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At the end of the year, we usually try to find where we will spend the last night, don't we?
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Where will you spend it this year? They answer is obvious. In the presence of God!
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It is very good, to spend some time every 31st of December to think of our achievements in the last year.
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"We are about to enter a new year, let me look back what have I managed to do so far?"
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"What have I achieved in the my life?"
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"Can I be happy, can I be proud of something and say that indeed managed to achieve a few things this year?"
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Or do you just see your mistakes looking back?
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Do you just see the wrong decisions you made looking back?
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You see the people you hurt looking back.
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As a child of God it is dangerous to look back to your past.
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"But why brother, you just told us to look back to our achievements?"
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Yes, we should look back only for the glory of God.
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Why is it dangerous to look back as a child of God?
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Because looking at your past is a trap of satan.
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Because he is trying to remind you how good you were and what you are missing now.
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He is trying to remind you the good time you had with your friends doing anything you wanted.,
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but now you only spend time with the Christians.
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Then you start thinking were you would be if you were not in God's presence.
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With these we shall come to the title of today's message which is, "YOUR APPROACH TO LIFE"
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As a child of God, your approach to life must be different from the worldly people.
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What is your approach to life?
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Lot's wife paid her disobedience to the Word of God with her own life!
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Even though she knew the Word of God,
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even though she knew the instruction in righteousness given by God
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she insisted doing her own thing and it cost her life, like make of us today.
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Knowing the Word of God will not save you.
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The devil also knows the Word of God, even better than you!
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When the devil came to tempt Jesus Christ, he told Him "It is written"
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What a nerve!
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The enemy of the man's soul went to the Son of God and told Him.
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Look, it is written! God said it, so You need to do it!"
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He tried to use God's words to point out to Jesus Christ what to do.
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You think that because you know the Word of God, you will go to Heaven one day!
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Many of us do the same thing. We have our own way.
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We know the Word of God, we read the Bible, we known what the Word of God says
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but we have our own way!
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We obey with our own way.
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We do what the Word of God says in our own way.
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Lot's wife obeyed to the Word of God in her own way.
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She was following her husband. Isn't this what the Bible says?
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It says that Lot was walking and his wife was following him.
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Like many people today, the man comes to church and woman follows.
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Your coming to church following your husband or your wife will not save you.
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The obedience to the Word of God will save you!
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Jesus Christ knows how unworthy we are of His grace,
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so He decided to delete our past to define our future.
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Take notice, the outflow of Lot and his family from Sodom and Gomorrah is symbolic.
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It symbolises yours and mine outflow from the life of sin and into the life of righteousness.
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From the life unrighteousness to the life of holiness.
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Many of us, whereas we made the decision to walk with the Lord, with Jesus Christ
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in the middle of the journey we say, "What is wrong with a single cigarette."
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When we try to excuse our mistakes to refer to grace.
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When we want to judge someone we say, "The Word of God says this and that,
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why are you acting this way?"
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You are a hypocrite!
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There is no grace in this case. You know the Word of God and you use it in this case!
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We are called to follow God, in God's way, not our way!
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God's way is in here, in His Word.
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If you want to succeed in life, you have to learn to look ahead
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in your spiritual fight with Jesus Christ.
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Because by looking ahead you discover new things, new horizons
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and new opportunities you would have never imagined.
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Do you know why God gave us His Word?
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He gave us His Word to teach us His wisdom so we do not become victims of our ignorance.
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The Word of God says that "My people perish because of lack of knowledge."
