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Romans chapter 15 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Romans chapter 15, let us pray our Lord, our God, our King, our
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  Savior. Thank you Father, for salvation.
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  Thank you, Father, for giving us life and life eternal.
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  Thank you, Lord God, for your spoken word.
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  Thank you, Father, that we can hold your spoken word in our
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  hands, that it is alive and active and it is discerning us,
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  God. It is reading us God.
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  And so I pray right now, Holy Spirit, that you'll come and
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  fill us today. I decrease as you increase.
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  Teach us your eternal paths. Teach us your ways.
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  Father, help me to get out of the way.
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  Hide me and hide my words and hide my thoughts.
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  Father, it is all about King Jesus yesterday, today, and
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  forever. We're looking up.
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  We're seeing that our redemption is drawing near.
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  And God, we know that you are coming on the clouds.
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  We know that you're coming in all your glory with the heavenly
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  host. We thank you, Father, that
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  every, everything is moving according to your timeline.
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  And God, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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  God, we pray, Father, that you will be the one who's
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  orchestrating all the events in the earth, that nothing is
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  hidden and nothing God is without you knowing about it,
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  Lord. And so, Father, we just say yes
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  and Amen to all the promises contained in this book.
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  We know that you're bringing about all of your plans, Father,
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  into the the world right now. So Lord, we just want to be
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  wherever it is that you want us to be.
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  We only want to do the things that you want us to do.
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  God, let us, as we get in your word, let us meditate upon these
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  scriptures and let us receive from you your power and love
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  God, and let us receive from you our orders for today what it is
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  that we're supposed to do for today.
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  We thank you that your mercies are new today.
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  We thank you, God, that you have chosen us before the foundations
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  of the earth, and You've predestined us, God, for such a
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  time as this. So we say yes and Amen to you,
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  Lord and all of your ways. Lord, we know that you are
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  unsearchable in all of your ways.
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  And so Lord, we just get out of our own way.
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  And Lord, we only want to be found doing whatever it is that
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  you want us to do. Let us be light and salt today
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  to this wicked and perverse generation.
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  God, I pray for revival. Lord, I pray, Lord, that you'll
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  set the church on fire today with zeal that has consumed us,
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  Father. Father, I pray that many will
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  come into salvation today. Let today be that day, Father,
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  as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling, God, we
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  acknowledge how supreme you are. We acknowledge that you are over
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  all the universe, you over all of our emotions and
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  circumstances, and we just want more of you.
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  Father, give us a greater understanding of who you are.
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  Father, let us go to the depths of your love and mercy God and
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  give us joy over flowing. God, give us joy.
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  Unsearchable. Father, we love you.
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  Yes, yes. Father, we pray for families.
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  We pray for the family units. God, we pray for all the mothers
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  who are struggling right now with making a decision.
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  God, I pray that they'll choose life today.
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  Father, I pray for all those that are confused that you
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  remove the spirit of confusion from off of the youth.
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  Father, I pray for parents to be parents.
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  Father, I pray that you will give them the authority over
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  their household. God, I pray that you'll
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  reinstitute families, God, all across this entire world.
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  Lord, we love you, King Jesus. It's all about you, King Jesus.
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  It'll always be about you, King Jesus, and it's in your holy and
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  precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. We then that are strong ought to
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  bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.
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  Think about that, friends. Think about how those of us who
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  have been walking with the Lord for any amount of time and He's
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  been sanctifying us. We don't need to try to use that
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  to break the weak ones down. We need to try to edify them and
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  build them up in Christ. 10 Let everyone of us please his
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  neighbor for his good edification.
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  That is it, friends. We need to be building up our
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  neighbors. We need to be teaching them the
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  ways of Christ. We need to be sharing with them
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  the tools that have helped us the most.
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  And the number one tool that we need to develop is to develop a
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  unoffendable spirit. If we are unoffendable, there is
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  so much growth in that. Friends. 3 For even Christ,
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  please, not himself, but as it is written, the reproach,
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  approaches of them that reproached you fell on me.
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  So Christ was willing to take all the mockery, He was willing
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  to take all of the ridicule, He was willing to take all the
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  reproaches that people cast upon him.
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  And he did not try to make a point.
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  He was trying to make a difference, Friends.
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  For for whatsoever things were written before time were written
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  for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the
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  scriptures might have hope. So that's what you can see this
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  Jewish and Gentile believers in one salvation.
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  You see that the scriptures of old were for the edification of
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  the Saints and they lead to comfort.
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  They lead to learning they lead to patience.
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  We know that they were written through the Holy Spirit,
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  inspired by the Holy Spirit, and five.
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  Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like
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  one toward another according to Christ Jesus.
