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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's more important. It's spend fifteen minutes a day with
the Lord than an hour.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Once a month.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Doctor Tony Evans says, engaging with the truth starts by
meeting with God consistently, not occasionally.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Don't visit God, make it a regular relationship meeting.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. When life pulls
us in one hundred different directions, it's easy to lose
our spiritual footing. But today doctor Evan shows us how
to stay grounded by building our lives on God's unchanging word.
Let's join him in the Book of Jude for a
(00:39):
challenge to grow strong in faith and stand firm in truth.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
When it comes to being led spiritually, you want to
make sure that you are on the right track. Now,
the question is how do you do that? How do
you make sure that we are headed in the right
direction in terms of our spiritual lives, particularly in an
(01:04):
environment where there's so much falseness surrounding us. So in
verse seventeen, now he comes and he speaks to Christians.
He says, but you, beloved, ought to remember words that
were spoken beforehand, by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(01:26):
He says, remember apostolic teaching. The apostles were those who
were designated to write scripture. So when he says what
was spoken by the prophets, he's talking about scripture because
Jesus left the apostles. Was spoken by the apostles, those
(01:48):
who were uniquely identified and sent in order to communicate
the Word of God to the church. So it's a
reference to the Word of God. In other words, you
legitimize or illegitimize something based on the Word as your
final authority.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The Bible has the final say.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So once you leave that, then everything else is up
for grabs. You will go with what is popular at
the moment because you're not anchored anywhere. Your anchor must be.
He tells them what the apostle spoke, that is the
(02:31):
word of God. You must be anchored there if you're
going to stand the test of all the voices that
are around.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And now there's a voice for everything.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
There used to be a time when the Bible held
sway as a standard and as the most influential standard
in the culture, for example, influencing morality.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
What was right? What was wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So even if you did wrong, it was wrong. But
now in school, your children are learning what they call
values clarification. Values clarification means what's right and wrong is
now up for grabs. And so you'll hear people saying
things like I know my truth. I know my truth.
(03:21):
So what they've done is made truth what I think
it is at this given time, what I feel it
is at this moment. Because the value system has been nullified,
there are no absolutes anymore. It's what I feel, what
I think at any given moment, which could change tomorrow.
(03:45):
And so he says, remember the apostolic word that is
that came from the Lord Jesus Christ. Now he gets
more specific here. He says that they were saying to you,
So they wrote it, They spoke.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It, wrote it for us.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
In the last times, there will be mockers following after
their own ungodly lust.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
He says, We've already talked about it. I'm just repeating.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Jude says what has already been spoken by the apostles,
that you're going to be faced with folks who make
a joke out of your faith for their own purposes.
These are the one who cause divisions worldly minded. They're
secular in their orientation and devoid of the spirit. They
(04:33):
don't look at things spiritually. They look at things secularly
and kerneally, but they may sprinkle a verse on top
of it to make it look spiritually okay, So he
says that they are devoid of the spirit. They are
worldly minded. They do not start with God's perspective. They
(04:54):
start with man's perspective. And this thing of causing the vision,
Paul said, he said, mark those who cause division among you. Now,
there's certain things you divide over. What you divide over
is truth versus a lie. You can divide over that.
Satan's goal is to deceive in order to divide. Now,
(05:16):
why does Satan want to divide, divide families, divide, churches divide?
Why does he wanted to divide? Because they're the principle
about God you need to know, and that is God
retracts from disunity and he engages unity. So if the
evil one can get you fighting, he can create disunity
(05:38):
because he knows God will not engage disunity. That's why
John seventeen says that they might be one so that
they can see your glory. Disunity is critical to the
devil's plan of being able to enter into a situation
and keep God out of it. So why Ajians four says,
maintain the unity of the faith doesn't mean you always agree.
(06:02):
Unity doesn't mean that there are no disagreements. It means
one mis purpose is that our purpose is the same.
And even though we got to work some things out
on our way, we're on our way to that agreed
upon goal. But you, beloved verse twenty. He's talking to Christians.
But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Okay, Now.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
He tells you to do a couple of things here.
