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Welcome to Be On Sunday.
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This is part three.
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Enjoy.
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Amen to that.
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Shifting gears on our last subject, which is problems we see that the modern church can be facing in this area.
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A lack of holiness.
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Let's just like make sure people understand that when we're talking about a lack of holiness, we're not talking about you wearing a robe.
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Right.
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We're not talking about necessarily the way you dress.
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We're not talking about you not uh eating out at certain places.
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We're not talking about the external like legalism type of holiness.
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Right.
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That's not what we're talking about.
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The picture, we're talking about holiness as a word means to be cut off, to be set apart, to be plucked off and moved to the side.
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And in the nature of God and his holiness, meaning when we see pictures like Isaiah, the tri-hagion or the trihagios, right?
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The word Greek word for holy is hagios.
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And I think it's the only time, I think, and the only time in scripture that we see it repeated three times.
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Holy, holy, holy in Isaiah 6.
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So this framework of the holiness of God, meaning there is none like him, right?
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Distinct, non-corruptive.
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Yeah.
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This first premise of model.
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Uh, and Isaiah's response to that was whoa, like a natural confession.
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Right.
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Whoa, I am a man of unclean lips.
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I come from, hey, just so you know, I come from people of unclean lips.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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And then the whole coal comes from the altar and touches his mouth.
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Like the holiness of God, yeah, first and foremost, should cause us a desire to be holy.
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Right.
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And it's seen, I think, most, and then demonstrated not only.
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Peter reiterates this in 1 Peter, chapter 3 or chapter 5, uh, from Leviticus, which God is again prescribed, I am holy.
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Right.
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Therefore, worship worship me as I am holy.
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Right.
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Therefore, you be holy, is what he says.
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I am holy, therefore you be holy.
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We see the priests, right?
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So I'm just putting together all these images that are going through my mind.
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We see the priest with like a plate over their forehead.
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That's odd, right?
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Like that's what's the purpose behind that?
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Holiness to the Lord.
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Yeah.
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Reminding the priests, you are set apart, distinct.
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Your desire is for me and to be non-corrupted by the pollution of this world.
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And I think that kind of framework and model is like holiness is a good thing.
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Yeah.
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Okay, you speak on that a little bit.
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What you what do you think about that?
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I think you hit every point.
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Um it builds on everything we've talked about previously.
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Right.
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Right.
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So because we have some biblical illiteracy and because we chase emotionalism, good connection, good connection.
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We don't we don't understand the holiness of God, right?
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And to your point, holiness is the only attribute of God that's repeated three times, right?
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So God is set apart, set apart, set apart.
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Holy, holy, holy, or weighty, weighty, weight, the weight, just the the the oomph of that statement in and of itself.
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Because God is not love, love, love.
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He's love, which is a great attribute, right?
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But his holiness, I don't want to say surpasses his love, but is focused more on himself than the love that he gives to us, right?
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So there is this weight to that.
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There is this awe-inspiring, you know, again, going back to what I said about Moses, take your sandals off, you're standing on holy ground.
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Isaiah is is worshiping all the angels constantly in in Revelation 4 and 5, the elders, they're all worshiping because there is something different about God and and just the separation that he has from his creatures and his creation.
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He is still set apart.
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There's this otherness to him that is awe-inspiring.
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And the fact that he makes the decision to make himself known to us is something that should make us understand we're dealing with something different than our day-to-day emotionalism, our day-to-day uh uh just grind that we're going through in life.
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When we're standing in the presence of
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God, there is so much, I don't know other way to say it, but weight.
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Right.
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There's just this weight of the fact that he is so far beyond us, so far just more separate from us, that to to, as the psalmist says, what are we to be looked on for by him?
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So there's a consecration of God that is and so being created in the image of God, some of these communicable attributes that we as made in his image can possess and do possess, right, is part of that is he would not he has prescribed this.
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Listen, I am holy, right?
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It's different from you, but I am holy.
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Right, you be holy.
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Right.
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Because you are in the image of me, right?
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Follow in and in in and so um we need to strive for that, not because what does that look like though?
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I'm gonna kind of unpack that a little bit.
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Yeah, and and I'm I'm looking at how these three subjects have tied together.
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A, if I have an incomplete or a shallow view or an illiterate view of scripture, I'm gonna fail to see God for who he is.
