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7 Powerful New Testament Chapters That Speak to the Deepest Places of Your Life · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Today, we are going to walk through seven powerful chapters
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  Speaker 1: in the New Testament that many people know about but
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  Speaker 1: do not fully understand. These chapters are not random. They
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  Speaker 1: speak to the deepest places of your life. They speak
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  Speaker 1: to shame, fear, identity, love, spiritual warfare, faith, and eternity.
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  Speaker 1: They speak to the person who feels condemned, the person
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  Speaker 1: who is tired of pretending, the person who is doing
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  Speaker 1: many religious things but feels dry inside, the person who
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  Speaker 1: knows scripture but still struggles to love people well. The
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  Speaker 1: person fighting battles they cannot explain, the person waiting on
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  Speaker 1: God with no clear map, the person who needs to
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  Speaker 1: remember that pain does not get the final word. And
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  Speaker 1: because this teaching is something you may want to come
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  Speaker 1: in the description so you can keep these seven powerful
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  Speaker 1: chapters with you, read them again, and go deeper even
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  Speaker 1: after the video ends. And I want you to imagine
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  Speaker 1: this video as a walk through seven doors. Behind each
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  Speaker 1: door is one chapter. Behind each chapter is a truth,
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  Speaker 1: and behind every truth is a God who is not
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  Speaker 1: just trying to inform you, but transform you, because the
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  Speaker 1: Bible was never meant to be treated like decoration for
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  Speaker 1: your coffee table. It is not just a book of quotes.
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  Speaker 1: It is not just a collection of ancient religious thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews four twelve says the Word of God is quick
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  Speaker 1: and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword. That
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  Speaker 1: means the Bible is alive. It cuts, but it cuts
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  Speaker 1: to heel. It exposes, but it exposes to restore. It corrects,
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  Speaker 1: but it corrects because God loves you too much to
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  Speaker 1: leave you trapped in lies. So as we walk through
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  Speaker 1: these chapters, do not listen like this is just a lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Listen like God is sitting beside you, gently pointing to
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  Speaker 1: places in your life and saying, this is where I
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  Speaker 1: want to bring freedom, This is where I want to
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  Speaker 1: bring light. This is where I want to bring you closer.
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  Speaker 1: And when a chapter speaks to you, do not ignore
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  Speaker 1: that moment. Comment it, write it down, Tell someone, because
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the truth that changes you is the truth you
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  Speaker 1: finally admit was meant for you. Before God teaches you
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  Speaker 1: how to fight the battles around you, he first deals
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  Speaker 1: with the battle inside you. Because many people are not
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  Speaker 1: first defeated by the devil, they are defeated by guilt.
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  Speaker 1: They wake up with guilt, they pray with guilt, they
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  Speaker 1: worship with guilt. They try to obey God, but in
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  Speaker 1: the back of their mind a quiet voice keeps whispering.
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  Speaker 1: You are not really clean, you are not really for given.
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  Speaker 1: God may love other people, but he is still disappointed
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  Speaker 1: in you. That is why Romans eight is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most powerful chapters in the entire New Testament. It
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  Speaker 1: opens like a prison door, swinging wide open. Romans eight
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  Speaker 1: one says, there is therefore now no condemnation to them
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  Speaker 1: which are in Christ. Jesus slow that down, not less condemnation,
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  Speaker 1: not delayed condemnation, not condemnation waiting for your next mistake,
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  Speaker 1: no condemnation. Imagine standing in a courtroom. The room is silent.
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  Speaker 1: Your past is there, Your secret sins are there, your
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  Speaker 1: worst thoughts are there. The moments you wish you could
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  Speaker 1: erase are sitting like witnesses against you. You are waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the sentence. You already know you are guilty. But
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  Speaker 1: then Jesus stands, and because of his blood, the verdict
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  Speaker 1: is announced. No condemnation that does not mean sin is
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  Speaker 1: not serious. It means Christ is greater. It does not
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  Speaker 1: mean your past never happened. It means your past is
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  Speaker 1: no longer your master. It does not mean you earned freedom.
