this to condemn but just enlighten,
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To condemn but just enlighten, but you do not understand
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But you do not understand the gospel. i tell you this is
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The gospel. i tell you this is powerful, and yet some of these
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Powerful, and yet some of these things just seem so contrary to
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Things just seem so contrary to all of the stuff that we've been
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All of the stuff that we've been taught and that we've come to
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Taught and that we've come to understand that it makes it hard
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Understand that it makes it hard to understand but that's because
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To understand but that's because religion has corrupted things.
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Religion has corrupted things. we have a lot of performance
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We have a lot of performance based stuff in our religion
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Based stuff in our religion today, our christian religion.
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Today, our christian religion. it's all about you got to be
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It's all about you got to be good enough, holy enough for god
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Good enough, holy enough for god to use you and to flow through
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To use you and to flow through you. and that's just not true.
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You. and that's just not true. that's not what these verses are
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That's not what these verses are saying. so, i'm going to have to
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Saying. so, i'm going to have to jump right into the middle of
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Jump right into the middle of this. and we've already covered
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This. and we've already covered now... we're at the very last
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Now... we're at the very last verse of romans, chapter 5, and
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Verse of romans, chapter 5, and it's already talked about it's
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It's already talked about it's the gospel, the grace of god,
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The gospel, the grace of god, that is the power of god unto
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That is the power of god unto salvation. they've talked about
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Salvation. they've talked about how the people that don't
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How the people that don't know the word of god are still
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Know the word of god are still accountable because they have
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Accountable because they have an intuitive knowledge on the
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An intuitive knowledge on the inside of them. people who do
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Inside of them. people who do know the word of god are
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Know the word of god are doubly accountable because they
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Doubly accountable because they not only have the intuitive
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Not only have the intuitive revelation that god puts inside
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Revelation that god puts inside of every person, but they also
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Of every person, but they also have the written word of god
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Have the written word of god and so they are without excuse.
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And so they are without excuse. and romans, chapter 3, just
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And romans, chapter 3, just concludes all of us that we've
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Concludes all of us that we've all sinned, and come short of
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All sinned, and come short of the glory of god. and so since
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The glory of god. and so since we're all in the same boat, the
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We're all in the same boat, the one answer is the same thing
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One answer is the same thing that will work for everybody,
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That will work for everybody, and that's just jesus came and
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And that's just jesus came and paid for us and did what we
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Paid for us and did what we couldn't do. and so it's all us
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Couldn't do. and so it's all us putting faith in what jesus did
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Putting faith in what jesus did for us, not what we do for
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For us, not what we do for jesus. and that's a brief
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Jesus. and that's a brief summary but man, there's a lot
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Summary but man, there's a lot of things there that i said that
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Of things there that i said that need to be explained. then in
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Need to be explained. then in the 4th chapter, he starts
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The 4th chapter, he starts talking about abraham and david
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Talking about abraham and david and showing how that it wasn't
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And showing how that it wasn't their holiness that caused them
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Their holiness that caused them to have a relationship with god.
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To have a relationship with god. it was faith, and he proved
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It was faith, and he proved all that. and then in romans,
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All that. and then in romans, chapter 5, he says, therefore
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Chapter 5, he says, therefore it's only through faith that we
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It's only through faith that we have peace with god. if you
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Have peace with god. if you are trusting in your own
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Are trusting in your own goodness, it's like getting on a
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Goodness, it's like getting on a treadmill. and even though you
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Treadmill. and even though you might be able to keep pace,
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Might be able to keep pace, you can just never stop. you
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You can just never stop. you can never rest. it's going to
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Can never rest. it's going to destroy you. nobody can approach
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Destroy you. nobody can approach god on the basis of your
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God on the basis of your holiness. you might be able to
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Holiness. you might be able to be good for a day or two or
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Be good for a day or two or something like that, but i can
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Something like that, but i can just guarantee you that you are
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Just guarantee you that you are going to fail to be the person
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Going to fail to be the person you're supposed to be. romans,
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You're supposed to be. romans, chapter 14, verse 23, which we
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Chapter 14, verse 23, which we won't get that far into this
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Won't get that far into this book, but it says over there, it
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Says, he that eateth is damned
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Says, he that eateth is damned if he eateth, for whatsoever is
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If he eateth, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. so the last
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Part of that verse shows that if
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Part of that verse shows that if you aren't in faith, that's sin.
