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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Praise the Lord, take another moment, bless the Lord on my soul. [Applause] Now Father, I thank you for the beautiful opportunity to stand up as an ambassador for you Jesus and a representative of heaven, and I speak to those who have tasted of the goodness of God. We have feasted on mercy and kindness and grace. Lord, we're wallowing in it. I remember an old preacher one time saying, "I'm in honey up to my elbows." That's the way I feel sometimes. Lord, thank you for your everlasting love. And now we need help to learn. I always need help. I need for you to help me preach. But we need help for you to help us learn what you were saying to us today. And I ask it in Jesus' name and everybody said amen. Let's read together before you're seated. Out of Romans chapter 11, we'll begin with verse 33. Is it up? Sure. If you want to read it out of your Bible, that's fine too. How many brought a Bible today? Let's see it. No, phones won't work. That is not a Bible. That is a phone. Beginning with verse 33, out loud, with vigor. This is the word of the Lord. Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his counselor? Or who has first given to him and it shall be repaid to him? For of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever. Amen. You may be seated. Some of this will be review. You never get enough review in God's Word. Some things I'm going to mention from last Sunday, that's review. I want to first address this wonderful, beautiful term called doctrine, which is teaching, instruction. It's what Paul says.

And then he goes on to warn people about departing from doctrine. He said to the Ephesians, "I don't want you to be children anymore, tossed to and fro and blown about with every wind of doctrine." You see, the air is full of doctrine. The church world, the church atmosphere doctrine, but it's not all sound and it's not all true. So Paul said, "You Ephesians need to stop listening to everybody that comes by, every speaker that comes through. And listen to us, we apostles have brought you the word and read the scriptures that you have so far. Study God's word that He's given you through Moses as well. Then he says in Hebrews chapter 13, verse 9, "Be careful and don't follow after various and strange doctrines." Various, that's lots of doctrines, strange doctrines. Do you know what a strange doctrine is? It's any doctrine that does not glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. It's anything that is taken out of context from this word and used for any purpose other than to glorify God. That's strange doctrine and there are lots of those doctrines. And I'm going to say something that's going to make some of you go, but I am at this very moment talking to somebody either in this building or the one behind me or the two satellite churches that we have or watching me online right now that is going to be deceived one of these days. You are going to follow the wrong doctrine, you're going to listen to too many people and get confused and you will end up believing a doctrine that does not line up with God's word. Pastor, oh no, I'm way past trying to make people happy. But I'm in the warning mode, Jesus is coming. We don't have time to mess around, I don't have time to mess around. I'm too old now and we're too close to the coming of Christ for anybody to be playing church. And I want to tell you that the only way that you will be safe from being deceived is to know what this book says. I am convinced that the American church is a shallow, self-centered, informational, social kind of church instead of a Bible preaching Bible believing church. We've got churches popping up in this country by the hundreds every day,

somebody starting a new church with a new fancy name, but they are not preaching the everlasting gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's false doctrine. And I have come to remind you again, the only way any of us is going to be safe from the deception. Folks, if you think deception is strong now, Satan realizes this time is short and there is a spirit of deception, whether it's just false preaching and teaching or AI. That's beginning to control the hearts and minds of people and bring lots of questions in people's minds about the true faith. I went back to Job this week, the oldest book in the Bible. And I found the secret to keep me from being deceived, tricked. So I thought I'd read a couple of verses to you from Old Brother Job. This is in Job 23, beginning with verse 11. My foot has held fast to His steps. I'm following Him, but I'm right up on Him. I have kept His way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of His lips. I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food." And there you have it. There's the secret. Going to church won't keep you safe from deception. Just running around with so-called Christian friends won't keep you safe from deception. Staying out of the bars or out of the casinos won't keep you safe. Only this word will do it. And when you realize that this word is more important than the food you eat, that this is the only thing that can sustain your soul, that your eternity rests on this word, that this came from the heart and mouth of God Himself, given to us as a gift, as a light, as a lamp, as direction, as doctrine, as teaching, you will then cherish it. And I have to tell you again that Job in His misery said, "My life is in a mess right now, but I'm staying up with Jesus.

