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The Spirit's Most Significant Mission, Part 3 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: There isn't a person sitting here today who doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: something impossible that you're facing, something you cannot fix, you
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  Speaker 1: cannot change, you cannot alter, you cannot start or stop.
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  Speaker 1: It's impossible for you.
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  Speaker 2: What would it look like to simply say yes to
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  Speaker 2: God even when you don't have all the answers, even
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  Speaker 2: when the road ahead is anything but certain. Today on
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  Speaker 2: inside for Living, Chuck Swndahl presents a challenge that's deeply
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  Speaker 2: personal for every one of us, because somewhere in your
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  Speaker 2: life right now, God may be asking you to say
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  Speaker 2: yes to a risky mission with unclear instructions. Chuck picks
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  Speaker 2: up our study in Luke chapter one, where an angel
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  Speaker 2: leaves the glory of heaven and arrives at the doorstep
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  Speaker 2: of an ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: Life, planning our salvation, knowing our need for the Savior,
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  Speaker 1: Our God already has put together the plan that on
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  Speaker 1: this very day, at this particular time, this angel, the
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  Speaker 1: Messenger Angel, would leave the throne room of the Father
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  Speaker 1: and come to this earth. And we read he would
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  Speaker 1: come to the city in Galilee called Nazareth. Really we
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  Speaker 1: would call it a village. Nazareth is where Mary lived,
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  Speaker 1: It's where Joseph lived. It's where they have been betrothed.
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  Speaker 1: He comes to a virgin engaged to a man whose
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  Speaker 1: name was Joseph, of the descendants of David, and the
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  Speaker 1: virgin's name was Mary. Remember she wasn't expecting it. It
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  Speaker 1: was an absolute sudden surprise to her. She looks up
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  Speaker 1: and she sees the visible manifestation of an angelic being
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  Speaker 1: coming in. He said to her, Hail, favored one, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is with you. You're not surprised to read that. She
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  Speaker 1: was very perplexed. Verse twenty nine. The word means to
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  Speaker 1: be caught up in intense curiosity. How could this be
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  Speaker 1: because a man I do not know. Literally, the statement reads,
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  Speaker 1: Remember it has to be a man, and I'm in
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  Speaker 1: love with Joseph, but I've never been intimate with Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: I do not know a man. She's asking, how can
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  Speaker 1: it be? And now he explains. It doesn't help her
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  Speaker 1: with all the answers, but it at least describes the
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  Speaker 1: supernatural nature of the conception. The angel said to her,
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  Speaker 1: do not be afraid, may, for you have found favor
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  Speaker 1: with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb Verse
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. In Baris son, you shall name him Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: He will be great. He will be called the Son
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  Speaker 1: of the Most High, and the Lord God will give
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  Speaker 1: him the throne of his father David. He will reign
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  Speaker 1: over the House of Jacob, and his kingdom will have
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  Speaker 1: no end. How can that be? I understand you're talking
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  Speaker 1: Messiah here, but what I don't get is how this
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  Speaker 1: will occur. I can't figure it out. Verse thirty five
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  Speaker 1: is crucial because it represents the Holy Spirit's most significant mission.
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  Speaker 1: The Angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: will come upon you. The power of the Most High
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  Speaker 1: will over shadow you. These are all human terms, accommodating
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  Speaker 1: human ignorance and an inability to grasp the truth. The
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit will come upon you, The power of the
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  Speaker 1: Most High will overshadow you. For this reason, the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Child shall be called the Son of God. What you
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  Speaker 1: must understand, even the most intense skeptic listening right now,
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  Speaker 1: is that you will never ever unravel the puzzle. You
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  Speaker 1: can't because it's a miracle. God comes, God makes the announcement.
