September 5, 2025 • 58 mins
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Truth and love must work in tandem for Christians to stand against deception in today's world, with no compromise on essential doctrines, while showing authentic care for those who struggle as shown in 2 John
• Walking in truth means taking God's word as authoritative and reliable
• Love is defined biblically as obedience to God's commandments, not affirmation of whatever people desire
• Christians must guard against deceivers who distort the gospel message
• Face-to-face fellowship strengthens believers against isolation and false teaching
• Five modern heresies undermining churches: denial of Scripture's authority, prosperity gospel, redefinition of Christ, sexual revolution theology, and universalism
• The church must maintain clear boundaries on essential doctrines while showing compassion
• Catechizing households helps establish biblical foundations in families
• Hospitality has biblical limits - we should not platform those who actively undermine Christ's teaching
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Good morning to you, happyLord's Day.
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So now you guys heard all that.
That's behind the scenes.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission.
Happy Lord's Day to you.
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Hope you had a great week and Ihope you, like us, are in the
end of summer, the beginning offall.
70-degree days and 50-degreenights are coming this week.
Praise the Lord, praise theLord, praise the Lord.
I love me some fall.
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Fall is my favorite time ofyear, my favorite weather.
Sweatshirt, sweatpants, weather, nothing like it, nothing like
it.
So I hope it's cooling offwhere you are as well as it is
here.
I mean, I can't believe I'msaying this in August, but I'm
sure we'll get one more week ofreally hot weather in September
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or something.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission Home church.
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effect.
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Or else it looks like I'mfloating.
There you go, good enough, toomuch, you need the tabletop.
Or else it looks like I'mfloating.
No, there you go.
Good enough, we'll fix it fornext week.
Work in progress.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission, a home church,
community ministry and farmforging Christian Warriors for
today's challenges.
Here we forge men and familiesinto battle-ready disciples of
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King Jesus, locking shields andadvancing on every front so
Christ is honored, his peopleare protected and his kingdom
surges into every sphere of life.
Advance on every front, everyday, no excuses, no retreats.
I hope you guys have beencatching our daily Battle, bible
Study, which starts usually at7 am, monday through Friday,
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with some exceptions, but therewe go through one chapter a day
and we fight three battles.
We fight to get a humble andgrateful heart aligned unto the
Lord.
Two, we fight to deliberatelypursue a relationship with our
Creator by studying His HolyScripture and through prayer.
And three, we fight for eachother by locking our shields of
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faith over one another andinvesting each other in each
other's lives.
We also are doing the 91-DayChallenge over on Patreon.
It's just a way to have morecontrol over there, but you can
join.
It's the 91-Day Challenge.
You can join at any time.
It's just a way to have morecontrol over there, but you can
join.
It's the 91-Day Challenge.
You can join at any time.
It's really a way of life andevery day you just log what you
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do in the seven battlefields offaith, family, fitness, finances
, fundamentals, fellowship andfidelity and you just put what
you did and then every day youkeep racking up score in each
one of those categories and atthe end of 91 days you will be
in a completely different partof your life.
I know for me I am doing reallywell on my faith, my family, my
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fitness and my fellowship andmy fidelity.
My finances and my fundamentalsare still struggling a little
bit, but everywhere else it'sbeen great.
Life in the gym has been great.
Of course, I'm just coming offa 15-day regimen of prednisone
so all my joints felt like theywere 18 years old again, so
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that's going to come to an end,but I really enjoyed feeling
good for a while.
We also are catechizing, so weare going to be on week three,
so we kind of restarted.
We got this and we were goingand then we started the
challenge and I wanted thechallenge to line up and I
figured, why not, we'll restart.
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So technically we're on weekthree and I'm going to review
those three, okay.
So here we go.
Catechism is an organized wayto know your faith.
We're going to talk about ittoday in 2 John Boy.
We're getting close to the endhere.
You know we only have 3, johnand Jude, and then we're in the
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book of Revelation and thenwe're done.
You know that's a pretty bigmilestone for this church.
You know we started at Matthew1 in the New Testament.
Actually, we started in Genesisand then jumped to Matthew 1
and have gone our whole waythrough and it's a pretty big
deal.
So we're going to be great oncewe wrap it up and to start over
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.
And that's where the truth goes, because now, once we've
covered it all, you know Ireally want to drill down and
maybe not cover as much, not awhole chapter, maybe just
specific verses and reallydeeply unpack them.
So all right.
So our catechisms.
One first question Warrior, whatis your life?
And the answer to that is toglorify God, honoring and
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exalting in him forever.
Warrior, what is your life Toglorify God, honoring and
exalting in him forever?
Last one Warrior.
What is your life?
To glorify God, honor andexalting in him forever?
Two Warrior whom do you serve?
Answer I serve the Lord ofhosts, father, son and Holy
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Spirit, the one true God, mycreator, redeemer, sustainer and
eternal king.
Warrior.
Who do you serve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son, holy Spirit, the
one true God, my creator, theone true God, my creator,
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redeemer, sustainer and eternalking.
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.
And then, warrior who is thefather.
Warrior, the first person of theTrinity eternal, unbegotten,
infinite in wisdom, power andlove, creator of all and source
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of every grace.
Warrior who is the Father, thefirst person, of the Trinity
eternal, unbegotten, infinite inwisdom, power and love, creator
of all and source of everygrace.
Finally, warrior who is theFather of every grace.
Finally, warrior who is thefather, the first person, of the
Trinity eternal, unbegotten,infinite in wisdom, power and
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love, creator of all and sourceof every grace.
All right, that is the threeyou need to memorize this week.
Let's go ahead and bring it toprayer and get started.
Let's pray.
Lord of hosts, commander ofheaven's armies, fix our feet on
your word.
Forge us into a union of truthand love.
Give us steel in our spine toresist deceivers, tenderness in
our hands to shepherd the weak,and unity in our ranks to stand
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the line For Jesus' gloryforever.
Amen.
We also do the Lord's Supper.
I taught it last week.
This week.
I'll just read it If you'rewondering where to find it.
It's Matthew 6, 9 through 13.
And this is a model prayer Ifyou want to know how to pray.
No one prays better than Jesus.
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He said to pray that in thisway.
Our Father is in, who is inheaven.
Hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done on earth asit is in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven ourdebtors.
And do not lead us intemptation, but deliver us from
the evil one, for yours is thekingdom and the power and the
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glory forever.
Amen, all right.
Him in the power and the gloryforever.
Amen, all right.
The title of this sermon isobviously.
We're in 2 John, and the goodnews for some of you is that
this is short.
It's only 13 verses.
I think that's the shortestsermon I'd be doing.
I've done so far 13 verses andit's only one letter.
