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To Be Filled With The Holy Spirit - Keep His Commandments | Episode #410 | Encore Episode #081 · 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: 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: If you love me, you will keep my commandments, and
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  Speaker 2: I will ask the Father and he will give you
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  Speaker 2: another counselor to be with you forever. He is the
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  Speaker 2: spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive him
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  Speaker 2: because it doesn't see him or know him. But you
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  Speaker 2: do know him because he remains with you and will
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  Speaker 2: be in you. I will not leave you as orphans.
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  Speaker 2: I am coming to you John fourteen and verses fifteen
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  Speaker 2: through eighteen. We have discussed the coming of the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit we have discovered many areas within the lives of
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  Speaker 2: believers where the fullness of the Spirit is so important
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  Speaker 2: in their daily life. It is the essence of the
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  Speaker 2: Christians living abiding with in the Holy Spirit, is the
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  Speaker 2: means of being able to do the works that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: has already commanded us to do. Notice that in the
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  Speaker 2: verse that we read in John fourteen he uses the
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  Speaker 2: term if you love me, you will keep my commands.
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  Speaker 2: How was the Holy Spirit this counselor comforter harrocleek, and
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  Speaker 2: has been referred to in many versions of scripture? How
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  Speaker 2: was it bestowed from heaven? You know, a tree always
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  Speaker 2: lives according to the nature of the sea from which
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  Speaker 2: it grew. Every living being is always guided and governed
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  Speaker 2: by the nature which it received at its birth. The
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  Speaker 2: Church received the promise of her growth by the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit on the day of her birth. It is important
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  Speaker 2: for us to turn back often to the day of
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  Speaker 2: Pentecost and not to rest until we thoroughly understand, receive,
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  Speaker 2: and experience what God did for his people on that day.
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  Speaker 2: The hearts of the disciples were ready to receive the spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know what we must do to enjoy the
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  Speaker 2: same blessing. The first Disciples served as our examples on
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  Speaker 2: the way to the fullness of the spirit. What enabled
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  Speaker 2: them to become the recipients of these heavenly gifts and
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  Speaker 2: what made them acceptable vessels for the habitation of God.
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  Speaker 2: The right answer to this question will help us on
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  Speaker 2: the way to being filled with the Holy Spirit. You see,
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  Speaker 2: his first disciples were deeply attached to the Lord. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: the Son of God, came into the world in order
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  Speaker 2: to unite the divine life which he had with the
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  Speaker 2: Father with the life of man. In this way, the
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  Speaker 2: life of God could penetrate into the life of his creation.
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  Speaker 2: When he had completed the work by his obedience, death,
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  Speaker 2: and resurrection, he was exalted to the throne of God
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  Speaker 2: on high. This was done in order that in spiritual power,
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  Speaker 2: his disciples and church might participate in his very own life.
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  Speaker 2: We read that the Holy Spirit was not yet because
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was not yet glorified in John seven thirty nine.
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  Speaker 2: It was only after his glorification that the spirit of
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  Speaker 2: the complete indwelling of God and Man could be given.
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  Speaker 2: It is the spirit of the glorified Jesus that the
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  Speaker 2: disciples received on the day of Pentecost, his spirit penetrated
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  Speaker 2: all the members of his body. If the fullness of
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit dwells in Jesus, a personal relationship to him
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  Speaker 2: is the first condition for the reception of the full
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  Speaker 2: gift of the comforter. It was to attain this end
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  Speaker 2: that the Lord Jesus kept the disciples in close fellowship
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  Speaker 2: with himself. He desired to attach them to himself. He
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  Speaker 2: wanted them to truly feel one with him. He wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to identify themselves with him. As far as this
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  Speaker 2: was possible by knowledge, love, and obedience, they became inwardly
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  Speaker 2: knit to him. This was the preparation for participating in
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of his glorification. The lesson that is taught
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  Speaker 2: to us here is extremely simple, but it is one
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  Speaker 2: of profound significance. Many Christians believe in the Lord, are
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  Speaker 2: zealous in his service and eagerly desire to become holy,
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  Speaker 2: and who yet do not succeed in their endeavor. It
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  Speaker 2: often seems as if they could not understand the promise
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  Speaker 2: of the Spirit. The thought of being filled with the
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  Speaker 2: Spirit exercises little influence on them. The reason is obvious.