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You aren't in faith, that's sin. if you define sin the way the
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If you define sin the way the bible defines it, well then all
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Bible defines it, well then all of us are just constantly
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Of us are just constantly failing to be the perfect person
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Failing to be the perfect person that god intended us to be. it
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Also says in james, chapter 4,
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Also says in james, chapter 4, verse 17, therefore to him that
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Verse 17, therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it
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Knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin. so sin is
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Not only when you fail and you
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Not only when you fail and you do things that are wrong, but
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Do things that are wrong, but it's when you fail to be the
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It's when you fail to be the person you're supposed to be. if
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Person you're supposed to be. if you know that you're supposed to
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You know that you're supposed to be studying the word more,
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Be studying the word more, loving more, doing more of
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Loving more, doing more of anything, and you fail to do it,
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Anything, and you fail to do it, that's sin. nobody is going
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That's sin. nobody is going to be able to establish and
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To be able to establish and maintain relationship with god
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Maintain relationship with god through your own performance. so
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Through your own performance. so that's what all of these verses
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That's what all of these verses that we've been dealing with
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That we've been dealing with have said. in romans, chapter 5,
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It says, that as sin hath
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It says, that as sin hath reigned unto death... and
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Reigned unto death... and what this is talking about,
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What this is talking about, romans 6:23, says, the wages of
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Romans 6:23, says, the wages of sin is death. so, if you are
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Trying to relate to god on the
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Trying to relate to god on the basis of your sin, or lack of
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Basis of your sin, or lack of sin, well then it... it just
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Sin, well then it... it just reigns to death. the wages
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Reigns to death. the wages of sin is death. you... you're
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Of sin is death. you... you're going to reap death. it's not
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Going to reap death. it's not going to be positive. and death
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Going to be positive. and death in the bible isn't only talking
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In the bible isn't only talking about physically dying, but
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About physically dying, but emotional death is depression,
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Emotional death is depression, discouragement, fear, financial
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Discouragement, fear, financial death, physical sickness and
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Death, physical sickness and pain, just anything that came
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Pain, just anything that came as a result of sin is death. it
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As a result of sin is death. it doesn't just only apply to when
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Doesn't just only apply to when you quit breathing, and you go
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You quit breathing, and you go to be with the lord. so it says,
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That as sin hath reigned unto
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That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
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Death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto
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Through righteousness unto eternal life by jesus christ
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Eternal life by jesus christ our lord. man, i could spend
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Literally weeks talking about
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Literally weeks talking about righteousness. but when i
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Righteousness. but when i began to understand that i was
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Began to understand that i was righteous, not through my
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Righteous, not through my actions but through what jesus
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Actions but through what jesus did for me, and all i have to
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Did for me, and all i have to do is like verse 2 of this 5th
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Do is like verse 2 of this 5th chapter, says you access that
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Chapter, says you access that grace by faith. and once i began
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Grace by faith. and once i began to understand that and that i
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To understand that and that i was righteous and god was
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Was righteous and god was pleased with me, not because of
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Pleased with me, not because of what i do but because i have
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What i do but because i have yielded and submitted to what
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Yielded and submitted to what jesus did, and my faith is in
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Jesus did, and my faith is in him and i'm approaching god
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Him and i'm approaching god through what jesus has
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Through what jesus has done. when i saw that, it
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Done. when i saw that, it revolutionized my life. and i
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Revolutionized my life. and i know it would do the exact same
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Know it would do the exact same thing for you. so in chapter 6,
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Romans, chapter 6, verse 1, what
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Romans, chapter 6, verse 1, what shall we say then? shall we
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Shall we say then? shall we continue in sin that grace may
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Continue in sin that grace may abound? so let me just point out
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Here that paul is saying, so
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Here that paul is saying, so because of everything that i've
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Because of everything that i've said, does this mean that we can
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Said, does this mean that we can just live in sin so that grace
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Just live in sin so that grace may abound? now see that's a
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May abound? now see that's a question that most people that
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Question that most people that are going to church never have
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Are going to church never have because they've never heard the
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Because they've never heard the gospel that paul preached. if
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Gospel that paul preached. if you hear the true gospel as...
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You hear the true gospel as... as laid out in the first five
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As laid out in the first five chapters of the book of romans,
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Chapters of the book of romans, this is a logical question. can
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This is a logical question. can we live in sin because god is
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We live in sin because god is relating to us by grace? grace
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Relating to us by grace? grace means unearned, unmerited,
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Means unearned, unmerited, undeserved favor. since god
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Undeserved favor. since god isn't relating to us based on
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Isn't relating to us based on performance, can we live in sin?
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The answer to this is in the
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The answer to this is in the next verse. it says, god forbid.