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It's a real short letter andthis is the truth and love on
the battlefield Truth and loveon the battlefield.
The church stands or fallswhether she walks in truth and
love and refuses quarter todeceivers, strengthening
face-to-face fellowship for joy.
That is a biblical antidote fortoday's five corrosive heresies
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.
Because this was so short, Ifigured why not at this point?
We're going to cover five,because in John second John
you're going to see again hewarns against deceivers.
So I picked the top fiveheresies of today that are
pushed out there that distortChristianity in some way and
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lead people to doom.
Okay, so we're going to addressthose, but first let's get into
2 John.
All right, the first thing weneed to know is this was written
by the Apostle John and he iswriting as the elder, the same
voice and vocabulary as 1 Johnand the gospel.
The themes are truth, love,abide, commandments and
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antichrist.
The date is 85 to 95 AD, late1st century, likely after the
gospel in 1 John, when John hasadvanced in years.
He wrote this in Ephesus, aRoman province of Asia and is
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the traditional center ofJohannine ministry.
I hope I said that right.
2 John fits a network ofchurches across Asia Minor.
The recipients of this are theelect lady.
Now we've got to figure outwhat that means and we'll read
that here in a second.
But to the chosen, the lady andher children has two plausible
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meanings A godly woman in herhousehold or, you know, hosting
a house church, or a localchurch personified, as the lady
and her children are members.
Either way.
The letter targets householdand church life, doctrine,
hospitality and boundaries.
Some things to understand.
Early Christian missionsdepended on itinerant teachers
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and the hospitality of homes.
There were very few hotels.
Everyone was poor, sohospitality was huge and homes
were almost all the churches inearly in first century church.
You're looking at what thechurches looked like.
They were homes like this.
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This is my two car garageconverted into a sanctuary.
Okay, john warns in this, asyou'll see many deceivers who do
not confess Jesus Christ comingin the flesh.
All right, and we'll unpack therest of that, I think, later.
I just have my notes a littlebit.
So important things to realizeabout the political and
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religious climate, the imperialcult this was emperor worship of
Caesar.
It was strong in Asia Inrefusal to participate, marked
Christians as socially suspectfor rejecting idols.
Persecution was localized,sporadic but real.
Ongoing.
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Synagogue and church separationincreased tensions from the
Jews and the ChristiansIncreased tension.
Christians were losing socialand legal cover once afforded to
Jews.
The church is thus underexternal pressure, imperial
piety and internal infiltration,false teachers.
John addresses the internalthreat.
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So the church doesn't collapsefrom within.
So the church doesn't collapsefrom within.
The church life and structureswere small, familial, family
churches Wow, I'm having a hardtime speaking today and they
were fragile.
Leaders literally guarded thedoors and had to doctrinally
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guard them.
Guard them from people comingin, so from persecution and
attack, and from people comingin and bringing in false gospel.
A public reading of letters,face-to-face oversight mattered.
John prefers embodied presencefor joy, unity and discipline.
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So let's go ahead and let's getinto it.
2 John, verse 1.
The elder to the chosen ladyand her children, whom I love in
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truth, and not only I, but alsoall who know the truth, verse
4,.
I rejoice greatly to find someof your children walking in
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truth, just as we receivedcommandment to do from the
Father.
Now I ask you, lady, not asthough I were writing to you a
new commandment, but the onewhich we have had from the
beginning that we love oneanother and this is love.
That we walk according to hiscommandments.
This is the commandment, justas you have heard from the
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beginning, that you should walkin it.
Beginning up in verse 7, formany deceivers have gone out
into the world, those who do notconfess Jesus Christ is coming
in the flesh.
This is the deceiver and theAntichrist.
Watch yourselves that you donot lose what you have
accomplished, but that you mayreceive a full reward.
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Anyone who goes too far anddoes not remain in the teaching
of Christ does not have God.
Those who remain in histeaching, he has both the Father
and the Son.
So I'm going to read that againIf anyone comes to you and does
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not bring this teaching, do notreceive him into your house and
do not give him greeting, forthe one who gives him greeting
participates in his evil deeds.
And then verse 12, though Ihave many things to write to you
, I do not want to do so withpaper and ink, but I hope to
come to you and speak face toface so that your joy may be
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made complete.
And speak face to face so thatyour joy may be made complete.
The children of your chosensister greet you All right, so
again, very short and pointed inat least two places.
So let's talk about verses 1through 6.
Love and truth.
John repeats truth, becausetruth is not a mood, its reality
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is.
God defines it, embodied inChrist.
Now let me say that again.
In our society today, peoplehave their truth.
No, there is not your truth andmy truth.
Truth is reality as God definesit.
That is truth.
No, there is not your truth andmy truth.
Truth is reality as God definesit.
That is truth.
Your feelings aren't truth.
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Your feelings aren't truth.
You may feel like a unicorn.
You are not a unicorn you mayfeel.
My daughter pretends that she'sa horse one day, a cow the next
day, a kitty the next day and adog the next day.
That doesn't make her those.
What is she?
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She is a woman, a girl, afemale okay, a female human.
She doesn't get to choose whatshe wants.
Reality is as God defines it,embodied in Christ.
Grace, mercy and peace in truthand love.
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Gospel benefits.
Flow along the tracks of truth,not sentiment.
No truth, no grace.
If you are lying to God.
He knows that there's no gracethere.
You know, everyone's like.
I was talking to somebody todaywho was Christian, curious and
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talking about truths.
I don't think I'm going to gointo it.
I don't want to break thatconfidence.
I'm going to leave that whereit is at.
So, again, gospel flows alongthe tracks of truth.
No truth, no grace.
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One of the things I will talkabout is a hypothetical of what
happens if a murderer, or whatif Hitler, at the last moment,
turned to Jesus and repented.
Would he be saved?
Well, if he meant it?
Maybe Possibly, according tothe gospel?
Yes, would he be saved?
Well, if he meant it.
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Maybe possibly according to thegospel.
Yes, if we understand itclearly.
But could he?
Would he, and what do you meanit?
Would it be fire insurance?
All of us are counting on thatgrace.
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All of us are counting on thatgrace.
All of us are counting on if wetruly repent, turn and believe
that we will be saved.
So, yeah, if a murderer was toturn and repent and believe as
what some people call the thiefon the cross, he's the standard,
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but I believe that no one onearth has as much faith as the
thief on the cross.
So if you think you can have asmuch faith as him, good luck to
you.
I don't think anyone did, doesor has so.
Walking in truth, the Christianlife is a march, not a couch.
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If you're sitting on your couchnot serving anyone and you're
just going about your lifestumbling through it, bumbling
through it, without trying tohelp anyone else, you're not
doing it right and you may noteven be saved.
You're called to be a light inthis world.
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You are called to be a catalystfor change in people's lives.
