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Ephesians chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Ephesians chapter 4. Let us pray.
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  Oh Lord God Almighty, we love you father, we love everything
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  about you. God, we thank you for salvation.
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  We thank you God for these eternal words that we hold in
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  our hands. Lord, we pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem today. Thank you God for setting the
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  captives free. Thank you Father, I pray in the
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  name of Jesus that you, you will help us, Lord, to be your hands
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  and feet today. I thank you God that you have
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  given us the mind of Christ. Thank you God that we can serve
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  you, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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  We attach ourselves to the natural Father.
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  We love you Father, we love everything about you.
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  Thank you God for our eternal salvation and inheritance, Lord,
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  and our destination. God there with you, but help us
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  to wait well in the middle, Father, pull out the dross and
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  the purities. Father, I pray that you will
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  make us more like Christ today. Holy Spirit, come and teach us
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  and guide us and then dwell us overflowing.
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  Lord, we love you, King Jesus, it's all about you.
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  King Jesus, I pray as we open up your word today that you, Lord,
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  will be magnified and glorified in the highest and exalted over
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  all people groups, every nationality in every continent.
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  God, the judeo-christian values, Lord, propagated throughout all
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  the earth. Father, I pray that you'll break
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  down all of the opposition. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you, Lord, will reign supreme, high and lifted up
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  above all principalities over all of the rulers.
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  Lord, I pray that you help us to love you and to love well.
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  Lord, help us to speak truth and love.
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  We thank you, God, for all of the words, all the syllables,
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  every jot and every title. God, I pray that we will be
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  ministers of reconciliation and peacemakers, God, and then we
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  will be conquerors, Lord, and that we will go out into the
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  highways and the hedges and snatch those that are dying,
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  Father, and that are perishing. Lord, help us to speak truth
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  over them. Help us to lead them in the ways
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  of everlasting. Lord, I pray that they'll grab a
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  hold of your garment and be saved.
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  Help us, Father God, to know that you are working mightily
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  all around us, Lord, that there is this angelic host, God, that
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  is encompassing us in fighting the battles all around us.
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  Lord, I pray that we can be the model Father that you have
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  chosen to display your glory through to all the angelic
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  hosts. We love you, Father.
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  We love everything about you, God, you, you are incredible,
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  Lord, it's all about you. It's always been about you, King
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  Jesus, and we love you. And it's in your holy and
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  precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one there I therefore the prisoner of the
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  Lord, beg you that you walk worthy of the vocation where you
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  are called. So Paul here is telling us that
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  we have a grave responsibility whenever we are in dwelled with
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  the Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit has given us the power to
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  go out in to the entire world to take the whole word to it.
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  Friends, and far be it from us to be sitting on our blessed
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  assurance. I pray that we do not take the
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  plow and then look back and look left or right.
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  Help us to lock eyes with Jesus and not to be distracted.
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  Friends, we have such a wonderful, wonderful inheritance
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  in Christ Jesus and we are indwelled with the Holy Spirit
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  and it's 1000 wonders when the triune nature of God comes to
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  indwell humanity, that we do not just burst asunder, that we do
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  not just burst into a billion particles.
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  Friends 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering,
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  forbearing one another in love. It is that love, friends, and
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  that is what Christ exuded and exhibited in His lowliness and
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  meekness, and that is why we are called to this lowliness and
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  meekness, friends. We are not to try to be proud
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  and boastful, That is not from God.
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  We are not to try to make more of ourselves than we ought.
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  That is not from God, friends. We are lowly and we are meek,
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  and that is where His power is on display.
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  It is in our weakness, friends, that He is made strong.
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  Three, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond
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  of peace. That's what happens when the
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  Spirit shows up, when the Holy Ghost is in the room.
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  There is freedom, there's peace. And if you find disunity and if
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  you find discord, it is because we have grieved the Holy Spirit.
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  Four, There is one body and one Spirit, even as you are called
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  in one hope of your calling. 51 Lord and one faith and 1
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  baptism. 6 And one God and Father of all, who is above all
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  and through all, and in you all. Think about that, friends.
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  God Almighty is above every single person, place, thing,
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  planet, particle. There is nothing higher than God
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  Almighty. He spoke it all into existence
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  and that is who we are attached to.