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  Speaker 1: It means Jesus paid for it. Roman's eight is not
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  Speaker 1: saying you are free because you finally became strong. It
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  Speaker 1: is saying you are free because you are in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And then the chapter goes even deeper. It tells you
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  Speaker 1: that you are not just forgiven, you are helped. Romans
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  Speaker 1: eight twenty six says the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
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  Speaker 1: That means God is not standing far away waiting for
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  Speaker 1: you to figure everything out. The Holy Spirit comes close
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  Speaker 1: to weak people. He helps people who do not know
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  Speaker 1: how to pray. He helps people who are tired. He
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  Speaker 1: helps people who feel overwhelmed. Sometimes your prayer is not eloquent.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes all you can say is Lord, help me. And
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  Speaker 1: Romans eight says God understands even the grown. Then Romans
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  Speaker 1: eight twenty eight says all things work together for good
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  Speaker 1: to them that love God. Many people misunderstand this verse.
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  Speaker 1: It does not say all things are good. Betrayal is
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  Speaker 1: not good, loss is not good, abuse is not good.
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  Speaker 1: Sickness is not good. But God is so wise, so powerful,
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  Speaker 1: and so faithful that He can take even what was
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  Speaker 1: meant to destroy you and weave it into a story
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  Speaker 1: of redemption. The enemy may throw broken pieces at your life,
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  Speaker 1: but God knows how to build with broken pieces, and
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  Speaker 1: the chapter ends with a shout of victory. Romans eight
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine says nothing shall be able to separate us
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  Speaker 1: from the love of God, which is in Christ, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: our Lord. Not death, not life, not angels, not powers,
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  Speaker 1: not things present, not things to come, not height, not depth, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are in Christ, your life is not
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  Speaker 1: being held together by your emotional strength. It is being
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  Speaker 1: held together by God's love. So let me ask you
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  Speaker 1: personally what voice has been louder in your life lately.
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  Speaker 1: The voice of condemnation or the voice of Christ. Comment
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  Speaker 1: this if you need to, no condemnation. Sometimes your breakthrough
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  Speaker 1: begins when your mouth agrees with what God already declared.
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  Speaker 1: Once Roman's eight lifts shame off your shoulders, Matthew five
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  Speaker 1: brings you up a mountain where Jesus begins to rebuild
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  Speaker 1: your entire idea of what a blessed life looks like.
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  Speaker 1: And this is important because many people are chasing a
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  Speaker 1: version of blessing that Jesus never promised. They think blessing
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  Speaker 1: means life is easy, Blessing means every one likes you.
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  Speaker 1: Blessing means your money is always right, your plans always work,
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  Speaker 1: your family never struggles, and your prayers are answered exactly
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  Speaker 1: how you pictured them. But then Jesus opens his mouth
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  Speaker 1: in Matthew five, and he says something that sounds completely
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  Speaker 1: upside down. Matthew five three says, blessed are the poor
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  Speaker 1: in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Then
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  Speaker 1: he says, Blessed are they that mourn. Blessed are the
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness?
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are the merciful. Blessed are the pure in heart.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are the peacemakers. And then, even more shocking, blessed
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  Speaker 1: are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake. Picture the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is sitting on a hillside. Around him are ordinary people,
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  Speaker 1: fishermen with rough hands, mothers carrying children, poor families, sick people,
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  Speaker 1: people who had been ignored by the powerful, people who
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  Speaker 1: probably thought blessing belonged to the rich. The religious elite,
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  Speaker 1: the Roman rulers, or the people who seemed important. But
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  Speaker 1: Jesus looks at them and says, the Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: is open to people like you. Matthew five teaches that
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  Speaker 1: blessing is not always what the world claps for. The
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  Speaker 1: world claps for pride. Jesus blesses humility. The world claps
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  Speaker 1: for revenge. Jesus blesses me. The world claps for image.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus blesses purity. The world claps for power. Jesus blesses meekness.
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  Speaker 1: The world tells you to crush your enemies. Jesus says
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  Speaker 1: in Matthew five forty four love your enemies. Bless them
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  Speaker 1: that curse you. Do good to them that hate you.
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  Speaker 1: That is not weak. That is Kingdom's strength. Anybody can
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  Speaker 1: hate back, anybody can insult back. Anybody can return the
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  Speaker 1: same poison they received. But it takes the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: God to keep your heart clean in a dirty world.
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  Speaker 1: It takes grace to choose mercy when revenge would feel good.
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  Speaker 1: It takes power to be meek when you have the
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  Speaker 1: ability to be cruel. Matthew five is also where Jesus
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  Speaker 1: says his followers are the salt of the earth and
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  Speaker 1: the light of the world. That means you are not
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  Speaker 1: called to disappear into the darkness. You are called to
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  Speaker 1: shine inside it. But light does not shout to be light,
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  Speaker 1: It simply shines. Salt does not need applause to preserve.
