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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Triumphant Joy, Part 1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: If you've ever wondered what makes the Christian life worth living,
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter five holds the answer. After four chapters of
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  Speaker 1: sobering truth about humanity's desperate condition before God, Paul the
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  Speaker 1: writer suddenly shifts gears with a welcome bouquet of good news.
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  Speaker 1: It's as though God is saying, Christian, You're just beginning
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  Speaker 1: to discover the joys of walking with me. It only
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  Speaker 1: gets better and better today. On Insight for Living, Chucks
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  Speaker 1: Wendall unpacks three life changing benefits that become yours the
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  Speaker 1: moment you trust in Christ. They're not rewards you earn,
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  Speaker 1: but gifts you immediately receive.
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  Speaker 2: The Letter to the Romans represents the magnum opus of
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  Speaker 2: the apostle Paul in his writings, and when we get
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  Speaker 2: to the fifth chapter, this is one of those climactic
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  Speaker 2: sections that require concentration and attention to great truth. I
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  Speaker 2: have in my library the eighth volumes set by Donald
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  Speaker 2: gray Barnhouse on the Letter to the Romans, and he
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  Speaker 2: dedicates one entire volume to the first eleven verses of
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  Speaker 2: Romans five, two hundred and twenty pages. Be grateful I'm
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  Speaker 2: your pastor not? Donald gray Barnhouse huh, No, don't be grateful.
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  Speaker 3: Would that all of us could hear.
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  Speaker 2: Him again as he stood and delivered the good news
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  Speaker 2: of Christ to the people of Philadelphia for more than
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  Speaker 2: twenty years. And what a marvelous messenger of the Gospel
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  Speaker 2: he was. He's the man who led s Lewis Johnson
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  Speaker 2: to Christ. Doctor Johnson said to me when I was
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  Speaker 2: a student at now Seminary, there was only one man
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  Speaker 2: who could have interested me in spiritual things. As I
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  Speaker 2: look back on it, it was Donald Gray Barnhouse, fluent
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  Speaker 2: in several languages, a scholar to the souls of his feet,
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  Speaker 2: but a dedicated servant who delivered the goods every time
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  Speaker 2: he preached. And as I get to Romans five, I
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  Speaker 2: have to pause and thank God for the writings of
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  Speaker 2: this man who helped shape so much of my thinking,
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  Speaker 2: and the lives of other great men as well. Let
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  Speaker 2: me read for you these eleven verses of Romans five,
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  Speaker 2: and you'll have an outline to place in the crease
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  Speaker 2: of your Bible. As we finish, will return in a
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  Speaker 2: few moments Romans.
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  Speaker 3: Five to one.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with
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  Speaker 2: God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through whom also we
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  Speaker 2: have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in
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  Speaker 2: which we stand. And we exult in hope of the
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  Speaker 2: glory of God. And not only this, but we also
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  Speaker 2: exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance,
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  Speaker 2: and perseverance, proven character and proven.
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  Speaker 3: Character hope.
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  Speaker 2: And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God
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  Speaker 2: has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: who was given to us. For while we were still
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  Speaker 2: helpless at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly,
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  Speaker 2: For one will hardly die for a righteous man, though
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  Speaker 2: perhaps for the good man, someone would dare even to die.
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  Speaker 2: But God demonstrates his own love towards us in that
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  Speaker 2: while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much
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  Speaker 2: more than, having now been justified by his blood, we
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  Speaker 2: shall be saved from the wrath of God through him.
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  Speaker 2: For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to
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  Speaker 2: God through the death of his son, much more, having
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  Speaker 2: been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And
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  Speaker 2: not only this, but we also exult in God through
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  Speaker 2: our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received
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  Speaker 2: the reconciliation.
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  Speaker 1: to sight dot org slash offer Chuck title today's message
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  Speaker 1: Triumphant Joy.
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  Speaker 3: My wife and I married young, really young.
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  Speaker 2: I went with her for a week before I asked
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  Speaker 2: her to marry me. The reason I waited that long
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  Speaker 2: was to make sure she was the right one, And
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  Speaker 2: a little over eighteen months later we got married. She
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  Speaker 2: was eighteen and I was twenty. I signed three of
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  Speaker 2: her report cards to help her out of high school,
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  Speaker 2: just kidding. Because we were so young, and because I
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  Speaker 2: had schooling to finish and worked to get finished with,
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  Speaker 2: and then a military obligation to get taken care of.
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  Speaker 3: She and I decided would wait for a while to
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  Speaker 3: have our family.