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And therefore, I'm gonna make up, but I'm just hypothetical, right?
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I'm gonna make up a way to approach him rather than seeing the the prescribed way in which he says to approach me, and by what means he says to approach me through through the blood of Christ, right?
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It's the only acceptable way, right?
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The veil has been torn down, all of that.
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Romans 5, like all of that.
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Right.
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I'm gonna have a low view of God, and therefore I'm gonna have a low view of holiness, right?
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And therefore, I'm gonna be like, yeah, God's just like a dude like me.
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Like kind of the Jesus is my homeboy thing.
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We try to lower him to our level so we can understand him, and then that gets dangerous, right?
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Because he's not like us.
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And we need to, yes, we need to strive to be holy for him, and and the danger, the danger because we want to make that that connection there is uh we we go to a form our holiness then looks like legalism.
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Right.
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Right.
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I've said we've seen that, I've seen it in my life.
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I and and it holiness in and of itself is not the goal.
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We are holy because he is holy, right?
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He is he has set us apart.
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He is set us apart.
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So uh what happens is people tend toward that legalism because it's comfortable, right?
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We can we can understand rules, we might not like them, right, but we can understand them.
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So we we we box ourselves in to where we can even box ourselves in more than scripture right does, right?
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The Pharisees were a prime example of this, they had their traditions that were okay, if I'm this is not scriptural, so I'm not but I'm using this as an example.
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If if God's word says I can take that, I can walk these 10 steps, okay, then the Pharisees would turn around and say, Um, well, we think we only need to walk eight so we can protect ourselves from going too far.
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Well, God's blessing may actually be in those last two steps.
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But this is an interesting concept because I I it it needs to be unpacked because I don't think a lot of people quite understand um what this means.
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And I I think, yes, legalism we see happening because of this false idea of what holiness is, right?
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Um, well, first of all, I have I have been set apart, right?
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Number one, right?
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I've been washed, right?
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I am being washed.
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God is not progressively set apart, right?
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God is not progressively holy.
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God is holy, right, right?
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We are working, on the other hand, out our salvation with fear and trembling, as far as we're progressively learning some things as we go.
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Now, positionally, we've been set apart.
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This is God's claim to those that are actually his.
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You've been set apart.
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Right.
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But there's a progressive way that I grow in holiness, I think, as well.
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And that is that I'm learning more and more about stopping and how to stop the corruption that comes into my life.
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Right.
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Whether that's I personally do it or whether it seeps in from whatever avenue, yeah, because God is incorrupted or uncorrupted.
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Right.
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And therefore, the model is for me to be like him, yeah, not only in the the nature of love, kindness, faithfulness, yes, those are the those are the characteristics of the savior that the spirit illuminates and makes new in my life by be by a new nature.
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But how do I, if you somebody was listening, how do I be how do I pursue holiness?
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Uh could it be as easy as I stop trying to draw attention to myself.
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I stop trying to do things that just satisfy worldly temporal desires.
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I mean, maybe I stop smoking cigarettes.
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I mean, you're you're not gonna not, you know, maybe I stop drinking beer on the weekends.
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Why?
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Because it's causing a corruption inside of me that God has redeemed me from.
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Right.
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And I I think sometimes this this I want kind of this discussion on this, nobody's really unpacked this.
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Right.
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And so in the body of Christ, in the new covenant, in the church age, like how do I live?
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Right, right.
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And I and we hear this a lot.
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Well, you can't do this, this is this, and this.
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Well, if that's not prescribed in scripture, then that doesn't mean I can't do it.
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Then you get over here, or maybe people would just call too much of the free grace.
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You're like, I can do anything.
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Right.
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Like, where is the middle road?
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And I think the apostle Paul like packaged this so well in two different places in Corinthians when he says that all things are lawful, right, but not all things are profitable.
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Right.
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Repeats it all things are lawful for me, but I will not come under the power of anything.
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Right.
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And I thought, man, that is life in the spirit.
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Yeah.
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How do I attain this personal holiness in freedom?
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Right.
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Because I'm not under law.
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Right.
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I'm not we're not talking about can I commit adultery?
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Can I steal?
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Can I lie?
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No, those are fixed objective moral truths that God has said, no.
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We're talking about how do I live now in a manner that I could be myself.
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God has made me to be me and not somebody else.
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Yeah.
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And stay within the boundaries of holiness while still being free.
