Soft Grapes

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Studies in Johns Gospel Chapter 7
Lessons On Living
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• GOD DOES HIS WILL IN HIS OWN TIME.

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Hebrews 127-8

• It is for discipline that you endure God deals
  with you as with sons for what son is there whom
  his father does not discipline? But if you are
  without discipline, of which all have become
  partakers, then you are illegitimate children and
  not sons.

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Hebrews 1211

• All discipline for the moment seems not to be
  joyful, but sorrowful yet to those who have been
  trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful
  fruit of righteousness.

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WE OFTEN ASK WHY.. ?

• Sometimes its for discipline

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Ecclesiastes 911

• Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to
  the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor
  bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent,
  nor favor to those with knowledge, but time
  and chance happen to them all. 

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WE OFTEN ASK WHY.. ?

• Sometimes its for discipline
• Sometimes it is just chance

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WE OFTEN ASK WHY.. ?

• Sometimes its for discipline
• Sometimes it is just chance
• We cannot KNOW

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Ecclesiastes 311

• He has made everything appropriate in its time.
  He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so
  that man will not find out the work which God has
  done from the beginning even to the end.

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Isaiah 558-11

• For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
• Nor are your ways My ways, declares the LORD.
  9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
  So are My ways higher than your ways and My
  thoughts than your thoughts.
• 11 So will My word be which goes forth from My
  mouth It will not return to Me empty, Without
  accomplishing what I desire, And without
  succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

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WE OFTEN ASK WHY.. ?

• Sometimes its for discipline
• Sometimes it is just chance
• We cannot KNOW
• But we CAN trust !

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• ANYTIME IS A GOOD TIME FOR SATAN.

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Satan Stands Ready To

• Frighten
• Deceive
• Blind
• And devour

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Is It Possible to Resist him?

• Ephesians 610-18 says so

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Ephesians 610-17
11Put on the full armor of God, so that you will
be able to stand firm against the schemes of the
devil. 13Therefore, take up the full armor of
God, so that you will be able to resist in the
evil day, 14Stand firm therefore, having girded
your loins with truth, and having put on the
breastplate of righteousness, 15and having shod
your feet with the preparation of the gospel of
peace taking up the shield of faith. 17And
take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of
the Spirit, which is the word of God.
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Is It Possible to Resist him?

• Ephesians 610-18 says so
• James 47 says so

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• GODS SERVANTS WILL BE HATED.

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The Worlds Value System..
.And dont forget tolerance
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• Matthew 624 indicates that one must make a
  choice.
• And there WILL be consequences

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2 Timothy 312
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in
Christ Jesus will be persecuted, With respect to
this they are surprised when you do not join them
in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign
you 1 Peter 44
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1 Peter 45
but they will give account to him who is
ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For
this is why the gospel was preached 
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• APPEARANCE IS NOT A BASIS FOR JUDGMENT.

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SOME ARE DECEIVED BY

• Temporary pleasures of sin
• Good works and/or ceremony

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Matthew 721-23
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will
enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord,
did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your
name cast out demons, and in Your name perform
many miracles? 23And then I will declare to
them, I never knew you depart from Me, you who
practice lawlessness.
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SOME ARE DECEIVED BY

• Temporary pleasures of sin
• Good works and/or ceremony
• The crowd
• Salvation schemes

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• YOU CAN KNOW THE TRUTH.

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Willingness is the Key !

• You willing to accept Gods time?
• You willing to have faith?
• You willing to stand?
• You willing to accept consequences?
• You willing to look through appearance to the
  truth?