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We Are One in the Spirit | Episode #408 | Encore Episode #079 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and story along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would like
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  Speaker 1: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 1: program anytime online at Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: I pray not only for these but also for those
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  Speaker 2: who believe in me through their message. May they all
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  Speaker 2: be one as you, Father are in me, and I
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  Speaker 2: am in you. May they also be one in us,
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  Speaker 2: so the world may believe you sent me. I have
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  Speaker 2: given them the glory you have given me. May they
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  Speaker 2: be one as we are one. I am in them
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  Speaker 2: and you are in me. May they be made completely one,
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  Speaker 2: so the world may know you have sent me and
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  Speaker 2: have loved them as you have loved me. John chapter
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  Speaker 2: seventeen and verses twenty through twenty three. In the earlier segment,
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  Speaker 2: we had discussed Jesus actually describing the Father, saying that
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  Speaker 2: he and the Father are one, and that he was
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  Speaker 2: going to the Father and that he would leave them
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  Speaker 2: in his physical form, but he would again come to
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  Speaker 2: them in the spirit form so that he could inhabit
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  Speaker 2: all believers. Because of this message, life changing power came
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  Speaker 2: into the believers. The day of Pentecost was not, as
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  Speaker 2: we have seen, just a historical event. It was the
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  Speaker 2: change of the life of each of the believers. They
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  Speaker 2: no longer had the fear that they could have been
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  Speaker 2: persecuted or killed. They would proclaim the message with boldness
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  Speaker 2: to everyone, regardless of what the consequences may have been.
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  Speaker 2: And so we find that Jesus has further prayed to
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  Speaker 2: the Father, and as he is praying, he makes something
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  Speaker 2: that includes all of us, You and I, believers. We
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  Speaker 2: are included in this prayer because Jesus says, I pray
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  Speaker 2: not only for these, but also for those who believe
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  Speaker 2: in me through their message. In other words, everything that
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  Speaker 2: he taught his followers was to be taught to their followers.
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  Speaker 2: As they continued to grow. As they were discipled in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: they continued to learn that they were to spread, continually
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  Speaker 2: take the Gospel to all people. And so what changed
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  Speaker 2: these believers was the full knowledge that Jesus had not
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  Speaker 2: left them comfortless. He came to them, and because he
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  Speaker 2: made his abode in them. Do you know what it
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  Speaker 2: means when we use the term abide. Jesus used that
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  Speaker 2: same description when he was talking about a vine, and
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  Speaker 2: he described the followers as branches. You find that in
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  Speaker 2: John the fifteenth chapter. What he is saying is that
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  Speaker 2: He is the root of all of our existence. If
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  Speaker 2: we are rooted in him as branches rooted to the vine,
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  Speaker 2: life and life giving power comes through him. But without him,
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  Speaker 2: without this life giving power that he provides, we can
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  Speaker 2: do nothing. And so in this description we are encouraged
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  Speaker 2: to abide in him. Now, our abiding in him is
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  Speaker 2: one facet. But how does he abide in us? He
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  Speaker 2: comes into us in the form of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: He comes into us, makes his home inside of us,
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  Speaker 2: and we then are carriers, if you will, transporters of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. Now, we talked in an earlier segment
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  Speaker 2: about being totally controlled by the spirit. The thing that
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  Speaker 2: we have to understand is that we live in this body,
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  Speaker 2: and until we become glorified, we will be in this
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  Speaker 2: fleshly temple. But we don't have to live as the
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  Speaker 2: world does in its fleshly temple. We live by the
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  Speaker 2: faith of the Son of God, who gave himself for
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  Speaker 2: us and now lives in us. And so what we
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  Speaker 2: find is that there is this total transformation that takes place.
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  Speaker 2: We have read in the scripture that old things have
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  Speaker 2: passed away and all things have become new. So the
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  Speaker 2: old thoughts, the old feelings, the old habits, these are
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  Speaker 2: now behind us. By the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: We now move forward under his control. Now I will
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  Speaker 2: say this, we need to be, as we said in
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  Speaker 2: earlier segments, constantly full. But how do we remain full
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit. Well, I offer this as an observation.
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  Speaker 2: We constantly go back to the Holy Spirit in asking
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  Speaker 2: for his in dwelling fullness. Now he doesn't leave us,
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  Speaker 2: He's not departing us. He doesn't just rest on us
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  Speaker 2: as he did in the Old Testament, but he takes
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  Speaker 2: up his home in us. There's a book written by
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  Speaker 2: a noted author, Robert Boyd Munger that is titled My
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  Speaker 2: Heart Christ's Home, and in this book, it is a
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  Speaker 2: description of how a Christian's life becomes more and more
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  Speaker 2: surrendered to the Holy Spirit. Why, because there are parts
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  Speaker 2: of us that he must inhabit, he won't force his
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  Speaker 2: way in. We have to let him in. How do
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  Speaker 2: we do that? Well, the areas of what we used
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  Speaker 2: to be, we confess and we put that to rest.
