July 16, 2024 • 34 mins
Through Jonah 2:8, we explore God's holiness, justice, goodness, and mercy and their stark contrast with our sinful humanity. Uncover the profound journey from sin to salvation made possible through Jesus Christ's sacrifice, which opens restored relationship with God. Delve into the concept of 'lying vanities'—those deceitful distractions that lead us astray from God's truth—and learn how embracing His mercy, rather than forsaking it, is key to experiencing the joy of reconciliation.
We also tackle the dangers of pursuing hollow beliefs and transient worldly pleasures, highlighting the spiritual emptiness such pursuits often leave behind. Through a personal relationship with Jesus, filled with grace, forgiveness, and peace, believers are called to move beyond merely knowing doctrine to living a life transformed by faith.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hello and welcome to the Redeeming Love Bible
broadcast.
My name is Phil Duddy,evangelist with Grace Baptist
Tabernacle of King, northCarolina.
Very, very glad to have youwith me on the program today, as
always.
Please do reach out to us.
We would love to hear from youat redeemingthelost at icloudcom
.
Let's go over to the book ofJonah.
Today we're going to be inJonah, chapter two.
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Looking at just one sentenceout of Jonah chapter two, the
word of God reads this way thisis Jonah, chapter 2, verse 8.
They that observe lyingvanities forsake their own mercy
.
They that observe lyingvanities forsake their own mercy
and bless God.
That word mercy is chesed andthat is a precious, precious
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word from the Word of God to ustoday.
Forsaking their own mercy.
How does this work?
This is very, very, you knowit's very, very common.
I see it.
You know, I've seen it over theyears.
I see it currently in folksthat we minister to as a church,
but observing lying vanities,resulting in you personally
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forsaking your own mercy.
And we need to look at who Godis.
We need to always have that inthe foundation that God is alive
, and in the Old Testament hespoke to us, he spoke to Moses
and he said I am, I am, I am,that, I am, I am, I am that I am
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.
And God's nature is such thatwe, as people, we have trouble
putting him in the words.
He is Alpha and Omega.
We see that in the book ofRevelation, repeated a few times
, all the way through the bookof Revelation, beginning and the
end.
God's outside of time.
He simultaneously exists at thebeginning and the end of
history.
Jesus said to us I am the way,the truth and the life.
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No one is going to see theFather except through me.
And God is holy, god is just,god is good, god is pure, god is
righteous, god is merciful, godis merciful, he, you know.
Same time he's merciful, he isfull of wrath upon sin and
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sinner alike, and there's nocontradiction there.
And God is love, he is love.
So all the way through thescriptures, both Old Testament
and New Testament, we've got Godcommunicating with us.
We've got God speaking with us.
We've got God using words.
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He's using words, he's usinglanguage to express himself as
to who he is and what he's allabout.
Because God is, he is holy, andthat's not a description of
God's morality, that's not adescription of God's value
system.
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But that's a description ofGod's nature.
God is completely different,completely other from.
You might say.
You know the sum total offallen creation, humanity
included.
We, naturally, you know, everysingle one of us is born in sin,
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and those of us in Christ Jesus, we are born again.
But looking at the differencein the nature?
But looking at the differencein the nature, we're born in sin
.
And so sin just sort ofnaturally comes out of us or
naturally comes out of our heart.
And it comes out of our heart,it comes out of our will, it
comes out of our desires andit's expressed in our passions,
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it's expressed in our pursuits,it's expressed in the things
that we do.
And that's just sort of wherewe live.
We all express our sin and weall pursue our sin.
And that's just sort of the waythe world works.
You might say, foundationally,we look at everything from the
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perspective of sin, perspectiveof sin.
God is completely differentfrom that.
God looks at everything fromthe perspective of holiness.
He looks at everything from theperspective of love.
He looks at everything from theperspective of justice.
He looks at everything from theperspective of goodness.
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He looks at everything from theperspective of wisdom.
He looks at everything from theperspective of his authority,
god is completely different.
Holiness is strange to usbefore we're born again, before
we believe Jesus, before our sinis washed away, before we
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receive the Holy Spirit.
Holiness is strange to us bynature and sin is strange to God
by nature.
And so we've got a differencehere.
We've got a fundamentaldifference in who we are and who
God is.
And, as I've said a few times,there is a born again.
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A few times, you know, there isa born again, there is a
forgiveness, there is a grace,there is a reconciliation with
God, and His name is Jesus.
We can go back to John, chapter3.
God so loves this world that hegave His only begotten Son so
that anybody who would believein him whosoever would believe
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in him would not perish but haveeternal life.
And God desires thisreconciliation.
God has fully provided for thisreconciliation to happen.
He has fully provided for thisborn-again thing.
He's fully provided for yoursin to be washed away.
He's fully provided for thereto be a relationship.
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Where sin had broken therelationship between God and
humanity, god has fully providedfor that relationship to be
gloriously restored in JesusChrist.
He shed his blood.
Jesus Christ took your judgment.
Jesus Christ took your hell.
Jesus Christ took the wrath ofGod in your place.
Jesus Christ took your judgment.
Jesus Christ took your hell.
Jesus Christ took the wrath ofGod in your place.
Jesus Christ became your sin.
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Jesus Christ died and before hedied he gave hallelujah, he
gave up the ghost.
Before he did that, he said itis finished.
What was finished?
The work of restoring andreconciling you to God?
That was finished.
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That is finished.
That high, high, high, perfectexpression of God's mercy was
finished, and that's where we'regoing to tie into Jonah today,
that God has fully provided acomplete salvation for you.
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He has fully provided acomplete salvation for me.
He's fully provided a completesalvation for everybody that you
see walking around the world,all around you.
