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

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. I can't wait to break open the

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Bible. I can't wait to find out what God might say next in the message. I can't

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wait to see what God's gonna do this week in my life. Listen, when that is in your

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life, that means the Holy Spirit is in control. He's leading and why is that

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true because you are now indebted to him. You didn't even know that. You want to

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know why? You were set free by his salvation which brings you in the debt to his love.

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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

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life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us,

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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. Here is Jack Hibbs.

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How do you know that you're a child of God? Do you want to prove it to yourself?

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Ask yourself this question. Number one is, are you being led by the Spirit of God?

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Ask yourself that question. Number two, is the spirit of adoption within us or within you

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crying out, Abba, Father? Do you want to draw close to the God? Don't answer out loud,

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just answer on the piece of paper. These are things that must be proven in your life.

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This is a diagnostic test for all of us as a church. Am I being led by the Spirit? In other

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words, do you sense the Spirit of God leading you, frankly, on a daily basis? And here's the

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scary thing about what I just said. If I have to explain it to you, the answer is no for you.

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Do you have a desire to call him Father? Listen, if you're Jewish right now, you're offended by what

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I just said. You'll never hear in the Old Testament Scriptures. The Jew being invited to call

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God Father. Because we say the word Father, Abba, that's Aramaic, I like it a Italian. The

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Aramaic word in Italian is Papa. The Bible is telling us Jesus said it himself when addressing

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the Father, he called him Papa. Can you inside say yes when I speak to him? When I call out to

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him, I have that desire and he's Papa. Now, some legalists are going to say, oh, that's so irreverent.

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Well, you need to read your Bible. Is it possible that God would want us to have a relationship

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with him so close? Oh, yes. Thirdly, is the witness of the Holy Spirit happening to our spirit.

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Third thing is the witness of the Holy Spirit speaking to your internal spirit. Fourthly,

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and finally, it's this, can we agree with the Bible that because we follow Jesus, there's a sense

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of suffering in our lives. Are we in any way shape or form suffering for the name of Christ?

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Now, this is not a weird statement and I don't want to bum me out. It means this, guilty by association.

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Your mom and dad told you, be careful who you hang out with. You might say, well, I was never

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like my friends. Well, that's amazing. Usually, birds of a feather get in trouble together.

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No, I'm kidding, but you had it right. I just changed it, just now. But it's true, you know.

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And so the fact of the matter is regarding you and I knowing Christ, are we the only ones

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you know that we know Christ? In other words, do you know that? I know Christ, you say, Jack,

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yeah, you talk about him every week. Yeah, I make that assumption. Sure, I get it, I get it.

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But does the world know that Jack belongs to Christ? Does your world know that you belong to Christ?

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The moment they do, there is a beautiful, wonderful, holy, appointed

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suffering. People are going to not invite you because you're a Christian. They're going to

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exclude you because you're a Christian. Whatever it might be. So Church, let's dive into this together.

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The title for this series is, it's time you quit. How's that? Just quit. So we'll pass through.

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I was thinking about that today. That's why I came to church. I'm just about right at end,

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at all. God. Maybe it's time you just absolutely quit because that's what God wants us to do.

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It's to absolutely quit doing it on our own and to wake up to the realization that we belong to

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his family. And when you're in the family of God, there is nothing. Listen carefully, there is nothing

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that you do to put you in that family and keep you in that family. This is going to be some

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challenges to our legalism today. We are, listen, we are no longer obligated

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to rules and regulations. Hang on.

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We are no longer obligated to do anything for God. Listen, did God ever say, you do this

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and I'll love you. No, you do these five things or these ten things and I will approve of you.

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No. We are not obligated to do anything for God. Number one, he doesn't need us.

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Too poster. What do you mean he doesn't need us? He doesn't need you. He doesn't need me.

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He lets us get involved with what he's doing. It's like you're two-year-old one in the

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Mo the lawn with you. It's the worst thing ever if you want to get the job done but it's the most

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beautiful thing for a photo moment or remembering, oh my gosh, because here's what God says to

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mom and dad trying to move the lawn with a two-year-old who wants to move, they want to push the lawn

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more is it's going to take me forever and then God says to you, that's exactly what you're causing

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me to do with your life. Weak Jack, we could go from zero to 100 in a second if you would just

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stop trying to move the lawn and let me do it Jack. Just hang on or better yet I'll hold you.

