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Triumphant Joy, Part 2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Are you weary of the cycle, promising to do better
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  Speaker 1: only to fall back into the same patterns? Tired of
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  Speaker 1: carrying the weight of guilt and shame from poor choices?
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter 5 brings liberating news. Today on Insight for Living,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Swindoll reveals how Paul transitions from man's hopeless condition
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  Speaker 1: to the stunning reality of what happens when Christ enters
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  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't about trying harder.
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  Speaker 1: It's about discovering three immediate benefits that transform everything. For
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  Speaker 1: anyone drowning in self-condemnation, Romans 5 offers the lifeline you've
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  Speaker 1: been desperately seeking. Chuck titled today's message, Triumphant Joy.
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  Speaker 2: Hope naturally would make you jubilate. But tribulation?
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  Speaker 3: Look at verse 3. Not only this, but we also
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  Speaker 3: triumphantly rejoice in tribulation. The old country preacher said, when
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  Speaker 3: the Lord sends you tribulation, you're supposed to tribulate.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what? It's really, that's really not the
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  Speaker 2: best option. When he sends you tribulation, you're supposed to jubilate.
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  Speaker 2: Supposed to jubilate. Now, how can we jubilate if we're pressured?
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  Speaker 2: How's that work?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, we're not going to get it from other people.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to get it from our jobs. We're
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  Speaker 3: not going to get it from our circumstances or the
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  Speaker 3: demands to adjust to whatever. Our jubilation will come from above.
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  Speaker 3: When we realize, don't miss this, that the pressure is
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  Speaker 3: all part of the plan of God to bring us
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  Speaker 3: to the place he wants us to be as we
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  Speaker 3: grow toward maturity. I'll show you how it works. It's
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  Speaker 3: like dominoes sitting on the end, bumping up against one another.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the dominoes. We exult in tribulation knowing that
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  Speaker 3: tribulation brings about perseverance.
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  Speaker 2: Stay right there. Hupomone is from two terms.
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  Speaker 3: One means under. The other means to abide. And in
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  Speaker 3: this case, this noun means fortitude. A triumphant fortitude. As
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  Speaker 3: I hold together through the power of Christ in this pressure,
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  Speaker 3: there is built within me an inner fortitude, an ability
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  Speaker 3: to abide under.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't pretending. It isn't positive thinking.
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  Speaker 3: This is an actual experience within ourselves where we deepen.
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  Speaker 2: We deepen.
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  Speaker 3: And that perseverance allows us to handle things The pressure,
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  Speaker 3: instead of looking for a way to bail out or
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  Speaker 3: running ahead or running away, we abide under. Charles Hodge
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  Speaker 3: calls this tried integrity. When we get to the word perseverance,
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  Speaker 3: it bumps up and creates proven character. It's the idea
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  Speaker 3: of being put to a test and approved. It's the
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  Speaker 3: word used for taking the slag out of iron. It's
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  Speaker 3: the word for purifying metal until it no longer has
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  Speaker 3: its alloys and becomes increasingly more valuable. We have the
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  Speaker 3: word sterling to describe that. Sterling character. When affliction is
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  Speaker 3: met with fortitude, we emerge out of the battle with
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  Speaker 3: sterling character or tried integrity. Perseverance leads to reliability. That
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  Speaker 3: sterling quality of character. I don't know if you've ever
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  Speaker 3: had the opportunity I've had, and that's to listen to
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  Speaker 3: some of the wire tape recordings of Churchill's speeches to
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  Speaker 3: the people of England in the.
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  Speaker 2: Middle of the Second World War.
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  Speaker 3: On occasion, he would use words that just sort of
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  Speaker 3: punctuate back to me an important statement about life.
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  Speaker 2: One of them is character. He says it like this, character. Karaka.
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  Speaker 2: And he loved the word karaka. I could just see
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  Speaker 2: him in front of the mirror practicing karaka, karaka. And
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  Speaker 2: then when he'd go before parliament, he'd deliver that.
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  Speaker 3: We are people of karaka. In this case, proven karaka.
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  Speaker 3: How great when you meet a Christian with proven character.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: You want their counsel. You want to stay near them.
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  Speaker 3: You want to read what they write. You want to
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  Speaker 3: listen when they speak. You want to be next to
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  Speaker 3: them when life's coming apart. They've known pressure, which has
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  Speaker 3: built within them fortitude, and it has led to proven character.
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  Speaker 3: You see the benefit of staying at it? By staying
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  Speaker 3: at it as the Christian can, it only gets better
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  Speaker 3: and better. And before long, you become a person of
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  Speaker 3: sterling character. And then back to hope.
