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  Speaker 1: In the comfort driven times in which we live, we've
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  Speaker 1: mastered the art of avoiding pain. We pop pills at
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  Speaker 1: the first sign of discomfort, chase endless distractions, and build
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  Speaker 1: elaborate cocoons of convenience around ourselves. Yet, what if everything
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  Speaker 1: we've been taught about suffering is wrong? What if the
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  Speaker 1: very thing we're desperately trying to escape is actually God's
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  Speaker 1: secret pathway to astonishing transformation. Today, on Insight for Living,
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  Speaker 1: Chuckswuindaul reveals a startling truth from Roman's aid in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Suffering isn't your enemy, it's your invitation to glory. Chuck
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  Speaker 1: called today's message glorying and groaning.
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  Speaker 2: How we want to read from the Word of God
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  Speaker 2: God Romans chapter eight appropriately a message on suffering. Let
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  Speaker 2: me read for you Verses eighteen through twenty seven. For
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  Speaker 2: I consider that the sufferings of this present time are
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  Speaker 2: not worthy to be compared with the glory that is
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  Speaker 2: to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of
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  Speaker 2: the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons
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  Speaker 2: of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly,
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  Speaker 2: but because of Him who've subjected it in hope that
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  Speaker 2: the creation itself also will be set free from its
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  Speaker 2: slavery to corruption, into the freedom of the glory of
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  Speaker 2: the children of God. For we know that the whole
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  Speaker 2: creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
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  Speaker 2: And not only this, but also we are so else
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  Speaker 2: having the first fruits of the Spirit. Even we ourselves
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  Speaker 2: groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption ast sons,
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  Speaker 2: the redemption of our body. For in hope we have
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  Speaker 2: been saved. But hope that is seen is not hope,
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  Speaker 2: for who hopes for what he already sees. But if
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  Speaker 2: we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance,
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  Speaker 2: we eagerly wait for it. In the same way, the
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  Speaker 2: Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know
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  Speaker 2: how to pray as we should, But the Spirit himself
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  Speaker 2: intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And
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  Speaker 2: he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit is, because he intercedes for the saints according
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  Speaker 2: to the will of God.
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  Speaker 1: You are listening to insight for living to dig deeper
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  Speaker 1: into the Book of Romans on your own, be sure
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  Speaker 1: going to insight dot org slash offer chuck title today's
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  Speaker 1: message Glorying and groaning.
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  Speaker 2: Nostalgic memories sometimes come upon us and hold us in
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  Speaker 2: their grip. Many of us remember walking along the sandy
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  Speaker 2: shoreline of an ocean, and the waves are crashing against
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  Speaker 2: the shore, and the salt breeze is caught by the
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  Speaker 2: wind and blows it across our face, and we can
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  Speaker 2: taste it on our lips, and suddenly we are in
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  Speaker 2: another place and at another time. Occasionally we're at a
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  Speaker 2: park and we'll see a little child running toward her mother,
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  Speaker 2: mother with outstretched arms hunched down, ready to hold her
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  Speaker 2: and hug her, and all of a sudden, the nostalgia
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  Speaker 2: of the moment reminds us of one of our children
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  Speaker 2: when she ran to the arms of her mother, or
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  Speaker 2: perhaps when we did. It's just a little ladder alas
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  Speaker 2: the other day, I was in my truck and I
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  Speaker 2: had my radio tune to one of those stations that
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  Speaker 2: play songs that you can understand, and all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden it happened again. As I heard the strains of
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  Speaker 2: the way we were, memories light the corner of my mind,
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  Speaker 2: misty watercolored memories of the way we were. All of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, I wasn't on a street nearby. I was
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  Speaker 2: eight thousand miles away in Southeast Asia, wearing a Marine
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  Speaker 2: Corps uniform, lonely for my wife. We'd been married only
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  Speaker 2: two and a half years, and it was a cold,
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  Speaker 2: cold night. I remember my friend with the Navigators had
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  Speaker 2: given me a newly released version of the Bible. Happened
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  Speaker 2: to be the Amplified New Testament. You're all familiar with
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  Speaker 2: it now, but back then it was a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a novelty. The only thing really available except the King
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  Speaker 2: James back then was the Phillips translation. But this was
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  Speaker 2: brand new. I remember breaking it open and looking through
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  Speaker 2: it that night, at a quiet moment, all alone in
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  Speaker 2: the barracks, and I found that I told the Lord
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to make that my verse for the year.
