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Amen. I am so excited about being here this morning

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and hearing you sing and knowing that God has met with us

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already and that he's gonna do something incredible

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in the next few moments.

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I read this quote this week that made me think

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from Orson Welles, he's a writer and actor of old.

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He said, if you want a happy ending,

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that depends of course on where you stop your story.

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And I think it could be taken as somewhat cynical,

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that's quote, right?

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Some may think that living happily ever after

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is just unrealistic.

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How many of you have heard that at the end of a story?

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And they lived happily ever after, you've heard that before.

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And so some think, yeah, that's just because you ended

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the story there, there's probably more bad that's coming.

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And if you're like that, the glass is half empty,

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you know, is anybody in here pessimists?

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There's no pessimists in here?

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They're like, something bad will happen to me

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if I raise my hand.

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I'm not doing it.

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In a sense though, it is right,

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but it depends on who you are.

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A story of course is a segment of time

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with a beginning and an ending, right?

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When you tell a story, usually when I tell a story,

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I try to have a point.

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Some of you may tend to disagree, you pessimists.

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But of course it has a beginning and an ending

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and they all lived happily ever after,

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it is a beautiful sentiment, right?

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But life isn't always like that.

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We have our ups and we have our downs.

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But the truth is that the world can be divided

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into two groups of people.

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There are two groups of people.

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There are people who are in Christ, people who are saved,

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people for whom the eternity is sure,

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and there are people who are lost, people who are not saved.

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There are those who are in Christ, the redeemed,

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they live forever, those who don't know Christ,

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and if they die without Christ,

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they're separated from Christ forever.

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And I want you to know that glorifying God

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and being obedient to Him with those two realities

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animate everything we do as a church.

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There is a lost world that needs Jesus.

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And there are believers that need to be equipped

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to go reach the lost world for Jesus.

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That's why we're doing what we're doing.

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But that means something in relation to that,

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beginning and ending thing, happily ever after thing.

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If you're a believer, if you know Christ as your Savior,

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living on this earth is the worst you'll ever experience

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because to be absent from the body

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is to be present with the Lord.

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But if you do not know Christ as Savior,

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I hate to tell you this, but the truth of the matter is,

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this is the best it'll ever be for you.

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This is the best it will ever be.

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But the good news is this,

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if you're breathing, there's still hope for you.

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If you're breathing, there's still hope for you.

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And last week we started in Hebrews chapter 10,

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starting, we started last week, and I think it was verse 26,

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and that 26 till the end of the chapter in chapter 10

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is a warning.

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And the warning continues, it went from 26 to verse 31,

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and that was what I covered last week.

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It was a warning that if they didn't understand the gospel,

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these people that the preacher was writing to,

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this preacher and author of Hebrews

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gave this warning to his readers,

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and he was basically saying to them

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that they understand the gospel,

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if they understand the gospel,

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but they don't fully trust in the gospel,

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it's one thing to know that a chair can hold me up.

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You know it's harder to do simple things in public,

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have you noticed that?

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Yeah.

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It's one thing to know that,

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who believes that this chair can hold me up?

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Some of you guys are wanting a fat joke, really bad right now.

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Happened to be the pessimists that won't read the gospel,

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happened to be the pessimists that won't raise their hands.

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Okay, thank you Dave for the vote of confidence.

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We, believing that is different than trusting in.

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How awful would have been if this thing collapsed?

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It would have been really bad.

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Believing that the chair could hold me up

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is different than trusting in the chair to hold me up.

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There's a whole lot of people that believe

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that Jesus came and that he died on the cross,

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and they have an understanding of that sentiment,

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but they haven't put their trust in him.

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The plane's going down, I said last week,

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there's a parachute.

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Don't know everything about the parachute and not put it on.

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Jesus is our parachute, are you with me?

