Judge yourselves unworthy 7-21-24

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Welcome to Blessings in Christ. I'mScott Roberts. Blessings in Christ is also
the Church of Christ preaching the Gospelof where a Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
of he that believeth and is baptizedshall be saved. The Church of
Christ the scriptural name Romans sixteen sixteen, scriptural and origin Colossians one eighteen,
scriptural and Doctrine one, Timothy foursixteen, and scriptural in practice James one

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in twenty two. Our lesson todayis by Joe Fox from the South Side
Congregation of the Church of Christ inBeattyville, Kentucky. He is bringing a
lesson from Acts thirteen and verse fortysix. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold
and said, it was necessary thatthe word of God should first have been

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spoken to you. But seeing yehave put it from you, judge yourselves
unworthy of everlasting life. Lo,we turn it to the gentiles. The
title of our lesson is judge yourselfunworthy. Joe is talking about people that
refuse to obey the Gospel, torefuse to hear the word of God.

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They are hardening their hearts to thetruth, and there's only one way Jesus
Christ and obeying his gospel and inbecoming a Christian. So once again Joe's
lesson is judge yourselves unworthy. Andthis is about people that have hardened their
hearts and are refusing to hear andto obey the gospel. We hope that

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you enjoy the lesson today. Pleaselike us on Facebook, Thank you and
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well, w sa trouss sad noman try by you try sad no,

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And I'll think people have I believeit hardened their heart to what the Bible
says. They have decided that theyknow more than God does, and they
are seeking their own way to heaven. When Jesus said in John fourteen six,

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I am the way, the truthof life. When they come from
the fatherhood by me, there's nosalilation in any other name other than that
of Christ. Yet the majority ofthe world refuses to worry his name,
to be kim to him in theway that God intended for them to be

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kim to him. He is ourking, but he also lives their broad
in Christ. He died in theproath from your sins and my sins and
de sins of the whole world.And some time at the time when we
see people that are gone by theword of God, we realize this and

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enjoys talking to other preachers from Teacher'shouse. Over the years up there in
the day been cost some of thethree thousand souls, hurting that God's one
more crypt in their heart back andwere baptized for the remission of their sins,
recognizing that they had first decided tofame the Lord of Glory, understanding

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the bordant and repinnion all that,and understanding that we're a sinning. In
Roaming three twenty three is about saidall of sin comes short of the glory
of God. So the non risestoo, wom we realize and understand that
we come into this world as abay and the growing the otherhood to come

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to the age of accountability. Andyou know, we're depending in the world
when they're our top the age ofaccountability, you know, we our juvenileuse
and get them away with this andget away with that, and get away
with THEO because they haven't been talkedreally right from them. Everything is with

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the attitude. You know, anything'sall right, and everything is all right.
I'll do what I want to do. You do what you want to
but you know there's consequences for everything. It looks good six fifteenth chapter.
And I know this is the productof son, but I want us to
use the latter part of this person. I add my list, and to

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go along with my list, hesays, the certain men have two sons.
The younger of them said to hisfather brother, give me the course
of as good as the follows tome, and he divided him under them.
He's not many days after the youngerson got it altogether. Took his
journey into a hard country, andthere wasted. His substance was ridingsh living.

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And when he had spent off,there arose a mighty family in that
land, and he began to bewalked. And he went and joined himself
to a citizens of that country,and he sent him into the fields to
feats wine and he was faint andfilled his baby with the husker was winded.
He and the old man gave himto him. And when he came

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to himself, he said, howmany hard servants of my father have bread
enough to scrape? And I perishedfrom London. He said, I will
ride and go to my father,and will say to him father, i
have sinned against heaven and before deep, and I'm no more worthy to be
called last Sun, making me asone of by hard servants. And he

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arose and came to his father.And when he was yet a great way
off, his father saw him andhad compassion and red and throw on his
neck and kissed ken. And theson said to him, father, I
have a sin against heaven and bysight, and I don't no more worthy
to be called thy son. Butthe father said to his servants, drave

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forth for ben Shrod to put iton him, and put a ring on
his hand, and shoes on hisfeet. Ready hid the fatty cat and
kidd it, and let us eatand be mirred. For this my son
was dead, and if alive again, he was lost in his family and
not begear to be mirred. Andnow his elder son was in the field,