God has fully provided aperfect, complete way for that
individual, that person, to bereconciled to himself, to be
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forgiven, to be washed clean, tobe made pure, to go from being
a sinner to being a saint, to gofrom having a dead spirit to
having a living spirit, to gofrom walking in death and
destruction to walking in lifeand goodness and joy and hope
and peace, all the fruits of theHoly Ghost as he comes inside
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and he indwells and he startsbearing his fruit.
Bearing his fruit, bearing hisfruit.
God has made a completeprovision for that to happen and
that provision is already made.
That work is already done,that's already complete, and all
that remains is faith, becausewe're saved by grace and through
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faith.
All that remains is beliefbecause you know God said, you
know hallelujah, john, chapter 3, whosoever believeth in him,
whosoever believeth in JesusChrist, shall not perish but
have eternal life.
That means that you won't seecondemnation, you won't see hell
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, you won't see destruction.
You will see eternal life.
You will not see the seconddeath.
You will walk the streets ofthe new Jerusalem.
Hallelujah and amen.
But God has already made thisprovision to happen.
He has made the provision foreternal life.
And what's eternal life?
I mean, that's a precious thing.
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John chapter 17 says thatEternal life is knowing God and
knowing Jesus Christ whom he hassent.
Knowing God, knowing JesusChrist, not just a theological
knowledge, not just a doctrinalknowledge, not just a
theological knowledge, not justa doctrinal knowledge, not just
a book knowledge, not just atheoretical knowledge you know,
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that's really no knowledge atall but really actually knowing
and relating and walking andtalking and hearing from God and
receiving from God and prayingto God and you know God answers
and walking with him andministering to him and growing
up in him, growing it fuller andfuller, and fuller and fuller,
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and more and more and more intothe stature of Jesus Christ
every day that goes by.
And so you know, hallelujah,you just sort of graduated in
the glory one day, and it's noteven that big of a change
because you've been walking withGod the whole time.
Anyway, since you've been bornagain, you've been growing,
you've been ministering, you'vebeen, you know, doing good works
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.
You've been having, you know,this vibrant life in the Lord.
You've had this joy and thisgreat joy and this exceeding
great joy.
You've experienced the peacethat God gives you, you've
experienced the grace, you'vebeen experiencing the
forgiveness, you've got the mindof Christ.
All of this redemption hashappened and the only change you
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know as we walk through, youknow death loses its sting, you
lose your flesh and you receivea resurrected body, and so you
really haven't lost anything.
But you've been walking withGod, walking with God, walking
with God, walking with God andhaving this life that's become
more and more and more full andjust knowing God, having that
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relationship with Him, havingthat intimacy with Him, and
that's a precious thing.
And, like I said, this is allfinished.
Nothing I've described today issomething that you have to work
for.
Nothing that I've describedtoday is something that you have
to earn, that you have to putin effort or time.
No, we simply receive.
We simply receive what God hasalready completed and receive
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what God has already given.
And God sort of you know, youknow Paul would write.
You know, I believe it was Pauloff the top of my head, but
it's no longer I, but it'sChrist who lives in me, and so
there's a closeness, there's arelationship, there's an
intimacy that we're walkingaround.
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I'm walking around in the samefleshly body, but it's Christ
who lives through me now and Ihope that's the same as it is
with you as you're listening.
But, as you've heard today, ifit's not, then God has made a
complete provision for you andGod wants you to be born again.
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God wants you to be saved.
God wants you to be made holy.
God wants you to be forgiven.
God wants you to be reconciledto himself.
God does not want you to perishin a lake of fire.
God does not want you toactually have his wrath poured
out on you.
God does not want that.
And how do you know God doesn'twant that?
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You're hearing this and God'sspeaking with you and God's
showing you the highestexpression of his mercy Jesus
Christ stepping in and cominginto your place, bearing your
sin, dying your death, so thatGod would be faithful and just
to forgive you instead ofcondemn you.
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Because, hallelujah and amen,um, you know you're not going to
perish if you believe jesuschrist, but if you reject jesus
christ, there is a condemnationbecause you would rather have
darkness and light.
That's the.
You know.
That's john, chapter three.
But to come back to jonah, thereis um, such a thing as a lying
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vanity, a lying, lying vanity.
And as people observe lyingvanities going back to Jonah 2.8
, they observe lying vanities,forsake their own mercy.
As people observe lyingvanities, they actually and
actively forsake their own mercy.
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And what is their own mercy?
What I just described, withJesus on the cross and dying and
shedding his blood and sayingit is finished and rising again,
that is your mercy, that isGod's mercy toward you and that
is yours.
And the only reason people arenot born again, the only reason
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people are not saved from thewrath of God.
The only reason people are not,you know, in Jesus Christ
reconciled to Jesus Christ,filled with the Holy Ghost, is
that they forsake that mercythat God has for them.
They forsake that mercy thatGod has for them.
John 3 is very, very explicit.
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It says whosoever.
The New Testament is very, veryexplicit.
It says to the Jew first, andto the Gentile, the New
Testament is very, very explicitwhen it says that whosoever
will, that the gospel is foreverybody.
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The gospel is for everybody,that Jesus is for everybody.
His death was for the wholeworld.
His death was for everyone whohas lived, everyone who is alive
today, everyone who will livein the future.
His death is for everybody.
He did it one time, he did itfor everybody, and nobody is
disqualified from the mercy ofGod.
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Nobody is disqualified from thegrace of God.
The only thing keeping peoplefrom being born again is that
they take their God-givenability to believe things and
they put it anywhere but Jesus.
They believe anything oranybody but Jesus.
You know, in the case of Jonah,here, they observe lying
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vanities, they keep lyingvanities.
They worship, you know, in avery, very real way it goes
there.
They worship deceiving, hollow,empty and vacant things and as
people worship deceiving, hollow, empty and vacant things, they
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are not believing Jesus.
Believing Jesus as people keeplying vanities, as people pursue
lying vanities, as people youknow walk after lying vanities.
What do we see?
We see a perversion of life inJesus Because, instead of
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hearing and believing andsubmitting to and following
Jesus, of hearing and believingand submitting to and following
Jesus, people follow the lyingvanity.
