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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Triumphant Joy, Part 2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Are you weary of the cycle promising to do better
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  Speaker 1: only to fall back into the same patterns, Tired of
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  Speaker 1: carrying the weight of guilt and shame from poor choices?
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  Speaker 1: Romans Chapter five brings liberating news today. On Insight for Living,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Swindaul reveals how Paul transitions from man's hopeless condition
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  Speaker 1: to the stunning reality of what happens when Christ enters
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  Speaker 1: your life. This isn't about trying harder, It's about discovering
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  Speaker 1: three immediate benefits that transform everything for anyone drowning in
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  Speaker 1: self condemnation. Romans five offers the lifeline you've been desperately seeking.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck titled today's message triumphant joy.
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  Speaker 2: Hope naturally would make you jubilee, But tribulation Look at
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  Speaker 2: verse three. Not only this, but we also triumphantly rejoice
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  Speaker 2: in tribulation. The old country preacher said, when the Lord
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  Speaker 2: sends you tribulation, supposed to tribulate. But you know what,
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  Speaker 2: it's really that's really not the best option. When he
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  Speaker 2: sends a tribulation, he's supposed to jubilate. It's supposed to jubilate. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how can we jubilate if we're pressured how's that work. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to get it from other people. We're
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  Speaker 2: not going to get it from our jobs. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to get it from our circumstances or the demands
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  Speaker 2: to adjust to whatever. Our jubilation will come from above
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  Speaker 2: when we realize, don't miss this, that the pressure is
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  Speaker 2: all part of the plan of God to bring us
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  Speaker 2: to the place He wants us to be as we
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  Speaker 2: grow toward maturity. I'll show you how it works. It's
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  Speaker 2: like Domino's sit on the end, bumping up against one another.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the dominoes. We exalt in tribulation, knowing that
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  Speaker 2: tribulation brings about perseverance. Stay right there, hupubon A is
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  Speaker 2: from two terms. One means under, the other means to abide,
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  Speaker 2: And in this case this noun means fortitude, a triumphant fortitude.
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  Speaker 2: As I hold together through the power of Christ in
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  Speaker 2: this pressure, there is built within me an inner fortitude,
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  Speaker 2: an ability to abide under. This isn't pretending, it isn't
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  Speaker 2: positive thinking. This is an actual experience within ourselves where
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  Speaker 2: we deepen. We deepen, and that perseverance allows us to
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  Speaker 2: handle the pressure instead of looking for a way to
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  Speaker 2: bail out, or running ahead or running away. We abide under.
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  Speaker 2: Charles Hodge calls this tried integrity. When we get to
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  Speaker 2: the word perseverance bumps up and creates proven character. It's
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  Speaker 2: the idea of being put to a test and approved.
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  Speaker 2: It's the word used for taking the slag out of iron.
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  Speaker 2: It's the word for purifying metal until it no longer
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  Speaker 2: has its alloys and becomes increasingly more valuable. We have
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  Speaker 2: the word sterling to describe that sterling character. When affliction
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  Speaker 2: is met with fortitude, we emerge out of the battle
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  Speaker 2: with sterling character or tried integrity. Perseverance leads to reliability,
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  Speaker 2: that sterling quality of character. I don't know if you've
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  Speaker 2: ever had the opportunity I've had, and that's to listen
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  Speaker 2: to some of the wire tape recordings of Churchill's speeches
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  Speaker 2: to the people of England in the middle of the
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  Speaker 2: Second World War. On occasion, he would use words that
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  Speaker 2: just sort of punctuate back to me an important statement
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  Speaker 2: about life.
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  Speaker 3: One of them is character.
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  Speaker 2: He says it like this, karaka condacta, and he loved
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  Speaker 2: the word karaka. I can just see him in front
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  Speaker 2: of the mirror practicing karaka karaka. And then when he
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  Speaker 2: goes before Parliament did deliver that that we are people
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  Speaker 2: of karaka, in this case proven karaka. How great when
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  Speaker 2: you meet a Christian with proven character, you know what
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  Speaker 2: you want their counsel. You want to stay near them,
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  Speaker 2: You want to read what they write, you want to
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  Speaker 2: listen when they speak, You want to be next to
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  Speaker 2: them when life's coming apart. They've known pressure which has
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  Speaker 2: built within them fortitude, and it has led to proven character.
