(229) “What Is It Like to Walk with God?”

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When we agree with God and habitually walk with Him, living life with Him His way,

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it makes us well pleasing to Him. It's that love and faith that produces the want to to line up

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with His Word and His ways. But the works that He's looking for are works of obedience,

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overcoming the works of the flesh by the Spirit and loving joyful obedience to His commands.

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God promises in Joel 2 28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to global outpouring,

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where we contend for that promise outpouring, we equip for that outpouring,

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And I'm Sharon Bus. Welcome to the podcast today. We are so glad that you're with us.

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We are pretty excited about this episode. I'm sure if you have read your Bible very much,

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you know about Enoch. Enoch walked with God and was not because God took him. He didn't go by the

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way of the grave. So we're going to talk about what is it like to walk with God.

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going to talk about what is it like to walk with God. Genesis 524, Enoch walked with God and he was

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not for God took him. The Amplified Classic says Enoch walked in habitual fellowship with God and

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he was not for God took him home with him. I like that. Yeah, I do too. What does the passion say?

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Enoch and God walked together as intimate friends. Then God took him to himself and he was seen no

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more. Beautiful, beautiful. This is something that is on my heart for this podcast is that we

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understand about the works that go along with the walk. There's nothing mentioned here about Enoch's

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works. The only work that it mentions is his walk. His walk. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to dig deeper

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into what this walk really means. What does it look like? What does it sound like? So in the Hebrew,

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the word if you're interested in studying from Strong's, Strong's Concordance, the number is H1980

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and the word in Hebrew is halakh. And the outline of biblical usage that we find in the Blue Letter

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Bible app, it means to go, walk or come. And I'll just give some of these because some of them are

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repetitive. It could also mean to proceed, to move, to go away, to live and this is interesting,

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manner of life. But the word form, there's a verb form called hithpale. And in that form, it means

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to traverse or to walk about. And when you have a hithpale form, it expresses a reflexive action of

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one of the others that I read above, the call or the peel. It expresses a reciprocal action. Okay.

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Now think in terms of, well, what does reflexive mean? So I looked it up to help you out on the

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website called EnglishSentences.com where it talks about reflexive verbs. It means something that

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someone or something performs an action on himself, herself or itself. For instance,

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I am teaching myself to speak Spanish. So teaching myself, it's I'm doing this to myself. I'm teaching

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it to myself. Right. Or be careful with those sitters. Don't cut yourself. I mean, the person

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who's doing the cutting could do this damage to themselves. Okay. So that's what reflexive means.

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It means that whatever you're doing, you're doing to yourself. So this word to walk,

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walking with God is reflexive. So he's doing something to himself. I'm picturing it as

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the idea of walking with God in this intimate relationship. Is that how in the passion Enoch

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and God walk together as intimate friends? Yes. So there's something of the choice that you make

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that Enoch made. There's a choice that you make that you do to yourself. Like when you're trying

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to overcome your flesh and you're doing it by the spirit, right? You're Galatians 5. Go back to

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Galatians 5. Over and over again, I always say that. Go back to Galatians 5. Because you see the

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works of the flesh and you see the overcoming of the spirit. The spirit builds the character of God

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in you. So when you're in the process of doing this walking with God and he's working by his spirit

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in you, you are working this thing by your choices, which is something you do to yourself.

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Yeah. If I can add to in Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 8, you know, it's the scripture,

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for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,

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not of works, lest any man should boast. I think that's a good place to mention that.

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Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. That's a good point.

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It's not works.

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It's not works in terms of like, you know, there are folks that are churchgoers that aren't

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necessarily walking in relationship with God, but they think that the thing that you're supposed to

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do as a Christian is do good works, like drilling a well for somebody who doesn't have water.

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Yeah.

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Or giving to the poor. These are good works and there's nothing wrong with the works themselves.

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But if those works are not coming out of a relationship with God, those works aren't

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going to do anything for you.

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With hand stubble.

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Yes.

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You know, it's like in first Corinthians chapter 3, it talks about the works, your works and,

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and they would be tried by fire.

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Yes. Every man's works shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall

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be revealed by fire. That's in verse 13.

