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What Does Being Filled with the Spirit Mean, Part 3 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: The world isn't looking for the amazing, but rather the authentic.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know of one other characteristic that draws people
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  Speaker 1: with an interest to the person of Christ more than authenticity.
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  Speaker 1: The feeling of a spirit creates that kind of authenticity.
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  Speaker 2: As followers of Jesus Christ, we strive to do what's right,
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  Speaker 2: but we sometimes fail because we haven't drawn upon our
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  Speaker 2: God given.
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  Speaker 1: Source of power.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the good news. Today. On Insight for Living,
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  Speaker 2: Chux Wendall will describe four measurable results of a spirit
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  Speaker 2: filled life.
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  Speaker 1: When the spirit fills us.
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  Speaker 2: The way we speak to people changes. Second, the way
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  Speaker 2: we worship changes, Third, the way we respond to difficulty changes,
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  Speaker 2: and fourth, the way we relate to those closest to
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  Speaker 2: us changes. Let's resume our message now with helpful review.
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  Speaker 2: Picking up in First Corinthians six, verse.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty, We're to glorify God in our bodies.
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  Speaker 1: Lord God, I'm yours. You have gifted me in ways
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  Speaker 1: that I wouldn't have ever expected, and I thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to serve you. May my service be for you,
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  Speaker 1: and may it be authentic, and may it bring honor
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  Speaker 1: to your name. I reverence your name, O God. Now
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  Speaker 1: in order for the gears to be engaged, for the
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  Speaker 1: fuel to be used that God supplies, there must be
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  Speaker 1: the filling of the spirit. Ephesians chapter five began at
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  Speaker 1: verse fifteen. Be careful how you walk. I would say
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  Speaker 1: that to every Christian. Part of the reason is you
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  Speaker 1: want to glorify God, so that takes care. Pay attention,
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  Speaker 1: listen to his word, come to him in prayer, seek
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  Speaker 1: his help. Furthermore, you're being watched. You and I don't
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  Speaker 1: think about that much. If we did, it would drive
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  Speaker 1: us nuts, it really would. We'd be uneasy if we
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  Speaker 1: knew how many people watched us. And furthermore, when you're
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  Speaker 1: under his control. Of verse sixteen, you make the most
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  Speaker 1: of your time because the days are evil, and God
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  Speaker 1: knows that's true. We make the most of our time,
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  Speaker 1: and next week we discern the will of God. So
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  Speaker 1: then don't be foolish, but understand what the will of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is. Now, wait a minute, how can I
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  Speaker 1: How can you walk as you want to walk? How
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  Speaker 1: can you be wise when you tend toward being less
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  Speaker 1: than wise? How can we make the most of our time?
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  Speaker 1: How can we understand the will of the Lord. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we need his empowerment, enablement. That's what the next verse
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  Speaker 1: is all about. The Ephesians five eighteen. This is the
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  Speaker 1: verse for the believer, because this tells you how to
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  Speaker 1: live an authentic, empowered life. Pay close attention. It begins
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  Speaker 1: with the command. There are two commands in the verse.
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  Speaker 1: The first command, negative is don't get drunk with wine.
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  Speaker 1: Now why not, because that's dissipation when you're drunk with liquor.
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  Speaker 1: When you're drunk with alcohol, then you lose control. But
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  Speaker 1: there's a positive command on the heels of that, rather
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  Speaker 1: than getting drunk with wine, for that's dissipation. Second command,
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  Speaker 1: be filled with the spirit. So allow me to point
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  Speaker 1: out four factors that you may or may not know
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  Speaker 1: up until this moment. I want you to know it
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  Speaker 1: before you leave today. Look closely from the last part
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  Speaker 1: of verse eighteen. Be filled with the spirit. First, it
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  Speaker 1: is a command. It is a command directed to us
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  Speaker 1: from the Lord himself. Be filled with the spirit. Second factor,
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  Speaker 1: it's a plural, y'all. Okay, it's for all y'all. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the third factor. It's passive. It's called a passive voice.
