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Those Unidentified Inner Promptings, Part 1 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: There are inner secret chambers within our being. We called
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  Speaker 1: it our heart, where the Word speaks to us.
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  Speaker 2: If you will he prompts, us inter promptings.
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  Speaker 1: He urges, he moves, he conlicts, he directs, he stops,
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  Speaker 1: he guards, he guides.
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  Speaker 3: You've felt it, that quiet nudge in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: a noisy day, that inner whisper that says wait or
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  Speaker 3: go or not? This one you couldn't quite explain it,
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  Speaker 3: so you called it a hunch. But what if it
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  Speaker 3: was something far more significant than that? Today On Inside
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  Speaker 3: for Living Chucks Wendall invites us to slow down long
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  Speaker 3: enough to hear what God may already be telling us.
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  Speaker 3: In a world that never stops accelerating, where stillness feels
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  Speaker 3: almost countercultural, this is your invitation to understand those unidentified
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  Speaker 3: inner promptings.
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  Speaker 1: Two sections of scripture will be our reading this morning.
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  Speaker 1: First from Genesis one, I'll read a couple of verses
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  Speaker 1: from that first chapter and then locate Psalm number one
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine Psalm one thirty nine. Following the reading in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis one, I want to read a few verses out
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  Speaker 1: of that one thirty ninth Psalm first Genesis one, beginning
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  Speaker 1: at verse twenty six, and then Psalm one thirty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Then God said, let us make man in our image,
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  Speaker 1: according to our likeness, and let them rule over the
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  Speaker 1: fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky,
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  Speaker 1: and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God
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  Speaker 1: created man in his own image, in the image of God.
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  Speaker 1: He created him male and female. He created them then
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  Speaker 1: saw one nine, beginning at the first verse.
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  Speaker 2: Notice it is a prayer, O Lord, you have searched.
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  Speaker 1: Me and known me. You know when I sit down
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  Speaker 1: and when I rise up. You understand my thought from afar.
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  Speaker 1: You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are
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  Speaker 1: intimately acquainted with all my ways, even before there is
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  Speaker 1: a word on my tongue. Behold, O Lord, you know
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  Speaker 1: it all Verse thirteen. For you formed my inward parts,
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  Speaker 1: you wove me in my mother's womb. I will give
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  Speaker 1: thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well.
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  Speaker 3: insight dot org. Slash offer Chuck title today's message those
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  Speaker 3: unidentified inner promptings.
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  Speaker 1: There are times we just don't know how to describe
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  Speaker 1: what's going on inside. We have struggles that occur, and
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  Speaker 1: because we are not able to get our minds around them,
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  Speaker 1: we're at a loss to know the solution, and so
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  Speaker 1: we wrestle and we wonder through this uneasiness, how we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get through this, how we're going to make
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  Speaker 1: this decision. On the one hand, it looks good this way,
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  Speaker 1: but on the other.
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  Speaker 2: Hand, it seems wrong. And then.
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  Speaker 1: Something happens, something occurs in the unseen realm down deep
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  Speaker 1: in our spirit that changes us, and we feel this
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  Speaker 1: is right, and we go there or we are assured
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  Speaker 1: this is wrong and we don't. Amazingly, we look back
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  Speaker 1: on those times and feel so great ful that at
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  Speaker 1: the time of decision, that right decision was made. There
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  Speaker 1: are other occasions when we can't quite see what the
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  Speaker 1: scripture is teaching. We're working on a verse or a
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  Speaker 1: section of the Scriptures, and we can't again get to
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  Speaker 1: an understanding of what that's about. And so we pray
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  Speaker 1: and we wait, and we check other verses, and we
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  Speaker 1: fall back on what we have been taught, and we
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  Speaker 1: go to books that we have, or we talk to
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  Speaker 1: people we respect, and nothing seems to break through. But then,
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  Speaker 1: over a relatively brief period of time, the light dawns
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  Speaker 1: and you see as you've.