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  Division and discord is not from God, friends, that is of the
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  enemy and God hates it. Whenever a man sows discord
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  amongst a group of believers, that is not from God.
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  And you need to know that there is unity in the community
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  whenever the Holy Spirit is present.
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  If you see discord, division, and dissension, it is because
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  the Holy Spirit is absent in that body.
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  Six, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even
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  the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  That is what you need to know. We need to be in one accord with
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  our brothers and sisters. We do not need to try to break
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  each other down because they might not believe in one little
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  aspect the way that you do. There's so much splitting hairs
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  of theology that actually split congregations, friends.
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  And God is not in it, friends. He is going to be the one one to
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  be glorified and honored throughout all the ages forever
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  and all men. It is one mouth and one mind. 7
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  Wherefore receive you one another as Christ also received
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  us to the glory of God, So that is what you need to know.
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  We were once sinners. We were once dead in our
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  trespasses. We were once the tax collectors
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  and the fishermen and the prostitutes, but Jesus called us
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  unto himself and he cleansed us and he washed us clean and white
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  as snow. And there are many now who are
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  addicted to drugs and alcohol and pornography.
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  There are many now who are addicted to violence and self
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  and vanity. There are many now friends who
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  are in that way who are going to come into the fold, and we need
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  to receive them whenever they do.
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  We do not need to be the ones to try to keep them out of the
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  congregation because they do not look like us, because we were
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  once those people. And we need to remember just how
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  far we have come. And we don't need to be the ones
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  to break others down. We were once those people. 8 Now
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  I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for
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  the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.
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  So he wanted us to circumcise our heart.
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  He wanted to give us a new heart and a new mind, friends, and
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  that is what Jesus was after. He wasn't after all of the
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  external Jewish customs and traditions that kept them from
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  disease and kept them from being exterminated off the face of the
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  earth. He gave them a lot of their laws
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  for their sanitation friends. And now when Jesus came, he said
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  he fulfilled the law. He did not abolish it, but he
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  fulfilled it. And he came wanting us to
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  circumcise our hearts. 9 and that the Gentiles might glorify
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  God for his mercy, as it is written for this, 'cause I will
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  confess to you among the Gentiles, and to sing unto your
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  name. So God's plan from eternity was
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  to bring the Gentiles in after the Jews.
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  He revealed himself to the Jews. He built that nation up, and
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  then through their disobedience, us as Gentiles have come into
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  the fold, And he knew it, and we are singing his name unto this
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  day. 10 And again he says, Rejoice you Gentiles with his
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  people, so you can see the the Gentiles and the Jews come
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  together. And how much more blessed is it
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  to be a Jew and a Christian at the same time?
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  Much more blessed than just being a Christian.
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  Think about it. And this calls for wisdom. 12
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  And again Isaiah says there shall be a root of Jesse, and he
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  that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in him shall the
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  Gentiles trust. It's in Jesus Christ, this stump
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  of Jesse who came, friends, that we have all hope and trust. 13
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  Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace and
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  believing that you may abound in hope through the power of the
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  Holy Ghost. That's the only power that's
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  available to us, friends, is the filling of the Holy Ghost.
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  And it is only power that can break off all of our
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  infirmities, break off all of our sins, friends, all the
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  things that are entangling us. We need the Holy Ghost, friends,
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  to help us to get out from underneath those sinful actions,
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  sinful propensities, all of the sinful desires of that we have.
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  We need the Holy Ghost. He's the only one that can shine
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  light on the things that are holding us back from
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  experiencing the fullness of God in our lives.
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  We need the power of the Holy Ghost to give us the peace and
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  the joy and the hope and the belief.
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  Friends, it is only the Holy Ghost that can help you love God
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  more. 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers,
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  that you also are full of goodness, filled with all
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  knowledge, and also to admonish one another.
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  That is the outflow of the Christian love.
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  Friends, we need to understand that that is when we're filled
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  with the Holy Ghost, we'll be able to admonish one another.
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  We'll have all the knowledge and the goodness friends that we
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  need because the Holy Spirit is the complete authority, friends.
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  He is the complete entity that we need.
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  There is not the Holy Spirit plus something, friends.
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  It is not Holy Spirit plus a whole library full of
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  commentary. It is not the Holy Spirit plus
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  your favorite Bible teacher. It's the Holy Spirit who teaches
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  us and deep calls to deep friends.
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  And it is one spirit. And when someone speaks
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  something that is of God, the Holy Spirit quickens us in the
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  inner man to let us know that what they are saying is truthful
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  and what we need to make sure that we are locked in memorizing
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  these things. Friends.
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  And if you want to know the unrevealed will of God, just
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  start obeying His revealed will. 15 Nevertheless, brothers, I
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  have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as
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  putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of
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  God. So that is what Paul's whole
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  point of the whole letter here to the church in Rome is.