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And I just, I've always modeled since I've, I think, discovered this, is the boundaries are I will just not be under the power of anything.
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And I constantly have to evaluate myself that I'm not self-deceived in these.
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And I've I've fallen into this and I've I constantly battle with has that guy too much power over you?
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Are you thinking about this too much?
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Are you too much in this?
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Whatever it is, do you do a too much?
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Then is it have power over you?
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Then you're not becoming free.
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It's corrupting you.
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Therefore, be holy, right?
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As the Lord is holy, right?
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And so this whole idea of do I just not do these things?
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That may be helpful.
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Yeah, uh, maybe I don't cuss, maybe I don't drink, maybe I don't smoke weed, maybe I don't right.
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Like, yeah, bro, that's a no-brainer to me because I'm becoming under the bondage of something if I do.
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Right.
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And and and saying that life in the spirit and being redeemed is not enough.
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I need these other alternatives, right?
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That's that that's to me that's a low-hanging fruit argument.
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The the other part is like, I think we're becoming more sanctified and set apart as we grow, as Peter lists in First Peter or 2 Peter, kind of that add to your faith this, add to add virtue, add this.
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It's kind of like that.
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God is always putting his finger on something in your life and say, Well, this season we're actually going to deal with this.
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And you're like, Oh, I didn't even know that existed.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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This existed.
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We couldn't have dealt with it 10 years ago, right?
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Right?
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We we were dealing with all these other things that were hanging out of your life that everybody was seeing, right?
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Yeah, but but today it's the inner working of the sanctification processes, like the deep thoughts and things like let's get rid of that because that's not holy.
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Yeah, right.
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So you have any insight on that?
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Well, it goes back to our first topic of biblical literacy or illiterate literacy, right?
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If if you don't know what God's word says and you're not studying it, then you're gonna lean on the legalism part of that and not on the actual sanctification part of that, right?
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Because Christ, again, John 17, 17, sanctify them by truth.
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Your word is truth, and so how do we how do we grow
in holiness?
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Know what God's word says about something.
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Our worldview is shaped by that.
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So men to that.
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Uh, you know, the Bible may not talk about a specific issue that we're dealing with, but the concepts of how a Christian should respond to that issue.
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Yeah, it does, it does, and so you know, we have to pray, we have to lean on his understanding and not our own and what he says in his word and the concepts and the precepts, and and live that out and apply it to our lives, whether it's uh a major thing that can impact uh all of culture or just a minor thing that could be between a husband and wife, or uh a dad and children, or wife and and you know, someone that she's leading, or whatever the case may be, um, or just two friends, right?
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You know, part of part of the fact that we are to be holy is that we are to look at God high and lifted up, see that we're not like him, but see that we need to try to be like him.
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That's our goal in sanctification is to be like him, not not for our justification.
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The salvation that's sign sealed delivered once we believe in Christ and and have repented of our sins, that's done.
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But our sanctification is this constant movement based in scripture, not based in emotionalism.
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Again, going back to our other two points, that's why we tied these together.
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It's we're taking these steps along the way while we're here as foreigners in this land, right?
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This world is not our home.
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Heaven with Christ and God the Father and the Holy Spirit, that's where we're going to be for eternity.
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That's our home.
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As we are walking in this life, then we are to model what we will be because of him.
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And I I like the um the picture that 2 Corinthians chapter 5 paints.
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We are ambassadors for Christ in this world.
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Well, what's an ambassador in today's realm?
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It's a it's a great correlation.
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An ambassador is someone who represents the home country, so they have to abide by and set by somebody.
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I've been sent by somebody, I'm representing that kingdom, that king.
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And so I need to live in a way that honors that king by the precepts that king has set.
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Uh, and then you know, you can expound that into what you know, an ambassador is a spokesperson for the king in the foreign country that the the ambassador is in, so that we need to be spokespeople.
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So we need to know God's word.
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That's that's his word to us, so we need to be able to explain that.
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Uh, we have communication back to the king in the home country.
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Well, what's that for us?
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Well, that's prayer, right?
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That's we are we are praying to the king and communicating back with the king.
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Uh, we are to offer asylum, if you will, or protection for those people who are of the kingdom that are in this foreign land, too.
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That's the church.
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And we're supposed to guide and protect the church as ambassadors, right?
