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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner,
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And today we are going to return to Galatians 5,
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to continue looking at
the works of the flesh.
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Ugh, they are so ugly
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and we don't want to manifest
these works in our life.
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And that's why I want you
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
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uncertain times.
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And doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner,
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Reach for your Bible, and
today we're gonna return
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to our anchor verse, which is in Galatians 5:
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16, where the apostle Paul says this -
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I say then, walk in the spirit
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and you shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
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When Paul says - this I say,
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the Greek words are literally, lego de.
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The word lego means I say,
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but then he adds the word
de, which describes something
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that is emphatic or
something that is absolute
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or categorical.
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You could translate it - I absolutely tell you.
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I'm telling you emphatically.
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I tell you categorically,
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he's speaking in the
strongest of language.
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And he says, walk in the spirit
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and you shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
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And as we've seen this word walk,
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is the Greek word paripateo.
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It doesn't mean hit and miss,
try to do it once in a while.
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This word walk, the Greek word peripateo means
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to habitually walk in the spirit.
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It depicts one who walks
in one general vicinity.
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It's become his realm of existence, and
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therefore it can even
be translated to live.
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You could translate this
habitually, walk in the spirit
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or live in the spirit.
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It really means we can live in the spirit.
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And Paul says, it is the
best way to guarantee
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that you will not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
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The words, will not, in Greek are the word ou me.
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May the word ou is emphatic for no.
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The word me means no.
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But when you use the two words together,
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it is a double negative,
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which means you emphatically will not.
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Which means if you're living in the spirit
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and walking in the spirit, you
emphatically will not fulfill
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the lust of the flesh.
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The word lust, the Greek word epithumia: a compound
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of the word epi, which is an intensifier.
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It means over like one
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or yearning for something.
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The word thumos, which is the word for a passionate desire.
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When you compound the two words together,
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it pictures the flesh as
having its own desire,
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the flesh having cravings, the
flesh having carnal longings
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or yearning.
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It is a picture of the flesh,
bent over, doubled over,
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yearning, hankering for something.
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And we know that Paul goes on in verse 19
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and tells us that the works
of the flesh manifest.
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If you don't get a grip on your flesh, your flesh will begin
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to manifest itself.
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That word manifest, is a Greek word phaneros, which means
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to become conspicuous.
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What is in your flesh,
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all that ugliness hiding in your flesh - will manifest.
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It will become conspicuous.
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And Paul calls it the works of the flesh.
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The word works describes hard
labor or really hard work.
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It is really ugly what flesh produces.
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And the word flesh, the Greek word sarkos,
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which describes the
flesh, the carnal nature
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or base fleshly instincts.
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And then Paul goes on
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and in Galatians 5:19-21, he adds;
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Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
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which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
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lasciviousness, idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred,
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variance, emulations.
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We've already covered
these in previous programs.
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Today we're gonna pick
up on the next four.
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He adds wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
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then he adds envyings, murders, drunkenness,
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revellings and such like.
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But today we're going to look
at wrath, strife, seditions,
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and heresies.
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And Paul calls these works of the flesh.
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And because this word
works described hard labor,
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really hard work that which is ugly,
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if you let these four things
work in your life, it's going
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to produce something ugly in you
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and ugly in your relationships
and in your environment.
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For example, the word wrath,
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ah. This word wrath, is the Greek word thumos,
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which is used throughout the
New Testament to picture one
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who is boiling with anger about something.
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Although this person has
tried to restrain his anger
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by shoving it down deeper
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and deeper into his soul,
it eventually flares up.
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And when it does, it's like a volcano
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that suddenly blows its
top: scorching everything
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within its reach.
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Ah, have you ever seen
somebody blow their top
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and wilt everybody around them?
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Oh, it is such an ugly sight.
I've seen this on occasion.
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It makes me feel so sorry for the people
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that have been wilted by somebody's wrath.
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Maybe you have done this yourself but, when people get hurt
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and people get upset
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and people become offended, if they don't take it
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to the cross and deal with it,
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but instead choose just to
shove it down deep inside,
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they end up meditating on
their perceived offense.
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I call it a perceived offense
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because many times it's
not really an offense,
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it's just perceived to be an offense.
