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How We Experience the Rich Outpouring of the Holy Spirit Titus 3:4–7, Part 6 · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: This is part six on Titus three four seven. But
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  Speaker 1: when the kindness and benevolence of God our Savior appeared,
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  Speaker 1: he saved us. Remember that's the big statement including all
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  Speaker 1: of this. This is the process of how He does it,
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  Speaker 1: not because of works done by us in righteousness, but
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  Speaker 1: according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration
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  Speaker 1: and by renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured
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  Speaker 1: out on us richly through Jesus Christ, our Savior Father,
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  Speaker 1: opened our hearts and minds to grasp both the truth
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  Speaker 1: and the greatness of this wishing, this renewal, this pouring,
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  Speaker 1: this richness, this agency of Christ. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You've already looked at this in some detail. Just another comment.
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  Speaker 1: The washing of the new birth. What happens at the
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  Speaker 1: new birth, as it is accompanied by its fruit faith,
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  Speaker 1: is a washing in terms of sin being washed away,
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  Speaker 1: not dirt being washed away, but sin being forgiven. You
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  Speaker 1: see that in Hebrews One. Jesus he is the radiance
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  Speaker 1: of the glory of God and the exact imprint of
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  Speaker 1: His nature, and he upholds the universe by the word
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  Speaker 1: of his power. After making purification so there's the washing
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  Speaker 1: spoken of as purification. After making purification of sins, he
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  Speaker 1: sat down at the right hand of the Majesty. So
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  Speaker 1: what is being taken care of here in this washing,
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  Speaker 1: which happens through new birth is the cleansing from sin
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  Speaker 1: and its guilt. That's crucial that we understand, and that
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  Speaker 1: washing from sin is once for all and decisive. Our
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  Speaker 1: sins are forgiven and the payment is made by Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and this is how we come to experience it in
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  Speaker 1: a point of time. Regeneration is not a process. It
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  Speaker 1: happens to us. It's the miracle of being made new
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  Speaker 1: as believers. But the process of purification goes on in
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  Speaker 1: the Christian life. I want to just show that tension
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  Speaker 1: or that paradox between the once for allness of the
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  Speaker 1: washing and the forgiveness and the ongoing nature of the purification.
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  Speaker 1: So for example, here's verse Crinsiance five' seven. Cleanse so
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  Speaker 1: there's the idea of washing and, cleansing cleanse out the
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  Speaker 1: old leaven yeast and ima just, sin that you may
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  Speaker 1: be a new lump just as you really are. Unleavened
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  Speaker 1: so you, see when this regeneration, happens you can say
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  Speaker 1: decisively once for, All i'm a new lump of. DOUGH
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  Speaker 1: i am. Unleavened my sin is. GONE i don't have
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  Speaker 1: sin anymore as cursing, me damning, me destroying. Me my
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  Speaker 1: washing was. Decisive forgiveness of sins was paid for By. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: now in that, confidence we go on cleansing out the
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  Speaker 1: old Leaven that's WHY i called it a. Paradox it
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  Speaker 1: if you are really an unleavened, lump there's nothing to cleanse,
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  Speaker 1: out but you're unleaven in the decisive sense of every
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  Speaker 1: sin being covered and paid, for and you give evidence
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  Speaker 1: of that by you hate the sin that remains in its,
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  Speaker 1: power not its damning, effect but it's power to mess
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  Speaker 1: up your, life and you cleanse it. Out, now the
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  Speaker 1: same thing can be said of renewal of The Holy.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit when The Holy spirit causes us to be born,
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  Speaker 1: again we are just like we're. Washed we're made, new decisively,
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  Speaker 1: new and yet we are required to keep on being. Renewed,
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  Speaker 1: so for, example we see in The Second corinthians five. P. Seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: therefore if anyone is In, christ he is a new.
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  Speaker 1: Creation the old has passed, away the newest. Come this
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  Speaker 1: is really, decisive just like the purification of sins was
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  Speaker 1: decisive and once for, all and yet continues on in practical.
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  Speaker 1: Application so the new creation or the renewal is decisive
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  Speaker 1: and once for. All and now we see as. Continued
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  Speaker 1: you are to put off your old. Self put it.
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  Speaker 1: Off it's, dead it's. Gone you're not old. Self you're
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  Speaker 1: not that old self, anymore which belongs to your former
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  Speaker 1: manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful. Desires and
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  Speaker 1: to be renewed you. Are you are to be renewed
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit of your. Mind so go on being
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  Speaker 1: made new and put on the new. Self the new
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  Speaker 1: self really does, exist just like the old self really doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Exist and you must put that one, off and you
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  Speaker 1: must put this one. On created there's the new creation
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  Speaker 1: after the likeness Of, god in true righteousness and. Holiness
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  Speaker 1: so my point, is we are decisively made, new and
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  Speaker 1: we are to go on putting on that new self
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  Speaker 1: and be. Renewed so both of, these the washing of
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  Speaker 1: regeneration and the renewal of The Holy, spirit have those two.
