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Redemption - His Plan | Episode #418 | Encore Episode #089 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Great is thy faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness, morning by
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  Speaker 1: morning new mercies I see. All I have needed thy
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  Speaker 1: hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Unto Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word
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  Speaker 2: with Richard Kay. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are
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  Speaker 2: asking you to spend a few moments of your time
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  Speaker 2: with us each day as Richard shares from God's Word
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  Speaker 2: with notes, quotes, and stories, along with some of his
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  Speaker 2: own personal experiences, to confirm for you God's great love
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  Speaker 2: for us, that His compassion for us never fails, and
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  Speaker 2: that He has a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would
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  Speaker 2: like to recommend it to a friend, You can hear
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  Speaker 2: this program anytime online at talknetworkradio.com. Well now, here's Richard
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  Speaker 2: with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus thought it not robbery to God be equality Left
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  Speaker 3: heaven's shore and took the form of a mere human man.
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  Speaker 3: He then took our place on Calvary for our disgrace
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  Speaker 3: and penalty. What love was shown to leave his throne? Redemption,
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  Speaker 3: His plan. He said, Father, forgive them, for they know
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  Speaker 3: not what they do. They have not, because they ask not.
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  Speaker 3: They are not who they should be. So send them
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  Speaker 3: another Comforter, The Spirit of the Holy God to teach
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  Speaker 3: them and guide them and lead them to you. Jesus
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  Speaker 3: counted it for glory, the great gospel story. That holy
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  Speaker 3: God and sinful man are reconciled in him. Now down
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  Speaker 3: through all the ages, we're the living gospel pages. The
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  Speaker 3: lives he's changed. and rearranged and started again. He prays, Father,
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  Speaker 3: live in them for they know now what to do.
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  Speaker 4: They ask now for others and they are now.
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  Speaker 3: Who they should be. So fill them with the comforters
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  Speaker 3: the Spirit of the Holy God to teach them and
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  Speaker 3: use them to bring others to you. Be praised, Father,
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  Speaker 3: live in them, for they know now what to do.
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  Speaker 4: They ask now for others And they are now.
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  Speaker 3: Who they should be. So fill them with the comforter.
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  Speaker 3: The Spirit of the Holy God. To teach them and
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  Speaker 3: use them. To bring others to you. To teach them.
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  Speaker 3: And use them to bring others to you.
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  Speaker 5: That was an interesting musical message. It has demonstrated somewhat
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  Speaker 5: what we have been discussing in regards to the comforter,
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  Speaker 5: the filling of the Holy Spirit. The reason that I
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  Speaker 5: played that was several years ago, the Lord gave me
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  Speaker 5: that song, and I had written it so that it
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  Speaker 5: could convey to believers what it is that He is
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  Speaker 5: doing when He fills us with the Holy Spirit. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I have found that in many cases, we are in
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  Speaker 5: some ways constantly made aware of how the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 5: uses us and surprises us in the manner in which
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  Speaker 5: he chooses to use us. But I do want you
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  Speaker 5: to return to the Scripture. We're in John's chapter 16,
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  Speaker 5: and Jesus is stating, after he has proclaimed many of
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  Speaker 5: the things that are going to take place, how he's
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  Speaker 5: going to lead them, and yet he's going to come
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  Speaker 5: to them. That because it is better for him to lead,
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  Speaker 5: so that he in turn can come to them. The
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  Speaker 5: interesting part of this particular passage is that now he
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  Speaker 5: is praying for his followers as he is preparing to lead.
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  Speaker 5: And one of the things that he says to them
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  Speaker 5: in the 16th chapter, he says, your hearts will rejoice
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  Speaker 5: and no one will rob you of your joy. In
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  Speaker 5: that day, you will not ask me anything. I assure you,
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  Speaker 5: anything you ask the Father in my name, he will
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  Speaker 5: give you. Until now, you have asked for nothing in
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  Speaker 5: my name. Ask and you will receive that your joy
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  Speaker 5: may be complete. Following that scripture, he has then referenced
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  Speaker 5: more of what he meant by going to the Father
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  Speaker 5: and how in that day they will ask in his name.
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  Speaker 5: They will no longer request the Father by himself. So
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  Speaker 5: he knows that that this is a time preparing them
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  Speaker 5: for what is coming. And he states to them in
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  Speaker 5: the 31st verse, Jesus responded to them, Do you now believe? Look,
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  Speaker 5: an hour is coming and has come when each of
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  Speaker 5: you will be scattered to his own home, and you
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  Speaker 5: will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because
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  Speaker 5: the Father is with me. I have told you these
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  Speaker 5: things so that in me you may have peace. You
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  Speaker 5: will have suffering in this world. Be courageous. I have
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  Speaker 5: conquered the world. And now Jesus goes into a prayer.
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  Speaker 5: He is praying now to the Father for himself and
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  Speaker 5: for us. This is the prayer. Father, The hour has come.
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  Speaker 5: Glorify your Son, so that the Son may be glorified
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  Speaker 5: in you. For you gave him authority over all flesh,
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  Speaker 5: so he may give eternal life to all you have
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  Speaker 5: given him. This is eternal life, that they may know you,
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  Speaker 5: the only true God, and the one you have sent,
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  Speaker 5: Jesus Christ. I have glorified you on the earth. by
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  Speaker 5: completing the work you gave me to do. Now, Father,
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  Speaker 5: glorify me in your presence with that glory I had
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  Speaker 5: with you before the world existed. I have revealed your
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  Speaker 5: name to the men you gave me from the world.