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And so that metaphor can be played out, and and it it helps in our holiness because if we see ourselves as representing the king that we serve, then we don't want to do anything that dishonors him.
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And again, we don't want to dive into the legalism of oh, you have to wear a suit on Sunday or you don't need to smoke, drink, chew, or go out with women who do.
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Yeah, right.
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All of that.
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That that in and of itself is is a moralism that the devil that the devil can play in because he can make the devil can make you moral, but he can't make you an ambassador for the king.
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You're an ambassador for him at that point.
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You don't chase moralism to chase moralism.
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And that's that is a false assumption that you know I think is a very uh distinct point that he made, which is a danger as well.
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Right.
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Um I I just am so drawn to this picture as we wind down this section of the holiness of God.
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Like everything you read A.W.
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Pink on uh the gleamings in Exodus, um, it's just so fascinating on his insight.
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But you think about the they God had them wear yeah holiness to the Lord across their forehead, right?
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And so I obviously we're not gonna do that because I'm I'm not right from that time period, I'm not that type of priest, I'm not I haven't really kind of nothing to do with me.
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But the imagery has everything to do with I think the New Testament believer, and that is why across the head?
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Like, why do you wear it here?
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Why didn't you wear it here or put it on your back with you know number 31 or something?
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Like, why across your forehead because your thoughts, yeah, your intentions, yeah, your mind, like love your love God with all your heart, soul, mind.
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Yeah, the way you think.
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I want your thinking to be about to be in this way.
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Yeah, I want your intentions to be about this and not about you.
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And so I just love that because really this is the platform and motor, if you will, of our mind and our heart are attached together.
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Yeah, our affections and our thinking are so attached together.
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So if my thinking is not consecrated wholly, yeah, my actions are gonna follow that.
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Right.
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And and we try, right?
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I we try, I try, but I'm constantly desiring in prayer and everything else, the Lord, make me more like you in these areas, right?
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So there's a constant flushing of the old man, a flushing of the old nature that needs to take place.
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A washing, however, you want to, you know, describe that.
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I just love that, and this is what I'm gonna take out of this as a as a renewal, holiness to the Lord, your thoughts, your intentions.
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You know, think about all that we do.
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Is this for your self-exaltation or is this for the glory of God?
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Right.
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Do you do this because you want a gain something out of it?
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Do you want a gain for yourself?
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You want some sort of promotion?
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Do you want some sort of recognition?
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Now you're getting into the like fine-tuning areas of sanctification and the Lord is like, be holy.
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Yeah.
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As I am holy, right.
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Do things for the glorification of how great I am, right?
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And not how great you are.
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Right.
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And I just, you know, I was thinking about this as we were like, man, maybe I need to like bring back the nameplate across my across my forehead.
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Well, and and Peter tells you, right, is you're you're living in a way that unbelievers will see your difference.
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Yeah.
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And then you can give that response of the hope that's in you, right?
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So it's not an attention to ourselves, it's the hope that is in us that should drive us to that holiness because again, we've been given Christ.
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Yeah.
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And so that holiness should be driven by him, through him, for him, to because everything, you know, Romans 11, 33 through 36, right?
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Everything is for him, to him, by him.
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Amen.
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And and so our holiness then should point to him, not to ourselves.
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It's not checking a box, it's not being legalistic, it's actually living in such a way that people see.
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visibly or invisibly, right?
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The nameplate type of mentality to where it's there's something different about Tristan.
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There's something different about Ralton.
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There's something different about, you know, Jane or Jim or whoever that unbelievers see and it's not, it's not, oh, that person squared away, they've got their life together.
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It's what is you know, we're making unbelievers question what we have that is different.
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And and be authentic about it.
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Because how many times we've seen people like I've seen this over and over in years of ministry is you model one thing, but you got busted in the dark doing the exact opposite that you've been doing for a long time.
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That's hypocrisy is the worst kind of holiness it's fake holiness, right?
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I'd rather you be like man, I really struggle with this and I'm pleading with God to help me with it and you brothers to help me with it.
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Right.
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That's that's authentic.
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People like I'm in with that.
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Like man, I'm in the trenches it speaks to the fact that again it if repentance is part of our holiness, right?
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Because we're not holy as God is holy.
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We we strive to be that and when we fall short we need to repent and that authist authenticity that you talk about is part of what people should see is that when we screw up, we're repentant.