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And the longer they think
about it, it begins to churn
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and boil on the inside of them
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until they become more inwardly upset in their inwardly
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boiling and seething,
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and they don't know what to do with it.
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So they just keep trying
to shove it down deeper
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and deeper and deeper.
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But if those angry emotions
are never dealt with
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by the spirit of God, one
day something will happen
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that will trigger their release.
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And wow, it is really
ugly when it happens.
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Maybe it's happened to you.
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Let me tell you, those
emotions don't go away.
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They just lie dormant,
waiting for the moment
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to be released.
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And when they're released,
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they spew molten lava all over the place.
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Ugh. Finally, something happens
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that triggers their release.
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Maybe you're with the same
person that infuriated you
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to begin with, or maybe
you're in a situation
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that is similar to a situation
that once upsets you,
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and suddenly you find
those emotions boiling up
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and swelling inside of you,
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and suddenly you release a flood of vile
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and rank emotions that
rise to the surface.
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You become unglued.
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And when you do, you end up speaking words
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and tones that you later
really, really regret.
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And I know that you don't
want that to be you,
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but Paul says that's work of the flesh.
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That is just a work of the flesh.
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He uses the Greek word thumos, which is translated
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as the word wrath to describe
this work of the flesh.
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The flesh says, just shove
it down, shove it deep.
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You'll get rid of it, but you don't
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get rid of it, my friend.
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You have to take it to the cross
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and let the Holy Spirit
mortify that from your life.
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Then he mentions strife, next in his list.
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The word strife is the Greek word eritheia.
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And listen carefully as I read from my notes.
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This word strife,
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the Greek word eritheia, describes a self-seeking ambition
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that is more concerned about itself
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and the fulfillment of
its own wants, desires
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and pleasures than it is in
meeting the needs and others.
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When this kind of strife,
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the Greek word arithea, is working in
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someone's life, it means
that taking care of himself
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and getting what he wants is
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that person's principle concern.
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This is one so bent on
getting what he wants,
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that he is willing to do
anything, say anything,
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and sacrifice any standard rule
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or relationship to achieve his goals.
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It is a selfish, self-focused
attitude that is engrossed,
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obsessed with its own desires
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and ambitions: so self-consumed that it is blinded
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to the desires or ambitions or needs of others.
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It makes me think of someone
that I personally know
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and I have to pray very
often to have patience
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with this person because
when I speak to this person,
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this person speaks
continually about himself.
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Sometimes I actually think it
would be nice if occasionally
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you ask something about me,
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but this person usually does
not ask a word about me.
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He just talks endlessly about
himself, about his projects,
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what he's going to do next.
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It is amazing to me
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that a person would never
ask about somebody else.
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He's just obsessed with him himself.
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That's exactly what this word means.
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This is a characteristic
that gives the impression
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that someone is conceited
or someone that is selfish.
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And if you hear yourself
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talking nonstop about your projects,
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nonstop about your dreams, nonstop about your aspirations,
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but you never stop to inquire about anybody else's.
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Hmm. It might be that this work
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of the flesh is working in you.
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Let me ask, do people know all about you
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but you know nothing about them?
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That's a bad indicator.
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Are you mindful of others
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or do you expect everybody
to be mindful of you?
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Are you thinking about how everybody else can be a potential
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blessing to you?
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Or are you thinking about
how you can be a blessing
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to somebody else?
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It is simply the nature of
flesh to be self-consumed.
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But my friend, don't let it be you.
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Paul says this is a work of the flesh.
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Then he mentions seditions. What in the world is a sedition?
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Well, it's a compound of two Greek words.
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The first Greek word means to
be apart as in a separation.
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The second word means to stand.
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When you compound the two
words together, it means
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to stand apart as one who rebels
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and steps away from someone
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to whom he should have been loyal.
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So this word sedition, really carries the idea of disloyalty
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and this very word was used in Matthew, Mark,
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and Luke to describe Barabbas
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who led an insurrection
in the city of Jerusalem.
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His rebellious deeds deemed
him as a notorious criminal
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to Roman authorities.