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I'll carry you and this is vitally important. It may sound crazy to you for me to say you are not

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obligated to do anything for God but read the fine print. You are now church obligated

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to God that's far broader that's much deeper and so we note this in verses 12 to 14 it's time

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you quit don't just do something stand there don't just do something stand there God might be

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speaking to some of you today saying I just want you to stop and just stand there and let my

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truth wash over you you need to hear this so that you might be liberated and the first thing is this

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stand in his debt can you write that down stand in his debt the word debt like financial debt

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or when you're indebted to somebody stand in his debt watch this verse 12 says therefore

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circle the word therefore very important very key point Jay Verna McGee would say that's why it's

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there for therefore we are debtors circle the word debtors not to the flesh to live according to

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the flesh verse 13 for if you live according to the flesh you will die we already know this as

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believers if we live according to the flesh it's going to kill us it's it's it's heartless and

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our flesh wants to do its own thing but it's hard to live like that before you are a Christian you

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survived maybe you didn't weekends is probably better for you to go back to work on Monday because

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you didn't treat yourself well during the weekend what was going on your flesh was in control right

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and all of that sinning and living for self and oh I want this and at your expense I'm going to

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have it leads to death the Bible says and we become indebted to sin we become indebted to our

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passions but there's an endearing that is holy and pure and that is to stand in his debt what do I

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mean by that is understanding this mark it down if you would the word debtors is a word in meaning

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both listen in Greek or in English it's it's colorful but look at the Greek meaning of the word

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debtors this is what Paul is saying this is what you need to do not in the flesh no more but to God

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it means in the negative we are culprits together because it's plural debtors it's not I'm a debtor

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it's that we were all once children the Bible says listen to this again why would man write this if

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man wrote the Bible we were once all children of the devil how's that for a strong cup of coffee

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this morning that's plurality we were all in debt to the things of the world we were culprits

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together and living out fleshly appetites in the positive meaning this being the debtor to or

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indebted to owned by or under the obligation of another do you see the difference listen you don't

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you don't do anything for God to earn his acceptance because of what he's done for you and I we are now

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in debtors to God because of his great love wherewith he's loved you what he has done causes us

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not to be grabbed by the era twisted not to be grabbed by the knack and drug the church and

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you sit down and you learn this no listen the world is probably more full of people like that

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tragically maybe by ignorance than by what God would have and that is I can't wait watch I can't

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wait to meet up with God's people I can't wait to worship like we did a moment ago I can't wait

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to break open the Bible I can't wait to find out what God might say next in the message I can't

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wait to see what God's going to do this week in my life listen when that is in your life that means

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the Holy Spirit is in control he's leading and why is that true because you are now indebted to him

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you don't even know that you want to know why you are set free by his salvation which brings you in

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the debt to his love you know this on an earthly plane when you're in love listen when you're in

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love in your girlfriend or your fiance she says you know I would sure I'd love to have

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I don't know I would love to have a fish taco you know and I know the stores are probably closed

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listen what do you do when you hear your sweetheart say that oh man you're looking you're calling

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are you guys open can you stay open I'll pay a 20 bucks extra if you just stay open

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why would you wouldn't do that for you you wouldn't do it for any of your friends you

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wouldn't do it for anybody else in the planet but listen because she wants it you love her

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and so you'll bribe the store owner keep it open 20 bucks I'll be there along my way and you'll

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go through that for her and that is true on both sides of the equation regarding God's love for you

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he did it all and our love for him now hit that love displayed to us remember the Bible says

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listen we did not first love him he loved us first he first loved us that's how we are able to

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love him don't don't you don't work I gotta I gotta do this what are you gonna do I've gotta

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I gotta get some more love going on my heart for God every single one of us are in some way

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ashamed to say we love God because why the moment we say it we know how bankrupt we are

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insane it it's not enough we want to say I love you God and bring in a bouquet of flowers I want to

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say I love you God and bring in gifts right don't know where we can do that rightly is say God I love

