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[SPEAKER_00]: Today we're going to have a message on a subject that I've thought about a long time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've never heard a message as I'm going to be teaching you on today out of just a simple phrase for his name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this phrase is in the Bible quite a few years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember a dear friend of mine, I referred him once a little while, Kurt Wetzel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was the known as the Flying Evangelist in the Lock Haven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... he was a test pilot for a paper and uh... new mister paper himself had a chance to witness to him he should share with me that experience and uh... he uh... also flew for uh... bob johns and and other places but uh... as they're flying evangelists he he would not very very seldom comment on a message and he he came to me so excited because he heard a pastor

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[SPEAKER_00]: for his name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, I wish I would have been there for that message.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then I thought, why can I study it out?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I want to do is talk to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And is this an earth shattering type of a message?

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it is a message on perspective of why we are here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We are here for his name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes when we go through our life's journey,

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[SPEAKER_00]: we can really begin to focus on ourselves and what we are doing and really get very narrow in what we are thinking we're doing and why we're doing what we're doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I was thinking, you know, there's a lot of verses that even though it doesn't say that phrase for his sake or for his name's sake, there are things that we go through in

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[SPEAKER_00]: or who we are affecting in our life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For instance, excuse me, my father is 31.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It talks about the virtuous woman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things that says about the virtuous woman is about her husband.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That her husband is known in the gates.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now why is her husband mentioned when it's talking about the virtuous woman?

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[SPEAKER_00]: was reflected on her husband so that the leadership were decisions and the judging and so forth was going on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Her godliness reflected on her husband.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When you think of, let me just make a point with that, it goes the other way too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For us as husbands, do you realize what we do?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can either be that which reflects for good on our wife

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[SPEAKER_00]: that we are in a partnership.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're in this together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The two have become one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had a person that was, I'm going to answer with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was at a church and there was a nomination.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when the nomination of the man came up, the question came not because of the man, but because of the wife that it was voted down because of the wife.

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[SPEAKER_00]: because of her lack of sobriety.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And ended up hurting the man when he wanted to do, and even others wanted to do, forgot him to do for God, because what we do reflects on each other.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oftentimes a child and rebellion will bring shame to the parents, and sadly,

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[SPEAKER_00]: because they want to tear down their name because they want to rip down a integrity.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We reflect on each other.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sadly, through the years, we see many ministers go down that slippery slope and fall into immorality and it immediately reflects for the sake of the church and the sake of Christ.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes we get so narrow minded, it's like, what I do or don't do, doesn't affect others, it only affects me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the lie that alcoholics will say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That it only affects me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it affects everybody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It affects your family, your community, everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we're pulling in to talk about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You and I is Christians that what we do

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there are things that we're going to see here that God does for His name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He does things for us, through His guidance, for His name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He saves us and forgives us for His name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is not an exhaustive study in any way, but let me read a couple of other verses for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He says that this way, in Psalm 106 verse 8, nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake that he might make his mighty power to be known.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the purpose that God did and physically delivering Israel was to reveal to the world his power.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what he did for Israel reflected on him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 665 says that this way, here the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word, your brethren, that hated you, that cast you out for my name, say, said, let the Lord be glorified, but he shall appear to your joy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they shall be ashamed doing things falsely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: for his or God's name's sake, thinking that they were doing him good, and yet God says they're going to be ashamed in what they did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Third John 17 puts it this way, because that for his name's sake, they went forth taking nothing of the Gentile.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So even in the finances, there were things that they didn't do as a result.

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[SPEAKER_00]: of doing things for the further and so the kingdom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, this is not exhaustive in the, in the, excuse me, in the gospels, off times Jesus talked about doing things for the kingdom of heaven's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, as you get into this, especially when we get into the Greek end of things,

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a word, the word's sake there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is really hard to say, it's always translated this way, because it's like 25 different ways you can translate the word.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a very common word.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But we're going to show you once we get to that, how we can see in certain verses, why in the King's names, they put the word's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: instead of another like the word through or by or another word that oftentimes is translated that way and I think they knew exactly what they were talking about reflecting on the person of Jesus Christ or the kingdom of heaven, the eternal kingdom and that we are doing things for its sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to we're going to come back to the Psalm, look with me to first Samuel and we're going to see another of the

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the background here, and again, I'm trying to give you an abridged version of this whole thing, but in first Samuel 1, chapter number 12, the text is this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The judges are telling the judges is concluding because Israel desired to have a king.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Samu is like, you don't want to king.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what they're going to do against you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But nevertheless, God says, listen, Samu, they haven't rejected you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They reject me from being king.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you can see that in this chapter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He clearly even describes that very thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then so what he is doing here, Samuel is talking to Israel about their choice and asking for a king because God wanted to be their king.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're looking at verse 22.

