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Be Renewed By The Word of God 3 Hours · Abide Meditation App

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Speaker 1: Put on the full armor of God, so that you
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Speaker 1: can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our
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Speaker 1: struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
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Speaker 1: against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world,
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Speaker 1: and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: put on the full armour of God, so that when
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Speaker 1: the day of evil comes, you may be able to
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Speaker 1: stand your ground. And after you have done everything to stand,
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Speaker 1: stand firm. Then, with the belt of Truth buckled around
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Speaker 1: your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and
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Speaker 1: with your feet fitted with the redderness that comes from
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Speaker 1: the Gospel of Peace. In addition to all this, take
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Speaker 1: up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish
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Speaker 1: all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the
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Speaker 1: helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which
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Speaker 1: is the Word of God. And pray and the Spirit
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Speaker 1: on all occasions, with all kinds of prayers and requests.
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Speaker 1: With this in mind, be alert and always keep on
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Speaker 1: praying for all the Lord's people. Pray also for me,
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Speaker 1: that whenever I speak, words may be given me, so
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Speaker 1: that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the Gospel,
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Speaker 1: for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that
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Speaker 1: I may declare it fearlessly as I should. Tychicus, the
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Speaker 1: dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell
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Speaker 1: you everything, so that you also may know how I
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Speaker 1: am and what I am doing. I am sending him
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Speaker 1: to you for this very purpose, that you may know
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Speaker 1: how we are, and that he may encourage you. Peace
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Speaker 1: to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith from
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Speaker 1: God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to
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Speaker 1: all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love. James,
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Speaker 1: chapter five. Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail
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Speaker 1: because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth
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Speaker 1: has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold
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Speaker 1: and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you
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Speaker 1: and eat your flesh like fire. You've hoarded wealth in
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Speaker 1: the last days. Look the wages you failed to pay.
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Speaker 1: The workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you.
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Speaker 1: The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of
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Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury
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Speaker 1: and self indulgence. You've fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
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Speaker 1: You have condemned and murdered the innocent one who was
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Speaker 1: not opposing you. Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until
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Speaker 1: the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the
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Speaker 1: land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the
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Speaker 1: autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm,
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Speaker 1: because the Lord's coming is near. Don't grumble against one another,
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Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The judge
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Speaker 1: is standing at the door. Brothers and sisters. As an
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Speaker 1: example of patience in the face of suffering, take the
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Speaker 1: prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. As
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Speaker 1: you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered.
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Speaker 1: You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what
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Speaker 1: the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of
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Speaker 1: compassion and mercy above all, my brothers and sisters, do
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Speaker 1: not swear, not by heaven or by earth, or by
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Speaker 1: anything else. All you need to say is a simple
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Speaker 1: yes or no, otherwise you will be condemned. Is any
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Speaker 1: one among you in trouble, let them pray? Is anyone happy?
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Speaker 1: Let them sing songs of praise is any one among you,
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Speaker 1: ill let them call the elders of the church to
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Speaker 1: pray over them and anoint them with oil in the
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Speaker 1: name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith
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Speaker 1: will make the sick person well. The Lord will raise
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Speaker 1: them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: confess your sins to each other, and pray for each other,
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Speaker 1: so that you may be healed. Prayer of a righteous
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Speaker 1: person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being,
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Speaker 1: even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would
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Speaker 1: not rain, and it did not reign on the land
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Speaker 1: for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and
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Speaker 1: the heavens gave reign, and the earth produced its crops.
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Speaker 1: My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander
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Speaker 1: from the truth, and some one should bring that person back,
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Speaker 1: remember this, whoever turns a sinner from the error of
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Speaker 1: their way will save them from death and cover over
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Speaker 1: a multitude of sins. Jeremiah, chapter twenty nine. This is
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Speaker 1: the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent
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Speaker 1: from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and
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Speaker 1: to the priests. The prophets and all the other people
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Speaker 1: nebucad Neza had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
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Speaker 1: This was after King Jehoiakin and the Queen Mother, the
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Speaker 1: court officials, and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the
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Speaker 1: skilled workers and the craftsmen had gone into exile from Jerusalem.
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Speaker 1: He entrusted the letter to Elisa, son of Sheifan, and
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Speaker 1: to Gemariah, son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, king of Judah,
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Speaker 1: sent to King nebucad Nezza in Babylon. It said, this
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Speaker 1: is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says
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Speaker 1: to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
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Speaker 1: Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what
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Speaker 1: they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives
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Speaker 1: for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, so
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Speaker 1: that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in
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Speaker 1: number there, do not decrease. Also, seek the peace and
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Speaker 1: prosperity of the city to which I have carried you
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Speaker 1: into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if
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Speaker 1: it prospers, you too will prosper. Yes, this is what
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Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says, do not
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Speaker 1: let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do
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Speaker 1: not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.
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Speaker 1: They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I
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Speaker 1: have not sent them, declares the Lord. This is what
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Speaker 1: the Lord says. When seventy years are completed for Babylon,
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Speaker 1: I will come to you and fulfill my good promise
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Speaker 1: to bring you back to this place, For I know
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Speaker 1: the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans
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Speaker 1: to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to
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Speaker 1: give you hope and a future. Then you will call
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Speaker 1: on me and come and pray to me, and I
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Speaker 1: will listen to you. You will seek me and find me.
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Speaker 1: When you seek me with all your heart, I will
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Speaker 1: be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring
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Speaker 1: you back from captivity. I will gather you from all
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Speaker 1: the nations and places where I have banished you, declares
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Speaker 1: the Lord, and will bring you back to the place
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Speaker 1: from which I carried you into exile. You may say
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Speaker 1: the Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.
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Speaker 1: But this is what the Lord says about the king
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Speaker 1: who sits on David's throne, and all the people who
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Speaker 1: remain in this city, your fellow citizens who did not
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Speaker 1: go with you into exile. Yes, this is what the
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Speaker 1: Lord Almighty says. I will send the sword, famine and
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Speaker 1: plague against them, and I will make them like figs
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Speaker 1: that are so bad they cannot be eaten. I will
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Speaker 1: pursue them with the sword, famine and plague, and will
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Speaker 1: make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth,
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Speaker 1: a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and
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Speaker 1: reproach among all the nations where I drive them. For
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Speaker 1: they have not listened to my words, declares the Lord,
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Speaker 1: words that I sent to them again and again by
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Speaker 1: my servants, the prophets, and you exiles have not listened either,
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Speaker 1: declares the Lord. Therefore, hear the word of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: all you exiles whom I have sent away from Jerusalem
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Speaker 1: to Babylon. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God
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Speaker 1: of Israel, says about Ahab son of Calliah, and Zedekiah
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Speaker 1: son of maior Siah, who are prophesying lies to you
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Speaker 1: in my name. I will deliver them into the hands
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Speaker 1: of Nebuchadnezar, king of Babylon, and he will put them
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Speaker 1: to death before your very eyes. Because of them, all
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Speaker 1: the exiles from june Udah who are in Babylon will
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Speaker 1: use this curse. May the Lord treat you like Zedekiah.
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Speaker 1: And they have whom the King of Babylon burned in
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Speaker 1: the fire, for they have done outrageous things in Israel.
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Speaker 1: They have committed adultery with their neighbors wives, and in
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Speaker 1: my name they have uttered lies which I did not authorize.
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Speaker 1: I know it and am a witness to it, declares
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Speaker 1: the Lord. But tell Shamaiah the Nahlamite, this is what
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Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says. You sent
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Speaker 1: letters in your own name to all the people in Jerusalem,
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Speaker 1: to the priest Zephoniah, son of Mayasiah, and to all
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Speaker 1: the other priests. You said to Zephoniah, the Lord has
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Speaker 1: appointed you priest in place of Jehoyida, to be in
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Speaker 1: charge of the House of the Lord. You should put
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Speaker 1: any maniac who acts like a prophet into the stocks
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Speaker 1: and nechroons. So why have you not reprimanded Jeremiah from Amethos,
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Speaker 1: who poses as a prophet among you. He has sent
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Speaker 1: this message to us in Babylon. It will be a
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Speaker 1: long time. Therefore, build houses and settle down, plant gardens
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Speaker 1: and eat what they produce. Zephyoniah the Priest, however, read
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Speaker 1: the letter to Jeremiah the Prophet. Then the word of
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Speaker 1: the Lord came to Jeremiah. Send this message to all
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Speaker 1: the exiles. This is what the Lord says about Shemiah,
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Speaker 1: then Hellamite, because Shemiah has prophesied to you, even though
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Speaker 1: I did not send him, and has persuaded you to
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Speaker 1: trust in lies. This is what the Lord says. I
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Speaker 1: will surely punish Shamiah, then Helamite and his descendants, and
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Speaker 1: he will have no one left among this people. Nor
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Speaker 1: will he see the good things I will do for
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Speaker 1: my people, declares the Lord, because he has preached rebellion
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Speaker 1: against me. Psalan ninety one. Whoever dwells in the shelter
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Speaker 1: of the Most High will rest in the shadow of
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Speaker 1: the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is
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Speaker 1: my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.
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Speaker 1: Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and
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Speaker 1: from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers,
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Speaker 1: and under his wings you will find refuge, His faithfulness
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Speaker 1: will be your shield, and rampart. You will not fear
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Speaker 1: the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies
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Speaker 1: by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
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Speaker 1: nor the plague that destroys at mid day. A thousand
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Speaker 1: may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand,
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Speaker 1: but it will not come near you. You will only
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Speaker 1: observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.
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Speaker 1: If you say the Lord is my refuge, and you
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Speaker 1: make the most high your dwelling, no harm will overtake you.
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Speaker 1: No disaster will come near your tent. For He will
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Speaker 1: command his angels concerning you to guard you in all
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Speaker 1: your ways. They will lift you up in their hands,
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Speaker 1: so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
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Speaker 1: You will tread on the lion and the cobra. You
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Speaker 1: will trample the great lion and the serpent. Because he
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Speaker 1: loves me, says the Lord. I will rescue him. I
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Speaker 1: will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will
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Speaker 1: call on me, and I will answer him. I will
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Speaker 1: be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and
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Speaker 1: honor him with long life. I will satisfy him and
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Speaker 1: show him my Salfation Luke, chapter twelve. Meanwhile, when a
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Speaker 1: crowd of many thousands had gathered so that they were
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Speaker 1: trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to
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Speaker 1: his disciples, saying, be on your guard against the yeast
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Speaker 1: of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed
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Speaker 1: that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not
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Speaker 1: be made known. What you have said in the dark
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Speaker 1: will be heard in the daylight, and what you have
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Speaker 1: whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be
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Speaker 1: proclaimed from the roofs. I tell you, my friends, do
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Speaker 1: not be afraid of those who kill the body, and
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Speaker 1: after that can do no more. But I will show
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Speaker 1: you whom you should fear. Fear him who, after your
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Speaker 1: body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I tell you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold
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Speaker 1: for two henies, yet not one of them is forgotten
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Speaker 1: by God? Indeed, the very hairs of your head all numbered.
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Speaker 1: Don't be afraid you are worth more than many sparrows.
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Speaker 1: I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the
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Speaker 1: son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.
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Speaker 1: But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before
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Speaker 1: the angels of God. And everyone who speaks a word
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Speaker 1: against the Son of Man will be forgiven. But anyone
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Speaker 1: who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
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Speaker 1: When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do
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Speaker 1: not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what
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Speaker 1: you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you
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Speaker 1: at that time what you should say. Someone in the
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Speaker 1: crowd said to him, Teacher, tell my brother to divide
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Speaker 1: the inheritance with me. Jesus replied, man who appointed me
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Speaker 1: a judge or an arbiter between you. Then he said
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Speaker 1: to them, watch out, be on your guard against all
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Speaker 1: kinds of greed. Life does not consist in an abundance
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Speaker 1: of possessions. And he told them this parable the ground
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Speaker 1: of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He
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Speaker 1: thought to himself, what shall I do. I have no
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Speaker 1: place to store my cromps. Then he said, this is
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Speaker 1: what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and
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Speaker 1: build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplice grain.
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Speaker 1: And I'll say to myself. You have plenty of grain
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Speaker 1: laid up for many years. Take life easy, eat, drink,
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Speaker 1: and be merry. But God said to him, you fool,
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Speaker 1: this very night, your life will be demanded from you.
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Speaker 1: Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?
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Speaker 1: This is how it will be with whoever stores up
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Speaker 1: things for themselves but is not rich towards God. Then
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Speaker 1: Jesus said to his disciples, Therefore, I tell you, do
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Speaker 1: not worry about your life, what you will eat, or
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Speaker 1: about your body. What you will wear. For life is
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Speaker 1: more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider
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Speaker 1: the ravens. They do not sow or reap, They have
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Speaker 1: no store room or barn. Yet God feeds them. And
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Speaker 1: how much more valuable you are than birds? Who of you,
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Speaker 1: by worrying, can add a single hour to your life.
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Speaker 1: Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do
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Speaker 1: you worry about the rest? Consider how the wild flowers grow.
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Speaker 1: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you
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Speaker 1: not even Solomon, in all his splendor words dressed like
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Speaker 1: one of these. If that is how God clothes the
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Speaker 1: grass of the field, which is here to day and
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Speaker 1: to morrow is thrown into the fire, how much more
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Speaker 1: will he clothe you, you of little faith, And do
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Speaker 1: not set your heart on what you will eat or drink.
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Speaker 1: Do not worry about it, for the pagan world runs
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Speaker 1: after all such things, and your father knows that you
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Speaker 1: need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will
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Speaker 1: be given to you as well. Do not be afraid,
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Speaker 1: little flock, for your father has been pleased to give
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Speaker 1: you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor.
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Speaker 1: Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a
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Speaker 1: treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief
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Speaker 1: comes near, and no moth destroys. For where your treasure
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Speaker 1: is there, your heart will be also. Be dressed ready
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Speaker 1: for service, and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting
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Speaker 1: for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so
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Speaker 1: that when he comes and knocks, they can immediately open
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Speaker 1: the door for him. It will be good for those
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Speaker 1: servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly,
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Speaker 1: I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will
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Speaker 1: have them recline at the table, and will come and
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Speaker 1: wait on them. It will be good for those servants
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Speaker 1: whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the night or toward daybreak. But understand this.
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Speaker 1: If the owner of the house had known what hour
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Speaker 1: the thief was coming, he would not have let his
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Speaker 1: house be broken into. You also must be ready, because
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Speaker 1: the son of man will come at an hour when
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Speaker 1: you do not expect him. Peter asked, Lord, are you
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Speaker 1: telling this parable to us or to every one? The
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Speaker 1: Lord answered, who then is the faithful and wise manager
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Speaker 1: whom the master puts in charge of his servants to
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Speaker 1: give them their food allowance at the proper time. It
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Speaker 1: will be good for that servant whom the master finds
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Speaker 1: doing so when he returns, Truly, I tell you, he
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Speaker 1: will put him in charge of all his possessions. But
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Speaker 1: suppose the servant says to himself, my master is taking
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Speaker 1: a long time in coming, and he then begins to
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Speaker 1: beat the other servants, both men and women, and to
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Speaker 1: eat and drink and get drunk. The master of that
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Speaker 1: servant will come on a day when he does not
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Speaker 1: expect him, and at an hour he is not aware of,
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Speaker 1: he will cut him to pieces and assign him a
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Speaker 1: place with the unbelievers. The servant who knows the master's
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Speaker 1: will and does not get ready or does not do
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Speaker 1: what the Master wants will be beaten with many blows.
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Speaker 1: But the one who does not know and does things
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Speaker 1: deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone
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Speaker 1: who has been given much, much will be demanded, And
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Speaker 1: from the one who has been entrusted with much much
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Speaker 1: more will be asked. I have come to bring fire
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Speaker 1: on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled.
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Speaker 1: But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint
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Speaker 1: I am under until it is completed? Do you think
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Speaker 1: I came to bring peace on earth? Now? I tell
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Speaker 1: you but division. From now on there will be five
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Speaker 1: in one family divided against each other, three against two,
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Speaker 1: and two against three. They will be divided, father against son,
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Speaker 1: and son against father, mother against daughter, and daughter against mother,
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Speaker 1: mother in law against daughter in law, and daughter in
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Speaker 1: law against mother in law. He said to the crowd,
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Speaker 1: when you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately
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Speaker 1: you say it's going to rain, and it does. And
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Speaker 1: when the south wind blows, you say it's going to
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Speaker 1: be hot, and it is hypocrites, You know how to
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Speaker 1: interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How
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Speaker 1: is it that you don't know how to interpret this
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Speaker 1: present time. Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right.