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  Speaker 2: You see the benefit of staying at it. By staying
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  Speaker 2: at it as the Christian can, it only gets better
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  Speaker 2: and better, and before long you become a person of
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  Speaker 2: sterling character. And then back to hope full circle. It's
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  Speaker 2: a hope that doesn't disappoint. And here Paul reminds us
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  Speaker 2: of the Gospel. Look closely, the hope that doesn't disappoint
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  Speaker 2: because the love of God has been poured out within
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  Speaker 2: our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
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  Speaker 2: You may be surprised to find out, as I was
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  Speaker 2: when I'm studying Romans, that this is the first time
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  Speaker 2: in the Letter to the Romans that two great truths
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  Speaker 2: are introduced. The love of God not mentioned before chapter
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  Speaker 2: five verse five, and the Holy Spirit of God not
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  Speaker 2: mentioned until verse five of chapter five. Here will begin
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  Speaker 2: a journey that will be cultivated by Paul in the
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  Speaker 2: logic of his letter to the Romans. You are introduced
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  Speaker 2: now to the love of God that caused the Father
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  Speaker 2: to pour out to us the power the enablement of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. If there is any area of misunderstanding
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  Speaker 2: and weird teaching, it is the teaching on the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Just as a brief little theology one O one course,
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  Speaker 2: always think of the Spirit of God as a person.
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  Speaker 2: Don't call him an it lesson one. You have him
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  Speaker 2: living within you. There is the Father who is planning
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  Speaker 2: the events of life. There is the Son of God,
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  Speaker 2: the second member of the Trinity, who implements the plan.
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  Speaker 2: And then there is the Spirit of God, third member
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  Speaker 2: of the Trinity, who empowers it. Empowers it that includes
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  Speaker 2: your involvement and mind in life. He gives us gifts
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  Speaker 2: to be exercised in life. He gives us strength we
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  Speaker 2: don't have in ourselves. He gives us illumination to understand truth.
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  Speaker 2: He gives us comfort when we are in distress and
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  Speaker 2: under this kind of pressure. This comes to us, and
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  Speaker 2: it gives us hope. Knowing that we now have the
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  Speaker 2: love of God working for us and the Spirit of
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  Speaker 2: God working within us.
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  Speaker 3: How good is that?
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  Speaker 2: Which prompts the apostle to move into a brief but
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  Speaker 2: very clear presentation of the Gospel. He goes to the past,
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  Speaker 2: while we were still helpless, that's when we were lost.
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  Speaker 2: At the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. Then
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  Speaker 2: he compares that death to the death of one person
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  Speaker 2: for another in our time. Heart Well, he died for
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  Speaker 2: a righteous man, though perhaps for the good man. Some
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  Speaker 2: would dare to die. But God and memorized this eighth verse.
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  Speaker 2: Learn it, learn it, quote it, use it. God demonstrates
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  Speaker 2: his own love toward us. There's that love again in
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  Speaker 2: that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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  Speaker 2: We weren't righteous, we weren't good, We were sinning. And
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  Speaker 2: at the time Christ died for us. Remember his words, Father,
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  Speaker 2: forgive them. They don't even know what they're doing. Father,
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  Speaker 2: into your hand, I commend my spirit. As he had
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  Speaker 2: borne the sins of the world, paying the complete penalty,
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  Speaker 2: he now gave himself back to the Father. He demonstrated
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  Speaker 2: his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners,
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  Speaker 2: Christ died, But it doesn't stop there.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, folks.
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  Speaker 2: Truth in the scripture, don't stop at the gospel. Truths
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  Speaker 2: don't stop there. That's the beginning of the Christian life.
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  Speaker 2: And it only gets better as you learn and discover
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  Speaker 2: and apply more of it. And here he's going to
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  Speaker 2: get into what he has in mind when he talks
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  Speaker 2: about the saving life of Christ. Look closely. Much more
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  Speaker 2: then he likes that. He says it again in verse ten,
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  Speaker 2: much more then, having now been declared righteous by His blood,
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  Speaker 2: that's conversion. We shall be saved from the wrath of
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  Speaker 2: God through Him. That takes us all the way to
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  Speaker 2: the final judgment. And we're saved from the wrath of God.
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  Speaker 2: So there's no insecurity. You're born into the family, you
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  Speaker 2: stay in the family, you have the name of Christ
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  Speaker 2: in your life. The name of Christ goes with you
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  Speaker 2: through death. So you're delivered. You're saved from the wrath
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  Speaker 2: of God through him. But there's another salvation as well,
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  Speaker 2: there's another saving, another deliverance. For if while we were enemies,
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  Speaker 2: we are reconciled to God through the death of his son,
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  Speaker 2: much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by
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  Speaker 2: his life.