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[SPEAKER_00]: While you're there, while you're looking at verse 22, he's talking about if you do it right and if you obey God and obey the King, everything's going to go well, but if you don't, you're a really, really big trouble, Mr.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So verse 22 for the Lord will not forsake his people for his great names sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: because he has pleased the Lord to make you his people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: More over ask for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And many of you go through D1, remember this next verse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you're seeing it within the text.

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[SPEAKER_00]: God forbid that I should sin against the Lord and ceasing to pray for you, but I will teach you the good and the right way, only fear the Lord, serve Him in truth with all your heart, for consider how great things that He has done for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So in the tax He's saying, do the right thing, serve the Lord and such, He's saying, listen, you've done wrong, but Lord knows, I'm not going to keep from

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[SPEAKER_00]: praying for you, because that will be wrong for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It will be a sin for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm not praying for you Israel, even though you are desiring a king.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll find yourself praying for things, even though you know it may not be the exact right thing in the purpose and the direct will of God.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what he's saying within the text.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now in this text, though, verse 22, the Lord is not going to forsake His people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Israel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tonight we're going to talk a little bit about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Historically,

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[SPEAKER_00]: in this last century how God proved himself again over and over of this very same fact and how that ties together and what God is doing and will do in the future for Israel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, here, for Israel, he's saying, I'm not going to leave you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to forsake you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to let you on your own.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, instead, I'm going to be there for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it is not for you, the people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is for my great names sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is he trying to say here?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's trying to say is, if God were to forsake Israel,

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[SPEAKER_00]: that it would go, it would reflect back on God Himself, and He would lose honor, and He would lose the glory that He should be receiving through Israel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If He were to forsake His people, and allow them to go into ruin, His name would be even blasphemed amongst the He even.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What kind of a God is that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: There would allow His own people that He had all of these covenants, all of these agreements, even with Abraham,

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[SPEAKER_00]: If God were to forsake them, then his name would be blasphemed amongst the lost.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thirdly, he would be charged with either with one-of-power or the ability to help them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if he doesn't rescue them, if he doesn't save them, if he does walk away and they go into ruin, they're going to say, well, that God wasn't very powerful.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he wasn't able to do much of anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't follow that, God.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the last time I liked this,

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[SPEAKER_00]: that they would be looking at God as it's reflecting on him if Israel would go into ruin, that God has one to or lack of kindness and affection for them, God never really loved them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If he would allow Israel to go into ruin, folks, if there is one thing that proves the validity of the very word of God is what God has historically done and is doing for Israel, he is Yahweh, he is the God,

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[SPEAKER_00]: of Israel that is his name, and this is an absolute proof of who our God is and it is for his name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Back here now to Psalm 23, just that one phrase, it's found in verse number three,

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[SPEAKER_00]: He restored with my soul, and then he says, he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his names sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How many of you guys hunt?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And ladies hunt?

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, Caleb finally found a girl and he said, took forever from me and find a girl would understand my hunting and fishing habits, but he found himself a girl that even hunts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My friend, she got one last year, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: See, he got a good one here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so,

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[SPEAKER_00]: So with this whole thing of hunting, one of the things is you're going in a scope and an area, it's amazing how you can see the routine of deer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the routine of deer is that you're going to see how they walk through certain areas getting from point A to point B, and you're going to see that there's paths.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they take that path all the time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, in Pennsylvania, the first deer I got, when I say, it took me, I think Caleb and I were doing what's 100 up there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: see was too young yet but we went to the top of that mountain it took about hour forty five minutes to get to the top and when we did we were at this one area when I say it was it was like a herd of cows were going through there it was literally mud and just beaten up because of so many deer and that one day we counted thirty some deer went through right in that same path none were back of course but I did get one little later on

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the concept here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are paths that God is talking about that are the paths of righteousness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is where you could go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is where we've been.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's interesting in this test, God is saying, I'm your shepherd.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you realize before you were born, he was still the shepherd?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You realize he was the shepherd for the generation that was before us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: way back, he's always been the same shepherd.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just that we're here now for now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some day, the rapture, we're going to die.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And our life journey on this path is going to be over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then these young people that are here are going to be going on this same path.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's as though this shepherd who would take this herd and then he'd be taking them through to the green

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[SPEAKER_00]: And eventually some of the sheep were given for sacrifices, some were eaten, some were Passover meal, some were this for that, some died.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And bottom line is then he's going to get another group, the little ones that have been born, and he's going to say follow me, and they're going to recognize his voice, and he's going to guide them through the paths of righteousness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And as soon as a dumb sheep decides, I really don't like this path.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it looks better over here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and they go off the path and they start to go over to these other woods or they go over to these other fields.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you realize as he talks about the valley?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The valley is a fertile place, it's a great place for growing, but it's also the place that they know that is the animals would know that's where you're going to find the prey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if they go off the righteous path, they're on their own and they're going off into ruin.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They could be killed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's why the shepherd has to go back and come on, get over here, get on the right path because it's the path of safety.