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And I remember June Lewis, one of our Bible teachers had this amazing, cause she would

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write on a board. She was an artist and was writing illustrations. And she had a picture

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of this. It was an angel standing there with a bowl with his works in it. And they were all

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burning up. It's just like he had nothing.

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Yep. That's right.

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You're saved by grace, you know, but you have, you have no works.

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Right.

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So what kind of reward will you get if you don't have any works?

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Right. Well, the works.

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At least you'll be in heaven. It might take you a few 10,000 years to earth years to,

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to catch up, you know, from things we've heard from people that have been to heaven.

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Yeah.

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You know, it's a, you know, this is bootcamp. You walk here on, on this planet, it's nothing

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but a bootcamp for all eternity.

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It's true. That reminds me of a story that sister Gwen told us, our founder of a lady

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in Germany that became filled with the Holy spirit. She was a good Lutheran. Her daddy

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was a good Lutheran and she got spirit filled and started hanging out with these Pentecostals.

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Well, her dad was incensed. He thought this is a cult. This is something that, you know,

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we shouldn't be involved with. And he kind of persecuted her for the rest of his life.

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And then he died. And I don't know if she had a dream or if she had a vision. I presume it was a

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dream. And he came to her and he said, daughter, you were right. And I was wrong. It's going to

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take me thousands of years to catch up to where you are.

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Wow.

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Because you've given yourself to the Holy spirit.

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Isn't that nice how God will just reveal that?

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Yeah.

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To you.

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Yeah.

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A dream or a vision.

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Yeah. So it comforted her that he got the message. Now there's lots of things that we'll

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understand when we get there.

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So maybe she'll have some stars in her crown for doing all that too.

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Absolutely. I'm certain that she will. So I want to talk a little bit about this word to walk

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that's being used here and some scriptures so that we get some ideas of how else you might

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interpret it because the word appears a number of times, but it isn't always translated walk.

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Okay. So it also means like in Exodus 2, 5, and the daughter of Pharaoh came to her and said,

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the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river and her maidens walked along

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the river. So that's the same word, halakh, walked along by the riverside. So you kind of get maybe

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a picture of Enoch walking along with God. And then in Exodus 9, 23, Moses stretched forth his rod

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toward heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail and the fire ran along upon the ground.

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Interesting.

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So walking along, running along, going along, it has this idea of togetherness or along a certain

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path. You might say it that way. And then in Genesis 2, 14, where it talks about the third river

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is Hittikel, that is which goes toward the east of Assyria. Same root. Same word, same word goes

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toward. Okay. So Enoch was going toward God. You could maybe say it that way. Genesis 3, 8,

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and they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Same word,

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walking. So he's going into the garden. And then you have in Genesis 6, 9, these are the generations

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of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations and Noah walked with God. And then

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Genesis 17, 1, when Abram was 90 years old and nine and the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto

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him, I'm the almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect. Now we had a podcast about what it

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means to be perfect. If you didn't hear that, you might want to go back and listen to it.

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Yeah, it's really good.

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I think it was a good one. Genesis 24, 40. And he said to me, this is Abraham also asking his

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servant Eliezer to go and find a bride for his son. And he said to me, the Lord before whom I walk

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will send his angel with you and prosper your way. And you shall take away from my son of my kindred

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of my father's house. In Genesis 39, 4, and Joseph found grace in his sight and he served him. So

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that's the same word that served. Now that's interesting that walking with God is also serving

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him. So how did Joseph serve? He served very well. He was intent. He was wise. He thought ahead.

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He served humbly. These are things that encompass this word. As we study it helps us to understand

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what this walk with God really looks like. Then Genesis 48, 15 is Jacob. And Jacob by this time

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has come with all the family. Joseph made himself known to his brothers and they all came down to

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Egypt. And Joseph has taken good care of them. And he learns that Jacob is kind of getting tired now.

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So he's going to bring his two sons for him to bless. And he blessed Joseph and said, God before

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whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, same word, the God which fed me all my life long unto

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this day. And then he goes on and he blesses the sons Ephraim and Manasseh. And I just think it's

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beautiful how he says that his forefathers Abraham and Isaac walked before God. Now here's some

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places where the word is translated differently to give us some further understanding. So Genesis 8,

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3 says the waters returned off the earth continually. So that's the word continually.