And as they follow lyingvanities and you know what are
they in particular?
Well, you know, in America in2024, there are as many lying
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vanities as there are people.
You know some people.
You know it's a politicalfigure, some people it's an
entertainment figure.
Some people, you know, it's apolitical figure.
Some people it's anentertainment figure.
Some people it's physicalfitness, some people it's
education and academics.
You know some people, it's adrug, some people it's, you know
, some sort of a lifestyle.
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Some people it's, you know itjust goes on, and on, and on,
and on and on, and there are asmany lying vanities as there are
people, because a lying vanityis something that comes up out
of a lust.
It's a lust of the flesh, it'sa lust of the eyes, it's the
pride of life.
Some people it's a sexuality.
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Some people it's a culturaltradition.
You know, some people it'ssimply themselves.
You know they believe inthemselves, they worship
themselves, they followthemselves.
You know they're the judge,jury and executioner of what the
truth is and you know it's asmany.
It's expressed in so manyindividual, different ways in
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these days in America and ifit's like that in your country,
amen and hallelujah, you canemail us and we can pray
together, amen and we canminister together.
But there are so many differentways that this gets expressed.
There are so many differentways that this gets expressed.
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But in any case, as anindividual follows that lying
vanity, there's a submission tothat lying vanity.
So we've got celebrity culturein America.
All of a sudden people startacting like that celebrity.
All of a sudden people startacting like that celebrity.
All of a sudden people startacting like that politician.
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All of a sudden people startacting like that idol.
There's a submission to thatidol.
That goes on and in response,that idol begins to shape that
individual.
Then the lying vanity becomesthe foundation of life, becomes
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the object of worship andbecomes the authority in that
person's life.
All of a sudden we're shapingourselves around.
Whatever the lying vanity is,whether it's a silly example
like the celebrity culture,whether it's the political
culture, whether it's thefitness culture, whether it's
the academic culture, you startto shape yourself according to
your academic institution.
You start to shape yourselfaccording to the people in your
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department.
You start to shape yourselfsort of actively, start to shape
yourself sort of actively aftersomething outside of yourself,
in this case an idol, in thiscase a lying vanity.
And the lying vanity comes toreceive people's attention,
starts to receive people's time,starts to receive people's
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effort, starts to receivepeople's life, starts to receive
people's work, starts toreceive people's devotion and
they actively hear and activelybelieve in and actively devote
themselves to the lying vanity.
And, my friend, that is how itis a demonic perversion of life
in Jesus Christ.
Because, if you'll notice, thelying vanity needs people to
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prop it up, sort of like ourlast message here, like our last
broadcast, the lying vanityneeds belief.
The lying vanity needs peopleto prop it up, it needs
financial support.
It can't do anything by itself,it doesn't have any life in
itself, it doesn't have anyauthority by itself, but because
of worship, people give itauthority, people give it
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authority.
You know, just looking for moreand more examples on this.
You can see this, at least I'veseen it.
You know, maybe you see it tooin music, depending on what
people listen to if they'rereally really into it.
You know, if they're reallyreally into it, you know if
they're into the lifestyle,they'll start to dress a certain
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way, they'll start to speak acertain way, they'll start to
act a certain way.
They'll start to carrythemselves a certain way.
They'll start to imitate andindividualize and personalize
what they see and what they likeabout the lying vanity and it
starts to shape life, it startsto shape thought, it starts to
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shape speech, it starts to shapework, it starts to shape
finances, it starts to shape theway time is spent.
And all of a sudden you've gota full-blown idol and it's
demonic and it's vain Becauseit's got no life in itself, it's
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hollow and it's empty and it'svacant and it's temporary and
it's not God.
You see, because it's not God,you see, because it's not God,
that lying vanity will lead aperson straight to hell, that
lying vanity will lead a personstraight to damnation.
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How does it do that Whileyou're worshiping the lying
vanity, you're not worshipingJesus?
Worshiping the lying vanity,you're not worshiping Jesus,
while you're receiving thingsfrom the lying vanity, you're
not receiving Jesus.
While you're devoting yourselfto the lying vanity, there's no
submission to Jesus, there's novalue for Jesus, there's no
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reverence for Jesus, there's norespect for Jesus, there's no
belief in Jesus.
And you're receiving thingsfrom that lying vanity.
But that lying vanity isn'tlife and that lying vanity can't
give you life.
That lying vanity can only giveyou different flavors of death.
It can only give you differentflavors of perishing.
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It can only give you differentflavors of lust.
It can only give you a fewmoments of pleasure.
It can give you a momentarypleasure, it can give you a
temporary pleasure.
But, my friend, I can tell youthere's a price to pay.
There's a day when the pleasuregets boring.
There's a day when the bottomfalls out.
There's a day when theconsequences start to hit.
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There's a day when you, you're,you're not young anymore.
You know.
All of a sudden, you startgetting older and older and
older.
There's a day when the bodybreaks down.
There's a day you can't partylike you used to.
There's a day when the songsget old.
There's a day when you get yourlast degree.
Now.
There's a day when, when all ofthat just sort of comes to some
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sort of a hollow, empty, vacantend, because it was always a
hollow, empty, vacant thing.
And you know there's a day, youknow Scripture tells us this
world is going to pass away.
This world is passing away andall the lying vanities are going
to pass away with it and thereality that it was all just
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sort of a thing of the world andit was all just sort of an idol
, it was something that you madein your own image, and that
sort of comes crashing in andyou forsake your own mercy.
Because, my friend, what if youhad believed Jesus?
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What if you had believed Jesuswhen Jesus came and when Jesus
spoke into your life and whenthe Holy Ghost started drawing
you, maybe like he's doing rightnow?
The Holy Ghost started drawingyou and there's a day, you know,
you believe Jesus and that'sgot consequences.
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You believe Jesus and that'sgot an effect.
