The Counterfeit Church ｜ Straight Bible： 002
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Summary
The Book of Jude is a story about apostasy. Apostasy means falling away, forsaking, or forsaking or neglecting, or even neglecting. In this episode of TopLords Productions, we re reading from the book and discussing apostasy and the danger of falling away.
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the book of jude is a story about apostasy and so this is what we're going to get into today
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apostasy means like a falling away or a forsaking or uh sometimes even alluded to as neglecting so
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a lot of times you're not going to hear the book of jude in the 501c3 system like most people have
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never heard a sermon on jude and i think as we kind of go through the book we're going to see
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kind of exactly why people might shy away from this one um i got the shades on today because i
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read and stuff and she's like yeah you're not gonna be able to read so i called top told him
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what was going on he laughed at me like hysterically made me feel very uncomfortable and uh then she
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started asking about what's the podcast about and so i explained to him it's like nephilim death squad
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it's complicated it's complicated the one guy just got baptized yesterday in the water
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jude so so we're in jude and i can't read anything so it might be a little clunky today because top's
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going to be doing some of the reading from my notes so i hope my notes are kind of clear but um
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but this is what's going on in jude man he's warning about apostasy or falling away and he's
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saying like we got to stay the course and a lot of people probably don't know this but this is a
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pretty common theme in the scripture man it's like uh the book hebrews i would say that's a dominant
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theme is uh the danger of falling away the danger of apostasy uh a lot of people don't know this but
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in john's gospel in chapter 20 he actually says the purpose of writing the gospel of john is so that
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people would believe and go on believing because i think there's this common thought today in the
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modern system of like you just say this prayer like uh you come up to the front you even there's this
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thing that somebody made up so-called the sinner's prayer and people's thought is like uh you just make
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this one-time prayer and then you're good and i don't think anybody would gather that from just
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reading the bible i think you have to be taught that to believe that like if you're just reading a
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bible you'll be very conscious of this concept of staying the course like jesus even says uh he that
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endures into the end will be saved and there's just so many warnings against falling away against like
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getting on this path and then getting off this path so the main thing is that you get on the path and
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that you stay there so we're just going to open the book of jude man and just get down with it uh
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we got some scriptures lined up that um top's going to read which hopefully like can they see you can
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they can yeah there's my guy dude he's reading today i love this guy all right so uh jude 1 verse 1
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jude the servant of jesus christ and the brother of james to them that are sanctified by god the father
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and preserved in jesus christ and called mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied okay hang
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on so right in the jump we see who it's written to that's why the that's why the intro a lot of
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times people just buzz through the intro but it's important to note that this is written to those
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can we pull it back up who are like uh they're saved uh they're sanctified they're preserved and
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then called remember we talked about called last week we pulled up that uh timothy passage that says
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that you've been saved and called with a holy calling in christ jesus before the world began
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and uh so um this is that same thing if you've been saved you've been called so we talked about
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it being a destiny but anyway that's who this is written to so it's not written to unbelievers
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these warnings coming up are not to non-believers this is to believers
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so where we at in verse where we at verse three all right yeah verse three um beloved when i gave
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when i gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write
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unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered
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unto the saints okay so he's basically saying like i set out to write to you about common salvation