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  What a wonderful, marvelous mystery revealed to us in Christ
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  Jesus as we are indwelled with the Holy Spirit.
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  And you can see it is of 1 accord.
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  And it is a wonderful thing whenever the same Spirit reveals
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  the same things to people on different sides of the globe.
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  And it is proof that we serve 1 Spirit, the Holy Spirit that
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  indwells US. 7 But unto everyone of us is given grace according
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  to the measure of the gift of Christ.
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  So we can see here that Christ is the one that gives out all of
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  the giftings and it is for the purposes of of the building up
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  of the church. And he knows exactly what needs
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  to be given in order for the completeness of the church.
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  And think about it, friends, there are many people who have
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  gone before us who have died out, and as they die, those
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  giftings do not die out with them.
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  The Lord is well pleased to give them to others in the body of
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  Christ, as time goes on, until his blessed return. 8 Wherefore
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  he said, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive,
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  and gave gifts unto men. We can see here that Christ
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  Jesus went down into Abraham's bosom, and he preached to all of
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  the souls there, and he led a captivity out of that place,
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  friends, into paradise. 9 Now that he ascended, what is it but
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  that he also descended first into the lower parts of the
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  earth? That is what happened on silent
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  Saturday. So Friday he hung on the cross,
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  Saturday he snatched the keys and he preached there, and he
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  led a procession out friends. And on Sunday he resurrected and
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  appeared before many, before he ascended to the right hand of
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  God to prepare a place for us. And he is coming on the clouds,
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  and we will see him, and we will go to be with Him forevermore,
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  and we will rule and reign with him for the 1000 years.
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  And then we will go into the New Jerusalem.
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  And there is no need for a temple because He's there.
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  There's no need for light, He is there. 10 He that descended is
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  the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He
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  might fill all things. So that is what you need to
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  understand is that we are seated with Him in heavenly places and
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  you need to understand that Jesus Christ is above all, and
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  it is the name above all names, the Lord Yeshua. 11 And He gave
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  some apostles and some prophets, some evangelists and some
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  pastors and teachers. So you need to understand our
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  identity is not in the giftings. Our identity is in Christ Jesus.
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  And if you make it all about these giftings, the little bit
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  that you have will be taken from you. 12 for the perfecting of
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  the Saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of
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  the body of Christ. That's what it's all about,
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  friends. It's all about Christ.
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  And he desires to use the capital C Church, the ekklesi of
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  the called out ones to be his body, to take all of the word to
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  the entire world for us to go, friends 13 till we all come in
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  the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God
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  unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the
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  fullness of Christ. So that is what it's all leading
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  up to this culmination. And right now we can only see
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  darkly and dimly and impart. But one day we will see the
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  fullness of Jesus Christ. This Jewish rabbi, friends, who
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  took humanity into heaven, friends, and he is the first
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  born in the same power that resurrected Jesus Christ lives
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  inside of you and inside of me in the deposit of the Holy
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  Spirit. 14 that we from now on be no more children, tossed to
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  and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the
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  sleight of men and the cunning craftiness whereby they lie in
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  wait to deceive. You need to understand that
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  Satan masquerades himself as an Angel of light.
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  You need to understand that there are many ravenous wolves
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  in sheep's clothing and they desire to drag you away with all
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  of their debating and with all of their little craftiness, and
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  they mix just enough of the truth in to lead you astray.
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  But it is being rooted and grounded in the Word of God that
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  will protect us from the counterfeit.
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  And we need not be like little children, but we need to grow up
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  and be men friends. And we need to be those that do
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  not reason and talk like a little child.
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  But when we became men, we do away with childish things.
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  And like James tells us, do not be tossed to and fro by every
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  wind of doctrine, by every single wind of theology.
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  This new age garbage that comes in and has replacement theology
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  and all of this stuff that tries to get us to get our minds off
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  of the plain truth of God's Word.
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  But we must be in God's Word to protect ourselves from all of
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  these heresies and for us not to become the apostate church
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  friends, and for us to believe in all the cultural norms,
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  friends, that tell us that the Word of God was for a different
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  time and written by man. Friends, we do not need to just
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  think that this Word of God is not infallible or inerrant.
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  It is inspired and it is useful for the saving of men's souls.
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  And the Word of God became alive friends.
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  The Word of God became flesh friends, and it dwelt among men.