See a need, you meet it.
That's what you're to be.
It's a march, not a couch.
This is love that we walkaccording to His commandments.
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Love is an aimless affirmation.
Love is obedience.
God does not separate what wekeep trying to pry apart.
So here's your takeaway If yourlove requires you to disobey
scripture, it isn't love.
It's treason dressed astenderness.
How often do we see this whenwe go and affirm things and we
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say, oh, love is love.
I'm about to dive into thathere with both hands.
The Bible tells us what is sinand what is not.
Disobey that at your own peril.
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The Perimeter Against Deceiversin verses 7-11.
Many deceivers who do notconfess Jesus Christ are coming
in the flesh.
First century docetism I saidthis three times before.
I swear my tongue does not wantto work there.
Docetism Denied the realhumanity of Christ.
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John calls such teachersantichrist because they oppose
the true Christ.
Watch yourselves Securityposture, complacency loses
ground already won.
Watch yourselves tells you tobe on guard.
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And then we heard the words gotoo far in verse 9.
Runs ahead, so-called progressthat leaves Christ's teaching
behind.
John renders the verdict thatthere is no God in that.
And then, lastly, thesurprising one Do not receive
him, nor give him greeting In ahouse, church, world.
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Receiving a teacher meantplatforming them.
Giving him food, bed and apulpit To host a false teacher
is to aid in his war against theflock.
That's complicity.
The takeaway hospitality isholy.
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We are to give it, but never towolves.
Mercy to the struggling, noquarter to deceivers.
And then the last two verses,12 and 13,.
You see, john prefersface-to-face to paper and ink or
digital, because embodiedpresent fortifies joy, unity and
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discipline.
Lone wolves get picked off,shield walls hold together.
So let's refute the fiveheresies of today.
Anyone who goes too far and doesnot remain in his teaching,
christ does not have God, inverse 9.
Remaining in the teaching ofChrist means staying under
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apostolic scripture.
Every heresy below is a refusalto remain in that.
First is denial of scripture'sauthority.
This is progressiveChristianity and liberalism.
The Bible contains truth, but itisn't the truth.
We must update it with modernlove.
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You know God is love, love,love, love.
God is holy, holy, holy John'sanswer in verse 6.
He defines love as obeyingGod's commandments.
You cannot weaponize love tooverthrow God's word and forbids
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running ahead of Christ'steaching.
Progress that contradictsScripture is apostasy, not
maturity.
We see this in 2 Timothy 3,16-17.
All Scripture is God-breathedin them and that the man of God
may be equipped, not some, notwhen it fits.
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John 10.35,.
Scripture cannot be broken.
Matthew 5.18,.
Not one iota passes away untilall is accomplished.
Confessional wisdom in theWestminster Confession 1.6
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summarized Scripture issufficient for God's glory,
man's salvation, faith and life.
Why this heresy kills.
When feelings become canon,christ's crown is removed and
handed to the mob.
Let me say that again whenfeelings become the canon,
christ's crown is removed andhanded to the mob.
Mission becomes moral fashion,holiness becomes harm.
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God is too stern, god is toohard.
What you have no idea, what youeven are, how depraved you are,
how good he is.
You have an inflated opinion ofyourself and you have no idea
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who God is.
What do we do with this?
What's our response?
You catechize your household,as we are.
You teach literal text andcontext.
There are lines in the Biblethat are poetry and are meant to
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be taken and applied in loftyways, and then there are things
that are meant to be takenliteral, teach literal text in
context.
And then, anytime somebody asksyou for something, require
chapter and verse.
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This is like somebody coming upto you on the front lines of
the battle and changing thebattle plan and you're like let
me see those orders, I want tosee those.
Give me the orders, I want tosee them.
If we're going to attacksomewhere where we're not
supposed to attack, I need tosee the orders.
The next we're going to talkabout is a popular one.
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This is the prosperity gospel.
God wants you to live in thebest you.
He wants you to have a Ferrari.
He wants you to have that bighouse on the hill.
He wants you to have all thisstuff.
He wants you to have a biggerbank account and send it all
here.
Right the lie Faith is a leverto get cash, comfort and
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constant healing.
John's answer verse 8, speaksof a future full reward, not
guaranteed present luxury.
The New Testament normalizessuffering now, glory later.
I'm sorry, but when I read theNew Testament I don't see a
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bunch of rich people runningaround having a great time.
I see a bunch of Christians whoare suffering and fighting for
survival, persecuted, hunted.
I don't see anyone rolling intheir chariots and carts and in
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their.
I don't see any of that.
I see them all penniless.
And these were Jesus' bestfriends.
So you think he wants you to berolling in your grind culture?
We see this in Philippians 1.29,granted not only to believe but
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also to suffer.
Luke 9.23, deny yourself.
Take up your cross daily.
2 Corinthians 12, 7-10,.
Paul's thorn in his sideremains.
Christ's power is made perfectin weakness.
This is so true.
Why does God always pick theweakest people to be his
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champions?
Because God is glorified inyour weakness.
It's obviously him, then, andnot you.
Stuttering Moses could never beaccused of being a great orator
, but with God he could be.
Tiny little David, up againstGoliath, could never beat him
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unless God was with him.
Hebrews 11 faithful saints,destitute, afflicted,
ill-treated, still calledvictorious.
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Here's why this heresy kills.
It manufactures consumers.
Consumer Christianity come in.
Where's my child care?
It manufactures consumers.
Consumer Christianity Come in.
Where's my childcare?
Where's my coffee?
Where's my food?
What's the Wi-Fi password?
That is the church today.
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It's not coming in the door.
What can I help?
Just let me be served, insteadof being the servant.
When bullets fly, prosperity,converts break and run the
warrior response.
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Preach the cost of discipleship.
Celebrate perseverance undertrials.
Give testimonies of faithfulendurance, not just
breakthroughs.
All right, now we got the thirdone, the third heresy, the
redefinition of Christ,christless Christianity.
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Jesus is a moral teacher or asocial activist, not the God-man
who saves.
John answers this in verse 7,names deniers of the incarnation
as deceivers and antichrists.
Verse 9, refusing the teachingof Christ is not having God.
The biblical case for this inJohn 1.14.
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The word was God and becameflesh.
Colossians 2.9.
In him all the fullness ofdeity dwells bodily.
And in 1 Timothy 2.5, onemediator, the man, jesus Christ.
Lastly, 1 John 4.2-3.
Confessing Jesus come in theflesh is the Spirit's test.
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So one true man can atone forman, oh sorry.
Only a true man can atone forman.
Only true God can bear theinfinite wrath and conquer death
.
Deny either nature and you losesalvation.
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Let me say that again.
Only a true man can atone forman.
Only true God can bear theinfinite wrath and conquer death
.