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  Speaker 2: Never seen before. It comes to light. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: those aha moments. We call that insight. Why is it?
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  Speaker 1: We don't realize that was the spirits working and inter
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  Speaker 1: prompting in a realization of revelation or illumination as we
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  Speaker 1: see truth like we've not seen it before, and the
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  Speaker 1: mystery leaves and clarity replaces it. The first thing I
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  Speaker 1: described we could call intuition. We just felt like we
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  Speaker 1: should do that or we should not do that. This,
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  Speaker 1: which I've just described, we call insight. We get an insight.
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  Speaker 2: Into some truth that we had been wrestling with over.
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  Speaker 1: A period of time. Can't tell you the times both
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  Speaker 1: of those experiences have happened to me. One more, you're
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  Speaker 1: experiencing a strained relationship with someone you have been working with,
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  Speaker 1: or you're related to, or you've known very well, and
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  Speaker 1: the strain won't go away, and you can't seem to
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  Speaker 1: broach some way to reconcile the strain. It goes on
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  Speaker 1: and after a while it eats away at you and
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  Speaker 1: you maybe try to confront something or address something, and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't get accomplished. Fact sometimes in doing that you
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  Speaker 1: make things worse. Then it's like without your involvement at all,
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  Speaker 1: there is a phone call, and following the call is
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  Speaker 1: an encounter where there's reconciliation. Why is it we don't
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  Speaker 1: realize that that whole thing fell in the category of
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  Speaker 1: the work of the Holy Spirit. I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this today. In doing so, I have to tell
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  Speaker 1: you I have never heard addressed publicly. I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: anyone talk about UIPS. I've heard a lot about UFOs.
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, let me just say this as a sidebar,
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  Speaker 1: I once checked into a hotel. Didn't know it at
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  Speaker 1: the time, but a convention of UFO people were there.
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  Speaker 1: If you ever find out that that has happened, don't
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  Speaker 1: check into that hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me.
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  Speaker 1: Every elevator ride, everybody in the restaurant, everybody waiting for
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  Speaker 1: a taxi, every long line to whatever, was filled with
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  Speaker 1: people who saw things in the night that, for the
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  Speaker 1: life of me I could not see right next to
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  Speaker 1: my room was a couple that was I guess the
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  Speaker 1: ring leaders of the group. So they had people in
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  Speaker 1: all the evening and sometime into the wee hours of
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  Speaker 1: the morning looking out their window that sometimes opened the
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  Speaker 1: door to step on.
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  Speaker 2: The ledge and oh, look at that, look at that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean one night, it was about two fifteen, I
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  Speaker 1: had to get up. I mean, if it was that obvious,
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  Speaker 1: I had to see it. And I stood there and
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  Speaker 1: I looked and I looked, and I thought, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: But it was the reflection from the hall light under
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  Speaker 1: my door, on my window, so I.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't see it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's there, I've never seen it. We're not talking
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  Speaker 1: about UFOs. We're talking about uips, those unidentified inner promptings, those.
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  Speaker 2: Hunches, those.
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  Speaker 1: Uneasy moments that say don't go there, or there's danger lurking,
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  Speaker 1: or there's harm or the other side.
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  Speaker 2: And it's so great when this occurs. This is where
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  Speaker 2: you want to go.
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  Speaker 1: Now, having said all of that, why is it we
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  Speaker 1: never give the Spirit of God credit for such things.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm talking about outside our five senses, So
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  Speaker 1: this is the extra sensory stuff, and so it's subjective
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  Speaker 1: that makes it difficult. To address, which may explain why
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard a message on it, but it seems
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  Speaker 1: to me, thinking about the work of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: we have an incomplete series without addressing those unidentified inner promptings.
