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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Trials come from God.

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Temptation comes from this world or Satan or my flesh.

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So watch what he does.

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He monitors the situation.

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So are you going through something right now, believer?

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Just know this.

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God's watching.

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He's not watching to like, let's see what he does, Gabriel, Michael, soon as he slips

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that line, let's pop him one.

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No, he's making sure that the enemy doesn't go too far against you.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

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But what we need to be careful, we need to be smart as believers regarding this, is the

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fact that if you're going to walk with Jesus, it's going to be exciting, there's no doubt

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about it.

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If you're not going to walk with him, then it's going to be a rough life.

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You're going to be a Christian.

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You could have him, but it's not a good trip.

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It's just tough.

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And some of the things, when I say that power over my demons, I'm talking about over me,

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the dumb things that I decide for me, okay, I'm not talking about fuzzy stuff.

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And so in life, you can leave a door open, listen, if you have been delivered by God

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from alcohol, and you know that you need to stay away from that.

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If you're thirsty, you don't stop at Joe's bar and grill to get a bottle of water.

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Are you hearing me?

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You're welcome.

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Thirsty.

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If you're walking with Jesus, Jesus is going to say suck it up, stop it.

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Go a few more miles, and there's going to be a water fountain right there.

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Are you hearing me?

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If you've got a problem with eyes, wandering, God says, stop it, and you turn your eyes

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away.

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Listen, I'm just talking to the guys, getting ready for this afternoon.

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Look, guys, we know that there's, when she's an eighth of a mile away, isn't it amazing

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the faithfulness of God, he'll say, Jack, look that way.

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And you have a choice, guys, right, I'm talking to you, and he's so silent, I know you,

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I know you, I am one of you.

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The Lord will say, look, oh well over here, and you go away.

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And then he'll tell you, clear, it's all clear.

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Every guy knows what I'm talking about.

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And so you listen to him, why?

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Because it's the little foxes that spill over the bridge, whoa, what's wrong with looking,

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oh, oh, what?

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It doesn't go well for us.

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Now that's a guys thing, and I don't know what is, I don't know what women have to deal

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with.

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Look at those curtains, oh my gosh.

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I don't know what you have to deal with, but is it the Nordstrom Spring catalogue, I don't

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know.

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But it's no sort of thing, well, that's nothing, no, it's something.

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The big stuff always starts out small stuff, and we need to be very careful.

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The word present right here in this verse, it's an amazing word.

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It means to stand beside or in front of, it's got, listen, it has a dual meaning, positive

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and negative.

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It means to stand beside or in front of, to be readily at hand.

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I would use the word usable.

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Think about that.

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To yield, to willing, place yourself under the authority of another in submission to.

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That's both positive, and it can be in the negative, but to present yourself.

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In this case, of course, watch, it's in the negative, do not present your members as

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instruments of unrighteousness.

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So what does this mean?

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This brings us to this verse 13 that we have to have power over ourselves, or in this

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case myself, we're going to make a personal power over myself.

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This is all important.

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The Bible says, stop it again, stop presenting your members as instruments of unrighteousness

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to sin.

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So church, this is pretty vivid language he's using here.

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The word present is to bring yourself in front of, and it's to be used both ways.

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You can present yourself to be a slave of this world, or a slave of God, and he says

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the word members.

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Now I don't know what you think about when you hear the word members, but you probably

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already thought about it, but it's more than that.

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It's not just your private parts.

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Well, it's talking about your private parts.

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Present your private parts to God, not to things of sin, but to righteousness.

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It also means your hands, your eyes, as we mentioned earlier, your body, your Christian.

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You've been bought with a prize.

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That's what the Bible says, right?

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You don't belong to yourself.

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God owns your eyes, he owns your nose, he owns your feet, your hands, and he owns your

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private parts.

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And Paul is saying, conduct yourself in such a way that you've got yourself an order,

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man, that you're screaming demands that are in a second time, I want cheesecake, and

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I want it now.

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You need to say, stop it, that's how we live.

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The spirit of God in us uses the word of God to go to war against those temptations that

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would easily lead us astray.

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And so Paul is saying, one of the great victories of the believer's life is to present yourself,

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your members, everything, all of it, dedicated to God.

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I'm going to give you a series of verses and you guys, it's lengthy, but you guys, you

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guys, okay, right?

