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Wanted - Slave For Sacrificial Service | Episode #340 | Encore Episode #011 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's Word 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: From the King James version of the Bible, we read,
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  Speaker 2: I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live yet not
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  Speaker 2: I but Christ liveth in me and the life which
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  Speaker 2: I now live in the flesh. I live by the
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  Speaker 2: faith of the Son of God, who loved me and
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  Speaker 2: gave himself for me from Galatians chapter two and verse twenty.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to title this reflection wanted slave for
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  Speaker 2: sacrificial service. You know, not too many of us would
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  Speaker 2: be attracted to a career as a slave. Yet that's
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  Speaker 2: exactly what God is raising us to be, sacrificial servants
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  Speaker 2: motivated by the nature of God working within us. Sacrificial
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  Speaker 2: love destroys our comfort zones because it requires we laid
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  Speaker 2: down our demands that life be lived on our terms.
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  Speaker 2: It's a radical ship from what we often do serving
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  Speaker 2: others as long as our interests and preferences are protected,
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  Speaker 2: as long as we get credit for what we have done.
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  Speaker 2: In sacrificial relationships, someone pays the price so others can
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  Speaker 2: freely receive. All we have from God is freely received,
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  Speaker 2: paid for through the passionate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and
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  Speaker 2: now we sacrificially give to others. Our objective in Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is to count the cost of Godly love. But then,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of how much sacrifice it requires, we pay the
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  Speaker 2: price so others can experience. First ten, the sacrificial nature
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  Speaker 2: of God's love. By God's grace, our witness becomes so
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  Speaker 2: rare that the world takes notice of such sacrificial service.
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  Speaker 2: Those of us who were once slaves in the bondage
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  Speaker 2: of sin have become free to become slaves of righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: As has been said many times, we are not our own.
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  Speaker 2: We no longer have individual rights. This life is not
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  Speaker 2: about us, but about the transforming power of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: our Lord. It is to him we bow and surrender
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  Speaker 2: our will. He demonstrated God's sacrificial love for us so
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  Speaker 2: that we could live in sacrificial love with one another.
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  Speaker 2: We are crucified with him, dead to our earthly temporal goals,
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  Speaker 2: and alive as his willing bond servants. God's will is
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  Speaker 2: the only purpose for us to live.
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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: Reflections on the Word with Richard K and hear this
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  Speaker 1: message in its entirety again online as well as Richard's
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  Speaker 1: entire archive at Talknetwork Radio dot com. We would like
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge our theme song, how Great is Thy Faithfulness
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  Speaker 1: from the America's twenty five Favorite Hymns album, unless otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: which is published by Homan Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Additional resources used for Reflections on the Word with Richard
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  Speaker 1: KA 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: So much of life is trying to find our purpose.
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  Speaker 2: The scripture states that he who finds his life shall
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  Speaker 2: lose it, but he who loses his life for my
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  Speaker 2: sake shall find it Luke nine twenty four. I am
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  Speaker 2: crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live yet not I, but
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  Speaker 2: Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now
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  Speaker 2: live in the flesh, I live by the faith of
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  Speaker 2: the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself
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  Speaker 2: for me. Relations to twenty and that is today's reflection
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  Speaker 2: on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. Or Richard and 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. No