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We've all been hurt. We all carry scars. We can all overcome these things and be

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healed through a relationship with Jesus Christ. Let's build that relationship

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together right here. Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton. Hey everybody

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and welcome back to the sanctuary. So great to have you here with us today.

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Last week of course our podcast was a bit short as I have been sick. Thank you

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so much for your prayers, words of kindness. You know the Lord has brought

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me through and I'm really I'm feeling much better even though I know I don't

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necessarily sound it. I still have a bit of congestion, a bit of a sore throat

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from the coughing and everything but really just so much better. Thank you

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again. Now before we start this week's message I'd like to point out that

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we've gone through a lot this past year. We've actually completed all ten of the

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least preached books in the Bible and nine of the ten shortest books in the

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Bible. That is a lot. There's a lot in there. Now of course I encourage you all

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to go back and read through all of these books as well on your own to see what

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the Lord has to say to you. You know I'll never ever encourage you to take just my

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word or anyone else's for that matter. After all 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verse

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15 the Bible says be diligent to present yourself to God as one approved. A worker

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who does not need to be ashamed correctly teaching the word of truth

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which means that we all need to be faithful or diligent in how we study the

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word and you know how we present it. So you know it's not not only that we

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know we want to make sure that we can truly understand it but that we're

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sharing it properly with others and also you know by doing this we can also

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ensure that we're sharing the true light of God's Word and its true meaning you

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know with the world. Alright now with that said let's dive into today's

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word. Now this is going to be a hard application for some. Why? Because we live

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in a world in which nobody wants to offend, alienate, hurt feelings or lose

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friends. However when you follow Christ and you share the gospel that's exactly

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what's going to happen that's exactly what you're going to do. Why? Well simply

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put love hurts. Love hurts. The Bible teaches us that love isn't just some

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feeling it's not just some empty words or some meaningless emotion even though

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that's what it seems the way the world tosses around you know rather the Bible

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teaches us that love is in action and when you tell people what they're doing

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is wrong no matter how lovingly you say it no matter how well you say it or

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how gingerly you mean it and intend it people don't want to hear that they're

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wrong they get offended they get upset it hurts their feelings and the more a

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part of the world someone is the more they're going to be offended by it and

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the more it's going to hurt them plain and simple

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for those with their Bible and those you know that follow along with an app

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those taking notes as well join me in John 15 and we're gonna look at verses

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18 through 27 here Jesus says if the world hates you keep in mind that it

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hated me first if you belonged to the world it would love you as its own as it

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is you do not belong to the world but I have chosen you out of the world that

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is why the world hates you remember what I told you a servant is not greater than

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his master if they persecuted me they will persecute you also if they obeyed

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my teaching they will obey yours also they will treat you this way because of

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my name for they do not know the one who sent me if I had not come and spoken to

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them they would not be guilty of sin but now they have no excuse for their sin

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whoever hates me hates my father as well if I had not done among them the works

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no one else did they would not be guilty of sin as it is they have seen and yet

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they had hated both me and my father

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but this is to fulfill what is written in their law they hated me without reason

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when the Advocate comes who I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of

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Truth who goes out from the Father he will testify about me and you also must

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testify for you have been with me from the beginning

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all right bear with me guys I'm hitting my mute button every time I cough so I'm

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not blowing out your ears I apologize if I miss it though as much as you know we

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can't stand it when others don't like us unfortunately it's going to happen

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there's no ifs ands or buts about it it's not a matter of if it's a matter of

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when see the world hated Jesus first why because he performed miracles because

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he treated strangers the outcast and downtrodden with love because he called

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out the hypocrites no it was because he spoke the truth he said the hard things

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he didn't tell people what they wanted to hear he didn't sugarcoat anything or

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try to put some kind of a spin on it make it sound really good no he told

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them the truth and he told them what they needed to hear again not what they

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wanted to hear but what they needed to hear and because this is how the world

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responded to him doing this he knew that he needed to warn us to expect the same

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why would we need to expect the same because we're not better than Jesus if he

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who lived a sinless life showed absolute love was hated so much that the world

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nailed him to a cross I guess what it's not going to like you and it's not going

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to like me for following his example and trying to do the same things as

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Christians Jesus knew it was going to be hard he knew it he knew it was gonna be

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tough how hard real hard one of the hardest things that we're ever going to

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have to deal with so much so then in warning us that he also felt that he or

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not felt but he knew he needed to give us a gift of hope and that's why he told

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us that he would send the Holy Spirit that's who he's referring to when he

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says advocate that's who he's referring to when he says spirit of truth the Holy

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Spirit was sent to give a strength to deal with an uncaring and unloving

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world to endure the persecution that would come as a follower of Christ so

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that we could have someone to commune with and be reminded of God's teachings

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and so much more because dark times are coming we're going to have those dark

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times in our life and we need that source of light that source of love all

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right that's how tough it was that's going to be he knew it it's how tough it

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is let's face it things get hard is man it will beat you into the ground it will

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absolutely beat you into the ground you feel like you got in the ring with Mike

