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Bold Steps with Dr. Mark Jobe - How to Walk by Faith and Not by Sight -- Part 1 · The Word On Demand

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  S1: Are you living in light of eternity? Find out today
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  S1: on Bold Steps with Mark Jobe.
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  S2: You should live every day in light of the fact
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  S2: that your body is very temporary. Don't buy into this
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  S2: false idea that you're going to live forever because you're not.
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  S2: And if you don't live with a sense of eternity,
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  S2: you will tend to have wrong priorities and live your
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  S2: life in a way that God doesn't want you to live.
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  S1: And welcome to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe, founding pastor
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  S1: of New Life Community Church in Chicago. Now, to set
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  S1: up today's message, Mark, we've heard the phrase to live
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  S1: by faith and not by sight, but unfortunately, it's quite
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  S1: easy to simply do the opposite and live according to
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  S1: what we see instead of what we believe. You know, Wayne,
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  S1: it is.
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  S2: So easy just to live for the here and the now.
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  S2: For the house and the car and the food and
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  S2: the vacation. But lives that are truly transcendent, that matter.
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  S2: They always live for a bigger purpose. And they understand
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  S2: that there is eternity here, that we have a soul
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  S2: and a spirit. There's things that we cannot see, that
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  S2: we cannot see, that only in faith we understand. And
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  S2: so if you've just been living for the here and
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  S2: the now, you're missing the mark. God wants to open
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  S2: up your eyes and say, hey, it's time to start
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  S2: living by faith and not just by sight.
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  S1: We're in the Bible. Second Corinthians chapter five. Today, the
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  S1: message how to walk by faith and not by sight.
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  S1: Here's Mark.
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  S2: You know, recently my wife and I were able to
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  S2: celebrate a getaway anniversary trip. I've been married to the
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  S2: same woman and still in love with her for over
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  S2: 30 years. Yeah. Over 30. And so we were flying
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  S2: back from our anniversary trip and we we took off
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  S2: in the airport and, uh, it looked like it was
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  S2: a pretty clear day and we started to land at
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  S2: another airport. And all of a sudden as we were
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  S2: descending and they say, now this plane is about to descend.
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  S2: As we were descending, suddenly we were enveloped by some
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  S2: very thick clouds. We were both leaning over, looking out
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  S2: the window, and my wife looked at me and she said,
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  S2: I can't see anything. I'm sure the pilot can't see anything.
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  S2: How in the world is he going to know how
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  S2: to land? I looked at her. I wanted to rev
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  S2: it up a little bit. I don't know how. And
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  S2: we better make our last one, but I, I thought
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  S2: I'd I said, here's the thing. The pilot doesn't have
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  S2: to see where he's going because he's got an instrument
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  S2: panel and a GPS and a radar system that guides them.
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  S2: So even though he can't physically see the runway, he
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  S2: can actually be guided by his instrument panel for a
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  S2: safe landing. That's exactly the way it is in our
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  S2: life as believers in Jesus Christ. Our panel, our instrument
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  S2: panel is the Word of God. It's faith. And sometimes
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  S2: you cannot see the invisible world. You cannot see God.
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  S2: You cannot see Jesus. You cannot see the Holy Spirit.
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  S2: You cannot see heaven. You cannot see the eternal world.
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  S2: But let me tell you what you can. You can do.
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  S2: You can see the instrument panel that tells us the
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  S2: Word of God. And as you walk by faith and
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  S2: not by sight, you reach your ultimate destination. Amen. Alright,
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  S2: so I want you to take your Bibles and turn
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  S2: to first second Corinthians chapter five, verse one through 11.
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  S2: You need to listen up. This is an important message
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  S2: for you to listen to, because I believe there are
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  S2: a lot of people that are living by sight and
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  S2: not by faith. And the result is that there are
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  S2: many people, including believers in Jesus, that are not motivated
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  S2: by what really matters, that have little confidence in the future,
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  S2: and whose priorities are very mixed up because they walk
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  S2: by sight and not by faith. Paul, in addressing the
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  S2: Corinthian believers in in his second letter to the Corinthian
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  S2: believers that we call second Corinthians, tells them what happens
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  S2: when we start walking by faith and not by sight.