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he's like yeah i'm just gonna sit down and write about like the lovely realities of the salvation
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life man of eternal life and what it's like and uh i don't want to see all these comments popping up
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what is you why are you doing that so uh so he's saying i was gonna just write like a normal thing
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but then i decided that it was needful for me to write unto you
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can uh how does it say it again can you pull it back up again yeah he says uh it was uh and exhort you
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that ye should earnestly contend earnestly contend for the faith you don't hear that much man other
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places in the scripture it says like uh seek out your own salvation with fear and trembling but he's
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saying i was gonna just write to you about a common thing but then like right in the middle of while i
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was writing i changed no man i decided i really needed to write to you and exhort you that you
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would earnestly contend for the faith um there's other places in the scripture it talks about laying
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hold on eternal life like they're like this is a big deal man he's like you guys are on the path
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and i decided i better tell you to earnestly contend for the faith and this intro is really similar to
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the uh hebrews chapter 2 verses 1 through 3 which um i think i think we got it i think top uh
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bro let's go uh therefore we ought to give more earnest heed see that earnest again it means like
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serious earnest heed same thing hebrews very similar to jude in this in this concept of like being serious
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and staying on the path we ought to give more earnest heed to the things which we have heard
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lest at any time we should let them slip you see what i'm saying there's a danger in letting them
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slip he wouldn't say uh like these things which we've heard lest at any time we should let them
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slip unless there's a possibility that we let them slip so he's this is a warning
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uh want me to continue yeah yeah we'll go to chapter or verse 2 and verse 3 okay uh for if the word
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spoken by angels was steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received uh a just
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recompense of reward how shall we how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation i know
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it says that how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation like that's what's being said man
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people we've talked about this before about people like rejecting salvation but this is this other
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thing it's neglecting it so you get people they haven't like rejected it maybe they kind of get on
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the path and then they start to neglect it so we have to earnestly contend for the faith we have to lay
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hold on salvation this isn't something casual there's no there's not gonna be any casual people
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that end up in eternal life man like it's it's a very intentional thing it's a very much a forsaking
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of the world forsaking of self forsaking of all the old ways and very intentionally seeking god and his
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kingdom i don't uh i'm not totally sure where we're at in the notes but i say we just keep rolling
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with all the scripture passages like what's the next thing on there okay yeah the next one we have
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is uh first timothy what's he saying let me see hold on sorry if this is a little clunky man i just we
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we had we i was like top are we gonna do it because i can't read maybe we shouldn't even do
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the show today i could do our show with the three of us but not really my own he's like no i'll read it
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i'll read it i'll read this guy let's see where we're at though i might have pulled up the wrong
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one we had first timothy six five through twelve is that that correct yeah but i think it really
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jumped starting in verse seven maybe seven all right let me pull that up
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it's it's really the blue letter bible's fault we're uh we're doing our best to pull up all the
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scripture bro what can't you just go to one i could pull up my bible quicker go ahead go ahead
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please i know where it's at it's just like uh okay there you go there you go one tim six starting
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like seven okay for we brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we carry uh we can
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carry nothing out boom hold on hold on that's like we brought nothing into this world and it's
