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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.

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God hates sin. That's why he came and died on the cross, but he came and died on the cross

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because he loves 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. To us, that's like saying,

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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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The God of the Bible is the only God of all of human antiquity, from all religious groups

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that have been formed since creation. It is only the God of the Bible, the one and only

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true living God. That's why who says that he has come to make us one. We scarcely appreciate

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that. When he says, I want to be one with you, it does not mean that you become a God.

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There are those who say that. There are those watch my fingers. There are those who say that

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is actual Christianity, that you will become God. Excuse me. The last time or the first

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time I should say we ever read that and heard that was from a slithering snake in the garden.

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Anybody who comes along and says, hey, you can become a God. You said I heard that before.

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And drive them off your doorstep because that is false doctrine, folks. No, but what the

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God of heaven does is that in his redemptive work, in his bringing us into his family,

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that is the oneness. He is our father, Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, and God brings

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us into one family. And that's a beautiful thing to consider. I'm going to ask you to look

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at a few things or to think about a few things here. And what this world cannot say to you

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and I, and I just wrote down, I don't know, five or six things here. This world cannot promise

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you love. I don't care what the song says. The world cannot promise you love. You are

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loved by the all loving God. That's important for you to know because the fact that God is love

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demands that God's love is pure. Hear me out. I say this not to offend anyone, but if the Holy

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Spirit wants to convict you, let him do that for the betterment of your life. God is love,

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and the Scripture teaches us clearly that he's an all loving God. The world cannot tell you

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that it loves you like God can tell you that he loves you. And when God says I love you, remember

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this, he does not love the sin that you and I harbor in hold in our lives. In fact, that is a great

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hindrance to you and I. Listen, that is a great hindrance to you and I knowing the love of God.

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God loves you. You may be here today and you might be saying, well, I have this lifestyle or I

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believe this about myself or the other. Listen, God hates sin. That's why he came and died on the

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cross, but he came and died on the cross because he loves you. And God's love is so pure and so

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great that he doesn't leave us like we are. Think of that for a moment. Every single one of us

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are sinners. The Bible says we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. We've been

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rescued by the love of God. But listen, God's love is not the tolerant love of this world.

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The love of this world, frankly, is disgusting and I can put it this way. The love of this world

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is dangerous because the love of this world will just patch you on the back and say you're okay

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until you slip and fall into hell. And the world has nothing to say to you about that because the

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world, frankly, has nothing to say of value when it comes to your eternal life. That's why Christ

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came. Self-help, self-reformation can never do it. Jesus Christ transforms us by His love.

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Another consideration I'd like you to think about is what the world cannot say to us is that

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the world cannot promise you and I forgiveness, forgiveness. I gotta tell you, I failed to read

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the article as far as I'm assuming it came out but I didn't catch it. But associated press came to

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the church a few days ago and wanted to ask me and they did. Ask me what I make comments. They

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wanted to do an article on forgiveness. Associated press. By the way, the interviewer was wonderful

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and we talked about forgiveness and this person was, I think, I'm not sure of another religion.

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Certainly of another culture but that said you could tell that when I began to define what

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forgiveness is from the Bible's perspective that she was captivated by that. You could see it

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in her face. She was kind of mesmerized by that. Why? Because God issues forgiveness. Listen,

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the issue and the fact of forgiveness is that only in Christ and in the message of the gospel

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doesn't make any sense. Someone's got to pay the price for someone to be forgiven and here

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is, listen, don't miss this. This is what and this is why the world cannot speak you about forgiveness.

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When someone is truly forgiven, the person that is sinned against has to pay that price. Did you

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hear what I just said? Whoever experiences forgiveness, their forgiveness has to come at the expense

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of the one offended. Of course, the context. Think of, think of Erica Kirk going to the microphone

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and saying to the man who assassinated her husband, I forgive you. Who paid the price? Think about it.