Man had to atone for man, butonly God could handle paying for
all sin for all time.
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The warrior's response to thisis teach the Chalcedonian
confession in plain language oneperson, two natures, without
confusion or division.
That's Christ.
Demand, christ-centeredpreaching that exalts his person
and work.
Look in 1 Corinthians 2.
Now the fourth heresy thesexual revolution, theology,
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lgbtq++++++, satanic alphabetsoup affirmation, gender
redefinition, the lie.
Love is love.
Love means affirming whateveridentity and desire someone
claims.
John's answer to this is verse6.
Love equals obedience to thecommandments, not to the
culture's cravings.
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Verse 9.
Progress beyond Christ'steaching on creation and
marriage is not of god.
Verses 10 and 11 do notplatform teachers who deny god's
sexual ethics, and aiding themparticipates in their evil.
All you churches fly on rainbowflags.
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Shame on you.
You will be judged and, most ofall, go back up to the
scripture here for a second.
Where is it?
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I lost it.
Come on, there we go.
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Verse 2, for the sake of truthwhich abides in us, will be with
us forever.
Who am I love in truth in verse1.
Walking in truth, verse 4.
Truth, truth, truth, truth allover truth.
Without truth there is nothing.
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Marriage is between a man and awoman.
There are two genders, male andfemale, period.
So let's get back to thatobedience to the commandments,
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not cultural craving, progressbeyond.
Okay, cover that.
Genesis 127 and 224.
God created male and femalemarriages.
One man, one woman, one flesh.
Matthew 19, 4 through 6.
Jesus reaffirms Genesis, notRome's or today's fashions.
Romans 12, 1.24-27.
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Homosexual practice sits on thecatalog of exchange worship.
It is not righteous identity,it is a sin.
It is a sin, sin, sin, sin, sin.
1 Corinthians 6, 9-11.
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Such were some of you, but youwere washed.
The gospel saves and reformssinners.
It does not rubber stamp sin.
Okay, so what do we do?
We must understand that thosewho are seeking to be better
strugglers, who repent, belongin the family.
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We will help them, we willguard them, we will disciple
them.
But teachers who celebratesexual rebellion must not be
platformed.
Compassion for the wounded doesnot mean commissioning the
wolves.
So our response as warriors isto teach God's design positively
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and early in the home.
And then, of course, everychurch should institute a
membership confession thatclearly affirms biblical sex and
marriage.
Protect the flock.
Do background checks policies.
Protect your family.
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Lastly, universalism orinclusivism All religions lead
to heaven.
It's all the same.
God right, a loving God, won'tjudge sincere people who are
saved without Christ.
Verse 9,.
Remaining in Christ's teachingis required to have God.
Another path rejects the Sonand loses the Father.
Verse 9,.
Verse 10 and 11, verse 10 and11, john 14.6,.
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Acts 4.12,.
Matthew 7.13-23,.
The narrow gate.
Many who say Lord, lord, areunknown to Christ.
Hebrews 9.27,.
It is appointed to die once andafter this comes judgment.
Revelation 20.11-15,.
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The great white throne, namesnot in the book of life are
judged.
Why this heresy kills.
If everyone is saved, the crossis pointless.
Missions die, holinessevaporates the warrior's
response.
Preach repentance, faith clearlysend in, support evangelism
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with urgency and refuseChristianity without conversion.
So some church's gatekeeping, aplaybook we came up with.
Know who is Jesus, fully Godand fully man.
What is scripture?
God breathed, final authority.
What is the gospel?
Substitutionary atonement,resurrection, repentance and
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faith.
What is holiness?
Sexual ethics per Genesis 1-2,1 Corinthians 6,.
Hebrews 13-4.
What is the way of salvation?
Christ alone In your household.
Audit media and curriculumquarterly.
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Teach children the Apostles'Creed, ten Commandments and key
texts.
Practice family worship.
We must care for strugglers.
In Galatians 6, restore themwith gentleness, accountability
and discipleship.
In wolves we must warn and thenavoid no platform given.
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So I challenge you this week tomemorize 2 John 6 and 9 through
11.
Define love biblically in 30seconds Some quotes to think
about.
Athanasius said he became whatwe are, that he might make us
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what he is.
Calvin said love is not lawless, it is guided by truth.
And Luther said I will nottrust my heart or wisdom one
hair's breadth without the wordof God.
And then Spurgeon saidDiscernment is not a matter of
telling the difference betweenright and wrong.
Rather, there's a differencebetween right and almost right.
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So church, truth and love arenot opponents.
They are your right and lefthand.
Like them, hold the lineagainst the five lies of our age
.
Strengthen your homes, guardyour pulpits, build face-to-face
fellowship.
The king is not wringing hishands.
He reigns March.
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Let's pray for a moment here.
King Jesus, anchor us in yourtruth and inflame us with your
love.
Expose deceivers, heal thebroken, embolden the saints.
Make our home citadels, ourchurch a shield wall and our
witness a clear trumpet blast.
Keep us from running beyondyour teaching.
Keep us abiding in you.
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Amen, alright, we're going todo the Lord's Supper now.
1 Corinthians 11-28,.
Sorry, but a man must testhimself and in doing so he is to
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eat of the bread and drink ofthe cup.
No-transcript.
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Sanctify this bread and thiscup and sanctify us, your people
, as we proclaim the death,resurrection, the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray in his mighty,matchless name Amen.
1 Corinthians 11, 23 through 24says the Lord Jesus, on the
night in which he was beingbetrayed, took bread and when he
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had given thanks, he broke itand said this is my body, which
is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisbody, pierced, beaten and
sacrificed for you.
Let us partake of the breadtogether and remember Christ's
body broken for us.
Go ahead and eat the same way.
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He took the cup also aftersupper, saying this cup is the
new covenant in my blood.
Do this as often as you drinkit in remembrance of me.
Saying this cup is the newcovenant in my blood.
Do this as often as you drinkit in remembrance of me.
This symbolizes his blood, theblood that purchased our
forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let us partake of this cuptogether and remember Christ's
blood poured out for us.
Go ahead and drink.
For as long as you eat thisbread and drink the cup, you
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proclaim the death of the Lorduntil 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.
Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank youfor the gift and assurance
through your son, jesus Christ,strengthening our faith that we
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may overcome this world.
Keep us steadfast in prayer,bold in confession and vigilant
against idols.
Fill our homes, our church andour lives with witness from the
Spirit, the water and the blood.
As we march forward, may we doso as warriors equipped with
truth, love and courage.
Now may the God of peacehimself sanctify you entirely
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and may your spirit and soul andbody be preserved, complete,
without blame, at the coming ofour Lord Jesus.
Faithful is he who calls youand he will also bring it to
pass.