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certain we can carry nothing out if you if like nobody remembers anything from this study other than that
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it'll be well worth it if everybody can just keep that in mind like you come into the world as this
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naked bloody little baby with nothing and whatever you accumulate like you're not taking any of it
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with you this is just this very temporary realm for 120 years you're walking around and a lot of the
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apostasy always ends up revolving around that around like using christianity for gain in this life
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like that like that's where a lot of the apostasy comes through in the scripture that's where a lot of
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warnings come from you start falling into the cares and concerns of this world you start loving
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the riches and the flesh you start loving like the lustful things of the natural realm in our animal
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nature and that's where people get led astray and that's where they got to get put back on track
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but that wasn't really what that was just a gangster verse but we're we're going to read the rest of it
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clothes like if you got food and clothes stop complaining because like in america it's the wildest thing
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dude we have like food clothes running water electricity i can push like buttons on the wall
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make whatever temperature i want in my car in my house i have like all of these benefits and all
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like you go in this building you get this cart that's on wheels and you put food in it from all
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around the planet and then you just like swipe this card and go home with food from all over the planet
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and you can shove your fridge full and your pantry you have like all this stuff and scripture is like
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yo if you have food and clothes be content with that because eternity is what's at stake
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but that they be that but that they will be rich no that's now it says they it says but they that
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will be rich but they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and
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hurtful lusts can you see or do you do you actually i know this passage yeah they that be rich well it's
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saying that those that want to be rich that will be rich fall into a temptation and snare and hurtful
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lusts and uh something to the extent of like many people err from the faith because of this which
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drown men in destruction and perdition yeah yeah that's what it's saying it's so like everybody that's
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like oh yeah christianity and i'm gonna be wealthy it's gonna be no problem no problem i'm not against
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living in america and working hard and earning money i'm totally not against that it's just be warned
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that many people fall into a snare because of chasing dollars and wanting money again it all
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revolves around like this uh it just ends up revolving around the temporary realm and the
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benefits you get in the temporary realm there's another place where paul says if i have hope in
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christ in this life only if we if we have hope in christ in this life only we are of all men most
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miserable and like that's what you see with like the so-called prosperity gospel is like these people
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preaching the benefits of christ in this life only that those people i don't have to tell most people
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they already know those are of all people most miserable those are the fakers like the fakers
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the hypocrites in christianity those are the ones that are the most miserable because they're trying to
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use and manipulate christ for personal gain is this what jude is talking about in these first four
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verses here bro we yeah we haven't even really got going on jude we're just like elaborating on verse
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three right yeah yeah all right so back to jude yeah watch no he's going to use tons of examples
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throughout the whole book he's going to use tons of examples of of like this apostasy and what
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happens and it always revolves around the temporary realm beloved when i gave all diligence to write
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unto you out of common uh to you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and
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exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints
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we go back to the one timothy oh first time we only read like the two verses bro sorry i was keep
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cutting you off i just get hype dude over and if somebody else is like reading i just want to jump
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in because it's like i'm not the one reading it so i can just jump in and say stuff uh so verse 10