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  Speaker 1: Be filled, be filled. One of the translations renders it well,
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  Speaker 1: let the Holy Spirit fill you. So I take it
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  Speaker 1: that when we begin our day, this is what I
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  Speaker 1: do and have done for years. Lord, I am yours
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  Speaker 1: and I place myself at your disposal. I ask you
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  Speaker 1: to move through me and to work through me, and
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  Speaker 1: to do your work because of me. Fill me with
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  Speaker 1: your spirit, which is the reason for the prayer. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you take over. I have some tough decisions I need
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  Speaker 1: to make. May your Spirit work through me and making
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  Speaker 1: those decisions. I have some relationships that are strained. May
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  Speaker 1: your Spirit guide me as I try my best by
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  Speaker 1: your strength to work through those broken and strain relationships. Now, fourth,
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  Speaker 1: it's in the present tense, so that says, keep on
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  Speaker 1: doing it continually, be filled frequently, habitually, regularly, continually moving
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  Speaker 1: under the power and the authority and the control of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. Let's look at the results, and there
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  Speaker 1: are four of them right here in the same passage.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful thing about the Bible, if you read it closely enough,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see that it answers many of its own questions.
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  Speaker 1: Like a question is what will be the result of
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  Speaker 1: being filled with the spirit? What happens when I pray
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  Speaker 1: that kind of prayer? And the Lord hears it, and
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  Speaker 1: the Lord completes it, answers it. Yes, what does he do? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Look at the next three verses right here in front
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  Speaker 1: of us. The first thing that occurs is that the
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  Speaker 1: spirit's filling affects my speaking. See speaking to one another
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  Speaker 1: before we go on to the music part. Let's stay
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  Speaker 1: with speaking. The spirit's filling affects my speaking. One man
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  Speaker 1: put it this way. We are on speaking terms with
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  Speaker 1: our brothers and sisters. When we are filled with the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: We don't jump too quickly into first impressions. We are
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  Speaker 1: speaking with them. There's a dialogue that happens. We enjoy
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  Speaker 1: a meaningful discussion. We share in the Give and Tape
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  Speaker 1: of life. In fact, the parallel passage to this is
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  Speaker 1: in Calautions again chapter three. And I only have you
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  Speaker 1: turned to verse sixteen because it goes a little further
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  Speaker 1: on it. Let the Word of Christ dwell richly, dwell
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  Speaker 1: within you with all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another.
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  Speaker 1: When I am filled with the spirit, I am teachable.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to learn from others, and you are ready
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  Speaker 1: to learn from others. In fact, we're able to teach
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  Speaker 1: one another, to communicate information that is valuable and helpful,
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  Speaker 1: practical and useful, and the word admonition is the other side.
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  Speaker 1: We're able to receive and accept admonition. We're open to confrontation.
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  Speaker 1: We're not stubborn or proud or resistant. When the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God is in control, the speaking to one another
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  Speaker 1: includes the give and take of life, and we are
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  Speaker 1: grateful for that work of the spirit. We often call
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  Speaker 1: it fellowship, but that's another overused word. Fellowship includes the
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  Speaker 1: kind of meaningful dialogue that makes a difference in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: How much better we are because we have learned from others.