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  He was wanting to bring them into one mind, friends, and to
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  set their minds upon Christ, not upon these earthly things. 16
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  That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,
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  ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the
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  Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy
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  Ghost. That's what the whole process
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  is, friends. That's what you need to know,
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  that you have a minister who speaks a word to a congregation
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  and the Holy Spirit quickens it in them.
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  And it leads to the sanctification, friends, of
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  being made more like Christ each and every day.
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  And the thing that we struggle with more than anything is this
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  little thing called time. And God's not bound by time,
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  friends. He lives outside of time.
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  And that's why we struggle with it so much.
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  But if we will just rest and if we will just trust in today,
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  don't worry about tomorrow. It has enough worries in itself.
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  Just worry about today, friends. And if you will do that, then by
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  and by, over years and years and years, you're going to look back
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  and see just how far you have come and all the little things
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  that you didn't see anything wrong with 10 years ago.
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  You're going to see that God was putting His finger on it and He
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  was pulling out and He had you in the refiner Spire, friends,
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  and He was pulling out all the dross and the impurities.
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  And that is the sanctification, and the Holy Ghost in you is
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  what is going to help you connect the dots, Friends. 17 I
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  have therefore where I have made glory through Jesus Christ and
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  those things which pertain to God.
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  So that is what Paul wants us to bring glory unto God with our
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  lifestyle not being a stumbling block to the weaker brothers,
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  and to not use our liberty as a reason to sin, not to abuse
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  grace, but to be sanctified, friends, and to be made more
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  like Christ. And we must consecrate this
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  temple, get rid of all the idol worship that we've LED in. 18
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  For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ
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  has not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient by word
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  and deed. It's not just by what we say,
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  but we actually have to prove it by what we do.
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  And that's what the book of James is talking about.
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  And it is grace and grace alone, friends, and it is the blood of
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  Christ that saves us, and it is a free gift.
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  And you need to know that it is not by works, friends, but it is
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  once you come into the faith. It is by word and deed.
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  And that's what proves our place with Him.
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  And we can see it overflowing into other people's lives and
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  it'll be natural and it will not be manufactured.
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  It is obedience to the word, friends.
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  It's not just the interpretation then it is actually doing it.
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  It's not just being a fat Christian, a fat baby who never
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  grew up. Friends, we need to make sure
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  that we're actually going out and disciplining the body and
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  making the body to be under all of the knowledge that we have in
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  our brain. We must bring the body into
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  submission, and fasting is a great way to start that, to make
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  the body to die so that we can discipline it, friends, and that
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  we will make it do what the Spirit tells us to do.
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  It is obedience, friends 19 through mighty signs and wonders
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  by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and
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  roundabout unto eloquium. I have fully preached the gospel
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  of Christ. So he's saying with signs and
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  miracles and wonders. He went from as far as the east
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  is to the West, the known world. Paul went on missionary journey
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  after missionary journey, making sure that he went and he
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  pioneered churches and places that did not have the gospel.
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  Friends. He wasn't trying to build up on
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  somebody else's reputation on their foundation.
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  He was only trying to spread the word of God to the entire world,
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  from Illicrum all the way to Jerusalem.
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  Friends. 20 Yeah, so have I strive to preach the gospel, not
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  where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another's
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  foundation. 21 But as it is written, to whom has to whom he
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  was not spoken of, they shall see, and they that have not
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  heard shall understand. That is the gospel going out to
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  all the Gentile nations, and Paul was the pioneer to all the
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  Gentiles friends. As Peter sat there and was
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  preaching to the Jews and had a wonderful ministry, Paul was at
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  work busy as a tent maker supporting himself and spreading
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  the gospel to all the Gentile known world. 22 For which cause
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  also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
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  Paul had so much work to do and he was hindered from wanting to
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  do the things that he wanted to do because the Holy Spirit was
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  the one that was leading him along.
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  Friends, and we need to know that Paul saw the importance of
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  ministering to those who have never heard, and it's no
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  different in our day and our hour.
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  He says that by this time you should be teaching the Word of
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  God, but you're still on the spiritual milk and he's telling
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  you to quit being a baby Christian and to grow up and to
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  actually learn the Scriptures. Get rooted in the Scriptures and
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  actually be teaching those all around you who are stuck in sin
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  and stuck in the carnal mind. We need to be the ones helping
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  them, edifying them and not being the stumbling block to
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  them. 23 But now having no more place in these parts and having
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  a great desire these many years to come unto you.
