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The Fullness Of God Through The Crucified Life - Part 1 | Episode #414 | Encore Episode #085 · 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 work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and story 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. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would like
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  Speaker 1: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 1: program anytime online at Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: Then, Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone wants to
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  Speaker 2: come with me, he must deny himself, take up his cross,
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  Speaker 2: and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life
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  Speaker 2: will lose it, But whoever loses his life because of
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  Speaker 2: Me will find it. Matthew Chapter sixteen and Versus twenty
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  Speaker 2: four and twenty five. Because this is the question. The
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  Speaker 2: hindrance of the fullness of the Holy Spirit in our
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  Speaker 2: lives is usually rooted in our lack of understanding of
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  Speaker 2: the cross. You see, believer, we are taught that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: came as a man, and he lived a sinless life.
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  Speaker 2: But as a man, he took upon himself the sins
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  Speaker 2: of all mankind and bore that sin on the brutal
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  Speaker 2: crucifixion cross on Calvert. We look at that event and
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  Speaker 2: we recognize how horrible that death had to have been.
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  Speaker 2: And yet we see that in so many ways they
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  Speaker 2: identifying of the cross in each of us is of
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  Speaker 2: little meaning. Why am I stressing this point because of
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus said. He stated that if we save our
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  Speaker 2: own life, we will lose it, But if we lose
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  Speaker 2: our life to be full of him, we will find it.
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  Speaker 2: How do we accomplish a greater revelation of the cross? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I want to give you some insight, because if we
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  Speaker 2: look into the background of this particular scripture, it is
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  Speaker 2: just before in the phrase that was given, where Peter,
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  Speaker 2: who later became one of the empowered spokesmen and demonstrators
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  Speaker 2: of the gospel. Peter was with Jesus along with the
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  Speaker 2: other eleven followers that he had selected, and Jesus had
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  Speaker 2: poured his life into them previously. In the same chapter,
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  Speaker 2: they came to him and they talked to him about
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  Speaker 2: how they were going to be taken care of, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus actually made a statement. He said, beware of the yeas,
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  Speaker 2: or in some versions it's referred to as the eleven
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  Speaker 2: of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Why did he say this, Well,
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  Speaker 2: he was telling them that they needed to understand that
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  Speaker 2: he was speaking of not the bread in itself, but
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  Speaker 2: what causes the bread to rise. In other words, what
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  Speaker 2: is the spiritual counterpart to the yeast. One of the
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  Speaker 2: things is pride. We want to be recognized and we
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  Speaker 2: want to be acknowledged, and so pride exists in our life.
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  Speaker 2: And what happens when we deal with pride? Well, I
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  Speaker 2: offered this as a means of understanding where we are
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  Speaker 2: in that particular scripture. I want to back up for
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  Speaker 2: just a moment. And after Jesus had said watch out
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  Speaker 2: and beware the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees, they
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  Speaker 2: discussed among themselves, these are the followers. We didn't bring
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  Speaker 2: any bread, And aware of this, Jesus said, you of
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  Speaker 2: little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves that you
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  Speaker 2: do not have bread. Don't you understand yet? Don't you
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  Speaker 2: remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how
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  Speaker 2: many baskets you collected, or the seven loaves for the
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  Speaker 2: four thousand and how many large baskets you collected. Why
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  Speaker 2: is it you don't understand that when I told you
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  Speaker 2: beware of the yeast or the leaven of the Pharisees
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  Speaker 2: and Sadducees, it wasn't about bread. Then they understood that
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  Speaker 2: he did not tell them to beware of the yeast
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  Speaker 2: or leaven in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees. Andy. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus came to the region of Cesarea Philippi, he
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  Speaker 2: asked his disciples, this is his question to his followers,
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  Speaker 2: who do people say that the son of Man is?
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  Speaker 2: This was Jesus's own identity that he used constantly for himself,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Man. And they said, some say John
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  Speaker 2: the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah are one of
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  Speaker 2: the prophets. But you, he asked them directly, who do
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  Speaker 2: you say that I am? And Simon Peter answered, you
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  Speaker 2: are the Messiah, the son of the Living God. Jesus responded, Simon,
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  Speaker 2: son of Joan, you are blessed because bless and blood
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  Speaker 2: did not reveal this to you, but my Father in Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: and I also say to you that you are Peter,
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  Speaker 2: and on this rock I will build my church, and
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  Speaker 2: the forces of Hades will not overpower it. I will
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  Speaker 2: give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. And
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  Speaker 2: whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: And whatever you loose on earth is already loose in Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: He gave his disciples orders to tell no one that
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  Speaker 2: he was the Messiah. Now, from that time on, they
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  Speaker 2: continued to walk with him, and they had to go
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  Speaker 2: with him into Jerusalem. And Jesus had told them that
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  Speaker 2: he was going to suffer many things from the elders,
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  Speaker 2: the chief priest, and the scribes, that he would be
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  Speaker 2: killed and be raised the third day. Then Peter, the
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  Speaker 2: same one who recognized him and climed that he was
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  Speaker 2: the Messiah. Then Peter took him aside and began to
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  Speaker 2: rebuke him. Oh, no, Lord, this will never happen to you.