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uh first timothy 6 10 for the love of money is the root of all evil oh you weren't gonna read that
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bro what dude i don't mean do people know this is in the scripture i just don't know if people know
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these passages exist i won't cut you off like we got to read all the way to the end what's what's
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the last verse okay um which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced
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themselves through with many sorrows that's what i'm saying that's what i'm saying dude like the love
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of money just takes people astray i won't keep cutting you off i can keep going am i allowed to read
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yes okay but thou oh man of god flee these things and follow after righteousness godliness faith love
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patience meekness what does meekness mean meekness is like you could whoop somebody's ass but you don't
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it's not it's it's like you have all of that ability within you it's kind of like when uh abraham
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takes lot with him and lot only has what he has because of abraham and then abraham says all right lot
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we have to go separate ways because we've accumulated so much cattle and wealth and stuff
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and i'm your uncle and the only reason you have anything is because of me so he doesn't say so i'll
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take the good land and you take the bad land he says no no i have every right to have whichever land i
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want but lot i'll let you pick you go ahead and pick whichever way you want to go i'll let you pick
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it's like david when he's in the cave with saul and he could kill him but he doesn't he just goes and
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cuts off the thing on his skirt it says in the king james he totally could have that's meekness
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not uh not like uh he couldn't kill him but he could and chose not to that's meekness and the
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meek will inherit the earth meek is a big thing in the scripture fight the good uh fight the good
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fight of faith lay hold on eternal life where unto thou are also cold yeah that's it that's what we
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wanted to hit right there so so i'm just saying this is this is drastically different from what
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most people that you talk to today understand about faith man we have to fight the good fight
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of faith and we have to lay hold on eternal life it's not casual it's not casual
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okay where are we at what's the next uh you want to continue on first uh first timothy or do you want
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to go to the next scripture what was after uh i figured do you want to go back to jude yeah let's go
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ahead and read through four because i think verse four is where the rubber really meets the road
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man i think this is where people are going to get the sweaty palms and maybe a little bit of the
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sweaty forehead and get a little shaky this is where it gets a little you know let's well it's like hey
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what's the issue about because verse four starts with the word for which always means because
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so like why is he saying hey man i was just going to write about common stuff and salvation but then i
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wanted to warn you and tell you to like contend for the faith man you had to contend for it and you
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have to lay hold on it so why verse four starts with because for there are certain men crept in
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unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our
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god into lasciviousness and denying the only lord god and our lord jesus christ damn oh dude this is a big
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deal for there are certain men crept what unaware no no crept what crept in in yeah wait so this isn't
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like islam or buddhism or hindu bro this is crept in it's it's not out there they've crept into the
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church oh dude this is where people get rowdy this is where people get really offended but this is
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exactly the point of this book dude he's saying people have crept in unaware they're in the church
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and what are they doing in the church they're turning the grace of god into lasciviousness
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which is the equivalent of denying jesus dude this is too much this is too much because this is one of
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the crazy things when i first started to go to the 501c3 system by the grace of god i had read
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so much scripture before i ever went to church and one of the most confusing things to me when i started
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to talk to church people was like they would say some sin that they were doing or something in their
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life that they weren't doing like praying or reading scripture and they would always say that's okay we
