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Love One Another | Episode #421 | Encore Episode #092 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Great is Thy faithfulness. Great is Thy faithfulness. Morning by
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  Speaker 1: morning new mercies I see. Great is Thy faithfulness. All
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  Speaker 1: I have needed thy hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: unto me.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 2: Richard Kay. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 2: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 2: us each day as Richard shares from God's Word notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 2: and stories, along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 2: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 2: His compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 2: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would like
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  Speaker 2: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 2: program anytime online at TalkNetworkRadio.com. Well now, here's Richard with
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  Speaker 2: today's reflection.
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  Speaker 3: I say then, walk by the Spirit, and you will
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  Speaker 3: not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the
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  Speaker 3: flesh desires what it is against the Spirit, and the
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  Speaker 3: Spirit desires what is against the flesh. These are opposed
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  Speaker 3: to each other, so that you don't do what you want.
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  Speaker 3: But if you are led by the Spirit, you are
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  Speaker 3: not under the law. But the fruit of the Spirit
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  Speaker 3: is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control.
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  Speaker 3: Against such things there is no law. Now those who
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  Speaker 3: belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its
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  Speaker 3: passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, we
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  Speaker 3: must also follow the Spirit. We must not become conceited
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  Speaker 3: provoking one another, envying one another. Brothers, if someone is
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  Speaker 3: caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual should restore
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  Speaker 3: such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for
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  Speaker 3: yourselves so you won't be tempted also. Carry one another's burdens.
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  Speaker 3: In this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: For if anyone considers himself to be something when he
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  Speaker 3: is nothing, he is deceiving himself. But each person should
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  Speaker 3: examine his own work, and then he will have a
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  Speaker 3: reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect
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  Speaker 3: to someone else. For each person will have to carry
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  Speaker 3: his own load. The one who is taught the message
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  Speaker 3: must share his goods with the teacher. Don't be deceived.
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  Speaker 3: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, he
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  Speaker 3: will also reap. Because the one who sows to his
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  Speaker 3: flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But the one
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  Speaker 3: who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from
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  Speaker 3: the Spirit. So we must not get tired of doing good.
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  Speaker 3: for we will reap at the proper time if we
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  Speaker 3: don't give up. That passage of scripture being addressed in
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  Speaker 3: Paul's letter again to the church of Galatia, in the
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  Speaker 3: fifth chapter it began with the obvious opposition between the
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  Speaker 3: works of the flesh and the works of the spirit.
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  Speaker 3: And it says that We are in Christ. We have
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  Speaker 3: crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Now, how
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  Speaker 3: do we do this? How does it happen in our life?
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  Speaker 3: We talked about it before, and a part of what
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  Speaker 3: we have discussed has been surrender. We've talked about how
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  Speaker 3: we submit our will, our purposes, and our plans, our
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  Speaker 3: agenda to that of the Holy Spirit. Jesus always tells
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  Speaker 3: us that we are to glorify him. If we live
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  Speaker 3: a life that glorifies Jesus, we are going to be full.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to be content. We're going to be And
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  Speaker 3: the thing that we look at, as we read in
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  Speaker 3: the earlier passage, we saw that there is not only
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  Speaker 3: the works of the flesh that produce all of those
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  Speaker 3: things that are opposed to the spirit. But then in
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  Speaker 3: the same chapter, the Apostle Paul goes into the fruit
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  Speaker 3: of the spirit. In this study, we have gone through
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  Speaker 3: all of the facets of being full of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about not just being full to the brim,
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  Speaker 3: but overflowing in the Spirit. Because if we're overflowing, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to have others that are affected by the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 3: He will If you understand, spill out on others and
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  Speaker 3: draw them to Jesus. We, in doing this, exemplify something
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  Speaker 3: that Jesus said to us very early in our instruction.
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  Speaker 3: He said, if you love me, keep my commandments. If
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  Speaker 3: you love me, keep my commandments. And he made his
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  Speaker 3: commandments very clear. He said, you must love one another
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  Speaker 3: as I have loved you. You might remember that we
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  Speaker 3: discussed where Jesus said, no one is greater than his master.
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  Speaker 3: And Jesus is saying something to us that he has
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  Speaker 3: shown us how to serve one another. He has shown
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  Speaker 3: us how to love one another. He goes to the
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  Speaker 3: extreme end of laying down our life for our friends.
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  Speaker 3: He calls us friends. No longer are we just slaves,
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  Speaker 3: but we are his friends because we willingly submit to
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  Speaker 3: what brings glory to him. We are those vessels that
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  Speaker 3: he chooses to use. And as a result of this
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  Speaker 3: overflowing light in the Holy Spirit, we see the fruit
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  Speaker 3: that are born out in our lives. It's worth repeating
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  Speaker 3: because it is all based in love. It says that
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  Speaker 3: the fruit of the Spirit is love, and out of
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  Speaker 3: that comes joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control.