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  Speaker 2: So a little over six years after we married, we
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  Speaker 2: began our family. In the early fall of nineteen sixty one,
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  Speaker 2: our first born came along son, and from his birth
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  Speaker 2: until the birth of our last there were really a
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  Speaker 2: little less than nine years that passed. Four children in
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  Speaker 2: nine years, and we lost a couple through miscarriages, and
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  Speaker 2: so we're busy people during this time of getting kids
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  Speaker 2: born and getting life underway. Our second born was just
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  Speaker 2: a little under two years after our first came along,
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  Speaker 2: and she then met her sister of little less than
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  Speaker 2: four years later when our third child, another daughter was born,
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  Speaker 2: and finally our fourth came little less than three years
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  Speaker 2: after our third child. So I remember a lovely card
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  Speaker 2: that was sent to us my friends who lived in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: We'd known for years.
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  Speaker 2: They had five children, and we were in Boston at
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  Speaker 2: the time in ministry, and they knew it was a
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  Speaker 2: little tough for us. Our third child had been born
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  Speaker 2: and she was a live wire, and so we're busy
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  Speaker 2: getting her under way, and our friends sent us this
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  Speaker 2: card that read as follows, Congratulations, you are just beginning
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy the delights of parenthood. It only gets better
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  Speaker 2: and better. Isn't that a nice card? Descend, I'm up
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  Speaker 2: to my elbows in diapers and I'm reading this lovely card.
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  Speaker 2: We really needed the encouragement, and I tell you it
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  Speaker 2: brought it. It brought a surge of joy as a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, too, and otherwise pressured period of time
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  Speaker 2: as I anticipated someday it would just get better and better.
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  Speaker 3: And it has and it does.
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  Speaker 2: We have no greater joy than to know our children
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  Speaker 2: now walk in the truth and are now adults and
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  Speaker 2: living their lives for God's glory. And admittedly some of
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  Speaker 2: it in spite of our parenting. As we sort of
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  Speaker 2: learned our way along gets better and better. What is
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  Speaker 2: true of a relatively healthy and wholesome Christian home is
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  Speaker 2: all the more true of a healthy Christian life. It's
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  Speaker 2: tough getting started. I'm going to ask you to return
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  Speaker 2: to the very very early days when you came to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to remember how you felt. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to remember what you went through. Perhaps for you
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  Speaker 2: there were habits formed that needed to be addressed and
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  Speaker 2: even broken. Maybe there were addiction you needed to deal with.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps you had lived your life blaming and harboring resentment
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  Speaker 2: and bitterness toward others, and you had that to come
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  Speaker 2: to terms with. And then somebody put in your hands
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  Speaker 2: a book, big thick book called the Bible. They said,
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  Speaker 2: you read this, you find the answers. You started looking
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  Speaker 2: through where are those answers? And it was like a
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  Speaker 2: big puzzle to you, and it wasn't easy to understand.
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  Speaker 3: You couldn't put it together.
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  Speaker 2: But remember of the day when something sort of fit
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  Speaker 2: and it now became.
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  Speaker 3: Truth to live by. What a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: And that led to yet another and yet another, and
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  Speaker 2: before long it just began to get better and better.
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  Speaker 2: And you learned techniques, and you learned an approach to
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  Speaker 2: walking with God, and you learn and how to share
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  Speaker 2: your faith with those who've never met Jesus. And then
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  Speaker 2: you sort of began your pace in your giftedness and
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  Speaker 2: finding out how God wanted to use you. Everything begins
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  Speaker 2: at a point of time. It begins at the Cross,
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  Speaker 2: where we first are moved from darkness to light, from
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  Speaker 2: death to life, from a selfishness to Christ's likeness.
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  Speaker 3: It all comes at the.
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  Speaker 2: Beginning of the cross relationship we have with Christ. Paul
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  Speaker 2: talks about this life before Christ for three full chapters
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  Speaker 2: in his Letter to the Romans. He illustrates it in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth chapter of the Life of Abraham, and then
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  Speaker 2: when he gets to chapter five, it's like he sends
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  Speaker 2: us a note saying, congratulations, you are just beginning to
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  Speaker 2: discover the joys of walking with me. Only get better
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  Speaker 2: and better, And he immediately initiates our awareness into some
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  Speaker 2: of the things that just get better and better as
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  Speaker 2: we get to chapter five. This is like Paul's congratulatory
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  Speaker 2: note to us, saying, all of that that you've gone
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  Speaker 2: through has been for a purpose. Now you need to
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  Speaker 2: hear some of the benefits that are going to be
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  Speaker 2: yours to enjoy. Before we get into them, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to point out a couple of short of general observations
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  Speaker 2: of these verses. Let me point out first of all,
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  Speaker 2: that these eleven verses look into three different directions. They
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  Speaker 2: look into the past, they look at the present, and
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  Speaker 2: then they look into the future.