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: A couple of things need to be clarified. First, reconciliation
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  Speaker 2: it means to bring amity where there was once enmity.
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  Speaker 2: It means building a bridge where there was once a
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  Speaker 2: broken down relationship. Understand this, God is not reconciled to us.
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  Speaker 2: We are reconciled to God. We're the one who broke
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  Speaker 2: down the bridge. God who is all love and grace
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  Speaker 2: and mercy, looks upon us and reaches out to us
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  Speaker 2: through Christ. And we, because of Christ, have a bridge
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  Speaker 2: built to God marked reconciliation. The enmity is gone and
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  Speaker 2: the amity is present. We are now on a basis
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  Speaker 2: of close relationship. Now with that in mind, and we've
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  Speaker 2: got to deal with our own sinfulness. Okay, remember justification,
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  Speaker 2: sovereign act of God whereby he declares righteous the believing sinner,
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  Speaker 2: while we're still in a sinning state, meaning we're still
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  Speaker 2: sinful even though we are in God's eyes righteous as
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  Speaker 2: his son. So Sin wants to keep dominating us. It
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  Speaker 2: did all the way through until we were converted, all
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  Speaker 2: the way through our lives. Satan still wants to take control.
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  Speaker 2: He still wants to be in charge. So we can
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  Speaker 2: be saved from that domination through the life of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: That's called sanctification. I love to quote the hymn, Then
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  Speaker 2: we shall be where we would be. Then we shall
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  Speaker 2: be what we would be. Things that are not now
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  Speaker 2: nor could be soon shall be our own, And people go,
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  Speaker 2: what what is that about? Then we shall be where
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  Speaker 2: we would be.
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  Speaker 3: We would be in heaven. We'd love that.
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  Speaker 2: Then we shall be what we should be, constantly righteous,
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  Speaker 2: constantly fulfilling Christ's desires and commands, constantly walking in the light.
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  Speaker 2: We shall be what we should be. Then we shall
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  Speaker 2: be where we would be. Then we shall be what
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  Speaker 2: we should be. Things that are not now nor could
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  Speaker 2: be When we are with Christ, they will be our own.
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  Speaker 3: What's not now, what could be? Or what can't be.
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  Speaker 2: We can't live without sin. We just drag it around
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  Speaker 2: in our bodies. That's why you can leave a worship
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  Speaker 2: service just feeling so devoted and so uplifted, and you
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  Speaker 2: have what some call the unction, and you leave with
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  Speaker 2: a big time tangles and you're not in your car
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  Speaker 2: five minutes before, you yelling the guy driving in your lane,
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  Speaker 2: and you go, what's that about? What's the problem? It's sin?
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  Speaker 2: Or you answer back quickly or in an ugly manner
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  Speaker 2: to somebody you would that you love.
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  Speaker 3: What's that about? It's sin? What do I need? I
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  Speaker 3: need to be sanctified?
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  Speaker 2: Sanctification is the yo, yo, if you will, of relating
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  Speaker 2: to God and walking in fellowship and then dropping and
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  Speaker 2: back in fellowship with him and then fall. How do
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  Speaker 2: I stay in that sense of fellowship sanctification?
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  Speaker 3: Here's what I wrote in my Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus changed our status when he died for us. That
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  Speaker 2: status change is justification. He changes our state through his
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  Speaker 2: risen life sanctification. When he justified us, he saved us
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  Speaker 2: from our sins, from the sin of our lives and condemnation.
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  Speaker 2: As he sanctifies us, he saves us from sins domination.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what these verses are about. And he will
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  Speaker 2: get into that in chapter six and seven. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: I have some wonderful news for you. Just gets better
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  Speaker 2: and better. You can live more of your life free
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  Speaker 2: of sin than you think.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: People don't hear that. We're all taught first John one nine,
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  Speaker 2: and we should be. First John one nine is a
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  Speaker 2: Christian's bar of soap. If we confess our sins, he
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  Speaker 2: is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse
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  Speaker 2: us from all unrighteous that's if we sin. But how
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  Speaker 2: about living on a plane where you don't fall into
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  Speaker 2: that trap is often Now you can't be completely free
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  Speaker 2: of it, but you can live days of your life
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  Speaker 2: without sinning.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at me like, oh know about that? Oh
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  Speaker 3: I do know about that.