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  Speaker 2: It was Philippians three ten, where Paul comes to sort
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  Speaker 2: of the climax of the third chapter, saying that I
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  Speaker 2: may know him and the power of his resurrection and
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  Speaker 2: the fellowship of his sufferings. And I looked into the
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  Speaker 2: Amplified and I read, for my determined purpose is that
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  Speaker 2: I may know him, that I may progressively become more
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  Speaker 2: deeply and intimately acquainted with him. I stopped there. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: that's good enough for January. The month of January. This year,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to focus my time and attention on knowing
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  Speaker 2: him deeply, intimately progressively. I'm going to spend time with him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to think his thoughts. I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 2: with him as often as I can. Because the temptations
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  Speaker 2: were everywhere. Every person who's ever been in the military
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  Speaker 2: knows that the opportunity to yield is imminent at all times.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, for me to stay pure in my marriage,
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  Speaker 2: I need help. So Lord helped me to get to
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  Speaker 2: know you deeply and intimately. That was January. When February came,
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  Speaker 2: I took the next phrase, the power of his resurrection,
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  Speaker 2: the outflowing of power, like Jesus demonstrated when resurrected from
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  Speaker 2: the grave. That kind of power can be ours through
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  Speaker 2: the work of the Holy Spirit inside. And I thought, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: if you can give me that kind of dynamic, who
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  Speaker 2: knows I might be able to speak to one of
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  Speaker 2: my buddies here about Jesus. Might be an opportunity or
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  Speaker 2: one or two of them to come to Christ this year.
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  Speaker 2: So I give you this part of the verse for
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  Speaker 2: my February of nineteen fifty eight. By the way, before
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  Speaker 2: the year ended, seven had come to know Christ. Now
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  Speaker 2: seven out of forty eight in that quantcet hut may
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  Speaker 2: not sound like much in the Marine Corps, it's a revival.
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  Speaker 2: So the eight of us formed a little Bible study group,
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  Speaker 2: and we got involved in scripture memory program, and we
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  Speaker 2: attended a GI fellowship on Friday night and worked our
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  Speaker 2: way through the old Intervarsity Hymnal and committed to memory
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those great hymns. The way we were.
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  Speaker 2: Then I came to March, and I paused at the phrase,
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  Speaker 2: and I may know the fellowship of His sufferings, And,
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  Speaker 2: like many of you, at that moment frowned. I tried
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  Speaker 2: to imagine what that means. I came to realize, over
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  Speaker 2: the passing of time, that it is impossible to become
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  Speaker 2: a man of God without the presence of suffering. I've
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  Speaker 2: come to see in every mentor that has ever meant
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  Speaker 2: anything to me, that man has been a person of suffering,
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  Speaker 2: no exception. I came to realize that suffering was not
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  Speaker 2: an adjunct part of the curriculum, but it was an
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  Speaker 2: essential course. It was a part of Christian life one
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  Speaker 2: oh one. And it didn't come easy for me, because I,
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  Speaker 2: like you, found myself in a world that highlighted success
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  Speaker 2: and comfort and pleasure and ease and even selfishness. It's
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  Speaker 2: all about me. But that verse hammered away at me
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  Speaker 2: that I might continually be transformed into His likeness. And
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  Speaker 2: remember Jesus, though he were a son, he learned obedience
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  Speaker 2: through the things that he suffered Hebrews five eight. You
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  Speaker 2: and I learn obedience when times are hard, when we
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  Speaker 2: get sick, when we must rely on others, when disease
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  Speaker 2: takes its tolld and we wind up in a wheelchair
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  Speaker 2: or perhaps a stroke, and times get hard for us,
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  Speaker 2: and we struggle with that. By the fall of fifty nine,
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  Speaker 2: I was enrolled at Donald's Seminary. By the grace of God,
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  Speaker 2: I no more deserve to be admitted. You can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: how much grace they demonstrated letting me in. They let
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  Speaker 2: me in on probation, Thank the Lord. There was grace
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  Speaker 2: then as there is now. And part of my course
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  Speaker 2: took me to Tozer's words in his wonderful work the
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  Speaker 2: root of the righteous. If you're not acquainted with aw Tozer,
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  Speaker 2: your Christian life is still sort of getting started. You
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  Speaker 2: need Tozer. He puts two chapters together in this book
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  Speaker 2: called the Uses of Suffering, followed by Praise God for
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  Speaker 2: the Furnace, where he develops the whole idea of God
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  Speaker 2: using the hammer and the file in the furnace to
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  Speaker 2: break us down. And I remember he wrote in that book,
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  Speaker 2: which I committed to memory, it is doubtful God can
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  Speaker 2: use anyone greatly till he has hurt him deeply. That
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  Speaker 2: flies in the face of the media today. You will
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  Speaker 2: not hear that in public places known for their politically
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  Speaker 2: correct statements. That almost makes God look like a saddest.