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  Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit reminds us that those things no longer
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  Speaker 2: have dominion over us. We we don't have the same problem.
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  Speaker 2: That's not to say that we won't be tempted, and
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  Speaker 2: that's not to say that we would not have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to fall or to sin. But we are quickly
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  Speaker 2: reminded by this indwelling Holy Spirit of our sin, and
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  Speaker 2: then we immediately confess that sin. And the scripture says
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  Speaker 2: that God actually uses this process, that he forgives us
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  Speaker 2: our sin, and then he cleanses us of all unrighteousness.
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  Speaker 2: He sanctifies us holy because he's living in us. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't run away because we make a mistake or we sin.
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  Speaker 2: He simply lets us see it. Where before we may
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  Speaker 2: not have understood we could have been doing something that
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  Speaker 2: was totally wrong, and yet we thought that it was acceptable.
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  Speaker 2: And so now the Holy Spirit shows us, he leads
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  Speaker 2: and guides us, as the Scripture says, into all truth.
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  Speaker 2: Because of this, the life we live now we live
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  Speaker 2: under the control of the Holy Spirit, not under our control.
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  Speaker 2: And because of that, we want to be able to
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  Speaker 2: allow the Holy Spirit to fill us totally. We just
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  Speaker 2: not are we not just looking at being one portion filled?
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  Speaker 2: We want to be totally filled. But believer, we're not
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  Speaker 2: just speaking of being filled to the brim. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about being filled to overflowing because with the overflowing power
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit, we then are able to flow
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  Speaker 2: into others. If you will, we become a conduit, if
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  Speaker 2: you will, a carrier, so that the Holy Spirit can
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  Speaker 2: then infect the lives of others. You know, there are
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  Speaker 2: many types of infectious diseases that we have discovered throughout
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  Speaker 2: this world, but there is an infectious not a disease,
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  Speaker 2: but a condition. It is it's so infectious that anyone
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  Speaker 2: that comes close to it has to be touched by it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Scripture says that the world will know
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  Speaker 2: that we are Christians. We are followers of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: inhabited by his spirit. How that will they know? They'll
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  Speaker 2: know because we demonstrate love one to another. Think about
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  Speaker 2: that for just a moment. There's one thing to be
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  Speaker 2: able to proclaim certain messages, but there's another thing to
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  Speaker 2: do the works that Jesus did, and greater works than these,
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  Speaker 2: because he goes to the Father. The thing that we
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  Speaker 2: are looking at in this transforming life that we live
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  Speaker 2: is that daily we are being filled with his presence, constantly,
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  Speaker 2: made aware of his desires, made a vessel that is
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  Speaker 2: fit for his abode. We want to be a pure vessel,
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  Speaker 2: so we don't want to continue in wilful sin. When
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  Speaker 2: we sin now, it will more than likely be and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully will only be a sin of what is referred
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  Speaker 2: to as omission. That means we knew that we were
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  Speaker 2: supposed to do something that would have been good, but
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  Speaker 2: we failed to do it, or maybe we delayed doing it,
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  Speaker 2: and because of that it is sin, and we want
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  Speaker 2: to confess that and allow the Holy Spirit the next
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  Speaker 2: time to show us why he wants us to overcome
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  Speaker 2: that area in our life.
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: Reflections on the Word with Richard K. You can hear
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  Speaker 1: this message in its entirety again online as well as
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  Speaker 1: Richard's entire archive at Talknetwork Radio dot com. We would
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  Speaker 1: like to acknowledge our theme song, how Great Is Thy
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  Speaker 1: Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: which is published by Homan Bible Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Additional resources used for Reflections on the Word with Richard
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  Speaker 1: K include Great Is Thy Faithfulness by Our Daily Breadth
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  Speaker 1: and printed by Discovery House Publishers. Again here is Richard
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: It is for the Holy Spirit to lead and guide
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  Speaker 2: us into all truth, and his mission in us is
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  Speaker 2: to bring the truth of the Gospel to the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the world. Because of this life changing power that
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  Speaker 2: inhabits us, we know that the Gospel will be proclaimed
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  Speaker 2: not only in word, but certainly indeed as well. And
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  Speaker 2: that is today's reflection on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. Or Richard the entire team This is Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of Reflections
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  Speaker 1: on the Word