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September 11 - 2 Corinthians 7 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It's Sean here.
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  It's a Wednesday. It is the 11th of September, a
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  date, unfortunately, that lives in infamy, 9/11.
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  Yeah, that was what, 23 years ago?
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  Our world changed with that terrible atrocity that went down
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  in the other side of the world. Well, from here, but maybe
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  closer to home for you. I know I've, I've been touched
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  by many stories from that event of people's connection and
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  kindness and bravery and service for each other.
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  And you know what? I think we need to reclaim
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  today's date. And we need to Live Today as
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  though it was a new day filled with possibility.
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  Because here we are living this life, not wanting terror to be
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  able to impact again and again and again just by hearing a day.
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  So I wish you a happy Wednesday today on this the 11th of
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  September. May your day be filled with good
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  things and optimism, hope and love.
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  And well, what a great way to start or wherever you are in
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  your day, by coming together to hear the words of encouragement
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  from the God of the universe who loves you, wants you to know
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  more about his love for you. And that is why we read God's
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  word to discover more about our incredible God.
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  So let us do just that. Let us read together this
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  chapter, Second Corinthians Chapter 7,
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  because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse
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  ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit.
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  Let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God.
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  Please open your hearts to us. We have not done wrong to
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  anyone, nor LED anyone astray, nor taken advantage of anyone.
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  I'm not saying this to condemn you.
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  I said before that you are in our hearts and we live or die
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  together with you. I have the highest confidence in
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  you and I take great pride in you.
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  You have greatly encouraged me and made me happy.
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  Despite all our troubles, when we arrived in Macedonia, there
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  was no rest for us. We faced conflict from every
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  direction, with battles on the outside and fear on the inside.
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  But God, who encourages those who were discouraged, encouraged
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  us by the arrival of Titus. His presence was a joy, but so
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  was the news he brought of the encouragement he received from
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  you. When he told us how much you
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  longed to see me and how sorry you are for what happened and
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  how loyal you are to me, I was filled with joy.
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  I'm not sorry that I sent that severe letter to you, though I
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  was sorry at first, for I know it was painful to you for a
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  little while. Now I am glad I sent it, not
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  because it hurt you, but because the pain caused you to repent
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  and change your ways. It was the kind of sorrow God
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  wants His people to have. So you were not harmed by us in
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  any way. For the kind of sorrow God wants
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  us to experience leads us away from sin and results in
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  salvation. There's no regret for that kind
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  of sorrow, but worldly sorrow which lacks repentance results
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  in spiritual death. Just see what this godly sorrow
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  produced in you. Such earnestness, such concern
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  to clear yourselves, such indignation, such alarm, such
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  longing to see me, such zeal and such a readiness to punish
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  wrong. You showed that you have done
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  everything necessary to make things right.
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  My purpose then, was not to write about who did the wrong or
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  who was wronged. I wrote to you so that in the
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  sight of God you could see for yourselves how loyal you are to
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  us. We have been greatly encouraged
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  by this. In addition to our own
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  encouragement, we were especially delighted to see how
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  happy Titus was about the way all of you welcomed him and sent
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  his mind at ease. I told him how proud I was of
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  you and you didn't disappoint me.
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  I have always told you the truth, and now my boasting to
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  Titus has also proved true. Now he cares for you more than
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  ever when he remembers the way all of you obeyed him and
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  welcomed him with such fear and deep respect.
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  I am very happy now because I have complete confidence in you.
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  Oh Lord, what a wonderfully clever God you are.
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  You have created us and this world so intricately and these
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  emotions like sorrow that we would push away and reject as
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  not useful but just unpleasant. Well, You have a greater
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  purpose, that sorrow would convict us of what it is that is
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  wrong in our lives, so that we can turn closer to You, put our
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  sin to death, and live in Your way, Your love and Your
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  forgiveness. So, Holy Spirit, please convict
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  us of those places in our lives, those corners of our hearts,
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  which pull us away from You. May our hearts know clearly
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  through the way we experience them that these are not of You
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  so that we can turn from them, turn back to You and be
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  transformed day in and day out to be more like You.
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  Thank You that You love us and You care enough about us to want
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  to turn us back closer to You. So we ask this through your holy
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  transforming and saving name, Jesus, Amen.