I'm keeping His word. I'm treasuring what He says more than my necessary food." I want to be honest with you today. I want to make an honest and personal confession. I struggle to pray. I struggle to read God's word and it's my life. This is what I'm called to do. This is all I've done for 57 years, but I struggle. I struggle to desire to pray. I struggle to get excited about studying Scripture again. In fact, all of the Christian disciplines are a struggle. Christianity is a struggle. It's a fight. It's a warfare. It's not easy. It's a life of Christ. It's the Holy Spirit living in you. It's you being placed in a dark world and you're just one light. It's having every demon hate you because Christ is in you. It's having the devil wanting to make you stumble at every turn because you've named the name of Christ. It's not easy. But you have to get to the place that you realize I can't make it without it. I don't have to be jumping up and down on the way to the prayer room, just go. Because when I do and when I say the name of Jesus and when I have no enthusiasm and my inspiration is low, that has nothing to do with my faith. I just speak the name of Jesus, I call on Him who loved me, gave Himself for me, and who is ever at the Father's right hand making intercession for me. But it's a struggle. You'll never get to the place that it's easy.

And to study the Bible, I told a group of elders that pray with me every Sunday morning. I said to them, "Sometimes I wish I could go back to just having a fifth grade knowledge of Jesus. But Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Because it gets so complicated in this walk and in this warfare and trying to lead a church and help people and give direction. Sometimes you just get so overwhelmed and even burdened by it, "Oh, I struggle with it. I struggle with fasting. Nobody looks forward to fasting." And then I've come to realize that fasting takes on a whole new meaning in this age. It's a whole lot easier for some people to do without a sandwich at lunch than it is for them to do without social media. The first thing they do, the last thing they do is the thing they depend on all day long. And as a Christian, sometimes you discipline yourself and you say, "Not today. You're going to do without it because I'd rather have Jesus." It's just that way and you know some people can't hack it. They think that because they don't have the joy that they are supposed to have and that it's sometimes drudgery to stay up with Jesus, they just can't hack it anymore. Then they hear a preacher get up and say, "This book is more important than this." chapter 11 when the disciples of John the Baptist find Jesus and say, "Hey, Jesus, your cousin is in jail. Remember him, cousin John, the one that preceded you, the one that prepared the way for you. Remember him? Well, he's having a bad day. And he sent us up here to ask you, are you, are you the Christ or should we look for someone else?" Now, you can probably fill in the blanks. Jesus said, "You go back and tell John the blind see the lame walk on and on and the poor have the gospel preached to them, but that's not the end of it. And blessed is he who is not offended in me." Now, I want you to think about this for a month. The word offended means fall away. Look it up. Do some Greek study. That's all I've done this week. King James and New James say offend. Other translations say fall away. It means the same thing. It's from the same Greek word, skilazimo. I don't know if I said that right or not, but it sure felt good to say it. And it means to fall away. And here's what Jesus was saying.

You go back and tell John everything he prophesied, I would do everything the prophets said I would do. I've done it. And blessed is the one who does not fall away because of me. Blessed is the one who doesn't quit when I don't answer prayer on their time schedule. Blessed are those that don't even see the prayer yet answered, but will still trust me anyway. Blessed is the one that will bless me because I'm alive. Blessed is the one that will worship me when they have nothing left. And if you don't learn to do that, you'll fall away. And I'm telling you, the devil has some doctrines to help you fall away. I believe the devil has more doctrines than God does. You see, the devil has concocted a doctrine for every desire that a man has or a woman has, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. There are a thousand different strains of all of that. And the devil has a doctrine that will help you accommodate yourself so that you can still call yourself a church member and go to church and fall away at the same time and be lost. The Bible says that there's going to come a great falling away. That Greek word is apostasia. It means to walk away from the truth, to defect from the faith, to abandon one's beliefs. There are those that don't believe people can do that. Jesus thought that they could. And Paul writes and says, "Oh, it can happen." In fact, it's going to happen. If you turn over to the book of 1 Timothy, I told you we were reviewing. That's exactly what we're doing. Chapter 4 verse 1, "Now the Spirit expressly or in specific terms says that in the latter times," that's where we are right now. We are living in the latter times, the last days, "some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons who speak lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron." You know, it's funny to me. I didn't say this earlier. It's funny to me. I read all the time. I study. I got commentaries. I got them on both sides, Armenian, Calvinism. It's amazing to me how the Calvinists would say, "You can never lose your salvation except some do." You can never lose your salvation except some do commit apostasy. Well, which is it? If you can't, then nobody can. But if somebody can, then everybody could. So that's just confusing rhetoric to me. And I'd rather just read what the Bible says that in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Devils have doctrines. There are tricky spirits. Paul, again, in a second letter, You can't make God's ways which are indescribable. You can't comprehend the sovereign eternal God in his ways, but you can preach the Word. Because when you preach the Word, God will bless the Word.