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This is talking about the floodwaters. They went off the earth continually and after the end of 150

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days, the waters were abated. So it was just like this continuous motion. Maybe you could imagine it

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that kind of God pulled the plug and it all went back down into the earth. But the idea is that the

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motion was started and it kept going. So that's what this walk with God is about is that we walk

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habitually with him, that we walk continually with him, that we just keep going along with him. And

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you know, if you stumble, you just keep getting back up and go again. It reminds me that song

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Twyla Paris, you know, sung some years back called the warrior is a child. One of the lines was they

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don't know I fall down. I go home and I fall down. I run home. Yeah, I run home and I fall down.

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And it's this continual running towards God. Yeah. And then in Genesis 12, 9, Abram journeyed going

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on, same word, going on still toward the south. So he's going on. You just keep going on, keep on

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going. Don't quit, don't quit, don't quit. Then Genesis 13, 5 lot also which went, there's the word

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again. He went with Abram had flocks and herds and tents. So you get the idea that there's motion

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involved. We think of ourselves as walking toward God a lot of times, at least I do. I don't always

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think about walking with him. Now, here's what's really interesting. And this was a revelation to

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me in the Septuagint. First of all, what is the Septuagint? The Septuagint was the first translation

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of the Hebrew Bible into another language. And at the time, a few hundred years before Jesus was born,

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the Greeks took over the whole area where Israel was. And a lot of bad stuff happened. But one of

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the things that was happening was that the Greeks were real into colonizing and bringing people into

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their culture and bringing people into their laws and their ways. And of course, that didn't go well

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with a lot of Jews. And that's why the Maccabees rebelled and so on. But the point is that this

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cultural change was taking place. And as the children were being educated, then people wanting

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to do business with the Greeks were having to learn the Greek language. And it got to the point where

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not everybody was speaking Hebrew anymore or Aramaic, whatever they were speaking at that time.

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And so they decided we had better translate this into Greek so that our Jewish people will still

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know what the book says. 70 scholars got together and they translated it. So 70 in Greek is septa.

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So they call it septuagint. So that's what the septuagint means. So there is a translation from

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the septuagint into English and it's the Brenton Septuagint translation. So here's what Genesis

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524 says in this Brenton Septuagint translation. Enoch was well pleasing to God and was not found

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because God translated him. It doesn't say that he walked with him. It says he was well pleasing.

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Now that is a very interesting translation. So that gives us another look into what's it like

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to walk with God. It's well pleasing to him when you walk with him. And what do you do when you want

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like if a guy going out with a girl, if you want to be well pleasing, you give chocolates, roses,

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or other flowers. Flowers, roses. And you treat her kindly. And open the car door for her. Oh yes,

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I like that. So this word in the septuagint, now I'd studied this and kept digging deeper.

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So I'm going to give it to you. Don't let me lose you. You'll like this I think. In the septuagint,

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this word that in Hebrew means to walk or to go is translated with the Greek word

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Eurasteo. Now I am not a Greek scholar. You said it very well I think. Well I hope so.

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I mean I'm a Hebrew scholar wannabe, but I haven't even gotten that far with Greek.

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I have a couple of Greek friends and that helps. So in the outline of biblical usage again in the

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Blue Letter Bible, it means to be well pleasing or to be well pleased with the thing. And the

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Strong's definitions are to gratify entirely or to please well. So Enoch gratified God.

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And that gives it a whole nother flavor. Doesn't it though? Yeah. Doesn't it though? And he pleased

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him well. It's not just a little bit of pleasing, but he pleased him well. So this helps us to

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understand why the book of Hebrews, the writer of Hebrews says in 11.5, by faith Enoch was translated

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that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him. For before his

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translation, he had this testimony that he pleased God. See it doesn't say in Hebrews that he walked

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with God because the writers of the New Testament were often referring to the septuagint for their

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translation. And again, then it was translated into English. So that's why you see often where

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there's a quote from the Old Testament in the New Testament that the wording is a little different.

