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  (CLIP) PROTECTED IN A TIME OF JUDGMENT
  by Ryan Schiavo
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the critical need for preaching holiness
in the church, highlighting how the lack of emphasis on holiness has led
to spiritual decline. It stresses the importance of living a holy life
as only the holy will enter heaven, and Jesus is coming for a pure and
spotless bride. The message warns against playing games with sin, trying
to serve God while being worldly, and the consequences of hypocrisy and
fear. It calls for daily preparation, dying to the flesh, walking in the
spirit, and choosing truth over falsehood to have the courage to stand
in times of persecution.

Topics: "Holiness", "Spiritual Preparedness"
Scripture References: Hebrews 12:14, Ephesians 5:27, James 4:8, Matthew 7:13, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Corinthians 10:13, 2 Timothy 2:22, Galatians 5:16, 1 John 1:9, Romans 12:2

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This sermon emphasizes the critical need for preaching holiness in the
church, highlighting how the lack of emphasis on holiness has led to
spiritual decline. It stresses the importance of living a holy life as
only the holy will enter heaven, and Jesus is coming for a pure and
spotless bride. The message warns against playing games with sin, trying
to serve God while being worldly, and the consequences of hypocrisy and
fear. It calls for daily preparation, dying to the flesh, walking in the
spirit, and choosing truth over falsehood to have the courage to stand
in times of persecution.

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CONTENT
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The reason that the church in America is in the state that it is right
now, the primary reason is because of the lack of preaching of holiness.
The message of holiness has largely been been dubbed legalistic,
outdated, unnecessary, even unloving and unkind. But only the holy are
going to enter heaven.

Jesus is coming for a pure and a spotless bride. In these times that we
are moving into, you need to be walking rightly before the Lord. The sin
needs to be out of your life.

I don't know where you're at spiritually, but this is not an hour to be
playing games with sin. This is not an hour to be trying to serve God
and have one foot in the world at the same time. Those who try to do
this are not going to make it when the fire really gets hot.

Fear is going to overcome you. Hypocrisy is going to be exposed. We
can't just expect to roll out of bed one morning and be godly.

We can't just expect to live in front of the television, eating potato
chips and complaining about how bad the world is, and expect to make it
when things really get difficult. We have to be preparing ourselves day
by day, week by week, month by month, year by year, dying to the flesh,
walking in the spirit, obeying God, choosing the truth over falsehood,
choosing the narrow path over the broad one, so that when persecution
really comes to our doorstep, we have the courage to stand. And as God
brings us through one trial and one difficulty and one challenge,
because we take a righteous position, it gives us confidence that the
next time he's going to do the same thing.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/h3zkKswmPCc.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/ryan-schiavo/clip-protected-in-a-time-of-judgment/
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