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have grace and i was always like i don't i don't i don't think that's what that word means and i'd love
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to do a deep dive on the word grace someday not today but to like say exactly what that means but it
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doesn't mean it's okay to live in sin and it looks like the way that that's taught today is nothing new
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like that was a that was an issue in jude's day he was saying these dudes have crept into the church
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they're in the church and they're turning the grace of god into lasciviousness as opposed to
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coming to the understanding that grace gives you the ability to overcome sin like like that's what it
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is forgiveness or mercy for sins existed in the old testament but the law came by moses and grace and
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truth came by jesus christ grace was this new thing it was the ability to overcome sin not just be
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uh not just be um forgiven for it but to be able to overcome it and whenever you see these dudes in
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the church saying yeah it's okay to sin because you have grace that's turning the grace of god into
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lasciviousness and certainly that has levels just like anything else dude like people do that on a
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high level down to a low level but whenever they teach that that's where things go haywire and that's
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why jude's writing this letter and i think that's why we never hear sermons on jude to be totally
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honest so i think we probably have several because people may not be familiar with that
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talking too loud no no uh because um people may not be familiar with that i know i wrote a ton of
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notes about like these other passages that make it clear that there's fakers in the church uh first
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john you want to go there yeah okay uh so first john chapter two love not the world neither the things
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that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him wait what
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if any man loves the world the love of the father is not in him does the church know that
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because like as you see the world just blending into the church and the church becoming like the
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world like with this idea that like if we be like the world we're gonna win the world yeah where you
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see that if you love the world like this is one thing that happens man as you get closer to the lord
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is like the glitter and shine of the world just doesn't mean that much it just it just kind of it just
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kind of fades away it doesn't mean much anymore it's like if the if you love the world the love
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of the father is not in you i'm not and i'm not trying to condemn anybody it just takes time it
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just this thing just takes time man the closer and closer you get to the lord the more the world
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just loses its luster and so we just have to be mindful because this is always happening in scripture
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that the covenant people are becoming like the world like that was his message to israel was like yo
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i'm going to set you in the middle of all these nations they're going to hate you and they're going to
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try to lead you astray whatever you do don't blend in with them man you're the covenant people you have
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to set the example you have to set the tone for planet earth like that was their job and that's
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the job of the church and so anywhere you see the covenant people becoming more and more like the
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world then you see a meaningless church it's just meaningless for all that is in the world the lust of
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the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world
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temporary yeah and the world pass passeth away and the lust therefore of but he that doeth the
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will of god abideth forever the little children is the last time and as ye have heard that the
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antichrist shall come uh-oh even now there are many antichrists uh-oh whereby we know that it is
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the last time okay so hang on so the scripture john specifically deals with the antichrist antichrist
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plural there's antichrist plural but there will ultimately one day be the antichrist and then he
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also deals with in another letter or maybe later in first john the spirit of antichrist so all of
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those things exist but the thing i want to key in on is the next verse right so he's talking about
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uh antichrist will come but there's many antichrists and i just want to talk about like