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  Speaker 1: Dimensions they have happened once for, all decisively, forever and
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  Speaker 1: they have an ongoing application as we cleanse out the
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  Speaker 1: old sin in our, lives and as we go on
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  Speaker 1: being renewed after the image of Our. Maker, now This Holy,
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  Speaker 1: spirit which worked this renewal in us by regeneration decisively
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  Speaker 1: once for all at the beginning of Our christian, lives
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  Speaker 1: is said to be poured out richly Through Jesus. Christ
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  Speaker 1: in other, words he does this work in a, moment
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  Speaker 1: in the twinkling of an, eye the new birth. Happens
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  Speaker 1: it's not a, process but the pouring out of The
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  Speaker 1: Holy spirit is an ongoing reality that is richly powerful
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  Speaker 1: in our. Lives what is? It how do you taste?
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  Speaker 1: This what is this? Like this experience of the rich
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  Speaker 1: pouring out of the. Spirit paul uses this, word This
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  Speaker 1: greek word for pour out one other, place one other,
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  Speaker 1: place only in relation to the whole. Spirit and it's
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  Speaker 1: right here In romans. Five hope does not put us to,
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  Speaker 1: shame Because god's love has been poured into our. Hearts
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  Speaker 1: this word poured is the same word as poured out
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  Speaker 1: In titus three. Six only here it is the love
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  Speaker 1: Of god through The Holy. Spirit so The Holy, spirit
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  Speaker 1: in his coming to us, richly is granting to Us
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  Speaker 1: god's love in our. Heart he's pouring it into our.
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  Speaker 1: Heart that's an experience that's not just once for. All
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  Speaker 1: god keeps on doing, that and it's done through through
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  Speaker 1: The Holy. Spirit, now the REASON i put verse eight
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  Speaker 1: here is to show That god shows his love for
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  Speaker 1: us in that while we were still, Sinners christ died for.
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  Speaker 1: Us now that happened two thousand years. Ago that did
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  Speaker 1: not happen at this point. Here the love Of god
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  Speaker 1: being poured into our heart happens at the beginning and
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  Speaker 1: then in an ongoing way in The christian. Life But
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  Speaker 1: god shows now that's a present tense for a two
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  Speaker 1: thousand year old. Event he goes on showing his love
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  Speaker 1: which he demonstrated two thousand years ago When christ died for.
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  Speaker 1: Us so here's the WAY i understand. It what The
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  Speaker 1: spirit does is take the historical act Of god Through
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  Speaker 1: christ and apply to. Us he shows to us now
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  Speaker 1: by The Holy spirit's rich out pouring of the love Of.
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  Speaker 1: God in other, words he makes us feel the love
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  Speaker 1: Of god for. Us that's the work of The Holy.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit so this renewal, here renewal of The Holy spirit
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  Speaker 1: Whom he poured out on us, richly that goes. On
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  Speaker 1: we need to be renewed day by day by receiving
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  Speaker 1: this out pouring of The Holy spirit richly in fresh,
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  Speaker 1: ways in order to taste and Enjoy god's love for.
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  Speaker 1: Us that, is in, fact how we are made new.
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  Speaker 1: Right if you know yourself loved By, god And god
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  Speaker 1: has become precious to you in that, way then sin
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  Speaker 1: has no final claim on. You you can defeat sin
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  Speaker 1: if you know yourself loved By, god and that. Happens
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  Speaker 1: that outpouring happens Through Jesus christ is a clear statement
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  Speaker 1: of that In acts. Two being therefore exalted at the
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  Speaker 1: right hand Of god As. Jesus and remember that according
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  Speaker 1: To philippians two, nine therefore he has exalted him far
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  Speaker 1: above every name that, happens because he was obedient onto.
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  Speaker 1: Death so he died for sins and therefore was. Exalted
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  Speaker 1: and having received from The father the promise of The Holy,
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  Speaker 1: spirit he has poured out this that you yourselves are
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  Speaker 1: seeing and, hearing namely the work of The Holy spirit
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  Speaker 1: in the lives of. Believers So jesus, dying, rising being,
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  Speaker 1: exalted receiving the promise from The, father is the decisive
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  Speaker 1: poorer of The Holy, spirit demonstrating the richness Of god's
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  Speaker 1: love for, us producing ongoing renewal in our. Lives And
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  Speaker 1: i'll just point out that salvation is happening when all
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  Speaker 1: of that takes, place Because paul says and Second, Dessalonians
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  Speaker 1: god chose you as first fruits to be saved through
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  Speaker 1: sanctification by The. Spirit this ongoing work of how we
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  Speaker 1: are made new and, holy by The Holy spirit's work
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  Speaker 1: in causing us to feel the sweetness and satisfying richness
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  Speaker 1: of the love Of, god that is how we are being.
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  Speaker 1: Saved so, salvation just like we, said has this point
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  Speaker 1: in time dimension once for All god saves us Through
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  Speaker 1: we're going to see next time, justification and then it
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  Speaker 1: has an ongoing expression as we are cleansing out the
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  Speaker 1: old leaven and in a renewed way putting on the new,
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  Speaker 1: self which involves richly appropriating the sweetness of the love
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  Speaker 1: Of god poured out by The Holy spirit because Of
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  Speaker 1: jesus