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  S2: I'm going to begin reading in verse one. It says,
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  S2: for we know that if this earthly tent we live
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  S2: in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an
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  S2: eternal house in heaven not built by human hands. Meanwhile
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  S2: we groan, longing to be clothed instead with a heavenly dwelling.
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  S2: Because we are clothed, we are not found naked. For
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  S2: while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened,
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  S2: because we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed
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  S2: instead with our heavenly dwelling. Let me pause and tell
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  S2: you this if you're taking notes, write this down. If
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  S2: you're walking by faith and not by sight, you will
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  S2: see beyond the temporary nature of life. The Apostle Paul
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  S2: talks about tents. He says, we know that if this
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  S2: earthly tent were to be destroyed and people say, well,
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  S2: what is he talking about when he talks about an
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  S2: earthly tent? Well, you know, Paul was a tent maker
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  S2: by trade. That was his daytime job. And so some
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  S2: people think, well, he made tents. And so he's talking
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  S2: about tents. That's just a side imagery that he's bringing about.
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  S2: But when he says tent, he's really talking about our bodies.
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  S2: A tent implies something that's temporary, flimsy, frail, and not
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  S2: made to last a long time. That's a tent. When
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  S2: he compares our bodies to a tent, he is in essence,
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  S2: saying that your body is temporary. It's not meant to
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  S2: last forever. I know we try to make it last
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  S2: a long time, but if you make it to 72,
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  S2: that's the average age in America. People that make it
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  S2: to 90 are really living long. If you make it
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  S2: to 100, we celebrate you and put you in the newspaper.
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  S2: But our lives are really not that long. And the
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  S2: apostle Paul says, if the tent is destroyed, Look what
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  S2: he says. So if this earthly tent, our body, if
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  S2: it's destroyed, if we die, we have a building from God,
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  S2: an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
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  S2: So Paul is contrasting our temporary bodies with our eternal bodies.
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  S2: The Bible is clear that the moment that you die
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  S2: and this body goes into the grave, you are given
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  S2: a a eternal body, an immortal body, a glorified body.
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  S2: It's not like flesh and blood like we know it,
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  S2: but it's what will house your soul and your spirit.
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  S2: It's a spiritual body. And so he's telling people, hey,
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  S2: there is much more afterlife, much more afterlife. You know,
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  S2: when I got married, I was married at 21. I
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  S2: was just starting the ministry. I was very poor. I
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  S2: was able to scrounge up enough money to take my
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  S2: wife on a honeymoon to Spain, where I grew up.
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  S2: But once I got to Spain, I didn't really have
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  S2: any money to get us around anywhere. And so my
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  S2: father was kind enough to leave his car at the airport,
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  S2: and I put a tent and his tent in the trunk.
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  S2: And so we did our honeymoon in a tent. I
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  S2: would drive to a nice place and say, honey, do
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  S2: you like it? You'd say, yeah, we'd put the tent up.
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  S2: And then we would drive up through the coast of
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  S2: Spain and say, do you like this area? I'd put
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  S2: the tent up and then we'd drive to France and
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  S2: put the tent up, drove into Switzerland, put the tent up.
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  S2: So we just stayed in a tent the entire time. Now,
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  S2: that may seem romantic and nice. I told my wife
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  S2: when we were approaching our 30th year anniversary. Hey, why
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  S2: don't we do the tent thing again, go to Europe?
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  S2: And she said, oh, no, I'm done with tents. Because
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  S2: here's the thing a tent implies temporary, frail. You may
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  S2: spend a night in a tent, but you don't want
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  S2: to live in a tent unless you're homeless. And even
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  S2: the homeless people probably don't want to live in a tent.
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  S2: They want a more permanent place. A tent is something
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  S2: that you you live in because you have to. It's temporary.
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  S2: It's frail, but you're really looking for something much more permanent.