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We're not just sorry that we got caught or whatever the case may be.
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It's they see us struggling with this and they see how we're handling it, giving it over to the Lord, asking the Lord for uh his protection, his guidance, his his direction, the strength that we need to overcome not, you know, we don't have a gospel of uh strapping our boots up and trying harder.
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It's we're falling on our face before the Holy One so we can uh be his ambassadors in this world, have something different about us that we can point to him at all times.
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And that authenticity again whether it's in the moral side of things or the repentance side of things is what's going to push people to ask the questions about what is it different about you and and then our faithfulness at that point how are you in this world but not of this world and and that that then points those those
questions and our our response should be again going back to the example of the Alistair Begg famous sermon uh the man on the middle cross told me this and I could come and and then we we are able to mirror we're able to reflect our savior that way just like Christ showed the glory of the Father bodily in his incarnation we are to show Christ in the way that we live amen so land in this plane let's recap real quick number one I didn't we would encourage uh not only ourselves but even leaders build up your congregation with classes how to study the Bible get some of your best men that know how to articulate the word break it down divide the word that are good with hermeneutics the art and science of biblical interpretation that have some Bible skills hold classes bring people in start the process so that people can have a more foundational view of the Bible itself.
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Yeah right and and I would add to that uh if you don't know where to start reach out to us we can point you to some resources we're good at pointing at resources yeah we'll we'll we'll point you to some resources that will help with that uh we're we're part of the reason we're doing this is to spark the conversation so throw throw uh comments in in the uh the sections you know in the comment sections of this podcast or the the video uh and we'll be able to to try to help out as best we can uh but yes uh get in get in deep whatever wherever you can is what we'll say so parents also on that subject of biblical literacy so pastors leaders get your people involved do hold extra classes focus on the next year of teaching people the word in a in a different atmosphere and form in a classroom or something um shift your priorities to maturing the saints in this area parents get involved with your kids and be teaching them a a worldview be the ones not sending them to the to the youth pastor but be the ones who are the most influential in the word of God in their lives so you take a greater role teach them a catechism right pull pull up some of these catechisms we got free ones we can send you that are that are really good and um second is emotionalism over scripture be emotional but be biblical don't chase the emotion don't change the emotion let your emotions come from the sweet savoring of who Christ is displayed through the word himself that will create a genuine work of the spirit and more excitement than you've ever had yeah we don't have to maintain uh try to create something all the time to in to entice people or to entice the spirit first of all that's bad theology it doesn't happen it's fabricated and manufactured and be very careful because it will hurt your own spiritual discernment in these areas so be on guard for that um and number three is holiness yeah like desire to cut out the things every one of us myself included uh the things in our lives that are unprofitable that are damaging that are the secret things that are arrogant that are prideful that are manipulative that are hurtful the words whatever it is begin to cut it out as the Lord says I am holy and without error the model is for you to be and we're not talking about perfection we're just talking about listen be uncorrupted right the world has a way of influencing each one of us to be seen to be liked whatever it is I desire to be holy as the Lord is holy.
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Yep that will come by a greater understanding of who he has displayed himself to be and so go read Isaiah 6 get a get a get a look at Isaiah's response and ask yourself when I see God high and lifted up do I respond like Isaiah is my normal response like you said Peter fall down right is that the normal kind of heart posture and response that I should have so great conversation we pray that y'all were blessed and as we talked about reading more and hopefully inspired you to desire to read more Ralton brought me a book The Honor of God by Grant Castleberry.
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So I'm gonna get my hands on this every time we meet we'll bring some sort of book to encourage you in uh good solid doctrinal theological books like Grant Castleberry's The Honor of God.
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So this is what I'll be reading and I'll give you a report on it soon.
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Thank you brother thank you brother good conversations next time we will cover uh these subjects uh celebrity leaders and idolatry a loss of mission and losing young folks uh in the church what why is that so till then beyond Sunday how do you live beyond the Sunday sermon go out and live 247 for the Lord and remember that your Christian life is not just attached to Sunday going to church it is all inclusive 24 hours a day seven days a week as Jesus himself said anybody who desires to follow me must pick up his cross daily and come after me.
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So the Christian life is not something we check in on Sunday everybody at work your family and everybody that you know should be seeing Christ displayed and your sacrifice to him each and every day of your life.
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God bless you until next time