Build up yourself. Build up yourself, grow your faith. Don't
be satisfied to stay where you are. Suppose your child
(06:50):
graduates from the sixth grade comes to you and says, Mom,
I'm finished, Dad, I'm done. I have successfully finished the
sixth grade. I know you're proud of me. I'm proud
of me, and I think I'm through with school. You
would probably say you have lost your mind. You have
(07:12):
lost your mind if you think that you're going to
stop your academic development in the sixth grade, Because no
matter what they have learned up through the sixth grade,
it is insufficient to carry them where they need to
go in the world in which they live. Once you
(07:34):
stop trying to grow, you will regress. You are never static.
Even in your physical life. If you stop growing, somebody
else can pass you by who is growing. So it
is in your spiritual lives you are to build yourself up.
You build yourself up by learning what God says and
(07:55):
then acting on it. When you learn it and don't
act on it, there will be no growth. It's like
studying something in class that you never use. You may
have taken geometry. You may have taken it because you
had to. But if you never had to use it, okay,
and we brought out an equation right now, everybody would
be looking at you and you would be.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Looking at them.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Not because you didn't take the class, it's just that
you never had used for the subject. And because you
never had used for the subject, you have regressed in it.
You've regressed in it. Same thing spiritually. Information that has
not acted upon stays dormant and becomes regressive. Information that's
acted on it has life because you're now operating on
(08:40):
your faith. Secondly, he says, praying in the Holy Spirit.
Praying in the Holy spirit. To pray in the spirit
is to pray in concert with God's desires and God's design.
In other words, you are thinking spirit as you pray.
(09:02):
I know some people say, well, this must be speaking
in tongues. Now, praying in the spirit has nothing to
do with speaking language. It has to do with a
spiritual mindset. If you look at Romans chapter eight, this
whole chapter is basically about the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Verse nine.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
However, you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit,
if indeed, the Spirit of God dwells in you. But
if anyone does not have the Spirit of God, it
does not belong to him. If Christ is in you,
though the body is dead because of sin, yet the
spirit is alie because of righteousness. But if the spirit
of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead, will also
(09:45):
give life to your mortal bodies, to His spirit which
dwells in you. So, then, brethren, we are under obligation
not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
But if you are living according to the flesh, you
must die. But if by the spirit you're living, you
are putting to death. The deeds of the body. You
will live for all who are being led by the
(10:07):
Spirit of God. These are the sons of God. So
he expends his whole chapter talking about the leading guiding
of the spirit. So you pray when you talk to God,
you want to be talking to God from a spiritual
point of view, not from a worldly or fleshly point
of view. You don't want to come before God with
(10:31):
an ungodly point of view because you're not praying according
to the Spirit. You're praying according to the flesh or
the world, or or that which is against God. You
can't pray against God and then requests from God as
a contradiction. So the pray spiritually is to pray. To
pray in the spirit is to pray from God's point
of view or from a spiritual mindset. Okay, that is,
(10:54):
you are thinking God's thoughts as you communicate with God
about your life and about whatever the content of your
prayer happens to be.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Doctor Evans will show how a focus on eternity and
God's perspective can keep us spiritually grounded when he continues
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Speaker 4 (11:14):
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right now, let's get back to doctor Evans as he
continues today's message.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Keep yourselves in the love of God? Does that mean
to keep yourself in the love of God? You keep
yourself in the love of God when you keep an
eternal perspective. Okay, you're living on earth from the perspective
of heaven. The Bible says we've been seated with Christ
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in heavenly places. So you are to live on earth
while thinking from heaven. And he says that will keep
you in the love of God. That will keep you
in close proximity or close relationship to God. So now
he's talking to you about you. You build yourself up
in the faith. Don't get spiritually lazy. Carve out that
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time in the morning where you spend time undistracted with God,
even if it's fifteen minutes. It's more important to spend
fifteen minutes a day with the Lord than an hour
once a month, because what that does is it keeps
your perspective regularly as a part of your operation. Okay,
your perspective and a good place to do that. The
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Bible says to take up your cross daily. That idea
is be identified with Jesus Christ as a daily way
of life. Don't visit God, you know, don't make it
a visitation meeting. Make it a regular relationship meeting. So
that's what he wants to build yourself up in the faith.
