August 18, 2025 • 58 mins
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We explore 1 John 5 and discover how true faith in Jesus transforms our relationship with God, fellow believers, and the world around us.
• Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ has been born of God and naturally loves other believers
• God's commandments aren't burdensome—the regenerate heart finds delight in obedience
• Faith is our victory that overcomes the world when we believe Jesus is God's Son
• Three witnesses confirm Jesus' identity: the Spirit, water (baptism), and blood (crucifixion)
• Rejecting God's testimony about His Son makes Him a liar—faith accepts His witness
• Eternal life is found only in relationship with the Son—not in religious activities
• Prayer has power when aligned with God's will rather than our personal desires
• Not all sin is equal—apostasy (persistent rejection of Christ) differs from stumbling
• Born-again believers don't live in unrepentant sin and are protected from Satan's claim
• Christ gives us understanding to know the true God and warns us to guard against idols
• The thief on the cross demonstrated extraordinary faith by recognizing Jesus as King even at His lowest moment
To join our 91-Day Forging Challenge where we deliberately submit every area of life to Christ, visit us on Patreon at Christian Warrior Mission.
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Christian Warrior Mission trains believers to stand firm in a collapsing world.
We are a discipleship ministry, home-based warrior church, and working farm that comes alongside local churches—not to replace them, but to strengthen them by equipping men and women to lead, protect, provide, and disciple according to God’s Word.
We train across the Seven Battlefields:
Faith • Family • Fitness • Fundamentals • Finances • Fellowship • Fidelity
This is not a place for spectators, excuses, or passive Christianity.
This is where believers learn to pick up the Sword of Scripture, fortify their households, and lock shields with other warriors in Christ.
We build households that stand. We strengthen churches. We prepare saints for real-world battle.
No retreat. No surrender. Christ is King.
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About the Host:
Jason Perry — former Navy SEAL, SWAT officer, and paramedic; CEO of Trident Shield; Pastor of Christian Warrior Church. From a 44-acre homestead, Jason trains believers to meet spiritual and practical threats with courage, clarity, and a shepherd’s heart.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Happy Lord's Day to you.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission, a home church,
community ministry and farmforging Christian warriors for
today's challenges.
I hope your day was blessed andthat you're enjoying what we
call the third or fourth summerof Tennessee.
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So we got lulled into some nicecool weather and then oh nice,
but it's all good and I hope youguys are enjoying it.
For everybody who's in the pathof the hurricane, you know
thoughts and prayers are withyou and take it serious.
Don't test the Lord, trust theLord.
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Okay, so a couple things today.
Some announcements for the farmbefore we get going.
Peg is nesting.
Peg is our red wattle pig.
She's between 800 and 900pounds and she's very pregnant
and we'd say probably within 24hours she's going to have her
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babies because, like clockwork,she goes out and she's very
pregnant and we'd say probablywithin 24 hours she's gonna have
her babies because, likeclockwork, she goes out and
she's so cute she's.
She's out there building a nestto uh or a pharaoh, whatever
the pigs call it.
She's out there, you know,cutting down tree push bite, a
sapling in half that big withone bite and just build yourself
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a nice little place to gothrough labor and raise a little
piglets.
It's pretty darn cute so, um.
So we expect to have cutelittle piglet.
You know videos and picturesand sounds and they're they sure
are fun.
They're like super puppiesbecause they're on their own and
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they mature so fast.
Some other things If you guysdon't know, we do multiple
ministries here, this Sundayservice being our church service
where we do our sermons.
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We also do a Bible study Mondaythrough Friday at 7 am, called
your Daily Battle Bible Study,and that's where we fight three
battles to get a humble andgrateful heart aligned onto the
Lord.
We deliberately pursue our Lordand Savior by studying His Word
and through prayer, and then wepray for them.
We put our shields of faithtogether and we pray for them.
We put our shields of faithtogether and we pray for one
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another.
So we do that.
And then on Wednesday we do theWar Council.
War Council is at 9pm and theWar Council is where we talk
about all things Christian life.
The goal is for that to be acall-in show where we can help
people with their challenges andcelebrate their victories.
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Help them, you know, give themcover on their failures and what
we learned together, and tojust go through this life
together because we know howhard it is to find community,
how hard it is to find genuinefellowship, and so we are here
to do that with you, okay.
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The other thing that we are oneweek into or a lot of us are one
week into, but you can start atany time is the Christian
Warrior Mission 91 Day ForgingChallenge, and this is something
that is extremely important.
I believe it has a positiveimpact on everyone who does it.
It's life-changing for manypeople who do it, and I
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recommend you do it.
It's for 91 days, submittingyour entire life to Christ
deliberately instead ofaccidentally, instead of getting
up and saying, hey, I'm goingto be a good Christian and I'm
going to kind of do stuff.
It is instead the plan sayingokay, today, or we break it up
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into seven battlefields.
One faith we read our word everyday and we pray every day, or
we break it up into sevenbattlefields.
One faith Read our word everyday and we pray every day.
Two we do sacrificialleadership in the house and we
pour the love of Christ intofamily every day.
One family member a day,minimum, all right.
Three we pursue a healthylifestyle, trying to take care
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of these bodies that we wereblessed with.
We're made in the image of Godand we should be functional.
You don't have to be able torun a marathon You're not going
to win the best body contest butyou should be able to defend
yourself, your family and others.
Okay, fundamentals which is yourskill set?
Either sharpening your skillset, which is what you do for
work and provide for your family, or grappling combatives,
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firearms, electrical plumbing,farming, animal husbandry,
sewing it doesn't matter.
Anything that's useful foryourself, to make yourself
useful and be useful for yourfamily and community in the
kingdom.
After that comes finances, andthis is using the war chest that
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God blessed you with for hiskingdom and not yours, avoiding
the pitfalls of the slavery todebt and to materialism.
All right.
The next thing that we do isfellowship.
This is deliberately pursuinggodly relationships, and
normally I'm pretty good at this, but I must tell you I've
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really upped my game and God isso good he's just bringing
people across my door, washingpeople up on my beach that I can
help and God will do that foryou.
Everyone's like hey, you know,I'm a new Christian or I'm an
entry-level Christian and we'reall entry-level Christians.
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God is going to put people onyour shore that need to hear
what you have to say.
You just got to be honest andshare your testimony and point
them in the right direction.
Go that way.
Go that way, which is the Bible, right?
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So?
And then the last thing isfidelity, and fidelity is
finding to be faithful to bothJesus, our spouse, our word, our
minds, our entertainment.
This is really making sure thatyou are maintaining your
loyalty to Christ, you're notmaking false idols and you're
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not betraying the one who you'resupposed to love most on this
planet.
You're a significant other.
All right, now we host the 91Day Challenge on Patreon.
For those of you, you're likePatreon.
What is this?
It's been around for a reallylong time.
It is a place where you go.
You just put in P-A-T-R-E-O-N.
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It's in our little ticker onthe bottom and I think it is Let
me see Yep.
And you put in ChristianWarrior Mission and you go in
there and join for free.
But we took a vote within thereand we put a nominal fee in
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there and right now it's $10.
You can donate whatever youwant, because this is a lot of
work and it costs us a lot ofresources to do what we're doing
there, but mainly it's to givepeople some skin in the game and
to avoid scammers anddiscourage.
You know it'll do as if anyonecan join.
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Then you get trolls andeverything else and guys really
want a privacy because theyreally want to grow, and putting
a small token dollar amount in,there will be a lot of that out
.
So you go on there.
It's all tax-free as well andit's an accountability group.
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So we post in there every daywhat we did that day and every
one of us goes in there and theyshould be reading what everyone
else is doing.
So we know what's going on ineveryone else's life.
Someone's doing some stuff andmaking a lot of progress with
their wife.
We know that I can pray to helpthem.
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If they're trying to reach acoworker with their fellowship
and trying to lead them toChrist, well, we can that I can
pray to help them.
If they're trying to reach aco-worker with their fellowship
and try to lead them to Christ,well, we can pray for that,
maybe offer some encouragement.
It's so we learn collectivelyfrom our experiences instead of
just doing this on our own.
Alright, it is the only way Iknow how to do this.
There might be better ways.
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It's the only way my employerknow how to do this.
There might be better ways.
It's the only way my employerknows how to do it.
All right, so join us on thatand if you joined and you've
already watched out, come back.
You can start anytime.
You can start anytime.
You can jump in.
Tomorrow it's because we're onday seven.
You'll be on day one, somepeople are on day three, four.
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Eventually you'll be on day 400because they keep going and
other people will be on day oneor 36 or 28 or wherever.
That's basically that.
The next thing is we've beendoing is catechism.
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Now, last week my back was out,as you guys know.
I injured my back and thank youfor your prayers.
God and you know, good doctorsgot me back on my feet and the
loving hands of my wife.
I swear, good doctors got meback on my feet and loving hands
of my wife.
I swear, yeah, it gives methese painful deep tissue
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massages that just really make adifference and I'm just so
thankful for her in so many waysLawrence, my wonder woman, and
so many ways.
So we know we've been doing thecatechism.