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Speaker 1: As you are going with your adversary to the magistrate,
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Speaker 1: try hard to be reconciled on the way, or your
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Speaker 1: adversary may drag you off to the judge, and the
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Speaker 1: judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer
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Speaker 1: throw you into prison. I tell you you will not
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Speaker 1: get out until you have paid the last penny Philippians,
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Speaker 1: chapter two. Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being
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Speaker 1: united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if
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Speaker 1: any common sharing in the spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
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Speaker 1: then make my joy complete by being like minded, having
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Speaker 1: the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
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Speaker 1: Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather,
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Speaker 1: in humility, value others above yourselves, not looking to your
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Speaker 1: own interests, but each of you to the interests of
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Speaker 1: the others in your relationships with one another. Have the
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Speaker 1: same mindset as Christ. Jesus, who, being in very nature God,
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Speaker 1: did not consider equality with God something to be used
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Speaker 1: to his own advantage. Rather, he made himself nothing by
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Speaker 1: taking the very nature of a servant, being made in
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Speaker 1: human likeness and being found in appearance as a man,
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Speaker 1: he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even death
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Speaker 1: on a cross. Therefore God exalted him to the highest
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Speaker 1: place and gave him the name that is above every name,
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Speaker 1: that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow
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Speaker 1: in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and
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Speaker 1: every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the
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Speaker 1: glory of God the Father. Therefore, my dear friends, as
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Speaker 1: you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but
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Speaker 1: order to fulfill His good purpose. Do everything without grumbling
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Speaker 1: or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure
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Speaker 1: children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.
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Speaker 1: Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky,
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Speaker 1: as you hold firmly to the word of life. And
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Speaker 1: then I will be able to boast on the day
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Speaker 1: But even if I am being poured out like a drink,
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Speaker 1: offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith.
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Speaker 1: I am glad and rejoice with all of you, so
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Speaker 1: you too should be glad and rejoice with me. I
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Speaker 1: hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon,
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Speaker 1: that I also may be cheered when I receive news
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Speaker 1: will show genuine concern for your welfare, for every one
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Speaker 1: looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: But you know that Timothy has proved himself because as
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Speaker 1: a son with his father, he has served with me
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Speaker 1: in the work of the Gospel. I hope therefore, to
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Speaker 1: send him as soon as I see how things go
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Speaker 1: with me. And I am confident in the Lord that
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Speaker 1: I myself will come soon. But I think it is
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Speaker 1: necessary to send back to you. Epaphroditis my brother, co
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Speaker 1: you sent to take care of my needs. For he
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Speaker 1: longs for all of you and is distressed because you
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Speaker 1: heard he was ill. Indeed, he was ill and almost died.
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Speaker 1: But God had mercy on him, and not on him only,
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Speaker 1: but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.
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Speaker 1: Therefore I am all the more eager to send him,
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Speaker 1: so that when you see him again, you may be
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Speaker 1: glad and I may have less anxiety. So then welcome
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Speaker 1: him and the Lord with great joy and honor people
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Speaker 1: like him. Because he almost died for the work of Christ.
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Speaker 1: He risked his life to make up for the help
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Speaker 1: you yourselves could not give me. One John chapter four.
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Speaker 1: Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the
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Speaker 1: spirits to see whether they are from God, because many
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Speaker 1: false prophets have gone out into the world. This is
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Speaker 1: how you can recognize the spirit of God. Every spirit
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Speaker 1: that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
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Speaker 1: is from God. But every spirit that does not acknowledge
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Speaker 1: Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of
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Speaker 1: the Antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and even
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Speaker 1: now is already in the world. You, dear children, are
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Speaker 1: from God and have overcome them, because the one who
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Speaker 1: in the world. They are from the world, and therefore
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Speaker 1: speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world
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Speaker 1: listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows
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Speaker 1: God listens to us. But whoever is not from God
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Speaker 1: does not listen to us. This is how we recognize
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Speaker 1: the spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood. Dear friends,
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Speaker 1: let us love one another, for love comes from God.
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Speaker 1: Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
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Speaker 1: Whoever does not love does not know God. Because God
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Speaker 1: is love. This is how God showed his love among us.
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Speaker 1: He sent his one and only son into the world
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Speaker 1: that we might live through him. This is love. Not
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Speaker 1: that we loved God, but that He loved us and
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Speaker 1: sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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Speaker 1: Dear friends, Since God so loved us, we also ought
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Speaker 1: to love one another. No one has ever seen God.
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Speaker 1: But if we love one another, God lives in us,
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Speaker 1: and His love is made complete in us. This is
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Speaker 1: how we know that we live in Him and he
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Speaker 1: in us. He has given us of his spirit, and
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Speaker 1: we have seen and testified that the Father has sent
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Speaker 1: his son to be the savior of the world. If
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Speaker 1: anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the son of God, God,
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Speaker 1: God lives in them and they in God. And so
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Speaker 1: we know and rely on the love God has for us.
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Speaker 1: God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God,
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Speaker 1: complete among us, so that we will have confidence on
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Speaker 1: the day of judgment. In this world we are like Jesus.
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Speaker 1: There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives
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Speaker 1: one who fears is not made perfect in love. We
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Speaker 1: love because He first loved us. Whoever claims to love
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Speaker 1: God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar.
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Speaker 1: For whoever does not love their brother and sister whom
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Speaker 1: they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
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Speaker 1: And He has given us this command. Any One who
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Speaker 1: loves God must also love their brother and sister Proverbs
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Speaker 1: chapter sixteen. To humans belong the plans of the heart,
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Speaker 1: but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue.
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Speaker 1: All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives
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Speaker 1: are weighed by the Lord. Commit to the Lord whatever
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Speaker 1: you do, and he will establish your plans. The Lord
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Speaker 1: works out everything to its proper end, even the wicked.
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Speaker 1: For a day of disaster, the Lord detests all The
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Speaker 1: go unpunished. Through love and faithfulness, sin is atoned for
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Speaker 1: through the fear of the Lord, evil is avoided. When
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Speaker 1: the Lord takes pleasure in any one's way, he causes
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Speaker 1: their enemies to make peace with them. Better a little
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Speaker 1: with righteousness than much gain will the injustice In their hearts.
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Speaker 1: Humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.
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Speaker 1: The lips of a king speaks as an oracle, and
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Speaker 1: his mouth does not betray justice. Honest scales and balances
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Speaker 1: are of his making. Kings detest wrongdoing, for a throne
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Speaker 1: is established through righteousness. Kings take pleasure in honest lips.
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Speaker 1: They value the one who speaks what is right. A
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Speaker 1: king's wrath is a messenger of death, but the wise
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Speaker 1: His favor is like a rain cloud in spring. How
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Speaker 1: much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight
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Speaker 1: rather than silver. The highway of the upright avoids evil.
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Speaker 1: Those who guard their way preserve their lives. Pride goes
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Speaker 1: before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to
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Speaker 1: share plunder with the proud. Whoever gives heed to instruction, prospers,
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Speaker 1: and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.
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Speaker 1: The wise in heart are called discerning, and gracious words
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Speaker 1: promote instruction. Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent,
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Speaker 1: but folly brings punishment to fools. The hearts of the
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Speaker 1: wise make their mouths prudent, and their lips promote instruction.
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Speaker 1: Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and
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Speaker 1: The appetite of laborers works for them. Their hunger drives
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Speaker 1: It is like a scorching fire. A perverse person stirs
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Speaker 1: Gray hair is a crown of splendor. It is attained
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Speaker 1: a warrior, one with self control than one who takes
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Speaker 1: a city. The lot is cast into the lap, but
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Speaker 1: its every decision is from the Lord two Corinthians, chapter five.
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Speaker 1: For we know that if the earthly tent we live
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Speaker 1: we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,
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Speaker 1: For while we are in this tent we grown and
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Speaker 1: are burdened because we do not wish to be unclothed,
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Speaker 1: that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now,
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Speaker 1: the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose
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Speaker 1: guaranteeing what is to come. Therefore, we are always confident
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Speaker 1: and know that as long as we are at home
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Speaker 1: in the body, we are away from the Lord. For
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Speaker 1: we live by faith, not by sight. We are confident,
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Speaker 1: I say, and would prefer to be away from the
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Speaker 1: body and at home with the Lord. So we make
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Speaker 1: home in the body or away from it, For we
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Speaker 1: must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so
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Speaker 1: to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What
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Speaker 1: is also plain to your conscience. We're not trying to
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Speaker 1: commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an
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Speaker 1: are out of our mind, as some say, it is
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Speaker 1: for God. If we are in our right mind, it
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Speaker 1: is for you. For Christ's love compels us, because we
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Speaker 1: are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died,
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Speaker 1: on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.
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Speaker 1: Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do
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Speaker 1: so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the
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Speaker 1: new creation has come the old has gone, the new
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Speaker 1: is here. All this is from God, who reconciled us
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Speaker 1: That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ,
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Speaker 1: not counting people's sins against them, and He has committed
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Speaker 1: to us the message of reconciliation. We are, therefore Christ's ambassadors,
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Speaker 1: implore you, on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. God
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Speaker 1: made him who had no sin, to be sin for us,
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Speaker 1: heard about the deeds of the Messiah, is sent his
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Speaker 1: disciples to ask him, are you the one who is
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Speaker 1: to come? Or should we expect someone else? Jesus replied,
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Speaker 1: have leprosy are cleansed the death. Here the dead are raised,
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Speaker 1: and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. Blessed
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Speaker 1: is any one who does not stumble on account of me.
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Speaker 1: As John's disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to
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Speaker 1: If not, what did you go out to see a
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Speaker 1: clothes are in king's palaces. Then what did you go
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Speaker 1: more than a prophet, this is the one about whom
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Speaker 1: it is written. I will send my messenger ahead of you,
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Speaker 1: who will prepare your way before you. Truly, I tell you,
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Speaker 1: among those born of women, there has not risen any
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Speaker 1: one greater than John the Baptist. Yet whoever is least
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Speaker 1: in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he. From
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Speaker 1: the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of Heaven has been subjected to violence, and violent people
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Speaker 1: have been raiding it for all the prophets and the
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Speaker 1: accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.
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Speaker 1: Whoever has ears, let them hear to what can I
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Speaker 1: compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the
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Speaker 1: a dirge and you did not mourn. For John came
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Speaker 1: neither eating nor drinking, and they say he has a demon.
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Speaker 1: The son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say,
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Speaker 1: here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of
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Speaker 1: tax collectors and sinners. But wisdom is proved right by
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Speaker 1: her deeds. Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in
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Speaker 1: did not repent. Woe to you Kazin, Woe to you Bethsada,
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Speaker 1: For if the miracles that were performed in you had
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Speaker 1: long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you
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Speaker 1: it will be more bearable for Tire and Sidon on
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Speaker 1: the day of judgment than for you and you Copernium,
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Speaker 1: Will you be lifted to the heavens, No, you will
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Speaker 1: it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day
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Speaker 1: of judgment than for you. At that time, Jesus said,
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Speaker 1: I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and Earth, because
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Speaker 1: you have hidden these things from the wise and learned
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Speaker 1: and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this
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Speaker 1: is what you were pleased to do. All things have
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Speaker 1: the son except the father, and no one knows the
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Speaker 1: father except the and those to whom the son chooses
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Speaker 1: to reveal him. Come to me, all you who are
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Speaker 1: weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take
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Speaker 1: my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I
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Speaker 1: rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and
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Speaker 1: my burden is light Psalm one hundred and thirty nine.
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Speaker 1: You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You
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Speaker 1: know when I sit and when I rise. You perceive
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Speaker 1: my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and
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Speaker 1: my lying down. You are familiar with all my ways.
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Speaker 1: Before a word is on my tongue, you Lord know
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Speaker 1: it completely. You hem me and behind and before, and
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Speaker 1: you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too
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Speaker 1: wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where
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Speaker 1: can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee
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Speaker 1: from your presence? If I go up to the heavens,
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Speaker 1: you are there. If I make my bed in the depths,
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Speaker 1: you are there. If I rise on the wings of
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Speaker 1: the dawn, if I settle on the far side of
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Speaker 1: the sea, even there, your hand will guide me. Your
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Speaker 1: right hand will hold me fast. If I say, surely,
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Speaker 1: the darkness will hide me, and the light become night
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Speaker 1: around me, even the darkness will not be dark to you.
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Speaker 1: The night will shine like the day, For darkness is
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Speaker 1: as light to you. For you created my inmost being.
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Speaker 1: You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise
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Speaker 1: you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works
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Speaker 1: are wonderful. I know that full well. My frame was
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Speaker 1: not hidden from you when I was made in the
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Speaker 1: secret place. When I was woven together in the depths
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Speaker 1: of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All
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Speaker 1: the days ordained for me were written in your book
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Speaker 1: before one of them came to be. How precious to
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Speaker 1: me are your thoughts God, how vast is the sum
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Speaker 1: of them. Were I to count them, they would outnumber
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Speaker 1: the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still
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Speaker 1: with you. If only you, God, would slay the wicked
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Speaker 1: away from me, You who are bloodthirsty. They speak of
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Speaker 1: you with evil intent. Your adversaries misuse your name. Do
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Speaker 1: I not hate those who hate you, Lord? And abhor
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Speaker 1: but hatred for them. I count them my enemies. Search me, God,
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Speaker 1: and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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Speaker 1: See if there is any offensive way in me, and
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Speaker 1: lead me in the way everlasting one Peter chapter two. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy,
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Speaker 1: and slander of every kind. Like new born babies, crave
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Speaker 1: pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow
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Speaker 1: up in your salvation. Now that you have tasted that
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Speaker 1: the Lord is good, as you come to him the
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Speaker 1: living stone, rejected by humans, but chosen by God and
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Speaker 1: pressures to him. You, also, like living stones, are being
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Speaker 1: built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood,
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Speaker 1: offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For
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Speaker 1: in scripture it says, see, I lay a stone in Zion,
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Speaker 1: you who believe this stone is precious, but to those
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Speaker 1: who do not believe, the stone the builders rejected has
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Speaker 1: become the corner stone, a stone that causes people to stumble,
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Speaker 1: and a rock that makes them fall. They stumble because
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Speaker 1: they disobey the message, which is also what they were
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Speaker 1: destined for. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood,
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Speaker 1: a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare
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Speaker 1: the praises of Him who called you out of darkness
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Speaker 1: into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people,
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Speaker 1: but now you are the people of God. Once you
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Speaker 1: had not receive mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Speaker 1: Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to
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Speaker 1: abstain from sinful desires which wage war against your soul.
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Speaker 1: Live such good lives among the pagans, that though they
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Speaker 1: accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good
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Speaker 1: deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
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Speaker 1: Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake, to every human authority,
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Speaker 1: governors who were sent by him, to punish those who
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Speaker 1: do wrong and to commend those who do right. For
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Speaker 1: it is God's will that by doing good you should
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Speaker 1: silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. Live as free people,
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Speaker 1: but do not use your freedom as a cover up
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Speaker 1: for evil. Live as God's slaves. Show proper respect to
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Speaker 1: every one. Love the family of believers, Fear God, honor
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Speaker 1: the Emperor. Slaves in reverent fear of God. Submit yourselves
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Speaker 1: and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. For
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Speaker 1: it is commendable if some one bears up under the
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Speaker 1: pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.
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Speaker 1: But how is it to your credit if you receive
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Speaker 1: a beating for doing wrong and endure it. But if
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Speaker 1: you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this
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Speaker 1: is commendable before God. To this you were called because
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Speaker 1: Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you
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Speaker 1: should follow in his steps. He committed no sin and
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Speaker 1: no Deceit was found in his mouth when they hurled
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Speaker 1: their insults at him. He did not retaliate when he suffered.
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Speaker 1: He made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him
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Speaker 1: sins and live for righteousness. By his wounds, you have
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Speaker 1: been healed. For you were like sheep going astray. But
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Speaker 1: now you have returned to the shepherd and overseer of
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Speaker 1: your souls. Proverbs chapter twenty seven. Do not boast about
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Speaker 1: to morrow, for you do not know what a day
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Speaker 1: may bring. Let some one else praise you, and not
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Speaker 1: your own mouth, an outsider, and not your own lips.
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Speaker 1: Stone is heavy and sand a burden, But a fool's
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Speaker 1: provocation is heavier than both. Anger is cruel, and fury overwhelming.
