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The Seven Keys To Christian Living—Part 5 | Episode #347 | Encore Episode #018 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with Richard K.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking you to
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  Speaker 1: spend a few moments of your time with us each
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  Speaker 1: day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and stories, 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. In Lamentations
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verses twenty two and twenty three, we read,
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  Speaker 1: because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed,
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  Speaker 1: for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning.
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  Speaker 1: Great is your faithfulness. Now, if you miss a portion
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  Speaker 1: of today's broadcast or would like to recommend it to
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  Speaker 1: a friend, you can hear this program anytime online at
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  Speaker 1: Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now, here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: As the Father has loved me, so also I have
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  Speaker 2: loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commands,
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  Speaker 2: you will remain in my love, just as I have
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  Speaker 2: kept my father's commands and remain in his love. I
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  Speaker 2: have spoken these things to you so that my joy
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  Speaker 2: may be in you, and your joy may be complete.
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  Speaker 2: This is my command. Love one another as I have
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  Speaker 2: loved you, John fifteen, Verses nine through twelve. As we
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  Speaker 2: continue our series seven Keys to Christian Living enumerting the
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  Speaker 2: seven Keys to the Kingdom, we now come to the
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  Speaker 2: third key, expressing God's love. You know, there's never been
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  Speaker 2: a greater expression of God's love then what is demonstrated
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  Speaker 2: in John's Gospel earlier chapter three, in verses sixteen and seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very familiar verse for many of us. In
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  Speaker 2: the Amplified Bible. It says, for God so greatly loved
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  Speaker 2: and dearly prize the world, that he even gave his
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  Speaker 2: one and only begotten son, so that whoever believes and
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  Speaker 2: trust in Him as Savior shall not perish, but have
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  Speaker 2: eternal life. For God did not send the Sun into
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  Speaker 2: the world to judge and condemn the world, that is,
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  Speaker 2: to initiate the final judgment of the world, but that
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  Speaker 2: the world might be saved through him. You know, as
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  Speaker 2: we look at the scriptures, and it gives us more
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  Speaker 2: of an understanding of God's expression of love. And in
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  Speaker 2: the third Key to the Kingdom of Heaven, those are
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  Speaker 2: the principal elements of Christian living. The first key, as
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  Speaker 2: we saw, was to exalt God's name, and the second
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  Speaker 2: was to expect God's grace. Now by receiving God's grace
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  Speaker 2: and the knowledge of who his son is, we then
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  Speaker 2: are able to be saved. We're saved through him because
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  Speaker 2: he loved us so much that he was willing to
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  Speaker 2: die for us to be able to live for him.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that in his love, the Father loves
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  Speaker 2: him as he has been loved of the Father. He
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  Speaker 2: also loves us, and he says that if we remain
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  Speaker 2: in his love, we'll keep his commands and we will
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  Speaker 2: all be filled with joy, the joy that is complete.
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  Speaker 2: The command to love one another as I have loved
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  Speaker 2: you is something that is contrary to the world's concept
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  Speaker 2: of love. To express God's love means that we must
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  Speaker 2: demonstrate it not only in our words, but also in
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  Speaker 2: our actions. You see, God's love is an action. It
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  Speaker 2: was not just a statement. It was a action. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: didn't just say I'm going to die for you. He
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  Speaker 2: died for us. He took upon himself the form of
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  Speaker 2: a servant, and he didn't consider being equal to God.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't consider his righteous position in eternity. But he
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  Speaker 2: took upon himself the form of a servant, and he
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  Speaker 2: became obedient in his father's love, so that he would
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  Speaker 2: suffer even death for those his father loved. Because he
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  Speaker 2: loved the world so much that he gave his only son,
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  Speaker 2: and whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have
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  Speaker 2: eternal life. To be able to express God's love, we
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  Speaker 2: are first recipients of God's love. By his unmerited favor,
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  Speaker 2: the grace that he showers down upon us, we are
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  Speaker 2: able to understand and comprehend how much He loves us.
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  Speaker 2: And because we understand that the action becomes a principle
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  Speaker 2: of our living. We must love one another, even as
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  Speaker 2: Christ has loved us. How do we express God's love?
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  Speaker 2: We express it in our thoughts, in our words, and
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  Speaker 2: certainly in our deeds. We will extend ourselves to others.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, a greater love has no man than that
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  Speaker 2: he would lay down his life for his friends. And
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  Speaker 2: at that moment Jesus said, I call you friends. You're
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  Speaker 2: no longer just servants. You are friends because I've revealed
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  Speaker 2: to you God's message, his keys to the Kingdom of Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: When we look at expressions of God's love and what
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  Speaker 2: we are to do so that the joy of our
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  Speaker 2: salvation remains in us consistently and continually complete. We do
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  Speaker 2: that by loving one another as Christ has loved us?
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  Speaker 2: Do we do that in our daily walk? Do we
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  Speaker 2: do that with our friends, our neighbors? And do we
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  Speaker 2: also do that even with our enemies? You see, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: didn't say that we just loved those who love us.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't say that we just love those who have
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  Speaker 2: received him. He says that we are also to love
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  Speaker 2: our enemies.
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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: Reflection on the Word with Richard K. You can hear
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  Speaker 1: this message in its entirety again online as well as
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  Speaker 1: Richard's entire archive at Talknetwork Radio dot com. We would
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  Speaker 1: like to acknowledge our theme song, how Great is Thy
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  Speaker 1: Faithfulness from the America's twenty five Favorite Hymns album Unlet's
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: which is published by Holman Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Additional resources used for Reflections on the Word with Richard
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  Speaker 1: k include Great is Thy Faithfulness, by our Daily Bread
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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: As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you.
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  Speaker 2: Remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you
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  Speaker 2: will demonstrate remaining in my love. I have kept my
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  Speaker 2: father's commands and remain in his love. I have spoken
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  Speaker 2: these things to you so that my joy may be
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  Speaker 2: in you, and your joy may be complete. This is
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  Speaker 2: my command. Love one another as I have loved you,
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  Speaker 2: John fifteen, verses nine through twelve. And that is today's
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  Speaker 2: 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 King or Richard in 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. Lay inside day Conda
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