So in the forging group we'regoing to be on week two, or
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catechism number two.
For everyone else.
It's week nine.
We have been dropping the ballin the house just because we had
so much stuff going on, so Ithink I'm going to reset to two
and we're just going to do oneand two today and then we'll do
three, because these things, ifyou don't stay on them, they
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become motion, they all blendtogether.
So, warrior Catechism 1.
Warrior, what is your life?
What is your life?
What's the meaning of your life?
What's the what is your life?
Okay, what is your life?
What's the meaning of your life?
What's the purpose of your life?
To glorify God, honoring andexalting in him forever.
Two now.
This one should be new for someof you.
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Most of you will review as well.
Warrior, whom do you serve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son and Holy Spirit, the
one true God, my creator,redeemer, sustainer and eternal
king.
I'm going to read that againtwo more times.
Warrior, whom do you serve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son and Holy Spirit, the
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one true God, my creator,redeemer, sustainer and eternal
Spirit, the one true God, mycreator, redeemer, sustainer and
eternal king.
Last time, warrior, whom do youserve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son and Holy Spirit, the
one true God, my creator,redeemer, sustainer and eternal
king.
Okay, memorize that.
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This week We'll put it up.
I've really kind of stopped onthe Facebook group just because
we're doing so much in thePatreon group.
Double posting really isn'tsomething and so many people in
the group are just therecoasting.
They don't comment, they don'tlike, they don't do anything,
they're just kind coasting.
They don't comment, they don'tlike, they don't do anything,
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they're just kind of there.
So the Patreon group is waymore live.
Everyone's actively engaged,they're trying to become better
Christians and so that's whereI'm putting my effort right now.
You'll see it there.
It's also in our Facebook group, though.
I've got, I think, 1-9 or 1-8there already.
So you'll see it there.
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It's also in our Facebook group, though.
I've got, I think, one throughnine or one through eight there
already.
So let's go ahead and pray toGod, sovereign Commander of
Heaven's armies.
We muster this Lord's Day asyour ironclad warriors, forged
in the furnace of your will,ready to storm every stronghold
and claim every inch for Christ,our conquering King.
We rally under yourbloodstained banner of Jesus,
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unyielding in truth, honored inrighteousness and wielding the
unbreakable sword of the Spirit.
Ignite our hearts with yourholy fire.
Let our worship thunder as abattle cry and our prayers form
the gates of hell.
Let our praise shake the earthlike war drums.
Our prayers form the gates ofhell.
We have a praise shake theearth like war drums.
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Our intercession's blaze isincense before your throne of
glory, amen.
So the other thing we like to dohere every so often is teach
the Lord's Prayer.
We always read the Lord'sPrayer but go over what it is.
I've got a pretty empty housetonight.
I'm going to go in and teachthis.
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So, lord's Prayer.
When the disciples asked Godhimself, jesus, how they should
pray, this is how he told them.
So obviously this is the bestmodel there is.
Okay, so there's how I pray.
There's how John Eldredgeprayed.
There's some great people outthere who pray.
There's some mentalists likeKen Graves, my good friend and
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mentor, and just so many others.
God told us how we should prayand this is it, and there's a
purpose and a reason and a rhymeto it.
Okay, so let's do this now.
This is where it's in Matthew 6, 9-13, and I'm doing the Legacy
Standard Bible version.
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I just got it on my screen herebecause I can make the print
way larger, and I got thisbacked up.
If all heck goes crazy, praythen in this way our Father, who
is in heaven, hallowed be yourname.
Your kingdom, come, your willbe done on earth as it is in
heaven, give us this day ourdaily bread and forgive us our
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debts, as we also have forgivenour debtors.
Do not lead us into temptation,but deliver us from evil, For
yours is the kingdom and thepower and the glory forever.
All right, so let's break thatdown.
Our Father, who is in heaven,hallowed be your name.
Okay, this is basicallysomething that we get humble.
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We recognize who he is rightand we get humble.
Our Father, right.
So already we're under him.
Okay, so our Father, he's aboveus who is in Heaven, hallowed
is your name, holy, separate,amazing.
We've already set Him up.
We pray with reverence to asovereign Holy Father.
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Your kingdom, come, your willbe done.
Now.
This part is really big andimportant.
We're going to talk about thattoday in 1 John 5.
We align our lives withChrist's kingdom purpose, not
our own agenda.
Praying against God's will isnot ever going to happen.
It's not going to happen.
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And again, your kingdom, recall, give us this day our daily
bread.
We live in daily dependence onGod, our provider and sustainer.
We rely on him for everything.
Doesn't mean we don't do ourdiligence doesn't mean we don't
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go to work.
Doesn't mean we don't do ourdue diligence Doesn't mean we
don't go to work.
Doesn't mean we don't do ourpart or rely on him to bless
everything.
Forgive us our debts, becausewe also have forgiven our
debtors.
We live on forgiveness becausewe ourselves have been forgiven
much.
Do not lead us in temptation,but deliver us from evil.
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We seek God's protection andstrength against temptation and
spiritual attack, for yours isthe kingdom, the power and the
glory.
Forever we affirm God's eternaldominion, power and victory.
Okay, so we are in 1 John 5,verses 1 through 21.
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We're going to do the wholechapter today.
I hope we get some feedback.
I'm trying to make thesanctuary.
You know, because this is ourhome, we remodeled our two-car
garage to be a sanctuary.
You know, everyone thinks we'reall fancy and stuff, but you
know, this is literally atwo-car garage that be a
sanctuary.
Everyone thinks we're all fancyand stuff, but this is
literally a two-car garage thatwe converted into our sanctuary.
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Let's play with differentthings to try to glorify God as
much as we can and make it looknice.
So again, if it's too busy orwhatever, let me know.
I'd love to hear about it intext or whatever else, but we
just want to glorify God.
So we're in 1 John 5, and weneed to set the tone review,
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because this is the last chapterof 1 John.
So, historical and culturalsetting.
It was written probablyapproximately in 85 to 95, in
emphasis, by the Apostle John,likely the last surviving
apostle at this point.
He writes as a seasoned general, passing final orders to his
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troops Under Emperor Domitian orDomitian, sorry, domitian,
domitian, domitian, sorry.
Persecution was rising.
He demanded to be addressed asDominus, a Deuce, lord and God.
Christians who refused werelabeled traitors, suffering
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confiscation of property, exileand execution.
John himself was eventuallyexiled to Patmos, as shown in
Revelation 1.
Social contact as Christianfaced exclusion from trade
guilds because membership oftenrequired pagan rituals.
To refuse that loss oflivelihood, believers endured
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family rejection and expulsionfrom synagogues on 922 and 1602.
The cost of discipleship wasreal and daily.
Ephesus, where they were, wasdominated by the Temple of
Artemis, one of the sevenwonders of the ancient world.
Idolatry was not optional butinterwoven with economics,
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politics and civic pride.
In such a setting, john'sclosing command to guard
yourself from idols wasespecially pointed.
There was also doctrine in theinternal context.
False teachers promotedproto-gnosticism, secret
knowledge of salvation.
They denied Christ's truehumanity Antinomianism,
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lawlessness, christ's truehumanity, antinomianism,
lawlessness.
John repeated emphasis onJesus' incarnation, obedience to
God's commands and genuine lovedirectly refuted these errors.
The purpose of 1 John 5, johnwrites to give assurance to the
believers, to fortify themagainst false doctrines, to
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issue final marching orders tothe hostile world.
This chapter functions as avictory song and a final command
briefing.
The war is won in Christ andthe soldier must remain faithful
until the commander returns.
So let's review chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4 real quick.
Chapter 1, the call to light.
God is light.
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Fellowship requires walking inlight.
Confession leads to cleansingthrough Christ's blood.
What do we apply from chapter 1?
We get to keep our weapons andarmor clean through daily
confession and repentance.
Chapter 2, the call to obedienceand discernment.
The message was obedience isproof of knowing God.
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Reject the world system, bewareof antichrist.
Okay Again, what you do matters.
Application, maintain mission,discipline, test every spirit
and stay faithful.
Chapter three to call to love asChrist loved.
Believers are God's children.
The mark of a new birth isrighteousness and love for your
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brothers and sisters.
Application, supply and protectyour brothers.
Love and deed and truth.
Chapter four the call to testthe spirits in perfect love.
We are to discern falseprophets.
Confess Christ, come in theflesh.
God's love casts out fear andmust flow through his people,
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and we apply this to our livesby identifying enemy
infiltration, wielding truth andfearless love on the
battlefield of faith.
Which brings us to 1 John 5,1-21.
We're going to go ahead andread it and then get into it.
Everyone who believes thatJesus Christ is the Christ sorry
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, everyone who believes thatJesus is the Christ has been
born of God, and everyone wholoves the one who gives new
birth loves also the one who hasbeen born of God.
And everyone who loves the onewho gives new birth loves also
the one who has been born of him.
By this we know that we lovethe children of God when we love
God and do his commandments.
By this we know that we lovethe children of God when we love
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God and do his commandments,for this is the love of God that
we keep his commandments andhis commandments are not
burdensome, for everything thathas been born of God overcomes
the world.