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Speaker 1: But who can stand before jealousy? Better is open rebuke
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Speaker 1: than hidden love. Wounds from a friend can be trusted,
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Speaker 1: but an enemy multiplies kisses. One who is full loathes
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Speaker 1: honey from the comb. But to the hungry even what
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Speaker 1: is bitter tastes sweet, Like a bird that flees its nest.
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Speaker 1: Is anyone who flees from home. Perfume and incense bring
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Speaker 1: joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend
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Speaker 1: springs from their heartfelt advice. Do not forsake your friend
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Speaker 1: or a friend of your family, and do not go
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Speaker 1: to your relative's house when disaster strikes you better a
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Speaker 1: neighbour nearby than a relative far away. Be wise, my son,
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Speaker 1: and bring joy to my heart. Then I can answer
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Speaker 1: anyone who treats me with contempt. The prudence see danger
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Speaker 1: and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay
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Speaker 1: the penalty. Take the garment of one who puts up
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Speaker 1: as a curse. A quadsome wife is like the dripping
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Speaker 1: like restraining the wind, or grasping oil with the hand.
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Speaker 1: As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. The
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Speaker 1: one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit,
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Speaker 1: and who ever protects their master will be honored. As
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Speaker 1: water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart.
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Speaker 1: Death and destruction are never satisfied, and neither a human eye,
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Speaker 1: the crucible for silver, and the furnace for God. But
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Speaker 1: people are tested by their praise. Though you grind a
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Speaker 1: fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle,
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Speaker 1: you will not remove their folly from them. Be sure
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Speaker 1: you know the condition of your flocks. Give careful attention
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Speaker 1: to your herds, for riches do not endure forever, and
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Speaker 1: a crown is not secure for all generations. When the
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Speaker 1: hay is removed and new growth appears, and the grass
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Speaker 1: from the hills is gathered in, the lambs will provide
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Speaker 1: you with clothing, and the goats with the price of
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Speaker 1: a field, you will have plenty of goat's milk to
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Speaker 1: feed your family and to nourish your female servants One
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Speaker 1: Corinthian's Chapter twelve. Now about the gifts of the spirit,
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Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.
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Speaker 1: You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other,
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Speaker 1: you were influenced and led astray to dumb idols. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: I want you to know that no one who is
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Speaker 1: speaking by the Spirit of God says Jesus be cursed,
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Speaker 1: and no one can say Jesus is Lord, except by
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. There are different kinds of gifts, but
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Speaker 1: the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service,
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Speaker 1: but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working,
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Speaker 1: But in all of them, and in everyone, it is
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Speaker 1: the same God at work. Now to each one, the
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Speaker 1: manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
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Speaker 1: To one there is given through the spirit, a message
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Speaker 1: of wisdom to another, a message of knowledge by means
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Speaker 1: of the same spirit to another, faith by the same
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Speaker 1: spirit to another, gifts of healing by that one spirit
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Speaker 1: to another, miraculous powers to another, prophecy to another, distinguishing
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Speaker 1: between spirits to another, speaking in different kinds of time ungues,
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Speaker 1: and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these
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Speaker 1: are the work of one and the same Spirit, and
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Speaker 1: He distributes them to each one just as he determines.
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Speaker 1: Just as a body, though one has many parts, but
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Speaker 1: all its many parts form one body. So it is
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Speaker 1: with Christ. For we were all baptized by one spirit
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Speaker 1: so as to form one body, whether Jews or Gentiles,
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Speaker 1: slave or free, And we were all given the one
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Speaker 1: spirit to drink. And so the body is not made
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Speaker 1: up of one part, but of many. Now, if the
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Speaker 1: foot should say because I'm not a hand, I do
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Speaker 1: not belong to the body, It would not for that
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Speaker 1: reason stop being part of the body. And if the
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Speaker 1: ear should say, because I'm not an eye, I do
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Speaker 1: not belong to the body, it would not for that
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Speaker 1: reason stop being part of the body. If the whole
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Speaker 1: body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?
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Speaker 1: If the whole body were an ear, where would the
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Speaker 1: sense of smell be? But in fact, God has placed
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Speaker 1: the parts in the body, every one of them, just
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Speaker 1: as he wanted them to be. If they were all
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Speaker 1: one part, where would the body be as it is?
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Speaker 1: There are many parts but one body. The eye cannot
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Speaker 1: say to the hand, I don't need you, and the
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Speaker 1: head cannot say to the feet, I don't need you.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem
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Speaker 1: to be weaker are indispensable. And the parts that we
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Speaker 1: think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And
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Speaker 1: the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,
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Speaker 1: while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God
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Speaker 1: has put the body together, giving greater honor to the
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Speaker 1: parts that lacked it, so that there should be no
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Speaker 1: division in the body, but that its parts should have
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Speaker 1: equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every
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Speaker 1: part suffer with it. If one part is honored, every
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Speaker 1: part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ,
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Speaker 1: and each one of you is a part of it.
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Speaker 1: And God has placed in the Church first of all apostles,
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Speaker 1: second prophets, third teachers, Then miracles, then gifts of healing,
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Speaker 1: of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues.
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Speaker 1: Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do
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Speaker 1: all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do
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Speaker 1: all speak in tongues? To all interpret? Now eagerly desire
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Speaker 1: the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the
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Speaker 1: most excellent way. Two Timothy, Chapter one Paul, an apostle
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Speaker 1: of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, in keeping
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Speaker 1: with the promise of life that is in christianef Jesus
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Speaker 1: to Timothy, my dear son, Grace, mercy and peace from
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Speaker 1: God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God,
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Speaker 1: whom I serve as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience.
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Speaker 1: As night and day, I constantly remember you in my prayers,
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Speaker 1: recalling your tears. I long to see you, so that
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Speaker 1: I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of
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Speaker 1: your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois
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Speaker 1: and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded now
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Speaker 1: lives in you also. For this reason, I remind you
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Speaker 1: to fan into flame the gift of God which is
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Speaker 1: in you through the laying on of my hands. For
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Speaker 1: the spirit God gave us does not make us timid,
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Speaker 1: but gives us power, love, and self discipline. So do
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Speaker 1: not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or
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Speaker 1: of me his prisoner. Rather join with me in suffering
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Speaker 1: for the Gospel. By the power of God, He has
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Speaker 1: saved us and called us to a holy life, not
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Speaker 1: because of anything we have done, but because of His
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Speaker 1: own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in
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Speaker 1: Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has
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Speaker 1: now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus,
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Speaker 1: who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality
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Speaker 1: to light through the Gospel. And of this Gospel I
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Speaker 1: was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher.
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Speaker 1: That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet
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Speaker 1: this is no cause for shame, because I know whom
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Speaker 1: I have believed, and I am convinced that he is
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Speaker 1: able to guard what I have entrusted to him until
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Speaker 1: that day. What you heard from me keepeth the pattern
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Speaker 1: of sound teaching with faith and love in Christ, Jesus,
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Speaker 1: guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you, guarded
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Speaker 1: with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
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Speaker 1: You know that every one in the province of Asia
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Speaker 1: has deserted me, including for Galis and Homogenes. May the
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Speaker 1: Lord show mercy to the household of Honysypherus, because he
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Speaker 1: often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched
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Speaker 1: hard for me until he found me. May the Lord
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Speaker 1: grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on
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Speaker 1: that day. You know very well in how many ways
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Speaker 1: he helped me. In Ephesus John chapter seventeen, after Jesus
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Speaker 1: said this, he looked towards heaven and prayed, Father, the
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Speaker 1: hour has come, glorify your son. That your son may
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Speaker 1: glorify you, for you granted him authority over all people,
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Speaker 1: that he might give eternal life to all those you
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Speaker 1: have given him Now this is eternal life that they
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Speaker 1: know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
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Speaker 1: you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth
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Speaker 1: by finishing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father,
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Speaker 1: glorify me in your presence with the glory I had
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Speaker 1: with you before the world began. I have revealed you
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Speaker 1: to those whom you gave me out of the world.
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Speaker 1: They were yours. You gave them to me, and they
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Speaker 1: have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you
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Speaker 1: have given me comes from you. For I gave them
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Speaker 1: the words you gave me, and they accepted them. They
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Speaker 1: knew with certainty that I came from you, and they
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Speaker 1: believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I
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Speaker 1: am not praying for the world, but for those you
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Speaker 1: have given me, for they are yours. All I have
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Speaker 1: is yours, and all you have is mine, and glory
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Speaker 1: has come to me through them. I will remain in
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Speaker 1: the world no longer, but they are still in the world,
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Speaker 1: and I am coming to you, Holy Father. Protect them
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Speaker 1: by the power of your name, the name you gave me,
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Speaker 1: so that they may be one as we are one.
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Speaker 1: While I was with them, I protected them and kept
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Speaker 1: them safe by that name you gave me. None has
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Speaker 1: been lost except the one doomed to destruction, so that
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Speaker 1: scripture would be fulfilled. I am coming to you now,
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Speaker 1: but I say these things while I am still in
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Speaker 1: the world, so that they may have the full measure
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Speaker 1: of my joy within them. I have given them your word,
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Speaker 1: and the world has hated them, for they are not
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Speaker 1: of the world any more than I am of the world.
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Speaker 1: My prayer is not that you take them out of
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Speaker 1: the world, but that you protect them from the evil one.
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Speaker 1: They are not of the world, even as I am
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Speaker 1: not of it. Sanctify them by the truth. Your word
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Speaker 1: is truth. As you send me into the world, I
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Speaker 1: have sent them into the world for them, I sanctify myself,
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Speaker 1: that they too may be truly sanctified. My prayer is
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Speaker 1: not for them alone. I pray also for those who
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Speaker 1: will believe in me through their message, that all of
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Speaker 1: them may be one. Father, just as you are in
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Speaker 1: me and I am in you, may they also be
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Speaker 1: in us, so that the world may believe that you
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Speaker 1: have sent me. I have given them the glory that
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Speaker 1: you gave me, that they may be one as we
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Speaker 1: are one. I in them and you in me, so
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Speaker 1: that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the
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Speaker 1: world will know that you and me and have loved
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Speaker 1: them even as you have loved me. Father, I want
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Speaker 1: those you have given me to be with me where
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Speaker 1: I am, and to see my glory, the glory you
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Speaker 1: have given me because you loved me before the creation
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Speaker 1: of the world. Righteous Father. Though the world does not
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Speaker 1: know you, I know you, and they know that you
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Speaker 1: have sent me. I have made you known to them
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Speaker 1: and will continue to make you known in order that
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Speaker 1: the love you have for me may be in them,
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Speaker 1: and that I myself may be in them One Thessalonians,
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Speaker 1: chapter four. As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we
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Speaker 1: instructed you how to live in order to please God.
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Speaker 1: As in fact you are living now. We ask you
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Speaker 1: and urge you, in the Lord Jesus, to do this
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Speaker 1: more and more, for you know what instructions we gave
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Speaker 1: you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. It is
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Speaker 1: God's will that you should be sanctified, that you should
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Speaker 1: avoid sexual immorality, that each of you should learn to
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Speaker 1: control your own body in a way that is wholly
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Speaker 1: and honorable, not impassionate lust like the pagans who do
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Speaker 1: not know God, and that in this matter no one
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Speaker 1: should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.
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Speaker 1: The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins,
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Speaker 1: as we told you and warned you before, For God
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Speaker 1: did not call us to be impure, but to live
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Speaker 1: a holy life. Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does
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Speaker 1: not reject a human being, but God, the very God
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Speaker 1: who gives you his holy spirit. Now, about your love
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Speaker 1: for one another, we do not need to write to you,
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Speaker 1: for you yourselves have been taught by God to love
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Speaker 1: each other, and in fact you do love all of
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Speaker 1: God family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters,
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Speaker 1: to do so more and more, and to make it
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Speaker 1: your ambition to lead a quiet life. You should mind
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Speaker 1: your own business and work with your hands, just as
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Speaker 1: we told you, so that your daily life may win
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Speaker 1: the respect of outsiders, and so that you will not
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Speaker 1: be dependent on anybody. Brothers and sisters, we do not
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Speaker 1: want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death,
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Speaker 1: so that you do not grieve like the rest of
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Speaker 1: mankind who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus
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Speaker 1: died and rose again, and so we believe that God
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Speaker 1: will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in
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Speaker 1: Him according to the Lord's word. We tell you that
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Speaker 1: we who are still alive, who are left until the
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Speaker 1: coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who
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Speaker 1: have fallen asleep. The Lord himself will come down from
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Speaker 1: heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the
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Speaker 1: archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the
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Speaker 1: dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who
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Speaker 1: are still alive and are left will be caught up
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Speaker 1: together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord
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Speaker 1: in the air. And so we will be with the
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Speaker 1: Lord forever. Therefore, encourage one another with these words. Book three,
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Speaker 1: Psalm seventy three. Surely God is good to Israel, to
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Speaker 1: those who are pure in heart. But as for me,
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Speaker 1: my feet had almost slipped. I had nearly lost my foothold,
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Speaker 1: for I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity
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Speaker 1: of the wicked. They have no struggles. Their bodies are
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Speaker 1: healthy and strong. They are free from common human burdens.
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Speaker 1: They're not plagued by humans nills. Therefore, pride is their necklace.
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Speaker 1: They clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity.
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Speaker 1: Their evil imaginations have no limits. They scoff and speak
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Speaker 1: with malice, with arrogance. They threaten oppression. Their mouths lay
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Speaker 1: claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.
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Speaker 1: Therefore their people turn to them and drink up waters
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Speaker 1: in abundance. They say, how would God know? Does the
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Speaker 1: most high know anything? This is what the wicked alike.
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Speaker 1: Always free of care, they go on amassing wealth. Surely
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Speaker 1: in vain. I have kept my heart pure and have
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Speaker 1: washed my hands in innocence. All day long, I have
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Speaker 1: been afflicted, and every morning brings new punishments. If I
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Speaker 1: had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed your children.
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Speaker 1: When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me
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Speaker 1: deeply till I entered the sanctuary of God. Then I
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Speaker 1: understood their final destiny. Surely you place them on slippery ground,
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Speaker 1: you cast them down to ruin. How suddenly are they destroyed?
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Speaker 1: Completely swept away by terrors. They are like a dream
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Speaker 1: when one awakes. When you arise, Lord, you will despise
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Speaker 1: them as fantasies. When my heart was grieved and my
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Speaker 1: spirit embittered. I was senseless and ignorant. I was a
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Speaker 1: brute beast before you. Yet I am always with you.
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Speaker 1: You hold me by my right hand. You guide me
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Speaker 1: with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.
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Speaker 1: Whom have I in heaven but you and earth has
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Speaker 1: nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart
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Speaker 1: may fail, But God is the strength of my heart
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Speaker 1: and my portion forever. Those who are far from you
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Speaker 1: will perish. You destroy all who are unfaithful to you.
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Speaker 1: But as for me, it is good to be near God.
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Speaker 1: I have made the sovereign Lord my refuge. I will
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Speaker 1: tell of all your deeds. Luke chapter six. One sabbath,
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Speaker 1: Jesus was going through the cornfields, and his disciples began
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Speaker 1: to pick some ears of corn, rub them in their hands,
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Speaker 1: and eat the grain. Some of the pharisees asked, why
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Speaker 1: are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath? Jesus
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Speaker 1: answered them, have you never read what David did? When
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Speaker 1: he and his companions were hungry. He entered the House
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Speaker 1: of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ed what
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Speaker 1: is lawful only for priests to eat, and he also
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Speaker 1: gave some to his companions. Then Jesus said to them,
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Speaker 1: the son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. On
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Speaker 1: another Sabbath, he went into the synagogue and was teaching,
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Speaker 1: and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled.
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Speaker 1: The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were looking
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Speaker 1: for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him
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Speaker 1: closely to see if he would heal on the sabbath.
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Speaker 1: For Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said to
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Speaker 1: the man with the shriveled hand, get up and stand
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Speaker 1: in front of everyone. So he got up and stood there.