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  Speaker 2: Full circle.
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  Speaker 3: It's a hope that doesn't disappoint. And here Paul reminds
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  Speaker 3: us of the gospel.
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  Speaker 2: Look closely.
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  Speaker 3: A hope that doesn't disappoint because the love of God
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  Speaker 3: has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy
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  Speaker 3: Spirit who was given to us. You may be surprised
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  Speaker 3: to find out as I was when I'm studying Romans
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  Speaker 3: that this is the first time in the letter to
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  Speaker 3: the Romans that two great truths are introduced. The love
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  Speaker 3: of God not mentioned before chapter 5 verse 5 And
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit of God, not mentioned until verse 5
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  Speaker 3: of chapter 5. Here will begin a journey that will
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  Speaker 3: be cultivated by Paul in the logic of his letter
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  Speaker 3: to the Romans. You are introduced now to the love
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  Speaker 3: of God that caused the Father to pour out to
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  Speaker 3: us the power, the enablement of the Holy Spirit. If
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  Speaker 3: there is any area of misunderstanding and weird teaching, it
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  Speaker 3: is the teaching on the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Just as a.
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  Speaker 3: Brief little Theology 101 course, always think of the Spirit
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  Speaker 3: of God as a person. Don't call Him an it.
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  Speaker 3: Lesson one, you have Him living within you. There is
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  Speaker 3: the Father who is planning the events of life. There
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  Speaker 3: is the Son of God, the second member of the Trinity,
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  Speaker 3: who implements the plan. And then there is the Spirit
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  Speaker 3: of God, third member of the Trinity, who empowers it.
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  Speaker 2: Empowers it.
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  Speaker 3: That includes your involvement and mine in life. He gives
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  Speaker 3: us gifts to be exercised in life. He gives us
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  Speaker 3: strength we don't have in ourselves. He gives us illumination
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  Speaker 3: to understand truth. He gives us comfort when we are
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  Speaker 3: in distress and under this kind of pressure. This comes
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  Speaker 3: to us and it gives us hope knowing that we
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  Speaker 3: now have the love of God working for us and
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  Speaker 3: the spirit of God working within us.
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  Speaker 2: How good is that?
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  Speaker 3: Which prompts the apostle to move into a Brief but
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  Speaker 3: very clear presentation of the gospel. He goes to the past.
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  Speaker 3: While we were still helpless. That's when we were lost.
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  Speaker 2: At the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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  Speaker 3: Then he compares that death to the death of one
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  Speaker 3: person for another in our time. One will hardly die
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  Speaker 3: for a righteous man.
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  Speaker 2: Though perhaps for the good man some would dare to die.
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  Speaker 2: But God died. And memorize this eighth verse. Learn it.
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  Speaker 2: Learn it. Quote it. Use it.
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  Speaker 3: God demonstrates his own love toward us. There's that love again.
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  Speaker 3: In that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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  Speaker 2: We weren't righteous.
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  Speaker 3: We weren't good. We were sinning. And at the time,
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  Speaker 3: Christ died for us. Remember his words? Father, forgive them.
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  Speaker 3: They don't even know what they're doing. Father, into your
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  Speaker 3: hand I commend my spirit. As he had borne the
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  Speaker 3: sins of the world, paying the complete penalty, he now
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  Speaker 3: gave himself back to the Father. He demonstrated his love
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  Speaker 3: toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't stop there. Listen, folks.
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  Speaker 3: Truth in the scriptures don't stop at the gospel. Truths
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  Speaker 3: don't stop there. That's the beginning of the Christian life,
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  Speaker 3: and it only gets better as you learn and discover
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  Speaker 3: and apply more of it. And here he's going to
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  Speaker 3: get into what he has in mind when he talks
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  Speaker 3: about the saving.
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  Speaker 2: Life of Christ. Look closely.
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  Speaker 3: Much more than, he likes that, he says it again
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  Speaker 3: in verse 10, much more than having now been declared
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  Speaker 3: righteous by his blood, that's conversion, We shall be saved
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  Speaker 3: from the wrath of.
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  Speaker 2: God through him.
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  Speaker 3: That takes us all the way to the final judgment
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  Speaker 3: and we're saved from the wrath of God. So there's
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  Speaker 3: no insecurity. You're born into the family. You stay in
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  Speaker 3: the family. You have the name of Christ in your life.
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  Speaker 3: The name of Christ goes with you through death. So
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  Speaker 3: you're delivered. You're saved from the wrath of God through him.