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She's paying the price to issue forgiveness to that young man. What does that come from? It comes

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from the very nature of God and that is the God of the Bible. If you're going to be forgiven,

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someone's got to pay that price. Forgiveness is of divine origin and the side benefit for us

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who issue forgiveness because I know us. I am you, you or me, we, we. We go like this. I am not going

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to give them the satisfaction of forgiving them. You're going to die a bitter old person. They'll go

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off to live a happy life and you'll just grind your teeth at night. Why? Because God gave you an

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eye the ability to forgive people so we can set our hearts free from the power that the assailant

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has had against us. Don't misunderstand forgiveness and the world can never tell you and promise

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you forgiveness. It doesn't know anything about it. The third thing is this is that this world cannot

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promise you redemption. Of course not. We have in our culture attempts or conversations about

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redemption. Maybe you can be redeemed and you go to prison and you're redeemed. Not without

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Jesus you're not. Redemption means that someone has died to pay the price for the human soul.

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And you've been welcomed into the family of God by the Holy Spirit in such a matter. Next,

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by the way, this is this introduction to where we're going. This world cannot promise you and I

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belonging. This is a big deal. Young people need to hear this today. Be longing. You and I,

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I cannot exaggerate stress. What's the word hyperbole? I cannot stand on my head. I would if I could

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to communicate this reality. You and I, no matter who we are, we are starving for belonging.

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You and I must have belonging. Gang members, many of them are gang members to have belonging.

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Everybody wants to be a part of something great or something happening or something.

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Even if it's bad, think about it. Your desire to be in a group that does bad

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still doesn't negate the fact that you desire to be identified in a group. Are you with me?

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If you're in a gang, you're just going wrong at the wrong way. Listen, Jesus Christ says,

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you want to belong? Come to me. You want to belong? Follow me. You want to belong?

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Be my church. Be my people. You want to belong? Remarkable power and all of that, belonging.

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I am, I think a lot of young people today are going through self-inflicted wounds because of

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a sense of belonging. They're trying to join up with what? Some, some social media person

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trying to be in the group? Oh, I, listen, oh, I follow them.

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Is a statement of belonging? But listen, why is that important? Because you and I need

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interaction like this. I prepared, I prepared Thursday or Friday. I think it was Friday.

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It doesn't matter. Just the other day. I don't remember. I prepared to get punched in the face.

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I counted the cost. I actually, I was sitting at dinner. We were having a meeting with several

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people and from my angle, I could see a family at the restaurant and I estimated that the little

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young lady sitting at the table with mom and dad was somewhere between 10 and 13 years of age.

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All dressed up for the dinner so cute and I'm watching and we're talking, we're talking and

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every so often I would look at their table and she was looking at our table because our table was

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laughing. Our table was loud. What do you expect? And I would catch her looking and looking and

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then I noticed mom and dad both were sitting at the restaurant. Both of them are on their phones.

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She didn't have a phone. It's the only time I thought that poor kid needs a phone.

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Because you know what? I watched that girl go through that menu and what was on, you know,

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what's for dessert and she just fidgeted with everything and it was really bothering me.

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And then we got up to leave and I walked by and instantly the thought came into my heart. You need to

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say what's on your heart. You need to tell them and I just kept walking and I got out of the restaurant

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to say goodbye to these wonderful people that we were meeting with and I said because I knew I knew

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I knew in that moment there's no way if I go home, total disobedience. And so this person was a

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very big individual, the dad and kind of tatted up and so I concluded is this worth a fist fight

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in the middle of wood ranch barbecue restaurant. The answer? Yes. And so I went back and I just thought

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here it goes. Well it was the the young lady and the dad and then the other booth was the mom in

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an open seat. I went in and I just sat right down. I sat right down next to mom and I said listen

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you're gonna thank me crazy but let me say something I am old enough to be your dad and old enough

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to be her grandfather. My daughters are gone now. You only have a few years with her and since you guys

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came in and sat down you've looked at nothing but your phones. I haven't seen one conversation

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between mom and you mom and you dad. I haven't seen any of you talking to her and she's all dressed up

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but there's no place for her to go. I want to encourage you to pour into her because she's your