And this is the overcoming thathas overcome the world Our
faith.
Who is the one who overcomes theworld?
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But he who believes that Jesusis the Son of God.
This is the one who came bywater and blood.
Jesus Christ, not with water,only with water and with blood.
There's a spirit who bearswitness, because the spirit is
the truth.
There are three that bearwitness the spirit and the, the
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water and the blood, and thethree are in agreement If we
receive the witness of them.
The witness of God is greater,for the witness of God is this
that he is born, witnessconcerning his son.
The one who believes in the sonof God has the witness in
himself, and the one who doesnot believe God has made him a
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liar Because he has not believedin the witness which God has
borne, witness concerning hisson.
And the witness is this thatGod gave us eternal life and his
life is his son.
He who has the son has life.
He who does not have the son ofGod does not have life.
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These things I have written toyou who believe, in the name of
the confidence of which we havebefore him, that if we ask
anything to his will, accordingto his will.
He hears us and if we know thathe hears us in whatever we ask,
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we know that we have therequest which we have asked from
him.
And here this is going to besome challenging stuff here.
If anyone sees his brothersinning and a sin not leading to
death, he shall ask and Godwill, for him, give life to
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those who commit sin not leadingto death.
There is a sin leading to death.
I do not say that he shouldmake a request for this.
All unrighteousness is sin andthere is a sin not leading to
death.
We know that everyone who hasbeen born of God does not sin.
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But he who was born of Godkeeps him and the evil one does
not touch him.
We know that we are of God andthe whole world lies in the
power of the evil one.
We know that the Son of God hascome and has given us
understanding so that we mayknow him.
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Who is true, we are in him, whois true In his Son, jesus
Christ.
This is the true God in eternallife.
Little children, guard yourselffrom idols.
Okay Now if you're like me,you're dyslexic.
You know.
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You don't have a PhD ineschatology, philosophy, ancient
languages.
You got into poetry, got intopoetry.
The way this verse was writtenand the way the LSB translated
it was a struggle for me.
I had to do a lot of research,digging around and reading, and
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I'm thankful for Logos.
So let's go through this lineby line, verse by verse, and see
how we're supposed to take thisword from God and apply it to
our life and see what we'resaying here.
1 John 5.1.
We believe Jesus is the Christ,is the Christ is proof of new
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birth.
Faith is not just mental ascentbut allegiance.
John insists that love for Godmust issue in love for his
children.
Again, this is we've heard thisover and over you know, if you
love God, one you know back inthe early church, like we're
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talking about now, acknowledgingwho Jesus was not just saying
God, right, we got people whoare Unitarian and whatever they
call God, no, jesus, god, son ofGod, the Trinity Father, son,
holy Spirit.
The Trinity Father, son, holySpirit.
And then you're going to actdifferent.
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You're going to love what Godloves and you're going to hate
what God loves and you're goingto have a love for your children
because they're his children.
We see this in John 1, verse13,.
Peter 1 and 3.
And the quote Cyprian ofCarthage no one can have God as
a father who does not have thechurch as a mother.
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Churches are tough.
They can be challenging placesand a challenging group of
people, and no church is perfect.
But if you don't love thechurch, are you even Christian
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or are you just a consumer?
What's in it for you?
So what do we do If you claimChrist?
Prove it by intentional acts oflove towards fellow believers.
Check in, encourage and serve.
Okay, that's what we do with 1John 1.
Now let's go to 1 John 5, 1,and then 1 John 5, 2, and 3.
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Love for God is demonstrated byobedience, not burdensome.
Obedience is the oh man right.
It means that love lightens theload.
The commandments are not heavyshackles or blocks of freedom,
because the regenerate heartdelights in God's law.
The spirit changes obediencefrom drudgery into delight.
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If you're a Christian and thefact that you don't want to go
sleep around with yourneighbor's wife or commit murder
and do all these things andothers horrify you, that's a
good sign.
Walking in, that is.
We know that sin always has acost, sin always leads to death,
and that God's law is toprotect us from that.
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In that God's law is to protectus from that.
Okay, calvin wrote obedience isnot grievous for the regenerate
or led by the spirit.
God does not command hischildren what they cannot bear,
but in commanding gives alsostrength to fulfill.
What is a crushing yoke to theflesh becomes service to the
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renewed heart.
So what do we do with this?
Identify one area you viewobedience as burden.
Submit it joyfully today.
Ask the Spirit to reframe yourperspective so that God's
command becomes a privilege, nota prison.
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Share with your family orspouse how joyful obedience is,
a mark of true love for Christ.
Let's go down to verse 4.
The believer continuallyovercomes the world is defeated
territory.
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Faith is the victory thatunites us with Christ's triumph
over sin, death of the devil.
The tense in Greek stressesongoing conquest, not a one-time
event.
We continue to conquer theworld is defeated.
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Martin Luther wrote Faith isliving, daring confidence in
God's grace, so sure and certainthat a man would stake his life
on it a thousand times.
Write down a one worldlytemptation and counterattack
with a memorized verse.
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Then act on it with boldness,trusting God's grace as your
shield.
Encourage your family toidentify where faith must
replace fear or compromise.
1 John 5.5.
Victory is for those confessingChrist as God's son.
Speak Christ's name unashamedlyto a co-worker, family member
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or friend this week.
Be bold.
Be bold.
Verses 6 through 8.
John roots the assurance inhistorical and divine testimony.
This is where we're going toget into the water and the blood
and the spirit and so on and soforth which I had to dig into
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to understand.
Christ came by water and blood.
His baptism, john the Baptistbaptism, inaugurated his
ministry and his cross fulfilledit against false teachers who
denied Christ's real humanity ordeath.
John emphasizes both eventstogether.
The spirit continues to bearwitness by applying redemption
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to believers' hearts andconfirming the truth.
Thus we have three convergingtestimonies confirming the truth
.
Thus we have three convergingtestimonies spirit, water and
blood, all in agreement,providing unassailable evidence
that Jesus is the Christ, theSon of God.
Some further insight waterrefers to Jesus' baptism in
Matthew 3, 16-17, where theFather publicly affirmed him.
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Blood to his atoning death.
John 19, 34 and 35, wheresalvation was accomplished.
Spirit to the ongoing divinewitness and believers John 15,
26,.
Together, these testifyhistorically, theologically and
experientially.
Testify historically,theologically and experientially
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.
Athanasius said he became whatwe are, that he might make us
what he is.
In the paraphrase John Stottthe water, the blood and the
spirit, the baptism, the crossand the spirit's witness unite
to affirm the identity of Jesus.
What do we do with this?
Anchor your assurance not inemotion, but in the historical
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acts, the facts of Christ andthe spirit's present testimony.
Rehearse with your householdthe baptism, crucifixion and
resurrection accounts of Jesus.
Teach them how each provesJesus' true identity Church in
worship and sacraments.
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Remember that the baptism andthe Lord's Supper point directly
to these witnesses.
Do not treat them lightly, butas vital battlefield reminders
of Christ's victory.
Verses 9 and 10.
Rejecting God's testimony ismaking him a liar.
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Faith accepts God's witness.
Unbelief calls God deceitful.
John Owens wrote.
Now I'm going to cover verse11-12, and then we're going to
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talk about something thatshattered me today John 5, 11
and 12.
Life is in the Son.
Salvation is Christ himself,not abstract.
Audit your loyalties.
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What gives you a sense of lifere-centered on Christ?
So today, again to pause, andwe'll unpack the rest of this,
but I think this is reallyimportant.
I came across a post about thethief on the cross, which is an
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often a gentleman who's oftentalked about a lot.
There was a sermon that Ireally liked, a video that was
making its way around an excerptfrom Halaster Begg about I
can't wait to meet the thief onthe cross.
I'd be like how did you gethere?
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No baptism, no scripture,doesn't understand theology,
doesn't do this, doesn't do that, didn't do the Lord's Supper,
none of that stuff.
I didn't do the Lord's Supper,none of that stuff.
And I always thought, you knowwell, the thief on the cross did
the least thing imaginable.
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So if he could repent in hislast moment, he was the minimum
standard is the way I looked atit.
I am ashamed I'm going to getweepy here to say that I felt
that way, because that's not howI see it at all.
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Here's what I, what Godrevealed to me today.
The Holy Spirit revealed to metoday.
Everyone, the economies ofheaven and the economies of the
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world, are in directcontradiction to one another.
The thief on the cross, directcontradiction to one another.
The thief on the cross had morefaith than all the apostles.
He had more faith than anyoneon earth.
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That day, the scoundrelprobably a murderer naked,
nailed to a cross With anotherman, their name Jesus, nailed to
a cross, naked, but he isflayed alive.
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His feet be on recognition.
He's shredded.
We took cloths on our imageryand all that.
They were naked.
All their genitals andeverything else just opened to
the world.
The thief on the cross had morefaith than anyone else alive.
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Let's look at the apostles'condition at that moment.
They had fled that.
All the disciples left had fled.
Matthew 25, 56.
They were hiding in fear, forfear of the Jews.