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He had led an insurrection,
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which in the gospels is
translated as the word sedition,
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the very word that we're
looking at in this verse.
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He led a sedition.
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He defied the powers, he
rejected their authority.
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He stepped away from
their rule taking other
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rebels with him.
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And that's very important because usually when a person gets
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involved in sedition, he never rebels by himself.
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He always takes people with him.
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He gathers a crowd of other
people who also are offended.
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He begins to form a group
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and together they walk
away from authority.
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This is a sedition, which
Paul lists as a work
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of the flesh and my friends,
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it's just the nature of flesh. Flesh hates rules.
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Flesh hates regulation.
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Flesh hates any authority
that is imposed upon it.
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This is why children
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rebellions parents:
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this is why employees
rebel against employers
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and churches rebel against pastors
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and countries rebel
against their leadership
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because it is the nature
of flesh to be seditious.
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This is the reason why
a beautiful little baby,
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a beautiful little baby,
will take a bowl of food
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and throw it across the room.
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You even see a child behave like that,
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and you think, how in the world can a child behave so badly?
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That beautiful child has
just done something so ugly.
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But the reason that child
has behaved like that is
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because that child is dressed
in something called flesh.
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And when flesh has its
way, it is rebellious,
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it is seditious.
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It's just the nature of flesh.
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But it really also carries the idea
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of disloyalty: stepping away from your God
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appointed leader.
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If you do this, you may find yourself in the company
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of people like Barabbas.
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Don't do it. Your loyalty is important.
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Your disloyalty is
hurtful and destructive.
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So my friends stick close to those whom God has put over you
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be faithful to be unfaithful is a work
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of the flesh.
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But then Paul goes on and
next mentions heresies.
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What in the world does
the word heresies mean.
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In the New Testament
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this word heresies has a meaning that is unique
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and used differently than
in secular Greek literature
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of the first century.
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It carries the idea of a person
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or a group of people who are sectarian.
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The word sectarian refers
to those who are closed
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to outsiders and stay
primarily to themselves
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and see themselves as an exclusive group.
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In today's contemporary language,
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we would call this a click -
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a click - referring to a
group of people who believe
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or conduct themselves as
if they are exclusive.
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They give the impression
that they are better,
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that they are more enlightened
than those outside the group,
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or that they have a special assignment
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that they can't even
reveal to anybody else.
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And that's why they keep
outsiders on the outside
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and allows so few to
have an inside peek at
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what they are doing.
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This word heresies carries
the idea of a division
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or a faction, a division or a faction.
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This is very, very divisive.
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And because this was so destructive
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and disruptive to the early church and
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because it didn't fall under the spiritual covering
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of church leadership, the Apostle Paul viewed it as a work
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of the flesh that was heretical, which means it was divisive
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to the church.
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Hmm, that is amazing to me.
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And we have to understand
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that it's just the nature of flesh.
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This is a work of the flesh.
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The flesh loves to believe
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that it's better than anybody else.
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The flesh loves to deceive
itself into believing
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that it's better, more spiritual,
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more enlightened than anybody else.
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It thrives on being puffed
up, prideful and boastful.
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It enjoys thinking too highly of itself.
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And if allowed to do sold, the flesh
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will separate into a faction,
into a division, into a sec,
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into a click.
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It will gravitate toward
others whose flesh also wants
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to believe that they're
better than others.
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And when all that flesh
gets together in one place,
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they form a super elite spiritual group
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that no one else is allowed to get into.
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Paul viewed this as spiritual
elitism, and he forbid it.
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He forbid it. And he said
it was a horrible work
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of the flesh.
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Let me help you come back down to reality.
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Never lose sight of the
fact that you are part
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of the whole body of Christ.
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And there's not the whole
body of Christ over here
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and an elite group over here.
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God has not given you
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or anybody else a special
revelation that causes you
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to be separated from the
rest of the body of Christ.
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You are a member of the body
of Christ. So act like it.
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Act like it.
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Don't let your flesh deceive
you to think you're a member
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of a higher spiritual class.
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Tell your flesh to come
back down to reality
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and get busy serving
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and loving other people in the church.
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But that's the nature of flesh.
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That's just the way that flesh behaves.
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But you do not have to walk in the flesh.