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little princess and yada treat her such and the mom said oh yeah oh right and the dad said

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dude and I got up I tapped him on the shoulder and I walked away. Why why why why why what was

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God what was God calling that little girl was crying out for belonging if she doesn't get it

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through mom and dad she'll get it from a boy belonging and then the world cannot promise you

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and I grace the world cannot promise us grace you and I now are recipients of the grace of God

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the world knows nothing about grace can't afford it the world doesn't have it in their bank account

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grace God's grace and then finally this and it's really the point to the message today and that

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is the world cannot promise you and I a family the family I don't need to tell you the American family

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maybe it's the global family is is under attack the family Satan hates family Satan hates marriage

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that's why he makes it rough and Satan hates family God loves it God made it God created it so church

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family marked this down if you would what this world cannot say when you and I belong to God and

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we become one with God is this and and I mean this sincerely verse five there's an ease that

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settles into us I want to stress it the world cannot bring to us what God can bring to us and the

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number one thing that God can bring to us is that there's an ease that settles into us I want to

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stress into as a believer listen many of you are new believers God's salvation is him dwelling in you

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he says the Holy Spirit in the moment of conversion will come inside of you

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and he takes you up as his own possession the God of the Bible the God that saves the God that

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redeems the God that we're talking about today is not a far distant deity in some part of the

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unknown universe Jesus makes it very clear that it is the will of God and notice what he says

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and verse five listen the the Bible I said listen to what he says it's Paul the Apostle speaking

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but he's speaking the word of God which is Christ now may the God of patience and comfort grant you

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to be like-minded toward one another according to Christ Jesus and here I want to stress the

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positive nature of his salvation he doesn't leave us friends to be vulnerable in this world

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when he says to us now may the God of patience this is now Paul's farewell benediction to the

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book of Romans he's starting to say goodbye and he says to them now remarkable statement here we go

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we might say are you ready for this get a grip hang on take this in may the God of patience and

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comfort grant you to be like-minded and want you to mark this thought down and John chapter 10

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verse one John chapter 10 verse one when I said God will not abandon us

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he says to us I'm going to bring you patience and comfort

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John chapter 10 verse one Jesus is speaking most assuredly I say to you he who does not enter

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the sheepfold by the door but climbs up some other way the same as a thief and a robber Jesus

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is revealing and exposing there are those who will use religion to fake it to manipulate people

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and he says their thieves strong words right you guys alive okay

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verse two but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep to him the doorkeeper opens

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and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out and when he

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brings out his own sheep he goes I love this he goes before them he doesn't say all right you Christians

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my sheep you get on out there you go out now stay back here no he goes out in front of us and he

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says come on follow me I'll lead you and this this is the next chapter of your life come on I'll

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lead you this is the issue of the day come on I'll lead you he's always ahead I think it's uh

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I think it's tozer who says that God is always prescient meaning ahead of us I love that

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and so he he goes before us and the scripture says that

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verse four and when he brings out his own sheep he goes before them and the sheep follow him

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for they know his voice again I stress Jesus is speaking yet they will by no means follow a stranger

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somebody propagating false doctrine listen a true child of God will not go off into the weeds on

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false doctrine you guys need to know this because it's coming it's here false doctrines here and listen

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if you know somebody that's giving up and saying no no no I'm gonna go after this they don't know his

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voice they know the voice of strangers you don't I trust say well how am I gonna know

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Bible Bible Bible there's no substitute Bible and we're reading the Bible right now we're reading

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the very words of Christ and he says that uh that he goes before them for they know his voice

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verse five yet they will by no means follow a stranger but will flee from him for they do not know

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the voice of strangers can you say amen to that this is Jesus talking about you I trust

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when you hear something when you read something when it's posted when there's a podcast when

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there's a broadcast when there's an article and you like what you can thank God the Holy Spirit

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for speaking to you that's how you hear the voice of Jesus Jesus said in the gospels that the

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Spirit of God would be the one speaking to you and I love that John chapter 10 verse 11 says I am the

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good shepherd the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep this jack hips podcast as well

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