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  Speaker 1: And unless I miss my guest, some of you have them.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. You are on the verge of a decision,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't know what you ought to do. You've prayed,
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  Speaker 1: you've checked the scriptures, You've sought the council, and remarkably,
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  Speaker 1: in God's time there will be a breakthrough and you'll
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  Speaker 1: know what you want to do. How does that happen?
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  Speaker 1: Why does that happen? My Bible is open to chapter
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  Speaker 1: one of Genesis, and in this chapter we have, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the story of creation, and the climax of the creative
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  Speaker 1: Week is of course the creation of humanity.
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  Speaker 2: He creates atom, he creates eve.
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  Speaker 1: And up until now, the planets are in place, the
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  Speaker 1: sun to rule the day and the moon to rule
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  Speaker 1: the night, and the seas are there, and land is there,
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  Speaker 1: and plants are there, and shrubbery is there, and trees
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  Speaker 1: are there in full life and full bloom. But now
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  Speaker 1: there is brought on this on the scene humanity, and
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  Speaker 1: there is something altogether distinct about the creation of the
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  Speaker 1: man and the woman, and you'll read of it in
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  Speaker 1: these two verses twenty six and twenty seven. Then God said,
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  Speaker 1: let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
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  Speaker 1: I've got both of those phrases underscored in my bio.
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  Speaker 1: The plants were not made in his image, the animals
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  Speaker 1: were not made in his image. The stellar spaces did
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  Speaker 1: not bear his likeness. But the man and the woman did,
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  Speaker 1: and do she the next verse, God created man in
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  Speaker 1: his own image, in the image of God. He created
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  Speaker 1: him male and female. He created them three times. He
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  Speaker 1: mentions image, once he mentions likeness. There's something to this.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who does a study of the creation has to
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  Speaker 1: pause here and let some of the wonder in.
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  Speaker 2: What is this image?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it is interesting when you go to chapter five
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  Speaker 1: that the image changes.
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  Speaker 2: Genesis chapter five.
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  Speaker 1: I have, by the way, when we move from chapter
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  Speaker 1: one to chapter five, we have to understand that between
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  Speaker 1: the two sin has occurred. Sin has invaded and polluted
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  Speaker 1: the human race. Adam and Eve no longer in innocence.
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  Speaker 1: They are now sinners, and they are now distant from
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  Speaker 1: God and hiding from him, and all that followed that.
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  Speaker 1: But now their family comes along, and notice the difference
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  Speaker 1: in the likeness in the image Verse one. This is
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  Speaker 1: the book of generations of Adam. In the day when
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  Speaker 1: God created Man, he made him in the likeness of God.
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  Speaker 1: We just saw that. Read on, He created them male
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  Speaker 1: and female. He blessed them and named them man.
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  Speaker 2: In the day when.
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  Speaker 1: They were created, watched closely. When Adam had lived one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty years, he became the father of.
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  Speaker 2: A son.
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  Speaker 1: In his own likeness according to his atom's image, named
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  Speaker 1: him Seth. Something has changed regarding this image Adam made
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  Speaker 1: in the likeness of God and Adam and even the
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  Speaker 1: likeness and image of God. Now they have a son
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  Speaker 1: named Seth, who comes in the likeness of themselves. Before
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  Speaker 1: I tell you the change, let me explain what the
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  Speaker 1: image may include, though I realize in doing so it's
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  Speaker 1: a little presumptuous. Theologians write volumes on this, so there's
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of controversy over.
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  Speaker 2: What it would include or exclude.
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  Speaker 1: I want to suggest there is a capacity in humans
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  Speaker 1: not found in animals. There is an ability for God
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  Speaker 1: to communicate with his own people in a way that
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  Speaker 1: he does not communicate with animals. Animals have instinct, we
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  Speaker 1: have image.