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Speaker 1: Then Jesus said to them, I ask you which is
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Speaker 1: lawful on the sabbath, to do good or to do evil,
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Speaker 1: to save life or to destroy it. He looked around
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Speaker 1: at them all and then said to the man, stretch
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Speaker 1: out your hand. He did so, and his hand was
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Speaker 1: completely restored. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the
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Speaker 1: law were furious and began to discuss with one another
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Speaker 1: what they might do to Jesus. One of those days,
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Speaker 1: Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent
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Speaker 1: the night praying to God. When morning came, He called
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Speaker 1: his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom
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Speaker 1: he also designated apostles, Simon, whom he named Peter, his
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Speaker 1: brother Andrew, James, John Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son
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Speaker 1: of Alpheus, Simon who was called the Zealot, Judas son
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Speaker 1: of James, and Judas Ascariot, who became a traitor. He
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Speaker 1: went down with them and stood on a level place.
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Speaker 1: A large crowd of his disciples was there, and a
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Speaker 1: great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem
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Speaker 1: and from the coastal region around Tire and Sidon, who
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Speaker 1: had come to hear him and to be healed of
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Speaker 1: their diseases. Those troubled by impure spirits were cured, and
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Speaker 1: all the people tried to touch him, because power was
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Speaker 1: coming from him and healing them all. Looking at his disciples,
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Speaker 1: he said, Blessed are you who are poor, for yours
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Speaker 1: is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now,
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Speaker 1: for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep, now,
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Speaker 1: for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you,
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Speaker 1: when they exclude you and insult you and reject your
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Speaker 1: name as evil because of the son of Man. Rejoice
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Speaker 1: in that day and leap for joy, because great is
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Speaker 1: your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors
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Speaker 1: treated the prophets. But woe to you who are rich,
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Speaker 1: for you have already received your comfort. Woe to you
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Speaker 1: who are well fed now, for you will go hungry.
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Speaker 1: Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn
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Speaker 1: and weep. Woe to you when every one speaks well
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Speaker 1: of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the
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Speaker 1: false prophets. But to you who are listening, I say,
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Speaker 1: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
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Speaker 1: Bless those who curse you, Pray for those who ill
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Speaker 1: treat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn
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Speaker 1: to them the other. Also, if someone takes your coat,
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Speaker 1: do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to every
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Speaker 1: one who asks you. And if any one takes what
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Speaker 1: belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to
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Speaker 1: others as you would have them do to you. If
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Speaker 1: you love those who love you, what credit is that
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Speaker 1: to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And
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Speaker 1: if you do good to those who are good to you,
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Speaker 1: what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
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Speaker 1: And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment,
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Speaker 1: what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to
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Speaker 1: sinners expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies,
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Speaker 1: do good to them, and lend to them without expecting
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Speaker 1: to get anything back. Then your reward will be great,
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Speaker 1: and you will be children of the most High, because
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Speaker 1: he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful,
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Speaker 1: just as your father is merciful. Do not judge, and
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Speaker 1: you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you
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Speaker 1: will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
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Speaker 1: Give and it will be given to you. A good measure,
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Speaker 1: pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured
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Speaker 1: into your lap. For with the measure you use, it
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Speaker 1: will be measured to you. He also told them this parable.
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Speaker 1: Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both
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Speaker 1: fall into a pit. The student is not above the teacher,
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Speaker 1: but every one who is fully trained will be like
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Speaker 1: their teacher. Why do you look at the speck of
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Speaker 1: sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to
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Speaker 1: the plank in your own eye? How can you say
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Speaker 1: to your brother brother, let me take the speck out
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Speaker 1: of your eye. When you yourself fail to see the plank
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Speaker 1: in your own eye, you hypocrite. First take the plank
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Speaker 1: out of your eye, and then you will see clearly
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Speaker 1: to remove the speck from your brother's eye. No good
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Speaker 1: tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear
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Speaker 1: good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit.
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Speaker 1: People do not pick figs from thorn bushes or grapes
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Speaker 1: from briars. A good man brings good things out of
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Speaker 1: the good stored up in his heart, and an evil
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Speaker 1: man brings evil things out of the evil stored up
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Speaker 1: in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart
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Speaker 1: is full of. Why do you call me lord Lord,
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Speaker 1: and do not do what I say? As for every
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Speaker 1: one who comes to me and hears my words and
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Speaker 1: puts them into practice, I will show you what they
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Speaker 1: are like. They're like a man building a house who
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Speaker 1: dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When
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Speaker 1: a flood came, the torrent struck that house, but could
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Speaker 1: not shake it because it was well built. But the
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Speaker 1: one who hears my words and does not put them
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Speaker 1: into practice is like a man who built a house
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Speaker 1: on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrents
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Speaker 1: struck that house, it collapsed, and its destruction was complete.
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Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter two, My son, if you accept my words
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Speaker 1: and store up my commands within you, turning your ear
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Speaker 1: to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding. Indeed, if
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Speaker 1: you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
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Speaker 1: and if you look for it as for silver, and
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Speaker 1: search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will
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Speaker 1: understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge
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Speaker 1: of God. For the Lord gives wisdom from his mouth,
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Speaker 1: come knowledge and understanding. He holds success in store for
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Speaker 1: the upright. He is a shield to those whose way
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Speaker 1: of life is blameless, for he guards the course of
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Speaker 1: the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
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Speaker 1: Then you will understand what is right and just and
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Speaker 1: fair every good path, For wisdom will enter your heart,
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Speaker 1: and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will
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Speaker 1: protect you, and understanding will guard you. Wisdom will save
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Speaker 1: you from the ways of wicked men. For men whose
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Speaker 1: words are perverse, who have left the straight paths to
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Speaker 1: walk in dark ways, who delight in doing wrong and
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Speaker 1: rejoice in the perverseness of evil, whose paths are crooked
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Speaker 1: and who are devious in their ways. Wisdom will save
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Speaker 1: you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman
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Speaker 1: with her seductive words, who has left the partner of
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Speaker 1: her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
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Speaker 1: Surely her house leads down to death, and her paths
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Speaker 1: to the spirits of the dead. None who to her
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Speaker 1: return or attain the paths of life. Thus you will
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Speaker 1: walk in the ways of the good and keep to
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Speaker 1: the paths of the righteous. For the upright will live
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Speaker 1: in the land, and the blameless will remain in it,
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Speaker 1: But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
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Speaker 1: and the unfaithful will be torn from it. One John
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Speaker 1: chapter three. See what great love the Father has lavished
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Speaker 1: on us, that we shall be called children of God.
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Speaker 1: And that is what we are. The reason the world
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Speaker 1: does not know us is that it did not know him.
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Speaker 1: Dear friends, Now we are children of God, and what
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Speaker 1: we will be has not yet been made known. But
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Speaker 1: we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him,
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Speaker 1: for we shall see him as he is. All who
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Speaker 1: have this in him purify themselves just as he is pure.
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Speaker 1: Everyone who sins breaks the law. In fact, sin is lawlessness.
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Speaker 1: But you know that he appeared so that he might
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Speaker 1: take away our sins. And in him is no sin.
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Speaker 1: No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No
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Speaker 1: one who continues to sin has either seen him or
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Speaker 1: known him. Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray.
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Speaker 1: The one who does what is right is righteous, just
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Speaker 1: as he is righteous. The one who does what is
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Speaker 1: sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been
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Speaker 1: sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God
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Speaker 1: appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who
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Speaker 1: is born of God will continue to sin, because God's
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Speaker 1: seed remains in them. They cannot go on sinning because
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Speaker 1: they have been born of God. This is how we
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Speaker 1: know who the children of God are and who the
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Speaker 1: children of the devil are. Any One who does not
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Speaker 1: do what is right is not God's child, Nor is
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Speaker 1: any one who does not love their brother and sister.
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Speaker 1: For this is the message you heard from the beginning.
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Speaker 1: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain,
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Speaker 1: who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother.
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Speaker 1: And why did he murder him? Because his own actions
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Speaker 1: were evil and his brothers were righteous. Do not be surprised,
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Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you, we
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Speaker 1: know that we have passed from death to life because
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Speaker 1: we love each other. Any One who does not love
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Speaker 1: remains in death. Any One who hates a brother or
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Speaker 1: sister is a murderer. And you know that no murderer
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Speaker 1: has eternal life residing in him. This is how we
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Speaker 1: know what love is. Jesus Christ laid down his life
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Speaker 1: for us, and we ought to lay down our lives
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Speaker 1: for our brothers and sisters. If any one has material
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Speaker 1: possessions and sees a brother or sister in need, but
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Speaker 1: has no pity on them, how can the love of
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Speaker 1: God be in that person? Dear children, Let us not
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Speaker 1: love with words or speech, but with actions and in truth.
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Speaker 1: This is how we know that we belong to the truth,
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Speaker 1: and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence.
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Speaker 1: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is
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Speaker 1: greater than our hearts and he knows everything. Dear friends,
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Speaker 1: If our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence
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Speaker 1: before God and receive from him anything we ask because
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Speaker 1: we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And
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Speaker 1: this is his command to believe in the name of
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Speaker 1: his son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another. As
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Speaker 1: he commanded us. The one who keeps God's commands lives
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Speaker 1: in him and he in them. And this is how
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Speaker 1: we know that He lives in us. We know it
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Speaker 1: by the spirit he gave us Two Corinthians, chapter nine.
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Speaker 1: There is no need for me to write to you
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Speaker 1: about this service to the Lord's people, for I know
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Speaker 1: your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about
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Speaker 1: it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you,
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Speaker 1: in a cair were ready to give, and your enthusiasm
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Speaker 1: has stirred most of them to action. But I am
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Speaker 1: sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you
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Speaker 1: in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you
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Speaker 1: may be ready as I said you would be. For
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Speaker 1: if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared,
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Speaker 1: we not to say anything about you would be ashamed
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Speaker 1: of having been so confident. So I thought it necessary
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Speaker 1: to urge the Brothers to visit you in advance and
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Speaker 1: finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised.
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Speaker 1: Then it would be ready as a generous gift, not
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Speaker 1: as one grudgingly given. Remember this, whoever sows sparingly will
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Speaker 1: also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
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Speaker 1: Each of you should give what you have decided in
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Speaker 1: your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, For
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Speaker 1: God loves a cheerful giver, and God is able to
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Speaker 1: bless you abundantly, so that in all things, at all times,
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Speaker 1: having all that you need, you will abound in every
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Speaker 1: good work. As it is written, they have freely scattered
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Speaker 1: their gifts to the poor. Their righteousness endures forever. Now,
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Speaker 1: he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for
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Speaker 1: food will also supply and increase your store of seed,
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Speaker 1: and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will
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Speaker 1: be enriched in every way so that you can be
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Speaker 1: generous on every occasion, and through us your general will
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Speaker 1: result in thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform
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Speaker 1: is not only supplying the needs of the Lord's people,
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Speaker 1: but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.
1:23:12
Speaker 1: Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves,
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Speaker 1: others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your
1:23:19
Speaker 1: confession of the Gospel of Christ, and for your generosity
1:23:23
Speaker 1: in sharing with them and with everyone else, and in
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Speaker 1: their prayers for you, Their hearts will go out to
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Speaker 1: you because of the surpassing grace God has given you.
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Speaker 1: Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift. Psalm thirty two.
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Speaker 1: Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins
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Speaker 1: are covered. Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord
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Speaker 1: does not count against them, and whose spirit is no deceit.
1:23:58
Speaker 1: When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my
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Speaker 1: groaning all day long, for day and night, your hand
1:24:08
Speaker 1: was heavy on me. My strength was sapped as in
1:24:12
Speaker 1: the heat of summer. Then I acknowledged my sin to
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Speaker 1: you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said,
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Speaker 1: I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you
1:24:26
Speaker 1: forgave the guilt of my sin. Therefore, let all the
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Speaker 1: faithful pray to you, while you may be found. Surely
1:24:35
Speaker 1: the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.
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Speaker 1: You are my hiding place. You will protect me from
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Speaker 1: trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. I will
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Speaker 1: instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.
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Speaker 1: I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
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Speaker 1: Do not be like the horse or the mule, which
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Speaker 1: have no understand but must be controlled by bit and bridle,
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Speaker 1: or they will not come to you. Many are the
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Speaker 1: woes of the wicked, But the Lord's unfailing love surrounds
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Speaker 1: the one who trusts in him. Rejoice in the Lord,
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Speaker 1: and be glad you righteous, sing all you who are
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Speaker 1: upright in heart Hebrews chapter two. We must pay the
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Speaker 1: most careful attention therefore to what we have heard, so
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Speaker 1: that we do not drift away. For since the message
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Speaker 1: spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience
1:25:43
Speaker 1: received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we
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Speaker 1: ignore so great a salvation. This salvation, which was first
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Speaker 1: announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those
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Speaker 1: who heard him. God also testified to it by signs, wonders,
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Speaker 1: and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: distributed according to his will. It is not angels that
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Speaker 1: he has subjected the world to come about which we
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Speaker 1: are speaking. But there is a place where someone has testified.
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Speaker 1: What is mankind that you are mindful of them, A
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Speaker 1: son of man that you care for him? You made
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Speaker 1: them a little lower than the angels, You crowned them
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Speaker 1: with glory and honor and put everything under their feet.
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Speaker 1: In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is
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Speaker 1: not subject to them. Yet at present we do not
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Speaker 1: see everything subject to them, but we do see Jesus,
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Speaker 1: who was made lower than the angels for a little while,
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Speaker 1: now crowned with glory and honor, because he suffered death
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Speaker 1: so that, by the grace of God, he might taste
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Speaker 1: death for everyone. In bringing many sons and daughters to glory,
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Speaker 1: it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom
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Speaker 1: everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect
1:27:06
Speaker 1: through what he suffered. Both the one who makes people
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Speaker 1: holy and those who are made holy are of the
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Speaker 1: same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them
1:27:17
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. He says, I will declare your name
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Speaker 1: to my brothers and sisters in the assembly. I will
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Speaker 1: sing your praises, and again I will put my trust
1:27:29
Speaker 1: in Him. And again he says, here am I and
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Speaker 1: the children God has given me. Since the children have
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Speaker 1: flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity, so
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Speaker 1: that by his death he might break the power of
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Speaker 1: Him who holds the power of death, that is the devil,
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Speaker 1: and free those who all their lives were held in
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Speaker 1: slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is
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Speaker 1: not angels he helps, but Abraham's descendants. For this reason,
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Speaker 1: he had to be made like them, fully human in
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Speaker 1: every way, in order that he might become a merciful
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Speaker 1: and faithful high priest in service to God, and that
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Speaker 1: he might make atonement for the sins of the people.
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Speaker 1: Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is
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Speaker 1: able to help those who are being tempted. Philippians, Chapter one.
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Speaker 1: Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all God's
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Speaker 1: Holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the
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Speaker 1: overseers and deacons. Grace and peace to you from God,
1:28:39
Speaker 1: our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my
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Speaker 1: God every time I remember you in all my prayers
1:28:50
Speaker 1: for all of you, I always pray with joy because
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Speaker 1: of your partnership in the Gospel from the first day
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Speaker 1: until now, being confident of this that he who began
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Speaker 1: a good work in you will carry it on to
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Speaker 1: completion until the day of Christ Jesus. It is right
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Speaker 1: for me to feel this way about all of you,
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Speaker 1: since I have you in my heart, and whether I
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Speaker 1: am in chains or defending and confirming the Gospel, all
1:29:19
Speaker 1: of you share in God's grace with me. God can
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Speaker 1: testify how I long for all of you with the
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Speaker 1: affection of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer, that
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Speaker 1: your love may abound more and more in knowledge and
1:29:34
Speaker 1: depth of insight, so that you may be able to
1:29:37
Speaker 1: discern what is best and may be pure and blameless
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Speaker 1: for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of
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Speaker 1: righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and
1:29:49
Speaker 1: praise of God. Now I want you to know, brothers
1:29:53
Speaker 1: and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually
1:29:56
Speaker 1: served to advance the Gospel. As a result, it has
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Speaker 1: become clear throughout the whole palace God and to every
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Speaker 1: one else, that I am in chains for Christ. And
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Speaker 1: because of my chains, most of the brothers and sisters
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Speaker 1: have become confident in the Lord and dare all the
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Speaker 1: more to proclaim the Gospel without fear. It is true
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Speaker 1: that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but
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Speaker 1: others out of good will. The latter do so out
1:30:26
Speaker 1: of love, knowing that I am put here for the
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Speaker 1: defense of the Gospel. The former preach Christ out of
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Speaker 1: selfish ambition, not sincerely supposing that they can stir up
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Speaker 1: trouble for me while I am in chains. But what
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Speaker 1: does it matter. The important thing is that in every way,
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Speaker 1: whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And
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Speaker 1: because of this I rejoice, yes, and I will continue
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Speaker 1: to rejoice, for I know that, through your prayers and
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Speaker 1: God's provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has
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Speaker 1: happened to me will turn out for my deliverance. I
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Speaker 1: eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way
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Speaker 1: be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now
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Speaker 1: as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether
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Speaker 1: by life or by death. For to me, to live
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Speaker 1: is Christ and to die is Gain. If I am
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Speaker 1: to go on living in the body, this will mean
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Speaker 1: fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I
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Speaker 1: do not know. I am torn between the two. I
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Speaker 1: desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better
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Speaker 1: by far, But it is more necessary for you that
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Speaker 1: I remain in the body. Convinced of this, I know
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Speaker 1: that I will remain and I will continue with all
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Speaker 1: of you for your progress and joy in the faith,
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Speaker 1: so that through my being with you again, your boasting
1:31:58
Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus will bound on account of me. Whatever happens,
1:32:04
Speaker 1: conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ. Then,
1:32:09
Speaker 1: whether I come and see you or only hear about
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Speaker 1: you in my absence, I will know that you stand
1:32:14
Speaker 1: firm in the One Spirit, striving together as one for
1:32:19
Speaker 1: the faith of the Gospel, without being frightened in any
1:32:22
Speaker 1: way by those who oppose you. This is a sign
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Speaker 1: to them that they will be destroyed, but that you
1:32:30
Speaker 1: will be saved, and that by God, for it has
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Speaker 1: been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only
1:32:37
Speaker 1: to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him.