But now he wants you to talk to you about
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the rest of the family of God in verse twenty two,
and have mercy on some. Have mercy on some. That is,
be a compassionate believer who are doubting, he says, have
compassion on some who are doubting, save others, snatching them
out of the fire. Now, what is the fire?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The fire?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
If not, he's not talking about hell because row he's
talking about believers. Believers don't go to hell. He's talking
about when you get too close to a flame and
you get ready to get burned by it. And if
you saw a child coming close to the fire, what
would you do. You would go grab the child and
save them from being burned by the stove. Okay, all
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of us have seen believers marching in the wrong direction,
and we know if we don't get them, they get
ready fall off this cliff. You don't stand back and say, well, boy,
I hope he gets to I hope he comes to
his senses. He quick because he get ready. He getting
ready to be roasted. No, have compassion on people who
are struggling. But some people you have to grab because
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they get ready fall into the flame, the flame of
a negative reality. You some of us have had to
be pulled out of bad relationships. Some people have had
to be pulled out of certain environments. We do that
with our children regularly, we snatch them out of a
situation because if they keep going like they're going, they're
going to be burnt up by those relationships, by that situation,
(16:14):
by that environment. And you so some people you work
with them because they're struggling with doubt. Other people, you
go get them, Okay. If the church is about anything,
it's about people getting other people who are about to enter
into the flame of a negative, hell bent situation that
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is going to burn them up in terms of their
their day to day Christian life. So he says, proceed wisely,
in other words, distinguish between the sin and the sinner.
Reject the sin, don't reject the sinner, okay, because a
lot of time we want to throw the baby out
with the bath. If we see the clothes defiled, we
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want to get rid of the one wearing them and
the clothes. And he says, make the distinction between the
sinner and the sin, the clothes they're wearing, and the
one wearing the clothes. Okay, reject the sin that sinner.
Then it comes to his concluding two verses, a benediction.
If you will now to him who's able to keep
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you from stumbling okay, for keeping you of being trapped
and tricked duped to him who's able to keep you
from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence
of His glory blameless with great joy. In other words,
I don't care how bad it gets. God can get
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you through this. Okay, that's good news, that's a great benediction.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I don't care how bad it looks feels.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Whatever you're dealing with is just messing you up, messing
you over. You don't think like you're gonna make it.
The depression feels too great, the burden feels too great, the.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Trials lasts too long. God is able. Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That's why you've got to keep your eye on God
no matter what the difficulty is you're struggling with. Because
God is able. What is he able to do? He says,
God is able to keep you from stumbling or from
being tripped up. He can do it, but you've got
to be working consistently with him as you trust him
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to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
He can make you stand in his presence of his
glory blameless.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Now nobody is sinless for us. This nobody is sinless
because we all sin. But he says he can work it.
Out so that when you stand before him, you are blameless.
Blameless doesn't mean you're sinless. Blameless means that whatever your
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failures are, they have been sufficiently covered over that when
you stand before man, he's gonna say you look just ray.
You know you've been You've been covered over in spite
of the fact that none of us is perfect. So
blamelessness is not sinlessness. But he can help you get there.
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So from this point on you should say, Okay, I
know I will never be sinless, but I want to
now stop being blameless because I now want to build
up myself and the faith grow deeper in that. Keep
my perspective heavinly while I walk practically on earth. Make
you stand in his presence and have great joy, great joy. Okay,
And then he gives this closing bird to benediction to
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the Only God, our Savior. So he's he's talking about
a problem because he's talking about the false teachers and
being tricked, being duped, all that. He's talking about a problem.
But he ends with the praise now to the Only God,
our Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. He's the means
of our salvation. Okay, here's the praise, be glory. Glory
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refers to the display of God's attributes. In other words,
the characteristics of God make up his glory. Okay, the glory,
the glory of God is the manifestation of his attributes.