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You're going to do this, okay?

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So first Corinthians 10, 13, there's no strange verse to any of us.

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First Corinthians 10, verse 13, this is amazing, listen carefully, God is so good, watch

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this.

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No temptation has overtaken you except such as this comment to man.

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Number one, oh, Paul, you have no idea what I'm going through.

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Well, I may not have ever gone through what you're going through, but I know this that

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I've gone through something that's different, that has the exact same pressure upon my

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life as this issue you're going through on your life.

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See, you know what the temptation is from Satan to tell us is, you've knowns ever had

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it as rough as you, woe is me, right?

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And then the next step is, I'm the victim here.

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No, the Bible says, can you kind of put a sock on that?

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That's not true.

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Number one, no temptation has overtaken you except such as this comment to man.

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But don't freak out, number two, but God is faithful, somebody say man to that.

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God is faithful, watch this.

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Three, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able.

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You want to know why that's important?

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God's not the one doing the tempting.

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He's doing the watching.

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Did you know that your life cannot be attacked by the enemy forces of hell without getting

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permission from God?

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Now that's not true for a non-believer.

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If you're not a Christian today, you're on your own.

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I mean, you're walking on a hair, a strand of hair over the pit of hell if you're not

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a Christian today.

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Think about that.

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Satan's just throwing everything at you.

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Most of it you'll try to do with subtle means.

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But God, listen, God cannot, there's something God can't do, there's a lot of stuff God

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can't do.

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He can't be stupid for one thing, right?

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He can't lie and he can't tempt you.

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He won't tempt you.

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Trials come from God.

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Temptation comes from this world or Satan or my flesh.

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So watch what he does.

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He monitors the situation.

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So are you going through something right now, believer?

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Just know this.

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God's watching.

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He's not watching to like, let's see what he does, Gabriel, Michael, so he just steps

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that line.

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Let's pop him one.

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No.

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He's making sure that the enemy doesn't go too far against you, because you and I live

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in a fallen world.

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If you haven't caught on, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you're able?

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But with temptation, we'll also make the way of escape that you may be able to bear it.

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In other words, run.

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Get up and go.

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Don't do that.

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Don't go there.

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Don't listen to that.

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Every time I listen to that, I get angry.

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They don't listen to that, right?

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Colossians, chapter 3, verse 1, Colossians 3, 1, if then you were raised with Christ, seek

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those things which are above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

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This is awesome.

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Set your mind on things above white, because we have a tendency to set our minds on things

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below.

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Not on the things of the earth, for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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This is so beautiful.

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Listen, the day that Jesus died on the cross, he died for my sins, but I didn't know that

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till 2000 years later.

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When I woke up to that realization of what the Bible says, God took me and stuffed me

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inside the righteousness of his son, Jesus, and then so to speak, put Jesus next to him.

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That's how safe you are.

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It's like, yeah, have you ever seen those Russian nesting dolls?

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Are you in Christ?

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Are you in Christ?

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You keep taking apart like a small girl?

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Are you in Christ?

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It's awesome.

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It's beautiful.

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He goes on to say, and this is a powerhouse statement.

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Verse 4 of Colossians 3 says, when Christ who is our life appears, then you will appear

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with Him and glory.

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This is an amazing verse, church, verse 4 is so cool because number 1, when Christ who

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is our life appears, it has nothing to do with His coming.

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Listen carefully.

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This is nothing second coming to Christ.

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This is the appearance of Christ.

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It's a big difference.

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Are you with me?

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John chapter 14 verses 1, 2, and 3, Jesus said, let not your heart be troubled.

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You believe in God, believe also on me, for in my Father's house are many mansions.

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Watch my finger.

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And if it were not so, I would have told you, I go now to prepare a place for you that

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where I am, you may be also.

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That's what He told them in John 14.

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I'm leaving.

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I'm going to prepare a place, I'm going to come, pick you up, take you there.

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Paul elaborates on that in 1 Thessalonians 4, 13 through 18, where the Lord Himself would

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descend from Him and with the shout with the voice of the Archangel and the trumpet of

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God, and the dead and Christ will rise first, and we who are alive and remain shall be

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caught up into the air and meet Him.

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And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

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What an amazing thing.

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It's His appearance, not His coming.

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His first coming was physical to this earth, and He stayed.