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  Speaker 2: On the contrary, it pleased the Father to bruise his son.
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  Speaker 2: The best work of Christ was done at Gethsemine, followed
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  Speaker 2: by Golgotha. And the horror in between is nothing but torture,
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  Speaker 2: but is by his strife we are healed. Before the
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  Speaker 2: false semester ended, I listened to Alan Redpath as he
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  Speaker 2: lectured as a pastor from the Great Moody Memorial Church.
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  Speaker 2: Don't remember his speech that day. There's message. But I
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  Speaker 2: remember one statement. When God wants to do an impossible task,
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  Speaker 2: he takes an impossible man and crushes him, crushes him.
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  Speaker 2: If you are being crushed, you are on the right road.
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  Speaker 2: If your will is being broken, you are on the
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  Speaker 2: path the maturity. If you find yourself at WIT's end
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  Speaker 2: to know how to deal with what you're going through,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the club of fellow believers who are pilgrims
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  Speaker 2: and strangers in a foreign land. If he's crushing you,
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  Speaker 2: his focus is on your maturity. He's not trying to
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  Speaker 2: make you squirm. He's teaching you submission. He's teaching you
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  Speaker 2: how to release your will so that he might have
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  Speaker 2: his way in your life. Now, wouldn't you know it.
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  Speaker 2: The week I get so sick, I come upon Romans
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  Speaker 2: eighth eighteen to twenty seven, which is all about groaning. Groaning, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: there's glory in it. In fact, he places those in
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  Speaker 2: juxtaposition again and again in the text eighteen through twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: There is groaning in this life, but there is glory
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  Speaker 2: to come. In fact, eighteen is a wonderful verse to
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  Speaker 2: commit to memory. Romans eight eighteen. I consider that the
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  Speaker 2: sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be
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  Speaker 2: compared with the glory that will be revealed hereafter. Look closely.
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  Speaker 2: He's comparing groaning and glorying, and he's saying, between the two,
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  Speaker 2: the glorying will be so magnificent it will eclipse the
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  Speaker 2: pain of all the groaning. When we have moved from
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  Speaker 2: this earth to Heaven, there will be no interest whatsoever
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  Speaker 2: in revisiting this earth. And I say with compassion, and
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  Speaker 2: I hope tact, do not grieve too heavily over the
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  Speaker 2: loss of your loved ones. Who knows Jesus they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: come back if they had an opportunity. What would they
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  Speaker 2: want to come back to earth for groaning? Now, all
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  Speaker 2: that to say, I have given you an outline. I'd
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  Speaker 2: like you to place before you a timeless principle that
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  Speaker 2: will go through with you to the last day of
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  Speaker 2: your life. It is this Suffering is an essential part
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  Speaker 2: of the path to maturity. I know my voice is raspy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Just bear with me. When I'm in glory,
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  Speaker 2: I'll have a voice like Lloyd Ogilvie. But until then,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to have to put up with what I
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  Speaker 2: live with. Suffering is an essential part an essential part
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  Speaker 2: of the path to maturity. You're suffering, You're on the
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  Speaker 2: right road. F me Myer writes in his book Christ
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  Speaker 2: and Isaiah that if I am told that there is
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  Speaker 2: a rocky bit of road between here and my destination,
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  Speaker 2: I know that every jolt along the way is a
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  Speaker 2: reminder I'm on the right road. I'm on the right road.