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It's because it's being translated from the septuagint rather than from the Hebrew. Interesting. So

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that's why we have the wording here. And then it goes on in verse six to say, but without faith,

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it is impossible to please him. And there's the word again, Euristeo, to please him. Okay. For he

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that comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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So first you got to believe that he is. I mean, you can do good works without believing that

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there's a real God. I mean, the Buddhists do good works and other like in Islam, there are things

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that you're supposed to do. You give alms and things like that. You do good works and people

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think that their good works will get them into heaven, but they won't. The only way to please

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him is to believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So you

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better diligently seek him. And then in Hebrews 13, 16, it says, but to do good, here's some good

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works to do good and to communicate, forget not for with such sacrifices, God is well pleased.

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So our good deeds must come out of our faith in order for them to produce something that's lasting.

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Because in first Corinthians three that you referred to earlier, that every man's works are

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going to be tried and there's wood, hay and stubble if they're burnt by fire, but there's gold and

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silver and precious stones that we're building with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,

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stubble. Those are the things that people build on God's foundation with. And if you're building

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with wood, hay and stubble, it's going to be burnt up. But guess what? Gold and silver and precious

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stones will endure fire and get purified and get purified even more. So it's that walk with him

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that's pleasing to him that is about relationship. That's what produces gold and silver.

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That's what produces gold and silver and precious stones. Like when Abraham was willing to sacrifice

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his son. I think we see that in James 2, it talks about Abraham and his works, but let's just go on

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and talk a little bit more about this word, Eurysteo. It comes from the Greek word Eurystos.

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Eurystos. And that means well pleasing or acceptable. So however our walk is, when we're

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walking with him, it makes us acceptable. It reminds me of what happened with Dean Brexton

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when he got to heaven. Jesus looked at him and saw himself and he was in. He was acceptable because

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Jesus was inside of him. He had asked Jesus to come and be his Lord and savior. So it makes us

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acceptable when we begin that walk. And whatever walk we're willing to do, you know, you start

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there. But you walk with him continually. That's what just makes him so happy. He's so pleased with

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us when we'll just walk with him. Yeah, it reminds me of that line from the song of Keith Green,

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to obey is better than sacrifice. I want more than Sundays and Wednesday nights.

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Yeah, and I want more than money. I want your life. Yeah. Wow.

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Yeah, it's about our life. It's about our walk with him. One of the words that it meant was

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your manner of life. When you let God by his spirit, through his word, teach you the manner of life,

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his ways, doing life his way. Okay. So this word, Euristos from the Strongs means fully agreeable,

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acceptable or accepted, well pleasing. In other words, if we become fully agreeable with God's

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ways and walk with him, that makes us accepted and well pleasing. Hallelujah. So this word,

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Euristos comes from two more words. We're just breaking it down, breaking it down.

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So it comes from you, which means to farewell, to prosper. It also means acting well. So your

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behavior. Behavior. Okay. And then Euristos means pleasing agreeable. So it's agreeable by implication

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fit. And that reminds me of Dean's expression when he got to heaven. He said, I fit, I fit. Yeah.

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Isn't that wonderful? Yeah. To know that we're going to fit in heaven. I love that.

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It means agreeable by implication to fit things that please or are pleasing. It also means reason.

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So in John 8 29, here's that word, Euristos. And he that sent me is with me. The father has not

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left me alone for I do always those things that please him. Yeah. Jesus walked with our father.

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He's the example. He's the number one example. Enoch is good, but Jesus is the number one example

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of how to do it. Yeah. It's like we're on a fast this week. Yeah. And one of the things fast and two

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is like most of the internet. I mean, there's a few things that have ministry wise to look at,

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but all the other, all the other things. And it's okay. Let's spend that time instead of doing that

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spending and get your Bible out up, you know, just turn on on Ephesians, Philippians, Corinthians,

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and, and just read the word instead of looking at because, because when you're sanctifying yourself

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to God in a fast, see a fast, if you're fasting for something, but it's not, if you're not spending

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with time with God, when you fast, exactly. I mean, so you're paying a price, but that's where it