You believe Jesus and all of asudden you're born again.
You believe Jesus, and the HolyGhost comes in and he starts
giving.
He gives you life, he gives youan eternal life, he gives you
peace, he gives you healing, hegives you counsel, he gives you
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wisdom, he gives you joy, hegives you a living hope.
He gives you temperance.
He gives you all of the giftsof the Holy Ghost he gives you.
He gives you all of the giftsof the Holy Ghost.
He gives you life, and it's nota life that's founded in the
world, because you look at thetop of the program.
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God's not of the world.
God's the one who created it.
God's not of it.
God's the one who created it,but God's not dependent on it.
God's the one who says you know, have faith in me.
And yet you know, god himselfis not dependent on that.
Just because there are peoplewho don't believe God, that
doesn't diminish God.
That'll diminish an idol,that'll diminish a lying vanity,
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but that will not diminish whoGod is.
But, my friend, god is God.
Hallelujah and amen.
God is God and we're not God.
God is God and he's not theworld.
And the things that God givesare not the things that this
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world can give.
God gives a peace like noneother.
God gives a healing like noneother.
God gives a joy like none other, because God's not of the world
.
Neither are the things that hegives.
It's not of the world, and it'snot something you have to earn.
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It's not something you have tolive up to.
It's not something that youeven have to maintain on
yourself, because Jesus paid itall, jesus did it all and Jesus
is alive today.
And Jesus is saying you know ifyou're lost and dying and you're
in your sin and you're underthe wrath of God.
Saying, you know, if you'relost and dying and you're in
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your sin and you're under thewrath of God.
Jesus is saying come unto me.
I want to give you this eternallife and this forgiveness and
this healing.
I want to give you all thestuff you've been hearing about.
Will you believe me?
Will you follow me?
Do you want me?
Do you desire me?
Do you desire you know who I am?
Will you believe me?
And in that belief there's asubmission that happens too.
You know, as we believe him,there's a submission that he is
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true, that he is good, that heis pure and that he's somebody
we want to believe in.
And there's a desire to believein him.
And so you know, if there'sthat yes, that's rising up in
your spirit, that desire, thatbelief, that's rising up in your
spirit.
My friend, I'd simply inviteyou right now, whether you want
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to hit pause or not on thisbroadcast, but you need to call
upon the name of Jesus Christright, this moment, and be born
again and let that yes come upinto some words that come up out
of your mouth and you talk toJesus and you ask him and you
express to him and you ask himto save you, you ask him to be
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born again and you just expressthat belief and you express that
desire and you express thatheart.
And you express that desire andyou express that heart and you
express that submission, youexpress everything that's going
on inside the hymn, becausehallelujah and amen.
You know, there's justsomething about when the words
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of the heart come up out of themouth.
You know, bless God, and that'sa biblical thing.
You look at the book of Romans,amen.
But, my friend, you know Jesus,he's also ministering to a lot
of churches.
He's ministering to a lot ofChristians, he's ministering to
a lot of Spirit-filled peoplethrough this.
And, my friend, it's my prayerfor you that this would be an
encouragement to you.
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This would be an encouragementto you and that this would be an
encouragement to you.
This would be an encouragementto you and that this would be a
help to you as you ministerwherever you are around the
world.
Wherever you happen to bearound the world, you know if
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you happen to be in Europe, ifyou happen to be in South
America, you happen to be inMexico, in Latin America, you
happen to be a little bit northof us, up in Canada, you happen
to be down in Australia, youhappen to be in Africa.
Hallelujah and amen, my brotherand my sister, we got the same
Holy Ghost inside, so we arebrethren, and I pray that this
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is an encouragement to you.
Whether you're in a big citysomewhere, whether you're, you
know, big city in Asia somewhere, or whether you're just out,
you know, out in the country,somewhere, in a real small town
or a real small village, realsmall place, but you've got some
people around you.
You've got some people aroundyou.
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And everywhere in this world hasits own expressions of lying
vanity.
Everywhere in this world hasthe familiar demonic spirits.
Everywhere in this world,people express this.
They believe in something orsomeone other than Jesus and
they receive from whatever theybelieve in.
They receive things, andthere's a perishing and there's
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a death and there's adestruction.
That happens over time andchurch.
May you be encouraged to reachout.
May you be encouraged to speak,jesus and to to preach Jesus and
to minister Jesus into thosesituations, to those people,
that they might be free, thatthey might know the truth and
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that the truth would make themfree.
Know the truth and the truth isnot an idea.
Know the truth and the truth isnot an idea.
The truth is a person and thetruth is Jesus, so that they
might know Jesus and Jesus mightmake them free by being born
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again, by being saved, by beingfilled with the Holy Ghost.
And they have the freedom inJesus, my friend, and they have
the freedom in Jesus, my friend.
You can be a part of that.
God wants you to be a part ofthat.
And what's more, god hasprovided everything in the Holy
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Ghost, in the Word of God, ingood Bible preaching, in good
churches who fill with the HolyGhost and love Jesus and love
people, love the Father.
God's given us everything.
We're fully equipped for this.
We've got everything we need.
It's just a matter of walkingit out.
It's just a matter of walkingand talking and speaking and
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ministering the way the Lord hasprovided for us and hallelujah
and amen.
May you be encouraged in thattoday and thank you again.
So much, all of you around theworld.
Thank you for being a part ofthis broadcast, thank you for
supporting this broadcast, thankyou for sharing this broadcast
with folks.
Like I say all the time, playit for your churches, play it
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for your families, pray it forpeople who know Jesus and love
Jesus.
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Hello and welcome to the Redeeming Love Bible
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Let's go over to the book ofJonah.
Today we're going to be inJonah, chapter two.
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Looking at just one sentenceout of Jonah chapter two, the
word of God reads this way thisis Jonah, chapter 2, verse 8.
They that observe lyingvanities forsake their own mercy
.