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  Speaker 2: If you're suffering, you're on the right road. God is
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  Speaker 2: in the heavens. He knows what he's doing. And again,
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  Speaker 2: it isn't simply to make your hurt. It's to break
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  Speaker 2: you from your own self so that you might be
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  Speaker 2: shaped and conformed into the image of Christ. But my
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  Speaker 2: do we grown. Now look at the passage. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to see how it's put together. It's an interesting
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  Speaker 2: intermix of two thoughts. If you like marking your Bible,
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  Speaker 2: mark the word creation in verses nineteen, twenty, twenty one
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  Speaker 2: and twenty two. You'll find it four times. So nineteen
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  Speaker 2: to twenty two is about the groaning of creation, the
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  Speaker 2: natural world, the animal kingdom, the world about us, the
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  Speaker 2: planet on which we occupy our lives. It's this earth.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, verse twenty two, the whole creation covers it
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  Speaker 2: all the waters, the land, the skies, the mountains, the valleys,
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  Speaker 2: the rivers, the ponds, the deserts. It's all of it.
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  Speaker 2: So creation four times nineteen ten, twenty two. Look at
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  Speaker 2: twenty three. And not only this, in other words, not
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  Speaker 2: only creation groans, but also we ourselves, having the first
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  Speaker 2: fruit of the spirit, even we ourselves grown, Oh do
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  Speaker 2: we ever, we grown within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our
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  Speaker 2: adoption as sons the redemption of the body. Look at
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  Speaker 2: the pronoun verse twenty four, and hope we have been
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  Speaker 2: saved twenty five. But if we hope for what we
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  Speaker 2: do not see, with perseverance, we eagerly wait for it
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. The Spirit helps our weakness, for we do
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  Speaker 2: not know how to pray as we should. But the
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  Speaker 2: Spirit himself intercedes with groanings too deep for words. I
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  Speaker 2: love that versus scripture. You know you're so sick sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you can't put a prayer together. Happen to me about Friday.
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  Speaker 2: That was my major pity party Friday. First, I thought
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  Speaker 2: I'd die, and I was afraid I wouldn't. How sick
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  Speaker 2: I was, so you know what I did. I'm sitting
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  Speaker 2: on our recliner and I am groaning, and if Cynthia
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  Speaker 2: doesn't come, I go. My mother used to groan by saying, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.
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  Speaker 2: That was her grown, Oh Lord, mercy, Mercy. I remember
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  Speaker 2: her sick on her bed. The sound would come through
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  Speaker 2: her bedroom. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. We grown. The old Earth groans,
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  Speaker 2: and it groans every time there's a tidal wave. It
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  Speaker 2: groans every time there's an explosion of a volcano. Groans
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  Speaker 2: every time there's a fire that sweeps across it, groans
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  Speaker 2: every time the thistles overtake the plants. There's groaning in
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  Speaker 2: this earth. See it hasn't always been groaning. It began
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  Speaker 2: to groan when the curse happened, began to grow. Then
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  Speaker 2: look at nineteen for the anxious longing of the creation
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  Speaker 2: waits eagerly. It's the idea of standing on tiptoe and
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  Speaker 2: craning the neck, waits eagerly for the revealing of the
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  Speaker 2: sons of God. So let me give you the first
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  Speaker 2: of four statements here. First, groaning is temporary. That's verse nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: The old Earth will groan only so long, it'll growan
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  Speaker 2: only so long. It's temporary. Second, it's a consequence verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty for the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly.
