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Slaves to Sin or Slaves to Righteousness | Episode #416 | Encore Episode #087 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and story along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 1: program anytime online at Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the wages of sin is death, but the gift
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  Speaker 2: of God is eternal life. In Christ Jesus our Lord Romans,
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  Speaker 2: chapter six and verse twenty three, there is a portion
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  Speaker 2: of this particular scripture that brings us to a greater
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  Speaker 2: understanding of the wonderful, magnificent life in the fullness of God.
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  Speaker 2: And I need to bring us back that portion of
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  Speaker 2: this scripture that we just read showed us that what
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  Speaker 2: we should be paid for our sin in our old
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  Speaker 2: nature is death, eternal death, separation from God, not just
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  Speaker 2: physical death, but spiritual death, complete separation from the God
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  Speaker 2: who created all the universe, everything that we can even
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  Speaker 2: begin to imagine. We cannot even comprehend his creation. But
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  Speaker 2: the scripture says in Romans six point twenty three, for
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  Speaker 2: the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
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  Speaker 2: God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord. This
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  Speaker 2: passage of scripture has been used many times in pointing
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  Speaker 2: out the condition of man before he comes to the
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  Speaker 2: realization of his sin, and it is a following in
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  Speaker 2: what has been referred to as the Roman road, where
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  Speaker 2: we have discussed that there is a payment for sin.
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  Speaker 2: There's an earlier passage that we find in Roman's three.
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  Speaker 2: And also as we look in verse twenty three, it says,
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  Speaker 2: for all have sinned and falls short of the glory
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  Speaker 2: of God. So everyone has sinned, and then the wages
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  Speaker 2: of sin is death. But then the marvelous appropriation is
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  Speaker 2: the gift of God, which is eternal life in Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: our Lord. It is in Christ Jesus that there is
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  Speaker 2: eternal life. And yet we need to look at this
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  Speaker 2: passage as it unfolds, going back into the portion in
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  Speaker 2: Romans chapter six, beginning with the twelfth verse. Therefore, do
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  Speaker 2: not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that
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  Speaker 2: you obey its desires, and do not offer any parts
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  Speaker 2: of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as
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  Speaker 2: those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God,
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  Speaker 2: and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons
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  Speaker 2: for righteousness. For sin will not rule over you, because
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  Speaker 2: you are not under law but under grace. What then,
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  Speaker 2: should we sin, because we are not under law but
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  Speaker 2: under grace? Absolutely not. Do you not know that if
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  Speaker 2: you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are
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  Speaker 2: slaves of that one you obey, either of sin leading
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  Speaker 2: to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness. But thank
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  Speaker 2: God that although you used to be slaves of sin,
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  Speaker 2: you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you
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  Speaker 2: were entrusted to, and having been liberated from sin, you
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  Speaker 2: became enslaves to righteousness. I am using a human analogy
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  Speaker 2: because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as
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  Speaker 2: you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral
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  Speaker 2: in purity and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now
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  Speaker 2: offered them as slaves to righteousness. Which results in sanctification.
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  Speaker 2: For when you were slaves of sin, you were free
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  Speaker 2: from allegiance to righteousness. And what fruit was produced then
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  Speaker 2: from the things you are now ashamed of, For the
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  Speaker 2: end of those things is dead. But now since you
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  Speaker 2: have been liberated from sin and become enslaved to God,
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  Speaker 2: you have your fruit, which results in sanctification. And the
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  Speaker 2: end is eternal life.
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  Speaker 3: And that is Romans six and then chapter following twelve frud.
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  Speaker 3: As we look the end coming to Roman sixty twenty three,
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  Speaker 3: it is important for us to understand this particular scripture.
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  Speaker 3: It is referring to how we recognize we are crucified
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  Speaker 3: with Christ. How are we being transformed? Remember we read
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  Speaker 3: earlier that we are actually in Christ Jesus, if we
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  Speaker 3: have received him as Lord. You see, believer, there are
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  Speaker 3: people who believe Jesus is the Savior. They believe he's
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  Speaker 3: the Messiah, but they haven't turned over the lordship of
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  Speaker 3: their life. They are still living according to their old
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  Speaker 3: nature and its desires. As a matter of fact, as
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  Speaker 3: we just read, they were enslave to sin. But because
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  Speaker 3: they are in Christ Jesus, those who have the spirit
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  Speaker 3: of Christ in them, those believers are now free from
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  Speaker 3: the law of sin and death. They are able to
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  Speaker 3: completely be surrendered, and as this passage refers to us
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  Speaker 3: no longer as slaves to sin, but slaves to righteousness.
