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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. He said, I want to be like God. I

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want to have my throne above his. I want the Angelic host to worship. This is what

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Lucifer said for his sin of pride he was cast out. He fell. Do you know what that is?

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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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Mark Twain said that a lie goes around the world twice before the truth ever gets its shoes on,

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but don't worry. Don't worry for truth. Truth will always prevail in the end. Everybody needs

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to know this. Here's a fact for you. Lies will always always be exposed. If not in this life,

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in the day of judgment and the life to come, lies will fail. A life of deception and mirrors

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and smoke as it were to deceive or to trick or to portray something else will always fail.

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Truth is revealing. God's truth gets at you. The Bible says in Romans chapter 7, verse 7,

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I would not have known sin except through the law for I would not have known covetousness unless

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the law had said you shall not covet. That's what got Paul. That's what got him. It's absolutely

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remarkable. What's he referring to? Exodus chapter 20, verse 17, mark it down. Exodus 20, verse 17.

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Here's what God said. This is on the stone tablets, right? This is number 10, by the way. This is

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interesting. So there's a reason why Paul didn't mention the second commandment or the seventh.

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Paul, but got Paul, listen, because what gets you might be different.

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God's law got Paul at number 10. There's suggestions, we can't prove it,

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but Paul's religious activity may have led him to believe this, deceived, but led him to believe

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this. Number one, first commandment, I got that. I love God with all my heart. Second commandment,

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third commandment, fourth commandment, fifth, I got those. He's good. Something happened that

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imagined. Yeah, eight, nine. Can you imagine just getting right to the edge? You're like half an

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inch from scoring and then number 10 is revealed. What did you say? Number 10. What is it?

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The shall not covet. And you can hear his self-righteous brakes slam and skid marks happening.

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You shall not covet your neighbor's house. Something we know about Paul. This was his problem.

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This is what got him. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's

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wife or husband. Nor his male servant. Nor his female servant. Nor his ox. That would be

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pickup truck. F-150. Something, I don't know. Nor his donkey. That would be his sports car.

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Nor anything that is your neighbors. Looking over the fence. Oh, honey, did you know that they got

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it in a lot more? How old is our lawnmower? Have you noticed our world is set for this?

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Number 10, if number one doesn't get you and you should be, we should all be busted at number one.

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It's going to come back and get you again at number 10. These two bookends of the law,

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the 10 commandments. They just squeeze you into confession. And what's the confession? I can't do it.

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That's what the commandments are for. They're perfect. And I got a problem.

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Because on the outside, you can't tell if I'm coveting. Look right now. Look at me right now.

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I'm standing here. You can't tell if I'm coveting or not. Can you?

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But God knows. All of a sudden, that just blows up. The religious performance of an individual is,

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what are you saying? I'm saying, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside. God knows

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what you're thinking on the inside. You know, the, somebody used this term anymore, keeping up with

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the Joneses. Joneses are here. We're going to keep up with the Joneses. For a part of this

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crowd, that means, oh, he got a new car. We're going to get a new car. They got a new house.

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We're going to get a new house. It's called keeping up with the Joneses. For the young people,

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I don't know what it would be today. He got the iPhone 13. He got the iPhone 14.

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It's like, wait, what is that? You were doing fine until you saw something different that someone

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else had and you went, that is so dangerous that it's number 10. And the number 10 is very close to

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the number one because it just comes back around. And to fail at number 10 is to fail at all of

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them because to fail at 10 is to fail at one. And you shall have no other God before me. And when

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you sit back and you go, I want one of those really bad. Have you noticed how rotten,

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stinking worthless your car is now? And all the TV commercials? All of our cars are worthless.

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I don't care what you just buy. According to Lexus, your car stinks. You have to get a Lexus if

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you're going to be somebody. And those clothes you've been wearing, how much wrong with you?

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You don't have any trees, but you'll buy a chainsaw because it's being pitched.

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And you'll see, wait a minute, we need to get one of those, but honey, we have no trees.

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What is going on? Truth reveals us from the inside out. And what happens when it goes out,

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it strikes us. And Paul's failure realized, because we've all failed all the 10 commandments.

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Every single one of them. Because God sees your mind. He sees your desires. He sees what you're

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pondering and what imagining. And we're guilty. And for Paul, it was this one of covetousness.

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And he was left as it were spiritually bleeding in a sense. Galatians chapter 3 verse 21, Galatians 3

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21 says, is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not. For if there had been,

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listen, a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

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Stop right there, everybody. This is amazing. Verse 21, if you could get the heaven by keeping

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rules and regulations and being a super person, then Jesus wasted his time at the cross.

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If you could get there by keeping verse 21, the law here in Galatians 3 21, then

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God made a big mistake. All of his prophets are wrong and his apostles died in vain.

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But most importantly, Jesus wasted his time on the cross

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if you can keep the law. And this is very offensive to some friends of ours because they think

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they're keeping the law right now. Verse 22, but the scripture has confined all under sin

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that the promise by faith, here it is, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ or faith in Messiah

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might be given to those who believe. That's it. The law is out here. To those who believe is when

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God takes it and writes it on the inside of your heart. You don't look at the rules to see what

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you keep. God puts the rules in your heart and says, I'm going to do this through you.

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You don't have the power to do this, Jack, but my spirit inside of you as a believer, he'll take

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over from here. I'm going to make a statement. It's going to sound crazy. It's 100 percent true.