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  Speaker 2: Creation didn't say, Lord, bring a curse on us. No,
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  Speaker 2: Adam's fall brought the curse, so unwillingly the natural world
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  Speaker 2: was cursed. We'll turn to that in a minute. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a consequence. Third Verses twenty b through twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Groaning is a means to an end. There's an end
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  Speaker 2: in view for that being set free from its slavery
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  Speaker 2: to corruption, into the freedom of the glory of the
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  Speaker 2: children of God. Fourth and verse twenty two. It's universal,
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  Speaker 2: the whole creation groans. Let me show you how it's started.
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  Speaker 2: Go back to Genesis one. Genesis one twenty nine. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: then God said, behold, now this is in a context
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  Speaker 2: of innocence. There is no sin. It's a magnificent landscape.
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  Speaker 2: Every tree is full of fruit, Every blade of grass
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  Speaker 2: is a jade green. Every stream is clear, every skies
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  Speaker 2: beautiful and bright. So he says in twenty nine, behold,
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  Speaker 2: I've given you every plant, every plant yielding seed that
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  Speaker 2: is on the surface of all the earth, and every
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  Speaker 2: tree which has fruit yielding seed. It shall be food
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  Speaker 2: for you. So he says that to Adam and Eve,
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  Speaker 2: having just blessed them in twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Now look at thirty and to every beast of the earth,
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  Speaker 2: and every bird of the sky, everything that moves on
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  Speaker 2: the earth which has life, I have given every green
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  Speaker 2: plant for food. It was so that interesting. All the
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  Speaker 2: animals were vegetarians. They all ate from the plants. There
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  Speaker 2: was no viciousness, there was no attacking, There was no
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  Speaker 2: hostility in the animal world. It was all in harmony,
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  Speaker 2: It was all in beauty. It was all to be enjoyed.
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  Speaker 2: Till chapter three, where Adam and Eve fall into sin.
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  Speaker 2: Look at verse seventeen, how it impacts the earth. Then
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  Speaker 2: to Adam, God said, because you have listened to the
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  Speaker 2: voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree
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  Speaker 2: about which I commanded you, saying you shall not eat
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  Speaker 2: from it, cursed is the ground because of you in toil,
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  Speaker 2: you will eat of it all the days of your life.
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  Speaker 2: Now be careful here. I've heard people say work is
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  Speaker 2: a curse. No, no, there was work when the world
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  Speaker 2: was innocent, before there had ever been sin. Adam till
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  Speaker 2: the garden, and even and he worked together in it.
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  Speaker 2: There was work. But what the curse brought was you'll
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  Speaker 2: read it here, the toil, the thorns and the thistles
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  Speaker 2: that grow. They didn't have thorns and thistles before the curse.
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  Speaker 2: You shall eat the plants of the field. By the
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  Speaker 2: sweat of your face. You shall eat bread. That's the curse.
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  Speaker 2: It's the conflicts work, It's the difficulties of dealing with people.
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  Speaker 2: It's the personnel problems. It's the bickering, it's the backbiting.
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  Speaker 2: It's the sin that a company's work. It's the exhaustion
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  Speaker 2: that comes at the end of too long a day
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  Speaker 2: at work. Are too stressed out a day? Now, that's
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  Speaker 2: when the groaning started for the earth. Now it will
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  Speaker 2: continue to groan until our Lord himself changes it with
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  Speaker 2: his presence on this earth, when the desert will blossom
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  Speaker 2: like a rose, when the lamb and the lion shall
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  Speaker 2: lie down together, when there will be peace again on
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  Speaker 2: that great time of the kingdom of our Savior Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: as he reigns King over all, who called himself King
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  Speaker 2: and Lord above all lords. Now back to Romans eight.
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  Speaker 2: So much for the groaning of creation. Now here's our groaning.
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  Speaker 2: Not only this, not only creation, We ourselves having the
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  Speaker 2: first fruits of the spirit. Even we ourselves grown within
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  Speaker 2: ourselves when we get the flu, when we break our leg,
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  Speaker 2: when we have a heartbreak in our family, when we
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  Speaker 2: go through a period that looks bleak, when the doctor
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