So you can appeal to what God is like in
the midst of living your life. Be glory Majesty. Majesty
(20:35):
speaks of his reign as ruler. He makes the final
call and has the ultimate say so about where things
will wind up. So you never limit yourself to only
what you can see, because he is the Majesty that
is the one sitting on the throne. Dominion Dominion means rule.
(20:58):
Dominion means rule, So give him glory because he sits
in the oval office and he has the deciding vote.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Dominion ultimate rule.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And authority the Greek word authority here is the word
that means legitimate right to make the decision, and Satan
is always making decisions about you in order to hurt you.
But authority, he says, belongs to God, which means the
(21:31):
legitimate right. Let me confess something today today I got
a ticket. Yeah, I got a ticket today. I haven't
got a ticket in years and years. I got a
ticket today forty in a thirty, and they whoever hurt
anybody giving anybody forty in a thirty? Okay, what in
the school zone? It was forty in a thirty? All right,
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But I got a ticke it for going forty in
the thirty. And so he pulls me over. He gives
me a ticket because he had the right to. He
had the right to do that, because he had legitimate authority. Now,
if somebody else just roll up behind me, putting their
lights on, saying pull over, I wouldn't feel obligated to
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do it, because even though that may be a great quest,
it's not a request with legitimate authority. But he had
a legitimate authority. The reason why you want to know
this about God, all these words run together. He's glorious,
he's got the attributes, he's majestic, he's got the position,
but not only that dominion, so he can oversee the
(22:35):
whole realm. He has authority, the legitimate right before all
time and now and forevermore, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
He got this whole ball of wax. So and whatever you're.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Dealing with, get your praise on, because he's saying God
is able to get you through it, and you don't
have to be duped to go another way from God
to get what God already has for you.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
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in his powerful series on the Book of Jude, focusing
on the power, majesty, and authority of our Great God. Now,
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three two two two. The Bible has been called a
book of wisdom, a life manual, even a philosophical guide,
but doctor Evans says it's much more than that. Tomorrow
he'll show why scripture stands in a category all its own,
as he begins a powerful new series called the Glory
(24:34):
of God's Word. I hope you'll join us for that
It's more important. It's spend fifteen minutes a day with
the Lord than an hour.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Once a month.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Doctor Tony Evans says, engaging with the truth starts by
meeting with God consistently, not occasionally.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Don't visit God, make it a regular relationship meeting.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. When life pulls
us in one hundred different directions, it's easy to lose
our spiritual footing. But today doctor Evan shows us how
to stay grounded by building our lives on God's unchanging word.
Let's join him in the Book of Jude for a
(00:39):
challenge to grow strong in faith and stand firm in truth.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
When it comes to being led spiritually, you want to
make sure that you are on the right track. Now,
the question is how do you do that? How do
you make sure that we are headed in the right
direction in terms of our spiritual lives, particularly in an
(01:04):
environment where there's so much falseness surrounding us. So in
verse seventeen, now he comes and he speaks to Christians.
He says, but you, beloved, ought to remember words that
were spoken beforehand, by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(01:26):
He says, remember apostolic teaching. The apostles were those who
were designated to write scripture. So when he says what
was spoken by the prophets, he's talking about scripture because
Jesus left the apostles. Was spoken by the apostles, those
(01:48):
who were uniquely identified and sent in order to communicate
the Word of God to the church. So it's a
reference to the Word of God. In other words, you
legitimize or illegitimize something based on the Word as your
final authority.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The Bible has the final say.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So once you leave that, then everything else is up
for grabs. You will go with what is popular at
the moment because you're not anchored anywhere. Your anchor must be.
He tells them what the apostle spoke, that is the
(02:31):
word of God. You must be anchored there if you're
going to stand the test of all the voices that
are around.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And now there's a voice for everything.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
There used to be a time when the Bible held
sway as a standard and as the most influential standard
in the culture, for example, influencing morality.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
What was right? What was wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So even if you did wrong, it was wrong. But
now in school, your children are learning what they call
values clarification. Values clarification means what's right and wrong is
now up for grabs. And so you'll hear people saying
things like I know my truth. I know my truth.