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turns into works. Yeah. Cause if you fast and you're not really committing yourself to the Lord,

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even if you're busy anyway, you try, you know, you can't, you change your mindset, spend more time

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in the word, whatever you can do. Otherwise, if you're just fasting for God's anointing in your

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life, but you're not doing, paying a price to get closer to him. Do you think he's really going to

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fulfill everything you want in that fast? Or you just turning it into a work because,

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God do this for me, but I just don't have time to spend with you. It doesn't work. Yeah. It's like

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what Cameron said. He's our Iranian friend that, you know, he had a personal visitation of Jesus

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Christ when the Lord spoke says, Cameron, I'm Alpha Omega. I'm the first and the last. If you don't

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put me first, it won't last because it's contrary to my nature. Yeah. Ooh. I mean, you have to have

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a walk with God to hear that, right? You know, which he does. I thought, wow, it's contrary

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to his nature to not put him first. Yeah. Ooh. Exactly. Exactly. It's about being pleasing in

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his sight. 1 John 3 22 says, and whatsoever we ask, we receive of him because we keep his commandments

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and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. Those doings, those are the works that please him.

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Those are the works that come out of our faith. They come out of our faith walk, our love walk

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with God. So if we go drill down a little deeper, this arestos comes from aresco, which means to

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please or to strive to please, to accommodate oneself. I love this. Listen to this. To accommodate

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oneself to the opinions, desires, and interests of others. Oh. So if we're having that love walk with

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God, I'm going to change the way I think in my opinion. I want to get his opinion. I want to

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live by his opinion. I want to live by his desire. I want to live by his interests. That's that life

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of unconditional surrender that we talked about in our last episode. When you completely,

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unconditionally surrender yourself to him, you're striving to please him. But I don't think the real

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thing is a striving that is works oriented. In other words, I'm going to do these works so that

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I will please him. It has to do with walking with him and listening to him, listening for what he

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says. And when he says something, go do it. Go do it. So the Strong's definition for aresco is

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through the idea of exciting emotion to be agreeable or by implication to seek to be so or to please.

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So it just makes God happy. It excites emotion in him. Yes. When we choose him because we love him.

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And then Hebrews 11 6, remember we read this earlier. Without faith, it is impossible to

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please him for he that comes to God must believe that he is and that he's a rewarder of them that

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diligently seek him. Diligently. That's the key. So I was meditating on these things and

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I was reminded of the story of the Philippian jailer in Acts 16. Remember at the beginning,

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I don't know if it was beginning of Acts 16 or the end of Acts 15, Paul has a vision. They're

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getting ready to go someplace else. And he has a vision of a man of Macedonia that says, come over

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and help us. And the first person that they meet is a woman. Well, she's not a man of Macedonia,

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but she's the first one that they connect with. And she accepts the message that they're bringing

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because she's probably Jewish and they didn't probably have a synagogue. So they went down by

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the river to pray and that's where they met. So she was the contact person. She was the first

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contact person. Well, the next person that they run into is also a woman and it's the damsel that's

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following them and she's got a spirit in her and she's saying, oh, these men are the servants of

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the most high God and you need to listen to them. But it wasn't the right spirit saying that. And

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so Paul rebuked after a few days of putting up with it, he rebuked the spirit. Then they got in

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trouble because the owner of the girl lost all of his money because the spirits cast out. So now she

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can't do any divination anymore. So they arrest Paul and Silas and they're in the prison, in the

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stocks and they've been beaten, beaten mercilessly. And they didn't have to be beaten because he was

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Roman. They were both Romans. Both Roman. They didn't say it until afterwards. Right. So they've

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been beaten and the jailer is charged with this, you make sure that nothing happens to these guys.

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And then they begin to praise. They're praising God and praise breaks yokes. Praise will break

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chains. Praise will change the atmosphere and it changed the atmosphere in the jail and an earthquake

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shook the place and knocked all of their chains off and the doors were opened and the jailer thought,

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uh-oh, I'm dead. So he drew his sword to kill himself because he was sure that everybody had

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escaped. And just as he's about to do himself in, Paul says, no, no, no, we're all here. Don't do it.