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And so what the preacher here is telling a group of people

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who are saved and a group of people who may not be saved,

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he's talking to everybody, is he saying,

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if you abandon the sacrifice for sins,

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if you abandon Christ's sacrifice for sins,

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and you go back to the old ceremonial law,

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you go back to the old ways of thinking,

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you go back to really anything else

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that you put your trust in other than Jesus,

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but there's no other sacrifice for you

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and you're yet in your sins.

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And he's saying, don't go so far as to know that Jesus came

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and that Jesus died and that Jesus rose again

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and that his suffering for your sin could give you salvation

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and not put your trust in it.

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That make sense?

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That's what he's warning them about.

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Don't go back, don't draw back.

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And he's even saying to believers,

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people who would believe in him,

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don't stop growing in Christ,

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don't put your trust or your time or your investment

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in anything other than that.

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For those of his readers who had heard the gospel

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and not fully put their trust in it,

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he's telling them not to draw back

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from the only hope they have.

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For those of his readers who know Christ's Savior

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and who are saved, today's text is telling them not to stop.

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Move to living, move on to living by faith in Christ.

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The just shall live by faith.

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That's what he's telling them to do.

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So the name of my sermon today is this, keep going.

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Keep going, keep going.

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The just shall live by faith.

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We take steps towards God both in salvation

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before we're saved, once we get saved

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and then in sanctification.

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This is God's will for us.

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And in today's text, we are given really great instruction,

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really great instruction and encouragement

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on how to keep moving forward in our relationship with Christ.

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Who wants to keep moving forward?

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Don't stop, don't go back, keep going forward.

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Do you want to move forward in your relationship

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with Christ through salvation and through sanctification?

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Of course, if you do, then here's the big idea

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for this day's sermon and here's what I want to tell you.

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We must identify and take our next step of faith

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by employing three deterrents to going backwards.

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I believe you're either moving towards Jesus

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or you're moving away from Him.

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I'm not saying you can lose your salvation.

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We covered that last week.

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I'm not saying you can do that.

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But in terms of your own spiritual growth,

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that's where we're at.

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So how do we do that?

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Here's three deterrents that He brings up

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that help us not go backwards.

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Let's keep moving forward.

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Who wants to move forward?

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All right, let's do that.

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Look, number one, here's the first deterrent.

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Remembering God's faithfulness in the past.

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Remembering God's faithfulness in the past.

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Look at what He says in verse 32.

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But call to remembrance the former days in which,

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after you were illuminated,

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you endured a great flight of afflictions.

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And partly whilst you were made of a gaveting stock

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both by reproaches and afflictions,

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and partly whilst you became companions

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of them that were so used.

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Like I said in the introduction,

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the preacher passionately tells those who were listening

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to him in that previous passage,

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Jews who understood the gospel

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but may have been tempted to go back

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to trusting in something other than Christ.

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He spoke of them about fiery judgment,

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the vengeance of God and falling into the hands

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of the living God.

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And because he doesn't know the hearts

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of the individuals he's talking about,

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but knows that there may be some who are saved

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and some who are unsaved that he gave this warning,

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his tone becomes warmer and starting in verse 32.

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He cares about these people

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and how he lives.

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And he must have known them well

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because he was bringing to their minds

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specifics about their past.

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He knew something about what they had gone through

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and what they had experienced.

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And so when he starts out by giving this command,

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he says, remember, go back and remember the former days.

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He's calling to their remembrance

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what it was like after they heard the gospel

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and began to understand it.

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The people he's writing to,

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even some of them who had not been believers,

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they were connected closely enough to believers

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that they had even endured with those believers,

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yet many of them had not been believers,

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but they understood the gospel.

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In verse 33, we get the why of their afflictions.

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He says in verse 33,

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partly whilst you were made a gazing stock

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both by reproaches and afflictions,

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and partly whilst you became companions

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of them that were so used.

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He's saying to this group of people,

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some of you endured suffering

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because you became a gazing stock

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both through reproaches and afflictions.

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You were so living out the word of God and faith.

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You were so living out your faith

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that you were being persecuted.

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Some of you were being persecuted

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because you were at least connected to those same people.

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And I think he includes himself in that later.