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  Speaker 1: God leaves Mary in her puzzlement, wondering what it's all about,
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  Speaker 1: just as any one of you ladies in these teenage
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  Speaker 1: years in which Mary was would find yourself absolutely shocked.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't back off. He says, the Holy Spirit will come
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  Speaker 1: upon you and will overshadow you. Somewhere between this announcement
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  Speaker 1: and Mary's arrival at Elizabeth's place of residence, a conception
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  Speaker 1: took place. Now. The thing I love about Mary's response
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  Speaker 1: is what follows in this passage of scripture. Before I
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  Speaker 1: get there, I just want you to look at verse
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven and let it sink in. He says, for
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  Speaker 1: nothing will be impossible with God. If I want you
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  Speaker 1: to remember anything as a result of this time together,
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  Speaker 1: it's that statement, because there isn't a person sitting here
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  Speaker 1: today who doesn't have something impossible. That You're facing something
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  Speaker 1: something you cannot fix, you cannot change, you cannot alter,
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  Speaker 1: not start, or stop. It's impossible for you. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's that statement that causes Mary finally to rest her case.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't have to know all the details. She simply
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  Speaker 1: must understand that the God who is revealing this message
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  Speaker 1: is the God of impossibilities. The next two verses are
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  Speaker 1: wonderful verses. Mary said, behold the bondslave of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: May it be done to me according to your word?
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  Speaker 1: And the angel the party. First, of what she calls herself,
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  Speaker 1: I think is significant. I'm a bond servant. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not running my own life. I'm not in charge
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  Speaker 1: of the events of my life. And even though I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea how God is going to pull this off,
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  Speaker 1: it known right now that I see myself as a
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  Speaker 1: humble servant of the living God. I am available to
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  Speaker 1: him to do with me whatever he may wish. Mary,
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  Speaker 1: the woman of Strength and Character, says immediately, I'm the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's bond servant. It's a statement of humility. While we're
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  Speaker 1: on that, would you hold your place here and look
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  Speaker 1: at First Peter, chapter five. I want to point out
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  Speaker 1: three benefits of true humility right here. From First Peter five,
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  Speaker 1: verse five. It concludes with humility toward one another, for
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  Speaker 1: God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to
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  Speaker 1: the humble. Therefore, stay with the word, humble yourself under
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  Speaker 1: the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you
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  Speaker 1: at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on him
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  Speaker 1: because He cares for you. Go back to verse five.
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  Speaker 1: The first benefit of humility is that we're given grace
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  Speaker 1: to accept whatever grace comes to the humble. You see
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  Speaker 1: that He gives grace to the humble, grace to hear,
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  Speaker 1: grace to accept, grace to believe, grace to embrace. So
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  Speaker 1: the first benefit is we're given grace to accept whatever
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  Speaker 1: humility will help you be accepting, accepting. The second thing
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  Speaker 1: is that it comes with a promise, humble yourselves under
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  Speaker 1: the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you
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  Speaker 1: at the proper time. We rest in his promise. When
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  Speaker 1: we humble ourselves, God will reward this kind of attitude. Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I'm not necessary early in agreement
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  Speaker 1: with it. I don't have enough of the facts to
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  Speaker 1: feel at peace about it. But I trust you, and
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  Speaker 1: as a result, we are told we will be exalted
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  Speaker 1: at another time, So later on the exaltation comes. That's
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  Speaker 1: the promise. We rest in God's promise. Third, we are
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  Speaker 1: relieved of anxiety. And who doesn't want that casting all
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  Speaker 1: your anxiety on him? Because literally it matters to him
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  Speaker 1: concerning you. The verse literally reads what concerns you is
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  Speaker 1: a concern to him, and that removes the anxiety. I
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  Speaker 1: think back to Luke one. I think there was all
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  Speaker 1: of that in Mary's acceptance. She said, if that's the plan,
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  Speaker 1: and if with God nothing is impossible, I'm not fighting this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to resist it. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: worry about what people will say, all those gossips that
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  Speaker 1: live near in the town of Nazareth. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to let that hold me back. I'm going to accept this.