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  Speaker 1: And this fulfilling of the spirit, well, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: lubricates the gears, makes us willing to hear and willing
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  Speaker 1: to accept. Every once in a while, a good friend,
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  Speaker 1: or my wife, or one of my own children will say, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: there's something. The kids will say, Dad, there's something you
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  Speaker 1: need to know, and I'm told you, but I want
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  Speaker 1: you to know this. And they'll bring up something that's
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  Speaker 1: been offensive or or been difficult for them to deal
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  Speaker 1: with in me, and they admonish me, or my wife will,
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  Speaker 1: or a friend will, a colleague will do that. Because
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  Speaker 1: I'm filled with the spirit, I'm open to that. When
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  Speaker 1: I'm not filled with the spirit, I resist that I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear that. We all know both experiences,
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  Speaker 1: and so we speak to one another correctly when we
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  Speaker 1: are filled with the spirit. Look carefully at the next
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  Speaker 1: response or result. Back to Psion five, verse nineteen. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
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  Speaker 1: Singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the second result. The spirit's filling gives me a
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  Speaker 1: melodious heart, a melodious heart. We use music effectively and
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  Speaker 1: frequently in worship, and our worship is enhanced not only
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  Speaker 1: by the music, but as the Spirit of God fills us,
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  Speaker 1: we throw ourselves into it. We sing heartily to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: It's a spirit filled delight to share in song with
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  Speaker 1: one another, and they are divided for us into psalms, hymns,
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  Speaker 1: and spiritual songs. What a way to express heartfelt worship.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine worship without music? There's a no popular
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  Speaker 1: song without a song. The day would never end without
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  Speaker 1: a song, the road would never bend when things go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: A man ain't got a friend without a song. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it probably doesn't surprise you to know, every once in
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  Speaker 1: a while I just belt out in a song. I
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  Speaker 1: have to be careful where I am, and I'm usually
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  Speaker 1: alone when I do that, or in my study or
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  Speaker 1: with Cynthia, who's gotten used to it. Sometime there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: like a song to get the worship expressed. At Thanksgiving time,
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  Speaker 1: we sing Henry Alford's wonderful words, Come ye, thankful people,
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  Speaker 1: come raise the song of harvest. Home all is safely
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  Speaker 1: gathered in Ere the winter storms began, back in a
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  Speaker 1: culture of the farm and harvest that comes to us.
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  Speaker 1: I even found an old soldier's song during the Civil War.
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  Speaker 1: As he paused in the following the bloody battle in
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  Speaker 1: eighteen sixty four, he wrote this, we're tinting tonight on
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  Speaker 1: the old campground. Give us a song to cheer our
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  Speaker 1: weary hearts, A song of home and friends we love
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  Speaker 1: so dear. I realized that some of you cannot sing,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you want to. And I don't mean
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  Speaker 1: this in any way the wrong way, but you're free
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  Speaker 1: to sing to the Lord. He doesn't come back to
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  Speaker 1: you and say you're not quite on pitch there, or
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  Speaker 1: your voice needs help. You know. He doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: He hears this. See what it says, we make melody
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  Speaker 1: with our hearts to the Lord. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: audition to bring your melodious heart to the Lord. I would,
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  Speaker 1: I would urge more of you to become the students
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  Speaker 1: of the hens or or or the great choruses of worship.
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  Speaker 1: Learn them, sing them, they will, They will make a
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  Speaker 1: difference in your day. How valuable is music in our lives?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, a melodious heart is never a great
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  Speaker 1: grumbling heart, never a grumbling heart, which brings us to
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  Speaker 1: the third. Look at verse twenty, always giving thanks. It's
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  Speaker 1: another result the spirit's feeling makes us thankful. Thankful people
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  Speaker 1: don't miss the always and all things, always giving thanks
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  Speaker 1: for all things, always giving things. Gratitude is an eloquent
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  Speaker 1: statement of the spirit's filling. Grumbling is a statement of
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  Speaker 1: the flesh in control. I'm not saying you don't have
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  Speaker 1: room to disagree. Of course you do. That's part of
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  Speaker 1: having discernment. But you don't grumble. Life for you hasn't
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  Speaker 1: boiled down to a bunch of gripes and grumbles. You're
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  Speaker 1: giving thanks in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: to God, even the Father. And there's another. There's a fourth,
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  Speaker 1: and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Mutual submission. Remember the first word, mutual submission. Not only
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  Speaker 1: are you submissive to those in authority over you, those
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  Speaker 1: who are filled with the spirit are submissive to you.
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  Speaker 1: There's no rank in the body of Christ. All ground
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  Speaker 1: is level at the foot of the cross. There's no
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  Speaker 1: gender mentioned here. This is important, especially for us men
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  Speaker 1: who love it. When we get to verse twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: wives being subjection to your own us the way we
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  Speaker 1: tend to read it, and we go look at that, honey,
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  Speaker 1: look at that right there in the text. Several years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I was flying back from a promise keeper's conference, and
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  Speaker 1: part of the conference had been spent with Jack Hayford,
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine. And Jack was sitting up here at
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  Speaker 1: this and I was sitting back here and his chair
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  Speaker 1: was empty, and he said, come on up here. So
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  Speaker 1: I walked up and sat on buying with a delightful time.
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  Speaker 1: Jack's so much fun to be with. He told me
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  Speaker 1: a terrific story. He said, Hey, I got a story
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  Speaker 1: you can use sometime. So he passed it on to me.
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  Speaker 1: So Hayfrid gets credit for this one. He said, there
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  Speaker 1: was this couple that went to this two day conference
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  Speaker 1: on marriage, and it so happened. This was one of
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  Speaker 1: those speakers that just hammered away at the wife being
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  Speaker 1: in submission to her husband. Well, a husband loved it.
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  Speaker 1: He was sitting there drinking it in and oh, let's
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  Speaker 1: stay late and get everything he has to say, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So when they get home, they get out of the
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  Speaker 1: car and he slams the door and walks inside the
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  Speaker 1: house and closes the door and locks it. She looks
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  Speaker 1: at him. He goes, I want to get something straight
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  Speaker 1: with you right now. From now on, that's the way
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  Speaker 1: things are going to be here. You got that, you
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  Speaker 1: submit to me. He didn't see her for two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: The beginning of the third week he could begin to
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  Speaker 1: see her out of one eye. So guys, be careful now.
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  Speaker 1: I've had a little fun with you. But I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be real serious when I say I have never seen
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  Speaker 1: an exception of harmony and a marriage. Both members are healthy,
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  Speaker 1: both are wholesome and healthy. Nobody's sick in this. By that,
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  Speaker 1: I include emotional sickness. Where there is a godly man
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  Speaker 1: and a wife who loves being with him and listening
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  Speaker 1: to him, respecting him. In fact, the closer one walks
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  Speaker 1: with Christ, the more many people want to be near you.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen a husband have trouble with a submissive wife.
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  Speaker 1: If his heart is right, if his tongue is controlled,
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  Speaker 1: if his spirit is gentle, if his life is marked
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  Speaker 1: by wisdom, compassion, discernment, care, affection, consistency. What wife doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to be around a man like that? Why would
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  Speaker 1: we be like that? Look at the end of verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, be subject to one another in the fear
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. You know what that means, out of respect
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  Speaker 1: for Christ. You know why I listen when my wife
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  Speaker 1: speaks because I respect Christ. Why she listens to me
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  Speaker 1: when I say things to her that may be hard
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  Speaker 1: for her to hear, because she respects Christ. When both
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  Speaker 1: of you respect Christ, it does an amazing thing to
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  Speaker 1: your ability to communicate. The barriers just seem to kind
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  Speaker 1: of drop, and we're open as I see through all
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  Speaker 1: the ground we've covered here and call to mind the
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  Speaker 1: importance of the subject. A couple of things sort of
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  Speaker 1: stand out in my mind. One has to do with
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  Speaker 1: the world, the world's system, and the other has to
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  Speaker 1: do with the Church. And the first regarding the world,
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  Speaker 1: the world isn't looking for the amazing, but rather the authentic.
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  Speaker 1: The world doesn't expect Christians to walk on water. Most
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  Speaker 1: folks in the world don't expect us to be perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but they do expect us to be real. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know of one other characteristic that draws people with an
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  Speaker 1: interest to the person of Christ more than authenticity. That
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  Speaker 1: includes teenagers as well as those getting up in years.