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Tyson in his prime and he and he just landed one of those knockout punches on

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you you know that's why that's part of why he said the Holy Spirit because he

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knew we would need that empowerment all right now John chapter 16 verse 33

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Jesus goes on to say these things I have spoken unto you that in me you might

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have peace in the world ye shall have tribulation

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a little tongue-tied there sorry but be of good cheer I have overcome the world

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see these words to give us courage to build our hope and to help build our

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trust in him again these were words of empowerment Jesus warned us life was

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going to be hard we're gonna have struggles that there would be torment

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pain strife and that through it all no matter how tough it gets we will never

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be alone that he will be with each and every one of us and that he will be with

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each and every one of us every single step of the way you know he's assured

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us the victory has already been won it's already been won so we can find peace in

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him that's part of where you know as a Christian that that that peacefulness

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that we find that's just undescribable that's that's why that's how it comes

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to us it comes to us through the Holy Spirit it's that peace that we find in

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Jesus you see by following Jesus you're going to lose friends you're going to

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lose family acquaintances are going to turn you away as painful as it may be

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it's going to happen people I've known for decades decades have turned hateful

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and walked away from me because of my faith in the Lord some have simply just

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walked away others have made it a point to be very vocal about it you know I

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love and I pray for them just the same and I'll still be here and ready to

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celebrate with them when and if they come to Jesus you know now what why does

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you know and this is gonna happen to all of us at some point in our lives you

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know what why does this happen well it's simple such as the way of the world it's

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the way of Satan the media is one of his greatest tools right now it really is

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you know many people they don't care or want to hear what the Bible has to say

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because it tells them that what they're doing and how they're living is wrong

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aha you know I know what you're thinking ah ha ha ha we're back to this again yes

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yes we are yes we absolutely are full circle but there buddy full circle see

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the the way the devil masks it and he does he camouflages it see he convinces

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people that they are a victim and that the world needs to bend to them that the

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world needs to bend to them now is there any truth to this some very very little

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though see what the truth is yes they are a victim only it's not of what they

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think it is rather they are a victim to the devil his lies and his traps remember

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John chapter 8 verse 44 the Bible tells us that the devil is the father of lies

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and the devil would have you believe that you're good enough just the way you

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are that you were born this way and that the world should bend to you anything

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else is an affront it's an attack on you only here's the thing we know it's not

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true as Christians as followers of Christ believers of the Bible the word

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the Holy Scripture we know that this is absolutely bogus

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so turn with me now to Ephesians chapter 2 verses 2 through 3 and the Bible says

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so it's Ephesians 2 verses 2 and 3 the Bible says where in time past you walked

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according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of

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the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience among whom

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also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh

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fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the

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children of wrath even as others see right here Paul straight-up identifies

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Satan as being the prince of the world you know we have all these depictions

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that you know he's down in hell and ruling over it you know that he's he's

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torturing people down down in hell only that's not what the Bible tells us when

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you read through the Bible here and in various other places the scripture

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tells us that he is the prince of this world that he is here with us right now

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spinning lies and trying to tempt us just like he did with Jesus not only that

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each and every one of us has a sinful nature and because of it you know we

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sin we're selfish we don't give our hearts completely over to God we don't

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love him with all of our hearts all the time even though we should we all stray

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we all sin we've all fallen short of the goal in our lives why because we live

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corrupt lives in a corrupt world what do I mean by corrupt lives well sinful

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lives it really is that simple you see we need to go to speak with the Holy

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Spirit every day every day we need to be renewed we need to be rejuvenated in

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Romans chapter 12 verse 2 the Bible says do not conform to the pattern of this

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world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind then you will be able to

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test and approve what God's will is his good pleasing and perfect will it does

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not say renew it does not say renewed but renewing renewing meaning ongoing

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continuous see God wants us to be transformed and to have new godly minds

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after all when we truly have a relationship with Jesus when we become

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Christians we all become new creations with that comes a new mindset a new

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outlook a new way of doing things look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 in

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which the Bible says therefore if anyone is in Christ the new creation has come

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the old has gone and the new is here see we're empowered and we're built up as a

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part of God's family and it had the wool pulled off from over our eyes whereas

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the rest of the world is buying lock stock and barrel into this nonsense

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victims mentality they're falling for the lies of the devil

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and what's happening is that they're looking at the world through his lens

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you see the devil knows God the devil knows scripture and because of that he

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will use it but he'll put a twist on it see when you go like we go to Matthew

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chapter 4 and we're looking at verses 1 through 11 this is talking about the

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temptation of Christ all right when he's trying to tempt Jesus he uses the

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scripture as an as it means to try to tempt him and when you look at it like

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you know he tells us he tells Jesus to jump from the temple right they're up at

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the highest point and he tells him to jump and points out that scripture says

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that God will command his angels to protect him but what happens is here is

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he doesn't use things in context he doesn't use everything that he should see

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G and that's why Jesus sees right through him Jesus saw through this through

