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439 | Throwback - Apart from the World · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  The world has much to offer you that may seem great on the surface.
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  Your time is stolen by many entertaining things.
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  Hours are passed in front of televisions, watching ballgames,
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  as well as just socializing.
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  It is very easy to get caught up in the things of this world.
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  All the same, there is a price to pay for making the world your number one priority.
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  You lose fellowship with the Savior, and you lose bunches of blessings.
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  Join us in this program, Apart from the World, as Kim Miller of Women at the
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  Well Ministries takes us through 1 John 2.15, which says, Love not the world,
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  neither the things that are in the world.
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  If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this
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  and other opportunity to come before you.
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  Lord, I ask that you would open our hearts and you would open our minds for
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  these moments that we have together.
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  That we would be fully focused on you and what you have done for us and the
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  word that you've given us that we might know who you are.
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  The commandments that you've given us that we might live
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  the life that would give us the abundant life you've intended for
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  us to have lord i pray that you would speak through
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  these lips of clay that we i would be able lord to say something
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  that would spark someone to draw closer to
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  you to investigate more of your love and
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  your scriptures and lord that we would be shining
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  lights to all those that are around us lord i love you and i praise you and
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  i thank you in jesus name apart from the world when you think about christians
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  we realize that we go through the same heartache the same problems and,
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  The same issues as individuals who have not given their life to Christ.
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  And oftentimes, that seems to really throw a weak Christian,
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  or perhaps give fodder to someone who does not know the Lord.
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  Because somehow they think that when we become a child of God,
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  that that means we're immune to the things of the world.
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  But the Bible clearly says that the prince of the power of the air has domain over the world.
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  But it clearly says that it has no more dominion
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  over us who know the lord so though
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  we live in a world where the devil has full reign and it doesn't take any amount
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  of time of watching the news talking to other people reading the newspaper or
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  just seeing things go on around you to know that the devil is running rampant
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  in this world but i want you to know that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
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  But we are subject to the same things happening in our lives as anyone else.
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  The difference is that a true believer in Christ has the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of them.
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  And so if two people are going through the same thing, and one person knows
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  the love of God and has the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of them,
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  and one person has not accepted the Christ as Savior and therefore does not
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  have the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of them,
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  there should be a very distinct difference
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  in how they deal with the circumstances that come to their life.
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  First of all, the Christian has hope in all things because Jesus is the hope of all things.
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  Second of all, the Christian has the promise that they'll never go through anything
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  alone because the Bible says that he'll never leave you nor forsake you.
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  Thirdly, since the Holy Spirit is dwelling inside of you,
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  then you should be trusting in the Lord in such a way that you're leaving the
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  footprints of God behind you and all around you as you shine the glory of God
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  throughout your situation.
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  Whereas those who do not know the Lord live in despair. They have no hope.
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  And they're completely dependent upon what
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  they can do themselves to get themselves out of the situation and you often
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  see them hopeless and in despair but the scripture says that we should not act
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  as those who have no hope the scripture says troubled on every hand perplexed but not despair.
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  Because we have the hope of Christ in us.
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  And so the first thing we need to look at as we look at this scripture is,
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  can the world tell you apart from the world?
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  If you were convicted of being a Christian, is there enough evidence in your life to convict you?
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  If someone was accusing you of being a Christian,
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  could they follow after you day by day and see the things that you do and hear
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  your works and watch you and know that you are a child of the Most High God?
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  Or would it be hard to find enough evidence to convict you?
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  It is my prayer that as a child of God,
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  you have a strong witness of your allegiance to Jesus Christ,
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  that his love exudes from
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  you in such a way that everybody knows
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  you love him and that when
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  you are faced with trials and temptations when trouble does come your way that
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  you immediately cling to the hand of the almighty god that you instantaneously
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  show that you believe that all things work together for the good to them that
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  love the lord to them that are called according to his purpose.
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  That even though the world would look at you and say, everything is falling
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  apart, you can say, I am held by the hand of the most high God.