The disciples were behindlocked doors John 20, 19.
Peter denied Jesus three timesLuke 22, 61 and 62.
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None stood at the cross inconfession, except John who was
silent.
At Calvary, the apostles faithfaltered.
They were not publiclyconfessing Jesus' death.
While the apostles doubted, ascoundrel declared this man has
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done nothing wrong.
Luke 23, 41,.
Affirming Christ's innocence.
Jesus remembered me.
Remember me when you come intoyour kingdom.
Jesus, remember me when youcome into your kingdom.
Luke 23, verse 41.
Confessing Christ as king,despite his crucifixion.
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This is staggering.
He saw royalty and a naked mancovered in blood walked and died
.
When God, as a worldly people,as the earthly people in this
world, when Jesus was at hisweakest.
He's not doing miracles, he'snot speaking fancy, he doesn't
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look great when he is at hislowest.
This man believe what no oneelse would.
The apostles saw miracles butstumbled at the cross.
The thief only saw the crossand believed I can't even fathom
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that faith.
I can't even fathom it.
They had no amount oftransfiguration.
The thief had no amount oftransfiguration, no miracles, no
walking on water, noresurrection appearance, yet
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Just the crucified Messiah.
No casting out demons, nohealing.
Blind, deaf, lame, like TomlinHall, he was suffering his own
execution and still looked awayfrom himself and Christ.
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In that moment, the lowlythieves faced the past.
Everyone else is now a hero ofmine, he's now a hero of mine.
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To believe, then, is monstrous,absolutely monstrous.
You know, doubting Thomasbelieves Christ has to see Jesus
in the flesh, put his finger inhis side, touch his hands.
This guy is believing Jesuswhen he is at his lowest.
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So I would answer Mr AlistairBegg's thing.
When he gets to heaven and heasks him well, how'd you get in?
Well, he could say I believedwhat no one else did.
I believe what no one else did.
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I believe what no one else did.
He declared his allegiance.
He believed who Jesus said hewas.
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Why don't we?
Why don't we live like it?
Faith sees beyond circumstances.
Even in defeat, the eyes offaith see victory.
No one is too far gone, acondemned thief, some people say
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Political enemy.
Whatever, there's a lot ofProof that grace is greater Than
the worst.
If he could proclaim crucifiedKing is Lord, jesus, christ is
Lord, how much more should weknow about the resurrection?
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I just I've thought about thatscene multiple times.
Well, tell us your best thingand now tell us what makes the
Bible.
I've thought about that scenemultiple times.
What the hell is the biggestthing?
The hell is what makes theBible miraculous?
The Holy Spirit's somethingthat just comes into place and
it changes everything.
It changes everything.
We're up with John.
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John verse 13.
John writes for assurance.
Eternal life is certain, notguesswork.
Thomas Brooks wrote assuranceis glory in the bud, the flower
before it sprouts.
Write down why you know youbelong to Christ and keep it as
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a battle.
Report 14 and 15.
Confidence and prayer comeswhen it's aligned with God's
will.
God hears and God responds.
When it is aligned with hiswill, not your will.
Prayer is the chief exercise offaith.
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Do it.
Draft a prayer plan anchored inGod's will, revealed in
scripture 16 and 17,.
John distinguishes between twokinds of situations, and this is
that tough bit the tough versesabout the sin leading to death
and the other sin not leading todeath.
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So let's roll up our sleevesand go to work here.
John distinguishes between twokinds of situations.
One is when a brother commits asin that is not leading to
death, meaning sins that, thoughserious, are repented of and do
not represent apostasy.
Believers are commanded tointercede and God grants life.
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The other is the sin leading todeath, which refers to hardened
, unrepentant rejection ofChrist and his gospel.
This is not a stumble, but asettled condition of.
We'll use the LGBTQ as anexample and we'll use adultery
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as another one.
If someone commits adultery andlives in adultery, that is an
unforgivable sin.
If they continue to do it anddon't stop doing it and they
just say, well, jesus willforgive me, that is apostasy.
That is not true.
You are operating outside ofGod's will.
You are not repentant.
You are not doing that.
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Okay.
If you commit adultery, rightand you repent and turn from it
and you know that it's wrong,you're not saying it's not a sin
.
You know like, yeah, I'm goingto have 42 wives and it's all
great.
You know, on and on and on.
If you're acknowledging it's asin and you're repenting of it,
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it's fine.
If you're saying, no, I'm goingto do it my way and you're not
making up your own Christianity.
That's what they're talkingabout there.
Same thing with LGBTQ.
You could have a homosexualrelationship and read the Bible,
be convicted of it, repent ofit and be saved.
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Or you can sit there and saylove is love and deny what the
Bible says and you'll burn forit.
I want a small clarification.
Not every sin is equal, whileall sin deserves judgment.
John recognizes the distinctionbetween sins that can be
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restored through repentance andprayer and the sin of final
apostasy, which rejects the onlysacrifice for sins.
Examples in Scripture Hebrews 6, 4-6 describes those who fall
away after tasting the truth.
They cannot be restored becausethey crucify the Son of God
afresh.
They walk away from the faith.
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Matthew 12, 31-32 warns againstthe blasphemy of the Spirit,
rejecting the Spirit's testimonyof Christ, attributing what God
does to the enemy.
Acts 5, 1-11 shows Ananias andSapphira judged instantly struck
dead.
A warning of God's holiness.
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1 Corinthians 11, 29-30 recordsbelievers judged with illness
and death for abusing the Lord'sSupper.
Sin to death is understood bymost reformed tradition and the
reformed tradition as persistent, deliberate rejection of Christ
, final impermanence or apostasy.
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It is not a single act ofweakness, but a willingful
turning away from God tosomething else, a false idol, to
paraphrase John Owens.
Owen, there is no greater follyin the world than for a man to
provoke God to depart from him.
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So what do we do with this?
For prayer, we pray boldly forrepentant restoration.
When you see brothers stumbling, your intercession is
battlefield triage, calling inheavy artillery strikes, pulling
them back to life.
For warning if someone persistsin rejecting Christ despite
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light and grace, warn themsoberly.
Recognize the danger of themhardening into apostasy.
Fight yourself, guard yourheart daily with repentance and
humility.
Keep short accounts with God,confess quickly and fight
against drifting.
Almost done.
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18.
Born again.
Do not live in unrepentant sin.
Christ guards them.
Satan cannot lay claim.
Proverbs 18.10 states the nameof the Lord is a strong tower,
the righteous one.
To it.
Enter safe.
Establish guardrails,accountability, scripture,
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memory, memorized scripture andpractical safeguards to keep
yourself from going falling intounrepentant sin.
Verse 19, two kingdoms, gods andevil ones.
The world lies passively underSatan's sway.
Martin Luther wrote though thisworld with devils filled, we
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will not fear.
Stop expecting worldly applause.
Train your household forresistance.
Number 20 written there the sungrants understanding.
So believers know the true God.
Christ is identified as God,true and eternal life.
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Athanasius said the Son is trueGod.
And true God Catechized herfamily on Christ weekly.
Finally, verse 21.
God here means constant watchagainst idols.
Idols in Eph, emphasis, werevisible.
Ours may be invisible.
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Comfort, control and evenministry can be idols.
And John Kelp said the humanheart is a perpetual factory of
idols.
We have to fight it witheverything we have.
So what do we do?
Conduct an idle sweep, examinetime, money, media ambitions and
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purge or support so as ourfinal charge stand in assurance,
purchased by Christ, operate onGod's testimony, pray with
parrhesia, rescue the straying,hold the ground under the king's
protection, confess the son istrue God and keep constant watch
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against idols.
To the king, eternal, mortal,invisible and only God, forever
and ever, amen.
So we're going to go ahead anddo the Lord's Supper.
This is for baptized believersonly.
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Examination 1 Corinthians 11.
But a man must test himself indoing so using either the bread
or the cup Before he partake.
Let us quietly bow before theKing of glory.
Let each man, woman and youngboy in here search his heart or
her heart.
Go ahead, bow your head.
Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,
amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,
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amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,amen, amen, amen.
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Amen.
Almighty God, sovereign, lord ofhosts, we approach your table
today not because we are worthy,but because Christ is worthy.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but clinging to
the righteousness of JesusChrist alone.
We remember his body broken,his blood poured out for the new
covenant.
We bow in humble gratitude.
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We lift our hearts in reverentawe.
Sanctify this bread and thiscup and sanctify us, your people
, as we proclaim the death,resurrection and coming kingdom
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray in his mighty andmatchless name Amen.
1 Corinthians, 11, 11, 23-24.
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The Lord Jesus, in the night inwhich he was being betrayed,
took bread and when he had giventhanks, he broke it and said
this is my body, which is foryou.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisbody, pierced, beaten and
sacrificed for you.
Let us partake of the breadtogether and remember Jesus
Christ broke your body for us.
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Go ahead, nate.
In the same way, he took thecup after supper, saying the cup
is the new covenant of my blood.
Do this as often as you drinkin remembrance of me.
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Remember this symbolizes hisblood, the blood that purchased
our forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let's partake of the cuptogether.