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  Speaker 1: I notice also in her response, verse thirty eight, chapter
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  Speaker 1: one of luke, may it be done to me? So
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  Speaker 1: she welcomes the plan. She welcomes the plan. One man writes,
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  Speaker 1: Mary's submission is a very lovely thing. Whatever God says,
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  Speaker 1: I accept. Mary learned to forget the world's commonest prayer,
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  Speaker 1: Thy will be changed, and she's embracing the one that
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest prayer. Thy will be done. May it be?
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  Speaker 1: So if I am the chosen one, let it be,
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  Speaker 1: May it happen. I'll leave the details to you God.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's wonderful. What's wonderful is what is absent.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. First, there's an absence of any request
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  Speaker 1: for further information. Truth be told. Some of us just
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  Speaker 1: want more information, And then after somebody explain, we want
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  Speaker 1: even more information. The thought of risk is enough to
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  Speaker 1: keep us awake through the night. Mary knows there are
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff she will never understand, so she
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  Speaker 1: starts by laying down the need for any further information,
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  Speaker 1: the absence of the problem with telling Joseph. She has
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  Speaker 1: to tell her fiance I'm pregnant. She certainly knew that
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  Speaker 1: the gossips all over Nazareth would be talking in a
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  Speaker 1: few months. Hey, she's already wearing maternity clothes. When did
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  Speaker 1: they get married? What is it? Somebody said, it's from God? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: right right? And how about trying to convince her fiance. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Joseph, before I leave to go see Elizabeth,
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  Speaker 1: I'm carrying a baby. But it's from God.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a guy here that doesn't understand what Joseph
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  Speaker 1: must have felt. See, Joseph has never read Lukewan either.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all he knows is what she just told him.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if God wants to change the laws
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  Speaker 1: of nature, he has the right to do that. I
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  Speaker 1: love the way one theologian puts it. The laws of
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  Speaker 1: nature are not chains which the divine legislator has laid
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  Speaker 1: upon himself. They are threads which he holds in his hand,
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  Speaker 1: and which he shortens or linkedens at will. He could
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  Speaker 1: stop the sun. He made the sun. He can change
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  Speaker 1: the heart of that most stubborn individual that you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do. He made that individual never met his match.
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  Speaker 1: There's a third thing I noticed. There is no resistance
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  Speaker 1: because she'll have to face her parents. I've rarely heard
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  Speaker 1: anyone address the mom and dad in this situation. How
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  Speaker 1: about her rabbi, who has on the record at the
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  Speaker 1: synagogue the betrothal of this couple, and they've signed on
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  Speaker 1: to where they're known as husband and wife during the
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  Speaker 1: betrothal period, but they're to keep themselves pure from sexual
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  Speaker 1: involvement with one another during this period of betrothal. The
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  Speaker 1: rabbi has signed on as well. She's got to face
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  Speaker 1: her rabbi with this information. She begins by saying, I'm
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's bond servant, and so, in other words, I
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  Speaker 1: have to leave this up to him. May it be
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  Speaker 1: according to your word. You know. That's when the angel departed.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the end of verse thirty eight, the angel departed.
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  Speaker 1: That was enough done. I think the angel thought at
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  Speaker 1: that moment time to go back to the throne room
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  Speaker 1: and accomplished. Mary's received the message. She will never be
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  Speaker 1: the same. I leave the rest up to the one
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  Speaker 1: who sent me with the message. And he's gone. Who
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  Speaker 1: the Angel's gone? The good thing is that the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit has never left, and he's hovering over Mary. And
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  Speaker 1: shortly after the visit, Mary experiences conception miraculous. Within a
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  Speaker 1: matter of weeks months, certainly she's feeling the flutter in
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  Speaker 1: her womb life. How many times she must have stood
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  Speaker 1: in front of a mirror and smiled. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: accomplished his mission. To do it, he needed a messager,
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  Speaker 1: and he needed one to receive the message. Let me
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  Speaker 1: go there as I talk about the practical value. First,
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  Speaker 1: I want some of you today to identify with Gabriel
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  Speaker 1: not as an angel, but as a human agency of information.