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this live because it was twisted and taken out of context because well yes

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the devil is using Psalm 91 he's taking it out of context much like a lot of

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prosperity preachers and other false teachers out there today do so how did

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Jesus respond well easily he responds using Deuteronomy chapter 6 which says

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we should not test God and when it comes to testing God it's it's either it's

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it's this is what it comes down to you either believe what God says or you

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don't matter of fact when we read about the temptation of Christ and both and

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we look at the books of Matthew and when we look at the book of John so Matthew

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and Matthew I'm sorry not John Matthew and Luke when we look at the books of

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Matthew and we look at the book of Luke each time Satan tries to twist something

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to trick Jesus to try to tempt him Jesus counters him with the truth of the

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word and each of his responses every time he put he pulls from Deuteronomy

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chapter 6 see Satan leaves things out in order to manipulate the big picture

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what he did when he tries to tempt Jesus is the same thing that he does when he

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tempts us he appeals to our flesh which is where our sinful nature resides

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whereas Jesus responded with the Word of God the Word of God which is what we

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should all be doing at all times and this is a great example this is something

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that's really kind of my my my noradized that shouldn't be because this is huge

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you know it's like we when you look at like you know the the armor of God and

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all what's the word well it's a sort of truth right and this in itself this is a

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tremendous reason for all of us to actually read our Bibles verse by verse

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and get to know it so that when we fall under attack we don't become victims like

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those in the world by knowing scripture not only can we defend ourselves but we

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can actually counter-attack the enemy because he didn't like that see now I'm

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gonna share with you now there's an old story and the author is unknown it's an

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unknown author all right and some of you may have heard this before it goes like

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this there was a peasant and he would talk to his children and he would tell

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them when they were young that when you all reach the age of 12 I will tell you

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the secret of life one day his oldest son had his birthday and he turned 12

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and so he went to his father and he was really eager to hear what this secret

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was so he asked his father hey you said when I turned 12 that you would tell me

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what the secret of life could you tell me what that is and the father said yeah

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no problem I'll tell you but here's the thing after I tell you you can't share

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it with anybody don't tell it to your brothers you have to keep it to yourself

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the secret of life is this the cow does not give milk what what are you saying

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ask the kid his son was just like whoa he's blown away so his dad says as you

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hear it son the cow does not give milk you have to milk it you have to get up

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at four in the morning go out to the field walk through a corral full of

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manure hobble the legs of the cow sit on a stool place the bucket under it and do

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the work yourself that is the secret of life that cows don't give milk you have

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to milk her or you don't get any see there's this generation that thinks that

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cows give milk that things are automatic and free and the mentality is that if I

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wish if I ask then I will get it they have been accustomed to getting whatever

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they want the easy way but life is not a matter of wishing asking and obtaining

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the things that one receives are the effort of what one does happiness is the

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result of effort lack of effort creates frustration so share this with your

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children at a young age the secret of life so they don't grow up with the

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mentality that the government their parents or their cute little faces are

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going to give them everything that they need in life

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remember cows don't give milk you have to work for it all right so that's the

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story right but it pertains because that is the same problem that we see with

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society today that is the mentality that we're seeing today that people are

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entitled to have the world given to them whatever they want they can have all

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they need to do is ask for it

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then it's a reward that should be given to them because of any hardship that

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they've had to deal with in their life you know all you've had it hard

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you know what that's the same lie that Jesus was told that the world would be

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given and all he had to do in return was bow down and worship Satan and that's

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what we're being told that everything can be just given to you that you're

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entitled to it and also had to do is worship Satan and the sad thing is is

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people don't even realize that they're falling for that trap that that's

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exactly what they're doing with every idol in their lives only they don't

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believe that what they're seeing and what they're looking at and what they're

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dealing with is an idol unfortunately it is anything that comes before God is an

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idol you see Satan can't give you fulfillment only Jesus can the world

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contrary to popular belief doesn't owe you a thing you need to work for what

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you want and you have to earn honestly it doesn't mean that things are ever

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gonna be easy matter of fact the Bible tells us it won't be it doesn't mean

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others aren't going to try to take advantage of you they will that's the

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world in them and it's an opportunity for you to show the light of God in you

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anytime that the enemy turns on you rebuke it with scripture see the way we

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live is the same as how we learn scripture we have to work to know

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scripture we have to read it we have to hear it we have to learn it we have to

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apply it we have to live it it's how we develop our relationship with Jesus and

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our stations in life are no different we're trained to do the work we have

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ongoing training you know we read we listen we make adjustments we apply what

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we've learned and we do the work none of it just comes to us nothing will ever

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just be given to us we've been given the means to earn it not everyone is going

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to like what you're doing not everybody is going to like you and the deeper your

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relationship is with the Lord the more people the world are going to turn on

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you just keep your eyes on the Lord and keep doing the right things God's going

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to take care of the rest God is going to take care of you so keep loving the

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world even at its most unlovable just as Jesus has loved you you're blessed you

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are a blessing now go and be the church thank you all for joining us here today

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