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  His name is Jesus. And we followed Jesus all the
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  way to the end. And we stand on the rock, and we
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  stand on the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation.
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  Nothing added and nothing subtracted.
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  It's not the Word of God plus anything else.
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  Do not give in to their cunning craftiness.
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  Do not give in to the slight of men and every wind of doctrine.
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  Don't be tossed to and fro from every little new thing that
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  comes out. It is the Rock of Ages that we
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  attach ourselves to. 15 But speaking the truth in love may
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  grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.
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  Jesus Christ is the head of the body, friends.
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  We have the mind of Christ, friends, and we need to speak
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  the truth in love. It is not hatefulness that is
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  useful. Hate never won anybody over.
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  It's the love of God that gets people to see the error of their
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  way. Speak the truth in love, but we
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  must speak the truth. You do not want to love somebody
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  into hell by keeping the truth from them. 16 From whom the
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  whole body fits jointly together, and compacted by the
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  which every joint supplies according to the effectual
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  working in the measure of every part, making increase of the
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  body unto the edifying of itself in love.
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  That's what it's all about, friends.
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  If you will follow the Lord Jesus Christ, then you will have
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  the love of God in you, and you will be able to build up others,
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  and you will be useful for him in your little short life.
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  You will find that he accomplishes much. 17 This I say
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  therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from now on walk
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  not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind.
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  He's going to tell us here that it is in the mind that we win or
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  lose the battle, friends. And you can be blood bought,
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  born again, and you could be sealed with the Holy Spirit and
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  grieve the Holy Spirit and lose all of the battles that keep
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  coming your way. And the enemy cannot snatch you
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  out of God's hand, but he sure can get you to make a mess of
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  your testimony where you're not useful for the Kingdom of God.
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  And it does not mean that he loves you any less, but he's
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  just going to use you less. Friends do not have this vanity
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  of mind. It is not our inheritance.
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  We are indwelled with the Holy Spirit, 18 having the
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  understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God
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  through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of
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  their heart. That is what happens whenever we
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  refuse to get into the Word of God.
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  We refuse to assemble, as some are in the habit of when we were
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  forsake the assembling, friends. This is what happens when we do
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  not pray in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit, friends.
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  We get LED off into all of these carnal, lustful, fleshy ways,
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  these earthy ways, friends. And He's telling us that that is
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  not our inheritance, that there's so much more available
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  to the believer than even what we can comprehend. 19 who being
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  past feeling, have given themselves over unto lusting to
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  work all uncleanliness with greediness.
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  Paul hits the nail on the head and he tells us what it's all
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  about, Friends. This greed, this lusting, this
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  uncleanliness. It is unbecoming of a St.
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  Friends, it is not how we are to operate and there are many who
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  are selling their birthright for a mess of pottage.
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  And far be it from us. To not be full of the Holy Ghost
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  is available to us, and it always goes back to this loving
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  and serving of Mammon. You can see it.
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  And we want this world and the world to come, and it doesn't
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  work that way. You have to choose you whom you
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  will serve this day. But As for me and my house, we
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  will serve the Lord. 20 But you have not so learned Christ.
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  He's saying you didn't choose Christ, he chose you. 21 If so,
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  be that you have heard him and have been taught by him, as the
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  truth is in Jesus. Jesus Christ is the truth the
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  way in the life 22 that you put off concerning the former
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  conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the
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  deceitful lust. Listen, when you became a born
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  again believer, the old man was dead, but we still battle the
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  flesh. But you will learn that the
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  Romans 7 Christian can become the Romans 8 Christian and have
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  victory over this flesh. But we are not the old man, we
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  are regenerated. 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your
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  mind. So we know that we do not need
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  to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the
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  renewing of your mind, which is allowing the Word of God to wash
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  over your mind. And it is such a tactic of the
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  enemy to get us not to pick up our Bibles and to read them, but
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  instead He gets us to just be amused and entertained in the
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  things of this world. And far be it from us to be so
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  carnally minded, far be it from us to not understand what is
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  available to us in the Holy Spirit through Christ. 24 that
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  you put on the new man, which after God is created in
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  righteousness and true holiness. This is the new creation that is
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  spoken of. If anyone is in Christ, he is a
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  new creation. The old has passed away.