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They suffered themselves.

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They suffered for others.

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They had grown to know and love people

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who were illuminated like them.

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And so doing hurt when those people were persecuted as well.

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God's grace had been good to them

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in all of this circumstance.

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They had been used by God to be a blessing.

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In fact, it says here that in verse,

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look at verse number 34,

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for ye had compassion of me in my, what?

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Bonds, I had been in jail.

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Apparently whoever had wrote this,

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and some people think it's Paul,

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I had been in jail and you had compassion on me

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and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods.

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Talking about, he took joyfully, he says,

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you are excited to give stuff away,

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knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven

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a better and enduring substance.

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You know what he's saying is?

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You guys believe that by helping me,

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you are storing up treasure in heaven.

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He says you are willing to give it away

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because you were there.

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Now I wanna just say from this text,

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something to apply it to our lives.

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One of the ways you can endure through suffering.

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One of the ways you can endure

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through temptation to stop.

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I deter it to you, not going backward,

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but continuing to move forward.

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Is remembering how faithful God has been in the past.

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Great is thy faithfulness, right?

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Oh God, sing it with me.

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Oh God, my father.

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Is he been faithful to you?

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He's been so faithful.

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The preacher calls to remembrance,

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the original audience treatment of him

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when they were in my bonds.

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He could have been in prison

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and they were beginning to speculate

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that there would be, that he was there

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because of their faithfulness in Christ.

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And what was their attitude toward him?

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It's been compassion, joyful generosity

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and an eternal perspective.

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They believe that their generosity

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would help the preacher in this short term

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and give them a reward in heaven.

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And so here's my question for you.

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How has God been good to you in the past?

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Has God been good to you in the past?

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Everybody take a deep breath.

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We have mints in the back.

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No, I'm joking.

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How good has God been to you?

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For you to even breathe is God's goodness

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and grace in your life.

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Every good gift comes from above,

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from the Father of lights,

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in whom is no variable to see the shadow of turning.

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How has God blessed you?

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Is there some valley that God's brought you through?

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Has he helped you in suffering and difficulty?

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You know, God uses difficulty often to grow us.

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When you went through the difficulty

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that I just had you bring to mind,

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did you find that God used that season to grow you?

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God often uses difficulty to grow us.

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We grow a whole lot more, I think,

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in the valley than we do in the mountaintop.

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There's a song I like by a group.

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Thank you for the heartache.

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Thank you for the pain.

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Thank you for the dark days, the dreary days of rain.

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Thank you that the hard times have a reason and rhyme.

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Thank you that the difficulties makes your beauty shine.

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Something like that.

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God uses difficulty to grow us.

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He often uses difficulty to direct us.

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Direct us. I want to tell you about 2014 Ben.

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2014 Ben thought he had it all together.

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I had been working at a great church

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down in Port Charlotte, Florida.

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2014 Ben thought he knew exactly what God wanted him to do.

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The pastor that I worked under at that time

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was nearing retirement.

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He had been pastoring that church

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as if after he retired that I would be the person

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that would be the most viable candidate to take that pastor.

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Some things happened and to his surprise as well as mine,

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God changed his heart.

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That was really abrupt.

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It was like getting hit by a train.

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It went from all one way one day

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to going all way the next, a different way the next day.

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And for like a week, every time I came to the office,

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both of us would sit and weep together

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because we didn't understand what was happening.

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I didn't understand what God was doing.

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And he said he didn't really understand it either.

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Now that I've had the benefit of years between then and now,

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there's still some things I don't understand about that experience,

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but there are some things I can tell you.

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I don't think I was as prepared as I thought I was.

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You ever have that happen in your life?

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There were definite gaps in my leadership abilities,

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preaching abilities and understanding of ministry that I needed.

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These were things that 2014 Ben could not see in the mirror.

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So I left the church not knowing where I was going.

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Those were difficult times and I didn't know where I would end up.

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God brought us to Ohio and to a church where I learned a ton.

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I learned so much.

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I could give you specifics, but I'm not going to do that.

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The point is God had a plan.

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And when I was in the church,

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I had a plan and when I was coming out of the moving truck,

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going to the hotel room the night that my dad and I piled in a moving van

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to go north and I didn't know where I was headed

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other than a storage unit in my parents' bedroom, not their bedroom.

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A separate bedroom and another bedroom.

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With my family, I had no idea what was going on.

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I remember laying there crying because of dream had died.

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You ever been there?

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I'm not a victim.

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I'm just telling you it was difficult and God used that difficulty.

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God was faithful in that season in a way that was very personal to me.

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I remember him being faithful to our family during my mom's sickness and her death.

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God has been so faithful.

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And I can deal with the present difficulty now in a way that I couldn't before

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because I've been through the valley.

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The valley I go into now, I'm like, this looks a lot like the valley I've been through before.

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And God was faithful in that valley and so he'll be faithful in this valley.

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God is so faithful.

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Have you had that?

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If we had time today, I'm sure we could pass the microphone around

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and hear similar stories from people in the stream.

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Test him and see how God has been faithful in the past.

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And the biggest way that God has been faithful to you in the past

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is that he sent his son to die for you.

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He was faithful to you when you didn't even know he existed.

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Before you were born, he didn't know you existed.

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Before you were born, he'd already had you in mind.

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Romans 8.31 says this,

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What shall we say to these things?

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If God be for us, who can be against us?

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He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all.

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How shall he not with him also freely give us all good things?

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We must identify and take our next step of faith by employing three deterrents.

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The first deterrent to me going back today is to remember how God's faithfulness

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has been for me in the past.

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Number two, looking to God's hope in the future.

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Looking to God's hope in the future.

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Look at verse 35.

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Here's what he says,

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Cast not away therefore your confidence.

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Which has great recompense of reward.

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He's saying, you had confidence before in God.

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Don't throw that away.

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Don't give it up by going back to all that old ceremony

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and the old ways of doing things and the lambs and the sheep and the goats.

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The blood sack.

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We have a new sacrifice.

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We have a priesthood of the believer where we can go to God in our own.

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If you've been given all this, don't go back to the old sisters.

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That was a shadow of what's coming.

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Don't throw that away by going back.

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By turning back to the old ceremonial laws and the traditions that would take them away from Christ

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and not fully and finally taking the next step in their relationship with God,

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they would be losing big time.

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If they kept that trust in God and that responsive faith that they had in the past now,

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they would put their trust in Christ and walk by faith.

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That's why he goes on to say in verse 36,

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for ye have need of patience.

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When you say patience, don't think merely about that thing that you need when your kids say,

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Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad.

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Patience as in, keep me from slapping this kid.

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That's not the patience it's talking about.

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Here the idea of patience is endurance.

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It's endurance.

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It's endurance.

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Some of you guys laugh way too hard at that.

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Like, right.

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Endurance.

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It's you need to be able to keep going.

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How do you keep going?

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Well, one, you remember what he's done for you in the past.

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But you need to have patience that after you've done the will of God,

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you might receive the promise.

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It's pretty exciting.

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It's salvation in the present and it's heaven and Jesus and the redemption of our body

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and everything that God wants to do in the future.

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That's what he's talking about.

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They needed the ability to endure.

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They don't need to lose their confidence, their endurance, the ability to fight temptation.

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Don't give up that position, the preacher says.

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Here's how.

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If you move to full trust in Christ, you receive what has been promised.

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Why?

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Reward is coming to those who endure.

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Don't lose hope.

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Don't lose confidence.

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It's what you need to live a life of faith and difficulty.

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You must live out God's will and you will receive the reward for doing so.

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Christ has made a promise.

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Not only did he promise heaven,

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he promised himself.

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Remember what the Jesus said he would come back?

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Do you remember that?

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Well, here's what he says in verse 37.

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Look at it.

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For yet a little, how long?

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How long?

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A great while?

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No, for yet a little while.