They that observe lyingvanities forsake their own mercy
and bless God.
That word mercy is chesed andthat is a precious, precious
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word from the Word of God to ustoday.
Forsaking their own mercy.
How does this work?
This is very, very, you knowit's very, very common.
I see it.
You know, I've seen it over theyears.
I see it currently in folksthat we minister to as a church,
but observing lying vanities,resulting in you personally
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forsaking your own mercy.
And we need to look at who Godis.
We need to always have that inthe foundation that God is alive
, and in the Old Testament hespoke to us, he spoke to Moses
and he said I am, I am, I am,that, I am, I am, I am that I am
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.
And God's nature is such thatwe, as people, we have trouble
putting him in the words.
He is Alpha and Omega.
We see that in the book ofRevelation, repeated a few times
, all the way through the bookof Revelation, beginning and the
end.
God's outside of time.
He simultaneously exists at thebeginning and the end of
history.
Jesus said to us I am the way,the truth and the life.
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No one is going to see theFather except through me.
And God is holy, god is just,god is good, god is pure, god is
righteous, god is merciful, godis merciful, he, you know.
Same time he's merciful, he isfull of wrath upon sin and
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sinner alike, and there's nocontradiction there.
And God is love, he is love.
So all the way through thescriptures, both Old Testament
and New Testament, we've got Godcommunicating with us.
We've got God speaking with us.
We've got God using words.
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He's using words, he's usinglanguage to express himself as
to who he is and what he's allabout.
Because God is, he is holy, andthat's not a description of
God's morality, that's not adescription of God's value
system.
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But that's a description ofGod's nature.
God is completely different,completely other from.
You might say.
You know the sum total offallen creation, humanity
included.
We, naturally, you know, everysingle one of us is born in sin,
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and those of us in Christ Jesus, we are born again.
But looking at the differencein the nature?
But looking at the differencein the nature, we're born in sin
.
And so sin just sort ofnaturally comes out of us or
naturally comes out of our heart.
And it comes out of our heart,it comes out of our will, it
comes out of our desires andit's expressed in our passions,
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it's expressed in our pursuits,it's expressed in the things
that we do.
And that's just sort of wherewe live.
We all express our sin and weall pursue our sin.
And that's just sort of the waythe world works.
You might say, foundationally,we look at everything from the
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perspective of sin, perspectiveof sin.
God is completely differentfrom that.
God looks at everything fromthe perspective of holiness.
He looks at everything from theperspective of love.
He looks at everything from theperspective of justice.
He looks at everything from theperspective of goodness.
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He looks at everything from theperspective of wisdom.
He looks at everything from theperspective of his authority,
god is completely different.
Holiness is strange to usbefore we're born again, before
we believe Jesus, before our sinis washed away, before we
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receive the Holy Spirit.
Holiness is strange to us bynature and sin is strange to God
by nature.
And so we've got a differencehere.
We've got a fundamentaldifference in who we are and who
God is.
And, as I've said a few times,there is a born again.
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A few times, you know, there isa born again, there is a
forgiveness, there is a grace,there is a reconciliation with
God, and His name is Jesus.
We can go back to John, chapter3.
God so loves this world that hegave His only begotten Son so
that anybody who would believein him whosoever would believe
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in him would not perish but haveeternal life.
And God desires thisreconciliation.
God has fully provided for thisreconciliation to happen.
He has fully provided for thisborn-again thing.
He's fully provided for yoursin to be washed away.
He's fully provided for thereto be a relationship.
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Where sin had broken therelationship between God and
humanity, god has fully providedfor that relationship to be
gloriously restored in JesusChrist.
He shed his blood.
Jesus Christ took your judgment.
Jesus Christ took your hell.
Jesus Christ took the wrath ofGod in your place.
Jesus Christ took your judgment.
Jesus Christ took your hell.
Jesus Christ took the wrath ofGod in your place.
Jesus Christ became your sin.
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Jesus Christ died and before hedied he gave hallelujah, he
gave up the ghost.
Before he did that, he said itis finished.
What was finished?
The work of restoring andreconciling you to God?
That was finished.
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That is finished.
That high, high, high, perfectexpression of God's mercy was
finished, and that's where we'regoing to tie into Jonah today,
that God has fully provided acomplete salvation for you.
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He has fully provided acomplete salvation for me.
He's fully provided a completesalvation for everybody that you
see walking around the world,all around you.
God has fully provided aperfect, complete way for that
individual, that person, to bereconciled to himself, to be
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forgiven, to be washed clean, tobe made pure, to go from being
a sinner to being a saint, to gofrom having a dead spirit to
having a living spirit, to gofrom walking in death and
destruction to walking in lifeand goodness and joy and hope
and peace, all the fruits of theHoly Ghost as he comes inside
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and he indwells and he startsbearing his fruit.
Bearing his fruit, bearing hisfruit.
God has made a completeprovision for that to happen and
that provision is already made.
That work is already done,that's already complete, and all
that remains is faith, becausewe're saved by grace and through
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faith.
All that remains is beliefbecause you know God said, you
know hallelujah, john, chapter 3, whosoever believeth in him,
whosoever believeth in JesusChrist, shall not perish but
have eternal life.
That means that you won't seecondemnation, you won't see hell
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, you won't see destruction.
You will see eternal life.
You will not see the seconddeath.
You will walk the streets ofthe new Jerusalem.
Hallelujah and amen.
But God has already made thisprovision to happen.
He has made the provision foreternal life.
And what's eternal life?
I mean, that's a precious thing.
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John chapter 17 says thatEternal life is knowing God and
knowing Jesus Christ whom he hassent.
Knowing God, knowing JesusChrist, not just a theological
knowledge, not just a doctrinalknowledge, not just a
theological knowledge, not justa doctrinal knowledge, not just
a book knowledge, not just atheoretical knowledge you know,
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that's really no knowledge atall but really actually knowing
and relating and walking andtalking and hearing from God and
receiving from God and prayingto God and you know God answers
and walking with him andministering to him and growing
up in him, growing it fuller andfuller, and fuller and fuller,
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and more and more and more intothe stature of Jesus Christ
every day that goes by.