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You can be the most religious line item keeping, religion is known to man. But the born again

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believer, follower of Jesus Christ is more right with God than you'll ever be. Why? Because if you're

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going by the rules, God's on the outside. If your life has put faith in Christ, then God's doing

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it all from the inside. That's all the difference in time and eternity. Listen, mark this down if you

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would. Just when you thought it was over, reality strikes you at the heart and it does so when reality

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awakens you to yourself. That's what reality does, friends. Listen, the Bible says in verse 8,

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but sin taking opportunity, listen to this, it almost like it personifies sin. Think about it like

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a thief, but the thief taking an opportunity, now watch, by the commandment, produce in me all

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manner of evil desire. For apart from the loss, sin was dead. Leave this on the screen for a second.

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You guys still with me? I need you to, okay, watch this. Again, remember Paul was being accused of

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teaching people wrong doctrine because the Judaizers said that he taught this faith thing in Jesus

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and the merits of Jesus and it didn't do anything. We have our critics today. Oh, you believe,

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or somebody told me recently, I suppose you want everybody to believe in your religion.

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In my answer to the guy was, nope. No, I don't. This, be honest, first of all, it's not going to work.

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Number two, God didn't say that's how it's going to turn out, but the most important thing is

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we're not talking about religion. You can't join. But sin, you circle the word sin and it means to

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miss the mark of perfection. If you're shooting arrows, it's to miss the bulls eye.

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The strange thing about this word sin is that great scholars throughout

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millennia have tried to get a definition. We can define the word, it means to miss the mark,

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but the origins of sin are cloudy and shrouded. What's cool about that truth is that it wasn't

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supposed to be this way. That's why it's hard for us to grasp. See, what do you mean? Well, the first

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thing that we know about sin is that it was in the heart of Satan. Read later, Isaiah chapter 14

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in an Ezekiel 28. It will blow your mind about Satan. Lucifer, he was called back then.

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It was in him. Now, you might want to mark this down. Humans and angels, according to the Bible,

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have been given a will, a will. The ability to choose and to decide willfully to built in. God

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built that into us. So the Bible tells us that Lucifer said in the day that pride was found in his

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heart, pride is sin, probably the greatest of all sin, if you could rate sin. He said, I want to be

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like God. I want to have my throne above his. I want the angelic host to worship me.

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This is what Lucifer said. Read those chapters I told you a moment ago. The Bible says, for his

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sin of pride, he was cast out. He fell. Do you know what that is? Covet justice.

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He couldn't have wanted a throne greater than God's throne unless he had seen God's throne and

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realized I want that. Do you see that? He looked over the fence and said, I want angels to worship me.

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And the Bible says, we don't know the number, but the Bible says he deceived one third of the angelic

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host. We don't have any of what that number is. It's just one third. Covet justice.

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How about this? This is Covet justice. You know, you're talking a lot about sin and you're

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going to be talking more about that verse here in the minute and all that stuff. I agree with

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you, Peshire Jack. There's a whole lot of sinners in here. So I'll just tune out and come back next

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week at the Christmas message. You know what? That's the sin of Satan. It doesn't matter

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apparently if you're a human or an angel, when you take your will and you supersede that of God

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with your will, that is coveting a state or a position that is not intended to be us, yours.

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When somebody thinks there's something, it's sickening. Isn't it sickening to see someone?

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All puffed up with pride? And yet that is a gross manifestation of Satan's heart.

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Remarkable. So back to that verse 8, look at on the screen, verse 8, but sin taking opportunity

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by the commandment. So watch how this, let's unpack this, but sin. There it is. Or originates in

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Satan. He takes it and reproduces it because he knows it worked against him. He reproduces it in

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the Garden of Eden to Eve. Eve, just peek over the fence and see, God's holding out on you.

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You can have a throne too. You can be like God. Isn't that what he said?

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But sin taking opportunity. So notice sin takes the opportunity. How does it do that? How does sin have

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power to take advantage of us? The commandment. Oh, then the commandment's wrong. No, the commandment's

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perfect. Here is the point. God's commandment is perfect, but God's commandment doesn't tolerate sin,

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but sin exists. So God's commandment does this. Look what I'm doing to you. I know it's not polite,

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but you'll forgive me in advance. See what I'm doing? Don't point. Yes, I'm pointing at you and you

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I'm pointing. That's what, listen, the commandment points and says, this is wrong. Sin takes advantage of

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that. When the commandment is like this saying, thou shalt not, sin takes advantage of that upon our

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human lives. And look, we realize it produces in us all manner of evil desire. You and I wouldn't

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have known evil desire unless the commandment would have been given. No, shalt not cover it.

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Anything, really? I thought I was doing pretty good. Yeah, well that's a sin for thinking like that.

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But you know how you've been looking at that over there? Yeah, so I'm just looking at touching. Sin.

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Well, I don't know my kids to think we grew up poor or something. So we did this or we did that.

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Notice the motive to cover it. Apart from the law, sin was dead. That's amazing. What

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me sin was dead. The word actually means dormant, not dead dead. Sin was dormant. Sin was held in

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check because there is no law that stirred up within me the conviction of desire. So for example,

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if I say whatever you guys do, don't think about pink bananas. As soon as they said that, you had

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you saw a pink banana right about here in your head. If I say now it's stormy outside

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and the last thing you'd want to do is take a drive down to the beach today and go down coast

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highway and see the incredible crashing waves and all of that turbulent water, beautiful sound

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and all, you know, don't do it. You already said, honey, that's a great idea. I don't want to sit

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inside all day. Let's do what he just said. It's that old thing that I mentioned last week. Don't

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step on the grass. Which grass, this grass right here? That is in us. That's our sin nature.

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And to say it doesn't exist is to deceive yourself. That God's commitment is given so that

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I become obvious. When it becomes obvious then we realize, whoa, and Paul woke up and he found out

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that he was very, very much awakened to himself that he needed God.

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