1:32:41
Speaker 1: Since you are going through the same struggle you saw
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Speaker 1: I had, and now hear that I still have. Ecclesiastes
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Speaker 1: chapter twelve. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,
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Speaker 1: before the days of trouble come, and the years approach,
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Speaker 1: when you will say I find no pleasure in them.
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Speaker 1: Before the sun and the light, and the moon and
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Speaker 1: the stars grow dark, and the clouds return, after the rain,
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Speaker 1: when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong
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Speaker 1: men stoop when the grinders cease because they are few,
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Speaker 1: and those looking through the windows grow dim, when the
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Speaker 1: doors to the street are closed and the sound of
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Speaker 1: grinding fades. When people rise up at the sound of birds,
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Speaker 1: but all their songs grow faint. When people are afraid
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Speaker 1: of heights and of dangers in the streets, When the
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Speaker 1: almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along, and
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Speaker 1: desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their
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Speaker 1: eternal home, and mourners go about the streets. Remember him
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Speaker 1: before the silver cord is severed and the golden bowl
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Speaker 1: is broken, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
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Speaker 1: and the wheels broken at the well, and the dust
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Speaker 1: returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit
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Speaker 1: returns to God who gave it meaningless. Meaningless, says the teacher,
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Speaker 1: Everything is meaningless. Not only was the teacher wise, but
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Speaker 1: also he imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and
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Speaker 1: searched out and set in order many proverbs. The teacher
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Speaker 1: searched to find just the right words, and what he
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Speaker 1: wrote was upright and true. The words of the wise
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Speaker 1: are like goads. They collected sayings like firmly embedded nails
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Speaker 1: given by one shepherd. Be warned, my son of anything
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Speaker 1: in addition to them of making many books. There is
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Speaker 1: no end and much study. Weere is the body. Now
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Speaker 1: all has been heard. Here is the conclusion of the matter.
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Speaker 1: Fear God God, and keep his commandments, for this is
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Speaker 1: the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every
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Speaker 1: deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is
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Speaker 1: good or evil. One Timothy, chapter six. All who are
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Speaker 1: under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy
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Speaker 1: of full respect, so that God's name and our teaching
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Speaker 1: may not be slandered. Those who have believing masters should
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Speaker 1: not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead,
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Speaker 1: they should serve them even better because their masters are
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Speaker 1: dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to
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Speaker 1: the welfare of their slaves. These are the things you
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Speaker 1: are to teach and insist on. If anyone teaches otherwise
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Speaker 1: and does not agree to the sound instruction of our
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, they are seated
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Speaker 1: and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies
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Speaker 1: and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk,
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Speaker 1: evil suspicions, and constant friction between people of corrupt mind
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Speaker 1: who have been robbed of the truth and who think
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Speaker 1: that godliness is a means to financial gain. A godliness
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Speaker 1: with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into
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Speaker 1: the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
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Speaker 1: But if we have food and clothing, we will be
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Speaker 1: content with that. Those who want to get rich fall
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Speaker 1: into temptation and a trap, and into many foolish and
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Speaker 1: harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For
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Speaker 1: the love of money is a root of all kinds
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Speaker 1: of evil. Some people eager for money have wandered from
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Speaker 1: the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. But you,
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Speaker 1: man of God, flee from all this and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance,
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Speaker 1: and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take
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Speaker 1: hold of the eternal life to which you were called
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Speaker 1: when you made your good confession in the presence of
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Speaker 1: many witnesses, in the sight of God who gives life
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Speaker 1: to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who, while testifying before
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Speaker 1: ponscious pilot, made the good confession. I charge you to
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Speaker 1: keep this command without spot or blame, until the appearing
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Speaker 1: of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about
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Speaker 1: in his own time. God, the blessed and only Ruler,
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Speaker 1: the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who alone
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Speaker 1: is immortal, and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no
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Speaker 1: one has seen or can see. To him, be honor
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Speaker 1: and might forever. Amen. Command those who are rich in
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Speaker 1: this present world not to be arrogant, not to put
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Speaker 1: their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to
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Speaker 1: put their hope in God, who richly provides us with
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Speaker 1: everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to
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Speaker 1: be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and
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Speaker 1: willing to share. In this way, they will lay up
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Speaker 1: treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age,
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Speaker 1: so that they may take hold of the life that
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Speaker 1: is truly life. Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to
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Speaker 1: your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing
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Speaker 1: ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have
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Speaker 1: professed and in so doing have departed from the faith.
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Speaker 1: Grace be with you all, Psalm eighty four. How love
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Speaker 1: is your dwelling place. Lord, Almighty. My soul yearns even
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Speaker 1: faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and
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Speaker 1: my flesh cry out for the Living God. Even the
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Speaker 1: sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest
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Speaker 1: for herself, where she may have her young, a place
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Speaker 1: near your altar. Lord Almighty, my King and my God.
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Speaker 1: Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are
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Speaker 1: ever praising you. Blessed are those whose strength is in You,
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Speaker 1: whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. As they pass through
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Speaker 1: the Valley of Bacca, they make it a place of springs.
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Speaker 1: The autumn rains also cover it with pools. They go
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Speaker 1: from strength to strength till each appears before God in Zion.
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Speaker 1: Hear my prayer. Lord God, Almighty, listen to me, God
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Speaker 1: of Jacob, look on our sh yield. O God, look
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Speaker 1: with favor on your anointed. One better is one day
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Speaker 1: in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather
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Speaker 1: be a door keeper in the house of my God
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Speaker 1: than dwell in the tents of the wicked. For the
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Speaker 1: Lord God is a sun and shield. The Lord bestows
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Speaker 1: favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from
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Speaker 1: those whose way of life is blameless, Lord, Almighty, blessed
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Speaker 1: is the one who trusts in you. Matthew, chapter thirteen.
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Speaker 1: That same day, Jesus went out of the house and
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Speaker 1: sat by the lake. Such large crowds gathered round him
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Speaker 1: that he got into a boat and sat in it,
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Speaker 1: while all the people stood on the shore. Then he
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Speaker 1: told them many things imparable, saying a farmer went out
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Speaker 1: to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed,
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Speaker 1: some fell along the path, and the birds came and
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Speaker 1: et it up. Some fell on rocky places where it
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Speaker 1: did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because
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Speaker 1: the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up,
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Speaker 1: the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had
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Speaker 1: no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up
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Speaker 1: and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil,
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Speaker 1: where it produced a crop a hundred, sixty or thirty
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Speaker 1: times what was sown. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
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Speaker 1: The disciples came to him and asked, why do you
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Speaker 1: speak to the people in parables. He replied, because the
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Speaker 1: knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven has
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Speaker 1: been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has
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Speaker 1: will be given more, and they will have an abundance.
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Speaker 1: Whoever does not have, even what they have, will be
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Speaker 1: taken from them. This is why I speak to them
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Speaker 1: in parables. Though seeing they do not see, though hearing
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Speaker 1: they do not hear, or understand. In them is fulfilled
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Speaker 1: the prophecy of Isaiah. You will be ever hearing, but
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Speaker 1: never understanding. You will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
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Speaker 1: For this people's heart has become calloused. They hardly hear
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Speaker 1: with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise
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Speaker 1: they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,
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Speaker 1: understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.
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Speaker 1: But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your
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Speaker 1: ears because they hear. For truly, I tell you many
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Speaker 1: prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see
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Speaker 1: but did not see it, and to hear what you hear,
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Speaker 1: but did not hear it. Listen, then, to what the
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Speaker 1: parable of the sower means. When any one hears the
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Speaker 1: message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the
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Speaker 1: evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in
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Speaker 1: their heart. This is the seed sown along the path,
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Speaker 1: the seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who
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Speaker 1: hears the word and at once receives it with joy,
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Speaker 1: But since they have no root, they last only a
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Speaker 1: short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word,
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Speaker 1: they quickly fall away. The seed falling among the thorns
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Speaker 1: refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries
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Speaker 1: of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word,
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Speaker 1: making it unfruitful. But the seed falling on good soil
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Speaker 1: refers to someone who hears the word and understands it.
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Speaker 1: This is the one who produces a crop yielding a hundred,
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Speaker 1: sixty or thirty times what was sown. Jesus told them
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Speaker 1: another parable. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man
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Speaker 1: who sowed good seed in his field, But while every
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Speaker 1: one was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among
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Speaker 1: the wheat and went away. When the wheat sprouted and
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Speaker 1: formed ears, then the weeds also appeared. The owner's servants
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Speaker 1: came to him and said, Sir, didn't you sow good
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Speaker 1: seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?
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Speaker 1: An enemy? Did this? He replied? The servants asked him,
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Speaker 1: do you want us to go and pull them up. No,
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Speaker 1: he answered, because while you are pulling up the weeds,
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Speaker 1: you may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow
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Speaker 1: together until the harvest. At that time, I will tell
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Speaker 1: the harvesters, first collect the weeds and tied them in
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Speaker 1: bundles to be burned. Then gather the wheat and bring
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Speaker 1: it into my barn. He told them. Another parable, Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of Heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man
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Speaker 1: took and planted in his field, Though it is the
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Speaker 1: smallest of all seeds, Yet when it grows, it is
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Speaker 1: the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so
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Speaker 1: that the birds come and perch in its branches. He
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Speaker 1: told them. Still another parable, The Kingdom of Heaven is
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Speaker 1: like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about
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Speaker 1: thirty kilograms of flower, until it worked all through the dough.
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Speaker 1: Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables.
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Speaker 1: He did not say anything to them without using a parable.
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Speaker 1: So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet. I
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Speaker 1: will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things
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Speaker 1: hidden since the creation of the world. Then he left
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Speaker 1: the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came
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Speaker 1: to him and said, explain to us the parable of
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Speaker 1: the weeds in the field. He answered, the one who
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Speaker 1: sowed the good seed is the son of Man. The
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Speaker 1: field is the world, and the good seed stands for
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Speaker 1: the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people
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Speaker 1: of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them
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Speaker 1: is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age,
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Speaker 1: and the harvesters are angels. As the weeds are pulled
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Speaker 1: up and burned in the fire, so it will be
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Speaker 1: at the end of the age. The Son of Man
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Speaker 1: will send out his angels, and they will weed out
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Speaker 1: of his kingdom everything that causes sin, and all who
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Speaker 1: do evil. They will throw them into the blazing furnace,
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Speaker 1: where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then
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Speaker 1: the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom
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Speaker 1: of their father. Whoever has ears, let them hear. The
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Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.
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Speaker 1: When a man found it, he hid it again in
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Speaker 1: his joy, went and sold all he had and bought
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Speaker 1: that field again. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a
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Speaker 1: merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of
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Speaker 1: great value, he went away and sold everything he had
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Speaker 1: and bought it once again. The Kingdom of Heaven is
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Speaker 1: like a net that was let down into the lake
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Speaker 1: and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full,
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Speaker 1: the fisherman pulled it up on the shore. Then they
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Speaker 1: sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but
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Speaker 1: threw the bad away. This is how it will be
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Speaker 1: at the end of the age. The angels will come
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Speaker 1: and separate the wicked from the righteous, and throw them
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Speaker 1: into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and
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Speaker 1: gnashing of teeth. Have you understood all these things? Jesus asked, yes,
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Speaker 1: they replied. He said to them, therefore, every teacher of
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Speaker 1: the law who has become a disciple in the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of Heaven is like the owner of the house who
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Speaker 1: brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.
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Speaker 1: When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there,
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Speaker 1: coming to his home town. He began teaching the people
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Speaker 1: in their synagogue, and they were amazed. Where did this
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Speaker 1: man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers? They asked,
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Speaker 1: isn't this the carpenter's son. Isn't his mother's name Mary?
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Speaker 1: And aren't his brothers, James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas. Aren't
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Speaker 1: all his sisters with us? Where then did this man
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Speaker 1: get all these things? And they took offense at him.
1:48:41
Speaker 1: But Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without
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Speaker 1: honor except in his own town and in his own home,
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Speaker 1: And he did not do many miracles there because of
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Speaker 1: their lack of faith. Proverbs chapter nineteen. The poor whose
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Speaker 1: way of life is blameless than a fool whose lips
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Speaker 1: are perverse, desire without knowledge is not good. How much
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Speaker 1: more will hasty feet miss the way a person's own
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Speaker 1: folly leads to their ruin. Yet their heart rages against
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Speaker 1: the lord. Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest
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Speaker 1: friend of the poor person deserts them. A false witness
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Speaker 1: will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will
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Speaker 1: not go free. Many curry favor with a ruler, and
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Speaker 1: everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts. The
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Speaker 1: poor are shunned by all their relatives. How much more
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Speaker 1: do their friends avoid them. Though the poor pursue them
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Speaker 1: with pleading, they are nowhere to be found. The one
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Speaker 1: who gets wisdom loves life. The one who cherishes understanding
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Speaker 1: will soon prosper. A false witness will not not go unpunished,
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Speaker 1: and whoever pours out lies will perish. It is not
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Speaker 1: fitting for a fool to live in luxury, how much
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Speaker 1: worse for a slave to rule over princes. A person's
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Speaker 1: wisdom yields patience. It is to one's glory to overlook
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Speaker 1: an offense. A king's rage is like the roar of
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Speaker 1: a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
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Speaker 1: A foolish child is a father's ruin, and a quarrelsome
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Speaker 1: wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.
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Speaker 1: Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent
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Speaker 1: wife is from the Lord. Laziness brings on deep sleep,
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Speaker 1: and the shiftless go hungry. Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,
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Speaker 1: but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die. Whoever
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Speaker 1: is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and
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Speaker 1: he will reward them for what they have done. Discipline
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Speaker 1: your children for in that there is hope. Do not
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Speaker 1: be a willing party to their death. A hot tempered
1:51:12
Speaker 1: person must pay the penalty. Rescue them, and you will
1:51:16
Speaker 1: have to do it again. Listen to advice and accept discipline,
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Speaker 1: and at the end you will be counted among the wise.
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Speaker 1: Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it
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Speaker 1: is the Lord's purpose that prevails. What a person desires
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Speaker 1: is unfailing love. Better to be poor than a liar.
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Speaker 1: The fear of the Lord leads to life. Then one
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Speaker 1: rests content, untouched by trouble. A sluggard buries his hand
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Speaker 1: in the dish, he will not even bring it back
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Speaker 1: to his mouth. Flog a mocker, and the simple will
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Speaker 1: learn prudence. Rebuke the discerning, and they will gain knowledge.
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Speaker 1: Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is
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Speaker 1: a child who brings shame and disgrace. Stop listening to instruction,
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Speaker 1: my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.
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Speaker 1: A corrupt witness mocks of justice, and the mouth of
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Speaker 1: the wicked gulps down. Evil penalties are prepared for mockers,
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Speaker 1: and beatings for the backs of fools. One Peter, Chapter
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Speaker 1: one Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to God's elect
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Speaker 1: exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia,
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Speaker 1: and Bithynia, who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge
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Speaker 1: of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit,
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Speaker 1: to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood.