(03:21):
So what they've done is made truth what I think
it is at this given time, what I feel it
is at this moment. Because the value system has been nullified,
there are no absolutes anymore. It's what I feel, what
I think at any given moment, which could change tomorrow.
(03:45):
And so he says, remember the apostolic word that is
that came from the Lord Jesus Christ. Now he gets
more specific here. He says that they were saying to you,
So they wrote it, They spoke.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It, wrote it for us.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
In the last times, there will be mockers following after
their own ungodly lust.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
He says, We've already talked about it. I'm just repeating.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Jude says what has already been spoken by the apostles,
that you're going to be faced with folks who make
a joke out of your faith for their own purposes.
These are the one who cause divisions worldly minded. They're
secular in their orientation and devoid of the spirit. They
(04:33):
don't look at things spiritually. They look at things secularly
and kerneally, but they may sprinkle a verse on top
of it to make it look spiritually okay, So he
says that they are devoid of the spirit. They are
worldly minded. They do not start with God's perspective. They
(04:54):
start with man's perspective. And this thing of causing the vision,
Paul said, he said, mark those who cause division among you. Now,
there's certain things you divide over. What you divide over
is truth versus a lie. You can divide over that.
Satan's goal is to deceive in order to divide. Now,
(05:16):
why does Satan want to divide, divide families, divide, churches divide?
Why does he wanted to divide? Because they're the principle
about God you need to know, and that is God
retracts from disunity and he engages unity. So if the
evil one can get you fighting, he can create disunity
(05:38):
because he knows God will not engage disunity. That's why
John seventeen says that they might be one so that
they can see your glory. Disunity is critical to the
devil's plan of being able to enter into a situation
and keep God out of it. So why Ajians four says,
maintain the unity of the faith doesn't mean you always agree.
(06:02):
Unity doesn't mean that there are no disagreements. It means
one mis purpose is that our purpose is the same.
And even though we got to work some things out
on our way, we're on our way to that agreed
upon goal. But you, beloved verse twenty. He's talking to Christians.
But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Okay, Now.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
He tells you to do a couple of things here.
Build up yourself. Build up yourself, grow your faith. Don't
be satisfied to stay where you are. Suppose your child
(06:50):
graduates from the sixth grade comes to you and says, Mom,
I'm finished, Dad, I'm done. I have successfully finished the
sixth grade. I know you're proud of me. I'm proud
of me, and I think I'm through with school. You
would probably say you have lost your mind. You have
(07:12):
lost your mind if you think that you're going to
stop your academic development in the sixth grade, Because no
matter what they have learned up through the sixth grade,
it is insufficient to carry them where they need to
go in the world in which they live. Once you
(07:34):
stop trying to grow, you will regress. You are never static.
Even in your physical life. If you stop growing, somebody
else can pass you by who is growing. So it
is in your spiritual lives you are to build yourself up.
You build yourself up by learning what God says and
(07:55):
then acting on it. When you learn it and don't
act on it, there will be no growth. It's like
studying something in class that you never use. You may
have taken geometry. You may have taken it because you
had to. But if you never had to use it, okay,
and we brought out an equation right now, everybody would
be looking at you and you would be.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Looking at them.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Not because you didn't take the class, it's just that
you never had used for the subject. And because you
never had used for the subject, you have regressed in it.
You've regressed in it. Same thing spiritually. Information that has
not acted upon stays dormant and becomes regressive. Information that's
acted on it has life because you're now operating on
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your faith. Secondly, he says, praying in the Holy Spirit.
Praying in the Holy spirit. To pray in the spirit
is to pray in concert with God's desires and God's design.
In other words, you are thinking spirit as you pray.
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I know some people say, well, this must be speaking
in tongues. Now, praying in the spirit has nothing to
do with speaking language. It has to do with a
spiritual mindset. If you look at Romans chapter eight, this
whole chapter is basically about the Holy Spirit.
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Verse nine.