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Next verse. it says, god forbid. and if you look that up in the
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Greek, that's as strong an
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Greek, that's as strong an absolute negative no, as you can
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Absolute negative no, as you can get without using some kind of
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Get without using some kind of profanity or curse to emphasize
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Profanity or curse to emphasize it. it is just an absolute
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It. it is just an absolute unqualified no. he's not saying
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Unqualified no. he's not saying that we should go live in sin.
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That we should go live in sin. but... it's important that if
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But... it's important that if you understand the gospel
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You understand the gospel correctly, this should be a
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Correctly, this should be a question that comes up. and if
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Question that comes up. and if that question never comes up to
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That question never comes up to you, if it never comes up into
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You, if it never comes up into your church, that means they
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Your church, that means they haven't preached the same gospel
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Haven't preached the same gospel that paul preached. because he
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That paul preached. because he not only said it here, he also
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Not only said it here, he also said it a second time in this
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Said it a second time in this same chapter, in chapter 6. he
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Same chapter, in chapter 6. he said it twice over in the book
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Said it twice over in the book of galatians, when he was once
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Of galatians, when he was once again talking about the gospel
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Again talking about the gospel and how that these people had
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And how that these people had gotten away from it and had
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Gotten away from it and had become legalistic. so four
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Become legalistic. so four different times in paul's
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Different times in paul's writings, he says, what am i
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Writings, he says, what am i saying? does this grace allow
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Saying? does this grace allow us just to go live in sin? the
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Us just to go live in sin? the absolute answer is, no, that's
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Absolute answer is, no, that's not what he's saying, but that
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Not what he's saying, but that should lead you to asking that
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Should lead you to asking that question. most of religion today
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Question. most of religion today emphasizes that you've got to be
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Emphasizes that you've got to be holy. you've got to live right.
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Holy. you've got to live right. you got to do this, this, this,
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You got to do this, this, this, and this, and they emphasize
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And this, and they emphasize your performance so much that
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Your performance so much that the average christian today
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The average christian today thinks that you've got to live
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Thinks that you've got to live holy to relate to god. and they
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Holy to relate to god. and they never have this question, about
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Never have this question, about can i just live in sin? the
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Can i just live in sin? the answer is no, you don't... you
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Answer is no, you don't... you don't just live in sin, but it
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Don't just live in sin, but it should at least be a question.
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So here's the answer to it.
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So here's the answer to it. shall we live in sin, that grace
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Shall we live in sin, that grace may abound? verse 2, he says,
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May abound? verse 2, he says, god forbid. how shall we, that
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God forbid. how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer
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Therein? right here in romans,
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Therein? right here in romans, chapter 6, paul gives two
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Chapter 6, paul gives two reasons that a christian doesn't
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Reasons that a christian doesn't live in sin. and none of those
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Live in sin. and none of those reasons are so that god could
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Reasons are so that god could bless you or so that god could
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Bless you or so that god could answer your prayers because he
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Answer your prayers because he looks at how holy you live and
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Looks at how holy you live and relates to you based on your
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Relates to you based on your performance. that's none...
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Performance. that's none... that's none of the answers that
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That's none of the answers that he gives. now see today, if
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He gives. now see today, if you were to ask the average
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You were to ask the average christian, why should you live
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Christian, why should you live holy? well, i want god to answer
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Holy? well, i want god to answer my prayers. i want god to be
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My prayers. i want god to be pleased with me. and most people
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Pleased with me. and most people believe it's your actions that
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Believe it's your actions that make you pleasing to god and
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Make you pleasing to god and that cause god to answer your
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That cause god to answer your prayers. you know i remember
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Prayers. you know i remember being in a church one time in
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Being in a church one time in st. joseph, missouri. there was
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St. joseph, missouri. there was about 400 people in a morning
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About 400 people in a morning service, and i got up and i
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Service, and i got up and i said, how many of you want to
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Said, how many of you want to please god more than anything
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Please god more than anything else? and you know, just about
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Else? and you know, just about every hand went up. we were in
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Every hand went up. we were in church, and they knew that that
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Church, and they knew that that was the right answer. so every
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Was the right answer. so every hand went up. and then my next
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Hand went up. and then my next question was, how many of you
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Question was, how many of you believe that you please god? and
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Believe that you please god? and did you know out of 400 people
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Did you know out of 400 people in there, there was two hands
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In there, there was two hands that went up, and they were both
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That went up, and they were both a... one little boy and a girl
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A... one little boy and a girl that were like 10 and 11 and 12,
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That were like 10 and 11 and 12, somewhere in there. two young
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Somewhere in there. two young children raised their hands to
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Children raised their hands to say that they believed that they
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Say that they believed that they pleased god. and yet they all
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Pleased god. and yet they all said that that's what they
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Said that that's what they wanted more than anything else.