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and as he came and drew Hito the house of a music and
dance, and he called one ofthe servants, and he asked what these
things meant. And he said tohim, while my brother has come,
and my father had killed the fattycat to call. He had received him
safely son, and he was angryand would not go eat. Doctor came

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a father app and entreated him.Any anything said to this father, roll
in many? Or do I servethe need? The trenchcribed rest I had
any time like com members. Andyet thou remember gave us me a kid
that I might make married with myfriend. But as soon as as thy
son has come, which have thebard thout leaving the farm, thou hast

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kill for him the fatty cat.And he said to him, son,
thou art ever with me, andall that I have is done. It
was me that we should make veryand be glad for this. Thy brother
was dead and he is allowed athim and was lost, and he's found.
But I want you to look atis this and understanding how hard it

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is to get people to do this. He said that when he came to
him, said, he said,how many hard servants on my father's have
I bred enough to sprite and Iperish and come in to our said,
you know of Paul and Silas teachingthem to the Jews, told them that

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they had deemed themselves unworthy. Youknow, we're the world for people today
that have deeped themselves on one ofeternal life and have hardened their heart and
and ast the hate chapter and they'rewhen Paul and then were talking to them,

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they need themselves unworthy of eternal life. And he said, don't return
to the gentile understanding the importance.That's thirteen, and I'll get to it.
I mean verse forty six in theActs thirteen or forty six, said

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Then, following the wonders wax bowl, and said, it was necessary that
the word of God should first havebeen spoken to you. But seeing you,
have you put your from you andjudge yourself unworthy of everlasting life.
Lo, we turned of the gentile. You know, it's important that we

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realized that salvation is to honor toevery morning. Christ didn't die just for
the Jew, and we found inthe look of Ephesians that he broke down
in the bed of wall of Tusianpetition between the Jew and the gentile uh
and of honesty in the Phesians,chapter two and verse fourteen, beginning and

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said, before he is there,he who has made both one and hath
broken down the midwater petition between,you know, having the bodies that did
display the end and expressed the enmity, even the law commanded in the orders
for to make in himself of twainone new man, so making peace,
and that he might reconcile bothom toGod. And one body by the cross

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had his name empty thereby. Youknow, I still believe that there's people
today that have deemed themselves unworthy.You know, we have opportunity to be
servants of God, brothers and sisterswith Christ, to walk in the footsteps

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of Jesus. But people deemed themselvesunworthy, and then we'll not old,
maady, the gospel will not turnto God, and the majority of it
just will not come to themselves.You know, they just press on and
on and on and on. Sometimeswe see it the people in business that
are headed in the wrong direction andinstead of accepting the consequences and trying to

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turn things around, and just keepgetting deeper and deeper, ending all the
time. And know the way Ibelieve. With a lot of these so
called religions and the so called religiouspeople, they just keep deep, getting
deeper and deeper. End. Andyeah, they have a big craft.
They feel a little busing, andthey tell people what they want to hear

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instead of what they need to hear. They don't want to tell them that,
you know, you must be baptized, where they're a mission of your
sins and in order to be saved. Uh, they just believe in your
sin, you knowderstead of except forChrist as your personal saying you want what
you're setting, you know, andall these different savings. But the Bible

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says he that believes me, andbaptized saying he believe is not shabbing down.
I guess the important question is toask you is do we want to
be saved? People were going togo to heaven? People say it do,
but their actions tell a different story. If we want to go to

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heaven, we're going to have todo what the Bible says. We're going
to have to do what God hasasked us to do. He said in
Matthew eleven twenty eight, coming tome, I'll give your labor in the
heavy lad and then I'll give youthis look at the rest, looking for
coming, looking for the answers,when you know most people are looking for

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the actions and all the wrong places. In Hebrew chapter four and verse seven,
the Bible says, today, afteryou hear his going hardon not your
heart, you said, people arehurting hardness in their heart. Wr all
the body said that I wave,I have to do it. That wou
you don't. That's where they're right. You don't. We don't have to