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  Speaker 3: But there's another salvation as well. There's another saving, another deliverance.
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  Speaker 3: For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to
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  Speaker 3: God through the death of His Son, much more having
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  Speaker 3: been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: A couple of things need to be clarified. First, reconciliation.
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  Speaker 3: It means to bring amity where there was once enmity.
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  Speaker 2: It means.
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  Speaker 3: Building a bridge where there was once a broken down relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Understand this.
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  Speaker 3: God is not reconciled to us. We are reconciled to God.
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  Speaker 3: We're the one who broke down the bridge. God, who
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  Speaker 3: is all love and grace and mercy, looks upon us and.
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  Speaker 2: Reaches out to us through Christ.
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  Speaker 3: And we, because of Christ, have a bridge built to
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  Speaker 3: God marked Reconciliation. The enmity is gone and the amity
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  Speaker 3: is present. We are now on a basis of close relationship. Now,
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  Speaker 3: with that in mind, we've got to deal with our
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  Speaker 3: own sinfulness. Remember justification, sovereign act of God whereby he
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  Speaker 3: declares righteous the believing sinner while we're still in a
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  Speaker 3: sinning state. Meaning we're still sinful even though we are
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  Speaker 3: in God's eyes righteous as his son. So sin wants
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  Speaker 3: to keep dominating us. It did all the way through
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  Speaker 3: until we were converted all the way through our lives.
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  Speaker 3: Satan still wants to take control. He still wants to
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  Speaker 3: be in charge. So we can be saved from that
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  Speaker 3: domination through the life of Christ. That's called sanctification. I
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  Speaker 3: love to quote the hymn, Then we shall be where
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  Speaker 3: we would be, then we shall be what we would be.
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  Speaker 2: Things that are not now nor could be soon shall
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  Speaker 2: be our own. And people go, what? What is that about?
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  Speaker 2: Then we shall be where we would be. We would
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  Speaker 2: be in heaven. We'd love that. Then we shall be
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  Speaker 2: what we should be.
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  Speaker 3: Constantly righteous, constantly fulfilling Christ's desires and commands, constantly walking
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  Speaker 3: in the light. We shall be what we should be.
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  Speaker 3: Then we shall be where we would be. Then we
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  Speaker 3: shall be what we should be. Things that are not now,
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  Speaker 3: nor could be. When we are with Christ, they will
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  Speaker 3: be our own.
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  Speaker 2: What's not now?
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  Speaker 3: What could be? Or what can't be. We can't live
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  Speaker 3: without sin. We just drag it around in our bodies.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you can leave a worship service just feeling
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  Speaker 3: so devoted. And so uplifted. And you have what some
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  Speaker 3: call the unction. And you leave with a big time tingles.
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  Speaker 3: And you're not in your car five minutes before you're
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  Speaker 3: yelling at the guy driving in your lane.
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  Speaker 2: And you go, what's that about? What's the problem? It's sin.
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  Speaker 2: It's sin.
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  Speaker 3: Or you answer back quickly or in an ugly manner
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  Speaker 3: to somebody that you love.
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  Speaker 2: What's that about? It's sin. What do I need? I
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  Speaker 2: need to be sanctified.
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  Speaker 3: Sanctification is the yo-yo, if you will, of relating to
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  Speaker 3: God and walking in fellowship and then dropping and then
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  Speaker 3: back in fellowship with him and then fall.
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  Speaker 2: How do I stay in that sense of fellowship? Sanctification.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I wrote in my Bible.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus changed our status when he died for us. That
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  Speaker 3: status change is justification. He changes our state through his
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  Speaker 3: risen life.
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  Speaker 2: Sanctification.
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  Speaker 3: When he justified us, he saved us from our sins,
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  Speaker 3: from the sin of our lives, and condemnation as he
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  Speaker 3: sanctifies us, he saves us from sin's domination. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what these verses are about. And he will get into
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  Speaker 3: that in chapters 6 and 7. In fact, I have
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  Speaker 3: some wonderful news for you. It just gets better and better.
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  Speaker 3: You can live more of your life free of sin
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  Speaker 3: than you think.
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  Speaker 2: You know? People don't hear that. We're all taught 1
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  Speaker 2: John 1, 9. And we should be.
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  Speaker 3: 1 John 1, 9 is a Christian's bar of soap.
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  Speaker 3: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
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  Speaker 3: to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  Speaker 2: That's if we sinned.
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  Speaker 3: But how about living on a plane where you don't
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  Speaker 3: fall into that trap as often? You can't be completely
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  Speaker 3: free of it, but you can live days of your.