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  Speaker 3: Against such there is no law. And he says those
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  Speaker 3: who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh, the
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  Speaker 3: old nature, with its passions and desires. If we live
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  Speaker 3: by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit. We
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  Speaker 3: must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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  Speaker 3: And then he goes on in the sixth chapter to
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  Speaker 3: define a method of exemplifying this love. He talks about
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  Speaker 3: how we treat others within the household of faith. He
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  Speaker 3: talks about how we are to bear one another's burdens
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  Speaker 3: and so fulfill the law of Christ. You see, believer,
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  Speaker 3: we once served the law of sin and death, but
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  Speaker 3: we have been liberated, set free from the law of
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  Speaker 3: sin and death. We now have a life which is
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  Speaker 3: free under submission to the Holy Spirit and being able
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  Speaker 3: to glorify God by bearing one another's burdens. This is
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  Speaker 3: an area that many people have misunderstood. And we'll try
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  Speaker 3: to bring clarity to it because the issue is many
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  Speaker 3: people look at the works perform and they feel that
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  Speaker 3: those works speak for themselves and therefore bring glory to God.
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  Speaker 3: And we won't debate whether or not there are works
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  Speaker 3: that will bring glory to God. But you might remember
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  Speaker 3: that I said from my own personal experience, may not
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  Speaker 3: be yours, but it has certainly been mine. And my
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  Speaker 3: understanding is that what brings glory to God is not
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  Speaker 3: what we do for him, but it is what he
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  Speaker 3: does through us. And because of that, we have his
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  Speaker 3: means of being the servant. He is the example of
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  Speaker 3: servant leadership, the example of servant leadership. love. He's not
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  Speaker 3: conceited or puffed up. He's not in any way envying
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  Speaker 3: a position. He simply loves. And if we can simply love,
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  Speaker 3: then we will bear one another's burdens. You might recall
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  Speaker 3: in that particular passage, it says, brothers, if someone is
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  Speaker 3: caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual should restore
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  Speaker 3: such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for
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  Speaker 3: yourselves so you won't be tempted also. And then he
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  Speaker 3: talks about carrying one another's burdens. They work hand in hand.
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  Speaker 3: How does it present itself? Well, you see, We're in
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  Speaker 3: this constant battle between the old nature, which is being crucified.
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  Speaker 3: Paul even made the statement that he must die daily.
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  Speaker 3: He's referring to those things of the old nature that
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  Speaker 3: seem to remain. And he wants that to be eliminated, crucified,
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  Speaker 3: so that his life can bring glory to God. And
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  Speaker 3: our life can bring glory to God in the same manner.
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  Speaker 3: The fruit of the Spirit is the result of a
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  Speaker 3: submitted life to the Holy Spirit. You see, believer, the
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  Speaker 3: fruit of the Spirit is what is exemplified as we
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  Speaker 3: demonstrate love one to another. And it is this that
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  Speaker 3: will cause others to know that we are truly the
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  Speaker 3: followers of the Lord Jesus Christ because we show love
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  Speaker 3: one to another.
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  Speaker 2: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 2: But if you just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 2: Reflections on the Word with Richard Kay. You can hear
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  Speaker 2: this message in its entirety again online, as well as
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  Speaker 2: Richard's entire archive at talknetworkradio.com. We would like to acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: our theme song How Great Is Thy Faithfulness, from the
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  Speaker 2: America's 25 Favorite Hymns album. Unless otherwise expressed, scriptures are
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  Speaker 2: read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible, which is published
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  Speaker 2: Discovery House Publishers. Again, here is Richard to wrap up
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  Speaker 2: today's message.
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  Speaker 3: Think about this for just a moment. Have you been
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  Speaker 3: faced with a situation where a brother or a sister,
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  Speaker 3: someone that is within your community, a professing believer, perhaps
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  Speaker 3: not as mature a believer as might be desired, but
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  Speaker 3: yet a believer nevertheless, and they Fall into some means of. Wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 3: Or they. Commit sin. Perhaps not willfully. But certainly. They are.
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  Speaker 3: The same. Result. That is effective. Because sin is sin.
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  Speaker 3: And until that sin is dealt with.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Still. Going to carry. Its penalty.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection completely replaces the power of
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  Speaker 3: sin in a believer's life. But it has to be appropriated.
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  Speaker 3: And the Holy Spirit comes into us to guide us
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  Speaker 3: into truth, to keep us in the Word, to keep
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  Speaker 3: us in fellowship with one with another, in fellowship with
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  Speaker 3: the Lord Jesus Christ. He does these things so that
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  Speaker 3: we can exemplify love one to another. We'll talk more
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  Speaker 3: about how that's accomplished in the next segment. And that
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  Speaker 3: is today's reflection on the Word.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 2: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 2: Richard Kay. For Richard and the entire team, this is
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of
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  Speaker 2: Reflections on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Great is thy faithfulness, born unto me. Great is thy faithfulness. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: unto me.