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  Speaker 1: It simply does what it was created to do. So
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  Speaker 1: here is the question for you. Which beatitude do you
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  Speaker 1: need most right now? Do you need mercy? Do you
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  Speaker 1: need purity? Do you need comfort because you are mourning?
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  Speaker 1: Do you need courage because you are being misunderstood? Do
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  Speaker 1: you need hunger for righteousness? Again? Comment one word mercy, purity, comfort, courage,
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  Speaker 1: or hunger. Let this chapter become a mirror. After Jesus
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  Speaker 1: shows us what kingdom people look like, John fifteen takes
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  Speaker 1: us into a quieter and more personal moment. This is
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  Speaker 1: not Jesus teaching a large crowd on a mountain. This
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  Speaker 1: is Jesus speaking to his disciples close to the cross.
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  Speaker 1: Time is short, the atmosphere is heavy. He knows betrayal
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  Speaker 1: is near, he knows the garden is coming, he knows
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  Speaker 1: the nails are coming. And in that final stretch before suffering,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus gives them an image they would never forget. John
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  Speaker 1: fifteen five says, I am the vine, ye are the branches.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds simple, but it is one of the deepest
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  Speaker 1: pictures of the Christian life. A branch does not stay
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  Speaker 1: alive by trying harder to look alive. A branch does
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  Speaker 1: not produce fruit by squeezing itself with religious pressure. A
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  Speaker 1: branch lives because it stays connected to the vine. The
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  Speaker 1: life of the vine flows into the branch. The fruit
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  Speaker 1: is the result of connection. This chapter is for the
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  Speaker 1: person who is doing a lot but feeling empty. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you are serving, working, helping, posting verses, attending church, watching sermons,
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  Speaker 1: listening to worship music, but somewhere deep inside you feel dry.
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  Speaker 1: You look active on the outside, but inside you are tired.
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  Speaker 1: John fifteen gently tells you the problem may not be
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  Speaker 1: that you are not doing enough. The problem may be
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  Speaker 1: that you are not abiding. To abide means to remain,
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  Speaker 1: to stay, to dwell, to keep close. Ges is not
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  Speaker 1: calling you to visit him once a week. He is
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  Speaker 1: calling you to live connected to him. Prayer is not
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  Speaker 1: just a task, it is staying connected. Scripture is not
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  Speaker 1: just information, it is staying connected. Worship is not just
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  Speaker 1: music it is staying connected. Obedience is not just rule following,
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  Speaker 1: it is staying connected. Then Jesus talks about pruning, and
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  Speaker 1: this is where many people get confused. John fifteen two
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  Speaker 1: says that every branch that bears fruit, the Father prunes
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  Speaker 1: so it may bring forth more fruit. Notice, pruning does
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  Speaker 1: not only happen to dead branches. It happens to fruitful branches.
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  Speaker 1: That means sometimes God removes something from your life, not
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  Speaker 1: because you failed, but because he sees more fruit in you.
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  Speaker 1: A branch may not understand the knife, but the gardener
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  Speaker 1: understands the harvest. Maybe God is pruning a relationship that
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  Speaker 1: kept draining your spirite. He is pruning a habit that
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  Speaker 1: kept distracting you. Maybe he is pruning pride, comfort people,
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  Speaker 1: pleasing secret sin, or the need to be seen. The
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  Speaker 1: cut hurts, but the purpose is life. God is not
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  Speaker 1: trying to make you smaller. He is making room for
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  Speaker 1: more fruit. John fifteen also says, without me, ye can
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  Speaker 1: do nothing that is not an insult, that is a rescue.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is freeing you from the pressure to be your
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  Speaker 1: own source. You were never created to be the vine.
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  Speaker 1: You are a branch. Your job is connection. His life
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  Speaker 1: produces the fruit. So ask yourself, honestly, are you busy
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  Speaker 1: for God but distant from God? What is one thing
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  Speaker 1: He may be pruning so more life can flow through you.
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  Speaker 1: Comment remain if this chapter is calling you back to closeness.