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  Speaker 2: Life without sinning. You're looking at me like, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about that. Oh, I do know about that.
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  Speaker 3: That's why chapter 6 and 7 are such salvation for
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  Speaker 3: us in the letter to the Romans.
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  Speaker 2: Why yield your members as.
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  Speaker 3: Instruments of unrighteousness unto sin rather than instruments of righteousness
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  Speaker 3: to God?
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to yield. Sin doesn't have domination over you.
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  Speaker 2: Christ does.
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  Speaker 3: The reason you yield is because you have a deep-seated
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  Speaker 3: secret longing to do wrong. And the Spirit of God
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  Speaker 3: can empower you to have a longing to do right.
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  Speaker 3: That will overwhelm the urges to yield.
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  Speaker 2: To sin's nature. That's what this is about. We will
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  Speaker 2: be saved by his life. That's why he lives on.
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  Speaker 2: He lives on.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons he lives on, to empower
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  Speaker 3: us to live above the drag of sin. Now the last,
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  Speaker 3: verse 11. Not only this, but we exult, we jubilate
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  Speaker 3: in God himself.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: We exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through
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  Speaker 3: whom we have now received the reconciliation. The bridge is built.
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  Speaker 3: The relationship is there. Grace is the territory. Victory is
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  Speaker 3: the lifestyle. And I exult in a relationship with the
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  Speaker 3: living God. Paul wrote it this way in Philippians 3.10,
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  Speaker 3: that I may know him and the power of his
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  Speaker 3: resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings. That I may
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  Speaker 3: become conformable unto his death. The Amplified Bible says that
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  Speaker 3: I may know him, that is, that I may progressively
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  Speaker 3: become more intimately acquainted with him.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you are there. Most of you are not.
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  Speaker 2: Because most have never been taught that it's possible. Grace
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  Speaker 2: is our territory. And in it we stand. And standing
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  Speaker 2: in it, we.
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  Speaker 3: Have a life of Christ that is reality.
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  Speaker 2: And it becomes for us A jubilation. Triumphant joy.
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  Speaker 3: As I put all of this together, I come up
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  Speaker 3: with four rather simple words of application.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: The key to rejoicing is having the right focus. The
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  Speaker 3: key to rejoicing is having the right focus. Focus is
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  Speaker 3: no longer on myself or my circumstances. My focus is
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  Speaker 3: now on my Savior, who has taken up residence in
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  Speaker 3: my life and longs to have first place on.
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  Speaker 2: The throne of my will. Focus, the right focus. Here's
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  Speaker 2: the second.
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  Speaker 3: The willingness to focus means having the right attitude. The
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  Speaker 3: willingness to focus means having the right attitude. I want this, Lord.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to keep living to myself. I'm weary
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  Speaker 3: of the carnal life. I don't like the consequences that
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  Speaker 3: follow it when I get my way or when I
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  Speaker 3: push my will into it.
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  Speaker 2: Teachability, humility, gratitude, that's all part of the right attitude.
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  Speaker 3: Third, the byproduct of the right attitude is triumphant joy.
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  Speaker 3: When I cultivate this attitude of teachability and humility before
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  Speaker 3: God and gratitude to him, there is a joy that
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  Speaker 3: begins to spread within me.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't a silly little happiness. It isn't fickle.
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  Speaker 3: It isn't grinning all the time like a possum eating briar.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: That's silly. That's what you do with jokes. And there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing wrong with a funny joke. We all laugh at them.
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  Speaker 2: We go on. But it has nothing to do with joy.
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  Speaker 3: Joy is an abiding presence of seeing the hand of
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  Speaker 3: God at work and knowing He has a purpose that
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  Speaker 3: will bring Him glory and bring me good. And I
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  Speaker 3: have joy, a triumphant joy. Fourth, the result of triumphant
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  Speaker 3: joy is living above my circumstances. That's a great way
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  Speaker 3: to live. Living above my circumstances. Circumstances are the pit's.
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  Speaker 3: My friend Howie Hendricks asked a good friend of his,
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  Speaker 3: how you doing, man? The guy says, oh, man, under
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  Speaker 3: these circumstances, it is terrible. Hendricks says, what are you
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  Speaker 3: doing under there? How come you're under there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, under circumstances at work, you just haven't. What are
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  Speaker 2: you doing under that? You don't live your life under that.
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  Speaker 2: Live above that. Live above that.