Remember Christ's blood pouredout for us.
Go ahead and drink, for asoften as you drink of this bread
, or eat of this bread and drinkof the cup, you proclaim the
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death of the Lord until he comes.
By this eating and drinking, wepublicly proclaim Christ has
died, christ has risen, christwill come again.
We are his soldiers in hiseverlasting kingdom.
Good, good, good Bryce,heavenly Father, we thank you
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for the gift of assurancethrough your Son Jesus Christ.
Strengthen our faith that wemay overcome the world.
Keep us steadfast in prayer,bold in confession and vigilant
against idols.
Fill our homes, our church andour lives with witness of the
spirit, the water and the blood.
As we march forward, may we doas warriors equipped with truth,
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love and courage, and may theGod of peace himself sanctify
you entirely and may your spiritand soul and body be preserved,
complete, without blame, in thecoming of our Lord Jesus Christ
.
Faithful is he who calls youand he also will bring it to
pass.
Amen.
God bless you.
Happy Lord's Day to you.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission, a home church,
community ministry and farmforging Christian warriors for
today's challenges.
I hope your day was blessed andthat you're enjoying what we
call the third or fourth summerof Tennessee.
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So we got lulled into some nicecool weather and then oh nice,
but it's all good and I hope youguys are enjoying it.
For everybody who's in the pathof the hurricane, you know
thoughts and prayers are withyou and take it serious.
Don't test the Lord, trust theLord.
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Okay, so a couple things today.
Some announcements for the farmbefore we get going.
Peg is nesting.
Peg is our red wattle pig.
She's between 800 and 900pounds and she's very pregnant
and we'd say probably within 24hours she's going to have her
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babies because, like clockwork,she goes out and she's very
pregnant and we'd say probablywithin 24 hours she's gonna have
her babies because, likeclockwork, she goes out and
she's so cute she's.
She's out there building a nestto uh or a pharaoh, whatever
the pigs call it.
She's out there, you know,cutting down tree push bite, a
sapling in half that big withone bite and just build yourself
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a nice little place to gothrough labor and raise a little
piglets.
It's pretty darn cute so, um.
So we expect to have cutelittle piglet.
You know videos and picturesand sounds and they're they sure
are fun.
They're like super puppiesbecause they're on their own and
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they mature so fast.
Some other things If you guysdon't know, we do multiple
ministries here, this Sundayservice being our church service
where we do our sermons.
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We also do a Bible study Mondaythrough Friday at 7 am, called
your Daily Battle Bible Study,and that's where we fight three
battles to get a humble andgrateful heart aligned onto the
Lord.
We deliberately pursue our Lordand Savior by studying His Word
and through prayer, and then wepray for them.
We put our shields of faithtogether and we pray for them.
We put our shields of faithtogether and we pray for one
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another.
So we do that.
And then on Wednesday we do theWar Council.
War Council is at 9pm and theWar Council is where we talk
about all things Christian life.
The goal is for that to be acall-in show where we can help
people with their challenges andcelebrate their victories.
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Help them, you know, give themcover on their failures and what
we learned together, and tojust go through this life
together because we know howhard it is to find community,
how hard it is to find genuinefellowship, and so we are here
to do that with you, okay.
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The other thing that we are oneweek into or a lot of us are one
week into, but you can start atany time is the Christian
Warrior Mission 91 Day ForgingChallenge, and this is something
that is extremely important.
I believe it has a positiveimpact on everyone who does it.
It's life-changing for manypeople who do it, and I
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recommend you do it.
It's for 91 days, submittingyour entire life to Christ
deliberately instead ofaccidentally, instead of getting
up and saying, hey, I'm goingto be a good Christian and I'm
going to kind of do stuff.
It is instead the plan sayingokay, today, or we break it up
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into seven battlefields.
One faith we read our word everyday and we pray every day, or
we break it up into sevenbattlefields.
One faith Read our word everyday and we pray every day.
Two we do sacrificialleadership in the house and we
pour the love of Christ intofamily every day.
One family member a day,minimum, all right.
Three we pursue a healthylifestyle, trying to take care
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of these bodies that we wereblessed with.
We're made in the image of Godand we should be functional.
You don't have to be able torun a marathon You're not going
to win the best body contest butyou should be able to defend
yourself, your family and others.
Okay, fundamentals which is yourskill set?
Either sharpening your skillset, which is what you do for
work and provide for your family, or grappling combatives,
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firearms, electrical plumbing,farming, animal husbandry,
sewing it doesn't matter.
Anything that's useful foryourself, to make yourself
useful and be useful for yourfamily and community in the
kingdom.
After that comes finances, andthis is using the war chest that
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God blessed you with for hiskingdom and not yours, avoiding
the pitfalls of the slavery todebt and to materialism.
All right.
The next thing that we do isfellowship.
This is deliberately pursuinggodly relationships, and
normally I'm pretty good at this, but I must tell you I've
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really upped my game and God isso good he's just bringing
people across my door, washingpeople up on my beach that I can
help and God will do that foryou.
Everyone's like hey, you know,I'm a new Christian or I'm an
entry-level Christian and we'reall entry-level Christians.
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God is going to put people onyour shore that need to hear
what you have to say.
You just got to be honest andshare your testimony and point
them in the right direction.
Go that way.
Go that way, which is the Bible, right?
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So?
And then the last thing isfidelity, and fidelity is
finding to be faithful to bothJesus, our spouse, our word, our
minds, our entertainment.
This is really making sure thatyou are maintaining your
loyalty to Christ, you're notmaking false idols and you're
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not betraying the one who you'resupposed to love most on this
planet.
You're a significant other.
All right, now we host the 91Day Challenge on Patreon.
For those of you, you're likePatreon.
What is this?
It's been around for a reallylong time.
It is a place where you go.
You just put in P-A-T-R-E-O-N.
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It's in our little ticker onthe bottom and I think it is Let
me see Yep.
And you put in ChristianWarrior Mission and you go in
there and join for free.
But we took a vote within thereand we put a nominal fee in
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there and right now it's $10.
You can donate whatever youwant, because this is a lot of
work and it costs us a lot ofresources to do what we're doing
there, but mainly it's to givepeople some skin in the game and
to avoid scammers anddiscourage.
You know it'll do as if anyonecan join.
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Then you get trolls andeverything else and guys really
want a privacy because theyreally want to grow, and putting
a small token dollar amount in,there will be a lot of that out
.
So you go on there.
It's all tax-free as well andit's an accountability group.
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So we post in there every daywhat we did that day and every
one of us goes in there and theyshould be reading what everyone
else is doing.
So we know what's going on ineveryone else's life.
Someone's doing some stuff andmaking a lot of progress with
their wife.
We know that I can pray to helpthem.
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If they're trying to reach acoworker with their fellowship
and trying to lead them toChrist, well, we can that I can
pray to help them.
If they're trying to reach aco-worker with their fellowship
and try to lead them to Christ,well, we can pray for that,
maybe offer some encouragement.
It's so we learn collectivelyfrom our experiences instead of
just doing this on our own.
Alright, it is the only way Iknow how to do this.
There might be better ways.
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It's the only way my employerknow how to do this.
There might be better ways.
It's the only way my employerknows how to do it.
All right, so join us on thatand if you joined and you've
already watched out, come back.
You can start anytime.
You can start anytime.
You can jump in.
Tomorrow it's because we're onday seven.
You'll be on day one, somepeople are on day three, four.
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Eventually you'll be on day 400because they keep going and
other people will be on day oneor 36 or 28 or wherever.
That's basically that.
The next thing is we've beendoing is catechism.
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Now, last week my back was out,as you guys know.
I injured my back and thank youfor your prayers.
God and you know, good doctorsgot me back on my feet and the
loving hands of my wife.
I swear, good doctors got meback on my feet and loving hands
of my wife.
I swear, yeah, it gives methese painful deep tissue
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massages that just really make adifference and I'm just so
thankful for her in so many waysLawrence, my wonder woman, and
so many ways.
So we know we've been doing thecatechism.
So in the forging group we'regoing to be on week two, or
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catechism number two.
For everyone else.
It's week nine.
We have been dropping the ballin the house just because we had
so much stuff going on, so Ithink I'm going to reset to two
and we're just going to do oneand two today and then we'll do
three, because these things, ifyou don't stay on them, they
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become motion, they all blendtogether.
So, warrior Catechism 1.
Warrior, what is your life?
What is your life?
What's the meaning of your life?
What's the what is your life?
Okay, what is your life?
What's the meaning of your life?
What's the purpose of your life?
To glorify God, honoring andexalting in him forever.
Two now.
This one should be new for someof you.
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Most of you will review as well.
Warrior, whom do you serve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son and Holy Spirit, the
one true God, my creator,redeemer, sustainer and eternal
king.
I'm going to read that againtwo more times.
Warrior, whom do you serve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son and Holy Spirit, the
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one true God, my creator,redeemer, sustainer and eternal
Spirit, the one true God, mycreator, redeemer, sustainer and
eternal king.