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And he that shall come will come and will not tarry.

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What are the choir sing today?

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That day is coming.

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I love those words.

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Yet a little while.

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It may seem long, but it won't be long.

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In the grand scheme of eternity, our time on earth here will be short.

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If we look to the future and promise coming of Jesus, we can endure.

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We can move forward and trust Christ and live by faith.

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Jesus said it this way, let not your hearts be troubled.

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You believe in God, believe in also in me.

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In my father's house are many mansions.

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If it were not so, I would have told you.

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I go to prepare a place for you.

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And if I go and prepare a place for you, I'll come again.

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Did he leave?

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Did he leave?

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Is he here?

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Where two or three witnesses are for sure.

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But he ascended.

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He's at the right hand of the Father.

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He says if I go, I'll come again.

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And what's he going to do?

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And receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also.

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He's coming back, folks.

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He's coming back.

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I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep.

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That you sorrow not.

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Even as others who have no hope.

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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

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For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain,

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under the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,

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with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God and the dead, and Christ shall rise first.

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Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds,

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to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

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He's coming back.

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He's taking us with him.

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Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.

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Man, it's a lot easier in that 23rd and 24th and 25th mile of the marathon to keep going when I know there's a finish line.

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It's a whole lot easier when I know it's, that day is coming.

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That day is coming.

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We don't grieve like those who have no hope.

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We can keep going.

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Even though this life may seem difficult and temptation may seem strong, it will be just yet a little while.

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And he who will come shall come and will not tarry.

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Until then, don't cast off your confidence.

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Remember God's faithfulness in the past and look to God's promise in the future.

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Living by faith acknowledges both of these realities.

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Number one, that eternal reward is more valuable and more lasting than present earthly substance.

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The scripture says that our works will be tried by fire.

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The analogy of comparison is wood, hay, and stubble versus gold and silver and precious stone.

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When it's tried by fire, what lasts?

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The wood, hay, or stubble or the gold, silver and precious stone?

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The gold does.

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And so when we live and do in light of eternity, we will invest in a heavenly place where rust and moth do not corrupt and where thieves don't break their steel.

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And so we ought to put our trust and our investment into those things.

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And number two, the other thing that's sure is that Jesus is coming back.

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Jesus is coming back.

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You're like, Pastor, but you literally believe that Jesus is coming back anytime.

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At any time.

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This book has an incredible, incredible track record of getting it right.

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If he got his first coming right, I'm telling you he's going to get his second coming right.

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So let's live as those who have that kind of hope.

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We must identify and take our next step by employing three deterrents to going backwards.

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Number one, remembering God's faithfulness in the past. Number two, looking to God's hope in the future.

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Number three, living by faith in God in the present.

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Living by faith in God in the present.

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Here's what he says.

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Verse 38.

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Now the just, those who are justified, those who have been declared righteous.

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Not those who are like really good and therefore God gave them some, no you can't do that.

513
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People who have been justified, declared righteous based on the obedience of another, Jesus Christ.

514
00:27:32,380 --> 00:27:38,380
The just shall live by faith.

515
00:27:38,380 --> 00:27:44,380
How do people who have been justified live by faith?

516
00:27:44,380 --> 00:27:46,380
We're saved by faith.

517
00:27:46,380 --> 00:27:49,380
We're sanctified by faith.

518
00:27:49,380 --> 00:27:55,380
You don't stop exercising your faith once you get saved.

519
00:27:55,380 --> 00:27:57,380
You keep believing.

520
00:27:57,380 --> 00:27:59,380
You keep believing based on what he's done in the past.

521
00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:02,380
You keep believing based on what he's going to do in the future.

522
00:28:02,380 --> 00:28:05,380
And then this moment you take the next step in front of you.

523
00:28:05,380 --> 00:28:08,380
If God said it, I'll do it. It doesn't always make sense.

524
00:28:08,380 --> 00:28:10,380
I don't know what's happening. What are you going to do?