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  Speaker 3: Former chaplain to the Senate, Lloyd Ogilvy, wrote these words
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  Speaker 3: a number of years ago. Listen to his comment about
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  Speaker 3: that very point. This past year has been the most
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  Speaker 3: difficult year of my life. My wife has been through
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  Speaker 3: five major surgeries, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy. During the same year,
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  Speaker 3: I suffered the loss of several key staff teammates whose
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  Speaker 3: moves were very guided for them, but a source of
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  Speaker 3: pressure and uncertainty.
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  Speaker 2: In my work.
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  Speaker 3: Problems which I could have tackled with. gusto under normal
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  Speaker 3: circumstances seemed to loom in all directions. Discouragement lurked around
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  Speaker 3: every corner trying to capture my feelings. Prayer was no
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  Speaker 3: longer a contemplative luxury but the only way to survive.
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  Speaker 3: My own intercessions were multiplied by the prayers of others.
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  Speaker 3: Friendships were deepened. And I was forced to allow people
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  Speaker 3: to assure me with words I had preached for years.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that a nice way to put it? They reminded
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  Speaker 3: me of what I'd been preaching, and now they were
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  Speaker 3: turning it around and using it to encourage me. No
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  Speaker 3: day went by without a conversation, a letter, or a
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  Speaker 3: phone call giving me love and hope. The greatest discovery
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  Speaker 3: that I've made in the midst of all the difficulties
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  Speaker 3: is is that I can have joy when I don't
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  Speaker 3: feel like it.
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  Speaker 2: Artesian joy. When I had every reason to feel beaten,
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  Speaker 2: I felt joy.
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  Speaker 3: As prayers were being answered, as the Holy Spirit infused
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  Speaker 3: a seemingly limitless flow of joy, In spite of everything,
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  Speaker 3: he gave me the conviction of being loved and the
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  Speaker 3: certainty that nothing could separate me from him. It was
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  Speaker 3: not happiness, gush, or jolliness, but a constant flow of
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit through me. At no time did he
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  Speaker 3: give me the easy confidence that everything would work out
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  Speaker 3: as I wanted it on my timetable, but.
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  Speaker 2: That he was in charge. Isn't that good? One of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest truths I learned in all of my life
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  Speaker 2: is that I am not in charge. God is. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: that'll help you sleep like a baby. I don't worry
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  Speaker 2: about you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't stay awake concerned over how you're doing or
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  Speaker 3: whether you're listening or applying this. First of all, I
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  Speaker 3: got a full-time job keeping up with me. But I
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  Speaker 3: now know the secret of rest. That is saying to him,
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  Speaker 3: every morning you're in charge. This day is yours.
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  Speaker 2: You're sovereign.
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  Speaker 3: You're the potter on the clay. You're the master on
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  Speaker 3: the servant. You're the leader on the follower. You're the
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  Speaker 3: mentor on the disciple. You're going to be glorified. And
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  Speaker 3: you're going to shape me into a person that you
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  Speaker 3: want me to be. Sterling character and jubilant joy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Doesn't get much better than that, does it?
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  Speaker 2: Let's bow our heads together.
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  Speaker 3: Peace with God. Hope for the future. Joy for the present.
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  Speaker 3: If those are just pipe dreams and distant dreams for
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  Speaker 3: you and sort of out there in the fogginess of
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  Speaker 3: the future, let me tell you, you can remove all
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  Speaker 3: the fog and Placing your faith and trust in the
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  Speaker 3: Lord Jesus Christ. You're surrounded by people who have done that.
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  Speaker 3: And there's not one of us who deserves it. But
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  Speaker 3: as a result, we know a peace we would not
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  Speaker 3: otherwise have known. And we live in.
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  Speaker 2: A territory marked grace that would never have been ours
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy. We invite you to join. Come to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Take Him now. You can't afford to live your life
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  Speaker 2: in this pressured world without divine assistance and a purpose.
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  Speaker 2: And what a future.
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  Speaker 3: Then we shall be what we should be. Then we
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  Speaker 3: shall be what we would be. Things that are not
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  Speaker 3: now nor could be soon shall be our own. Thank you,
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  Speaker 3: dear Father, for your plan, for your purpose, which spans
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  Speaker 3: all of time Thank you for your hand in our lives,
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  Speaker 3: for patiently teaching us truth to live by, truth to
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  Speaker 3: die with. Thank you for your peace, for hope, for
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  Speaker 3: triumphant joy. We exult in you through Christ, in whose
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  Speaker 3: name we pray.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody said amen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. With Chuck Swindoll's closing prayer, we conclude our study
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  Speaker 1: in Romans chapter 5, titled Triumphant Joy. Stay with us
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