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  Speaker 1: When John fifteen teaches us to stay connected to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: First Corinthians thirteen shows us what should grow from that connection. Love,
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  Speaker 1: not religious noise, not spiritual performance, not looking impressive love.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where many people misunderstand this chapter. We
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  Speaker 1: often hear First Corinthians thirteen at weddings with candles, flowers,
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  Speaker 1: soft music, and beautiful decorations. But Paul did not first
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  Speaker 1: write this chapter for a romantic ceremony. He wrote it
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  Speaker 1: to a church with problems. The Corinthian church was gifted
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  Speaker 1: but divided, spiritual but immature. They had gifts, tongues, knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: and public ministry, but they were competing, arguing, comparing, and
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  Speaker 1: hurting each other. So Paul says in First Corinthians thirteen, one,
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  Speaker 1: though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
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  Speaker 1: and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass.
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  Speaker 1: In simple words, you can sound heavenly and still be empty.
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  Speaker 1: That is a frightening thought. You can know Bible verses
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  Speaker 1: and still be harsh. You can serve in church and
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  Speaker 1: still be proud. You can sing worship and still refuse
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  Speaker 1: to forgive. You can have spiritual gifts and still lacks
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  Speaker 1: spiritual maturity. Paul is not against gifts. He is showing
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  Speaker 1: that gifts without love become noise. Then he describes love
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  Speaker 1: in a way that leaves no room for pretending. Love
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  Speaker 1: suffers long. Love is kind, Love does not envy, Love
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  Speaker 1: does not boast, Love is not proud. Love does not
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  Speaker 1: behave itself unseemly. Love does not seek its own. Love
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  Speaker 1: is not easily provoked. Love thinks no evil. Love rejoices
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  Speaker 1: not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears
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  Speaker 1: all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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  Speaker 1: This chapter becomes real in ordinary moments. It becomes real
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  Speaker 1: when someone cuts you off in traffic and your first
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  Speaker 1: instinct is anger. It becomes real when your spouse says
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  Speaker 1: so the wrong way. It becomes real when your child
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  Speaker 1: tests your patience. It becomes real when a friend disappoints you.
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  Speaker 1: It becomes real when someone at church gets the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: you wanted. It becomes real when someone apologizes and you
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  Speaker 1: have to decide whether you are going to forgive them
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  Speaker 1: or punish them silently. Love is not just a feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Love is a way of carrying the heart of Christ
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  Speaker 1: into hard moments. Love is patient when people are slow.
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  Speaker 1: Love is kind when it could be cruel. Love does
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  Speaker 1: not keep a secret file of every wrong. Love does
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  Speaker 1: not celebrate when an enemy falls. Love does not use
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  Speaker 1: truth like a weapon to destroy. Love speaks truth but
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  Speaker 1: with the heart of redemption. And here is the painful question.
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  Speaker 1: Does your life look like First Corinthians thirteen when you
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  Speaker 1: are under pressure, Not when people admire you, not when
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  Speaker 1: everything goes your way, but when you are tired, ignored, corrected, delayed, offended,
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  Speaker 1: or misunderstood. That is where love is tested. So comment, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: which part of love is God growing in you right now? Patience, kindness, forgiveness, humility, endurance.
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  Speaker 1: The mature Christian is not the one who simply knows more.
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  Speaker 1: The mature Christian is the one who loves more like Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But even when you walk in love, you will still
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  Speaker 1: face battles. Love does not mean life becomes easy. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: the closer you walk with Christ, the more you begin
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  Speaker 1: to realize that not every battle is only what it
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  Speaker 1: appears to be. Some arguments are not just arguments. Some
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  Speaker 1: temptations are not just temptations. Some discouragement is not just
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  Speaker 1: a bad mood. Some fear is not just personality. There
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  Speaker 1: is a spiritual war beneath the visible world. That is
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  Speaker 1: why Ephesian six matters so much. Paul said, as in
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  Speaker 1: Ephesian six twelve, we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
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  Speaker 1: That means your real enemy is not simply the person
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  Speaker 1: who annoyed you, rejected you, lied about you, or misunderstood you. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: people are responsible for their actions, but Paul is teaching
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  Speaker 1: us that behind many visible battles there is an invisible battle.
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  Speaker 1: This chapter brings balance. Some people ignore spiritual warfare completely
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  Speaker 1: and act like everything is natural. Other people blame every
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  Speaker 1: small inconvenience on a demon. Paul does neither. He tells
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  Speaker 1: believers to be awake but not afraid. He tells us
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  Speaker 1: to stand. The armor of God is not a costume,
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  Speaker 1: it is a way of living. The belt of truth
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  Speaker 1: means you stop building your life on lies. The breastplate
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness means you guard your heart with the righteousness
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  Speaker 1: God gives and the obedience He calls you to walk
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  Speaker 1: in the shoes of the Gospel of peace mean you
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  Speaker 1: do not walk into every room carrying chaos. The shield
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  Speaker 1: of faith means when fiery darts come, when accusations, fears, temptations,
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  Speaker 1: and doubts fly toward you, faith rises and says God
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  Speaker 1: is still true. The helmet of salvation guards your mind.