525
00:28:10,380 --> 00:28:14,380
God, just take the next step.

526
00:28:14,380 --> 00:28:17,380
Some of you are like, I don't know what God wants me to do in the future.

527
00:28:17,380 --> 00:28:21,380
You're not doing what you know to do in the present.

528
00:28:21,380 --> 00:28:24,380
He's not going to give you instruction for the future potentially.

529
00:28:24,380 --> 00:28:28,380
If you're not being obedient to instruction, you have in the present.

530
00:28:28,380 --> 00:28:35,380
Some of you are like, I never hear from God.

531
00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:39,380
It's a meme. Okay, look it up.

532
00:28:39,380 --> 00:28:42,380
He's written to us. He wants to give us direction.

533
00:28:42,380 --> 00:28:44,380
The just shall live by faith.

534
00:28:44,380 --> 00:28:45,380
Here's what it says though.

535
00:28:45,380 --> 00:28:49,380
But if any man draw back, this is a quote,

536
00:28:49,380 --> 00:28:53,380
my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

537
00:28:53,380 --> 00:28:57,380
Those who have been justified are now being called to live by faith now.

538
00:28:57,380 --> 00:29:02,380
In the previous verses, the preacher pleads with his readers to remember the past.

539
00:29:02,380 --> 00:29:05,380
He told them to put their confidence in the future return of Christ.

540
00:29:05,380 --> 00:29:08,380
Now he's saying, look at the present.

541
00:29:08,380 --> 00:29:12,380
Those without saving faith do not live out any consistent, godly faith in their life.

542
00:29:12,380 --> 00:29:14,380
They draw back.

543
00:29:14,380 --> 00:29:23,380
It could be said that people like this went out from us because they were not of us.

544
00:29:23,380 --> 00:29:27,380
The preacher quotes in the second half of verse 38,

545
00:29:27,380 --> 00:29:31,380
if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

546
00:29:31,380 --> 00:29:33,380
And then he says this, verse 39,

547
00:29:33,380 --> 00:29:40,380
but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition,

548
00:29:40,380 --> 00:29:44,380
but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

549
00:29:44,380 --> 00:29:50,380
Those that draw back unto perdition without any repentance may be demonstrating their true spiritual,

550
00:29:50,380 --> 00:29:54,380
their true degenerate position and condition.

551
00:29:54,380 --> 00:29:58,380
I believe when he says, we are not of them that draw back,

552
00:29:58,380 --> 00:30:01,380
he's not saying everybody I'm talking to here now is a believer.

553
00:30:01,380 --> 00:30:05,380
I think he's saying what's the name of the book?

554
00:30:05,380 --> 00:30:07,380
What's the name of the book?

555
00:30:07,380 --> 00:30:09,380
Hebrews.

556
00:30:09,380 --> 00:30:11,380
They're Jewish.

557
00:30:11,380 --> 00:30:17,380
Jewish people have an incredible heritage of faith.

558
00:30:17,380 --> 00:30:22,380
In fact, you know what comes after Hebrews chapter 10?

559
00:30:22,380 --> 00:30:23,880
Hebrews chapter 11.

560
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,880
Has anybody studied Hebrews chapter 11?

561
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,380
We're about to.

562
00:30:33,380 --> 00:30:34,380
What is it?

563
00:30:34,380 --> 00:30:36,380
It's a hall of faith.

564
00:30:37,380 --> 00:30:41,380
By faith Abraham and by faith Moses and by faith.

565
00:30:41,380 --> 00:30:46,380
By faith, by faith.

566
00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:48,380
He's like, that's who we are.

567
00:30:48,380 --> 00:30:53,380
We Hebrews are people who have been putting their faith in God for a long time.

568
00:30:53,380 --> 00:30:58,380
You're not a people who are faithless, you're of a people who are full of faith.

569
00:30:58,380 --> 00:31:07,380
So don't draw back now that God had done all this work to help you understand the shadow and point to the real.

570
00:31:07,380 --> 00:31:11,380
And now that you finally understand the real, don't draw back.