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  Speaker 2: They lack that personal relationship to the Lord Jesus, the
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  Speaker 2: inward attachment to him, that perfectly natural reference to him
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  Speaker 2: as the best and nearest friend, as the beloved Lord,
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  Speaker 2: which was so characteristic of the early disciples. This is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely indispensable. Only a heart that is entirely occupied with
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  Speaker 2: the Lord and depends entirely on him can hope for
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  Speaker 2: the fullness of the spirit. You see, they left everything
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  Speaker 2: for Jesus. Have you ever heard the expression nothing for nothing?
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  Speaker 2: This proverb contains a deep truth. A thing that costs
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  Speaker 2: nothing may nevertheless cost me much. It may bring me
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  Speaker 2: under an obligation to the giver, and so it could
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  Speaker 2: cost me more than it is worked. I may have
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  Speaker 2: so much trouble in appropriating it and keeping it that
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  Speaker 2: I may pay much more for it than the price
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  Speaker 2: which should be asked for it. Again, nothing for nothing,
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  Speaker 2: this maxim holds good also in the life of the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom of Heaven. The parables, especially of the Pearl of
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  Speaker 2: Great Christ and the Treasure hid in a Field, teach
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  Speaker 2: us that in order to obtain possession of the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: within us, we must sell all that we have. This
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  Speaker 2: is the renunciation that Jesus literally demanded of his disciples,
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  Speaker 2: who had to follow him. This is the requirement he
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  Speaker 2: so often repeated in his preaching. Whosoever he be of you,
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  Speaker 2: that forsaketh not all that he had, he cannot be
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  Speaker 2: my disciple. From Luke, chapter fourteen and verse thirty three
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  Speaker 2: in the King James' version, the two worlds between which
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  Speaker 2: we stand are in direct conflict with one another. The
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  Speaker 2: world we live in exercises such a mighty influence over
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  Speaker 2: us that it is often necessary for us to withdraw
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  Speaker 2: from it. Jesus trained his disciples to long for that
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  Speaker 2: which is heavenly. Only then could he prepare them to
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  Speaker 2: desire and receive the heavenly gift with an undivided heart.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord has left us no outward directions as to
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  Speaker 2: how much of the world we are to abandon, or
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  Speaker 2: in what manner. In his word, he teaches us that
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  Speaker 2: without sacrifice, without a deliberate separation from the world, we
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  Speaker 2: will never make much progress in grace. The spirit of
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  Speaker 2: this world has penetrated into us so deeply that we
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  Speaker 2: do not even observe it. We share in its desire
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  Speaker 2: for comfort and enjoyment, for self pleasing and self exultation,
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  Speaker 2: without our knowing how impossible these things make. It for
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  Speaker 2: us to be filled with the spirit. Let us learn
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  Speaker 2: from the early Disciples that to be filled from the
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  Speaker 2: heavenly world with the Spirit, we must entirely separate from
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  Speaker 2: the children of this world or from worldly Christians. We
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  Speaker 2: must be willing to live as entirely different men and
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  Speaker 2: women who literally represent Heaven on earth, because we have
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  Speaker 2: received the spirit of the King of Heaven again. If
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  Speaker 2: you love me, you will keep my commandments, and I
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  Speaker 2: will ask the Father, and he will give you another
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  Speaker 2: counselor to be with you forever. He is the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of truth. The world is unable to receive him because
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't see him or know him. But you do
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  Speaker 2: know him. And because he remains with you and will
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  Speaker 2: be in you, I will not leave you as orphans.
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  Speaker 2: I am coming to you. That scripture continues with the
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  Speaker 2: following verse. In a little while, the world will see
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  Speaker 2: me no longer, but you will see me. Because I live,
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  Speaker 2: You will live also. In that day. You will know
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  Speaker 2: that I am in my Father. You are in me,
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  Speaker 2: and I am in you. The one who has my
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  Speaker 2: commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.
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  Speaker 2: And the one who loves me will be loved by
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  Speaker 2: my Father. I also will love him and will reveal
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  Speaker 2: myself to him John fourteen, nineteen through twenty one.
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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: Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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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: You see, believer, it is so important for us to
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  Speaker 2: recognize that the world offers many things that will distract
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  Speaker 2: us from the Kingdom of Heaven. We are only pilgrims
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  Speaker 2: in this land. We seek a heavenly home, a home
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  Speaker 2: whose builder and maker is God, a home that is
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  Speaker 2: not made by human hands, but a home that was
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  Speaker 2: fashioned by the creator of the entire universe. And that
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  Speaker 2: is today's reflection on the Word.
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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 Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K or Richard on the entire team. This is
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Word.