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Don't do it. Now I have a theory. Don't build a doctrine on it. This is just a theory. I think

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maybe the reason why Paul and Silas put up with this beating and being jailed without being

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accused properly in a court. Maybe do you think that it could be that the Philippian jailer was

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the man that Paul saw in the vision, the man of Macedonia saying, come over and help us.

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I never saw it that way before. I just wonder. Maybe it was, might not have been. Yeah, because

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if they knew they were going to get beaten and go to jail, would they have gone to Macedonia?

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Well, yeah, that. And also my thought is that the jailer was there and Paul saw him

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and allowed this whole thing to play out because somehow he needed to get to this man. And he

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didn't see the stocks in the background. Well, he probably, he probably had an idea that that was

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ahead, but maybe they were praising God because here they are with this man of Macedonia.

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And now the man of Macedonia is about to kill himself. Yeah. And Paul says, no, wait, wait,

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wait, we're all here. We're all here. And that amazing, the earthquake caused their chains to

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fall. I know that's just a remarkable thing about that. Yeah. I mean, the earth is shaken right.

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So if you're in a jail, there might be rocks and plaster falling from the ceiling. Yeah. But your

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chains falling off. Yeah. That's crazy. That sounds angelic to me. Probably. Yeah. I would think so.

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So the jailer calls for a light and he comes in trembling and he falls down before Paul and Silas

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and he brought them out and said, sirs, what must I do to be saved? Wow.

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And that amazing. It took an earthquake. Yeah. And Paul and Silas said, believe, believe,

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there's your key word. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you should be saved and your house.

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And they spoke unto him the word of the Lord and to all that were in his house. And he took them the

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same hour of the night. That was midnight. It was midnight when this happened and washed their stripes

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and was baptized. He and all his straightway. That means right away. That means right away.

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Immediately. Before the sun came up. Yeah. This is all, this is all a night thing going on here.

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And when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them and rejoiced believing

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in God with all his house. Now, do you see that his believing produced these good works? His

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believing in that moment, he starts serving them. Yeah. And that's what walking with God,

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being filled with faith, it causes you to begin to do things that are the right things to do.

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I remember hearing Jesse Duplantis talk about his experience going to heaven and he's talking with

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David, the King David, you know, King David is doing stuff for him, serving him. And he says,

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King David, I should be serving you. You're the King. He says, Jesse, we're all servants here.

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Boy, that just went into me like an arrow because Jesus taught his disciples to pray

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this little phrase in the middle of the Lord's prayer, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on

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earth as it is in heaven. So if in heaven, everyone is a servant, what should we be doing here?

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Serve. Exactly. And Jesus told his disciples, if you want to be great in the kingdom of God,

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you got to be a servant of all. So serving is a part of walking with God. Serving others comes

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out of your God walk, out of your love walk with God, because once you have this love walk where

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you're receiving the love of God into your heart and pouring it back on him, guess what?

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You've got what it takes inside of you to love others and to love your neighbor as yourself and

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to begin to serve your neighbor and take care of your neighbor and love people. So the scripture

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in James 2, I just want to go through that from the Passion Translation. Philip, would you read it?

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It's kind of here and there, verses 8, 14 to 23 and verse 26. Your calling is to fulfill the

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royal law of love as given to us in this scripture. You must love and value your neighbor as you love

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and value yourself. For keeping this law is the noble way to live. My dear brothers and sisters,

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what good is it if someone claims to have faith but demonstrates no good works to prove it?

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How could this kind of faith save anyone? For example, if a brother or sister in the faith

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is poorly clothed and hungry and you leave them saying, goodbye, I hope you stay warm and have

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plenty to eat, but you don't provide them with a coat or even a cup of soup, what good is your faith?