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That's why Paul told us in Galatians 5:16,
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This I say then - walk in the spirit
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and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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Again, those words shall not.
In Greek are two negatives.
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The word ou, me. The word ou, is an emphatic no.
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The word me, also means no.
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But when you put the two words together,
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it means you absolutely will not.
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Which means if you choose to
step up onto the higher road
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and walk in the spirit
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and live in that realm,
that word walk means
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to habitually live, habitually walk.
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You can live in the spirit habitually.
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It can become your realm of existence.
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You will pull the plug on the flesh.
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You will not in no wise fulfill the desires of the flesh.
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And again, the RIV of Galatians 5:16 is: make the path
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of the spirit, the place where
you habitually live and walk.
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Become so comfortable
on this spiritual path
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that you learned to leisurely
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and peacefully stroll along in that realm.
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Living your life in this spiritual realm is the best way
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to guarantee that you will
not allow the yearnings
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of your flesh to creep out
and fulfill themselves.
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So my friend, today, you
have to make the choice
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to step up onto the high road,
move out of the flesh, yield
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to the spirit, become dominated by the Holy Spirit, and live
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and walk habitually in that realm.
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Paul says, we can do it,
which means we can do it.
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I'll be back in just a moment,
and I want to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the interesting question - What is gossip?
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And we're going to find the answer in 2 Corinthians
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12:20,
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where the apostle Paul is describing really bad behavior in
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the church of Corinth.
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And he's fearful that when he comes to Corinth,
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he may find debates, envyings, wraths, strifes,
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backbitings, whisperers, swellings, and tumults.
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But look at that word, whisperers.
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That really is the Greek word gossip,
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which means gossip is something
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that you know you
shouldn't be talking about,
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and that's why you whisper
it rather than talk
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about it out loud.
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And where does gossip usually happen?
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It happens in bathroom, behind a door,
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when you find a corner where no one is listening,
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gossip is really whispering about business that has nothing
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to do with you and nothing that you can do anything about.
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And my rule is - if you can't say it out loud,
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then you ought not to be saying it at all.
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Because gossip is really just
whispering about business
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that has nothing to do with you.
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A life dominated by
the flesh is a hard life.
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It is filled with excess
imbalance, extremity laziness,
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self-abuse, hatred, strife, bitterness,
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irresponsibility and neglect.
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The way of the flesh is
the hardest route to take,
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but a life dominated by
the Holy Spirit is filled
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with benefits and blessings.
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I'm talking about love,
joy, peace, long suffering,
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gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness and temperance.
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Don't give way to the flesh
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and allow it to produce
its ugly work in your life.
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Well, we've had quite a
week studying the works
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of the flesh.
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Next week we're going to
study the Fruit of the Spirit,
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but I'm teaching a brand new series that I want you to have.
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It's 10 parts.
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It's called The Works
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of the Flesh VS the Fruit of the Spirit.
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The subtitle says, You Choose Death Permeated Works
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or Supernatural Life Giving Fruit.
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This week we've been looking
at the works of the flesh
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and ugh, they are so ugly.
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I know you'd rather produce
the fruit of the Spirit.
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You need to order this 10 parts series
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and really get this teaching
down deep inside you
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so you can identify the works of the flesh
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and choose to walk in the Spirit instead.
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And it is a choice, and my friend,
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you can live in the spirit.
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That's what the Bible tells us in Galatians
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5:16.
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And by the way, this series comes
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with a wonderful study guide.
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So order these today
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and remember that right now we're also offering you my daily
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devotionals call Sparkling Gems from the Greek, No.I
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and No.II.
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In each one of these,
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there are 1000 Greek word studies,
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and remember that if you
need prayer, we're waiting
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to hear from you right now.
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Just call us now or send us your email.
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The moment we hear from you,
we're gonna release our faith
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for God to move mildly in your life.
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But Father, I pray right now
for you to move mightily.
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Thank you that you've
been with us all week.
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You're gonna be with us all weekend.
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Father, we ask you to bless
us, use us, work through us,
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and help us choose to walk in the spirit
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and not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Remember Ecclesiastes 8:4: it says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord, I repent
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of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life -
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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