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Wanted more than anything else. that's a recipe for disaster. if
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That's a recipe for disaster. if your desire is to please god,
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Your desire is to please god, and yet you don't feel like
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And yet you don't feel like you're doing it, you're just
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You're doing it, you're just going to live in a stoc...
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Going to live in a stoc... constant state of shame and
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Constant state of shame and condemnation. and then i turned
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Over to hebrews, chapter 11,
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Over to hebrews, chapter 11, verse 6, where it says, without
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Verse 6, where it says, without faith it's impossible to please
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Faith it's impossible to please god. faith is what pleases god
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Not your performance. and i know
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Not your performance. and i know that there is people right now
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That there is people right now who heard me say that and you
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Who heard me say that and you just have a disconnect like, you
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Just have a disconnect like, you can't separate your performance
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Can't separate your performance from your faith. well i...
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From your faith. well i... there is definitely a link here.
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There is definitely a link here. it says over in james, chapter
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It says over in james, chapter 2, faith without works is
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2, faith without works is dead. so if you truly believe
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Dead. so if you truly believe something, yes, it's going to be
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Something, yes, it's going to be reflected in your actions, but
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Reflected in your actions, but not necessarily immediately.
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Not necessarily immediately. you know i remember being in
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You know i remember being in phoenix, arizona one time and i
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Phoenix, arizona one time and i was holding a conference. there
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Was holding a conference. there was about i don't know, 5, 6,
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Was about i don't know, 5, 6, 700 people at this conference.
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700 people at this conference. and there was a young girl, she
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And there was a young girl, she was probably early 20s, and she
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Was probably early 20s, and she was sitting on the front row.
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Was sitting on the front row. and she was so excited over
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And she was so excited over what i was teaching that she
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What i was teaching that she physically was bouncing up and
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Physically was bouncing up and down in her chair. and she was
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Down in her chair. and she was just saying yes and amen, and
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Just saying yes and amen, and after a couple of services, i
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After a couple of services, i just asked her to come up. i
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Just asked her to come up. i said, tell us what god has done
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Said, tell us what god has done in your life, why are you so
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In your life, why are you so excited about this? and anyway,
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Excited about this? and anyway, this girl had been... i'm not
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This girl had been... i'm not sure all the details but i think
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Sure all the details but i think she'd been into prostitution
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She'd been into prostitution and drug abuse and all kinds of
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And drug abuse and all kinds of stuff. and she got up and gave a
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Stuff. and she got up and gave a testimony about what jesus had
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Testimony about what jesus had done for her. and nearly every
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Done for her. and nearly every other word was some form
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Other word was some form of profanity. she was using
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Of profanity. she was using profanity. she was saying
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Profanity. she was saying things. she compared the... her
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Things. she compared the... her relationship with jesus to
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Relationship with jesus to having an orgasm. and i mean,
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Having an orgasm. and i mean, the people in this auditorium
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The people in this auditorium they nearly sucked all of the
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They nearly sucked all of the air out of the building, and she
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Air out of the building, and she just looked at me and she says,
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Just looked at me and she says, have i said something wrong? and
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Have i said something wrong? and i said, no, you're just doing
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I said, no, you're just doing great. and i told her to keep
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Great. and i told her to keep going. and she just talked, and
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Going. and she just talked, and i mean, it shocked people that
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I mean, it shocked people that somebody would talk like that
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Somebody would talk like that in church. i went back the next
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In church. i went back the next year, and did you know that that
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Year, and did you know that that same lady was there, and she
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Same lady was there, and she came up, and she apologized. she
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Came up, and she apologized. she says, i'd only been born again a
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Says, i'd only been born again a week or two. i didn't know that
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Week or two. i didn't know that christians didn't talk about
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Christians didn't talk about things like that. i didn't
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Things like that. i didn't know that you didn't use that,
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Know that you didn't use that, profan... profanity. and she
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Profan... profanity. and she apologized, and i said look,
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Apologized, and i said look, it's just fine. now see, some
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It's just fine. now see, some people would judge her by over
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People would judge her by over what she said and some of those
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What she said and some of those things. but see, god was looking
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Things. but see, god was looking at her heart. and because of
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At her heart. and because of where she would come from, she
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Where she would come from, she hadn't renewed her mind yet. and
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Hadn't renewed her mind yet. and given a little bit of time, she
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Given a little bit of time, she did change. and when i came back
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Did change. and when i came back the next year, she had realized
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The next year, she had realized that that wasn't the way to be,
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That that wasn't the way to be, and she had changed. but i
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And she had changed. but i believe that god was probably
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Believe that god was probably more pleased with her testimony
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More pleased with her testimony because it was coming out of a
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Because it was coming out of a heart of love, and she was just
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Heart of love, and she was just so thankful for what jesus had
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So thankful for what jesus had done. she didn't express it in
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Done. she didn't express it in the christianese, but i believe
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The christianese, but i believe that god was pleased with that,
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That god was pleased with that, more so than probably some
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More so than probably some people who had gotten up and
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People who had gotten up and they'd have been as straight as
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They'd have been as straight as a gun barrel but twice as empty.