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Yeah. So then faith that doesn't involve action is phony. Yeah. But someone might object and say,

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one person has faith and another person has works. Go ahead and prove to me that you have faith without

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works and I will show you faith by my works as proof that I believe. That's good. You can believe

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all you want that there is one true God. That's wonderful. But even the demons know this and

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tremble with fear before him, yet they're unchanged. They remain demons. Yep. O feeble sons of Adam,

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do you need further evidence that faith divorced from good works is phony? Wasn't our ancestor

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Abraham found righteous before God because of his works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

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Can't you see how his action cooperated with his faith and by his action, faith found its full

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expression. So in this way, the scripture was fulfilled because Abraham believed God,

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his faith was exchanged for God's righteousness. So he became known as the lover of God,

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for just as a human body without the spirit is a dead corpse, so faith without the expression of

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good works is dead. Amen. Wow. It's strong. Yeah, that's strong. It's very, very strong.

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But this idea of not all of the works that I'm talking about are works like taking care of other

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people. Some of the works that God is looking for in us while we are walking with him has to do with

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letting his spirit work in us and work out the works of the flesh and give us that overcoming

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that gives us that character of Christ that's described in the end of Galatians five where the

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fruit of the spirit is this love and this joy and this peace and this patience and gentleness and

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meekness and faith and kindness. These are the things that he's working in us and those are also

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works that come out of faith, that come out of our love walk with him. So, you know, the first

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commandment is all about loving God. When you love him with all your heart and all your soul and all

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your mind and all your strength, you will walk with him and please him. It's pleasing to him.

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When we walk with him in love and he'll give us orders and when we obey him out of our love for

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him and our faith and trust in him, it's pleasing to him. Abraham pleased God when he was willing

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to offer his son and Abraham believed that God would raise him from the dead. And according to

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the book of Hebrews, so he was absolutely trusting. Okay, you gave me the son. You promised

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that through the son, I'm going to have all kinds of offspring like the sands of the sea and the

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stars of the sky. You told me to kill him. Okay, you must have a plan. You know, things don't make

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sense to us, but what God was trying to do in that moment was get him to act out on Mount Moriah,

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like we've talked about before, to get him to act out on Mount Moriah, what God was then able to do

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in sacrificing his son in that same place. Amazing, absolutely amazing. But even though he didn't

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follow through with it, he didn't actually plunge the knife in, God counted it as though he had done

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it. And that's a work of faith. That is a work of faith. So sometimes God will tell us to do things

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that don't make any sense to us, but we trust him anyway. Now I'll say this though, make sure

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that you're hearing the spirit of God. Make sure that you test the spirits because other spirits

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will talk to you and try to imitate the voice of God to you. And don't listen to them. You test them.

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And Mary-Louis taught me a wonderful prayer that she learned. I forget who taught her.

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I bind the power of the enemy to imitate the ways of the Lord, seeking to copy his voice and manner

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of speaking to me. Oh, that's a great- Yeah. I bind the power of the enemy to deceive me or

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bring worry against me. Isn't that tremendous? Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's something we

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really need to practice. And it's part of our love walk with God because God wants us to test the

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spirits and he doesn't mind being tested. He doesn't mind you saying, did Jesus Christ come

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in the flesh? That's how you test them according to 1 John. Did Jesus Christ come in the flesh?

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And if you don't get an answer, that's not God. Don't do what that thing said to do.

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And don't follow a prophecy that doesn't agree with the word of God or that doesn't

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agree with the spirit of God inside of you. There are folks out there profiting from the

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folks out there prophesying out of their flesh. So just walk with God, walk with our heavenly father,

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walk with Jesus, walk with the Holy Spirit. Because when we agree with God and habitually

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walk with him, living life with him his way, it makes him agreeable with us. It makes us

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well pleasing to him. It's that love and faith that produces the want to, to line up with his

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word in his ways. You know, it takes a work of the spirit to make us want to do those things.

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But the works that he's looking for are works of obedience, overcoming the works of the flesh

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by the spirit and loving joyful obedience to his commands.

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Beautiful.

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So Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we're asking you to help us

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and help all of our listeners to go deeper in their walk with you, to grow in their love walk,

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to grow with that desire to love you with all their heart, with all their soul, with all their

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mind, with all their strength and be filled with your love. That there's a reciprocal action that

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takes place as we reach out, as we receive from you, as we receive your love, that will pour it

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back on you and then it'll spill out to those that are around us. Change us Lord by your spirit,

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in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Amen.

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