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do anything. You can sit downand just do nothing and wind up going
to hell. But if we wantto go to Heaven, there's something nothing
must do it. Who must hearGod's work on as ten seven instance,
on them days come up by hearingany of the world of God. We

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must believe this book to be theworld of God. This to be his
life, will Intestine. This isto be exactly what He wants us to
do, and we must do itexactly like he wants us to do it
without think. It's impossible to pleasehim. If you live in worship without
think, it's impossible him. Forhe that comes to God must believe that

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he is and that He's rewarded themthat don't They seek in we must be
willing to change our mind. Youknow a lot of times you see that
that prodical sun he was fighting toDaddy and he had all kinds of friends
as long as he had money andpaying for the park. And when the
party was over and he was downthere and had a hoby pim and feeding

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them hog he finally come to hissleip. Getting people to come to themselves,
getting people to understand, there's aneasy way of doing this, honey.
You know, we can't fight againstGod and you're going to love you.
You can you can uh live thelife or right so to speak,
and do whatever you want to do. But in the end it's uh,

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it's going to cost adolescent in thenext little while when we were living them
on the brain. It's called paydady. You know what does the payday coning?
You know, that's what all ofus work for when on the jobs,
for paycheck. And when that checkis handed out, then it took

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us as to what we do withit. You know, this paydead there's
one thing that we do with whenthe Lord hands out the paycheck. Heaven's
there And as I read it toyou last Ord Tad, even in the
bluk w How pautiful that place is, you know where the streets of gold,

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walls of jest, there's no needing. The sun and the moon day
or the glory of God is thelight of that city. It's the city
built froll square. There's nothing likeI've told you many times. When I
look and we're coming into my favoritetime of year. I would like to

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see this time of the year inthe next few months weeks or so,
already in easter what they call theeastern flyers of the moon if you look
around, but we'll start seeing treatedboth and leave out and the flower room.
And it's it's my favorite time ofyear. We see the animals all

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given birth and God's plan all workingas the Bible teaches us, everything producing
after its own kind. Receive thegrass coming up in spring time just as
we see it get burnt off andthe fall. You know, all this

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is, this is the glory ofGod. And in his handiwork understanding that
if people are spending all kinds ofmoney on trying to figure out all this
out, when if you're just runningthe bottom it allments see the plans out
there, nothing nothing out of theordinary. Everything gets just like God intendedful

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too. But you know that's that'snot man today. If you hear it
as harden not your heart. Listento what the Bible says. Listen to
God speaking to us, reading hisword has studied its positle to you and
attempt he studied to show thyself proodunto God hey work and the need us

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not to understand rightly delighted a wordof truth, and that all scripture is
given by the inspiration of God andis propitfore doctrin for reproof, for correction,
perstruction, and writes us that themember God into perfected, thoroughly furnish
into all good work, and thethings that enrongs fifteen foods, the things

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that were written afore time were writtenfor Ireland, and to patience had come
from the scripture, might have hopeunderstanding that when we read the Old Bible,
it tells us kind God dealt withthe Jewish people, and it tells
us the coming of the Lord Jesuschribe. It tells us that all of
these saves fit. And I whoreads said it everything works. Man is

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a man gonna work. Man.I tell you that you don't have to
be bad. I believe you don't. Nobody's gonna lead you to the water,
and don't you if you if that'sthe way, its note it will
tell you no good, no way, he said the wood in Mark changing
our mind to do what God commandsus to do, repentance. Look thirteen,

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Chapter thirteen, verses three and five. I take you nay except for
you repent. He's all our Christpurged. Act seventeen, verse thirty.
At the time of this ignorance,if we ever lived in an ignorant world,
we're living in the man at thetiple of this ignace, God point
it and that commands do in everyword to repent. This book tells us

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that Hit gives of the most privateinterpretations. You can read it and understand.
I can read it and understand it. And we can understand the light
if we want to. That's whyI said, instead of shows, I
said, to prove under God,if we were God first and we stood

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it, if we don't understand.The example is Ethim. He was a
man who had traveled a hard journeythat said child for the worship under the
old law, and was returned.He was a deloted man. He was
a man of great authority under theKing Queen her treasure. And he didn't