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  Speaker 2: Now listen to this verse. But he Jesus turned and
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  Speaker 2: told Peter, get behind me. Satan. You are an offense
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  Speaker 2: to me because you're not thinking about God's concerns but man's.
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  Speaker 2: This is where he explained that not only was he
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  Speaker 2: going to die on a cruel cross, but that many
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  Speaker 2: of his followers would experience the same type of death. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this scripture mentions two things. First, it mentions that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: recognized who he was, but he wanted his disciples to
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  Speaker 2: recognize him for what he did. And so he continued
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  Speaker 2: to teach them and demonstrated the power of God because
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  Speaker 2: he was totally submitted to the Holy Spirit. And yet
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  Speaker 2: he proclaimed to them that we, as his followers, must
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  Speaker 2: take up our own cross. We must deny ourselves to
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  Speaker 2: follow him. If we want to save our own life,
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  Speaker 2: ultimately we will lose it. But if we choose to
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  Speaker 2: lose our life for him, we will truly find it.
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  Speaker 2: This is a hard teaching believers. This is the hindrance
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  Speaker 2: to the reception of the fullness of God. Do you
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  Speaker 2: want to have the fullness of God? Do you want
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  Speaker 2: truly to be one who demonstrates his power upon his
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  Speaker 2: wish and will at the time and the place that
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  Speaker 2: he selects. Do you want to be used of him
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  Speaker 2: in order that he may receive glory? The answer to
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  Speaker 2: this is individually pronounced. We must each answer for ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're not talking about salvation. We're not talking about
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  Speaker 2: believing in Jesus as a messiah, although believing in Jesus
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  Speaker 2: as a Messiah is certainly the beginning steps. But yet
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  Speaker 2: to continue with him, we must die. How do we die?
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  Speaker 2: We're living vessels. We are submitting ourselves as those vessels
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  Speaker 2: that will house the Holy Spirit. How do we die?
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  Speaker 2: We die by taking up our cross. We do that
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  Speaker 2: simbolically today, by putting to death those things that are
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  Speaker 2: in our own self image, the pride, the self exaltation,
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  Speaker 2: the means of being able to boast. Those things are
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  Speaker 2: contrary to the function and fullness of the power of God.
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  Speaker 2: If Jesus submitted himself not only to become a man
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  Speaker 2: and to live a life under the full direction of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, to perform only those things that the
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  Speaker 2: Father performed, he is our means of dying. We must
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  Speaker 2: die to self in order to be raised in power
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  Speaker 2: with him. Richard will be right back in a moment
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  Speaker 2: 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, 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 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 Homann 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: Do you want the fullness of the Holy Spirit, the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of God functioning in your life, then you believer?
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  Speaker 2: And I must crucify this spleshly body. It must be
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  Speaker 2: accomplished by putting to death all of those things of self.
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  Speaker 2: We need to understand that there is only one way
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  Speaker 2: that we can become fully alive in Him, and that
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  Speaker 2: is to become fully dead to ourselves. It is not
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  Speaker 2: easy to become dead, but it is possible, not only possible,
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  Speaker 2: but certainly probable. Jesus said all things are possible to
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  Speaker 2: them that believe. Do you believe. If you believe that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus has the power to raise you from the dead,
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  Speaker 2: then you have the same ability to crucify yourself. Many
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  Speaker 2: have fought this throughout their entire lives, and they've dealt
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  Speaker 2: with the selfish ambitions, the things that drive us in
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  Speaker 2: this world to the extent that we have forfeited the
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  Speaker 2: power of God to glorify him. Is that your situation,
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  Speaker 2: then remember what Jesus said, if anyone wants to come
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  Speaker 2: with me, he must deny himself, take up his cross,
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  Speaker 2: and follow me. And that is today's 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 Kay for Richard Retired Team. This is Chuck Christie
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  Speaker 1: saying thanks for listening to this edition of Reflections on
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  Speaker 1: the Word.