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  Speaker 1: The sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,
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  Speaker 1: gives you something to fight back with. Notice that Paul
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  Speaker 1: does not say complain about the enemy. He says stand.
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  Speaker 1: He does not say panic. He says stand. He does
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  Speaker 1: not say fight people. He says your battle is not
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  Speaker 1: flesh and blood. Maybe the real battle is not your coworker.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it is the lie that says you have no value.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the real battle is not your family member. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it is bitterness trying to grow roots in your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the real battle is not your delay. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: is fear telling you God forgot you. Maybe the real
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  Speaker 1: battle is not criticism. Maybe it is pride being exposed.
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  Speaker 1: Ephesians Sick teaches you to stop swinging at people while
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  Speaker 1: ignoring the lie behind the pain. And it teaches you
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  Speaker 1: that the word of God is not just for reading,
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  Speaker 1: it is for resisting. When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: he answered with scripture, you need truth ready in your
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  Speaker 1: mouth before the battle comes. So here is the question,
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  Speaker 1: what lie have you been wrestling with that needs to
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  Speaker 1: be answered by God's word? Comment, I will stand if
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  Speaker 1: you are choosing truth over fear. After Ephesian six teaches
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  Speaker 1: you to stand in battle, Hebrews eleven teaches you to
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  Speaker 1: walk when you cannot see the whole road. This chapter
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  Speaker 1: is often called the faith chapter, but many people misunderstand faith.
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  Speaker 1: They think faith means never feeling afraid. They think faith
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  Speaker 1: means always feeling confident. They think faith means having every
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  Speaker 1: answer before you move. But Hebrews eleven shows something different.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews eleven one says, now, faith is the substance of
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  Speaker 1: things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith
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  Speaker 1: is not pretending life is easy. Faith is trusting God
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  Speaker 1: when the full picture is still hidden. Faith is obedience
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  Speaker 1: with trembling hands. Faith is moving because God spoke even
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  Speaker 1: when the map is not complete. Noah built an arc
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  Speaker 1: before rain came. Imagine how strange that looked day after
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  Speaker 1: day building something people did not understand, preparing for something
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  Speaker 1: they had never seen. Abraham left his homeland without knowing
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  Speaker 1: exactly where he was going. That means faith sometimes looks
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  Speaker 1: like leaving comfort before you have all the details. Moses
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  Speaker 1: chose to suffer with the people of God rather than
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the pleasures of Egypt. That means faith sometimes looks
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  Speaker 1: like saying no to comfort, because obedience matters more. These
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  Speaker 1: people were not perfect superheroes. They were ordinary people who
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  Speaker 1: trusted an extraordinary God. They had questions, they had fears,
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  Speaker 1: they had delays, some saw miracles, some died still waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews eleven is honest about that. Faith does not always
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  Speaker 1: mean you get everything quickly. Sometimes faith means you keep
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  Speaker 1: believing when the promise is still ahead. This chapter is
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  Speaker 1: for the person who keeps saying, God, show me the
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  Speaker 1: whole plan, and then I will obey. But sometimes God
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  Speaker 1: gives enough light for the next step, not the whole staircase.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm one hundred nineteen one hundred five says, thy word
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  Speaker 1: is a lamp unto my feet. A lamp does not
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  Speaker 1: show the whole road miles ahead. It shows the next step,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes that is exactly how God leads. Maybe your
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  Speaker 1: step of faith is forgiving someone. Maybe it is starting
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  Speaker 1: again after failure. Maybe it is applying for something you
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  Speaker 1: feel unqualified for. Maybe it is giving generously when fear
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  Speaker 1: says hold back. Maybe it is leaving a place that
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  Speaker 1: is destroying you. Maybe it is praying again after disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it is trusting God with a child, a marriage,
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  Speaker 1: a sickness, a dream, or a delay. Faith does not
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  Speaker 1: mean you never feel fear. Faith means fear does not
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  Speaker 1: get the final vote. So what step of faith is
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  Speaker 1: God asking you to take? Before you see the full picture?