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  Speaker 2: That's why Chapter six and seven are such salvation for
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  Speaker 2: us in the Letter to the Romans, why yield your
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  Speaker 2: members as instruments of unrighteousness under sin rather than instruments
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness to God?
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to yield. Sin doesn't have domination over you.
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  Speaker 3: Christ does.
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  Speaker 2: The reason you yield is because you have a deep
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  Speaker 2: seated secret longing to do wrong, and the spirit of
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  Speaker 2: God can empower you to have a longing to do
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  Speaker 2: right that will overwhelm the urges to yield.
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  Speaker 3: To sin nature.
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  Speaker 2: That's what this is about. We will be saved by
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  Speaker 2: his life. That's why he lives on. He lives on.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the reasons he lives on to empower
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  Speaker 2: us to live above the drag of sin. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: last verse eleven, not only this, but we exult, we
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  Speaker 2: jubilate in God.
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  Speaker 3: Himself.
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  Speaker 2: I love that we exult in God through our Lord
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliationship.
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  Speaker 2: The bridge is built, the relationship is there. Grace is
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  Speaker 2: the territory, Victory is the lifestyle, and I exult in
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  Speaker 2: a relationship with a living God. Paul wrote it this
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  Speaker 2: way in Philippians three ten, that I may know Him
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  Speaker 2: and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of
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  Speaker 2: his sufferings, that I may become conformable unto his death.
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  Speaker 2: The Amplified Bible says that I may know him, that is,
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  Speaker 2: that I may progressively become more intimately acquainted with him.
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  Speaker 3: Some of you are there.
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  Speaker 2: Most of you are not, because most have never been
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  Speaker 2: taught that it's possible. Grace is our territory, and in
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  Speaker 2: it we stand, and standing in it we have a
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  Speaker 2: life of Christ that is reality, and it becomes for
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  Speaker 2: us a jubilation, triumphant joy. Now, as I put all
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  Speaker 2: of this together, I come up with four rather simple
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  Speaker 2: words of application.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: The key to rejoicing is having the right focus. The
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  Speaker 2: key to rejoicing is having the right focus. Focus is
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  Speaker 2: no longer on myself or my sirircumstances. My focus is
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  Speaker 2: now on my Savior, who has taken up residence in
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  Speaker 2: my life and longs to have first place on the
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  Speaker 2: throne of my will. Focus the right focus. Here's the second.
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  Speaker 2: The willingness to focus means having the right attitude. The
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  Speaker 2: willingness to focus means having the right attitude. I want
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  Speaker 2: this Lord. I don't want to keep living to myself.
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  Speaker 2: I'm weary of the carnal life. I don't like the
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  Speaker 2: consequences that follow it when I get my way or
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  Speaker 2: when I push my will into it. Teachability, humility, gratitude.
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  Speaker 2: That's all part of the right attitude. Third, the byproduct
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  Speaker 2: of the right attitude is triumphant joy. When I cultivate
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  Speaker 2: this attitude of teachability and humility before God and gratitude
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  Speaker 2: to Him, there is a joy that begins to spread
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  Speaker 2: within me. It isn't a silly little happiness. It isn't fickle,
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  Speaker 2: It isn't grinning all the time like a possum eating briar.
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  Speaker 3: That's not we're talking about. That's silly.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you do with jokes, and there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 2: with a funny joke. We all laugh at him we
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  Speaker 2: go on, but there's nothing to do with joy. Joy
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  Speaker 2: is an abiding presence of seeing the hand of God
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  Speaker 2: at work and knowing he is a purpose that will
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  Speaker 2: bring him glory and bring me good, and I have joy,
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  Speaker 2: a triumphant joy. Fourth, the result of triumphant joy is
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  Speaker 2: living above my circumstances. That's a great way to live,
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  Speaker 2: living above my circumstances. Circumstances are the pits. My friend
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  Speaker 2: Howie Hendrix ask a good friend of his, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Man? The guy says, oh, Man, under.
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  Speaker 2: These circumstances, it is terrible. Hendrix says, what are you
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  Speaker 2: doing under there? How come here under there?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Under circumstances at work? What are you doing under that?
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  Speaker 2: You don't live your life under that, Live above that,
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  Speaker 2: Live above that. Former Chaplain to the Senate, Lloyd Ogilvie
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  Speaker 2: wrote these words a number of years ago. Listen to
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  Speaker 2: his comment about that very point. This past year has
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  Speaker 2: been the most difficult year of my life. My wife
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  Speaker 2: has been through five major surgeries, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy.