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less yeah uh verse 19 uh they went out from us but they were not of us they went out from where
00:25:18.940
from us bro they were in the church yes but they were not of us antichrist in the church
00:25:26.880
salah yeah man uh for if it had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out
00:25:38.200
that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us so i just want to leave everybody with
00:25:43.500
that just just think about that man the antichrist plural went out from among the church
00:25:51.280
not trying to hurt anybody's feelings we're just going straight bible says uh the notes not new
00:25:56.820
nehemiah yeah yeah i think the point uh in that note i was making was just like this isn't a new
00:26:02.780
thing that uh satan who has a kingdom i probably have that reference to satan has a kingdom jesus says
00:26:10.120
that uh somewhere in matthew's gospel 12 26 yeah matthew 12 26 we don't have to pull it up but i'm just
00:26:15.340
saying that's where jesus alludes to the fact that satan has a kingdom right and one of his strategies
00:26:20.620
to infiltrate the church like in nehemiah's day they were building the wall and they couldn't
00:26:26.120
stop him so initially he'll start to try to stop them like that like that's that's initially his
00:26:30.560
thing is to just like crush the church crush the covenant people and if he can't do that then he
00:26:34.980
tries to blend in with them he tries to just kind of sneak in and infiltrate the system and get it
00:26:39.960
watered down get the people to compromise get the people to not be sanctified and set apart for god
00:26:45.060
but to just kind of blend in with the world so in nehemiah's day they sent guys in to try to get
00:26:50.440
within the rebuilding of the walls to to mess it all up uh i probably have a note there too on like
00:26:56.580
rome and 300 ad it looks like satan just tried to kill the church in the beginning right like this
00:27:01.120
first couple hundred years yeah the first couple hundred years of the church he's just trying to
00:27:04.720
like there's tons of martyrs that's why they say the uh blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church
00:27:09.420
um dude is always like this man what even is that jacket just boxing guys or like oh geez so sorry
00:27:18.220
about that um he tries to like crush the church he realizes he can't kill him off he realizes that
00:27:24.480
the more he keeps killing off christians the more it keeps growing and growing so he tries to
00:27:28.520
infiltrate it and water it down and that's where you see like constantine in the year 300 he says
00:27:33.120
no no christianity is cool with rome and then the dude that comes after him i forget who it is
00:27:36.840
he even makes it like the national religion so i'm not even trying to get into the whole thing what's
00:27:41.920
it called where like all of america is christian what's it what's like christendom no this christian
00:27:47.320
nationalism he started doing that he started doing christian nationalism which is like the catholic
00:27:51.040
church is the is like christian nationalism it's where like the church just becomes part of the
00:27:55.520
state the state becomes part of the church it's all kind of involved together whereas the scripture
00:27:59.960
teaches that the church is a remnant it's even a remnant within a remnant so this is a strategy man
00:28:05.640
like try to kill it off if he can't then just enter in and make him compromise which jude's going to
00:28:10.580
allude to later with the story of like balaam that's what he did too like this book gets deep
00:28:15.140
this book gets deep we're only going like verse one through four because i because we ain't going
00:28:18.240
to be able to get through all of jude even though it's one chapter well pertaining to uh the kingdoms
00:28:23.240
uh you have second corinthians 11 13 through 15 i don't know if you want to read that yeah let's
00:28:28.520
look at that all right um so for uh so this is second corinthians 11 13 for such are our false
00:28:37.420
apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of christ and no marvel for satan
00:28:44.260
himself is transformed into an angel of light therefore it is no great thing if his ministers
00:28:49.840
also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works so yeah
00:28:55.740
so paul's talking about false apostles which is no surprise satan himself appears as an angel of light
00:29:03.860
so it's no surprise that his ministers can do the same and that's the point i'm trying to make he
00:29:08.640
sneaks them into the church and paul right there is saying it's no surprise that's his strategy it's
00:29:13.760
no surprise that's what he's doing um i mean moving on to revelation here if you want because you have a
00:29:22.180
couple of scriptures here that seem to lined up for the same the same topic yeah we're just keying in
00:29:26.340
on this man that they're in the church and that this is a strategy of satan in his kingdom because we
00:29:31.120
we don't want to be ignorant to the wiles of the devil uh revelation 2 1 unto the angel of the church
00:29:38.240
of ephesus write these things saith he that holdeth the seven star in his right hand who walketh in the
00:29:45.500
midst of the seven golden candlesticks so this is jesus speaking this is the the epistles of jesus to
00:29:50.800
the seven churches in asia minor in the beginning of revelation look what he says in verse 2 this is the
00:29:56.520
church at ephesus i know thy works and thy labor and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them
00:30:02.640
which are evil and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles and are not and has found them
00:30:08.720
liars he applauded them you see what i'm saying he applauded them and said good job those dudes were
00:30:14.040
fakers they said they were apostles but they weren't they were fakers and you tried them and found them to
00:30:18.980
be liars you didn't have blind faith like the scripture is not in favor of blind faith it's saying like
00:30:24.560
no you have the book you have the word of god dudes come on the scene preaching something that's not
00:30:29.320
bible that's not from the word of god try those dudes you found them to be liars and i applaud you
00:30:34.740
for that that's what he says that's that's hard that's what i'm saying that goes hard bro we're only