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  Behold the new has come, and it is Christ holiness in Christ
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  righteousness. It is Christ innocence.
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  It is Christ perfection and purity that we can have, and
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  that we can stand before an almighty holy God and be seen as
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  perfect and holy because of what Christ Jesus did for US. 25
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  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his
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  neighbor, for we are members one of another.
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  We cannot let cancer come into the bones, friends.
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  We do not need to have those that are puffed up and those
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  that are deceitful and those that try to sow seeds of discord
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  and stir the pot within the camp.
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  Friends, we are of one mind and one spirit and one body.
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  We are the bride of Christ. We do not allow all of this
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  descent. We do not allow the division,
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  friends. 26 Be angry and sin not, not let the sun go down
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  upon your wrath. 27 Neither give place to the devil.
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  That is what you need to understand.
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  It is not a sin to be angry. It is a sin for us to act
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  wrathfully and disobedient in that anger.
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  God gives us testosterone for a reason, and a strong man keepeth
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  his house. It is not a sin to be angry,
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  friends. It is a sin to allow the sun to
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  go down whenever you are angry, and to give the devil a foothold
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  in the door jamb, and his whole body will come in. 28 Let him
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  that stole steal no more, but rather let him labor working
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  with his hands. The thing which is good that he
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  may have to give to him, that needs not only is the restored,
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  regenerated man to work, but he is to work to the degree that he
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  has not only enough for himself, but enough to give to the needy.
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  29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but
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  that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister
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  grace to the hearers. This is what you need to
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  understand. This is where the Bible tells us
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  not to cuss, not to use profanity.
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  We are to let every single thing that comes out of our mouth be
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  for the edification of others. That is what you need to
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  understand. Let no unwholesome talk come out
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  of your mouth, but only that which is useful for the building
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  up of others. Don't let these off colored
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  jokes come out of your mouth. It is not becoming of a St.
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  indwelled with the Holy Ghost. Can Christ and Belial share the
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  same space? Absolutely not 30 and grieve not
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  the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of
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  redemption. So when you gave your life over
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  to the Lord Jesus Christ, He sent you the Holy Spirit, and it
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  is a down payment for what is to come.
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  He promises you the fullness of what we can only see in part
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  now. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit.
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  When the Holy Spirit whispers to you in the still small voice and
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  convicts you of the things that you said or are thinking or are
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  doing, make sure you are repentant and confess those
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  things before Almighty God receive forgiveness for them.
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  Do not grieve the Holy Spirit into silence, and do not sear
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  your conscience where you no longer are hearing that still
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  small voice. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger
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  and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all
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  malice. These are not becoming of the
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  Saint indwelled with the Holy Spirit.
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  We do not need to have bitterness, friends.
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  We do not need to be wrathful. We do not need to sin in our
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  anger. We do not need to have clamour
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  and evil speaking. Put it all away, friends, put it
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  behind you and walk in the Spirit and do not satisfy.
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  The lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride
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  of life is not from God. We'll end on 32 and you be kind
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  one to another, be tender hearted, forgiving one another
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  even as God forgave you for Christ's sake.
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  How can you expect to be forgiven if you will not forgive
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  others? It is a sure mark of somebody
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  who is not indwelled with the Holy Ghost when they are
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  harboring unforgiveness in their heart.
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  Let it go friends. Do not find your identity in the
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  things that have happened to you.
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  Do not. We can love people from a
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  distance and forgive them completely and fully.
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  And it is for Christ's sake that you are forgiven.
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  This is not what you've done. You are not that wonderful.
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  It is for Christ's sake that you are pure and holy.
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  It is because of Christ's innocent life, an innocent
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  sacrifice, that you and I can be forgiven.
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  We had a debt that we could never pay back, the sin debt,
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  trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars worth of
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  debt that we could never pay back.
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  And the interest was compounding on all of it.
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  And it kept increasing and increasing and increasing, and
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  we were overwhelmed in it and there was nothing we could ever
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  do. And Christ said paid in full.
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  And that is why we serve him wholeheartedly.
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  And this little bit of life that we have left, we count it all as
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  nothing in comparison to what Christ has done for us.
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  And we are His unprofitable servants that have only done
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  which was our reasonable service unto Him because of what He did
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  for us. I love you, I'm praying for you.
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  God bless you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow.