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The Spirit's Most Significant Mission, Part 2 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Today from Chucks Wendall on Insight for Living.
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  Speaker 2: God can do anything, God can change anyone. If I
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  Speaker 2: want you to remember anything as a result of this
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  Speaker 2: time together, it's that statement, for nothing will be impossible
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  Speaker 2: with God.
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  Speaker 1: There are moments in life when God's direction makes absolutely
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  Speaker 1: no sense. The path forward seems unclear, the obstacles feel insurmountable,
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  Speaker 1: and the only thing you know for certain is that
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  Speaker 1: you can't pull this off on your own Sound familiar
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  Speaker 1: well Today On Insight for Living, Chucks Wendall describes one
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  Speaker 1: of the most breathtaking miracles in all of Scripture, an
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  Speaker 1: inflection point when the humanly impossible became divinely certain. If
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  Speaker 1: your face seeing something right now that feels completely beyond you,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck invite you to examine the spirit's most significant mission.
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  Speaker 2: Our Father, we thank you for the firsts in our lives,
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  Speaker 2: that first person who had the courage to look at
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  Speaker 2: us and ask us about things eternal and to make
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  Speaker 2: us aware that things were not well, and we had
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  Speaker 2: to face that, we had to come to terms with that,
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  Speaker 2: And we look back on that, realizing at that time
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  Speaker 2: it seemed fearful and confusing, and maybe even for some
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  Speaker 2: a struggle, but we look back and thank you for
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  Speaker 2: sending that person to be like Gabriel was for Mary,
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  Speaker 2: the messenger of good news. Thank you for reminding us
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  Speaker 2: again and for many the very first time, that with you,
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  Speaker 2: nothing is impossible. No friend without Christ is impossibly lost.
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  Speaker 2: It may very well be you would have a speak
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  Speaker 2: to him or her this week. Thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: first time, our Father, when we realized the meaning and
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  Speaker 2: significance of deep and abiding worship, when we were delivered
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  Speaker 2: from the feeling that we needed to be entertained, but
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  Speaker 2: we were really to come before the Holy God, to
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  Speaker 2: hear his truth, to sing his songs, to pause in
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  Speaker 2: quietness and let the wonder in. And this season of
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  Speaker 2: the year, our Father, we thank you for that first
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  Speaker 2: light on that dark night, when all else was wrong
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  Speaker 2: in the world, you gave us that son of yours.
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for him. May we worship him today
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  Speaker 2: as if for the first time, with a fresh, as
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  Speaker 2: if first time joy that we are participating in your
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  Speaker 2: work for your glory. In the name of Jesus, our
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  Speaker 2: first and only Savior. We pray everyone said.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, you're listening to insight for living to dig deeper
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  Speaker 1: into today's topic on your own. Be sure to purchase
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  Speaker 1: insight dot org. Slash offer Chuck titled today's message the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit's most significant Mission.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy to forget the kind of times into which
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was born, and what makes his birth all the
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  Speaker 2: more amazing is that it, in God's estimation, the right moment.
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  Speaker 2: Though in the world's eyes there would have been a
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  Speaker 2: hundred reasons to choose another time, either before then or
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  Speaker 2: after the fact. But those prophecies waited to be fulfilled,
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  Speaker 2: and that is what was accomplished according to God's promise,
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  Speaker 2: just as he planned. If God were to wait until
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  Speaker 2: time was just right, there would never have been a
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  Speaker 2: soun sent. But against all the odds, and in spite
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  Speaker 2: of the threatening situation that even this young couple faced
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  Speaker 2: after the birth, God brought forth his son, and by
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  Speaker 2: the way, he had all of the arrangements put together
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  Speaker 2: before time ever began. The account is in Luke chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: and the main part we're considering is verses twenty six
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  Speaker 2: to thirty eight, which really identifies two p people and
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  Speaker 2: focuses on them. One is an angel named Gabriel one
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  Speaker 2: is a young woman who was a virgin named Mary.
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  Speaker 2: The angel we read in verse twenty six is sent
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  Speaker 2: from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth. In
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  Speaker 2: the Council of Divine Decrees, before there was ever time
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  Speaker 2: on earth, before there was ever matter, before there was
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  Speaker 2: a sun, moon, or stars, the God had together planned salvation.
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  Speaker 2: And in the plan of salvation, it was ordained that
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  Speaker 2: this angel be sent on this particular day to this
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  Speaker 2: particular woman living in this particular place, planning our salvation.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing our need for the Savior. Our God already has
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  Speaker 2: put together the plan that on this very day, at
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  Speaker 2: this particular time, this angel, the Messenger Angel, would leave
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  Speaker 2: the throne room of the Father and come to this earth,
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  Speaker 2: And we read he would come to the city in
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  Speaker 2: Galilee called Nazareth. The reason Luke writes it like that
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  Speaker 2: is because there were people reading it for the first
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  Speaker 2: time who would not know where Nazareth was. His gospel
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  Speaker 2: would spread across the whole unknown world, But whoever heard
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  Speaker 2: of Nazareth. It's a tiny place. And if you think
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  Speaker 2: Nazareth is small, Bethlehem is even smaller. But never doubt it.
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  Speaker 2: The destination is determined, the person is selected, the situation
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  Speaker 2: is complicated, and the mission is humanly impossible. All four
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  Speaker 2: or true. Let me unpack them first. The destination the
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  Speaker 2: angel was to go to the city called really, we
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  Speaker 2: would call it a village called Nazareth. Nazareth is where
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  Speaker 2: Mary lived, It's where Joseph lived, It's where they have
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  Speaker 2: been betrothed. Unlike today, in those days, in a Jewish marriage,
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  Speaker 2: there was the commitment to one another, followed by the
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  Speaker 2: signing of a betrothal covenant, which lasted usually about a year.
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  Speaker 2: During that year, they were known as husband and wife.
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  Speaker 2: Though they didn't live together, they were not intimate with
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  Speaker 2: one another, they were seen as husband and wife, which
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  Speaker 2: explains why he has called her husband on occasion, though
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  Speaker 2: they've not actually been married. They are committed to one
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  Speaker 2: another in this betrothal, and the angel is to find
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  Speaker 2: her in the city of Nazareth, and he does so.
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  Speaker 2: So the person is selected. She is a virgin, never
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  Speaker 2: knew a man. Now the situation is complicated. Complicated why
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  Speaker 2: because the plan of God required depositing on this earth
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  Speaker 2: a sinless but very human individual. How do you get
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  Speaker 2: a child born without sin who comes from the womb
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  Speaker 2: of his mother or her mother. How do you do that?
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  Speaker 2: The possibilities get a little bit complicated. I took my
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  Speaker 2: time this week to think through what those possibilities were.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to them. First, God could have chosen a human
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  Speaker 2: mother and a human father and then put the baby
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  Speaker 2: there and have them have the child. The problem is
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  Speaker 2: you've got a sinful product. Can't come from just an
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  Speaker 2: average man and woman. That's the result of intercourse. And
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  Speaker 2: then the baby nine months later is born, you'd have
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  Speaker 2: a sinful child. Well. The second possibility is neither one.
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  Speaker 2: Just leave a divinely given gift on a doorstep. Mary
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  Speaker 2: finds the baby and claims. The problem there is not
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  Speaker 2: truly human, hasn't had a birth, so that won't work.
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  Speaker 2: The third possibility is to send a soul and spirit
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  Speaker 2: to live in a person already on earth. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is it would not be his own body, nor could
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  Speaker 2: it be said that he is truly human, but has
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  Speaker 2: in fact been brought into a life. So this leads
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  Speaker 2: only the option number four, the supernatural conception. The womb
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  Speaker 2: of Mary would be that earthly vehicle. However, the embryo
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  Speaker 2: would bypass the contamination with sin since the tiny speck
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  Speaker 2: of life within Mary's womb would have been made possible,
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  Speaker 2: as we're going to read, by the Holy Spirit. The
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  Speaker 2: miracle is often called the virgin birth miracle. It's the
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  Speaker 2: virgin conception that is miraculous. Never before, never since, has
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  Speaker 2: this ever occurred. G. Campbell Morgan writes this, he was
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  Speaker 2: the God man, not God in dwelling, a man of
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  Speaker 2: such there have been many, not a man deified of such.
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  Speaker 2: There have been none, save in the myths of the
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  Speaker 2: pagan systems of thought. But God and Man combining in
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  Speaker 2: one personality, the two natures a perpetual enigma and mystery,
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  Speaker 2: baffling the possibility of explanation. Having read that, I'm now
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  Speaker 2: going to explain what baffles The possibility of explanation always
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  Speaker 2: makes me smile when I think about that, Like the
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  Speaker 2: statement thanks me to God for his gift too wonderful
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  Speaker 2: for words, and then I speak on it for thirty
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  Speaker 2: minutes to give you the words that are too wonderful
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  Speaker 2: for us to grasp. How do we really put it
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  Speaker 2: all together? How do we make sense out of what
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely impossible? You just keep reading the text, You
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  Speaker 2: keep reading the Holy Word of God. He comes to
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  Speaker 2: a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph,
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  Speaker 2: of the descendants of David, and the virgin's name was Mary. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: she wasn't expecting it. It was an absolute sudden surprise
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  Speaker 2: to her. She looks up and she sees the visible
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  Speaker 2: manifestation of an angelic being coming in. He said to her, Hail,
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  Speaker 2: favored one, the Lord is with you. Look at the words.
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  Speaker 2: She's the favored one. For centuries the church taught that
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  Speaker 2: she bestows favor, that she bestows grace, which has led
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  Speaker 2: to Mariolatry the worship of Mary, the Mother of God.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, she's never in the scripture's called the
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  Speaker 2: mother of God. She's the one who has been given grace.
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  Speaker 2: She's the one who is favored edie, favored by God.
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  Speaker 2: She's the recipi of God's favor and grace. And he says,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord is with you, and she's standing there hearing it,
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  Speaker 2: wondering who is this visitor. Why is he calling me
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  Speaker 2: a favorite one? And how is it that the Lord
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  Speaker 2: is going to be with me? I believe in my Lord,
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  Speaker 2: but why the need for his presence with me delivered
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  Speaker 2: it to me? Even the messenger from the messenger himself, Gabriel,
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  Speaker 2: you're not surprised to read that she was very perplexed
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  Speaker 2: Verse twenty nine. The tense of this particular Greek term
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  Speaker 2: suggests ongoing. She continues to mull it over. She's not
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  Speaker 2: questioning it. In fact, she's not disagreeing with it. She
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  Speaker 2: just puzzled by it. She just puzzled by it. It's
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  Speaker 2: like I would feel if Cynthia said to me tomorrow morning, Hey, honey,
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  Speaker 2: I forgot to tell you we're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: fifth child. I would be perplexed to hear that we
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  Speaker 2: would name the baby a miracle. But that's as far
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  Speaker 2: as I'm going with that. It's just not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: Mary's thinking it can't happen in her case. She's got
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  Speaker 2: the right age going for her, but she doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: the right intimate experience, So she's perplexed. The word means
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  Speaker 2: to be caught up in intense curiosity. How could this be?
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  Speaker 2: Because a man I do not know. Literally this statement reads,
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  Speaker 2: Remember it has to be a man, and I'm in
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  Speaker 2: love with Joseph, but I've never been intimate with Joseph.
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  Speaker 2: I do not know a man. David McKenna adds a
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  Speaker 2: curious statement. Jesus divine human nature is a physical as
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  Speaker 2: well as a theological fact. Luke the physicians set up
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  Speaker 2: the paradox when he announced that Jesus was conceived by
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost in the womb of Mary without human agency.
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  Speaker 2: The genetic puzzle has never been unraveled. Did God select
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  Speaker 2: certain qualities in genetic structure, chromosome mix, and the DNA code?
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  Speaker 2: If so, what are the personality features of the word
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  Speaker 2: made flesh. Some might contend that the case for the
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  Speaker 2: humanity of Jesus is already refuted. Others have chosen to
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  Speaker 2: deny the virgin birth in order to make Jesus fully human. Logically,
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  Speaker 2: the genetic mystery is no greater than the incarnation itself.
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  Speaker 2: Like geneticists who have not unlocked the secret of conception,
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  Speaker 2: we must rely upon information about Jesus' birth and development
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  Speaker 2: to find out if he was fully human. And he
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  Speaker 2: goes on to describe those characteristics of humanity. You can't
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  Speaker 2: unravel it. If you're waiting for scientific proof of this,
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  Speaker 2: you'll wait in vain. It's a miracle. Miracles lack proof
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  Speaker 2: of this nature. She's told you will have the baby.
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  Speaker 2: She's asking how can it be? And now he explains
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't help her with all the answers, but it
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  Speaker 2: at least describes the supernatural nature of the conception. The
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  Speaker 2: Angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary, for
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  Speaker 2: you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive
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  Speaker 2: in your womb verse thirty one, in bear as son.
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  Speaker 2: You shall name him Jesus. He will be great. He
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  Speaker 2: will be called the Son of the Most High, and
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  Speaker 2: the Lord God will give him the throne of his
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  Speaker 2: father David. He will reign over the house of Jacob,
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  Speaker 2: and his kingdom will have no end. How can that be?
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  Speaker 2: I understand you're talking Messiah here, but what I don't
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  Speaker 2: get is how this will occur. I can't figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Verse thirty five is crucial because it represents the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit's most significant mission. The Angel answered and said to her,
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit will come upon you. The power of
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  Speaker 2: the Most High will overshadow you. These are all human terms,
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  Speaker 2: accommodating human ignorance and an inability to grasp the truth.
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  Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of
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  Speaker 2: the Most High will overshadow you. For this reason, the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Child shall be called the Son of God. What
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  Speaker 2: you must understand, even the most intense skeptic listening right now,
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  Speaker 2: is that you will never ever unravel the puzzle. You
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  Speaker 2: can't because it's a miracle. God comes, God makes the announcement.
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  Speaker 2: God leaves Mary in her puzzlement, wondering what it's all about,
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  Speaker 2: just as any one of you, ladies in these teenage
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  Speaker 2: years in which Mary was, would find yourself absolutely shocked.
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  Speaker 2: But God doesn't back off. He says, the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: will come upon you and will overshadow you. Somewhere between
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  Speaker 2: this announcement and Mary's arrival at Elizabeth's place of residence,
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  Speaker 2: a conception took place. The details of that are left
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  Speaker 2: for our imagination. Nothing in scripture covers that epical moment
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  Speaker 2: of the Spirit's most significant mission. Now, please observe what
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  Speaker 2: sealed it for Mary. I think it's the turning point
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  Speaker 2: in the narrative when she asks, how can it be?
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  Speaker 2: I know not a man on and on now. The
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  Speaker 2: thing I love about Mary's response is what follows in
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  Speaker 2: this passage of scripture. Before I get there, I just
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  Speaker 2: want you to look at verse thirty seven and let
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  Speaker 2: it sink in. He says, for nothing will be impossible
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  Speaker 2: with God, if I want you to remember anything as
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  Speaker 2: a result of this time together, it's that statement, because
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  Speaker 2: there isn't a person sitting here today who doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: something impossible. That you're facing something something you cannot fix,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot change, you cannot alter, you cannot start or stop.
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  Speaker 2: It's impossible for you. I spoke to our staff on
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  Speaker 2: a Wednesday morning. We had a gathering here of the
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  Speaker 2: Insight for Living Staff, along with our pastoral and well
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  Speaker 2: all of our staff here at the church. We met
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  Speaker 2: in the former worship gathering place. It was a great
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  Speaker 2: time of singing and we were reflecting on this story.
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  Speaker 2: It took another tack at it that morning, but I
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  Speaker 2: concluded by reminding all of us that God can do anything.
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  Speaker 2: God can change anyone. And I said to them, I
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  Speaker 2: want all of you to remember that because it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be easily forgotten. Are you ready. I was dealing
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  Speaker 2: with a difficult individual by Thursday, hadn't even been twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours since I spoke, and I remember saying to
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  Speaker 2: someone who had been in that meeting, this person is impossible.
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  Speaker 2: And she said to me, as I recall, God can
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  Speaker 2: do anything, God can change anyone that already in less
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  Speaker 2: than twenty four hours, I'd forgotten that nothing will be impossible.
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  Speaker 2: With that statement can transform your thinking, It can change
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  Speaker 2: your whole attitude, because there's not a person hearing right
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  Speaker 2: now who is not facing something that isn't humanly impossible.