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  Speaker 2: Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: There are inner, secret chambers within our being. We called
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  Speaker 1: it our heart, where the Lord speaks to us. If
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  Speaker 1: you will, he prompts us inner promptings. He urges, he moves,
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  Speaker 1: he convicts, he directs, he stops, he guards, he guides.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I think Solomon writes, guard your heart, for
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  Speaker 1: out of it or all the issues of life, watch
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  Speaker 1: over that spirit of yours. When God made us, he
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  Speaker 1: gave us body. But along with that the immaterial soul
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  Speaker 1: and spirit. Animals do not have a spirit. There is
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  Speaker 1: no connection between God communicating with animals except by way
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  Speaker 1: of instinct and the natural order of things.
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  Speaker 2: But humans, it's different. Now.
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  Speaker 1: We see when Adam and Eve have a child, it's
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  Speaker 1: in their likeness. He is in their image. One theologian writes,
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  Speaker 1: this sin damage the created ideal, But that damage must
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  Speaker 1: not have been complete. For this reason, one may say
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  Speaker 1: that the image of God has been defaced, but not erased.
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  Speaker 1: It has been tarnished but not destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: What are we saying only this?
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  Speaker 1: When Adam was originally created, he was created to have
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  Speaker 1: that sense of community and connection and communication with the
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  Speaker 1: one who made him that broke down. Wasn't erased, it
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  Speaker 1: was effaced. Was it destroyed, It was damaged. And the
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  Speaker 1: same is true with us today.
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  Speaker 2: We lived with a defaced and damaged image.
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  Speaker 1: Nevertheless, unlike animals, we are able to connect with our
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  Speaker 1: God in the inner person. Like our pets never can
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  Speaker 1: and never will. I know you think your pet's different,
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  Speaker 1: but just accept it by faith, Just take it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the stories I hear about pets, that's another subject. Psalm
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  Speaker 1: one thirty nine turned a Psalm one thirty nine. David
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  Speaker 1: is all caught up in the magnificent hand of God
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  Speaker 1: in his life. I love the way he writes this psalm.
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  Speaker 1: It's fast becoming my favorite. You have searched me and
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  Speaker 1: known me. You know when I sit down, you know
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  Speaker 1: when I rise up. You understand my thought from Afar,
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  Speaker 1: meaning long before I have the thought, You already know
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  Speaker 1: it's there, You understand it. You scrutinize my path. That's
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful translation of the Hebrew verb. You scrutinize my
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  Speaker 1: path and my lying down. You are intimately acquainted with
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  Speaker 1: all my ways. When our kids were little, we bought
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  Speaker 1: them an ant farm. Ever seen an ant farm? Little
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  Speaker 1: plastic sheets on each side, and inside is sand, and
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  Speaker 1: then you dump all the ants inside and you get
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  Speaker 1: to watch them as.
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  Speaker 2: They move because they're doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Normally, in the ground, all you see is a mound
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  Speaker 1: and little creatures that bite you on the feet. But
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  Speaker 1: in this ant form, you're able to watch them as
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  Speaker 1: they're making their paths and their moves. That's the thought
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  Speaker 1: that comes to my mind. The Lord sees us just
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  Speaker 1: that clearly. In fact, more clearly, he not only sees
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  Speaker 1: our paths. He knows our motives. He knows our words
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  Speaker 1: before we say them, he knows our thoughts before we
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  Speaker 1: think them, and he's intimately acquainted with all of our ways.
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  Speaker 2: This is our creator.
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  Speaker 1: Now go to verse thirteen, and you will move from
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  Speaker 1: that general fact into the womb of the expectant mother.
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  Speaker 1: Watch how the probe of God's spirit drives us to
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  Speaker 1: the very life of the embryo the fetus. David writes,
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  Speaker 1: you formed my inward parts, You wove me in my
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  Speaker 1: mother's womb. Very colorful Hebrew wording for putting together, as
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  Speaker 1: if putting a piece of tapestry together. The intricacies of personality,
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  Speaker 1: all of the things that make each individual unique, God
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  Speaker 1: watches over, and cares about, and carries out. And then
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  Speaker 1: we read I will give thanks to You, for I
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  Speaker 1: am fearfully and wonderfully.