Last time, warrior, whom do youserve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son and Holy Spirit, the
one true God, my creator,redeemer, sustainer and eternal
king.
Okay, memorize that.
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This week We'll put it up.
I've really kind of stopped onthe Facebook group just because
we're doing so much in thePatreon group.
Double posting really isn'tsomething and so many people in
the group are just therecoasting.
They don't comment, they don'tlike, they don't do anything,
they're just kind coasting.
They don't comment, they don'tlike, they don't do anything,
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they're just kind of there.
So the Patreon group is waymore live.
Everyone's actively engaged,they're trying to become better
Christians and so that's whereI'm putting my effort right now.
You'll see it there.
It's also in our Facebook group, though.
I've got, I think, 1-9 or 1-8there already.
So you'll see it there.
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It's also in our Facebook group, though.
I've got, I think, one throughnine or one through eight there
already.
So let's go ahead and pray toGod, sovereign Commander of
Heaven's armies.
We muster this Lord's Day asyour ironclad warriors, forged
in the furnace of your will,ready to storm every stronghold
and claim every inch for Christ,our conquering King.
We rally under yourbloodstained banner of Jesus,
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unyielding in truth, honored inrighteousness and wielding the
unbreakable sword of the Spirit.
Ignite our hearts with yourholy fire.
Let our worship thunder as abattle cry and our prayers form
the gates of hell.
Let our praise shake the earthlike war drums.
Our prayers form the gates ofhell.
We have a praise shake theearth like war drums.
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Our intercession's blaze isincense before your throne of
glory, amen.
So the other thing we like to dohere every so often is teach
the Lord's Prayer.
We always read the Lord'sPrayer but go over what it is.
I've got a pretty empty housetonight.
I'm going to go in and teachthis.
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So, lord's Prayer.
When the disciples asked Godhimself, jesus, how they should
pray, this is how he told them.
So obviously this is the bestmodel there is.
Okay, so there's how I pray.
There's how John Eldredgeprayed.
There's some great people outthere who pray.
There's some mentalists likeKen Graves, my good friend and
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mentor, and just so many others.
God told us how we should prayand this is it, and there's a
purpose and a reason and a rhymeto it.
Okay, so let's do this now.
This is where it's in Matthew 6, 9-13, and I'm doing the Legacy
Standard Bible version.
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I just got it on my screen herebecause I can make the print
way larger, and I got thisbacked up.
If all heck goes crazy, praythen in this way our Father, who
is in heaven, hallowed be yourname.
Your kingdom, come, your willbe done on earth as it is in
heaven, give us this day ourdaily bread and forgive us our
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debts, as we also have forgivenour debtors.
Do not lead us into temptation,but deliver us from evil, For
yours is the kingdom and thepower and the glory forever.
All right, so let's break thatdown.
Our Father, who is in heaven,hallowed be your name.
Okay, this is basicallysomething that we get humble.
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We recognize who he is rightand we get humble.
Our Father, right.
So already we're under him.
Okay, so our Father, he's aboveus who is in Heaven, hallowed
is your name, holy, separate,amazing.
We've already set Him up.
We pray with reverence to asovereign Holy Father.
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Your kingdom, come, your willbe done.
Now.
This part is really big andimportant.
We're going to talk about thattoday in 1 John 5.
We align our lives withChrist's kingdom purpose, not
our own agenda.
Praying against God's will isnot ever going to happen.
It's not going to happen.
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And again, your kingdom, recall, give us this day our daily
bread.
We live in daily dependence onGod, our provider and sustainer.
We rely on him for everything.
Doesn't mean we don't do ourdiligence doesn't mean we don't
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go to work.
Doesn't mean we don't do ourdue diligence Doesn't mean we
don't go to work.
Doesn't mean we don't do ourpart or rely on him to bless
everything.
Forgive us our debts, becausewe also have forgiven our
debtors.
We live on forgiveness becausewe ourselves have been forgiven
much.
Do not lead us in temptation,but deliver us from evil.
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We seek God's protection andstrength against temptation and
spiritual attack, for yours isthe kingdom, the power and the
glory.
Forever we affirm God's eternaldominion, power and victory.
Okay, so we are in 1 John 5,verses 1 through 21.
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We're going to do the wholechapter today.
I hope we get some feedback.
I'm trying to make thesanctuary.
You know, because this is ourhome, we remodeled our two-car
garage to be a sanctuary.
You know, everyone thinks we'reall fancy and stuff, but you
know, this is literally atwo-car garage that be a
sanctuary.
Everyone thinks we're all fancyand stuff, but this is
literally a two-car garage thatwe converted into our sanctuary.
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Let's play with differentthings to try to glorify God as
much as we can and make it looknice.
So again, if it's too busy orwhatever, let me know.
I'd love to hear about it intext or whatever else, but we
just want to glorify God.
So we're in 1 John 5, and weneed to set the tone review,
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because this is the last chapterof 1 John.
So, historical and culturalsetting.
It was written probablyapproximately in 85 to 95, in
emphasis, by the Apostle John,likely the last surviving
apostle at this point.
He writes as a seasoned general, passing final orders to his
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troops Under Emperor Domitian orDomitian, sorry, domitian,
domitian, domitian, sorry.
Persecution was rising.
He demanded to be addressed asDominus, a Deuce, lord and God.
Christians who refused werelabeled traitors, suffering
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confiscation of property, exileand execution.
John himself was eventuallyexiled to Patmos, as shown in
Revelation 1.
Social contact as Christianfaced exclusion from trade
guilds because membership oftenrequired pagan rituals.
To refuse that loss oflivelihood, believers endured
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family rejection and expulsionfrom synagogues on 922 and 1602.
The cost of discipleship wasreal and daily.
Ephesus, where they were, wasdominated by the Temple of
Artemis, one of the sevenwonders of the ancient world.
Idolatry was not optional butinterwoven with economics,
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politics and civic pride.
In such a setting, john'sclosing command to guard
yourself from idols wasespecially pointed.
There was also doctrine in theinternal context.
False teachers promotedproto-gnosticism, secret
knowledge of salvation.
They denied Christ's truehumanity Antinomianism,
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lawlessness, christ's truehumanity, antinomianism,
lawlessness.
John repeated emphasis onJesus' incarnation, obedience to
God's commands and genuine lovedirectly refuted these errors.
The purpose of 1 John 5, johnwrites to give assurance to the
believers, to fortify themagainst false doctrines, to
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issue final marching orders tothe hostile world.
This chapter functions as avictory song and a final command
briefing.
The war is won in Christ andthe soldier must remain faithful
until the commander returns.
So let's review chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4 real quick.
Chapter 1, the call to light.
God is light.
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Fellowship requires walking inlight.
Confession leads to cleansingthrough Christ's blood.
What do we apply from chapter 1?
We get to keep our weapons andarmor clean through daily
confession and repentance.
Chapter 2, the call to obedienceand discernment.
The message was obedience isproof of knowing God.
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Reject the world system, bewareof antichrist.
Okay Again, what you do matters.
Application, maintain mission,discipline, test every spirit
and stay faithful.
Chapter three to call to love asChrist loved.
Believers are God's children.
The mark of a new birth isrighteousness and love for your
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brothers and sisters.
Application, supply and protectyour brothers.
Love and deed and truth.
Chapter four the call to testthe spirits in perfect love.
We are to discern falseprophets.
Confess Christ, come in theflesh.
God's love casts out fear andmust flow through his people,
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and we apply this to our livesby identifying enemy
infiltration, wielding truth andfearless love on the
battlefield of faith.
Which brings us to 1 John 5,1-21.
We're going to go ahead andread it and then get into it.
Everyone who believes thatJesus Christ is the Christ sorry
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, everyone who believes thatJesus is the Christ has been
born of God, and everyone wholoves the one who gives new
birth loves also the one who hasbeen born of God.
And everyone who loves the onewho gives new birth loves also
the one who has been born of him.
By this we know that we lovethe children of God when we love
God and do his commandments.
By this we know that we lovethe children of God when we love
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God and do his commandments,for this is the love of God that
we keep his commandments andhis commandments are not
burdensome, for everything thathas been born of God overcomes
the world.
And this is the overcoming thathas overcome the world Our
faith.
Who is the one who overcomes theworld?
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But he who believes that Jesusis the Son of God.
This is the one who came bywater and blood.
Jesus Christ, not with water,only with water and with blood.
There's a spirit who bearswitness, because the spirit is
the truth.
There are three that bearwitness the spirit and the, the
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water and the blood, and thethree are in agreement If we
receive the witness of them.
The witness of God is greater,for the witness of God is this
that he is born, witnessconcerning his son.
The one who believes in the sonof God has the witness in
himself, and the one who doesnot believe God has made him a
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liar Because he has not believedin the witness which God has
borne, witness concerning hisson.
And the witness is this thatGod gave us eternal life and his
life is his son.
He who has the son has life.
He who does not have the son ofGod does not have life.
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These things I have written toyou who believe, in the name of
the confidence of which we havebefore him, that if we ask
anything to his will, accordingto his will.
He hears us and if we know thathe hears us in whatever we ask,
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we know that we have therequest which we have asked from
him.