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  Paul wanted to go to Rome, but he thought it was going to be as
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  a missionary. He didn't realize it was going
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  to be as a prisoner on Rome's dawn. 24 Whensoever I take my
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  journey into Spain, I will come to you, for, I trust to see you
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  in my journey and to be brought on my way there towards you, if
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  first I'd be somewhat filled with your company.
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  So he was thinking he was going to go on to Spain.
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  He would just stop in and Rome. He didn't realize that he had to
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  go to Rome to appear before Nero, Caesar and he had a first
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  class ticket to Rome on Rome's dime.
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  And here when he's writing this letter from Corinth, he didn't
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  realize it, but perhaps after he was exonerated at the end of the
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  book of Acts, perhaps he did go on to Spain.
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  We do not know. 25 But now I go unto Jerusalem, to minister unto
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  the Saints. 26 For it has pleased them of Macedonia and
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  Achaea to make a certain contribution for the poor Saints
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  which are at Jerusalem. 27 It has pleased them truly, and
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  their debtors they are for if the Gentiles have been made
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  partaken. Of the spiritual things, their
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  duty is also to minister unto them and carnal things.
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  So what a thought, friends, it is both.
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  He knows that we have to eat. He knows that we have to take
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  care of our families. We cannot just be so heavenly
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  minded that we're no earthly good, but we cannot be so
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  earthly minded that we are no heavenly good.
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  We need to make sure that we're balanced and we're practical.
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  We're both Mary and Martha. We can't just be one or the
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  other. If we're all Martha, our joy is
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  stolen from us and all we are thinking about is the decimal
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  points. But if we are the Marys of this
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  world, we're going to find ourselves in a place of poverty
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  with nothing, friends. So we need to be balanced in our
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  approach. And he says that the children of
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  this world are more shrewd than the children of light.
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  He says he sends us out like sheep among wolves and to be as
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  innocent as doves and be as shrewd as snakes.
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  And this calls for wisdom, friends.
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  He knows that we need to have our provisions.
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  But the key to all of unlocking this is making sure that we take
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  no thought for tomorrow, to be very grateful for the food and
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  the clothing that we have for today.
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  We don't worry about tomorrow. 28 When, therefore I have
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  performed this and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come
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  by you into Spain. 29 For I am sure that when I come unto you,
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  I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of
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  Christ. 30 Now I beg you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus
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  Christ's sake and for the love of the Spirit, that you strive
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  together with me in your prayers to God for me.
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  There's the Trinity right there, God the Father and God the Son
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  and God the Holy Ghost, three and one, friends, And he's
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  saying the best thing you can do for me is not to send money or
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  material blessings, but to pray for me.
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  If we understood what happens in the spiritual realm in our
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  prayer life, we would spend more time praying and less time
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  worrying and less time doing all the things that please us and
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  all the things that we think we should be doing.
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  We would spend way more time praying.
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  We need to pray without ceasing. We need to make sure we don't
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  worry about anything and pray about everything.
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  Take every thought captive, friends, and pray about it.
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  Don't let your mind wander, but make sure that we are praying,
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  and especially for missionaries and preachers and pastors and
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  churches, friends, we need to be praying that this revival will
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  break out in the world today. 31 that I may be delivered from
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  them that do not believe in Judea, and that my service,
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  which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the Saints.
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  So he knew that there was some danger.
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  He was walking into the lion's den.
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  He was going into the pit, friends, and we need to be the
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  ones holding the rope. We need to be the ones helping
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  all of those that are going down into the darkest places.
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  We're sending them friends and we're praying circles around
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  them and a hedge of protection around them, friends.
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  And if we even understood how our prayers worked, we would
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  spend way more time praying. 32 that I may come unto you with
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  joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
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  What a refreshing it is when you get around somebody and the Holy
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  Spirit and you and the Holy Spirit and them connect and deep
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  cause to deep, and you are refreshed by them because you
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  realize you're not a Lone Ranger.
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  You're not out here in the world all by yourself.
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  And we rejoice whenever somebody's spiritual blinders
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  get taken off, when their ears get unstopped, because it is
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  only by God and God alone that can do that.
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  We cannot manufacture those moments.
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  And that is how we become refreshed in this walk.
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  We'll end on 33. Now.
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  The God of peace be with you all.
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  Amen. That was the end of Paul's
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  remarks to the Church of Rome. He's going to give us another
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  chapter of greetings. And what you need to know is
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  that the end of the day is only the blood of Jesus Christ that
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  gets us there. And everything else after that
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  is just rewards based. I hope that you have been
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  blessed by this book. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  Stay prayed up today. Stay armored up today.
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  We do not mourn like the rest of the world who have no hope.
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  We reflect and not react. Friends, it's all about Jesus
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  Christ and He's leading us home and all the current events in
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  the world are all part of the plan.
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  These things must happen. I love you, praying for you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.