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know God coach huddle for May 15, 2025 · knowGodcoach huddle

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  Hello. Welcome to the No God Coach
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  Huddle for May 15, 2025. Your two-minute
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  play of the day for applying God's word
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  in your life. So, let's huddle up and
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  hear today's play from Acts 16, which
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  says, "Paul came to Derby and then to
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  Lystra where a disciple named Timothy
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  lived whose mother was Jewish and a
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  believer, but whose father was a Greek.
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  Paul wanted to take him along on a
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  journey. So he circumcised him because
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  of the Jews who lived in that area. For
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  they all knew that his father was a
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  Greek. As they traveled from town to
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  town, they delivered the decisions
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  reached by the apostles and elders in
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  Jerusalem for the people to obey. So the
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  churches were strengthened in the faith
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  and grew daily in
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  numbers. In the previous chapter of
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  Acts, a controversy of significance
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  occurred between Jewish and Gentile
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  believers. The controversy is over how
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  much of the Old Testament law New
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  Testament believers were obligated to
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  follow. The conclusion Paul reached and
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  wrote was for the church to avoid sexual
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  immorality. Yet immediately following
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  this controversy, Paul circumcises
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  Timothy, the very thing the Jewish
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  Christians wanted in the first place,
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  rather than deferring to the decision
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  made by the apostles. Why? Because we
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  are free in Christ from the law before
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  Christ. But this freedom is for obeying
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  God and helping others to do the same.
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  This freedom allows us to follow the law
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  to win those under the law while
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  allowing us to ignore the law but not
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  the law of love for Jesus and obedience
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  to his commands among those who have no
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  law. Biblical freedom is not for is the
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  blessing of go is not the blessing of
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  God to do as we please but the power of
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  God to do as needed for winning and
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  discipling people. We are free from
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  man-made religion for appeasing God
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  since God himself pleased God on behalf
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  of man and appropriates to all men who
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  love him his perfect righteousness. This
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  freedom is for obeying Christ in spirit
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  and truth. For we have been purchased by
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  Christ's blood. We are now his slaves,
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  his servants to do his will in the
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  world. We are free from our sinful
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  nature to live according to the spirit.
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  Biblical freedom is never wanting
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  self-serving permission to gratify our
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  flesh. Biblical freedom is power and
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  permission to obey God in all ways that
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  help all men come to believe and obey
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  Jesus as Lord and Savior of the world.