571
00:31:11,380 --> 00:31:16,380
Don't only have faith in what he was doing to get you to understand the real.

572
00:31:16,380 --> 00:31:18,380
Believe the whole thing.

573
00:31:19,380 --> 00:31:21,380
Don't just believe Moses.

574
00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:22,380
Don't just believe Abraham.

575
00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:24,380
Believe Jesus.

576
00:31:25,380 --> 00:31:26,380
Do you get it?

577
00:31:26,380 --> 00:31:28,380
Don't draw back.

578
00:31:30,380 --> 00:31:34,380
To those who believe, this was an encouragement to live by faith now.

579
00:31:34,380 --> 00:31:36,380
Keep demonstrating who you already are.

580
00:31:36,380 --> 00:31:38,380
You are of them that believe.

581
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:42,380
The preacher is saying that they are people whose faith shows up in the present.

582
00:31:42,380 --> 00:31:46,380
If you're a believer, if you know Christ as your savior, it's not just enough.

583
00:31:46,380 --> 00:31:48,380
It's not just for you to be saved.

584
00:31:48,380 --> 00:31:51,380
It's for you to be sanctified to live it out.

585
00:31:52,380 --> 00:31:56,380
He's saying that you live the way justified people are called to live.

586
00:31:56,380 --> 00:32:02,380
And that is the just shall live by faith.

587
00:32:02,380 --> 00:32:04,380
You've been saved.

588
00:32:04,380 --> 00:32:05,380
This is justification.

589
00:32:05,380 --> 00:32:09,380
I'm telling you today, if you're saved, that's justification.

590
00:32:09,380 --> 00:32:11,380
If you're being saved, that's sealing.

591
00:32:11,380 --> 00:32:13,380
That's sanctification.

592
00:32:13,380 --> 00:32:15,380
That's eternal security.

593
00:32:16,380 --> 00:32:18,380
And one day you will be saved.

594
00:32:19,380 --> 00:32:21,380
That's glorification.

595
00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:23,380
That's future hope.

596
00:32:25,380 --> 00:32:27,380
We are of them that believe.

597
00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:30,380
We do not draw back to sin.

598
00:32:30,380 --> 00:32:33,380
We move forward.

599
00:32:33,380 --> 00:32:35,380
We endure.

600
00:32:36,380 --> 00:32:39,380
We live by faith today.

601
00:32:40,380 --> 00:32:42,380
Right now.

602
00:32:53,380 --> 00:32:56,380
We remember the people who were saved.

603
00:32:56,380 --> 00:32:58,380
We remember the past.

604
00:32:59,380 --> 00:33:02,380
We hope for the future.

605
00:33:02,380 --> 00:33:06,380
We live by faith in the present.

606
00:33:07,380 --> 00:33:09,380
You know the song?

607
00:33:09,380 --> 00:33:12,380
We will remember.

608
00:33:12,380 --> 00:33:15,380
We will remember.

609
00:33:15,380 --> 00:33:21,380
We will remember the works of your hands.

610
00:33:21,380 --> 00:33:24,380
We will stop.

611
00:33:24,380 --> 00:33:30,380
And give you praise for great is your faithfulness.

612
00:33:30,380 --> 00:33:32,380
Do you believe that?

613
00:33:32,380 --> 00:33:33,380
Sing that again.

614
00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:37,380
We will remember.

615
00:33:37,380 --> 00:33:40,380
We will remember.

616
00:33:40,380 --> 00:33:46,380
We will remember the works of your hands.

617
00:33:47,380 --> 00:33:49,380
We will stop.

618
00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:57,380
And give you praise for great is your faithfulness.

619
00:33:57,380 --> 00:34:01,380
The God who has been faithful to us in the past.

620
00:34:01,380 --> 00:34:05,380
Has a future that's incredible.

621
00:34:05,380 --> 00:34:08,380
So what do we do in the present?

622
00:34:08,380 --> 00:34:20,380
The just shall live by faith.