00:30:40.540
in the first four verses of jude dude this book is like i'll never hear it in church man philippians
00:30:47.220
uh 3 16 nevertheless where to we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind
00:30:55.740
the same thing brethren be followers together of me and mark them which also so as ye have us for
00:31:03.320
an example he's saying we're good examples mark the good examples for many walk of whom i have told
00:31:09.400
you or means because so because because many walk of whom i have told you often now tell you even
00:31:17.300
weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of christ whose end is destruction whose god is their
00:31:24.120
belly whose and whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things boom so dude this is the thing
00:31:31.720
this is the thing paul's saying even weeping i'm telling you these dudes are the enemies not of christ
00:31:37.120
it's subtle it's subtle i don't know if you want to pull it back up it's subtle these are not the
00:31:42.320
enemies of christ they're the enemies of the cross of christ the sacrificial lifestyle and everything
00:31:48.440
that happens because of the cross of christ so what's different well the difference is uh their god is
00:31:55.040
their belly they're all about earthly things see how this topic keeps coming up it keeps coming up dude
00:32:00.920
like some people will like so-called preach jesus and they'll preach christ or whatever but not
00:32:07.100
the cross of christ not the sacrificial lifestyle and that eternity is at stake and everything that
00:32:12.100
happened at the cross and how that changes everything but they kind of use christ as a nice
00:32:17.240
teacher maybe he's a prophet he says nice things and so they'll mingle in christianity with like other
00:32:22.480
stuff but it doesn't go down like that like we preach the cross of christ in eternity and we're not
00:32:28.600
about our god is in our belly or our fleshly desires see how it keeps coming back to that
00:32:33.700
it's interesting because it it almost uh makes them seem like they're not that awful like they're
00:32:41.960
not like outwardly awful people this are they're following christ but their their belly is overtaking
00:32:48.160
their their actions major topic so it's like i i think that makes them more dangerous because they
00:32:54.520
they might not even be aware spurgeon used to say a half truth is a double lie like like there has to be
00:33:00.200
some truth for people to get along with it so you're totally right antichrist means another christ
00:33:06.000
so he's gonna kind of be like christ dude he's coming from within the church i've said too much
00:33:12.940
all right um what's the next we we got some more passages yeah we have first peter 5 12 well i think
00:33:22.540
those the the first peter and then there's a colossians uh those are just talking about the
00:33:27.780
true grace of god that's what i really wanted to bring out in that is that there's a fake grace and
00:33:33.280
there's a true grace and in both of those passages what are those passages we don't have to pull them
00:33:38.020
up but first peter 5 12 and colossians 1 6 yeah both of those passages talk about the true grace of
00:33:44.580
god like as if to tell us careful because there's going to be a fake grace and then what's the other i think
00:33:50.460
i had another note next to that one too uh second corinthians 6 1 revive not the grace of god in
00:33:56.680
vain yeah receive not receive not sorry so so there's this con receive not the grace of god in vain
00:34:03.660
what is that 2 corinthians 6 yeah 2 corinthians 6 1 so 2 corinthians 6 1 says receive not the grace
00:34:10.900
of god in vain uh we then as workers together with him beseech you that you also that uh that you
00:34:18.620
receive not the grace of god in vain okay so like we've all heard this phrase of like taking the
00:34:24.180
lord's name in vain and people think that means like if you're swinging a hammer and you hit your
00:34:28.540
thumb and you say gd or you say whatever and i'm not saying people should do that but taking the lord's
00:34:34.720
name in vain means that you like take his name and it means nothing you don't live according you call
00:34:40.540
yourself a christian you call yourself woman with christ but you don't live accordingly that's taking
00:34:45.760
god's name in vain like imagine if your wife like takes your name right like your wife takes your
00:34:50.420
last name and then she's not faithful to you she's taking your name in vain and that's what the
00:34:55.280
scripture is continuing to teach too like if we are going to take the lord's name we cannot take it in
00:34:59.940
vain we cannot take his grace in vain which means meaningless so we have to take this serious
00:35:05.120
don't like take the grace of god serious i think we're down to like the last we're down to
00:35:11.980
solutions the salute yeah yeah so the solution which jude actually is going to get into at the
00:35:18.540
end of the book but there's no way we're making it to the end of the book today we're just doing like
00:35:21.800
uh verses one through four and then we'll do a little bit more in jude next week because he talks
00:35:25.840
about fallen angels so i know the dudes with like sweaty foreheads and twitchy palms are going to get
00:35:29.900
real excited for the nephilim stuff that jude gets into but can we get it off of him that's like
00:35:35.180
so uncomfortable talking about him but uh so we'll get into that next week but verses one through four
00:35:41.780
this what i'm saying is heavy bro this is heavy so so this would be like my whenever i read all this
00:35:47.320
stuff and i just don't want to leave everybody like oh blah no like no no no here's the solution
00:35:52.120
here's the solution i know it's in galatians and i know it's about uh walking the spirit so you don't
00:36:00.080
fulfill the lust of the flesh okay so uh galatians 5 16 through 17 it says uh this i say then walk in
00:36:10.160
the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh boom so people who are like oh how do i
00:36:15.860
not fulfill the lust of the flesh i've been snorting oxycontins and i really want to quit and then you
00:36:20.560
just try in your own willpower to like not snort oxycontins i can tell you firsthand it doesn't work