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[SPEAKER_00]: as a path of that which is right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a path that's been beaten down century after century, generation after generation, that just doesn't change at all because it is the path that the shepherd is taking you and I that he took our grandparents and their grandparents and it goes back for generations, this is the right way, it's a beaten path but it's the right path, it's the upright path.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And as soon as we get off, when we decide to do our own thing, we're going away from truth, we're going away from righteousness, and that's not what God is leading you in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why we go according to the righteousness that God has established in His Word, that is the right path, and that's what He is leading us in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: God doesn't lead you into sin.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Never.

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[SPEAKER_00]: because he is righteous, that is his moral attribute.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so because of this, he wants to direct us in that very same way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The path of righteousness have taken a deep, beaten path.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the shepherd knows this path.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is the path of protection.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is the path that he is showing his people so that they can be fed, so that they can be watered.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is the true path.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he will never leave you, lead you in another.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yet there is this phrase.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now that we understand this path, he is taking us this right path because it reflects on him the shepherd.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you take the sheep to market and they haven't been fed in water and they're all skinny, the shepherd isn't going to read, they're going to, you are a bad shepherd.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have no idea what you're doing and let's give you about half of what the others are going for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It reflects on him on his glory and whether he's good or not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so the same thing then shows for you and I that we

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[SPEAKER_00]: defines this whole thing of sake, the word sake, this way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a final cause, it is an end, it's a purpose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For instance, I read for the sake of instruction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, sake here would be, one who does something,

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[SPEAKER_00]: for an effort to obtain something else.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Or, secondarily, the purpose of obtaining something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For instance, a hero would fight for the sake of glory, men labor for wealth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are things that we do for something, for the sake of something.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why we are here walking on a right path for the sake of our shepherd, for the sake of him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it is to give his name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And a moment is to account, to regard, to any person or thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it immediately reflects on him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there's two words for his name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a couple different Hebrew words.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The first one that ties together with this phrase, for his name's sake, is this properly

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[SPEAKER_00]: in order that, or because of to the end, or this is the intention.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is why I'm doing it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the aim, this is the cause.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the second part is what's really important, because it talks about this appellation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It talks about how it goes on to his name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's about his name, but it is to mark or a memorial of an individual.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, a couple of senators ago, the Oscars decided to do, uh, to, uh, roast Ray Yoder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we had this breakfast, and I don't think he knew what was getting ready to hit him I don't think, but we, we brought him in, and we had a really great meal, and they put a chair up here, uh, in the, in the gym, and he sat there, and all the guys, uh, I, I was starting to think it was a urology, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I started thinking I was going to a funeral service like this was a great man and they're going through their stories about fishing and all the different things and we all had a chance to share a little bit about him and his name, his name, was reference to ushering.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was reference to fishing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was with Eida, with everything, it was that his name was surrounded as a memorial of

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[SPEAKER_00]: what reflected in his life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And folks, that's a little bit of what we stop right here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we say, what will be said of us?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is our end?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is our purpose?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is the sake that reflects on who we are, what our cause, and what our end is?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if it's to get rich, you got to remember

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[SPEAKER_00]: how Job and others have described, when you came in naked and you go out naked, you can't take it with you, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So money isn't going to help you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My factor is this one guy went to a funeral for his buddy, and of course they had this great big group of guys, real loyal guys, each other, and as they were coming in, out of respect to all the guys, we're throwing 5s and 10s in his casket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: out of respect for this guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, man, we just want to honor him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if I didn't, the last guy came up and said, would you guys care if I were to do one thing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to pull all the cash out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to count it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to rate it, check out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll put that in the casket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he can cash it whenever he wants to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll take the cash.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you just can't take it with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's those suitcases on top of her, so you know, you just can't take, it sounds like a country song, doesn't it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, this is what God wants us to realize, is that it is for his name's sake, that he is leading us, because all we do reflects on him, look with me to one more in the New Testament, first John at chapter 2, to tie together a little bit from