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Speaker 1: Grace and peace be yours in abundance. Praise be to
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Speaker 1: the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ. In
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Speaker 1: his great mercy, He has given us new birth into
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Speaker 1: a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from
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Speaker 1: the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil,
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Speaker 1: or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,
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Speaker 1: who through faith is shielded by God's power until the
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Speaker 1: coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed
1:53:27
Speaker 1: in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice,
1:53:33
Speaker 1: though now for a little while you may have had
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Speaker 1: to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have
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Speaker 1: come so that the proven genuineness of your faith, of
1:53:44
Speaker 1: greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire,
1:53:49
Speaker 1: may result in praise, glory, and honor. When Jesus Christ
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Speaker 1: is revealed, though you have not seen him, you love him.
1:53:59
Speaker 1: And even though you do not see him now you
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Speaker 1: believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and
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Speaker 1: glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of
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Speaker 1: your faith, the salvation of your souls. Concerning this salvation,
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Speaker 1: the prophets who spoke of the grace that was to
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Speaker 1: come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care,
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Speaker 1: trying to find out the time and circumstances to which
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Speaker 1: the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he
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Speaker 1: predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that
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Speaker 1: would follow. It was revealed to them that they were
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Speaker 1: not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the
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Speaker 1: things that have now been told you by those who
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Speaker 1: have preached the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit
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Speaker 1: sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your
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Speaker 1: hope on the grace to be brought to you when
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. As obedient children,
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Speaker 1: do not conform to the evil desires you had when
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Speaker 1: you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called
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Speaker 1: you is holy, so be holy in all you do,
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Speaker 1: for it is written, Be holy because I am holy.
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Speaker 1: Since you call on a father who judges each person's
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Speaker 1: work impartially live out your time as foreigners here in
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Speaker 1: reverent fear. For you know that it was not with
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Speaker 1: perishable things such as silver or gold that you were
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Speaker 1: redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to
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Speaker 1: you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ,
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Speaker 1: a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before
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Speaker 1: the creation of the world, but was revealed in these
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Speaker 1: last times for your sake. Through him, you believe in
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Speaker 1: God who raised him from the dead and glorified him.
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Speaker 1: And so your faith and hope are in God. Now
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Speaker 1: that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth, so
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Speaker 1: that you have sincere love for each other. Love one
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Speaker 1: another deeply from the heart, for you have been born again,
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Speaker 1: not of perishable seed, but of imperishable through the living
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Speaker 1: and enduring word of God. For all people are like grass,
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Speaker 1: and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
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Speaker 1: The grass withers and the flowers fall, But the word
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Speaker 1: of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word
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Speaker 1: that was preached to you one Corinthian's chapter six. If
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Speaker 1: any of you has a dispute with another, do you
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Speaker 1: dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead
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Speaker 1: of before the Lord's people. Or do you not know
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Speaker 1: that the Lord's people will judge the world? And if
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Speaker 1: you are to judge the world, are you not competent
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Speaker 1: to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we
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Speaker 1: will judge angels, how much more the things of this life? Therefore,
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Speaker 1: if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask
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Speaker 1: for a ruling from those whose way of life is
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Speaker 1: scorned in the church? I say this to shame you.
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Speaker 1: Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise
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Speaker 1: enough to judge a dispute between believers, but instead one
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Speaker 1: brother takes another to court, and this in front of unbelievers.
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Speaker 1: The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means
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Speaker 1: you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged?
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Speaker 1: Why not rather be cheated? Instead? You yourselves cheat and
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Speaker 1: do wrong and you do this to your brothers and sisters.
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Speaker 1: Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit
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Speaker 1: the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither the
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Speaker 1: sexually immoral, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor men who have
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Speaker 1: sex with men, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards,
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Speaker 1: nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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Speaker 1: And that is what some of you were. But you
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Speaker 1: were washed, you were sanctified, You were justified in the
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Speaker 1: name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit
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Speaker 1: of our God. I have the right to do anything
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Speaker 1: you say, but not everything is beneficial. I have the
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Speaker 1: right to do anything, but I will not be mastered
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Speaker 1: by anything you say. Food for the stomach, and the
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Speaker 1: stomach for food, and God will destroy them both. The body, however,
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Speaker 1: is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord,
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Speaker 1: and the Lord for the body. By his power, God
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Speaker 1: raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us. Also.
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Speaker 1: Do you not know that your bodies are members of
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Speaker 1: Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ
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Speaker 1: and unite them with a prostitute. Never do you not
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Speaker 1: know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is
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Speaker 1: one with her in body. For it is said that
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Speaker 1: two will become one flesh. But whoever is united with
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Speaker 1: the Lord is one with him in spirit. Flee from
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Speaker 1: sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside
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Speaker 1: the body. But whoever sins sexually sins against their own body.
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Speaker 1: Do you not know that your bodies are temples of
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have
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Speaker 1: received from God. You are not your own You were
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Speaker 1: bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.
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Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter seventeen. A dry crust with peace and quiet
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Speaker 1: than a house full of feasting with strife. A prudent
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Speaker 1: servant will rule over a disgraceful son, and will share
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Speaker 1: the inheritance as one of the family, the crucible for
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Speaker 1: silver and the furnace for gold. But the Lord tests
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Speaker 1: the heart. A wicked person listens to deceitful libs. A
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Speaker 1: liar pays attention to a destructive tongue. Whoever mocks the
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Speaker 1: poor shows contempt for their maker. Whoever gloats over disaster
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Speaker 1: will not go unpunished. Children's children are a crown to
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Speaker 1: the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
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Speaker 1: Eloquent libs are unsuited to a godless fool, how much worse,
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Speaker 1: lying lips to a ruler. A bribe is seen as
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Speaker 1: a charm by the one who gives it. They think
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Speaker 1: success will come at every turn. Whoever, what foster love
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Speaker 1: covers over an offense, But whoever repeats the matter separates
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Speaker 1: close friends. A rebuke impresses a discerning person more than
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Speaker 1: a hundred lashes. A fool evil doers foster rebellion against God.
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Speaker 1: The messenger of death will be sent against them. Better
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Speaker 1: to meet a bear rubbed of her cubs than a
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Speaker 1: fool bent on folly. Evil will never leave the house
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Speaker 1: of one who pays back evil for good. Starting a
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Speaker 1: quarrel is like breaching a dam, So drop the matter
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Speaker 1: before the dispute breaks out, acquitting the guilty and condemning
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Speaker 1: the innocent. The Lord detests them both. Why should fools
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Speaker 1: have money in hand to buy wisdom when they are
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Speaker 1: not able to understand it. A friend loves at all times,
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Speaker 1: and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
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Speaker 1: One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and
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Speaker 1: puts up security for a neighbor. Whoever loves a quarrel
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Speaker 1: loves sin. Whoever builds a high gate invites destruction. One
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Speaker 1: whose heart is corrupt does not prosper. One whose tongue
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Speaker 1: is perverse falls into trouble. To have a fool for
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Speaker 1: a child brings grief. There is no joy for the
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Speaker 1: parent of a godless fool. A cheerful heart is good medicine,
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Speaker 1: but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. The wicked
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Speaker 1: except bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.
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Speaker 1: A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool's
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Speaker 1: eye wander to the ends of the earth. A foolish
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Speaker 1: son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the
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Speaker 1: mother who bore him. If imposing a fine on the
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Speaker 1: inner is not good, surely to flog honest officials is
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Speaker 1: not right. The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint,
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Speaker 1: and whoever has understanding is even tempered. Even fools are
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Speaker 1: thought wise if they keep silent and discerning, if they
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Speaker 1: hold their tongues Psalm sixty two. Truly my soul finds
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Speaker 1: rest in God. My salvation comes from him. Truly he
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Speaker 1: is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress.
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Speaker 1: I will never be shaken. How long will you assault me?
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Speaker 1: Would all of you throw me down this leaning wall,
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Speaker 1: this tottering fence. Surely they intend to topple me from
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Speaker 1: my lofty place. They take delight in lies. With their
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Speaker 1: mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. Yes,
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Speaker 1: my soul find rest in God. My hope comes from Him. Truly,
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Speaker 1: He is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress.
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Speaker 1: I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor
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Speaker 1: depend on God. He is my mighty rock, my refuge.
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Speaker 1: Trust in Him at all times, you people, pour out
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Speaker 1: your hearts to Him. For God is our refuge. Surely,
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Speaker 1: the low born are but a breath. The high born
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Speaker 1: are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they
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Speaker 1: are nothing. Together, they are only a breath. Do not
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Speaker 1: trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods.
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Speaker 1: Though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
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Speaker 1: One thing God hath spoken two things I have heard.
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Speaker 1: Power belongs to you God, and with you, Lord is
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Speaker 1: unfailing love. And you reward everyone according to what they
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Speaker 1: have done two Corinthians, chapter four. Therefore, since through God's
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Speaker 1: mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather,
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Speaker 1: we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not
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Speaker 1: use deception, nor do we distort the word of God.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly, we
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Speaker 1: commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
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Speaker 1: And even if our gospel is veiled. It is veiled
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Speaker 1: to those who are perishing. The God of this age
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Speaker 1: has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot
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Speaker 1: see the light of the Gospel that displays the glory
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Speaker 1: of Christ, who is the image of God. For what
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Speaker 1: we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord,
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Speaker 1: and ourselves as your servants, for Jesus's sake. For God,
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Speaker 1: who said let light shine out of darkness, made his
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Speaker 1: light shine in our hearts to give us the light
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Speaker 1: of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face
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Speaker 1: of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of
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Speaker 1: clay to show that this all surpassing power is from
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Speaker 1: God and not from us. We are hard pressed on
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Speaker 1: every side, but not crushed, perplexed but not in despair,
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Speaker 1: persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed. We
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Speaker 1: always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed
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Speaker 1: in our body. For we who are alive, are always
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Speaker 1: being given over to death for Jesus's sake, so that
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Speaker 1: his life may also be field in our mortal body.
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Speaker 1: So then death is at work in us but life
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Speaker 1: is at work in you. It is written I believed.
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Speaker 1: Therefore I have spoken. Since we have that same spirit
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Speaker 1: of faith, we also believe and therefore speak because we
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Speaker 1: know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from
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Speaker 1: the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present
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Speaker 1: us with you to himself. All this is for your benefit,
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Speaker 1: so that the grace that is reaching more and more
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Speaker 1: people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
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Speaker 1: Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are
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Speaker 1: wasting away, Yet inwardly we are being renewed day by
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Speaker 1: day for our light. And momentary troubles are achieving for
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Speaker 1: us an eternal glows worry that far outweighs them all.
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Speaker 1: So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,
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Speaker 1: but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary,
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Speaker 1: but what is unseen is eternal. One John chapter five.
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Speaker 1: Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is
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Speaker 1: born of God, and every one who loves the Father
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Speaker 1: loves his child as well. This is how we know
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Speaker 1: that we love the children of God by loving God
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Speaker 1: and carrying out his commands. In fact, this is love
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Speaker 1: for God to keep his commands, and his commands are
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Speaker 1: not burdensome. For every one born of God overcomes the world.
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Speaker 1: This is the victory that has overcome the world, even
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Speaker 1: our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world. Only
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Speaker 1: the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
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Speaker 1: This is the one who came by water and blood,
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but
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Speaker 1: by water and blood. And it is the spirit who testifies,
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Speaker 1: because the spirit is the truth. For there are three
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Speaker 1: that testify, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and
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Speaker 1: the three are in agreement. We accept human testimony, but
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Speaker 1: God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of
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Speaker 1: God which he has given about his son. Whoever believes
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Speaker 1: in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does
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Speaker 1: not believe God has made him out to be a
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Speaker 1: liar because they have not believed the testimony God has
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Speaker 1: given about his Son. And this is the testimony God
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Speaker 1: has given us eternal life. And this life is in
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Speaker 1: his Son. Whoever has the Son has life. Whoever does
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Speaker 1: not have the Son of God does not have life.
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Speaker 1: I write these things to you who believe in the
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Speaker 1: name of the Son of God, so that you may
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Speaker 1: know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence
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Speaker 1: we have in approaching God, that if we ask anything
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Speaker 1: according to his will, he hears us. And if we
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Speaker 1: know that He hears us whatever we ask, we know
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Speaker 1: that we have what we asked of him. If you
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Speaker 1: see any brother or sister commit a sin that does
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Speaker 1: not lead to death, you should pray, and God will
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Speaker 1: give them life. I refer to those whose sin does
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Speaker 1: not lead to death. There is a sin that leads
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Speaker 1: to death. I am not saying that you should pray
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Speaker 1: about that. All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin
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Speaker 1: that does not lead to death. We know that any
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Speaker 1: one born of God does not continue to sin. The
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Speaker 1: one who was born of God keeps them safe, and
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Speaker 1: the evil One cannot harm them. We know that we
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Speaker 1: are children of God and that the whole world is
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Speaker 1: under the control of the evil One. We know also
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Speaker 1: that the Son of God has come and has given
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Speaker 1: us understanding so that we may know Him who is true.
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Speaker 1: And we are in Him who is true by being
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Speaker 1: in his son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God
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Speaker 1: and eternal life. Dear children, keep yourselves from idols Psalm nineteen.
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Speaker 1: The heavens declare the glory of God. The skies proclaim
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Speaker 1: the work of his hands. Day after day. They pour
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Speaker 1: forth speech night after night. They reveal knowledge. They have
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Speaker 1: no speech, they use no words. No sound is heard
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Speaker 1: from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
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Speaker 1: their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens,
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Speaker 1: God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is
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Speaker 1: like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a
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Speaker 1: champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one
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Speaker 1: end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other.
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Speaker 1: Nothing is deprived of its warmth. The law of the
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Speaker 1: Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the
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Speaker 1: Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of
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Speaker 1: the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The
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Speaker 1: commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
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Speaker 1: The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The
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Speaker 1: decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them
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Speaker 1: are righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much
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Speaker 1: pure gold. They are sweeter than honey, than honey from
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Speaker 1: the honey comb. By them, your servant is warned. In
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Speaker 1: keeping them, there is great reward. But who can discern
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Speaker 1: their own errors. Forgive my hidden faults. Keep your servant
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Speaker 1: also from wilful sins. May they not rule over me.
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Speaker 1: Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression. May
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Speaker 1: these words of my mouth and this meditation of my
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Speaker 1: heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and
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Speaker 1: my redeemer. Proverbs, chapter twenty two. A good name is
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Speaker 1: more desirable than great riches. To be esteemed is better
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Speaker 1: than silver or gold. Rich and poor have this in common.
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Speaker 1: The Lord is the maker of them all. The prudence
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Speaker 1: see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going
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Speaker 1: and pay the penalty. Humility is the fear of the Lord.
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Speaker 1: Its wages are riches and honor and life. In the
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Speaker 1: paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, But those
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Speaker 1: who would preserve their life stay far from them. Start
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Speaker 1: children off on the way they should go, and even
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Speaker 1: when they are old, they will not turn from it.
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Speaker 1: The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is
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Speaker 1: slave to the lender. Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and
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Speaker 1: the rod they wield in fury will be broken. The
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Speaker 1: generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food
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Speaker 1: with the poor. Drive out the mocker, and outgoes strife.
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Speaker 1: Quarrels and insults are ended. One who loves a pure
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Speaker 1: heart and who speaks with great will have the King
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Speaker 1: for a friend. The eyes of the Lord keep watch
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Speaker 1: over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
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Speaker 1: The sluggard says, there's a lion outside. I'll be killed
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Speaker 1: in the public square. The mouth of an adulterous woman
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Speaker 1: is a deep pit. A man who is under the
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Speaker 1: Lord's wrath falls into it. Folly is bound up in
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Speaker 1: the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline
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Speaker 1: will drive it far away. One who oppresses the poor
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Speaker 1: to increase his wealth, and one who gives gifts to
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Speaker 1: the rich both come to poverty. Thirty Sayings of the
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Speaker 1: Wise saying one, pay attention and turn your ear to
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Speaker 1: the sayings of the wise. Apply your heart to what
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Speaker 1: I teach. For it is pleasing when you keep them
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Speaker 1: in your heart, and have all of them ready on
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Speaker 1: your lips, so that your trust may be in the Lord.
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Speaker 1: I teach you to day, even you have I not
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Speaker 1: written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,
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Speaker 1: teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth.