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  Speaker 1: Could it be that the Lord's plan for you this
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  Speaker 1: very week is for you to be the messenger of
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  Speaker 1: good news to someone who has not heard it and
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  Speaker 1: is not expecting to receive it. I will say to
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  Speaker 1: you again which I've said often, you will encounter people
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  Speaker 1: in your sphere of influence no one else will encounter.
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  Speaker 1: No one is with you twenty four to seven. You
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  Speaker 1: will talk with a friend at work, you will be
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  Speaker 1: with a neighbor, you will be at a party and
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  Speaker 1: there will be someone that will be there that you
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  Speaker 1: are just not getting acquainted with or you haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. You may be planning to make
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  Speaker 1: a flight and you're going to be flying to some destination.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be on a plane or whatever the
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  Speaker 1: vehicle you're going to be with someone you probably don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Be tolerate the question. Could it be that you're to
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  Speaker 1: be the Gabriel in their lives? Could it be that
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  Speaker 1: God would have me open my mouth and speak to
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  Speaker 1: the person at the dry cleaners where I drop off
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  Speaker 1: the clothes, or somebody across from me as I'm pumping
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  Speaker 1: gas into my car, or somebody at the grocery store
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  Speaker 1: I may run into and we speak and normally walk
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  Speaker 1: like ships in the night, passing by one another. Could
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  Speaker 1: it be that a smile would say I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: meet you, or say to me, you could say something
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  Speaker 1: to this person that could make the difference in their eternity.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't just about an angel visiting a woman. This
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  Speaker 1: is about an application for us. I'm speaking today to messengers.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you can't remember the last time you spoke
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  Speaker 1: to anyone about their soul. It really, isn't that difficult,
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  Speaker 1: And if handled tactfully, it can be a remarkable exchange
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  Speaker 1: of conversation. Oh they may not immediately respond, but they
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  Speaker 1: will never forget. I remember a young man in the
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  Speaker 1: Marine Corps that I tricked into helping me with my
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  Speaker 1: Bible verses. I was memorizing verses of Scripture and I
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  Speaker 1: was working with the navigators, and we had a little
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  Speaker 1: verse pack and I said to this young man who
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  Speaker 1: had told me, I don't want any of your religious stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I've already heard your fanatic So that was our opening conversation.
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  Speaker 1: So I realized, if I'm ever going to talk to
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  Speaker 1: this bunk buddy of mine, I'm gonna have to trick
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  Speaker 1: him into it. And so I said him one day, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going over these verses I'm trying to memorize. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want your religo. I said, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: just help me know where I'm making mistakes. Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I tossed him John three sixteen for God. He'd say,
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  Speaker 1: soul loved, Yeah, love, I forgot for God so loved
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  Speaker 1: the world that he gave, gave, that he gave, that
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  Speaker 1: he gave. And I'd go over John three sixteen over
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  Speaker 1: and John three thirty six, First John five eleven and
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  Speaker 1: twelve Phisions two, eight and nine. For by grace you
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  Speaker 1: are save, Save, save through faith that not of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: More than twenty years passed. Never saw Eddie until my
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  Speaker 1: phone rang. The phone rang, and on the other end
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  Speaker 1: of the line was a familiar voice. Hey, Chuck, Yeah Eddie, Eddie,
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  Speaker 1: where are you. I'm in New Orleans. I'm running a
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  Speaker 1: car dealership down here. Hey, you know that trick you
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  Speaker 1: did on me? I said, yeah, he said, Hey, at work,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm loving Jesus. I want you to know that.
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  Speaker 1: So if you got to deceive him into the kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: deceive him into the Kingdom, whatever, whatever it takes fact
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  Speaker 1: to deceive you, to be careful with something that could
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  Speaker 1: be tragic in your life, you'll thank me for it.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully I don't have to be deceptive, but for some people,
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  Speaker 1: you got to work very cleverly. And Eddie thanks me
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  Speaker 1: and will thank me to the end of his life
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  Speaker 1: for being a Gabriel telling him what he didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear at a time he really needed to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: If that's for you, remember the challenge is laid out there.