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  Speaker 1: Comment next step. If this chapter is speaking to you,
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  Speaker 1: you do not need the whole map to obey the
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  Speaker 1: next instruction. After Romans eight frees you from condemnation, Matthew
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  Speaker 1: five teaches you kingdom living. John fifteen calls you to
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  Speaker 1: abide firse, Corinthians thirteen teaches you love, Ephesian six teaches
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  Speaker 1: you to stand, and Hebrews eleven teaches you to walk
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  Speaker 1: by faith. Revelation twenty one lifts your eyes to the ending.
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  Speaker 1: Because God does not only teach you how to survive today,
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  Speaker 1: he shows you where history is going. Revelation twenty one
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most hope filled chapters in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: John says in Revelation twenty one pint one, I saw
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  Speaker 1: new Heaven and a new Earth. This is not God
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  Speaker 1: abandoning creation. This is God restoring what sin damaged. The
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  Speaker 1: story of the Bible does not end with God's people
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  Speaker 1: floating in clouds with no purpose. It ends with new creation, restoration,
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  Speaker 1: God dwelling with his people. Then, Revelation twenty one four
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  Speaker 1: gives one of the most tender promises in all of scripture.
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  Speaker 1: God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Think
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  Speaker 1: about that. Not an angel, not time, not distraction. God
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  Speaker 1: himself wipes the tears. Every tear you cried in secret,
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  Speaker 1: every tear you swallowed because you had to be strong,
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  Speaker 1: every tear from grief, betrayal, sickness, loneliness, disappointment, and pain.
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  Speaker 1: God seize them, and one day He will wipe them away.
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  Speaker 1: The verse continues, there shall be no more death, neither
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  Speaker 1: sorrow nor crying. Neither shall there be any more pain,
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  Speaker 1: No more hospital rooms with bad news, no more funerals,
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  Speaker 1: at night, no more betrayal, no more depression, no more sin,
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  Speaker 1: no more bodies breaking down, no more good byes that
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  Speaker 1: tear the heart open. The former things will pass away.
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  Speaker 1: This chapter matters because if you do not know the ending,
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  Speaker 1: you may misread the middle. If you judge your whole
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  Speaker 1: life by your current chapter, you may think pain wins.
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  Speaker 1: But Revelation twenty one says pain does not win. Jesus wins.
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  Speaker 1: Death does not win. Jesus wins. Darkness does not win.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus wins. And this hope is not an escape from
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  Speaker 1: real life. It gives you strength for real life. When
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  Speaker 1: you know where the story ends, you can endure what
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  Speaker 1: is happening now. You can grieve with hope. You can
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  Speaker 1: suffer with hope. You can wait with hope, you can
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  Speaker 1: fight with hope. You can love with hope. Because you
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  Speaker 1: know God is not finished. So what are you most
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to? When God makes all things new? Peace, healing,
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  Speaker 1: seeing Jesus, No more tears, comment it, Let hope speak
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  Speaker 1: out loud. Revelation twenty one reminds you that the worst
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  Speaker 1: thing in your life is not eternal. God is now.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the path these seven chapters have walked us through.
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  Speaker 1: Romans eight tells you that in Christ there is no condemnation.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew five shows you the heart of the kingdom. John
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  Speaker 1: fifteen teaches you to stay connected to Jesus. First Corinthians
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  Speaker 1: thirteen shows you that love is the proof of maturity.
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  Speaker 1: Ephesian six teaches you to stand in spiritual warfare. Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: eleven teaches you to walk by faith when you cannot
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  Speaker 1: see the whole road. Revelation twenty one shows you that
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  Speaker 1: God will make all things new. This is not just
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  Speaker 1: Bible information. This is a map for life. When shame
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  Speaker 1: First Corinthians thirteen. When the battle feels deeper than what
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  Speaker 1: you can see, go to Ephesians six. When God is
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  Speaker 1: asking you to obey without the full picture, go to
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews eleven. When grief and pain feel too heavy, go
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  Speaker 1: romans At, which tells us there is no condemnation for
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  Speaker 1: Give us faith to obey before we see the whole picture.
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  Speaker 1: you will wipe away every tear and death, sorrow, crying,
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  Speaker 1: Awaken what has been sleeping, Restore what has been lost,
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  Speaker 1: and lead us deeper into your truth in Jesus name. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Before you leave, comment the chapter that spoke to you most,
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  Speaker 1: and finish this sentence. God is teaching me because when
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  Speaker 1: you name what God is showing you, you begin to respond.
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  Speaker 1: And when you respond, the word stops being information and
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