And here this is going to besome challenging stuff here.
If anyone sees his brothersinning and a sin not leading to
death, he shall ask and Godwill, for him, give life to
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those who commit sin not leadingto death.
There is a sin leading to death.
I do not say that he shouldmake a request for this.
All unrighteousness is sin andthere is a sin not leading to
death.
We know that everyone who hasbeen born of God does not sin.
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But he who was born of Godkeeps him and the evil one does
not touch him.
We know that we are of God andthe whole world lies in the
power of the evil one.
We know that the Son of God hascome and has given us
understanding so that we mayknow him.
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Who is true, we are in him, whois true In his Son, jesus
Christ.
This is the true God in eternallife.
Little children, guard yourselffrom idols.
Okay Now if you're like me,you're dyslexic.
You know.
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You don't have a PhD ineschatology, philosophy, ancient
languages.
You got into poetry, got intopoetry.
The way this verse was writtenand the way the LSB translated
it was a struggle for me.
I had to do a lot of research,digging around and reading, and
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I'm thankful for Logos.
So let's go through this lineby line, verse by verse, and see
how we're supposed to take thisword from God and apply it to
our life and see what we'resaying here.
1 John 5.1.
We believe Jesus is the Christ,is the Christ is proof of new
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birth.
Faith is not just mental ascentbut allegiance.
John insists that love for Godmust issue in love for his
children.
Again, this is we've heard thisover and over you know, if you
love God, one you know back inthe early church, like we're
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talking about now, acknowledgingwho Jesus was not just saying
God, right, we got people whoare Unitarian and whatever they
call God, no, jesus, god, son ofGod, the Trinity Father, son,
holy Spirit.
The Trinity Father, son, holySpirit.
And then you're going to actdifferent.
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You're going to love what Godloves and you're going to hate
what God loves and you're goingto have a love for your children
because they're his children.
We see this in John 1, verse13,.
Peter 1 and 3.
And the quote Cyprian ofCarthage no one can have God as
a father who does not have thechurch as a mother.
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Churches are tough.
They can be challenging placesand a challenging group of
people, and no church is perfect.
But if you don't love thechurch, are you even Christian
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or are you just a consumer?
What's in it for you?
So what do we do If you claimChrist?
Prove it by intentional acts oflove towards fellow believers.
Check in, encourage and serve.
Okay, that's what we do with 1John 1.
Now let's go to 1 John 5, 1,and then 1 John 5, 2, and 3.
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Love for God is demonstrated byobedience, not burdensome.
Obedience is the oh man right.
It means that love lightens theload.
The commandments are not heavyshackles or blocks of freedom,
because the regenerate heartdelights in God's law.
The spirit changes obediencefrom drudgery into delight.
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If you're a Christian and thefact that you don't want to go
sleep around with yourneighbor's wife or commit murder
and do all these things andothers horrify you, that's a
good sign.
Walking in, that is.
We know that sin always has acost, sin always leads to death,
and that God's law is toprotect us from that.
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In that God's law is to protectus from that.
Okay, calvin wrote obedience isnot grievous for the regenerate
or led by the spirit.
God does not command hischildren what they cannot bear,
but in commanding gives alsostrength to fulfill.
What is a crushing yoke to theflesh becomes service to the
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renewed heart.
So what do we do with this?
Identify one area you viewobedience as burden.
Submit it joyfully today.
Ask the Spirit to reframe yourperspective so that God's
command becomes a privilege, nota prison.
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Share with your family orspouse how joyful obedience is,
a mark of true love for Christ.
Let's go down to verse 4.
The believer continuallyovercomes the world is defeated
territory.
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Faith is the victory thatunites us with Christ's triumph
over sin, death of the devil.
The tense in Greek stressesongoing conquest, not a one-time
event.
We continue to conquer theworld is defeated.
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Martin Luther wrote Faith isliving, daring confidence in
God's grace, so sure and certainthat a man would stake his life
on it a thousand times.
Write down a one worldlytemptation and counterattack
with a memorized verse.
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Then act on it with boldness,trusting God's grace as your
shield.
Encourage your family toidentify where faith must
replace fear or compromise.
1 John 5.5.
Victory is for those confessingChrist as God's son.
Speak Christ's name unashamedlyto a co-worker, family member
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or friend this week.
Be bold.
Be bold.
Verses 6 through 8.
John roots the assurance inhistorical and divine testimony.
This is where we're going toget into the water and the blood
and the spirit and so on and soforth which I had to dig into
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to understand.
Christ came by water and blood.
His baptism, john the Baptistbaptism, inaugurated his
ministry and his cross fulfilledit against false teachers who
denied Christ's real humanity ordeath.
John emphasizes both eventstogether.
The spirit continues to bearwitness by applying redemption
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to believers' hearts andconfirming the truth.
Thus we have three convergingtestimonies confirming the truth
.
Thus we have three convergingtestimonies spirit, water and
blood, all in agreement,providing unassailable evidence
that Jesus is the Christ, theSon of God.
Some further insight waterrefers to Jesus' baptism in
Matthew 3, 16-17, where theFather publicly affirmed him.
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Blood to his atoning death.
John 19, 34 and 35, wheresalvation was accomplished.
Spirit to the ongoing divinewitness and believers John 15,
26,.
Together, these testifyhistorically, theologically and
experientially.
Testify historically,theologically and experientially
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.
Athanasius said he became whatwe are, that he might make us
what he is.
In the paraphrase John Stottthe water, the blood and the
spirit, the baptism, the crossand the spirit's witness unite
to affirm the identity of Jesus.
What do we do with this?
Anchor your assurance not inemotion, but in the historical
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acts, the facts of Christ andthe spirit's present testimony.
Rehearse with your householdthe baptism, crucifixion and
resurrection accounts of Jesus.
Teach them how each provesJesus' true identity Church in
worship and sacraments.
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Remember that the baptism andthe Lord's Supper point directly
to these witnesses.
Do not treat them lightly, butas vital battlefield reminders
of Christ's victory.
Verses 9 and 10.
Rejecting God's testimony ismaking him a liar.
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Faith accepts God's witness.
Unbelief calls God deceitful.
John Owens wrote.
Now I'm going to cover verse11-12, and then we're going to
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talk about something thatshattered me today John 5, 11
and 12.
Life is in the Son.
Salvation is Christ himself,not abstract.
Audit your loyalties.
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What gives you a sense of lifere-centered on Christ?
So today, again to pause, andwe'll unpack the rest of this,
but I think this is reallyimportant.
I came across a post about thethief on the cross, which is an
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often a gentleman who's oftentalked about a lot.
There was a sermon that Ireally liked, a video that was
making its way around an excerptfrom Halaster Begg about I
can't wait to meet the thief onthe cross.
I'd be like how did you gethere?
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No baptism, no scripture,doesn't understand theology,
doesn't do this, doesn't do that, didn't do the Lord's Supper,
none of that stuff.
I didn't do the Lord's Supper,none of that stuff.
And I always thought, you knowwell, the thief on the cross did
the least thing imaginable.
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So if he could repent in hislast moment, he was the minimum
standard is the way I looked atit.
I am ashamed I'm going to getweepy here to say that I felt
that way, because that's not howI see it at all.
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Here's what I, what Godrevealed to me today.
The Holy Spirit revealed to metoday.
Everyone, the economies ofheaven and the economies of the
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world, are in directcontradiction to one another.
The thief on the cross, directcontradiction to one another.
The thief on the cross had morefaith than all the apostles.
He had more faith than anyoneon earth.
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That day, the scoundrelprobably a murderer naked,
nailed to a cross With anotherman, their name Jesus, nailed to
a cross, naked, but he isflayed alive.
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His feet be on recognition.
He's shredded.
We took cloths on our imageryand all that.
They were naked.
All their genitals andeverything else just opened to
the world.
The thief on the cross had morefaith than anyone else alive.
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Let's look at the apostles'condition at that moment.
They had fled that.
All the disciples left had fled.
Matthew 25, 56.
They were hiding in fear, forfear of the Jews.
The disciples were behindlocked doors John 20, 19.
Peter denied Jesus three timesLuke 22, 61 and 62.
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None stood at the cross inconfession, except John who was
silent.
At Calvary, the apostles faithfaltered.
They were not publiclyconfessing Jesus' death.
While the apostles doubted, ascoundrel declared this man has
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done nothing wrong.
Luke 23, 41,.
Affirming Christ's innocence.
Jesus remembered me.
Remember me when you come intoyour kingdom.
Jesus, remember me when youcome into your kingdom.
Luke 23, verse 41.
Confessing Christ as king,despite his crucifixion.
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This is staggering.
He saw royalty and a naked mancovered in blood walked and died
.
When God, as a worldly people,as the earthly people in this
world, when Jesus was at hisweakest.
He's not doing miracles, he'snot speaking fancy, he doesn't
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look great when he is at hislowest.
This man believe what no oneelse would.
The apostles saw miracles butstumbled at the cross.
The thief only saw the crossand believed I can't even fathom
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that faith.
I can't even fathom it.
They had no amount oftransfiguration.