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Speaker 1: So that you bring back truthful reports to those you serve,
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Speaker 1: saying two, do not exploit the poor because they are poor,
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Speaker 1: and do not crush the needy in court, for the
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Speaker 1: lord will take up their case and will exact life
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Speaker 1: for life. Saying three, do not make friends with a
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Speaker 1: hot tempered person. Do not associate with one easily angered,
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Speaker 1: or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.
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Speaker 1: Saying four, do not be one who shakes hands in
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Speaker 1: pledge or puts up security for debts. If you lack
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Speaker 1: the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched
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Speaker 1: from under you. Saying five, do not move an ancient
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Speaker 1: boundary stone set up by your ancestors. Saying six, do
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Speaker 1: you see some one skilled in their work? They will
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Speaker 1: serve before kings. They will not serve before officials of
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Speaker 1: low rank one Corinthian's Chapter three, Brothers and sisters, I
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Speaker 1: could not address you as people who live by the spirit,
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Speaker 1: but as people who are still worldly, mere infants in Christ.
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Speaker 1: I gave you milk, not solid food, for you are
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Speaker 1: not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.
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Speaker 1: You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and
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Speaker 1: quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not
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Speaker 1: acting like mere humans? For when one says I follow
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Speaker 1: Paul and another I follow a palace, are you not
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Speaker 1: mere human beings? What? After all, is Apollus and what
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Speaker 1: is Paul only servants through whom you came to believe
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Speaker 1: as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I
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Speaker 1: planted the seed, Apollus watered it, But God has been
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Speaker 1: making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor
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Speaker 1: the one who waters is anything but only God who
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Speaker 1: makes things grow. The one who plants and the one
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Speaker 1: who waters have one purpose, and they will each be
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Speaker 1: rewarded according to their own labor. For we are fellow
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Speaker 1: workers in God's service. You are God's field, God's building,
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Speaker 1: by the grace God has given me. I laid a
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Speaker 1: foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building
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Speaker 1: on it. But each one should build with care, for
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Speaker 1: no one can lay any foundation other than the one
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Speaker 1: already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on
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Speaker 1: this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw,
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Speaker 1: their work will be shown for what it is, because
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Speaker 1: the day will bring it to light. It will be
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Speaker 1: revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality
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Speaker 1: of each person's work. But if what has been built survives,
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Speaker 1: the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up,
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Speaker 1: the builder will suffer loss, but yet will be saved,
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Speaker 1: even though only as one escaping through the flames. Don't
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Speaker 1: you know that you, yourselves, are God's temple, and the
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Speaker 1: God's spirit lifts among you. If any one destroys God's temple,
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Speaker 1: God will destroy that person. For God's temple is sacred,
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Speaker 1: and you together are that temple. Do not deceive yourselves.
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Speaker 1: If any of you think you are wise by the
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Speaker 1: standards of this age, you should become fools so that
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Speaker 1: you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world
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Speaker 1: is foolishness in God's sight, as it is written, he
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Speaker 1: catches the wise in their craftiness. And again the Lord
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Speaker 1: knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile. So
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Speaker 1: then no more boasting about human leaders. All things are yours,
2:20:15
Speaker 1: whether poor or apollus or seaphas, or the world or
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Speaker 1: life or death, or the present or the future, all
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Speaker 1: are yours. And you are of Christ, and Christ is
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Speaker 1: of God. Psalm ninety six. Sing to the Lord a
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Speaker 1: new song. Sing to the Lord, all the earth, sing
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Speaker 1: to the Lord. Praise his name, Proclaim his salvation day
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Speaker 1: after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous
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Speaker 1: deeds among all peoples. For great is the Lord and
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Speaker 1: most worthy of praise. He is to be feared above
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Speaker 1: all gods. For all the gods of the nations are idols.
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Speaker 1: But the Lord made the heavens. Splendor and majesty are
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Speaker 1: before him. Strength and glory are in his sanctuary. Ascribed
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Speaker 1: to the Lord. All new families of nations. Ascribe to
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Speaker 1: the Lord, glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the
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Speaker 1: glory to his name. Bring an offering, and come into
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Speaker 1: his courts. Worship the Lord, in the splendor of his holiness.
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Speaker 1: Tremble before him all the earth, say among the nations.
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Speaker 1: The Lord reigns. The world is firmly established. It cannot
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Speaker 1: be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity. Let
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Speaker 1: the heavens rejoice. Let the earth be glad, Let the
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Speaker 1: sea resound and all that is in it. Let the
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Speaker 1: fields be jubilant and everything in them. Let all the
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Speaker 1: trees of the forest sing for joy. Let all creation
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Speaker 1: rejoice before the Lord. For he comes. He comes to
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Speaker 1: judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness
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Speaker 1: and the peoples in his faithfulness. Jude a servant of
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and a brother of James. To those who
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Speaker 1: have been called who are loved in God the Father
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Speaker 1: and kept for Jesus Christ, Mercy, peace and love be
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Speaker 1: yours in abundance. Dear friends. Although I was very eager
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Speaker 1: to write to you about the salvation we share, I
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Speaker 1: felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for
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Speaker 1: the faith that was once for all intrusted to God's
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Speaker 1: holy people. For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about
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Speaker 1: long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are
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Speaker 1: ungodly people who pervert the grace of our God into
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Speaker 1: a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ are only
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Speaker 1: sovereign and Lord. Though you already know all this, I
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Speaker 1: want to remind you that the Lord at one time
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Speaker 1: delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those
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Speaker 1: who did not believe, and the angels who did not
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Speaker 1: keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling.
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Speaker 1: These he is kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains
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Speaker 1: for judgment on the Great Day. In a similar way,
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Speaker 1: Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up
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Speaker 1: to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example
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Speaker 1: of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire in
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Speaker 1: the very same way. On the strength of their dreams.
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Speaker 1: These ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority, and
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Speaker 1: heap abuse on celestial beings. But even the archangel Michael,
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Speaker 1: when he was disputing with the devil about the body
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Speaker 1: of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander,
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Speaker 1: but said, the Lord rebuke you. Yet these people slander
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Speaker 1: whatever they do not understand, and the very things they
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Speaker 1: do understand by instinct, as irrational animals do, will destroy them.
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Speaker 1: Woe to them. They have taken the way of Cain.
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Speaker 1: They have rushed for prophet into Balamb's error. They have
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Speaker 1: been destroyed in Cora's rebellion. These people are blemishes at
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Speaker 1: your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm.
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Speaker 1: Shepherds who feed only themselves. The air, clouds without rain,
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Speaker 1: blown along by the wind, autumn trees without fruit and
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Speaker 1: uprooted twice dead. They are wild waves of the sea
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Speaker 1: foaming up their shame wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness
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Speaker 1: has been reserved for ever. Enoch the seventh from Adam
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Speaker 1: prophesied about them. See, the Lord is coming with thousands
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Speaker 1: upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and
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Speaker 1: to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts
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Speaker 1: they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the
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Speaker 1: defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These people
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Speaker 1: are grumblers and fault finders. They follow their own evil desires.
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Speaker 1: They boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage. But,
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Speaker 1: dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus
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Speaker 1: Christ foretold. They said to you in the last times,
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Speaker 1: there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.
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Speaker 1: These are the people who divide you, who follow mere
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Speaker 1: natural instincts and do not have the spirit. But you,
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Speaker 1: dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy
2:25:56
Speaker 1: faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep your say
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Speaker 1: in God's love as you wait for the mercy of
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Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
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Speaker 1: Be merciful to those who doubt, save others by snatching
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Speaker 1: them from the fire to others, show mercy mixed with fear,
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Speaker 1: hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh. To him
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Speaker 1: who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to
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Speaker 1: present you before His glorious presence, without fault and with
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Speaker 1: great joy, to the only God, our Savior, be glory, majesty, power,
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Speaker 1: and authority through Jesus Christ, our Lord, before all ages
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Speaker 1: now and for evermore Amen Hebrews chapter four. Therefore, since
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Speaker 1: the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us
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Speaker 1: be careful that none of you be found to have
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Speaker 1: fallen short of it. For we also have had the
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Speaker 1: good news proclaimed to us, just as they did, but
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Speaker 1: the message they heard was of no value to them
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Speaker 1: because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. Now,
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Speaker 1: we who have believed, enter that rest, just as God
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Speaker 1: has said. So I declared on oath in my anger,
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Speaker 1: they shall never enter my rest. And yet His works
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Speaker 1: have been finished since the creation of the world. For
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Speaker 1: somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words.
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Speaker 1: On the seventh day God rested from all his works,
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Speaker 1: And again in the passage above he says, they shall
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Speaker 1: never enter my rest. Therefore, since it still remains for
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Speaker 1: some to enter that rest, And since those who formerly
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Speaker 1: had the good news proclaimed to them did not go
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Speaker 1: in because of their disobedience, God again set a certain day,
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Speaker 1: calling it to day. This he did when a long
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Speaker 1: time later he spoke through David, as in the passage
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Speaker 1: already quoted today. If you hear his voice, do not
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Speaker 1: harden your hearts, for if Joshua had given them rest,
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Speaker 1: God would not have spoken later about another day. There
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Speaker 1: remains then a sabbath rest for the people of God.
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Speaker 1: For anyone who enters God's rest also rests from their works,
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Speaker 1: just as God did from his. Let us therefore make
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Speaker 1: every effort to enter that rest, so that no one
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Speaker 1: will perish by following their example of disobedience. For the
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Speaker 1: Word of God is alive and active, sharper than any
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Speaker 1: double edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,
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Speaker 1: joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of
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Speaker 1: the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight.
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Speaker 1: Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him,
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Speaker 1: to whom we must give account. Therefore, since we have
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Speaker 1: a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus,
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Speaker 1: the son of God. Let us hold firmly to the
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Speaker 1: faith we profess, For we do not have a high
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Speaker 1: priest who is unable to feel sympathy for our weaknesses.
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Speaker 1: But we have one who has been tempted in every
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Speaker 1: way just as we are, yet he did not sin.
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Speaker 1: Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence,
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Speaker 1: so that we may receive mercy and find grace to
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Speaker 1: help us in our time of need. Ecclesiastes, chapter eleven.
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Speaker 1: Ship your grain across the sea. After many days, you
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Speaker 1: may receive a return. Invest in seven ventures, yes in eight.
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Speaker 1: You do not know what disaster may come upon the land.
2:29:53
Speaker 1: If clouds are full of water, they pour a rain
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Speaker 1: on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south
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Speaker 1: or to the nor, in the place where it falls,
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Speaker 1: there it will lie. Whoever watches the wind will not plant.
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Speaker 1: Whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. As you
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Speaker 1: do not know the path of the wind, or how
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Speaker 1: the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you
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Speaker 1: cannot understand the work of God, the maker of all things.
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Speaker 1: Sow your seed in the morning and at evening. Let
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Speaker 1: your hands not be idle, for you do not know
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Speaker 1: which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both
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Speaker 1: will do equally well. Light is sweet, and it pleases
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Speaker 1: the eyes to see the sun. However many years anyone
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Speaker 1: may live, let them enjoy the more, but let them
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Speaker 1: remember the days of darkness, for there will be many.
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Speaker 1: Everything to come is meaningless. You who are young, be
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Speaker 1: happy while you are young, and let your heart give
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Speaker 1: you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the
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Speaker 1: ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see. But
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Speaker 1: know that for all these things God will bring you
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Speaker 1: into judgment. So then vanish anxiety from your heart and
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Speaker 1: cast off the troubles of your body. For youth and
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Speaker 1: vigor are meaningless. Psalm eighteen. I love you Lord, my strength.
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Speaker 1: The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.
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Speaker 1: My God is my rock in whom I take refuge,
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Speaker 1: my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
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Speaker 1: I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,
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Speaker 1: and I have been saved from my enemies. The cords
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Speaker 1: of death in tangled me, The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
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Speaker 1: The cords of the grave coiled around me. The snares
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Speaker 1: of death confronted me in my distress. I called to
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Speaker 1: the Lord. I cried to my God for help. From
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Speaker 1: his temple. He heard my voice. My cry came before
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Speaker 1: him into his ears. The earth trembled and quaked, and
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Speaker 1: the foundations of the mountains shook. They trembled because he
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Speaker 1: was angry. Smoke rose from his nostrils. Consuming fire came
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Speaker 1: from his mouth. Burning coals blazed out of it. He
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Speaker 1: parted the heavens and came down. Dark clouds were under
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Speaker 1: his feet. He mounted the cherubim and flew. He soared
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Speaker 1: on the wings of the wind. He made darkness his
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Speaker 1: covering his canopy around him. The dark rain clouds of
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Speaker 1: the sky. Out of the brightness of his presence, clouds
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Speaker 1: advanced with hailstones and bolts of lightning. The Lord thundered
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Speaker 1: from heaven. The voice of the most High resounded. He
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Speaker 1: shot his arrows and scattered the enemy with great bolts
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Speaker 1: of lightning. He routed them. The valleys of the sea
2:33:24
Speaker 1: were exposed, and the foundations of the earth laid bare.
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Speaker 1: At your rebuke, Lord, at the blast of breath from
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Speaker 1: your nostrils. He reached down from on high and took
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Speaker 1: hold of me. He drew me out of deep waters
2:33:45
Speaker 1: He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes
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Speaker 1: who were too strong for me. They confronted me in
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Speaker 1: the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support.
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Speaker 1: He brought me out into a spacious place. He rescued
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Speaker 1: me because he delighted in me. The Lord has dealt
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Speaker 1: with me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness
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Speaker 1: of my hands. He has rewarded me, for I have
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Speaker 1: kept the ways of the Lord. I am not guilty
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Speaker 1: of turning from my God. All his laws are before me.
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Speaker 1: I have not turned away from his decrees. I have
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Speaker 1: been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin.
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Speaker 1: The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according
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Speaker 1: to the cleanness of my hands, in his sight. To
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Speaker 1: the faithful, you show yourself faithful. To the blameless, you
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Speaker 1: show yourself blameless. To the pure, you show yourself pure.
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Speaker 1: But to the devious, you show yourself shrewd. You say
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Speaker 1: the humbold, but bring loath those whose eyes are haughty.
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Speaker 1: You Lord, keep my lamp burning. My God turns my
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Speaker 1: darkness into light. With your help, I can advance against
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Speaker 1: a troop. With my God, I can scale a war.
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Speaker 1: As for God, his way is perfect. The Lord's word
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Speaker 1: is flawless. He shields all who take refuge in him.
2:35:30
Speaker 1: For who is God besides the Lord, and who is
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Speaker 1: the rock except our God. It is God who arms
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Speaker 1: me with strength and keeps my way secure. He makes
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Speaker 1: my feet like the feet of a deer. He causes
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Speaker 1: me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands
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Speaker 1: for battle. My arms can bend a bow of bronze.
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Speaker 1: You make your saving help my shield, and your right
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Speaker 1: hand sustains me. Your help has made me great. You
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Speaker 1: provide a broad path for my feet, so that my
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Speaker 1: ankles do not give way. I pursued my enemies and
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Speaker 1: overtook them. I did not turn back till they were destroyed.
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Speaker 1: I crushed them so that they could not rise. They
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Speaker 1: fell beneath my feet. You armed me with strength of battle.
2:36:25
Speaker 1: You humbled my adversaries before me. You made my enemies
2:36:29
Speaker 1: turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.
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Speaker 1: They cried for help, but there was no one to
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Speaker 1: save them, to the Lord, but he did not answer.
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Speaker 1: I beat them as fine as wind blown dust. I
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Speaker 1: trampled them like mud in the streets. You have delivered
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Speaker 1: me from the attacks of the people. You have made
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Speaker 1: me the head of nations. People I did not know
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Speaker 1: now serve me. Foreigners cower before me. As soon as
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Speaker 1: they hear of me. They obey me. They all lose heart.
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Speaker 1: They come trembling from their strongholds. The Lord lives. Praise
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Speaker 1: be to my rock. Exalted be God, my savior. He
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Speaker 1: is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me,
2:37:24
Speaker 1: who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above
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Speaker 1: my foes, from a violent man. You rescued me. Therefore
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Speaker 1: I will praise you, Lord, among the nations. I will
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Speaker 1: sing the praises of your name. He gives his king
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Speaker 1: great victories. He shows unfailing love to his anointed, to David,
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Speaker 1: and to his descendants forever. Romans, chapter four. What shall
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Speaker 1: we say that Abraham, our forefather, according to the flesh
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Speaker 1: discovered in this matter? If in fact Abraham was justified
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Speaker 1: by works, he had something to boast about, but not
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Speaker 1: before God. What does scriptures say Abraham believed God, and
2:38:19
Speaker 1: it was credited to him as righteousness. Now, to the
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Speaker 1: one who works, wages are not credited as a gift,
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Speaker 1: but as an obligation. However, to the one who does
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Speaker 1: not work, but trusts God, who justifies the ungodly, their
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Speaker 1: faith is credited as righteousness. David says the same thing
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Speaker 1: when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to
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Speaker 1: whom God credits righteousness. Apart from works, Blessed are those
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Speaker 1: whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is
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Speaker 1: the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them.