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  And it may look like things are falling apart, but I am sure in his presence.
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  Then there's the thing about our witness.
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  The Bible says that we are his witnesses.
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  And in Matthew chapter 5, beginning in verse 14, it tells us how our witness should be.
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  And I think that it's worth bearing fruit for the Lord any and every day of the week.
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  And I believe it's worth reading this scripture that we might be able to look
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  at what God says we should be.
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  He says that we should be a light. he
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  says you are a light of the world a city that is set on
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  a hill cannot be hid you can't hide
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  the holy spirit that dwells inside
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  of you and he says neither do men light a candle and
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  put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it
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  giveth light unto all that are in the house then
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  he says this is what we are to do let your light so
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  shine before men that they may see your
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  good works and glorify your father which
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  is in heaven people need to see jesus
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  in you you need to glorify jesus with your thoughts your actions your works
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  with your entire being and you say well kim how can i do that well it's not
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  that difficult given that in second corinthians 5 17 we're told that therefore,
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  if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
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  Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new.
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  When we accept Christ as Savior, he says, For God so loved the world that he
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  gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
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  but have everlasting life.
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  And he says that we become the sons of God when we believe in him.
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  We're part of his family, so we should resemble him.
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  And he says that old things are passed
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  away the old things are the sin nature that
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  we have to be a servant to sin but the
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  bible says that sin has no more dominion over us and the bible tells us in first
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  john that for whatsoever is born of god overcometh the world and this is the
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  victory that overcometh the world even our faith he tells us also that greater
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  is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
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  The Bible is clear. The Holy Spirit leads us and guides us and directs us.
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  It gives us peace and it comforts us.
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  And it sets us apart from the world because it's the connection of the Holy
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  Spirit we have inside of us that allows us to live the life that God intended for us.
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  And yes, we make mistakes, but the Bible says if we confess our sins,
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  he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  But perpetual repeated sin is not a mistake.
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  Where our thoughts and our intentions are, what we're hoping to show the world
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  needs to be focused on Jesus Christ.
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  You see, the things of the world shouldn't hold a huge attraction to us.
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  Sinful, wicked things should make us feel sick inside.
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  Things that the devil puts in front of us that are anti-God shouldn't allure us.
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  And if for a moment because there's pleasure in
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  sin for a season our eyes get a little turned in
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  that direction there should be that conviction of the holy spirit
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  inside of us that says kim you don't need to be here kim walk away from this
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  conversation kim there is no place for you to be here kim you need to read my
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  word more yeah sometimes it's not about the sins of commission,
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  but the sins of omission as a child of god we should have a thirsting and a
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  hungering for the word of god because it's how we get to know who god is,
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  how we get to understand how he works and operates in our lives.
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  It grows our love for him and it increases our faith as we read about the protection
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  and the provision and the love and the blessings of God that are from Genesis to Revelations.
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  It allows us to grow deeper in our relationship with Christ,
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  which allows us our light to shine even brighter.
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  And what God wants for us is a close relationship.
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  With him that draws others to him he
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  says if i be lifted up i will draw all men
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  unto me and our lives can lift him up
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  but not if we're so mixed and mingled in
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  the world that the world can't see that there's something different
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  in us i'm so reminded
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  of how the parable of the wheat and the chafe
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  and they sifted the wheat which was good out
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  and that which wasn't good went by the wayside but
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  you could tell the difference between the good wheat and the
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  bad that's what we need to be we need
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  to be salt of the earth the bible says and we
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  need to be clearly labeled as a christian and take that with pride and joy not
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  in arrogance but that we know that we're showing the love of god and that we
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  have the characteristics that make us christ-like through the power that is supplied to us by him.
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  We're not much good to him if the world can't tell anything about us that makes us different.
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  If we don't have something about our walk and our talk that would make other
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  people want to love Jesus, then we need to stop and look at our walk and talk.
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  And we need to talk to Jesus and allow him to strengthen us so that people walking
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  behind us and walking around us would see Christ in us.
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  It's high time we Christians were apart from the world.
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