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  Speaker 2: By that, I mean you can't pull it off, you
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  Speaker 2: can't make it happen. I think it's that statement that
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  Speaker 2: causes Mary finally to rest her case. She doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to know all the details. She simply to understand that
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  Speaker 2: the God who is revealing this message is the God
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  Speaker 2: of impossibilities. By the way, in various wording, that statement
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  Speaker 2: is found four times in the scriptures, twice in Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 2: and twice in Luke's Gospel. Because God knew if we
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  Speaker 2: just read it once we wouldn't remember it. Remember it
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  Speaker 2: this week. Say it to your friend, say it to
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  Speaker 2: your spouse, Remind your child or your parent that with God,
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  Speaker 2: nothing is impossible. Let it sink in because you see
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  Speaker 2: the enemy here's what you're hearing, and wants you to
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  Speaker 2: forget it, because a whole week is going to unfold
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  Speaker 2: before we gather together again like this for teaching, And
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  Speaker 2: if you're not careful, you're going to be lost in
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  Speaker 2: doubt and dismay. If you let the statement of verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven slide by Mary, Mary, nothing will be impossible
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  Speaker 2: with God, you know what. That's the turning point and
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  Speaker 2: the whole narrative. She hears that statement, nothing will be
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  Speaker 2: impossible with God, and that's settled it. The next two
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  Speaker 2: verses are wonderful verses. Mary said, behold the bondslave of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. May it be done to me according to
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  Speaker 2: your word and the Angel to party. First of what
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  Speaker 2: she calls herself, I think is significant. I'm a bond servant.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, I'm not running my own life. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not in charge of the events of my life. And
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  Speaker 2: even though I have no idea how God is going
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  Speaker 2: to pull this off, I want it known right now
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  Speaker 2: that I see myself as a humble servant of the
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  Speaker 2: living God. I am available to him to do with
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  Speaker 2: me whatever he may wish. There's something wonderful that kind
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  Speaker 2: of spirit of humility, that kind of submission makes life
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  Speaker 2: move so much smoother. Daryl Bach says the word describes
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  Speaker 2: one of humble station who addresses a superior in recognition
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  Speaker 2: of their position as God's handmaid. Mary accepts openly what
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  Speaker 2: God asks of her, Mary, the woman of strength and character,
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  Speaker 2: says immediately, I'm the Lord's bond servant. It's a statement
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  Speaker 2: of humility. While we're on that, would you hold your
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  Speaker 2: place here and look at First Peter, chapter five. I
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  Speaker 2: want to point out three benefits of true humility right
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  Speaker 2: here from First Peter five, verse five. It concludes with
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  Speaker 2: humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud,
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  Speaker 2: but gives grace to the humble. Therefore, stay with the word,
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  Speaker 2: humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, that he
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  Speaker 2: may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your
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  Speaker 2: anxiety on him because he cares for you. Go back
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  Speaker 2: to verse five. The first benefit of humility is that
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  Speaker 2: we're given grace to accept whatever. The second thing is
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  Speaker 2: that it comes with a promise, humble yourselves under the
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  Speaker 2: mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at
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  Speaker 2: the proper time. We rest in his promise when we
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  Speaker 2: humble ourselves. Third, we are relieved of anxiety. And who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want that casting all your anxiety on him? Because
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  Speaker 2: literally it matters to him concerning you.
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  Speaker 3: The verse literally reads today Chucks Wendall unpacked three remarkable
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  Speaker 3: gifts available to anyone willing to humble themselves before God,
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  Speaker 3: grace to accept what you cannot change, a promise that
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  Speaker 3: God will lift you up at exactly the right time,
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  Speaker 3: and relief from the anxiety that's been stealing your peace.
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  Speaker 1: He titled this message the Spirit's most Significant Mission. Next
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  Speaker 1: time on Inside for Living, the application becomes intensely personal,
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  Speaker 1: so keep listening. In the meantime, when you're ready to
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  Speaker 1: fully explore what it means to walk in the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: remember that helpful resources are waiting for you here at
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  Speaker 1: Insight for Living. Chucks Wendall's twelve sermons for this series
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  Speaker 1: how great is our Gods?
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  Speaker 2: For it?
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  Speaker 1: When you call us at eight hundred seven seven to
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  Speaker 1: Scripture teaches, and it also equips you to speak confidently
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  Speaker 1: and compassionately to the people in your circle who may
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  Speaker 1: not know the Lord, or who simply need the comfort
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  Speaker 1: that only God's truth can provide. Don't let these conversations
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  Speaker 1: Chuckswyndall concludes his twelve part series called How Great is
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