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  Speaker 1: The age spectrum is broad. Authenticity is always appealing. The
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  Speaker 1: world isn't looking for the amazing, but rather longing to
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  Speaker 1: find the authentic. The feeling of the Spirit creates that
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  Speaker 1: kind of authenticity. The second is this, the church doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need monthly miracles. We need daily enablement. We as a
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  Speaker 1: church don't have to have miracles regularly. That's not the
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  Speaker 1: way God operates. But we do need the enablement, the infilling,
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  Speaker 1: the empowering, the dynamic of His presence among us. We
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  Speaker 1: sang earlier a wonderful old chorus. Spirit of the Living God,
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  Speaker 1: fall afresh on me, melt me, mold me, what fill me,
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  Speaker 1: use me. It's in that order be glorified in the
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  Speaker 1: fellowship as I, as I speak to one another other
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  Speaker 1: people in my talk and in my dialogue. Be the
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  Speaker 1: reason for my thankfulness. Be the core, the center of
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  Speaker 1: my thankfulness. Deliver me from my circumstances, looking to them
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  Speaker 1: to make me thankful. Remind me that you are the
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  Speaker 1: one that gives me a thankful spirit. Be honored in
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  Speaker 1: my submissive attitude. Be magnified as a result of my
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  Speaker 1: openness and vulnerability with my brothers and sisters. Be the
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  Speaker 1: source of my authentic life. Be the reason that's true.
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  Speaker 1: Be the supplier of my daily fuel. Lord, It's terribly
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  Speaker 1: important that every one of us come to terms with
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit and the flesh. The Spirit and the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit leads us faithfully into a life of righteousness, authenticity,
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  Speaker 1: genuine godliness. The flesh turns the attention on ourselves, makes
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  Speaker 1: us defensive, argumentative, nitpicking, demanding, hard to live with, hard
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  Speaker 1: to deal with. When I'm under the control of the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: it does wonders in my relationship with my family, for example,
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  Speaker 1: when I'm under the control of the flesh, it amazing
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  Speaker 1: the destruction that follows, especially verbal destruction. Not like all
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  Speaker 1: of us to just bow our heads right where we
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  Speaker 1: are right, Just sit quietly and sit there with your
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  Speaker 1: eyes closed. Remember the prayer I offered earlier. Lord, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the process of fulfilling your will. Fill me with
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  Speaker 1: your spirit. Fill me with your spirit. I want to
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  Speaker 1: glorify your name because I belonged to you. I pledge
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  Speaker 1: my allegiance to you today. Enable me in my walk
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  Speaker 1: to have the discernment to walk in obedience, not disobedience.
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  Speaker 1: Guard my tongue, guard my eyes, my mind, my decision.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be under your control today. If you
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  Speaker 1: have never met Jesus Christ in a personal way, that
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  Speaker 1: prayer is premature for you. Your prayer is Lord, Today,
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  Speaker 1: I acknowledge that you and I aren't even on speaking terms.
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  Speaker 1: I've never trusted in your son as savior. Today I
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  Speaker 1: want to do that. I invite him to take charge
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  Speaker 1: of my life. Believe in him, trust him. So, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your presence, and thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: promise to give us an enablement that comes directly from you.
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  Speaker 1: Deliver us, our Father, from looking for the sensational and
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  Speaker 1: then being disillusioned when it isn't a reality. Bring us
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  Speaker 1: face to face with what you have promised, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the power to live the life of Christ in the
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  Speaker 1: world like this one. Now dismiss us with that hope
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  Speaker 1: and assurance, and bring those who've never trusted in your
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  Speaker 1: son to faith in him. I pray do that soon. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I ask in the name of the Savior Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone said amen.
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  Speaker 2: So here's the bottom line. We need to stop chasing
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  Speaker 2: the sensational. That's the liberating message at the heart of
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  Speaker 2: everything Chuckswyndall has taught us this week on Inside for Living.
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  Speaker 2: God has already provided everything we need to live an
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  Speaker 2: authentic christ honoring life, not through dramatic experiences, but through
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  Speaker 2: fully explore what it means to walk in the sp spirit,
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  Speaker 2: God quietly nudging you? I'm Bill Meyer. Chucks Wendaul talks
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