In Jesus' name we pray Amen.
God bless you.
See you tomorrow at 7 am.
no-transcript, that is, I look really short.
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That's not saying much.
Oh, thanks, that's not sayingmuch.
Come on, five nine is not short, but yeah, holy smokes.
All right, I'm going to have toadjust that angle down next
time, especially by keeping theanvil up here.
You're only seeing like that,that's all right.
Good morning to you, happyLord's Day.
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We're doing a sound check.
Let's see here.
Keeping the anvil up here, okay, alright.
So now you guys heard all that.
That's behind the scenes.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission.
Happy Lord's Day to you.
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Hope you had a great week and Ihope you, like us, are in the
end of summer, the beginning offall.
70-degree days and 50-degreenights are coming this week.
Praise the Lord, praise theLord, praise the Lord.
I love me some fall.
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Fall is my favorite time ofyear, my favorite weather.
Sweatshirt, sweatpants, weather, nothing like it, nothing like
it.
So I hope it's cooling offwhere you are as well as it is
here.
I mean, I can't believe I'msaying this in August, but I'm
sure we'll get one more week ofreally hot weather in September
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or something.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission Home church.
Yes, please, yes, okay,lauren's going to adjust this
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effect.
Okay, adjust this effect.
Can I go like this?
Okay, that's better, I guess.
Can you get the table?
Whoa, too much, you need thetabletop.
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Or else it looks like I'mfloating.
There you go, good enough, toomuch, you need the tabletop.
Or else it looks like I'mfloating.
No, there you go.
Good enough, we'll fix it fornext week.
Work in progress.
Welcome to Christian WarriorMission, a home church,
community ministry and farmforging Christian Warriors for
today's challenges.
Here we forge men and familiesinto battle-ready disciples of
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King Jesus, locking shields andadvancing on every front so
Christ is honored, his peopleare protected and his kingdom
surges into every sphere of life.
Advance on every front, everyday, no excuses, no retreats.
I hope you guys have beencatching our daily Battle, bible
Study, which starts usually at7 am, monday through Friday,
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with some exceptions, but therewe go through one chapter a day
and we fight three battles.
We fight to get a humble andgrateful heart aligned unto the
Lord.
Two, we fight to deliberatelypursue a relationship with our
Creator by studying His HolyScripture and through prayer.
And three, we fight for eachother by locking our shields of
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faith over one another andinvesting each other in each
other's lives.
We also are doing the 91-DayChallenge over on Patreon.
It's just a way to have morecontrol over there, but you can
join.
It's the 91-Day Challenge.
You can join at any time.
It's just a way to have morecontrol over there, but you can
join.
It's the 91-Day Challenge.
You can join at any time.
It's really a way of life andevery day you just log what you
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do in the seven battlefields offaith, family, fitness, finances
, fundamentals, fellowship andfidelity and you just put what
you did and then every day youkeep racking up score in each
one of those categories and atthe end of 91 days you will be
in a completely different partof your life.
I know for me I am doing reallywell on my faith, my family, my
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fitness and my fellowship andmy fidelity.
My finances and my fundamentalsare still struggling a little
bit, but everywhere else it'sbeen great.
Life in the gym has been great.
Of course, I'm just coming offa 15-day regimen of prednisone
so all my joints felt like theywere 18 years old again, so
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that's going to come to an end,but I really enjoyed feeling
good for a while.
We also are catechizing, so weare going to be on week three,
so we kind of restarted.
We got this and we were goingand then we started the
challenge and I wanted thechallenge to line up and I
figured, why not, we'll restart.
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So technically we're on weekthree and I'm going to review
those three, okay.
So here we go.
Catechism is an organized wayto know your faith.
We're going to talk about ittoday in 2 John Boy.
We're getting close to the endhere.
You know we only have 3, johnand Jude, and then we're in the
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book of Revelation and thenwe're done.
You know that's a pretty bigmilestone for this church.
You know we started at Matthew1 in the New Testament.
Actually, we started in Genesisand then jumped to Matthew 1
and have gone our whole waythrough and it's a pretty big
deal.
So we're going to be great oncewe wrap it up and to start over
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.
And that's where the truth goes, because now, once we've
covered it all, you know Ireally want to drill down and
maybe not cover as much, not awhole chapter, maybe just
specific verses and reallydeeply unpack them.
So all right.
So our catechisms.
One first question Warrior, whatis your life?
And the answer to that is toglorify God, honoring and
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exalting in him forever.
Warrior, what is your life Toglorify God, honoring and
exalting in him forever?
Last one Warrior.
What is your life?
To glorify God, honor andexalting in him forever?
Two Warrior whom do you serve?
Answer I serve the Lord ofhosts, father, son and Holy
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Spirit, the one true God, mycreator, redeemer, sustainer and
eternal king.
Warrior.
Who do you serve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son, holy Spirit, the
one true God, my creator, theone true God, my creator,
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redeemer, sustainer and eternalking.
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.
And then, warrior who is thefather.
Warrior, the first person of theTrinity eternal, unbegotten,
infinite in wisdom, power andlove, creator of all and source
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of every grace.
Warrior who is the Father, thefirst person, of the Trinity
eternal, unbegotten, infinite inwisdom, power and love, creator
of all and source of everygrace.
Finally, warrior who is theFather of every grace.
Finally, warrior who is thefather, the first person, of the
Trinity eternal, unbegotten,infinite in wisdom, power and
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love, creator of all and sourceof every grace.
All right, that is the threeyou need to memorize this week.
Let's go ahead and bring it toprayer and get started.
Let's pray.
Lord of hosts, commander ofheaven's armies, fix our feet on
your word.
Forge us into a union of truthand love.
Give us steel in our spine toresist deceivers, tenderness in
our hands to shepherd the weak,and unity in our ranks to stand
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the line For Jesus' gloryforever.
Amen.
We also do the Lord's Supper.
I taught it last week.
This week.
I'll just read it If you'rewondering where to find it.
It's Matthew 6, 9 through 13.
And this is a model prayer Ifyou want to know how to pray.
No one prays better than Jesus.
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He said to pray that in thisway.
Our Father is in, who is inheaven.
Hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done on earth asit is in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven ourdebtors.
And do not lead us intemptation, but deliver us from
the evil one, for yours is thekingdom and the power and the
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glory forever.
Amen, all right.
Him in the power and the gloryforever.
Amen, all right.
The title of this sermon isobviously.
We're in 2 John, and the goodnews for some of you is that
this is short.
It's only 13 verses.
I think that's the shortestsermon I'd be doing.
I've done so far 13 verses andit's only one letter.
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It's a real short letter andthis is the truth and love on
the battlefield Truth and loveon the battlefield.