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  S2: But you understand that it's temporary. In essence, with the
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  S2: apostle Paul is telling these believers is, hey, embrace the
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  S2: fact that your body, that your life, that your existence
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  S2: is temporary. We sometimes deceive ourselves into thinking that life
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  S2: will go on forever, and that we don't want to
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  S2: think about the end, and we don't want to think
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  S2: about afterlife. And we don't want to think about death.
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  S2: And Paul is telling us the opposite. He's saying, think
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  S2: about death. Think about life after death. Think about eternity.
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  S2: In fact, you should live every day in light of
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  S2: the fact that your body is very temporary. Don't buy
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  S2: into this false idea. Don't buy into this narrative that
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  S2: you're going to live forever because you're not. And if
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  S2: you don't live with a sense of eternity, you will
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  S2: tend to have wrong priorities and live your life in
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  S2: a well in a way that God doesn't want you
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  S2: to live in. He goes on to say, by the way,
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  S2: in this passage. Meanwhile. We groan, longing to be clothed
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  S2: instead with a heavenly dwelling. It's interesting that he says,
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  S2: while we're in our tent, we groan. How many of you,
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  S2: as you get older, you can relate to the groaning part.
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  S2: Get up in the morning and. There's a little bit
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  S2: of the burden of feeling the frailty of your age
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  S2: and your body. But whether you're young or you're old. He,
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  S2: in essence, says that like someone that's living in a
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  S2: temporary state, we groan because we know we're looking and
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  S2: longing for something more. We groan because we realize this
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  S2: is not my permanent place. We groan because there's something
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  S2: inside of us. Have you felt it? A longing for
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  S2: something more, a sense that this is not the the
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  S2: final resting place. Something inside of you that tells you, yeah,
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  S2: this is this is okay, I'm enjoying this, but this
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  S2: is not really the end. You see, there's a groaning
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  S2: inside of our soul. A longing for something more. Something
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  S2: that's coming. Something that's on his way that a lot
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  S2: of people miss.
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  S1: You're listening to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe, and we're
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  S1: halfway through today's lesson. Pausing here for just a moment. Mark,
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  S1: I want to share a quick note we received from
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  S1: a listener named Diana. She says, I appreciate all bold steps. Does.
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  S1: And most importantly, how you are encouraging me daily to
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  S1: be an overcomer like the Word of God speaks of.
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  S1: May Jesus Christ bless each one there at Moody Radio.
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  S3: I love it. Diana, thank you for your word of encouragement.
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  S3: And I was just sharing with the team earlier. I
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  S3: just came back from some travels and just so encouraged
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  S3: by people that I meet in Europe and other parts
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  S3: of the world, even that are tapping into bold steps
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  S3: that are telling me that God is using it in
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  S3: their life. By the way, a shout out to all
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  S3: those of you that listen internationally, and we'd love to
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  S3: hear from you, from whatever country you're listening to. Let
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  S3: our partners. And we have a group of people, Wayne,
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  S3: that we call our bold partners.
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  S1: Mhm.
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  S3: And those are that core group of people that says, hey,
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  S3: I really believe in this ministry. It's touched me. And
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  S3: helping it get into some corners of the world that
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  S3: ministered to through this, uh, through this ministry. So we
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  S3: are very grateful for our bold partners.
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  S1: By the way, anywhere in the world. You're listening. You
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  S1: and I'll tell you all about it right now. Let's
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  S1: get back to the message. Walk by faith and not
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  S1: by sight. Here's Mark.
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  S2: If you go on a trip sometime, you typically miss
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  S2: your bed. You may, you know, some of you are really,
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  S2: really particular about your bed. I go to the airport.
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  S2: I see people traveling with their pillows. Like, really? You
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  S2: need to take pillow. Some people say, I just can't
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  S2: sleep unless it's my pillow. You know, it's got to
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  S2: be the right pillow. The right. So they carry their
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  S2: pillow with them. You miss the food when you're away
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  S2: from Chicago for a while. You start. You know, if
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  S2: I'm out of the country for a while, the first
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  S2: thing that my wife and I do on the way
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  S2: from the airport, we order pizza. We just automatically order pizza. Why?
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  S2: We miss the Chicago pizza. So you miss the food.