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However, you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit,
if indeed, the Spirit of God dwells in you. But
if anyone does not have the Spirit of God, it
does not belong to him. If Christ is in you,
though the body is dead because of sin, yet the
spirit is alie because of righteousness. But if the spirit
of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead, will also
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give life to your mortal bodies, to His spirit which
dwells in you. So, then, brethren, we are under obligation
not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
But if you are living according to the flesh, you
must die. But if by the spirit you're living, you
are putting to death. The deeds of the body. You
will live for all who are being led by the
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Spirit of God. These are the sons of God. So
he expends his whole chapter talking about the leading guiding
of the spirit. So you pray when you talk to God,
you want to be talking to God from a spiritual
point of view, not from a worldly or fleshly point
of view. You don't want to come before God with
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an ungodly point of view because you're not praying according
to the Spirit. You're praying according to the flesh or
the world, or or that which is against God. You
can't pray against God and then requests from God as
a contradiction. So the pray spiritually is to pray. To
pray in the spirit is to pray from God's point
of view or from a spiritual mindset. Okay, that is,
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you are thinking God's thoughts as you communicate with God
about your life and about whatever the content of your
prayer happens to be.
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continues today's message.
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Keep yourselves in the love of God? Does that mean
to keep yourself in the love of God? You keep
yourself in the love of God when you keep an
eternal perspective. Okay, you're living on earth from the perspective
of heaven. The Bible says we've been seated with Christ
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in heavenly places. So you are to live on earth
while thinking from heaven. And he says that will keep
you in the love of God. That will keep you
in close proximity or close relationship to God. So now
he's talking to you about you. You build yourself up
in the faith. Don't get spiritually lazy. Carve out that
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time in the morning where you spend time undistracted with God,
even if it's fifteen minutes. It's more important to spend
fifteen minutes a day with the Lord than an hour
once a month, because what that does is it keeps
your perspective regularly as a part of your operation. Okay,
your perspective and a good place to do that. The
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Bible says to take up your cross daily. That idea
is be identified with Jesus Christ as a daily way
of life. Don't visit God, you know, don't make it
a visitation meeting. Make it a regular relationship meeting. So
that's what he wants to build yourself up in the faith.
But now he wants you to talk to you about
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the rest of the family of God in verse twenty two,
and have mercy on some. Have mercy on some. That is,
be a compassionate believer who are doubting, he says, have
compassion on some who are doubting, save others, snatching them
out of the fire. Now, what is the fire?
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The fire?
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If not, he's not talking about hell because row he's
talking about believers. Believers don't go to hell. He's talking
about when you get too close to a flame and
you get ready to get burned by it. And if
you saw a child coming close to the fire, what
would you do. You would go grab the child and
save them from being burned by the stove. Okay, all
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of us have seen believers marching in the wrong direction,
and we know if we don't get them, they get
ready fall off this cliff. You don't stand back and say, well, boy,
I hope he gets to I hope he comes to
his senses. He quick because he get ready. He getting
ready to be roasted. No, have compassion on people who
are struggling. But some people you have to grab because
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they get ready fall into the flame, the flame of
a negative reality. You some of us have had to
be pulled out of bad relationships. Some people have had
to be pulled out of certain environments. We do that
with our children regularly, we snatch them out of a
situation because if they keep going like they're going, they're
going to be burnt up by those relationships, by that situation,
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by that environment. And you so some people you work
with them because they're struggling with doubt. Other people, you
go get them, Okay. If the church is about anything,
it's about people getting other people who are about to enter
into the flame of a negative, hell bent situation that
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is going to burn them up in terms of their
their day to day Christian life. So he says, proceed wisely,
in other words, distinguish between the sin and the sinner.
Reject the sin, don't reject the sinner, okay, because a
lot of time we want to throw the baby out
with the bath. If we see the clothes defiled, we
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want to get rid of the one wearing them and
the clothes. And he says, make the distinction between the
sinner and the sin, the clothes they're wearing, and the
one wearing the clothes. Okay, reject the sin that sinner.
Then it comes to his concluding two verses, a benediction.