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I quit I quit all the stuff of me trying to impress you I quit all the stuff with me trying to earn

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your favor I quit doubting your love for me I God believe exactly what your word says that you

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love me and he listen he doesn't love us because he looked down from heaven and saw something in us

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and said my my heaven would be so much better if Jack were here no that's false doctrine

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God more accurately looked over a cloud so to speak and said man are those people messed up and

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they're doomed for hell if I don't rescue them that's exactly where they're going and he stepped

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off of his throne and he took on human skin absolutely epic remarkable so as we look at this we

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God is calling us to stand in this liberty and to do that is to stand in debt to him I you we oh God

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everything it's awesome listen to this I'm gonna it's quite a read we've got a chunk of scripture

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but listen about you and I being emancipated set free Galatians 5 verse 13 will start there for you

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brethren have been called to liberty only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh wow

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I'm a Christian no I can smoke pot really I'm a Christian I can do anything I want really

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how about getting a heart transplant because when you become a Christian you only want to do those

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things that please God it doesn't mean we're sinless because you know the battle I still want to do

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some things that I'm not supposed to do and God says don't do that and I say but I want to and

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then he says you're not don't do that and here's the part that kills me when God says this I don't

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know if he says this you are not but he says this to me Jack you have the license you can you can

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grab the license to do whatever you want to do but it's not good for you listen Jack I'm going to

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love you no matter what you do but because I love you I'm asking you to do what I say to do

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and then I have to drop the weapons step back and say how do God how do I wrestle with you like

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this how do I how do you and I get an argument every argument we get in I lose every time because

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of your sweetness because of your kindness he doesn't wallet me on the head with a hammer that's

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the God of religion no my flesh is the problem but through love serve one another isn't that amazing

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every single one of us are commanded to serve one another why because that's the nature of God

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for all the laws fulfilled in one word even this you shall love your neighbor as yourself

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but if you bite and devour one another words beware unless you be consumed by one another look at

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verse 16 through 18 I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh

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see the practicality of that it means that the lust of the flesh is constantly pounding on the

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believer's head just like it isn't anybody else but the believer is fighting that non-believers

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don't have a fight they're suckers there's no liberty for them they've got no liberty this

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temptation comes by they grab onto it and they go and they're enslaved to it they can't even say no

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they're given over we all know what that's like we used to live like that for the flesh

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lust against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary to one another oil

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and water for that you do not do the things that you wish but if you are led by the spirit you are

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not under the law why does the Bible say that turn commandments the commandments of the church the

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commandments of the fathers the commandments of the oh stop it you can't keep the commandments

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and I realize listen as I'm reading this the only people in this room right now are those

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that are watching right now the only ones that have a frown on their face are those who are not

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liberated because they're hearing this and they're going I don't like that why we love it

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what's the difference a big difference and it has nothing to do with us we're indebted to him

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because of what he's done you can have it too by the way you can be indebted but you want to

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add some new debt under your life how about his debt you'll never have to pay back

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you will eternally be so indebted to him that you will forever be with him in worship in heaven forever

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but verse 22 but the fruit of the spirit is love by the way if you're a student of the Bible

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the fruit of the spirit is only one thing and one thing only it's not the other things it's one

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thing notice it says but the fruit singular it's not the fruits it's the fruit of the spirit is love

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period in the English it's got a comma and it suggests that the fruit of the spirit is joy the

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fruit of the spirit is peace long so you see where I'm going no no it's this the fruit of the

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spirit is love and when you have God's love and that relationship is two ways between you and him

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and he to you you are walking with him in love and guess what you cannot but have joy

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when you realize this theological fact you cannot but have peace

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look you can't have the fruit of the spirits which is the love of God and have no joy

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it doesn't work are you with me well you know I I have the fruit of the spirit I've got love I've

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got kindness my faithfulness is questionable you see how funny that is listen it's the love of God

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and his love for us the spirit dwelling in our lives results enjoy peace long suffering kindness

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you don't muster these you don't take a course for this goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control

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against such there's no law why is there no law regarding these things because it's not done by us

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God has to do it it's got to be of the spirit of God this is liberating

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