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understand the scripture. And Philip,the preacher of pod We go to him.
And he went to him, andhe asked him a simple question,
said, understands though about that,readers, And he said it don't matter.
No, he said, how canI? He said, some men
said gathered. Philip was sip thatto guide him. He beginning the same

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scripture, he preached to the manJesus as a land doesn't before his share
is hoping me nothing butt it inhis humaniation, this judgment was taken away,
just as the old prophab of Propheside. He was leading, and he
explained to Jesus. And as theywent on their way, they came to
a certain water, and being hesaid senior, he won was an enema

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with Baptide. Phil says that believeus of all in heart, thou members,
He said, I believe that JesusChrist is the son of God.
See, you don't have to thoumayest, thou livest if you want to
be a child of God, thoumayst now if he won't force us to
do that. He didn't force anyof us, said of Obay the gospel,

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obey the God. It was inour heart to do that. We
wanted to become a child of God. If that won't in our heart,
and we've never rethink our baptism.We wanted to serve God. Maybe even
when we was a baptized we reallydidn't understand. But as we were going

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made we was desiring we sense it. We was to desire to sense their
memory of the words that we maygrow there about. That's the problem today.
We don't desire the sins here well, we don't want to grow.
If a baby is born in ourfamily, all others that have our children,

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and that younger didn't going to greatthe meal that young one did start
growing, then we take it todie. We desamin it. See what's
going on? You know, asmembers of the church, we don't all
have the same eyes. We maynot all be able to lead a prayer.

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We shouldn't be able to. He'sour father. We ought to be
able to talk to him. Wehave a right to. But we need
to pray, pray with that seasonunderstanding that he is our father and he
looks down upon us. Justice,our earthly father looked over us and trying

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to raise us in the nurture andthe ammunition of the Lord setting that found
nation. We had our faith,virtue, the virtue. No, this
not his temperate, temperatatient patient,God's brother kinds, both kinds check and
he said, it's these things bein you and a man. They make
you that you need to have beenvery unfruitful. You know, most is
just away. The gods will quit. That's not all over his too earth

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work that we all can do.You may not be able to preach for
his little pit, but you gotto to him. You got a mouth,
and you got friends. You cantalk to him about the big gives.
You can talk to him about thegarden. You can talk about to
him about the young. Why notI be able to talk to him up
the Bible? And we may allbe falling short in that category, not

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being not talking about about the battle. We can talk about everything else,
but are we talking to them abouttheir soul? Realizing the important for saving
yourself from this underworld generation? Everyday, every day you don't want the
same out. Something will come upto me that I just can't believe that

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I'm as old as I am.You know, it's just the worse,
every worst time limit. And youknow Hebrews Mine twenty seven says it's appointed
that a man wants to die,and actually this the judgment. And it
doesn't seem like people understand being goingto be into what the Bible says,

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and how close that we are tohave never ended any tournament. When when
when we look at for the messthat the world is in the dead our
country right along with them, withthe work the mess that it's in it,
they're far from God. And justlike in the days of the Nord,

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What what did God say about thepeople? Then he said him repenting
him that he made man because thereason was that the thoughts and intents of
their heart is just evil. Continua, look at the world and really it's
just evil contiguantly and and it's ashame. And we're living on bard time.

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One day he's going to say enoughor not about an awful time that's
going to be. You're just sayingto what's going to be and heaven and
heaven and what's going to be inthe other place. All the evil that's
in the world never hasn't been inthe world. We've been a national teeth.

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The farther will never be clinched.If people will harden their heart and
walk away understanding the important obedience toGod's world. In serving the world,
we need to realize our responsibility toour self. Yeah, Acts twenty four.

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The verse twenty five was told togo his way for this time,
He says, when I have aconvenient season, alcoholics for be you know,

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convenient time. Finding those convenient timenow they pasilage now as we set
the time, you know, werealize that uh, our lives are late
in fearful little time and then itvanished away. And to tell the Lord

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go that way for this time,when I have a convenient time, convenience.
You know, we need to realizethat fab no song isin of some
makes you be in this book,we will never find a time better than
now. And and how you keepit pleading work, how they know about it,