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A gun barrel but twice as empty. man, god is looking at your
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Man, god is looking at your heart and he's pleased at your
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Heart and he's pleased at your heart. you know, we had a woman
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Heart. you know, we had a woman that came to my church when i
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That came to my church when i was in childress, texas, and
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Was in childress, texas, and anyway, it's a long story, but
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Anyway, it's a long story, but her and her husband had lived in
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Her and her husband had lived in a nudist colony for three years.
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A nudist colony for three years. they had a little 2 year old
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They had a little 2 year old girl. they came to a... a city
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Girl. they came to a... a city park where we were, and we were
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Park where we were, and we were having a church picnic. and they
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Having a church picnic. and they were just destitute, and we gave
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Were just destitute, and we gave them food, started helping them.
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Them food, started helping them. she came to church. she got born
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She came to church. she got born again. and anyway, this lady,
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Again. and anyway, this lady, all she had was short shorts. i
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All she had was short shorts. i mean when she sat down, she
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Mean when she sat down, she could barely sit on those
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Could barely sit on those shorts. they were super short,
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Shorts. they were super short, and she wore halter tops. now
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And she wore halter tops. now they had been in a nudist colony
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They had been in a nudist colony for three years and so, for
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For three years and so, for them, they probably thought that
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Them, they probably thought that was okay. and anyway, when she
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Was okay. and anyway, when she got born again, her and her
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Got born again, her and her husband got born again and they
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Husband got born again and they were coming to our church. a lot
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Were coming to our church. a lot of the church people were upset,
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And said, are you going to tell
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And said, are you going to tell her she's got to start dressing
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Her she's got to start dressing and covering herself up? and i
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And covering herself up? and i said look, when we were in the
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Said look, when we were in the park, and we were sharing jesus
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Park, and we were sharing jesus with them, we didn't throw a
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With them, we didn't throw a blanket over them before we had
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Blanket over them before we had talked to them. and i said, i
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Talked to them. and i said, i don't think that the way she
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Don't think that the way she dresses really is the way that
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Dresses really is the way that god wants it to be, it doesn't
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God wants it to be, it doesn't glorify god, but i said give her
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Glorify god, but i said give her some time. god... she loves
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Some time. god... she loves god, and she was excited, and i
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God, and she was excited, and i didn't want her to start feeling
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Didn't want her to start feeling rejection, and so i just made
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Rejection, and so i just made all of the people just cool it.
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All of the people just cool it. and did you know it was only
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And did you know it was only a matter of weeks. i forget
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A matter of weeks. i forget exactly how long, but she was in
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Exactly how long, but she was in one of my wife's bible studies
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One of my wife's bible studies during the day and they were
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During the day and they were praying for each other, and
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Praying for each other, and she just told these ladies, she
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She just told these ladies, she says, i have never owned a dress
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Says, i have never owned a dress in my life. she said would you
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In my life. she said would you pray with me that god would give
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Pray with me that god would give us enough money that i could go
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Us enough money that i could go get a dress? and i tell you by
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Get a dress? and i tell you by ... two or three o 'clock in the
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... two or three o 'clock in the afternoon she had enough money
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Afternoon she had enough money to buy five or six dresses, and
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To buy five or six dresses, and they were all up to the neck and
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They were all up to the neck and all the way down to the floor
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All the way down to the floor and those ladies blessed her,
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And those ladies blessed her, and she came to church just
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And she came to church just showing off her new dress. and
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Showing off her new dress. and god turned her around without us
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God turned her around without us having to tell her that he won't
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Having to tell her that he won't love you if you don't dress a
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Love you if you don't dress a certain way. now i'm not saying
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Certain way. now i'm not saying that it's not important how you
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That it's not important how you dress and i'm not saying that
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Dress and i'm not saying that you... you... but you need to
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You... you... but you need to give some people time. we are so
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Give some people time. we are so focused on the outer man. it
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Focused on the outer man. it says in 1 samuel, chapter 16,
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Says in 1 samuel, chapter 16, verse 7, the lord told samuel,
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Verse 7, the lord told samuel, he says, don't look on the
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He says, don't look on the height of his stature, or any of
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Height of his stature, or any of those things, because man looks
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Those things, because man looks on the outward appearance, but
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On the outward appearance, but god looks on the heart. god is
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God looks on the heart. god is looking at our heart, and did
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Looking at our heart, and did you know when you first come
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You know when you first come to the lord, you don't have
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To the lord, you don't have it all right. i don't have it
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It all right. i don't have it all right. none of us have
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All right. none of us have everything. if god was just to
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Everything. if god was just to show us everything in our life
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Show us everything in our life that was wrong, i guarantee
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That was wrong, i guarantee there's not a one of us that
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There's not a one of us that would be able to stand before
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Would be able to stand before him without some kind of a
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Him without some kind of a critique or something that needs
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Critique or something that needs to change in our life. when we
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To change in our life. when we look at things from god's
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Look at things from god's standpoint, there's none of us
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Standpoint, there's none of us that are doing everything
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That are doing everything exactly the way he wants us to.