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[SPEAKER_00]: The New Testament on the same phrase, different people, I said, look at this word for his name, sake, and have translated like, there's innumerable times and ways, it's kind of a prepositional phrase, and as you see this, it's oftentimes so, through is oftentimes

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[SPEAKER_00]: I write unto you little children, because your sins are forgiven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Notice this, for his name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As I said, some have translated it through his name and took out any reflection and it's true that this whole thing of forgiveness and what is happening is absolutely through the person of Jesus Christ.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the whole New Testament explains that, absolutely right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there are several places that in the New Testament, the King James had taken it, that we suffer for the kingdom of God's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And to translate that by or through the kingdom, it doesn't make any sense, doesn't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's why many have looked at several places within the text to say it definitely makes more sense to take that word and to describe it for the cause for the end for this reason.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're suffering.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's for the kingdom of God.

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[SPEAKER_00]: not buy the kingdom of God or through the kingdom of God.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not how the suffering is coming for instance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I use this word usually to help us understand, you say, what's this frustrating?

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[SPEAKER_00]: How do you get to know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the same thing, if I come to you and say, it's not an neat looking trunk.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And right away, you're thinking, yeah, the trunk, trunk, wait a minute, which trunk?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're looking at an elephant trunk?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're looking at a trunk of a car?

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[SPEAKER_00]: A trunk of a tree?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Which trunk are you talking about?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can know if I were at a zoo, you know what I'm saying?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You see within the text, what do we talk about?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what you have to do with the word sometimes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that here we have, we are forgiven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, through Jesus Christ, I agree 100%.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it goes back for his name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For his sake, we are saved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The word for given here,

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[SPEAKER_00]: is a beautiful, beautiful word.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He addresses us as little children, a many believe that as John is describing people, he personally led to the Lord, and he looks at them as the little ones.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he goes on and talks about others, the fathers, you know, and so forth and attacks, but we're just looking at this verse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all we have time for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The beloved children, the apostles' converts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As a result of this forgiveness,

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[SPEAKER_00]: is really neat because the word forgiveness is in a really neat mood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a perfect passive, indicative mood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You say, that didn't help me at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me explain this word perfect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In that subject that is a tense of perfect, it has been done, it has established, it's ongoing, and it's never going to change, perfect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As a child of God, little ones, you have been forgiven, it's a done deal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when it comes into the passive, that means that it has been done for you, that the forgiveness has come from God to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, religions are flat out wrong when they say, I earn my forgiveness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do things for forgiveness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Forgiveness comes to you in the person of Jesus Christ.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's in the indicative mood, meaning this is a matter of fact.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't changing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The boy hit the ball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can't change it to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you really hit the ball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This means he hit it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Period.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus saved you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: forgave you, period, in that knee, but why did he do this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Many of us stop and say, so I can go to heaven, and that's true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's so that I can walk on the golden streets and see the loved ones, and that's all true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he didn't say us just for there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't forgive us just for heaven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the thought of, for his name's sake, is now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You have been saved so that you can reflect on the Savior, that what you are doing right now,

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is for the one that you are saved for on the account of Jesus the Savior.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's the one that died for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is your mediator.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is your high priest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is the right hand of God for you right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what you are here for is to reflect on the very person of Jesus Christ.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some have put it this way and other verses we are here for the glory of God.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We will receive a glory and see His glory one day in heaven, but it is established now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The question is, how do we reflect this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if we are forgiven, and since we are forgiven, should our life then live out what we are?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a guy was forgiven $5, he's like, hey, thanks, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's another guy that's forgiven $1 million.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Who do you think's going to be more thankful?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, the guy that's forgiven $1 million.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes I think that we are like the guy that thinks they're forgiven $5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, thanks, Jesus, that was really awesome that you did have a nice life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: See you later.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you have room for giving a debt that you could never pay for in 10 lifetimes, wouldn't you then come back to the one that forgave you and say, why?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can't believe you, do you want me to do something for you now?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to help you, I want to do anything you want me to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: not just to get a reputation and say, oh, I'm gonna hang you around this rich man, nothing along that line, oh, but rather out of true sincerity, would want to do something for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's one thing that I can't figure out in life, and you know what it is, people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you ever figured out, please let me know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: who has been making a living on her back and been a heartlet all over her life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she's 30, 40 something and somebody tossed her about Jesus and she can be a Christian forgiven and one that serves the Lord and glorifies God and just takes off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we have this kid that was brought up in the Christian home, saved at the wicked

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[SPEAKER_00]: put through Christian education, put through Christian college, everything's been given to them, and at the end they say, I am so tired of Christians.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, give me something different.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder what beer tastes like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I wonder what it's like, and they go through this life thinking, I've got to go out, pray to play the prodigal, and go out and figure out life, and they go out, and the end of their life, they look back and they say, boy, boy, boy, what should I have done back there?