The church stands or fallswhether she walks in truth and
love and refuses quarter todeceivers, strengthening
face-to-face fellowship for joy.
That is a biblical antidote fortoday's five corrosive heresies
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.
Because this was so short, Ifigured why not at this point?
We're going to cover five,because in John second John
you're going to see again hewarns against deceivers.
So I picked the top fiveheresies of today that are
pushed out there that distortChristianity in some way and
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lead people to doom.
Okay, so we're going to addressthose, but first let's get into
2 John.
All right, the first thing weneed to know is this was written
by the Apostle John and he iswriting as the elder, the same
voice and vocabulary as 1 Johnand the gospel.
The themes are truth, love,abide, commandments and
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antichrist.
The date is 85 to 95 AD, late1st century, likely after the
gospel in 1 John, when John hasadvanced in years.
He wrote this in Ephesus, aRoman province of Asia and is
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the traditional center ofJohannine ministry.
I hope I said that right.
2 John fits a network ofchurches across Asia Minor.
The recipients of this are theelect lady.
Now we've got to figure outwhat that means and we'll read
that here in a second.
But to the chosen, the lady andher children has two plausible
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meanings A godly woman in herhousehold or, you know, hosting
a house church, or a localchurch personified, as the lady
and her children are members.
Either way.
The letter targets householdand church life, doctrine,
hospitality and boundaries.
Some things to understand.
Early Christian missionsdepended on itinerant teachers
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and the hospitality of homes.
There were very few hotels.
Everyone was poor, sohospitality was huge and homes
were almost all the churches inearly in first century church.
You're looking at what thechurches looked like.
They were homes like this.
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This is my two car garageconverted into a sanctuary.
Okay, john warns in this, asyou'll see many deceivers who do
not confess Jesus Christ comingin the flesh.
All right, and we'll unpack therest of that, I think, later.
I just have my notes a littlebit.
So important things to realizeabout the political and
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religious climate, the imperialcult this was emperor worship of
Caesar.
It was strong in Asia Inrefusal to participate, marked
Christians as socially suspectfor rejecting idols.
Persecution was localized,sporadic but real.
Ongoing.
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Synagogue and church separationincreased tensions from the
Jews and the ChristiansIncreased tension.
Christians were losing socialand legal cover once afforded to
Jews.
The church is thus underexternal pressure, imperial
piety and internal infiltration,false teachers.
John addresses the internalthreat.
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So the church doesn't collapsefrom within.
So the church doesn't collapsefrom within.
The church life and structureswere small, familial, family
churches Wow, I'm having a hardtime speaking today and they
were fragile.
Leaders literally guarded thedoors and had to doctrinally
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guard them.
Guard them from people comingin, so from persecution and
attack, and from people comingin and bringing in false gospel.
A public reading of letters,face-to-face oversight mattered.
John prefers embodied presencefor joy, unity and discipline.
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So let's go ahead and let's getinto it.
2 John, verse 1.
The elder to the chosen ladyand her children, whom I love in
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truth, and not only I, but alsoall who know the truth, verse
4,.
I rejoice greatly to find someof your children walking in
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truth, just as we receivedcommandment to do from the
Father.
Now I ask you, lady, not asthough I were writing to you a
new commandment, but the onewhich we have had from the
beginning that we love oneanother and this is love.
That we walk according to hiscommandments.
This is the commandment, justas you have heard from the
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beginning, that you should walkin it.
Beginning up in verse 7, formany deceivers have gone out
into the world, those who do notconfess Jesus Christ is coming
in the flesh.
This is the deceiver and theAntichrist.
Watch yourselves that you donot lose what you have
accomplished, but that you mayreceive a full reward.
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Anyone who goes too far anddoes not remain in the teaching
of Christ does not have God.
Those who remain in histeaching, he has both the Father
and the Son.
So I'm going to read that againIf anyone comes to you and does
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not bring this teaching, do notreceive him into your house and
do not give him greeting, forthe one who gives him greeting
participates in his evil deeds.
And then verse 12, though Ihave many things to write to you
, I do not want to do so withpaper and ink, but I hope to
come to you and speak face toface so that your joy may be
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made complete.
And speak face to face so thatyour joy may be made complete.
The children of your chosensister greet you All right, so
again, very short and pointed inat least two places.
So let's talk about verses 1through 6.
Love and truth.
John repeats truth, becausetruth is not a mood, its reality
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is.
God defines it, embodied inChrist.
Now let me say that again.
In our society today, peoplehave their truth.
No, there is not your truth andmy truth.
Truth is reality as God definesit.
That is truth.
No, there is not your truth andmy truth.
Truth is reality as God definesit.
That is truth.
Your feelings aren't truth.
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Your feelings aren't truth.
You may feel like a unicorn.
You are not a unicorn you mayfeel.
My daughter pretends that she'sa horse one day, a cow the next
day, a kitty the next day and adog the next day.
That doesn't make her those.
What is she?
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She is a woman, a girl, afemale okay, a female human.
She doesn't get to choose whatshe wants.
Reality is as God defines it,embodied in Christ.
Grace, mercy and peace in truthand love.
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Gospel benefits.
Flow along the tracks of truth,not sentiment.
No truth, no grace.
If you are lying to God.
He knows that there's no gracethere.
You know, everyone's like.
I was talking to somebody todaywho was Christian, curious and
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talking about truths.
I don't think I'm going to gointo it.
I don't want to break thatconfidence.
I'm going to leave that whereit is at.
So, again, gospel flows alongthe tracks of truth.
No truth, no grace.
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One of the things I will talkabout is a hypothetical of what
happens if a murderer, or whatif Hitler, at the last moment,
turned to Jesus and repented.
Would he be saved?
Well, if he meant it?
Maybe Possibly, according tothe gospel?
Yes, would he be saved?
Well, if he meant it.
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Maybe possibly according to thegospel.
Yes, if we understand itclearly.
But could he?
Would he, and what do you meanit?
Would it be fire insurance?
All of us are counting on thatgrace.
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All of us are counting on thatgrace.
All of us are counting on if wetruly repent, turn and believe
that we will be saved.
So, yeah, if a murderer was toturn and repent and believe as
what some people call the thiefon the cross, he's the standard,
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but I believe that no one onearth has as much faith as the
thief on the cross.
So if you think you can have asmuch faith as him, good luck to
you.
I don't think anyone did, doesor has so.
Walking in truth, the Christianlife is a march, not a couch.
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If you're sitting on your couchnot serving anyone and you're
just going about your lifestumbling through it, bumbling
through it, without trying tohelp anyone else, you're not
doing it right and you may noteven be saved.
You're called to be a light inthis world.
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You are called to be a catalystfor change in people's lives.
See a need, you meet it.
That's what you're to be.
It's a march, not a couch.