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Exactly the way he wants us to. but see he deals with us on the
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But see he deals with us on the heart, and if you love jesus and
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Heart, and if you love jesus and if you've committed your life to
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If you've committed your life to jesus, eventually it will work
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Jesus, eventually it will work out, but you need to give people
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Out, but you need to give people some grace. and anyway, here
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Some grace. and anyway, here paul is saying, am i saying that
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Paul is saying, am i saying that because god isn't dealing with
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Because god isn't dealing with us on our outward person and
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Us on our outward person and it's not our performance, does
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It's not our performance, does this just free us to live anyway
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This just free us to live anyway we want to? god forbid. and he
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We want to? god forbid. and he gives two reasons here that you
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Gives two reasons here that you live a holy life. the first one
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Live a holy life. the first one is because how shall we, that
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Is because how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer
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Are dead to sin, live any longer therein? and i could literally
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Therein? and i could literally spend a week or two trying to
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Spend a week or two trying to make this point. i'm just going
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Make this point. i'm just going to say it and hope that you get
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To say it and hope that you get it. but... before you get born
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It. but... before you get born again, before you commit your
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Again, before you commit your life to jesus, you have a spirit
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Life to jesus, you have a spirit within you that is dead to
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Within you that is dead to god. that doesn't mean it's
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God. that doesn't mean it's nonfunctional. but it means it's
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Nonfunctional. but it means it's separated from god, and you are
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Separated from god, and you are united to the devil. it says
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United to the devil. it says over in ephesians, chapter 2,
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Over in ephesians, chapter 2, verses 1 through 3, that we were
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By nature the children of wrath,
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By nature the children of wrath, even as others. and the spirit
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... of disobedience, was working
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... of disobedience, was working in us. i know that most people
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In us. i know that most people don't think that way. they
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Don't think that way. they think, no, i was really a good
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Think, no, i was really a good person. i just needed a little
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Person. i just needed a little help from jesus. no, you were by
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Help from jesus. no, you were by nature a child of the devil. and
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Nature a child of the devil. and i know that that's offensive to
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I know that that's offensive to some people, but that's what
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Some people, but that's what the bible teaches. and until you
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The bible teaches. and until you come to the end of yourself
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Come to the end of yourself and recognize your complete
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And recognize your complete inability to ever relate to god,
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Inability to ever relate to god, you aren't going to really find
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You aren't going to really find the beginning of god until you
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The beginning of god until you come to the end of yourself. you
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Come to the end of yourself. you had a sinful nature in you, but
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Had a sinful nature in you, but when you get born again, god
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When you get born again, god changed your nature. so the
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Changed your nature. so the number one reason that paul
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Number one reason that paul gives why we don't continue
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Gives why we don't continue to live in sin is because your
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To live in sin is because your nature is changed. now again,
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Nature is changed. now again, this could use a lot more
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This could use a lot more explanation. there's a lot of
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Explanation. there's a lot of people that go to quote unquote
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People that go to quote unquote christian churches, and they may
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Christian churches, and they may go to church every week, and
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Go to church every week, and they may have some of the
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They may have some of the trappings of being a christian.