And so you know, hallelujah,you just sort of graduated in
the glory one day, and it's noteven that big of a change
because you've been walking withGod the whole time.
Anyway, since you've been bornagain, you've been growing,
you've been ministering, you'vebeen, you know, doing good works
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.
You've been having, you know,this vibrant life in the Lord.
You've had this joy and thisgreat joy and this exceeding
great joy.
You've experienced the peacethat God gives you, you've
experienced the grace, you'vebeen experiencing the
forgiveness, you've got the mindof Christ.
All of this redemption hashappened and the only change you
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know as we walk through, youknow death loses its sting, you
lose your flesh and you receivea resurrected body, and so you
really haven't lost anything.
But you've been walking withGod, walking with God, walking
with God, walking with God andhaving this life that's become
more and more and more full andjust knowing God, having that
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relationship with Him, havingthat intimacy with Him, and
that's a precious thing.
And, like I said, this is allfinished.
Nothing I've described today issomething that you have to work
for.
Nothing that I've describedtoday is something that you have
to earn, that you have to putin effort or time.
No, we simply receive.
We simply receive what God hasalready completed and receive
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what God has already given.
And God sort of you know, youknow Paul would write.
You know, I believe it was Pauloff the top of my head, but
it's no longer I, but it'sChrist who lives in me, and so
there's a closeness, there's arelationship, there's an
intimacy that we're walkingaround.
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I'm walking around in the samefleshly body, but it's Christ
who lives through me now and Ihope that's the same as it is
with you as you're listening.
But, as you've heard today, ifit's not, then God has made a
complete provision for you andGod wants you to be born again.
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God wants you to be saved.
God wants you to be made holy.
God wants you to be forgiven.
God wants you to be reconciledto himself.
God does not want you to perishin a lake of fire.
God does not want you toactually have his wrath poured
out on you.
God does not want that.
And how do you know God doesn'twant that?
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You're hearing this and God'sspeaking with you and God's
showing you the highestexpression of his mercy Jesus
Christ stepping in and cominginto your place, bearing your
sin, dying your death, so thatGod would be faithful and just
to forgive you instead ofcondemn you.
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Because, hallelujah and amen,um, you know you're not going to
perish if you believe jesuschrist, but if you reject jesus
christ, there is a condemnationbecause you would rather have
darkness and light.
That's the.
You know.
That's john, chapter three.
But to come back to jonah, thereis um, such a thing as a lying
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vanity, a lying, lying vanity.
And as people observe lyingvanities going back to Jonah 2.8
, they observe lying vanities,forsake their own mercy.
As people observe lyingvanities, they actually and
actively forsake their own mercy.
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And what is their own mercy?
What I just described, withJesus on the cross and dying and
shedding his blood and sayingit is finished and rising again,
that is your mercy, that isGod's mercy toward you and that
is yours.
And the only reason people arenot born again, the only reason
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people are not saved from thewrath of God.
The only reason people are not,you know, in Jesus Christ
reconciled to Jesus Christ,filled with the Holy Ghost, is
that they forsake that mercythat God has for them.
They forsake that mercy thatGod has for them.
John 3 is very, very explicit.
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It says whosoever.
The New Testament is very, veryexplicit.
It says to the Jew first, andto the Gentile, the New
Testament is very, very explicitwhen it says that whosoever
will, that the gospel is foreverybody.
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The gospel is for everybody,that Jesus is for everybody.
His death was for the wholeworld.
His death was for everyone whohas lived, everyone who is alive
today, everyone who will livein the future.
His death is for everybody.
He did it one time, he did itfor everybody, and nobody is
disqualified from the mercy ofGod.
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Nobody is disqualified from thegrace of God.
The only thing keeping peoplefrom being born again is that
they take their God-givenability to believe things and
they put it anywhere but Jesus.
They believe anything oranybody but Jesus.
You know, in the case of Jonah,here, they observe lying
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vanities, they keep lyingvanities.
They worship, you know, in avery, very real way it goes
there.
They worship deceiving, hollow,empty and vacant things and as
people worship deceiving, hollow, empty and vacant things, they
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are not believing Jesus.
Believing Jesus as people keeplying vanities, as people pursue
lying vanities, as people youknow walk after lying vanities.
What do we see?
We see a perversion of life inJesus Because, instead of
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hearing and believing andsubmitting to and following
Jesus, of hearing and believingand submitting to and following
Jesus, people follow the lyingvanity.
And as they follow lyingvanities and you know what are
they in particular?
Well, you know, in America in2024, there are as many lying
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vanities as there are people.
You know some people.
You know it's a politicalfigure, some people it's an
entertainment figure.
Some people, you know, it's apolitical figure.
Some people it's anentertainment figure.
Some people it's physicalfitness, some people it's
education and academics.
You know some people, it's adrug, some people it's, you know
, some sort of a lifestyle.
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Some people it's, you know itjust goes on, and on, and on,
and on and on, and there are asmany lying vanities as there are
people, because a lying vanityis something that comes up out
of a lust.
It's a lust of the flesh, it'sa lust of the eyes, it's the
pride of life.
Some people it's a sexuality.
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Some people it's a culturaltradition.
You know, some people it'ssimply themselves.
You know they believe inthemselves, they worship
themselves, they followthemselves.
You know they're the judge,jury and executioner of what the
truth is and you know it's asmany.
It's expressed in so manyindividual, different ways in
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these days in America and ifit's like that in your country,
amen and hallelujah, you canemail us and we can pray
together, amen and we canminister together.
But there are so many differentways that this gets expressed.
There are so many differentways that this gets expressed.
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But in any case, as anindividual follows that lying
vanity, there's a submission tothat lying vanity.