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[SPEAKER_00]: should have changed everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, how is it a person that can be brought up in it all?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The right way goes south at a person that didn't even know a Bible verse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: didn't know anything about creation, didn't know anything about what's in with Christian music or not, wonder not worry about what version are you using, can care last about anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You mean Jesus died for me, he rose again for me, count me and you mean I'm forgiven of everything that I'm not going to stand before God for being what I was all of my life and I can be forgiven and go to heaven, that's the Gentile verses that you by the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And all the sudden we stop and say, I can't wait to see him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to live for him now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't figure it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But do you ever find yourself?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Doing things for you and forgive it, forgetting that he forgave you, not for you to have a ticket to go to heaven, only.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything you do reflects on Christ.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything I do reflects on the person of Jesus Christ.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good or bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As I said, sadly, so many have taken a name of Christ and have taken it down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they forgotten we're here for his name, sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are some.

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[SPEAKER_00]: whether they're politically correct or not, it doesn't matter, whether they look the part, it doesn't matter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But they are here to glorify God and they are here for his namesake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There was a preacher, he kept on getting hammered, just this one girl.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's single-gile, didn't have much money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she lived that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't a very clean person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One of those you drive by their house and you're like, boy, do they need some yard work done?

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[SPEAKER_00]: They need to fix this place up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was this junk, every wear.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You go into the house and it's smelled, it's stunk, and everything, and people who come and come and we have a problem with this woman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a problem with this woman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a problem with this woman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, what is it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: All her house is so dirtiness in that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, she's out on the street passing out tracks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, what is your problem?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we look at what people do or don't do according to our standards.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of looking at the heart of where this guy was at, and she's one to witness for Jesus, and she won people to Lord, and she brought him into church.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I always wondered if I knew the rest of the story, how many of those who were criticizing her,

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[SPEAKER_00]: and how many tracks they let, gave out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You follow me?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whether we are matching up to exactly what our quote unquote standard for living is, we have to look at the heart in what they're doing and why they're doing it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because if it is for his name's sake, and he is receiving glory and honor, let them alone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because with what judgment you give to them,

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[SPEAKER_00]: the same judgment from God will come become in your way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, if you do have somebody like that, maybe you want to offer and go over and say, hey, I got an extra 100 bucks this work on this place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me help you out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not offensively, but as a gesture of kindness, it's amazing how we look at things and perspectives for his name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why you and I are here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've been forgiven for his name's sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: God leads us in His paths of righteousness, and it is reflect on Him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We are here as a church, and He will not forsake us for His great names, sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why Hebrew says, I will never leave you, I will never forsake you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean we won't go through trials and problems and tribulation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking about the existence of his church that is here to glorify him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He will not let us down, not for our sake, but for his great names, sake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Father, we do want to glorify you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We do want to honor you for what you have done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Forgive us is a church when we do it for our own names, sake, forgive us when we are not doing it for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Father, help us as Christians in our homes to apply this of how we live for the sake of our family, for the sake of our husbands and wives, our parents, help us lower to realize there is a reputation

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[SPEAKER_00]: and that Lord, we want your name, your reputation, to be that of honor and that of glory.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, we have seen so many seemingly take your name down with them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray that I will not do that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I pray that I will be one that does honor you, and Lord, we all know that we are not perfect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: of righteousness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now Lord, there may be some here that do not know you with Savior, Lord, they need you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You want to be the shepherd, and I pray that you will draw them to yourself that they also can know, as First John said, that your sins are forgiven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for this brief time, bless the invitation, and Jesus name of pray.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you are here, my friend, and you do not know Christ as your Savior, you're not even sure Christianity going to church and everything is brand new to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We love to talk with you, show you from God's Word, answer your questions from God's Word, so you can know your child of God before you leave this place.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, this is called an invitation, our organization is going to play, we encourage you to come down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, we're not going to call you up by name, we're not going to embarrass you, we just want to take you and show you from God's Word,

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[SPEAKER_00]: How to be saved before you leave Pastor Nace down here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll meet you if you're a lady.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A lady will take you a gentleman Also, we'll have a gentleman go with you and to explain things from the scriptures as as child God here today What's God done in your heart about all this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And at first from decisions, let's make them and let's Purpose to do things for his namesake as she plays