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Speaker 1: Is this blessedness only for the circumcised or also for
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Speaker 1: the uncircumcised. We have been saying that Abraham's faith was
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Speaker 1: credited to him as righteousness? Under what circumstances was it
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Speaker 1: credited Was it after he was circumcised or before? It
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Speaker 1: was not after, but before, And he received circumcision as
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Speaker 1: a sign a seal of the righteousness that he had
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Speaker 1: by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then he
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Speaker 1: is the father of all who believe but have not
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Speaker 1: been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
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Speaker 1: And he is then also the father of the circumcised,
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Speaker 1: who not only are circumcised, but who also follow in
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Speaker 1: the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had
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Speaker 1: before he was circumcised. It was not through the law
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Speaker 1: that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he
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Speaker 1: would be heir the world, but through the righteousness that
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Speaker 1: comes by faith. For if those who depend on the
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Speaker 1: law are heirs, faith means nothing, and the promise is worthless,
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Speaker 1: because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law,
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Speaker 1: there is no transgression. Therefore, the promise comes by faith,
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Speaker 1: so that it may be by grace and may be
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Speaker 1: guaranteed to all Abraham's offspring, not only to those who
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Speaker 1: are of the law, but also to those who have
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Speaker 1: the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all,
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Speaker 1: as it is written, I have made you a father
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Speaker 1: of many nations. He is our father in the sight
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Speaker 1: of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives
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Speaker 1: life to the dead and calls into being things that
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Speaker 1: were not against all hope. Abraham in hope believed, and
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Speaker 1: so became the father of many nations, just as it
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Speaker 1: had been said to him, so shall your offspring be
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Speaker 1: without weakening in his faith. He faced the fact that
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Speaker 1: his body was as good as dead since he was
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Speaker 1: about a hundred years old, and that Sarah's womb was
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Speaker 1: also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding
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Speaker 1: the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith
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Speaker 1: and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God
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Speaker 1: had power to do what he had promised. This is
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Speaker 1: why it was credited to him as righteousness. The words
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Speaker 1: it was credited to him were written not for him alone,
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Speaker 1: but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness,
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Speaker 1: for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our
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Speaker 1: Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death
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Speaker 1: for our sins, and was raised to life for our
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Speaker 1: justification one Thessalonian's Chapter three. So when we could stand
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Speaker 1: it no longer, we thought it best to be left
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Speaker 1: by ourselves in Athens. We sent Timothy, who is our
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Speaker 1: brother and co worker in God's service in spreading the
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Speaker 1: Gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
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Speaker 1: so that no one would be unsettled by these trials,
2:42:23
Speaker 1: for you know quite well that we are destined for them.
2:42:26
Speaker 1: In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling
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Speaker 1: you that we would be persecuted, and it turned out
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Speaker 1: that way, as you well know. For this reason, when
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Speaker 1: I could stand it no longer, I sent to find
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Speaker 1: out about your faith. I was afraid that in some
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Speaker 1: way the tempter had tempted you, and that our labors
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Speaker 1: might have been in vain. But Timothy has just now
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Speaker 1: come to us from you and has brought good news
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Speaker 1: about your faith and love. He has told us that
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Speaker 1: you always have pleasant memories of us, and that you
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Speaker 1: longed to see us, just as we all said long
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Speaker 1: to see you. Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our
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Speaker 1: distress and persecution, we were encouraged about you because of
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Speaker 1: your faith. For now we really live. Since you are
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Speaker 1: standing firm in the Lord, how can we thank God
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Speaker 1: enough for you in return for all the joy we
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Speaker 1: have in the presence of our God because of you,
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Speaker 1: night and day, we pray most earnestly that we may
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Speaker 1: see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith. Now,
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Speaker 1: May our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus
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Speaker 1: clear the way for us to come to you. May
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Speaker 1: the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each
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Speaker 1: other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
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Speaker 1: May He strengthen your hearts so that you will be
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Speaker 1: blameless and holy in the presence of our God and
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Speaker 1: Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
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Speaker 1: Psalm sixty four. Hear me, my God as our voice,
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Speaker 1: my complaint. Protect my life from the threat of the enemy,
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Speaker 1: Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the
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Speaker 1: plots of evil doers. They sharpen their tongues like swords
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Speaker 1: and aim cruel words like deadly arrows. They shoot from
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Speaker 1: ambush and the innocent they shoot suddenly without fear. They
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Speaker 1: encourage each other in evil plans. They talk about hiding
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Speaker 1: their snares. They say, who will see it? They plot
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Speaker 1: injustice and say, oh, we have devised a perfect plan.
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Speaker 1: Surely the human mind and heart are cunning that God
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Speaker 1: will shoot them with his arrows. They will suddenly be
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Speaker 1: struck down. He will turn their own tongues against them
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Speaker 1: and bring them to ruin. All who see them will
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Speaker 1: shake their heads in scorn. All people will fear. They
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Speaker 1: will proclaim the works of God and ponder what he
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Speaker 1: has done. The righteous will rejoice in the Lord and
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Speaker 1: take refuge in him. All the upright in heart will
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Speaker 1: glory in him Psalm one hundred and twenty six. When
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Speaker 1: the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like
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Speaker 1: those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our
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Speaker 1: tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among
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Speaker 1: the nations, the Lord has done great things for them.
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Speaker 1: The Lord has done great things for us, and we
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Speaker 1: are filled with joy. Restore our fortunes, Lord, like streams
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Speaker 1: in the negarth, those who sow with tears will reap
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Speaker 1: with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying
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Speaker 1: seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying
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Speaker 1: sheaves with them. One Timothy chapter five. Do not rebuke
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Speaker 1: an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he
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Speaker 1: were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women
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Speaker 1: as mothers, and younger women as sisters with absolute purity.
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Speaker 1: Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.
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Speaker 1: But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should
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Speaker 1: learn first of all to put their religion into practice
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Speaker 1: by caring for their own family, and so repaying their
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Speaker 1: parents and grandparents, For this is pleasing to God. The
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Speaker 1: widow who is really in need and left all alone,
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Speaker 1: puts her help in God and continues night and day
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Speaker 1: to pray and to ask God for help. But the
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Speaker 1: widow who lives with pleasure is dead even while she lives.
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Speaker 1: Give the people these instructions so that no one may
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Speaker 1: be open to blame. Anyone who does not provide for
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Speaker 1: their relatives and especially for their own household, has denied
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Speaker 1: the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. No widow
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Speaker 1: may be put on the list of widows unless she
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Speaker 1: is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband and
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Speaker 1: is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing
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Speaker 1: up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord's people,
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Speaker 1: helping those in trouble, and devoting herself to all kinds
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Speaker 1: of good deeds. As for younger widows, do not put
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Speaker 1: them on such a list, for when their sensual desires
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Speaker 1: overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry. Thus
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Speaker 1: they bring judgment on themselves because they have broken their
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Speaker 1: first pledge. Besides, they get into the habit of being
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Speaker 1: idle and going about from house to house. And not
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Speaker 1: only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense,
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Speaker 1: saying things they ought not to. So I counsel younger
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Speaker 1: widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes,
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Speaker 1: and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. Some
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Speaker 1: have in fact already turned away to follow satan. If
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Speaker 1: any woman who is a believer has widows in her care,
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Speaker 1: she should continue to help them and not let the
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Speaker 1: church be burdened with them, so that the church can
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Speaker 1: help those widows who are really in need. The elders
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Speaker 1: who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy
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Speaker 1: of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.
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Speaker 1: The scripture says, do not muzzle an ox while it
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Speaker 1: is treading out the grain, and the worker deserves his wages.
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Speaker 1: Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it
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Speaker 1: is brought by two or three witnesses. But those elders
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Speaker 1: who are sinning you are to reprove before every one,
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Speaker 1: so that the others may take warning. I charge you,
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Speaker 1: in the sight of God and Christ, Jesus and the
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Speaker 1: elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to
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Speaker 1: do nothing out of favoritism. Do not be hasty in
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Speaker 1: the laying on of hands, and do not share in
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Speaker 1: the sins of others. Keep yourself pure, Stop drinking only water,
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Speaker 1: and use a little wine because of your stomach and
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Speaker 1: your frequent illnesses. The sins of some are obvious, reaching
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Speaker 1: the place of judgment ahead of them. The sins of
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Speaker 1: others trail behind them. In the same way, good deeds
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Speaker 1: are obvious, and even those that are not obvious cannot
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Speaker 1: remain hidden forever Hebrews chapter three. Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,
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Speaker 1: who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus,
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Speaker 1: whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. He
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Speaker 1: was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as
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Speaker 1: Moses was faithful in all God's house. Jesus has been
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Speaker 1: found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the
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Speaker 1: builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
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Speaker 1: For every house is built by some one, but God
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Speaker 1: is the builder of everything. Moses was faithful as a
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Speaker 1: servant in all God's house, bearing witness to what would
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Speaker 1: be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is
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Speaker 1: faithful as the sun over God's house, and we are
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Speaker 1: his house. If indeed, we hold firmly to our confidence
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Speaker 1: and the hope in which we glory. So as the
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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit says to day, if you hear his voice,
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Speaker 1: do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion,
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Speaker 1: during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your
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Speaker 1: ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they
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Speaker 1: saw what I did. That is why I was angry
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Speaker 1: with that generation. I said, their hearts are always going astray,
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Speaker 1: and they have not known my ways. So I declared
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Speaker 1: on oath in my anger, they shall never enter my rest.
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Speaker 1: See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you
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Speaker 1: has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the
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Speaker 1: Living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as
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Speaker 1: it is called to day, so that none of you
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Speaker 1: may be hardened by sins deceitfulness. We have come to
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Speaker 1: share in Christ. If indeed, we hold our original conviction
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Speaker 1: firmly to the very end, as has just been said
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Speaker 1: to day. If you hear his voice, do not harden
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Speaker 1: your hearts as you did in the rebellion. Who were
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Speaker 1: they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those
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Speaker 1: Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he
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Speaker 1: angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned,
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Speaker 1: whose bodies perished in the wilderness? And to whom did
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Speaker 1: God swear that they would never enter his rest? If
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Speaker 1: not to those who disobeyed. So we see that they
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Speaker 1: were not able to enter because of their unbelief Psalm
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Speaker 1: twenty four. The earth is the Lord's and everything in it,
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Speaker 1: the world and all who live in it. For he
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Speaker 1: founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.
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Speaker 1: Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord, who may
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Speaker 1: stand in his holy place, the one who has clean
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Speaker 1: hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in
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Speaker 1: an idol or swear by a false god. They will
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Speaker 1: receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their Savior.
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Speaker 1: Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who
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Speaker 1: seek your face, God of Jacob. Lift up your heads,
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Speaker 1: be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of
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Speaker 1: Glory may come in. Who is this King of glory,
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Speaker 1: the Lord Strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle?
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Speaker 1: Lift up your heads, you gates, Lift them up, you
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Speaker 1: ancient doors, that the King of Glory may come in.
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Speaker 1: Who is he, this King of Glory, the Lord Almighty.
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Speaker 1: He is the King of Glory one Corinthian's Chapter eight.
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Speaker 1: Now about food sacrificed to idols. We know that we
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Speaker 1: all possess knowledge. But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
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Speaker 1: Those who think they know something do not yet know
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Speaker 1: as they ought to know. But whoever loves God is
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Speaker 1: known by God. So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols,
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Speaker 1: we know that an idol is nothing at all in
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Speaker 1: the world, and that there is no God but one.
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Speaker 1: For even if there are so called gods, whether in
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Speaker 1: heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods
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Speaker 1: and many lords, yet for us there is but one God,
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Speaker 1: the Father, from whom all things came, and for whom
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Speaker 1: we live. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ,
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Speaker 1: through whom all things came, and through whom we live.
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Speaker 1: But not every one possesses this knowledge. Some people are
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Speaker 1: still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food,
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Speaker 1: they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god,
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Speaker 1: and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But
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Speaker 1: food does not bring us near to God. We are
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Speaker 1: no worse if we do not eat, and no better
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Speaker 1: if we do. Be careful, however, that the exercise of
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Speaker 1: your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
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Speaker 1: For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with
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Speaker 1: all your knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won't that
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Speaker 1: person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols.
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Speaker 1: So this weak brother or sister for whom Christ died
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Speaker 1: is destroyed by your knowledge. When you sin against them
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Speaker 1: in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin
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Speaker 1: against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother
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Speaker 1: or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat
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Speaker 1: meat again, so that I will not cause them to
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Speaker 1: fall Psalm seventy. Hasten, O God to save me. Come quickly,
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Speaker 1: Lord to help me. May those who want to take
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Speaker 1: my life be put to shame and confusion. May all
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Speaker 1: who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace. May
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Speaker 1: those who say to me aha ah turn back because
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Speaker 1: of their shame. But may all who seek you rejoice
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Speaker 1: and be glad in you. May those who long for
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Speaker 1: your saving help always say the Lord is great. But
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Speaker 1: as for me, I am poor and needy. Come quickly
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Speaker 1: to me. Oh God, you are my help and my deliverer. Lord,
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Speaker 1: do not delay one Thessalonian's Chapter two. You know, brothers
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Speaker 1: and sisters, that our visit to you was not without results.
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Speaker 1: We have previously suffered and have been treated outrageously in Philippi,
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Speaker 1: as you know, But with the help of our God
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Speaker 1: we dare to tell you his gospel in the face
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Speaker 1: of strong opposition. For the appeal we make does not
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Speaker 1: spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying
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Speaker 1: to trick you. On the contrary, we speak as those
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Speaker 1: approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel. We're
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Speaker 1: not trying to please people, but God, who tests our hearts.
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Speaker 1: You know we never used flattery, nor did we put
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Speaker 1: on a mask to cover up greed. God is our witness.
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Speaker 1: We were not looking for praise from people, not from
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Speaker 1: you or any one else, even though as apostles of Christ,
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Speaker 1: we could have asserted our authority. Instead, we were like
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Speaker 1: young children among you, just as a nursing mother cares
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Speaker 1: for her children. So we cared for you because we
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Speaker 1: loved you so much. We were delighted to share with
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Speaker 1: you not only the gospel of God, but our lives
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Speaker 1: as well. Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil
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Speaker 1: and hardship. We worked night and day in order not
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Speaker 1: to be a burden to anyone. While we preach the
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Speaker 1: gospel of God to you. You are witnesses, and so
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Speaker 1: is God. Of how holy, righteous and blameless we were
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Speaker 1: among you who believe. For you know that we dealt
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Speaker 1: with each of you as a father deals with his
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Speaker 1: own children, encouraging and comforting and urging you to live
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Speaker 1: lives worthy of God, who calls you into His kingdom
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Speaker 1: and glory. And we also thank God continually because when
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Speaker 1: you received the word of God which you heard from us,
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Speaker 1: you accepted it not as a human word, but as
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Speaker 1: it actually is the word of God, which is indeed
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Speaker 1: at work in you who believe. For you, brothers and sisters,
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Speaker 1: became imitators of God's churches in Judea, which are in
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Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own people the same
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Speaker 1: things those churches suffered from the Jews, who killed the
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out.
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Speaker 1: They displease God and a hostile to everyone. In their
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Speaker 1: effort to keep Us from speaking to the gentiles so
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Speaker 1: that they may be saved. In this way they always
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Speaker 1: heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of
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Speaker 1: God has come upon them at last. But brothers and sisters,
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Speaker 1: when we were orphaned by being separated from you for
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Speaker 1: a short time in person, not in thought, out of
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Speaker 1: our intense longing, we made every effort to see you,
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Speaker 1: for we wanted to come to you, certainly I palled
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Speaker 1: it again and again, but Satan blocked our way. For
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Speaker 1: what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in
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Speaker 1: which we will glory in the presence of our Lord
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Speaker 1: Jesus when he comes. Is it not you? Indeed, you
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Speaker 1: are our glory and joy.