This is love that we walkaccording to His commandments.
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Love is an aimless affirmation.
Love is obedience.
God does not separate what wekeep trying to pry apart.
So here's your takeaway If yourlove requires you to disobey
scripture, it isn't love.
It's treason dressed astenderness.
How often do we see this whenwe go and affirm things and we
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say, oh, love is love.
I'm about to dive into thathere with both hands.
The Bible tells us what is sinand what is not.
Disobey that at your own peril.
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The Perimeter Against Deceiversin verses 7-11.
Many deceivers who do notconfess Jesus Christ are coming
in the flesh.
First century docetism I saidthis three times before.
I swear my tongue does not wantto work there.
Docetism Denied the realhumanity of Christ.
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John calls such teachersantichrist because they oppose
the true Christ.
Watch yourselves Securityposture, complacency loses
ground already won.
Watch yourselves tells you tobe on guard.
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And then we heard the words gotoo far in verse 9.
Runs ahead, so-called progressthat leaves Christ's teaching
behind.
John renders the verdict thatthere is no God in that.
And then, lastly, thesurprising one Do not receive
him, nor give him greeting In ahouse, church, world.
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Receiving a teacher meantplatforming them.
Giving him food, bed and apulpit To host a false teacher
is to aid in his war against theflock.
That's complicity.
The takeaway hospitality isholy.
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We are to give it, but never towolves.
Mercy to the struggling, noquarter to deceivers.
And then the last two verses,12 and 13,.
You see, john prefersface-to-face to paper and ink or
digital, because embodiedpresent fortifies joy, unity and
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discipline.
Lone wolves get picked off,shield walls hold together.
So let's refute the fiveheresies of today.
Anyone who goes too far and doesnot remain in his teaching,
christ does not have God, inverse 9.
Remaining in the teaching ofChrist means staying under
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apostolic scripture.
Every heresy below is a refusalto remain in that.
First is denial of scripture'sauthority.
This is progressiveChristianity and liberalism.
The Bible contains truth, but itisn't the truth.
We must update it with modernlove.
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You know God is love, love,love, love.
God is holy, holy, holy John'sanswer in verse 6.
He defines love as obeyingGod's commandments.
You cannot weaponize love tooverthrow God's word and forbids
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running ahead of Christ'steaching.
Progress that contradictsScripture is apostasy, not
maturity.
We see this in 2 Timothy 3,16-17.
All Scripture is God-breathedin them and that the man of God
may be equipped, not some, notwhen it fits.
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John 10.35,.
Scripture cannot be broken.
Matthew 5.18,.
Not one iota passes away untilall is accomplished.
Confessional wisdom in theWestminster Confession 1.6
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summarized Scripture issufficient for God's glory,
man's salvation, faith and life.
Why this heresy kills.
When feelings become canon,christ's crown is removed and
handed to the mob.
Let me say that again whenfeelings become the canon,
christ's crown is removed andhanded to the mob.
Mission becomes moral fashion,holiness becomes harm.
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God is too stern, god is toohard.
What you have no idea, what youeven are, how depraved you are,
how good he is.
You have an inflated opinion ofyourself and you have no idea
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who God is.
What do we do with this?
What's our response?
You catechize your household,as we are.
You teach literal text andcontext.
There are lines in the Biblethat are poetry and are meant to
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be taken and applied in loftyways, and then there are things
that are meant to be takenliteral, teach literal text in
context.
And then, anytime somebody asksyou for something, require
chapter and verse.
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This is like somebody coming upto you on the front lines of
the battle and changing thebattle plan and you're like let
me see those orders, I want tosee those.
Give me the orders, I want tosee them.
If we're going to attacksomewhere where we're not
supposed to attack, I need tosee the orders.
The next we're going to talkabout is a popular one.
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This is the prosperity gospel.
God wants you to live in thebest you.
He wants you to have a Ferrari.
He wants you to have that bighouse on the hill.
He wants you to have all thisstuff.
He wants you to have a biggerbank account and send it all
here.
Right the lie Faith is a leverto get cash, comfort and
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constant healing.
John's answer verse 8, speaksof a future full reward, not
guaranteed present luxury.
The New Testament normalizessuffering now, glory later.
I'm sorry, but when I read theNew Testament I don't see a
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bunch of rich people runningaround having a great time.
I see a bunch of Christians whoare suffering and fighting for
survival, persecuted, hunted.
I don't see anyone rolling intheir chariots and carts and in
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their.
I don't see any of that.
I see them all penniless.
And these were Jesus' bestfriends.
So you think he wants you to berolling in your grind culture?
We see this in Philippians 1.29,granted not only to believe but
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also to suffer.
Luke 9.23, deny yourself.
Take up your cross daily.
2 Corinthians 12, 7-10,.
Paul's thorn in his sideremains.
Christ's power is made perfectin weakness.
This is so true.
Why does God always pick theweakest people to be his
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champions?
Because God is glorified inyour weakness.
It's obviously him, then, andnot you.
Stuttering Moses could never beaccused of being a great orator
, but with God he could be.
Tiny little David, up againstGoliath, could never beat him
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unless God was with him.
Hebrews 11 faithful saints,destitute, afflicted,
ill-treated, still calledvictorious.
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Here's why this heresy kills.
It manufactures consumers.
Consumer Christianity come in.
Where's my child care?
It manufactures consumers.
Consumer Christianity Come in.
Where's my childcare?
Where's my coffee?
Where's my food?
What's the Wi-Fi password?
That is the church today.
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It's not coming in the door.
What can I help?
Just let me be served, insteadof being the servant.
When bullets fly, prosperity,converts break and run the
warrior response.
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Preach the cost of discipleship.
Celebrate perseverance undertrials.
Give testimonies of faithfulendurance, not just
breakthroughs.
All right, now we got the thirdone, the third heresy, the
redefinition of Christ,christless Christianity.
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Jesus is a moral teacher or asocial activist, not the God-man
who saves.
John answers this in verse 7,names deniers of the incarnation
as deceivers and antichrists.
Verse 9, refusing the teachingof Christ is not having God.
The biblical case for this inJohn 1.14.
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The word was God and becameflesh.
Colossians 2.9.
In him all the fullness ofdeity dwells bodily.
And in 1 Timothy 2.5, onemediator, the man, jesus Christ.
Lastly, 1 John 4.2-3.
Confessing Jesus come in theflesh is the Spirit's test.
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So one true man can atone forman, oh sorry.
Only a true man can atone forman.
Only true God can bear theinfinite wrath and conquer death
.
Deny either nature and you losesalvation.
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Let me say that again.
Only a true man can atone forman.
Only true God can bear theinfinite wrath and conquer death
.
Man had to atone for man, butonly God could handle paying for
all sin for all time.