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His second coming is physical to this earth, and He stays.

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In the middle of that is His appearing.

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We referred to the Latin word rapture, the Greek word harpazo.

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The English word is caught up or the catching up.

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So we are to present ourselves.

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If today you can say, I'm a believer, I'm a follower of Jesus Christ, then you should

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expect God to be radical in your life.

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I say that over and over again, sounds like I repeat myself constantly on this.

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But you know what it's precious because of when God uses you, it's a whole different

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world compared to when the world uses us.

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In 2 Peter 1 verses 4-9, this is a big chunk, but watch how this is so such a commentary

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to what we're studying, by which have been given, that is to us, exceedingly great and

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precious promises, that's found in the Bible, and through these you may be partakers of

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the divine nature.

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That doesn't mean you become a little God.

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It means that you begin to reflect Jesus as you follow His Word, okay?

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Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust, but also for this

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very reason.

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Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, gosh, imagine church of verse 5 was posted

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on every school wall, or how about this?

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Imagine a verse 5.

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In 2 Peter 1 verse 5, what if there was a, wouldn't it be great to be able to like throw

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switch and commandeer all television broadcasting and have this pop-up on the screen?

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Imagine if this would happen like maybe like for a month, just pops up, watch.

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But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and virtue

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knowledge, and to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance

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godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

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For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruful in the

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knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Imagine if the world saw that for a moment, just saw it, they didn't have to believe it,

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they just saw it.

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Do you know what the Holy Spirit would do?

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He would start bugging them in their head about.

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You need to be kindly affectionate and tender to other people.

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You need to be gentle, you need to be persevering, you need to be, imagine that, our culture would

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never allow such a thing, you know, think of that though, because those words are powered

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by the Holy Spirit.

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Verse 9 says for who, for he who lacks these things is short-sighted even to blindness.

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He's describing a backslid and believer, and he has forgotten that he was cleansed from

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his old sins, that's amazing.

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So the power over myself, so I present myself, the word instruments here is a tool or implement

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of war.

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I like this kind of thinking, a weapon of destruction, the word means or implies that it's a soldier

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that it's been fitted up for armor to be placed in the battle.

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Listen, this word right here is that in God's family we are challenged, do not present

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your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin.

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We are either engaged for the kingdom of God to advance his righteousness or we are in

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the enemy's camp and we are endorsing and pushing unrighteousness.

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One or the other, and if God turned us inside out, the answer would be displayed right

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here.

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Whose kingdom are you fighting for?

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What kingdom matters to you?

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Are we dedicated to him?

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Listen, growing up my dad, my dad was a collector of tools and his garage you could eat off the

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floor.

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It was amazing.

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I didn't learn one bit on how to use one of those things.

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I wasn't allowed to touch him.

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You guys know this stuff.

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There were things like snap on, it was snap on everything, every where craftsmen, I've

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read all this stuff.

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And my dad could fix anything because he had every tool for the job.

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But you know what, those tools, they were sparkling bright and I saw them for 20 years

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and they never seemed to change but he used them all the time.

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He always used them to get the job done but they looked beautiful all the time no matter

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how old they were.

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And when the Bible here says the word members, we're talking about our body parts, when

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God uses us, it reminds me of my dad using his tools.

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He would use his tools for the job that needed to be done and when it was put back on the

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shelf, it was just as shiny taken off as it was putting it back up.

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When the world, listen, when the world uses us, the tools are broken.

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They're left on the floor, they're crushed, they're snapped, they're destroyed.

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When the world uses us, we are absolutely broken and left alongside for nothing.

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The world, the world will entice you, get you and use you and then leave you broken and

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convince you, you're hopeless.

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When God uses us, and this is what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to make you jealous in

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a godly way to come on over to our side.

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And it's this, that when God uses you, I don't know how he does it, he'll use his tool,

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the more the tool wants to be used, the more he'll use the tool, the shinier it gets.

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When God uses you in life, even in this body at the end of the day, woof, I'm tired,

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can't wait to do it again tomorrow.

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Serving God is absolutely awesome, I'm going to ask you, I don't care about your poverty

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or your wealth, are you serving God?

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He'll accept no excuses, what you have, are you using for his glory?

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And you'll know it, those who do are thrilled about it, are you thrilled about serving God?

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