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  S2: You miss your house. If you have pets, you miss
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  S2: your pets. But you know what you miss the most.
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  S2: You miss family. The people that you know, the people
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  S2: that you long for. What Paul is basically saying is, yeah,
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  S2: you know, you're away from home, but there's a longing
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  S2: inside of every believer to be in the unobstructed presence
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  S2: of Jesus, to be before God himself. There's something inside
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  S2: of our soul that longs for the presence of God.
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  S2: There's something deep inside of you that that that aches
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  S2: to be inside of his presence, unveiled in his glory,
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  S2: in this perfect place in which God sees you and
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  S2: you see God, and you can walk with God. That's
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  S2: built in the heart of every single believer, a longing
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  S2: to be home, a longing to be in the presence
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  S2: of God. And that's what the Apostle Paul is talking about.
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  S2: He says, meanwhile we groan to be clothed instead with
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  S2: the heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will
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  S2: not be found naked. For while we are in this
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  S2: tent talking about the body, we groan and are burdened
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  S2: because we do not wish to be unclothed. In other words,
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  S2: he's using the image of being clothed and unclothed. But
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  S2: what he's saying is there's a groaning inside of our heart.
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  S2: We don't want to take the tent off. In other words,
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  S2: we don't want to die. But at the same time,
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  S2: we feel like something is missing because we need our
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  S2: we need our immortality to swallow up our mortality. And
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  S2: there's something inside of us, if the Bible says so,
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  S2: that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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  S2: And here's what I want you to know. I want
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  S2: you to know that although you can be content on earth,
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  S2: I want you to know that although you can experience
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  S2: joy on earth, this is not your ultimate dwelling place.
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  S2: If you feel a. A groaning, a discontentment, an unhappiness
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  S2: inside of your soul and think that maybe something is wrong.
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  S2: Maybe something is not wrong. Maybe what you really, really
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  S2: are looking for is to be home in the presence
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  S2: with your father. Amen. Not only does faith walking help
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  S2: us see beyond the temporary nature of life. Secondly, when
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  S2: we walk by faith, we are confident about our future.
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  S2: Notice what he says in verse five. Now the one
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  S2: who has fashioned us for this purpose is God, who
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  S2: has given us the spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what
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  S2: is to come. Therefore, we are always confident and know
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  S2: that as long as we are at home in the body,
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  S2: we are away from the Lord. For we walk by
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  S2: faith and not by sight. Notice what he says here.
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  S2: This is really important. I hope I can preach it
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  S2: well enough. The Bible says that God has fashioned us
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  S2: for this purpose. In other words, God's design that we
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  S2: live in a temporary body right now, but we long
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  S2: for eternity in our in our lives. But this is
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  S2: what he says. He says, who has given us the
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  S2: spirit as a deposit? What is he given us? Now,
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  S2: when we talk about spirit, there's little less spirit, which
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  S2: is your spirit as a human being. But then there's
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  S2: capital S spirit, which is the Holy Spirit. The Bible
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  S2: says that we know from other parts of Scripture that
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  S2: the moment that you come to Christ, God gives you
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  S2: the Holy Spirit. That is the third person of the
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  S2: Godhead that comes and the. The Holy Spirit indwells your body,
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  S2: the tent. Now listen to what he says. He says,
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  S2: because the spirit is a deposit guaranteeing what is to come. Now,
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  S2: when do you make a deposit? If you ever went
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  S2: to buy a house, they ask you for earnest money
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  S2: and you put money down. Usually 10 to 20% typically
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  S2: is what they ask for. You put money down. Why?
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  S2: Because what you're saying is, I'm putting down money because
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  S2: this house is not yet mine. But I'm serious about
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  S2: buying it. Ultimately, I will give the full amount to
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  S2: buy this house. And then you spend another 30 years
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  S2: paying for it. When a man proposes to a woman,
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  S2: he gives her a engagement ring. What does the ring mean?
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  S2: Some of you ladies are saying, I don't know. Ask
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  S2: my boyfriend. I've been dating him for three years and
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  S2: I still don't have a ring. What does it mean?