The thief had no amount oftransfiguration, no miracles, no
walking on water, noresurrection appearance, yet
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Just the crucified Messiah.
No casting out demons, nohealing.
Blind, deaf, lame, like TomlinHall, he was suffering his own
execution and still looked awayfrom himself and Christ.
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In that moment, the lowlythieves faced the past.
Everyone else is now a hero ofmine, he's now a hero of mine.
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To believe, then, is monstrous,absolutely monstrous.
You know, doubting Thomasbelieves Christ has to see Jesus
in the flesh, put his finger inhis side, touch his hands.
This guy is believing Jesuswhen he is at his lowest.
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So I would answer Mr AlistairBegg's thing.
When he gets to heaven and heasks him well, how'd you get in?
Well, he could say I believedwhat no one else did.
I believe what no one else did.
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I believe what no one else did.
He declared his allegiance.
He believed who Jesus said hewas.
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Why don't we?
Why don't we live like it?
Faith sees beyond circumstances.
Even in defeat, the eyes offaith see victory.
No one is too far gone, acondemned thief, some people say
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Political enemy.
Whatever, there's a lot ofProof that grace is greater Than
the worst.
If he could proclaim crucifiedKing is Lord, jesus, christ is
Lord, how much more should weknow about the resurrection?
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I just I've thought about thatscene multiple times.
Well, tell us your best thingand now tell us what makes the
Bible.
I've thought about that scenemultiple times.
What the hell is the biggestthing?
The hell is what makes theBible miraculous?
The Holy Spirit's somethingthat just comes into place and
it changes everything.
It changes everything.
We're up with John.
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John verse 13.
John writes for assurance.
Eternal life is certain, notguesswork.
Thomas Brooks wrote assuranceis glory in the bud, the flower
before it sprouts.
Write down why you know youbelong to Christ and keep it as
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a battle.
Report 14 and 15.
Confidence and prayer comeswhen it's aligned with God's
will.
God hears and God responds.
When it is aligned with hiswill, not your will.
Prayer is the chief exercise offaith.
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Do it.
Draft a prayer plan anchored inGod's will, revealed in
scripture 16 and 17,.
John distinguishes between twokinds of situations, and this is
that tough bit the tough versesabout the sin leading to death
and the other sin not leading todeath.
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So let's roll up our sleevesand go to work here.
John distinguishes between twokinds of situations.
One is when a brother commits asin that is not leading to
death, meaning sins that, thoughserious, are repented of and do
not represent apostasy.
Believers are commanded tointercede and God grants life.
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The other is the sin leading todeath, which refers to hardened
, unrepentant rejection ofChrist and his gospel.
This is not a stumble, but asettled condition of.
We'll use the LGBTQ as anexample and we'll use adultery
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as another one.
If someone commits adultery andlives in adultery, that is an
unforgivable sin.
If they continue to do it anddon't stop doing it and they
just say, well, jesus willforgive me, that is apostasy.
That is not true.
You are operating outside ofGod's will.
You are not repentant.
You are not doing that.
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Okay.
If you commit adultery, rightand you repent and turn from it
and you know that it's wrong,you're not saying it's not a sin
.
You know like, yeah, I'm goingto have 42 wives and it's all
great.
You know, on and on and on.
If you're acknowledging it's asin and you're repenting of it,
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it's fine.
If you're saying, no, I'm goingto do it my way and you're not
making up your own Christianity.
That's what they're talkingabout there.
Same thing with LGBTQ.
You could have a homosexualrelationship and read the Bible,
be convicted of it, repent ofit and be saved.
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Or you can sit there and saylove is love and deny what the
Bible says and you'll burn forit.
I want a small clarification.
Not every sin is equal, whileall sin deserves judgment.
John recognizes the distinctionbetween sins that can be
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restored through repentance andprayer and the sin of final
apostasy, which rejects the onlysacrifice for sins.
Examples in Scripture Hebrews 6, 4-6 describes those who fall
away after tasting the truth.
They cannot be restored becausethey crucify the Son of God
afresh.
They walk away from the faith.
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Matthew 12, 31-32 warns againstthe blasphemy of the Spirit,
rejecting the Spirit's testimonyof Christ, attributing what God
does to the enemy.
Acts 5, 1-11 shows Ananias andSapphira judged instantly struck
dead.
A warning of God's holiness.
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1 Corinthians 11, 29-30 recordsbelievers judged with illness
and death for abusing the Lord'sSupper.
Sin to death is understood bymost reformed tradition and the
reformed tradition as persistent, deliberate rejection of Christ
, final impermanence or apostasy.
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It is not a single act ofweakness, but a willingful
turning away from God tosomething else, a false idol, to
paraphrase John Owens.
Owen, there is no greater follyin the world than for a man to
provoke God to depart from him.
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So what do we do with this?
For prayer, we pray boldly forrepentant restoration.
When you see brothers stumbling, your intercession is
battlefield triage, calling inheavy artillery strikes, pulling
them back to life.
For warning if someone persistsin rejecting Christ despite
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light and grace, warn themsoberly.
Recognize the danger of themhardening into apostasy.
Fight yourself, guard yourheart daily with repentance and
humility.
Keep short accounts with God,confess quickly and fight
against drifting.
Almost done.
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18.
Born again.
Do not live in unrepentant sin.
Christ guards them.
Satan cannot lay claim.
Proverbs 18.10 states the nameof the Lord is a strong tower,
the righteous one.
To it.
Enter safe.
Establish guardrails,accountability, scripture,
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memory, memorized scripture andpractical safeguards to keep
yourself from going falling intounrepentant sin.
Verse 19, two kingdoms, gods andevil ones.
The world lies passively underSatan's sway.
Martin Luther wrote though thisworld with devils filled, we
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will not fear.
Stop expecting worldly applause.
Train your household forresistance.
Number 20 written there the sungrants understanding.
So believers know the true God.
Christ is identified as God,true and eternal life.
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Athanasius said the Son is trueGod.
And true God Catechized herfamily on Christ weekly.
Finally, verse 21.
God here means constant watchagainst idols.
Idols in Eph, emphasis, werevisible.
Ours may be invisible.
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Comfort, control and evenministry can be idols.
And John Kelp said the humanheart is a perpetual factory of
idols.
We have to fight it witheverything we have.
So what do we do?
Conduct an idle sweep, examinetime, money, media ambitions and
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purge or support so as ourfinal charge stand in assurance,
purchased by Christ, operate onGod's testimony, pray with
parrhesia, rescue the straying,hold the ground under the king's
protection, confess the son istrue God and keep constant watch
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against idols.
To the king, eternal, mortal,invisible and only God, forever
and ever, amen.
So we're going to go ahead anddo the Lord's Supper.
This is for baptized believersonly.
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Examination 1 Corinthians 11.
But a man must test himself indoing so using either the bread
or the cup Before he partake.
Let us quietly bow before theKing of glory.
Let each man, woman and youngboy in here search his heart or
her heart.
Go ahead, bow your head.
Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,
amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,
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amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,amen, amen, amen.
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Amen.
Almighty God, sovereign, lord ofhosts, we approach your table
today not because we are worthy,but because Christ is worthy.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but clinging to
the righteousness of JesusChrist alone.
We remember his body broken,his blood poured out for the new
covenant.
We bow in humble gratitude.
(55:06):
We lift our hearts in reverentawe.
Sanctify this bread and thiscup and sanctify us, your people
, as we proclaim the death,resurrection and coming kingdom
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray in his mighty andmatchless name Amen.
1 Corinthians, 11, 11, 23-24.
(55:26):
The Lord Jesus, in the night inwhich he was being betrayed,
took bread and when he had giventhanks, he broke it and said
this is my body, which is foryou.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisbody, pierced, beaten and
sacrificed for you.
Let us partake of the breadtogether and remember Jesus
Christ broke your body for us.
(55:46):
Go ahead, nate.
In the same way, he took thecup after supper, saying the cup
is the new covenant of my blood.
Do this as often as you drinkin remembrance of me.
(56:08):
Remember this symbolizes hisblood, the blood that purchased
our forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let's partake of the cuptogether.
Remember Christ's blood pouredout for us.
Go ahead and drink, for asoften as you drink of this bread
, or eat of this bread and drinkof the cup, you proclaim the
(56:29):
death of the Lord until he comes.
By this eating and drinking, wepublicly proclaim Christ has
died, christ has risen, christwill come again.
We are his soldiers in hiseverlasting kingdom.
Good, good, good Bryce,heavenly Father, we thank you
(56:50):
for the gift of assurancethrough your Son Jesus Christ.
Strengthen our faith that wemay overcome the world.
Keep us steadfast in prayer,bold in confession and vigilant
against idols.
Fill our homes, our church andour lives with witness of the
spirit, the water and the blood.
As we march forward, may we doas warriors equipped with truth,
(57:11):
love and courage, and may theGod of peace himself sanctify
you entirely and may your spiritand soul and body be preserved,
complete, without blame, in thecoming of our Lord Jesus Christ
.
Faithful is he who calls youand he also will bring it to
pass.
Amen.
God bless you.
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