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  Speaker 2: Made.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well.
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  Speaker 1: One of the old Hebrew scholars writes this about that statement,
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  Speaker 1: fearfully and wonderfully made, reflecting upon the marvels of the
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  Speaker 1: human body. Even with his elementary anatomical knowledge, the inspired
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  Speaker 1: Psalmist is in awe and wonder. As I analyze my makeup,
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  Speaker 1: as I realize how you put me together, there is
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  Speaker 1: a wonder. There is a fearful realization that I am different.
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  Speaker 2: A better word is distinct.
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  Speaker 1: I want to suggest the statement includes secret inner chambers
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  Speaker 1: within the capacity of humanity, hidden capacities within the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of human beings, such as the intricate inner systems providing
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  Speaker 1: for the reception and the understanding of divine information.
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  Speaker 2: All of this is foreign.
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  Speaker 1: To the natural world, but to people like us, there
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  Speaker 1: is an ability to perceive spiritual things so that we
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  Speaker 1: can detect the hand of God. I realize as I
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  Speaker 1: address this, I'm in a realm that's first of all,
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  Speaker 1: outside my expertise. For some of you, you would think
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  Speaker 1: it's in the realm of the paranormal.
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  Speaker 2: Would it could be called that.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly is in the extrasensory realm, but you cannot
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  Speaker 1: deny it. Occasionally we have a premonition. Sometimes the premonition
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  Speaker 1: is wrong, other occasions we were right. We have an
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  Speaker 1: uneasy feeling about going into partnership with an individual in business.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say the person may be a Christian, but there's
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  Speaker 1: something that isn't right in that linkage, and we're held
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  Speaker 1: back from it and look back on it later and
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  Speaker 1: say so grateful I did not go there. We fall
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  Speaker 1: in love and the individual meets so many of the
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  Speaker 1: things we're looking for in our marriage, and we anticipate
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  Speaker 1: possible marriage. And then and then those inner promptings began
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  Speaker 1: to change, and we're moved in another direction, and even
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  Speaker 1: though the other person isn't we feel the need to
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  Speaker 1: break off the relationship. It's an inter prompting that comes
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  Speaker 1: from this fearful and wonderful system of guidance. I love
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  Speaker 1: the way Eugene Peterson writes about it. Listen carefully our lives,
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  Speaker 1: that is, our experience, what we need and want and
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  Speaker 1: feel are important in forming the Christian life in us.
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  Speaker 1: Our lives are, after all, the stuff that is being formed,
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  Speaker 1: but they are not the text for directing the formation itself.
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  Speaker 1: Spirituality means, among other things, going against the cultural stream
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  Speaker 1: in which we are incessantly trivialized to the menial status
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  Speaker 1: of producers and performers, constantly personalized behind.
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  Speaker 2: The labels of our degrees or our salaries.
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  Speaker 1: But there is far more to us than our usefulness
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  Speaker 1: and our reputation. Where we ben or who we know,
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  Speaker 1: there is the unique, irreproducible, eternal image of God. Me
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  Speaker 1: he's right, He's right. Romans eight sixteen says that God's
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  Speaker 1: spirit testifies to my spirit, our spirit, that we are
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  Speaker 1: the children of God. Somehow there is a connection in
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  Speaker 1: that inner prompting that assures me I belong to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Now some of you still have a little bewildered look.
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  Speaker 1: I understand this is not an easy thing to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's an important thing to address.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that truth be told. We as a result.
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  Speaker 1: Of not linking these promptings to the work of the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: we devalue His presence at work within us.
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  Speaker 2: We have God, the Father who has planned our salvation.
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  Speaker 1: We have God, the Son who has implemented our salvation
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  Speaker 1: by dying in our place on.
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  Speaker 2: A cross, giving his blood to cleanse us from sin.
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit or what to link up with the Godhead
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you've had some quiet inner nudges that you've been
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