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  S2: An engagement ring is a earnest deposit. It's saying we're
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  S2: not married yet. But I'm going to marry you. This
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  S2: is just a reminder that it's on its way. It's
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  S2: a guarantee that I'm committed to marrying you all the way.
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  S2: When someone says, hey, you've been dating him for three years. Uh,
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  S2: what's going on with that? You just go. Mhm, mhm.
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  S2: And they know, oh, you're engaged because it's telling them. Yeah,
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  S2: but marriage is on its way. The moment that you
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  S2: came to Christ, God took the most important thing that
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  S2: he could his Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead.
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  S2: And he deposited it within your body. You walk around
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  S2: with the deposit that there's more to come. You have
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  S2: God in you, but you are not fully glorified the
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  S2: way God ultimately will glorify you. So you walk away.
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  S2: You walk around with the peace of God inside of you.
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  S2: God himself inside of you, and the Holy Spirit inside
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  S2: of you reminds you, hey, there's more to come. There's
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  S2: more to come. You're a child of the Most High God.
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  S2: He's going to do something in his life. You should
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  S2: live that way. There's more to come. You get around
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  S2: a place of worship like this and you taste heaven
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  S2: a little bit. It's the culture of where you're going
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  S2: as you start worshiping God, he says He's ABBA Father
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  S2: to you. The Bible tells us, listen, this is really,
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  S2: really important. When I went to rent a car recently,
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  S2: they said, uh, yeah, sir, could we have your credit card?
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  S2: So I gave them my credit card and they took
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  S2: some money out of my credit card and they said,
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  S2: this will be returned back to you. But this is
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  S2: a guarantee. This is a deposit guaranteeing that you're going
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  S2: to return this car because it was earnest down. Listen,
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  S2: the Holy Spirit is given to us. You walk around
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  S2: with the earnest deposit, guaranteeing that God is going to
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  S2: do something much bigger and greater in the future, that
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  S2: this is just a taste of what he's doing in
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  S2: your life. Look at what it tells us, for example,
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  S2: in Romans chapter eight, verse 23. Now only so. But
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  S2: we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the spirit,
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  S2: groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sonship,
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  S2: the redemption of our bodies. Ephesians chapter one, verse 13
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  S2: through 14 says, in him you also have heard the
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  S2: word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have
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  S2: believed in him. You were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
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  S2: which is the guarantee of the inheritance, until we acquire
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  S2: the possession to the praise of his glory.
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  S1: That's Mark Jobe in a lesson titled How to Walk
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  S1: by Faith and Not by Sight here on Bold Steps.
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  S1: what we believe rather than what we see. And Mark,
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  S1: one of the things believers often struggle with is knowing
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  S1: how to actually rely on God day to day, not
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  S1: just believe in him, but lean on him for the
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  S1: decisions and relationships were navigating. How do you talk about
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  S1: that as a pastor?
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  S3: You know, Wayne, there's often confusion about the Holy Spirit.
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  S3: Sometimes people view the Holy Spirit as a power or
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  S3: a force or a flame or a wind, because Scripture
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  S3: uses that imagery. But the Holy Spirit is a person.
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  S3: The third person of the Godhead, God Himself. So when
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  S3: we talk about being led by the Holy Spirit, we're
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  S3: being led by God, being filled with the Holy Spirit,
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  S3: being filled by God. It is God's powerful weapon for
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  S3: us to be able to survive in this crazy world,
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  S3: that he's with us 24 hours a day. And we
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  S3: are not always aware of it. Right. And Anne Graham Lotz,
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  S3: in her book Jesus in Me Experiencing the Holy Spirit
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  S3: as a Constant Companion, she focuses on the fact that
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  S3: he's with us all the time our advocate, our counselor,
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  S3: our intercessor, our guide, the one who empowers us. And
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  S3: I think there's a lot of believers that need to
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  S3: sort of be reawakened to the deposit of the Holy
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  S3: Spirit in our lives to survive, and this powerful force
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  S3: that we have to be able to make it through
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  S3: anything that we go through God with us.
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