If you will now to him who's able to keep
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you from stumbling okay, for keeping you of being trapped
and tricked duped to him who's able to keep you
from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence
of His glory blameless with great joy. In other words,
I don't care how bad it gets. God can get
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you through this. Okay, that's good news, that's a great benediction.
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I don't care how bad it looks feels.
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Whatever you're dealing with is just messing you up, messing
you over. You don't think like you're gonna make it.
The depression feels too great, the burden feels too great, the.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Trials lasts too long. God is able. Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
That's why you've got to keep your eye on God
no matter what the difficulty is you're struggling with. Because
God is able. What is he able to do? He says,
God is able to keep you from stumbling or from
being tripped up. He can do it, but you've got
to be working consistently with him as you trust him
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to do it.
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He can make you stand in his presence of his
glory blameless.
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Now nobody is sinless for us. This nobody is sinless
because we all sin. But he says he can work it.
Out so that when you stand before him, you are blameless.
Blameless doesn't mean you're sinless. Blameless means that whatever your
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failures are, they have been sufficiently covered over that when
you stand before man, he's gonna say you look just ray.
You know you've been You've been covered over in spite
of the fact that none of us is perfect. So
blamelessness is not sinlessness. But he can help you get there.
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So from this point on you should say, Okay, I
know I will never be sinless, but I want to
now stop being blameless because I now want to build
up myself and the faith grow deeper in that. Keep
my perspective heavinly while I walk practically on earth. Make
you stand in his presence and have great joy, great joy. Okay,
And then he gives this closing bird to benediction to
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the Only God, our Savior. So he's he's talking about
a problem because he's talking about the false teachers and
being tricked, being duped, all that. He's talking about a problem.
But he ends with the praise now to the Only God,
our Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. He's the means
of our salvation. Okay, here's the praise, be glory. Glory
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refers to the display of God's attributes. In other words,
the characteristics of God make up his glory. Okay, the glory,
the glory of God is the manifestation of his attributes.
So you can appeal to what God is like in
the midst of living your life. Be glory Majesty. Majesty
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speaks of his reign as ruler. He makes the final
call and has the ultimate say so about where things
will wind up. So you never limit yourself to only
what you can see, because he is the Majesty that
is the one sitting on the throne. Dominion Dominion means rule.
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Dominion means rule, So give him glory because he sits
in the oval office and he has the deciding vote.
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Dominion ultimate rule.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And authority the Greek word authority here is the word
that means legitimate right to make the decision, and Satan
is always making decisions about you in order to hurt you.
But authority, he says, belongs to God, which means the
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legitimate right. Let me confess something today today I got
a ticket. Yeah, I got a ticket today. I haven't
got a ticket in years and years. I got a
ticket today forty in a thirty, and they whoever hurt
anybody giving anybody forty in a thirty? Okay, what in
the school zone? It was forty in a thirty? All right,
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But I got a ticke it for going forty in
the thirty. And so he pulls me over. He gives
me a ticket because he had the right to. He
had the right to do that, because he had legitimate authority. Now,
if somebody else just roll up behind me, putting their
lights on, saying pull over, I wouldn't feel obligated to
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do it, because even though that may be a great quest,
it's not a request with legitimate authority. But he had
a legitimate authority. The reason why you want to know
this about God, all these words run together. He's glorious,
he's got the attributes, he's majestic, he's got the position,
but not only that dominion, so he can oversee the
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whole realm. He has authority, the legitimate right before all
time and now and forevermore, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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He got this whole ball of wax. So and whatever you're.
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Dealing with, get your praise on, because he's saying God
is able to get you through it, and you don't
have to be duped to go another way from God
to get what God already has for you.
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Amen.
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Doctor Tony Evans wrapping up the third and final message
in his powerful series on the Book of Jude, focusing
on the power, majesty, and authority of our Great God. Now,
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three two two two. The Bible has been called a
book of wisdom, a life manual, even a philosophical guide,
but doctor Evans says it's much more than that. Tomorrow
he'll show why scripture stands in a category all its own,
as he begins a powerful new series called the Glory
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of God's Word. I hope you'll join us for that
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