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  Speaker 2: During the same year, I suffered the loss of several
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  Speaker 2: key staff teammates whose moves were very guided for them,
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  Speaker 2: but a source of pressure and uncertainty in my work.
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  Speaker 2: Problems which I could have tackled with gusto under normal
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  Speaker 2: circumstances seemed to loom in all directions. Discouragement lurked around
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  Speaker 2: every corner, trying to capture my feelings. Prayer was no
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  Speaker 2: longer a contemplative luxury, but the only way to survive
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  Speaker 2: my own Innersations were multiplied by the prayers of others.
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  Speaker 2: Friendships were deepened, and I was forced to allow people
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  Speaker 2: to assure me with words I had preached for years
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  Speaker 2: and not a nice way to put it. They reminded
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  Speaker 2: me of what I'd been preaching, and now they were
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  Speaker 2: turning it around and using it to encourage me. No
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  Speaker 2: day went by without a conversation, a letter, or phone
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  Speaker 2: call giving me love and hope. The greatest discovery that
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  Speaker 2: I've made in the midst of all the difficulties is
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  Speaker 2: that I can have joy when I don't feel like it.
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  Speaker 3: Artisian joy.
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  Speaker 2: When I had every reason to feel beaten, I felt
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  Speaker 2: joy as prayers were being answered, as the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: infused a seemingly limitless flow of joy in spite of everything.
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  Speaker 2: He gave me the conviction of being loved and the
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  Speaker 2: certainty that nothing could separate me from him. It was
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  Speaker 2: not happiness, gush or jolliness, but a constant flow of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit through me. At no time did he
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  Speaker 2: give me the easy confidence that everything would work out
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  Speaker 2: as I wanted it on my timetable, but that he.
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  Speaker 3: Was in charge. Isn't that good?
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  Speaker 2: One of the greatest truths I learned in all of
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  Speaker 2: my life is that I am.
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  Speaker 3: Not in charge. God is well.
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  Speaker 2: That'll help you sleep like a baby. I don't worry
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  Speaker 2: about you. I don't stay awake concerned over how you're
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  Speaker 2: doing or whether you're listening or applying this. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: I got a full time job keeping up with me.
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  Speaker 2: But I now know the secret of rest, and that
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  Speaker 2: is saying to him every morning, you're in charge, this
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  Speaker 2: day is yours. You're sovereign. You're the potter.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a clay. You're the master, I'm a servant.
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  Speaker 2: You're the leader.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the follower. You're the mentor. I'm the disciple.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to be glorified, and you're going to shape
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  Speaker 2: me into a person that you want me to be.
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  Speaker 2: Sterling character and jubilant joy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Man, doesn't get much better than that, does it?
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  Speaker 2: Let's bow our heads together, peace with God, hope for
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  Speaker 2: the future, joy for the present. If those are just
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  Speaker 2: pipe dreams, and you know, distant dreams for you and
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  Speaker 2: sort of out there and the fogginess of the future,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you you can remove all the fog,
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  Speaker 2: placing your faith and trust the Lord Jesus Christ. You're
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  Speaker 2: surrounded by people who have done that, and there's not
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  Speaker 2: one of us who deserves it. But as a result,
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  Speaker 2: we know a peace we would not otherwise have known,
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  Speaker 2: and believe in that. We live in a territory marked
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  Speaker 2: grace that would never have been ours to enjoy. We
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  Speaker 2: invite you to join, Come to Christ, take him now.
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  Speaker 2: You can't afford to live your life in this pressured
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  Speaker 2: world without divine assistance and a purpose and what a future.
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  Speaker 2: Then we shall be what we should be. Then we
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  Speaker 2: shall be what we would be. Things that are not
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  Speaker 2: now are.
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  Speaker 3: Could be soon shall be our own.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, dear Father, for your plan for your purpose
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  Speaker 2: which spans all of time. Thank you for your hand
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  Speaker 2: in our lives, for patiently teaching us truth to live by,
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  Speaker 2: truth to die with. Thank you for your peace, for hope,
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  Speaker 2: for triumphant joy. We exalt in you.
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  Speaker 3: Through Christ, in whose name we pray. Everybody said Amen.
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  Speaker 1: With Chucks Wendall's closing prayer, we conclude our study in Romans,
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