So we've got celebrity culturein America.
All of a sudden people startacting like that celebrity.
All of a sudden people startacting like that celebrity.
All of a sudden people startacting like that politician.
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All of a sudden people startacting like that idol.
There's a submission to thatidol.
That goes on and in response,that idol begins to shape that
individual.
Then the lying vanity becomesthe foundation of life, becomes
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the object of worship andbecomes the authority in that
person's life.
All of a sudden we're shapingourselves around.
Whatever the lying vanity is,whether it's a silly example
like the celebrity culture,whether it's the political
culture, whether it's thefitness culture, whether it's
the academic culture, you startto shape yourself according to
your academic institution.
You start to shape yourselfaccording to the people in your
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department.
You start to shape yourselfsort of actively, start to shape
yourself sort of actively aftersomething outside of yourself,
in this case an idol, in thiscase a lying vanity.
And the lying vanity comes toreceive people's attention,
starts to receive people's time,starts to receive people's
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effort, starts to receivepeople's life, starts to receive
people's work, starts toreceive people's devotion and
they actively hear and activelybelieve in and actively devote
themselves to the lying vanity.
And, my friend, that is how itis a demonic perversion of life
in Jesus Christ.
Because, if you'll notice, thelying vanity needs people to
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prop it up, sort of like ourlast message here, like our last
broadcast, the lying vanityneeds belief.
The lying vanity needs peopleto prop it up, it needs
financial support.
It can't do anything by itself,it doesn't have any life in
itself, it doesn't have anyauthority by itself, but because
of worship, people give itauthority, people give it
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authority.
You know, just looking for moreand more examples on this.
You can see this, at least I'veseen it.
You know, maybe you see it tooin music, depending on what
people listen to if they'rereally really into it.
You know, if they're reallyreally into it, you know if
they're into the lifestyle,they'll start to dress a certain
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way, they'll start to speak acertain way, they'll start to
act a certain way.
They'll start to carrythemselves a certain way.
They'll start to imitate andindividualize and personalize
what they see and what they likeabout the lying vanity and it
starts to shape life, it startsto shape thought, it starts to
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shape speech, it starts to shapework, it starts to shape
finances, it starts to shape theway time is spent.
And all of a sudden you've gota full-blown idol and it's
demonic and it's vain Becauseit's got no life in itself, it's
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hollow and it's empty and it'svacant and it's temporary and
it's not God.
You see, because it's not God,you see, because it's not God,
that lying vanity will lead aperson straight to hell, that
lying vanity will lead a personstraight to damnation.
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How does it do that Whileyou're worshiping the lying
vanity, you're not worshipingJesus?
Worshiping the lying vanity,you're not worshiping Jesus,
while you're receiving thingsfrom the lying vanity, you're
not receiving Jesus.
While you're devoting yourselfto the lying vanity, there's no
submission to Jesus, there's novalue for Jesus, there's no
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reverence for Jesus, there's norespect for Jesus, there's no
belief in Jesus.
And you're receiving thingsfrom that lying vanity.
But that lying vanity isn'tlife and that lying vanity can't
give you life.
That lying vanity can only giveyou different flavors of death.
It can only give you differentflavors of perishing.
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It can only give you differentflavors of lust.
It can only give you a fewmoments of pleasure.
It can give you a momentarypleasure, it can give you a
temporary pleasure.
But, my friend, I can tell youthere's a price to pay.
There's a day when the pleasuregets boring.
There's a day when the bottomfalls out.
There's a day when theconsequences start to hit.
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There's a day when you, you're,you're not young anymore.
You know.
All of a sudden, you startgetting older and older and
older.
There's a day when the bodybreaks down.
There's a day you can't partylike you used to.
There's a day when the songsget old.
There's a day when you get yourlast degree.
Now.
There's a day when, when all ofthat just sort of comes to some
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sort of a hollow, empty, vacantend, because it was always a
hollow, empty, vacant thing.
And you know there's a day, youknow Scripture tells us this
world is going to pass away.
This world is passing away andall the lying vanities are going
to pass away with it and thereality that it was all just
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sort of a thing of the world andit was all just sort of an idol
, it was something that you madein your own image, and that
sort of comes crashing in andyou forsake your own mercy.
Because, my friend, what if youhad believed Jesus?
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What if you had believed Jesuswhen Jesus came and when Jesus
spoke into your life and whenthe Holy Ghost started drawing
you, maybe like he's doing rightnow?
The Holy Ghost started drawingyou and there's a day, you know,
you believe Jesus and that'sgot consequences.
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You believe Jesus and that'sgot an effect.
You believe Jesus and all of asudden you're born again.
You believe Jesus, and the HolyGhost comes in and he starts
giving.
He gives you life, he gives youan eternal life, he gives you
peace, he gives you healing, hegives you counsel, he gives you
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wisdom, he gives you joy, hegives you a living hope.
He gives you temperance.
He gives you all of the giftsof the Holy Ghost he gives you.
He gives you all of the giftsof the Holy Ghost.
He gives you life, and it's nota life that's founded in the
world, because you look at thetop of the program.
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God's not of the world.
God's the one who created it.
God's not of it.
God's the one who created it,but God's not dependent on it.
God's the one who says you know, have faith in me.
And yet you know, god himselfis not dependent on that.
Just because there are peoplewho don't believe God, that
doesn't diminish God.
That'll diminish an idol,that'll diminish a lying vanity,
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but that will not diminish whoGod is.
But, my friend, god is God.
Hallelujah and amen.
God is God and we're not God.
God is God and he's not theworld.
And the things that God givesare not the things that this
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world can give.
God gives a peace like noneother.
God gives a healing like noneother.
God gives a joy like none other, because God's not of the world
.
Neither are the things that hegives.
It's not of the world, and it'snot something you have to earn.
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It's not something you have tolive up to.