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Trappings of being a christian. they may talk christianese, they
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They may talk christianese, they may dress like a christian, but
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May dress like a christian, but if their nature hasn't been
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If their nature hasn't been changed, if all they've done is
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Changed, if all they've done is accept a set of doctrines, and
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Accept a set of doctrines, and they're trying to have behavior
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They're trying to have behavior modification so that they can
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Modification so that they can act like they're supposed to,
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Act like they're supposed to, but if their heart's never been
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But if their heart's never been changed, they're still a child
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Changed, they're still a child of the devil. they... their
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Of the devil. they... their nature is still united to the
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Nature is still united to the devil. and if they were to die,
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Devil. and if they were to die, they would split hell wide open,
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They would split hell wide open, even though they may have gone
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Even though they may have gone to church, paid their tithes,
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To church, paid their tithes, and lived a relatively holy
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And lived a relatively holy life. god is not accepting or
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Life. god is not accepting or rejecting people based on your
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Rejecting people based on your actions. it's based on this
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Actions. it's based on this nature that you have. and all of
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Nature that you have. and all of us were born with a nature that
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Us were born with a nature that was separated from god. when you
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Was separated from god. when you repent and make jesus your lord,
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Repent and make jesus your lord, he changes your nature. and
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He changes your nature. and so, if you are truly born again,
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So, if you are truly born again, your heart's changed. now there
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Your heart's changed. now there is a lag time in between when
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Is a lag time in between when your heart changes and when your
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Your heart changes and when your actions change. just like these
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Actions change. just like these two examples that i gave today
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Two examples that i gave today about women that got born again,
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About women that got born again, but it took a while for their
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But it took a while for their head and their actions to catch
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Head and their actions to catch up with what happened in their
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Up with what happened in their heart. but once you get born
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Heart. but once you get born again, your heart changes, and
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Again, your heart changes, and if you give place to what change
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If you give place to what change took place in your heart, it
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Took place in your heart, it will reflect itself in your
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Will reflect itself in your action. so that's number one the
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Action. so that's number one the reason why you don't live in
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Reason why you don't live in sin. the number two reason is
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Sin. the number two reason is listed down in verse 16. i'm
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Listed down in verse 16. i'm running out of time today, but
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Running out of time today, but i'll deal with this more the
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I'll deal with this more the rest of the week. but it says
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Rest of the week. but it says there that when... whoever you
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There that when... whoever you yield to through your actions,
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Yield to through your actions, you yield yourself to their
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You yield yourself to their control. and so if you yield to
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Control. and so if you yield to god through holy living, well
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God through holy living, well then god's life and peace and
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Then god's life and peace and joy and healing and prosperity
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Joy and healing and prosperity start flowing through you. but
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Start flowing through you. but if you yield yourself to the
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If you yield yourself to the devil through obeying the lust
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Devil through obeying the lust of the flesh and the desires of
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Of the flesh and the desires of the flesh, and if you yield
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The flesh, and if you yield yourself to sin, then you are
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Yourself to sin, then you are yielding yourself to satan. and
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Yielding yourself to satan. and john, chapter 10, verse 10, says
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John, chapter 10, verse 10, says the thief comes for no other
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The thief comes for no other purpose except to steal, to
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Purpose except to steal, to kill, and to destroy. if you
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Kill, and to destroy. if you yield to satan, he's going to
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Yield to satan, he's going to eat your lunch and pop the bag.
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Eat your lunch and pop the bag. so these are the two reasons it
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So these are the two reasons it gives right here. number one is
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Gives right here. number one is that your nature has been
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That your nature has been changed, and if you just give
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Changed, and if you just give place to that nature and allow
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Place to that nature and allow it, it will change your actions.
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It, it will change your actions. number two, you don't go out
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Number two, you don't go out and live in sin because it gives
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And live in sin because it gives satan an inroad, an opportunity,
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Satan an inroad, an opportunity, a legal claim to move in your
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A legal claim to move in your life, and you don't want that.
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So, we're saying that god
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So, we're saying that god loves us independent of our
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Loves us independent of our performance, but does that mean
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Performance, but does that mean that our performance is... is
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That our performance is... is something that we don't care
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Something that we don't care about? we just indulge ourself
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About? we just indulge ourself and go live in sin? no, because
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And go live in sin? no, because if you're truly born again, your
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If you're truly born again, your heart is change and you want
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Heart is change and you want to live for god. plus, you don't
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To live for god. plus, you don't want to give satan an inroad
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Want to give satan an inroad into your life because he only
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Into your life because he only comes to steal, kill, and
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Comes to steal, kill, and destroy. so, we should still
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Destroy. so, we should still be living a holy life, and
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Be living a holy life, and christian religion preaches
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Christian religion preaches that, but they preach that
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That, but they preach that you live holy in order to be
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You live holy in order to be accepted with god. but no, the
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Accepted with god. but no, the bible preaches that you re...