Preach the Word, be ready in the season, out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching or doctrine. For the time will come. Here we are. The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But according to their own desire, there you go. They will, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables or myths or fiction or dreams or stories rather than the everlasting gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now I don't want to get stirred up, but I'm telling you 90 percent of what I see on Christian television is myth, fable, fiction, stories, and inspirational chatter. Oh, no wonder people email us by the hundreds and Texas by the thousands and visit from other places because there's such a girth of gospel preaching in this country today. God's people just want to hear God's Word. Just tell me about Jesus. Just lift up the old rugged cross. Just tell me about the shed blood of the Lamb of God. That's what people want. But in the last days, instead of hearing that which corrects and edifies, they will find teachers to tell them exactly what they want to hear. It's always been going on. It happened in Jesus' day. John 6, 6, 6 says, "From that time on, many of his disciples fell away and walked with him no more." His disciples. See, it was fine until he said something that they didn't like. It was fine until it offended a personal opinion about something or somebody. And then they said, "You know, I don't know." And they just walk away and they quit. Jesus even predicted it in Matthew 24 when he was talking about the last days for Israel especially. But he said, "The love of many will grow cold and many will fall away." Love of many, yes. Love for God, love for truth, love for Scripture, love for the church, will grow cold and after a while, many will fall away. Well, all you have to do is go over to 2 Thessalonians and read these words because Paul says, "It's going to get bad here before long." 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, I'll find it in a moment, "Let no one deceive you." Did you get that church? 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, "Let no one deceive you by any means for that day will not come. The day of the Lord will not come unless the falling away comes first." And the man of sin is revealed, the son of Perdition who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worship so that he sits as God in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. There it is right there. The Antichrist can't come until the great falling away takes place. Church, you are watching it. You are watching preachers not preach Jesus. You are watching churches being turned into entertainment centers and banquet halls and circus

speakers get up and talk gibberish that means nothing. You're watching it. The apostasia has already begun. That's why every day when I get up, I look up and I say, you know, this could be the day. I don't get up and say, wait, probably got five or ten more years. That's not what I read in the Bible. Whenever you think he may not come back, he could come back. Watch therefore for you know not the day nor the hour when the Son of Man will appear. We're there. Churches of backslidden, the churches in bad shape, the apostasy has started. The rapture is about to call and call us home, and the man of sin is about to be revealed. So there it is. And I tell you, Satan is a whole lot more brilliant than you think he is. When I say doctrines of devils and doctrines of demons, let me show you what I hear in the church today. First, let me say that all the cults have a problem with Jesus. I really said something profound there. All the cults have a problem with Jesus. Satan hates Jesus. He wants the message of Jesus to be skewed if not erased or replaced. Jesus. So the devil is sly enough to say, I've got doctrines that parallel the doctrines of God and the church. One of my doctrines is the doctrine of greed. The doctrine of greed. Boy, have I seen this? I have watched this since I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. Preachers, preaching the prosperity gospel. I know I preach it all the time. I'm going to preach it till Jesus comes. Preachers, preaching, seed, faith, giving. I'll say it as I said it the other week. In this whole Bible, there's no such thing as seed, faith, giving. There's no such thing as giving your seed and assignment. I give this thousand dollars. This is my seed. I assign it for something. God will have to give it back to me. It is a doctrine of the devil. Maybe less than two weeks ago, a young man came up to me right here after one of the services. And if he's here, please don't be mad at me. I'll get this as correct as I can. He said, "I know you don't remember me, but I grew up in this church." And he pointed over there and he said, "I sat with my family right over there." And he said, "I was a little boy and I would just listen to you preach. And one day you said something against prosperity preachers and the word of faith movement." And they left. That was 20 something years ago. I said, "Well, where are they now?" He said, "Nowhere." He said, "They've given everything they have to prosperity preachers." And again, I hope I got this right. He said, "They've given, oh, they have hundreds of thousands of dollars to one prosperity faith preacher after another and have nothing to show for it." You know why? Because it's a lie. It's a lie. And here we go. I knew I couldn't get through this one.