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  Speaker 3: Notice that the term is used similarly to describe our position.
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  Speaker 3: Once we were enslaved to sin, the bondage of sin
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  Speaker 3: kept us captive to the old nature, and that would
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  Speaker 3: lead to our spiritual death. We would then be eternally
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  Speaker 3: separated from God. As we read in Romans six twenty three,
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  Speaker 3: the wages or the payment that we will receive for
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  Speaker 3: the sin that we are able to identify that is death.
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  Speaker 3: But the gift of God is eternal life. In Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 3: our Lord, it is in Christ Jesus that we are
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  Speaker 3: eternally saved. But here's an interesting thought in this passage
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  Speaker 3: that we read. We were once enslaved to sin, and
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  Speaker 3: now we are enslaved to righteousness. What does that mean
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  Speaker 3: when we think about our rights? Does a slave have rights?
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  Speaker 3: Think about that for just a moment. Does a slave
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  Speaker 3: have rights or does the slave live according to the
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  Speaker 3: command and direction of his master. The answer is obvious,
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  Speaker 3: a slave has no rights. And it's an interesting thing
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  Speaker 3: that there is both of those applications for the same individual.
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  Speaker 3: Once we were enslaved to sin, and that brought about death.
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  Speaker 3: But now in Jesus' Christ, our Lord, we are set
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  Speaker 3: free from the law of sin and death. We are
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  Speaker 3: given eternal life because we are now enslaved to him.
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  Speaker 3: Do you recognize that there is a difference. If we
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  Speaker 3: are truly.
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  Speaker 2: Enslaved to the Lord Jesus, we are his bond servant, purchased,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, by his precious blood. We do not
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  Speaker 2: belong to ourselves. We belong to him. We don't have
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  Speaker 2: any rights, We have no means of being able to
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  Speaker 2: claim anything that this world offers. Does God provide it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Will he give us everything we need? Certainly, But it
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  Speaker 2: is not according to our plan. It is according to
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  Speaker 2: his plan. Will he reveal his plan to us? Certainly?
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  Speaker 2: He will reveal it to us in the same manner
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  Speaker 2: that we surrender our will to him. We must submit
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  Speaker 2: ourselves to him. We must constantly be made knowledgeable that
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  Speaker 2: we do not belong to ourself. We no longer serve ourself,
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  Speaker 2: We no longer look for those things that please us.
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  Speaker 2: We only live to serve the Living God. We are
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  Speaker 2: slaves to him. Now here is a very interesting comparison.
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  Speaker 2: Because we are in Christ Jesus, we have inherited eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: We read earlier in a segment that we are already
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  Speaker 2: seated with him in heavenly place. Is we have the
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  Speaker 2: richness of all of His glory living right now through us,
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  Speaker 2: so that others can be able to glorify him. We
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  Speaker 2: live now not as those who have free will. We
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  Speaker 2: live as slaves to the one who gives us eternal
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  Speaker 2: freedom in life abundant with him.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: like to acknowledge our theme song, how Great is Thy
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  Speaker 1: Express scriptures are read from the Home and Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: which is published by Homan Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: and printed by Discovery House Publishers. Again here is Richard
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: Believer, don't be led astray. Don't think that you can
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  Speaker 2: have accomplishment in this world and fullness of God in
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  Speaker 2: our life. Now we must die so that He will live.
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  Speaker 2: But we are not dying in the manner that we
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  Speaker 2: hear dead. We no longer fear dead. Why Because Jesus
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  Speaker 2: conquered death when he was raised from the dead, death
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  Speaker 2: no longer had dominion over him, and if we are
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  Speaker 2: in him, death no longer has dominion over us. But
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  Speaker 2: we are his slaves. And because we are able to submit,
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  Speaker 2: surrender our lives totally to him, we then are called
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  Speaker 2: sons and daughters of God. It's amazing that we go
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  Speaker 2: from being slaves or bond servants to the inheritors of
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  Speaker 2: sonship all because of him. It is not anything we do,
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  Speaker 2: it is not anything we deserve. He provides everything that
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  Speaker 2: is eternally glorifying to the Father, and that today is
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  Speaker 2: what we see as we desire to be full of him.
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  Speaker 2: That is today's reflection on the work.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Work with
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  Speaker 1: Richard k or Richard the entire team. This is Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition and Reflections
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  Speaker 1: on the Word