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The warrior's response to thisis teach the Chalcedonian
confession in plain language oneperson, two natures, without
confusion or division.
That's Christ.
Demand, christ-centeredpreaching that exalts his person
and work.
Look in 1 Corinthians 2.
Now the fourth heresy thesexual revolution, theology,
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lgbtq++++++, satanic alphabetsoup affirmation, gender
redefinition, the lie.
Love is love.
Love means affirming whateveridentity and desire someone
claims.
John's answer to this is verse6.
Love equals obedience to thecommandments, not to the
culture's cravings.
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Verse 9.
Progress beyond Christ'steaching on creation and
marriage is not of god.
Verses 10 and 11 do notplatform teachers who deny god's
sexual ethics, and aiding themparticipates in their evil.
All you churches fly on rainbowflags.
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Shame on you.
You will be judged and, most ofall, go back up to the
scripture here for a second.
Where is it?
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I lost it.
Come on, there we go.
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Verse 2, for the sake of truthwhich abides in us, will be with
us forever.
Who am I love in truth in verse1.
Walking in truth, verse 4.
Truth, truth, truth, truth allover truth.
Without truth there is nothing.
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Marriage is between a man and awoman.
There are two genders, male andfemale, period.
So let's get back to thatobedience to the commandments,
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not cultural craving, progressbeyond.
Okay, cover that.
Genesis 127 and 224.
God created male and femalemarriages.
One man, one woman, one flesh.
Matthew 19, 4 through 6.
Jesus reaffirms Genesis, notRome's or today's fashions.
Romans 12, 1.24-27.
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Homosexual practice sits on thecatalog of exchange worship.
It is not righteous identity,it is a sin.
It is a sin, sin, sin, sin, sin.
1 Corinthians 6, 9-11.
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Such were some of you, but youwere washed.
The gospel saves and reformssinners.
It does not rubber stamp sin.
Okay, so what do we do?
We must understand that thosewho are seeking to be better
strugglers, who repent, belongin the family.
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We will help them, we willguard them, we will disciple
them.
But teachers who celebratesexual rebellion must not be
platformed.
Compassion for the wounded doesnot mean commissioning the
wolves.
So our response as warriors isto teach God's design positively
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and early in the home.
And then, of course, everychurch should institute a
membership confession thatclearly affirms biblical sex and
marriage.
Protect the flock.
Do background checks policies.
Protect your family.
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Lastly, universalism orinclusivism All religions lead
to heaven.
It's all the same.
God right, a loving God, won'tjudge sincere people who are
saved without Christ.
Verse 9,.
Remaining in Christ's teachingis required to have God.
Another path rejects the Sonand loses the Father.
Verse 9,.
Verse 10 and 11, verse 10 and11, john 14.6,.
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Acts 4.12,.
Matthew 7.13-23,.
The narrow gate.
Many who say Lord, lord, areunknown to Christ.
Hebrews 9.27,.
It is appointed to die once andafter this comes judgment.
Revelation 20.11-15,.
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The great white throne, namesnot in the book of life are
judged.
Why this heresy kills.
If everyone is saved, the crossis pointless.
Missions die, holinessevaporates the warrior's
response.
Preach repentance, faith clearlysend in, support evangelism
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with urgency and refuseChristianity without conversion.
So some church's gatekeeping, aplaybook we came up with.
Know who is Jesus, fully Godand fully man.
What is scripture?
God breathed, final authority.
What is the gospel?
Substitutionary atonement,resurrection, repentance and
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faith.
What is holiness?
Sexual ethics per Genesis 1-2,1 Corinthians 6,.
Hebrews 13-4.
What is the way of salvation?
Christ alone In your household.
Audit media and curriculumquarterly.
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Teach children the Apostles'Creed, ten Commandments and key
texts.
Practice family worship.
We must care for strugglers.
In Galatians 6, restore themwith gentleness, accountability
and discipleship.
In wolves we must warn and thenavoid no platform given.
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So I challenge you this week tomemorize 2 John 6 and 9 through
11.
Define love biblically in 30seconds Some quotes to think
about.
Athanasius said he became whatwe are, that he might make us
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what he is.
Calvin said love is not lawless, it is guided by truth.
And Luther said I will nottrust my heart or wisdom one
hair's breadth without the wordof God.
And then Spurgeon saidDiscernment is not a matter of
telling the difference betweenright and wrong.
Rather, there's a differencebetween right and almost right.
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So church, truth and love arenot opponents.
They are your right and lefthand.
Like them, hold the lineagainst the five lies of our age
.
Strengthen your homes, guardyour pulpits, build face-to-face
fellowship.
The king is not wringing hishands.
He reigns March.
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Let's pray for a moment here.
King Jesus, anchor us in yourtruth and inflame us with your
love.
Expose deceivers, heal thebroken, embolden the saints.
Make our home citadels, ourchurch a shield wall and our
witness a clear trumpet blast.
Keep us from running beyondyour teaching.
Keep us abiding in you.
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Amen, alright, we're going todo the Lord's Supper now.
1 Corinthians 11-28,.
Sorry, but a man must testhimself and in doing so he is to
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eat of the bread and drink ofthe cup.
No-transcript.
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Sanctify this bread and thiscup and sanctify us, your people
, as we proclaim the death,resurrection, the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray in his mighty,matchless name Amen.
1 Corinthians 11, 23 through 24says the Lord Jesus, on the
night in which he was beingbetrayed, took bread and when he
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had given thanks, he broke itand said this is my body, which
is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisbody, pierced, beaten and
sacrificed for you.
Let us partake of the breadtogether and remember Christ's
body broken for us.
Go ahead and eat the same way.
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He took the cup also aftersupper, saying this cup is the
new covenant in my blood.
Do this as often as you drinkit in remembrance of me.
Saying this cup is the newcovenant in my blood.
Do this as often as you drinkit in remembrance of me.
This symbolizes his blood, theblood that purchased our
forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let us partake of this cuptogether and remember Christ's
blood poured out for us.
Go ahead and drink.
For as long as you eat thisbread and drink the cup, you
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proclaim the death of the Lorduntil 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.
Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank youfor the gift and assurance
through your son, jesus Christ,strengthening our faith that we
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may overcome this world.
Keep us steadfast in prayer,bold in confession and vigilant
against idols.
Fill our homes, our church andour lives with witness from the
Spirit, the water and the blood.
As we march forward, may we doso as warriors equipped with
truth, love and courage.
Now may the God of peacehimself sanctify you entirely
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and may your spirit and soul andbody be preserved, complete,
without blame, at the coming ofour Lord Jesus.
Faithful is he who calls youand he will also bring it to
pass.
In Jesus' name we pray Amen.
God bless you.
See you tomorrow at 7 am.
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