If you give money to a word of faith or prosperity preacher, you are aiding in their heresy. You are as guilty as you can be. You say, "Well, I know everything they teach is not right." If one thing is not right, don't you dare give a penny to it. Well, let me read it then. Here's Paul, "If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to hold some words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with God, which come in v. strife, reviling evil suspicions, useless wranglings of men, of corrupt minds, destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain, that godliness that the ministry is a way to make money from such withdrawal yourself. Godliness with contentment is great gain. We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing with these, we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich, but those who desire to be rich, fall into temptation and a snare and in the many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and tradition, for the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. You can't start a business and quilt scripture in that business and make it a Christian business. Did that make sense to anybody? If you're trying to make money, don't use God to justify your greediness. I'll move on. Then the devil has what I call the doctrine of emotions. This is how I feel about it. I think God respects my feelings. I just don't feel like God will send anybody to hell. I just don't believe God cares what people do in their bedrooms. I just don't think God cares. Well, he does. It's always what God says, not what you feel. Then there's the doctrine of accommodation. You've got to listen to this one. Just invite Jesus into your life. I invited Jesus into my life. Take a moment. What sounds wrong with that? Everything. Because Jesus doesn't come into your life so you can live with Him. Jesus demands that you lose your life and pick up a cross and His life becomes your life. The life you now live in the flesh, you live by the faith of the Son of God who loved you and gave Himself for you. You're not inviting Jesus into your life. He's not coming in to share an apartment with you and the devil. Jesus, I'll have all of you or I'll have none of you. Then there's this doctrine. Again, I'm not sure what I call it, but the devil has doctrines of kindness and philanthropic doctrines. When people are kind and good and help others, no matter what, God accepts that.

God loves those people. They're philanthropic, like the Shriners or the Freemasons. Who are the Knights Templar? Are any of those secret organizations? That's a doctrine of the devil. God's not in that kind of stuff. I don't care what kind of good they do. If it's not about Jesus Christ and Him crucified, it's a strange doctrine and it is a doctrine of devils. I've heard the excuse. Well, we're not a secret organization. We're an organization with secrets. No child of God will be involved in anything that involves initiations, making pledges, secret stuff, higher knowledge, deeper truth, pagan rituals, sinister activities. It's really cultic and pagan. I will be very kind. about this, babe? What do you think, Abby? Is that a good one? Okay, so I'm smiling when I say this. If somehow you sneaked into central church through the membership and all that, and you didn't tell anybody that you were a shriner or belonged to the Knights at the Templar, you kind of slipped through. You need to make a decision which membership you're going to give up. Because the devil will make you think that doing good things will save you, doing good things brings God's smile upon you. Nothing is, nothing is true about that. Only the favor of God comes upon that which glorifies the Son of the Most High, who came to this earth and was born of a virgin, who lived a holy life, who was crucified, buried, raised, and ascended to heaven, and is right now sitting at the right hand of the Father, that's the only thing. That's the only message. That's the only thing God recognizes. Everything else is out of order. And see, that's the thing. When you don't stay in this Word and you don't dig into the depths of the Spirit and stay on the heels of Jesus and count the truth more important than your necessary food, you can say you know Jesus, but you won't live his life or obey his commandments or walk in his teachings, and people do that all the time. In fact, Paul told Timothy, they profess to know God, but in works they deny him, being disobedient, abominable, and disqualified for every good work. Do you know how many people can talk about Jesus? I get so nauseous at openings of big events. I don't care if it's baseball, basketball, golf, NASCAR. I get nauseous when out of token respect the Lord Jesus is mentioned in passing. I know I'm closed-minded, and now you know that I don't care if you know that I'm closed-minded. And see, when people don't live in the Word, I mean Christians. That's why some Christians can continue to celebrate Halloween. So I said last year after I got into a buzz saw about it, I said I'm not ever mentioning that again, but I drove out of my neighborhood today on a dreary,

rainy morning, Sunday morning, and I saw skeletons and ghouls and ghosts and goblins and heads and bones and graves. Folks, no child of God would even fake that being involved in such a worldly demonic holiday is okay. And I've even heard them say, well we didn't do the bad stuff. Our kid was in Star Wars, or we dressed him as Cinderella or John the Baptist. Do you know why people who call themselves Christians continue to do things worldly things like that? Because they don't know the doctrines of the Word. And see, when you don't know the doctrines of the Word, the Holy Spirit does not have any impetus to say to you, that's wrong, don't do that, that's wrong, don't go there, don't do this, don't do that. So when the Bible says in the latter time some shall depart from the faith, didn't say the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, and many will depart from that faith while they keep their other faith. Well, now I'm going to dig myself a hole, a grave. Last week I was in Romans chapter 11. I'm going back there today. I've really wrestled. I've struggled with this, but I've learned I'd rather obey God than get corrected by God. So, it's taken me a long time to come to this conclusion right here. I mentioned replacement theology last week, which is the teaching, the doctrine that the church has taken Israel's place, that God is finished with Israel. They kind of disobeyed themselves out of the picture. So, they call it replacement theology. And I mentioned last week that they have another term now called fulfillment theology, which means that the church, which is Jews and Gentiles who are saved by grace, are now Israel. I believe that this is a doctrine of the devil. I believe this is a teaching of demons. Never said it in my whole life from a pulpit, and I know it's going everywhere right now. I do not believe that God is a liar. God said to Abraham, through your seed, all the nations of the earth are going to be blessed, and he meant it all the way down through the millennial reign of Christ. God made a promise to Abraham that he would have a biological, physiological, seed, descendants from his own loins. The church did not take Israel's place. Jews who get saved are now in the church, along with the Gentiles. But to say that God changed his mind and changed his covenant is to say that God is not the same yesterday, today and forever, and that God made a promise that he will not keep. God is not whimsical. God is not capricious. If God has done away with Israel, God lied to Abraham. That's where we go to the Scriptures. You ready? Thank you. You can handle this.

So we go to Romans chapter 11, and I can't wait to get to the office tomorrow morning, and the remainder of the week, so I may not come. I started last week in verse 11. Now this is God's word, and I've got a point to prove, so I'm not going to rush through this. Paul said, I say then, have they? That's Israel. Do you know he took three chapters to write about God's covenant with Israel? Three. I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not, but through their fall to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Hallelujah. Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness? What's going to happen when the sanctified seed of Abraham comes to life is spared during the tribulation and comes to the throne during the Millennial reign, when all the nations of the earth will be blessed because of them? All right, verse 13, ready? For I speak to you, Gentiles. For I speak to you, replacement theology Gentiles. For I speak to you, fulfillment theology Gentiles. provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, who is that? Israel. Paul said, "How can you say he's done with Israel? I'm an Israelite. I'm still preaching." If by any means I might provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. For if their being cast away is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy. And if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, folks, we're here because of Israel. I guess I was just expected more of a response than that. Everything we have, everything we are, everything we know about God is because of Israel. Okay. Verse 18, "Do not boast against the branches." Do not boast against the branches, but if you do boast, you know what he means, don't you? Don't say we're in there out. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. Will said, "Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty but fear." Fear? Yeah. For all those people say, "We're in, we're safe. I got it. Can't lose it." He said, "Are you kidding me? You better keep walking by faith, and you better keep obeying, and you better walk in the fear of Almighty God."

For if God did not spare the natural branches, he may not spare you either. Ooh. So for all my once saved, always saved friends or former friends, what are you going to do with that scripture right there? What are you going to do? If God did not spare the natural branches, he may not spare you either. And for those of you that believe that wherever you're watching from, when you say, "Yeah, God got rid of them. They were too disobedient, and he turned to the church, then if he could do it for them, he might do it for you." He might say, "You're too disobedient. You're hard-headed and stiff-necked. I think I'll just turn you over. Therefore, consider the goodness and the severity of God on those who fail severity." Oh yeah, he was rough. But toward you, goodness if you continue in his goodness, otherwise you also will be cut off. Folks, I don't know how to say this any other way, and someone sent a nasty text the other day and said, "I realize now you only have about 50 sermons," and he said, "I've listened to, for several years, you only have about 50 sermons. You say the same thing over and over." I wanted to text back because you know why, don't you? But I didn't. What I wanted to text back was, "How many sermons did John the Baptist have?" "Repent, repent, repent, repent, repent, repent." I'm not trying to write a book. I'm not trying to get a series together. I'm not trying to get a spiral notebook full of images of last day events. I'm trying to get a church ready for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's all I care about. If you continue in the faith, glad I'm saved, well, you better fight the good fight of faith." When you go to the very next chapter, he said, "Therefore, I beg you, present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy, acceptable unto God." That's your reasonable service. Brother, you ain't home yet. Here we go. If you continue in His goodness, otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to grab them in. Drop down. Verse 25, "I do not desire, rather than that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until

the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. Oh, I don't have time. I don't have time. But one of these days it could be today, the very last Gentile, is going to say, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner." And when he does the trumpet's going to sound, and the times of the Gentiles will be over. Somebody say, "Man, stand with me, please." Now I'll be accused of skipping around, but hang on. Verse 26, "So all Israel will be saved." That doesn't mean every Jew. That means those Israelites who are purified during the tribulation, one-third of them will be left, and they will come forth pure as gold, and they will be saved, and they will enjoy the blessings of Abraham, and we will enjoy their blessings for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. That's what it says. God cannot lie. God does not change. So what I want to do now is finish the way we started. I want us to say together, out loud with vigor, beginning with verse 33. There it is. Ready? O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out, for who has known the mind of the Lord, who has become His counselor, who has first given to Him, and it shall be repaid to Him, for all of Him, through Him, and to Him are all things to whom be glory, forever, amen. We pray that today as you watch Pastor Livingston's message, you will be encouraged and ready to dig deeper into a life with Jesus. To help you on this journey, Central has two resources for you. First, you can sign up to receive Central's jail and prison correspondence course through the mail by writing to Central Church Jail and Prison Ministries Discipleship Center 5143

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