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  Speaker 5: They were yours, you gave them to me, and they
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  Speaker 5: have kept your word. Now they know that all things
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  Speaker 5: you have given to me are from you. Because the
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  Speaker 5: words that you gave me, I have given them. They
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  Speaker 5: have received them and have known for certain that I
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  Speaker 5: came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
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  Speaker 5: I pray for them. I am not praying for the world,
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  Speaker 5: but for those you have given me. me, because they
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  Speaker 5: are yours. All my things are yours, and yours are mine,
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  Speaker 5: and I have been glorified in them. I am no
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  Speaker 5: longer in the world, but they are in the world,
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  Speaker 5: and I am coming to you, Holy Father. Protect them
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  Speaker 5: by your name that you have given me, so that
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  Speaker 5: they may be one as we are one. While I
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  Speaker 5: was with them, I was protecting them by your name
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  Speaker 5: that you have given me. I guarded them, and not
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  Speaker 5: one of them is lost except the son of destruction,
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  Speaker 5: so that the scripture may be fulfilled. Now I am
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  Speaker 5: coming to you, And I speak these things in the
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  Speaker 5: world so that they may have my joy completed in them.
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  Speaker 5: I have given them your word. The world hated them
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  Speaker 5: because they are not of the world, as I am
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  Speaker 5: not of the world. I am not praying that you
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  Speaker 5: take them out of the world, but that you protect
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  Speaker 5: them from the evil one. They are not of the
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  Speaker 5: world as I am not of the world. Sanctify them
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  Speaker 5: by the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent
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  Speaker 5: me into the world, I also have sent them into
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  Speaker 5: the world. I sanctify myself for them, so they also
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  Speaker 5: may be sanctified by the truth. I pray not only
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  Speaker 5: for these, but also for those who believe in me
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  Speaker 5: through their message. May they all be one. as you, Father,
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  Speaker 5: are in me, and I am in you. May they
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  Speaker 5: also be one in us, so the world may believe
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  Speaker 5: you sent me. I have given them the glory you
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  Speaker 5: have given me. May they be one as we are one.
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  Speaker 5: I am in them, and you are in me. May
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  Speaker 5: they be made completely one, so the world may know
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  Speaker 5: you have sent me. and have loved them as you
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  Speaker 5: have loved me. Father, I desire those you have given
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  Speaker 5: me to be with me where I am. Then they
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  Speaker 5: will see my glory, which you have given me, because
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  Speaker 5: you loved me before the world's foundation. Righteous Father, the
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  Speaker 5: world has not known you. However, I have known you,
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  Speaker 5: and these have known that you sent me. I made
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  Speaker 5: your name known to them and will make it known
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  Speaker 5: so the love you have loved me with may be
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  Speaker 5: in them and I may be in them. And that
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  Speaker 5: is the end of his prayer. What a lengthy and
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  Speaker 5: so loving was that prayer. It began with the first
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  Speaker 5: verse of chapter 17 and it closed with the 26th
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  Speaker 5: verse of the same chapter. I want to call our
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  Speaker 5: attention to a few things that are mentioned in this prayer.
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  Speaker 5: And I also want us to understand that Jesus is
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  Speaker 5: praying this prayer both for the disciples who were there
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  Speaker 5: learning to follow him, who had denied him, and who
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  Speaker 5: would still deny him even when he was taken from them.
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  Speaker 5: But later, when he comes to them again, he then
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  Speaker 5: demonstrates how he and the Father are one. And then
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  Speaker 5: he asks the Father to make them one in the
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  Speaker 5: same way. Now, Jesus and the Father are one. The
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  Speaker 5: Holy Spirit is one with them. They are all one,
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  Speaker 5: and they want us to be one in the same way.
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  Speaker 5: Can we understand that Jesus is actually praying that we
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  Speaker 5: become with each other in the same way that He
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  Speaker 5: is one with the Father, and He gives us the
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  Speaker 5: Holy Spirit so that this can be accomplished.
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  Speaker 2: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up,
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  Speaker 2: but if you just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 2: Reflections on the Word with Richard Kaye. You can hear
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  Speaker 2: this message in its entirety again online, as well as
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  Speaker 2: Richard's entire archive at TalkNetworkRadio.com. We would like to acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: our theme song, How Great is Thy Faithfulness, from the
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  Speaker 2: read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible, which is published
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  Speaker 2: Discovery House Publishers. Again, Here is Richard to wrap up
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  Speaker 2: today's message.
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  Speaker 5: Earlier, you heard the song entitled Redemption, His Plan. And
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  Speaker 5: it says that Jesus thought it not robbery to be
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  Speaker 5: equal with God, but he took the form of a
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  Speaker 5: mere human man so that God's plan could be fulfilled.
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  Speaker 5: And because of this, He prays for us. And what
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  Speaker 5: he prays was very simple. He prayed that we will
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  Speaker 5: be one. So he says, continue filling us with the
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  Speaker 5: Spirit so that we can be used of him to
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  Speaker 5: bring others to the Father. That song typifies this prayer.
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  Speaker 5: He wants us to recognize who we are and who
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  Speaker 5: He is in us. Believer, God's redemption rests in your
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  Speaker 5: willingness to be one with Him. As He is one
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  Speaker 5: with the Father, we are one in Him. And that
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  Speaker 5: is today's reflection on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard.
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  Speaker 2: Join us again tomorrow when we continue with the next
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  Speaker 2: edition of Reflections on the Word with Richard Kay. For
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  Speaker 2: Richard and the entire team, this is Chuck Christie saying
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  Speaker 2: thanks for listening to this edition of Reflections on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, unto me.