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Bible preaches that you re... you are accepted with god based
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You are accepted with god based on faith. and once you... you
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On faith. and once you... you have that relationship, then
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Have that relationship, then your holiness comes as a
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Your holiness comes as a fruit and not a root
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Fruit and not a root of your salvation.
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>> after tragically losing her
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23 year old son in a horrific
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Car accident, mindy fell into a
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Deep depression, losing all her
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Drive to pursue the things god
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Had placed in her heart. until
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Mindy and her husband, rick
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Heard about andrew wommack at a
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Revival meeting where his
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Teachings filled their hearts
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With the hope they had longed
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For, leading them to drive
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Across the country from florida
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To colorado to attend charis
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Bible college, where this same
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Hope would start to heal
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Them from the inside out.
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>> the truth that we've learned
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Here at charis is remarkable.
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God used this ministry to save
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Us. i just couldn't wait to be
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Done with this life. when you
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Sit under the word four hours a
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Day, five days a week, it all
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Comes together and it's just a
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Beautiful, beautiful picture. i
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Have my hope back and just a
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Reason to live. prior to coming
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To colorado, the lord would put
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On my heart this children's book
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Series, and i had the motivation
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To continue because of the hope
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That i received at charis. we as
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Christians, we need to begin to
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Do what he puts on our hearts to
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Do. we are just so grateful for
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This ministry, for the school. i
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Absolutely love this place and i
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Want it for everybody.
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>> isn't that awesome? what god
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Did for mindy? and you know, we
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Are seeing this happen to so
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Many people. it's exactly what
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I've been teaching here on these
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Programs. the word of god just
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Changes you, but you have to
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Know it before it will work its
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Work in your life. so we are
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Trying to reach as far and as
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Deep with the gospel as we
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Possibly can. charis bible
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College is a big part of that
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And we just need people to stand
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With us. so go check it out,
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Go to awmi.net/campus and
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Become a partner with us today.
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>> when i was very young, i
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Had major problems
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With condemnation.
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>> i lost my father when
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I was very young.
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>> i tried to pray for him to be
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Healed and it didn't, and
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Instead of doing what andrew
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Did, i did exactly the opposite
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And became very angry with god
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And walked away from god.
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>> i said to god, god, andrew
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Believes that i can be healed,
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But i need to believe that. i
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Need to know. i need to
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Believe like he believes.
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>> part of my story is that i
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Terminated three children
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Before, before my healing.
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>> learning the truth about
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God's grace, learning the truth
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About god's love set me free
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From the condemnation.
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>> and it eventually led to the
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Fact that i got bold enough
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That i believed that i would be
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Able to pray for people.
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>> looking back, i see that god
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Was renewing my mind and
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Increasing my faith.
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>> and andrew taught me
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About god's love through his
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Teachings, and through
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That, i can't thank him
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Enough for changing my
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Life, for saving my life.
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Music
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>> on today's broadcast, andrew
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Taught on the transforming power
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Of grace from his new series
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Titled romans highlights. this
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Teaching is available as a cd
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Album, dvd album or a usb made
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From our daily television
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Broadcast. additionally, you can
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Dive deeper into andrew's
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Teaching on romans when you get
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Grace the power of the gospel,
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Which is available as a book, cd
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Album, tv, dvd album, and a
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Study guide. also today we're
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Offering andrew's book, romans:
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Paul's masterpiece on grace,
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Which is a verse by verse
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Commentary based on andrew's
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Personal notes from the book of
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Romans. each of these valuable
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Resources are available for a
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Gift of any amount through our
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Website at awmi.net. you can
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Also order resources or receive
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Prayer by calling our
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Helpline at (719)635-1111. our
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Helpline is open 24 hours a
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Day, seven days a week.
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>> the neurologist comes in, he
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Examines her and tells me, once
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We put the little hole in her
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Head to relieve the pressure
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From the aneurysm 10% chance she
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Survives that, if she survives
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That, she won't come out of the
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Operating room the next morning.
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I said, you know, those are
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Great facts, but jesus christ
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Has healed her 2000 years ago.
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She's going to be just fine.
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Music
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>> hello, i'm andrew wommack,
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And i want to let you know that
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We are now not only broadcasting
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On tbn twice a day. that's 6:30
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A.m. and 2:30 p.m. eastern time,
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But we're now on tbn inspire at
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11:00 a.m. eastern time, so
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Check it out. the gospel truth
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Broadcast with andrew wommack.
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I believe that you will be
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Blessed. god can touch your
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Life and change you. so
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Listen to the gospel truth.
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Andrew Wommack - Romans Highlights

April 8, 2025 | S25:E73

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