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  Speaker 1: The word angel, by the way, means messenger. You be
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  Speaker 1: the ungloss the message. Now you know where I'm going.
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  Speaker 1: On the other side of this is Mary. You may
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  Speaker 1: be the marry in. This story has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with babies. For you, it has to do with receiving
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  Speaker 1: a message you aren't expecting. Several of you have heard
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  Speaker 1: the story of Jesus and his death on the cross
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  Speaker 1: so many times you could repeat it back to someone else.
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  Speaker 1: But truth be told, you've never received the message. You've
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  Speaker 1: never taken it personally. You've never said, may it be
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  Speaker 1: done to me according to your word. I bow myself
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  Speaker 1: before the God of Heaven. I acknowledged that I could
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  Speaker 1: never get myself into heaven, not in the way I've
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  Speaker 1: lived my life. And God, if you want to do
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  Speaker 1: the miracle of changing my life, I accept the message.
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  Speaker 1: Today I'll give you a little encouragement in case you
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  Speaker 1: are one of those individuals you have no idea what
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  Speaker 1: God's plan is for you until all is well with you.
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  Speaker 1: All those kids in the classroom that said abortion, had
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  Speaker 1: they thought about it, they would have never said so
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  Speaker 1: because they would have realized that in his fifty seven
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  Speaker 1: brief years on this earth, Bethovin left nine complete symphonies
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  Speaker 1: that are still being played all around the world, numerous sonatas,
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  Speaker 1: concertos for violin and for piano, instrumental trios and quartets
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  Speaker 1: and quintetsres minuets, and opera and oratorio, masses, cantatas, canons,
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  Speaker 1: lovely tunes. The world sings and enjoys. Some have even
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  Speaker 1: put love lyrics to them, and for romantic evenings. Bit
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  Speaker 1: of Him brings encouragement and hope to this day. You
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  Speaker 1: have no idea the future God has for you, but
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  Speaker 1: if you're outside of His family, you'll never know. Today.
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  Speaker 1: Take the message, believe it, receive it now with me,
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  Speaker 1: will you, for just a few moments, just sit quietly
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  Speaker 1: right there. For some of you you've never once in
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  Speaker 1: your life said Lord Jesus Christ. I'm a sinner. I'm lost.
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  Speaker 1: I'm away from you God, and I cannot find my
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  Speaker 1: way to you. But I realize today you've offered me
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  Speaker 1: a gift. So today I invite you to take the gift.
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  Speaker 1: Receive Jesus Christ, and you will have eternal life. You
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  Speaker 1: won't have to work for it, you won't have to
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  Speaker 1: promise to be a holy you won't have to give
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  Speaker 1: up your sins. You won't have to be at church
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  Speaker 1: every Sunday. You don't earn your way. It's a gift.
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  Speaker 1: Take it. When Mary left the presence of that angel,
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  Speaker 1: within a matter of moment, she was pregnant. When you
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  Speaker 1: leave these words in a matter of seconds, you can
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  Speaker 1: be born again, new life, within a whole purpose without
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  Speaker 1: If this will help follow me in this prayer, Heavenly Father,
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  Speaker 1: I acknowledge that I'm a sinner. I've never trusted in
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  Speaker 1: you before, but I now take Jesus Christ and him
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  Speaker 1: only to be my lord and savior. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: coming into my life. I turn away from my unbelief
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  Speaker 1: and I turn to you, dear Father, and I accept
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  Speaker 1: the gift you've given me. Thank you for Jesus Father.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for this time of the year when they're
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  Speaker 1: singing our songs out there, they're going through the motions,
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  Speaker 1: and they're even using words that they don't understand. Enable us,
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