It's not something that youeven have to maintain on
yourself, because Jesus paid itall, jesus did it all and Jesus
is alive today.
And Jesus is saying you know ifyou're lost and dying and you're
in your sin and you're underthe wrath of God.
Saying, you know, if you'relost and dying and you're in
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your sin and you're under thewrath of God.
Jesus is saying come unto me.
I want to give you this eternallife and this forgiveness and
this healing.
I want to give you all thestuff you've been hearing about.
Will you believe me?
Will you follow me?
Do you want me?
Do you desire me?
Do you desire you know who I am?
Will you believe me?
And in that belief there's asubmission that happens too.
You know, as we believe him,there's a submission that he is
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true, that he is good, that heis pure and that he's somebody
we want to believe in.
And there's a desire to believein him.
And so you know, if there'sthat yes, that's rising up in
your spirit, that desire, thatbelief, that's rising up in your
spirit.
My friend, I'd simply inviteyou right now, whether you want
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to hit pause or not on thisbroadcast, but you need to call
upon the name of Jesus Christright, this moment, and be born
again and let that yes come upinto some words that come up out
of your mouth and you talk toJesus and you ask him and you
express to him and you ask himto save you, you ask him to be
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born again and you just expressthat belief and you express that
desire and you express thatheart.
And you express that desire andyou express that heart and you
express that submission, youexpress everything that's going
on inside the hymn, becausehallelujah and amen.
You know, there's justsomething about when the words
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of the heart come up out of themouth.
You know, bless God, and that'sa biblical thing.
You look at the book of Romans,amen.
But, my friend, you know Jesus,he's also ministering to a lot
of churches.
He's ministering to a lot ofChristians, he's ministering to
a lot of Spirit-filled peoplethrough this.
And, my friend, it's my prayerfor you that this would be an
encouragement to you.
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This would be an encouragementto you and that this would be an
encouragement to you.
This would be an encouragementto you and that this would be a
help to you as you ministerwherever you are around the
world.
Wherever you happen to bearound the world, you know if
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you happen to be in Europe, ifyou happen to be in South
America, you happen to be inMexico, in Latin America, you
happen to be a little bit northof us, up in Canada, you happen
to be down in Australia, youhappen to be in Africa.
Hallelujah and amen, my brotherand my sister, we got the same
Holy Ghost inside, so we arebrethren, and I pray that this
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is an encouragement to you.
Whether you're in a big citysomewhere, whether you're, you
know, big city in Asia somewhere, or whether you're just out,
you know, out in the country,somewhere, in a real small town
or a real small village, realsmall place, but you've got some
people around you.
You've got some people aroundyou.
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And everywhere in this world hasits own expressions of lying
vanity.
Everywhere in this world hasthe familiar demonic spirits.
Everywhere in this world,people express this.
They believe in something orsomeone other than Jesus and
they receive from whatever theybelieve in.
They receive things, andthere's a perishing and there's
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a death and there's adestruction.
That happens over time andchurch.
May you be encouraged to reachout.
May you be encouraged to speak,jesus and to to preach Jesus and
to minister Jesus into thosesituations, to those people,
that they might be free, thatthey might know the truth and
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that the truth would make themfree.
Know the truth and the truth isnot an idea.
Know the truth and the truth isnot an idea.
The truth is a person and thetruth is Jesus, so that they
might know Jesus and Jesus mightmake them free by being born
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again, by being saved, by beingfilled with the Holy Ghost.
And they have the freedom inJesus, my friend, and they have
the freedom in Jesus, my friend.
You can be a part of that.
God wants you to be a part ofthat.
And what's more, god hasprovided everything in the Holy
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Ghost, in the Word of God, ingood Bible preaching, in good
churches who fill with the HolyGhost and love Jesus and love
people, love the Father.
God's given us everything.
We're fully equipped for this.
We've got everything we need.
It's just a matter of walkingit out.
It's just a matter of walkingand talking and speaking and
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ministering the way the Lord hasprovided for us and hallelujah
and amen.
May you be encouraged in thattoday and thank you again.
So much, all of you around theworld.
Thank you for being a part ofthis broadcast, thank you for
supporting this broadcast, thankyou for sharing this broadcast
with folks.
Like I say all the time, playit for your churches, play it
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for your families, pray it forpeople who know Jesus and love
Jesus.
Pray it for people who don'tknow Jesus and don't love Jesus.
But thank you so much forhelping us to get this around
the world and it's such anencouragement to see it growing,
to get this around the worldand it's such an encouragement
to see it growing, such anencouragement to see it growing
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and to see it reaching more andmore nations around the world.
Thank you so much for being apart of that.
It's really, really precious.
I want to especially welcomethose in Nigeria who are
receiving the podcast now.
You know we've seen that pop upand I want to welcome you all
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and thank you all for supportingus specifically.
And you know, bless God.
You know we pray for you again.
You know, let us know how wecan pray for you.
Reach us at redeemingthelost atiCloudcom.
Let us know how we can pray foryou.
Let us know how we can pray foryou.
Reach us at redeemingthelost aticloudcom.
Let us know how we can pray foryou, let us know how we can
help you in your specificsituations.
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And, as always, you know we're aministry of Grace Baptist
Tabernacle.
We're located in King, northCarolina.
Our church website isgbtministriescom.
I'd invite you to look at that.
You can find service time,service locations.
You can find additional videos.
You know we videotape.
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Well, we don't use tape anymore, you know, but we video and we
record our Sunday morningservices and our Wednesday
evening services.
You can find those as well.
Please do let those be ablessing to you as well.
And if the Lord's moving you tovisit us in person, we would
love to meet you Again.
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You can find the address.
You can find phone numbers.
You can find contactinformation, times and locations
.
Please feel welcome to reachout to us.
We look forward to hearing fromyou.
You are welcome and you arealso expected, and thank you
again for being a part of thisand for listening, and may the
Lord continue to richly blessyou.
Amen.
You.
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