00:36:25.980
like that it doesn't work like that you're going to try forever to quit snorting oxycontins it
00:36:29.380
it doesn't work like that the solution according to scripture is surrender your life to christ
00:36:33.680
walk in the spirit and then you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh but you could apply that to
00:36:38.600
anything maybe you're like a normal person that doesn't snort oxycontins but you have like whatever
00:36:42.340
issues in your life as you try in your own strength to just stop it in your own willpower
00:36:47.180
good luck good luck because that reminds me of like uh god's like hey adam you can have anything you
00:36:53.420
want in the universe just not that tree right there right like he's gonna go to the tree like if you
00:36:58.060
tell your kids hey we're going out for the night but whatever you do don't go in my top right dresser
00:37:03.040
drawer like the second you pull out the kids are going in the top right dresser drawer and it's the
00:37:07.120
same thing we do with ourself where we have like this sin or this lustful thing in our flesh that we
00:37:11.940
want to stop and so we just oh i gotta stop i gotta stop i gotta stop in my own willpower that's not
00:37:16.700
the solution according to scripture in scripture it's walk in the spirit which means progress right like
00:37:22.220
they didn't have uh treadmills in that day like like walking meant progressing get from a to b
00:37:27.660
progress in the spirit be about the things of the spirit and it'll the things of the flesh will just
00:37:33.560
lose their shine walk in the spirit so you don't fulfill the lust of the flesh but i think the next
00:37:39.380
verse is like hard for the flesh lost wait can we just can you just say because instead of for
00:37:46.620
sorry no i'm sorry because i keep saying that and david keeps laughing man i hate when he does that
00:37:51.200
because what yeah yeah he says he says walk in the spirit so you don't fulfill the lust of the flesh
00:37:58.080
because because for the lust uh for the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit
00:38:04.280
against the flesh and these are contrary to uh to one uh these are contrary the one to the other
00:38:12.700
so that ye cannot do the things that ye would do you see what i'm saying so like the like we're
00:38:20.500
made of spirit soul and body right like some people say the soul is the decider within us but you have
00:38:25.820
the spiritual nature and you have this fleshly nature this animal nature so you have this animal nature
00:38:30.940
that like desires the same thing animals desire we've talked about it before like when you hunt
00:38:35.740
animals you hunt them around their feeding habits and you hunt them around their sexual habits like
00:38:40.560
that's how you hunt animals you hunt deer in the rut you hunt turkeys in the spring when they're mating
00:38:45.200
and then you hunt them around feeders and so like the spirit realm hunts us the same way man it's just we
00:38:51.160
have other things more than just sexual uh food appetite we go into other appetites too money drugs like
00:39:00.180
alcoholic whatever whatever we have all these other things but our animal nature our flesh
00:39:05.980
lust for those things and how we kill that off is we go after the things of the spirit
00:39:11.160
galatians 6 7 um be not deceived god is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap
00:39:20.720
that's what the people the new agers call uh so-called karma people say oh what do you think about
00:39:26.560
karma like the scripture is very plain that uh whatever you sow that is what you will reap people
00:39:31.860
struggle with that man people are like always trying to get one up on somebody like you're never
00:39:35.920
getting one up on somebody ever it's that it's not happening like every person is going to reap exactly
00:39:41.860
what they sow i'm not saying that good people don't fall on hard times or whatever i'm not getting into
00:39:45.680
all that i'm just saying the law of the land is that you whatever you sow that you will reap
00:39:50.420
because he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the
00:39:58.980
spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting it's cut and dry man it's cut and dry people are
00:40:04.960
saying i'm not doing anything bad no you're just sowing to the flesh like you've got all these hours
00:40:10.140
and you're watching the tv shows like whatever's the thing right now i don't know what's the thing
00:40:15.400
that all the people are going to steal the food from walmart if they have food stamps or something
00:40:19.120
there's like that and then there's like the world series and then there's the kardashians are making
00:40:23.120
the comeback and then there's like all this stuff it's like oh no it's not bad yeah but you're just
00:40:27.080
sowing to the flesh so take some of that time and sow to the spirit man sow in prayer sow in the word of
00:40:33.960
god like sow into these spiritual eternal things that you're going to have for eternity and that's how
00:40:40.140
you're going to overcome and i think that's a good place to end i love it any any final words matt
00:40:47.100
no i just want to encourage people to like go hard after the kingdom of god man you get one
00:40:52.820
shot on the earth and the things that you're like loving in the natural realm right now they're not
00:40:57.920
that cool i just want to be straight with you they're not that cool i know you're like oh i have
00:41:01.000
so many dollars it's so cool or i have some big house or a really cool car or like you know i love
00:41:06.540
all these tv shows i watch it's so fun no not like that stuff is not that cool and it's so fleeting and
00:41:12.100
in the blink of an eye like it's going to all be gone and then you're going to step into the realm
00:41:16.620
that lasts forever you're going to step into the realm that lasts forever and you're going to feel
00:41:20.200
so foolish if you spent all your time consumed with the things of this little 120 year cycle on
00:41:26.480
the earth like that's it like that's it so i'm just pumped for jude i want to encourage people
00:41:31.540
to earnestly contend for the faith and watch out for fakers in church
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