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  Speaker 3: Now, how do I know that? How would you know that?
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  Speaker 2: If you were reading this for the first time. Look
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  Speaker 2: at verse one, having been justified by faith.
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  Speaker 3: That's the past.
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  Speaker 2: It takes you back to your conversion, takes you back
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  Speaker 2: to when you came to Christ. You realize that on
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  Speaker 2: your own you couldn't make it to Heaven. You needed
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  Speaker 2: the merit of another, and Christ had paid the complete
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  Speaker 2: penalty for your sins, and you believed in him, and
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  Speaker 2: you were at that moment declared righteous by faith because
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  Speaker 2: of God's grace. Apart from words, that's the past. Then
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  Speaker 2: keep looking at verse one. We have peace with God
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  Speaker 2: through our Lord Jesus Christ. It's a present tense, meaning
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  Speaker 2: we keep on having peace with God from one day
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  Speaker 2: to the next.
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  Speaker 3: We'll come back to that in a moment. But that's
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  Speaker 3: the present.
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  Speaker 2: We have peace, we have hope, we have an entrance
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  Speaker 2: into grace. This is all the present. Then look at
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  Speaker 2: verse nine. Notice the change in tens. Much more than
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  Speaker 2: having now been justified by His blood, we shall be save.
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  Speaker 3: That's future. Verse ten.
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  Speaker 2: While we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through
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  Speaker 2: the death of his son. Much more, he repeats, having
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  Speaker 2: been reconciled, we shall be say that's the future.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get into that in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Just want you to note the difference in the direction
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  Speaker 2: of the verses past mainly the present, and then on
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  Speaker 2: into the future. Second observation I make is that these
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  Speaker 2: verses point out three major benefits. These are some of
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  Speaker 2: the delights that are the part of the Christian life
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  Speaker 2: that are ours from the get go. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to work your way into them or earn them. As
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  Speaker 2: soon as you've come through the cross to Christ God,
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  Speaker 2: you are the recipient of these things.
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  Speaker 3: And what are they? Well?
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  Speaker 2: First, peace, we have peace, We have it right now,
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  Speaker 2: peace not from God, but peace with God. How good
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  Speaker 2: is that? Before the Cross we were at enmity. He
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  Speaker 2: moved in one direction, we were moving in another. We
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  Speaker 2: had a caricature in our mind of who God is,
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  Speaker 2: and having come to Christ, there is a peace relationship
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  Speaker 2: between us.
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  Speaker 3: We have peace right now.
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  Speaker 2: When I read those words peace with God, I remember
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  Speaker 2: the very first book I bought for my beginning library
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  Speaker 2: as a young Christian. It was called Peace with God
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  Speaker 2: by Billy Graham, published in November of nineteen fifty three.
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  Speaker 3: When you've had a.
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  Speaker 2: Book this long, you notice that you can sort of
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  Speaker 2: you can use it as a tract when you go
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  Speaker 2: different places. You can give would you like page five?
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  Speaker 2: You could do that all the way through the book.
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  Speaker 2: It's just coming apart, and yet it is full of
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  Speaker 2: wonderful truth that Billy Graham came across and wrote about
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  Speaker 2: in his first book, My Dad. It cost me thirty
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  Speaker 2: five cents. This little simple book is taken. The title
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  Speaker 2: is taken from Romans five to one. We have peace
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  Speaker 2: with God. Young Graham looked back then. Cynthia and I
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  Speaker 2: heard him. Though we didn't know each other at the time,
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  Speaker 2: we heard him in nineteen fifty three when he was
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  Speaker 2: in Houston at a crusade at Rice Stadium back then
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  Speaker 2: called Rice Institute, a new stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Had been built, and we met. I thought, how would
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  Speaker 3: I ever feel? And was just packed to overflowing.
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  Speaker 2: And she realized then as a counselor at the crusade,
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  Speaker 2: that God wanted her to marry a pastor's wife, and
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  Speaker 2: wanted her to be a pastor's wife. I'm glad to
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  Speaker 2: get that straightened out now that but I got to
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  Speaker 2: tell you I was far from interested in being a pastor,
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  Speaker 2: and I was moving in a whole new direction. And
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  Speaker 2: through a series of events too complicated to get into
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  Speaker 2: our lengthy i'll God turned my whole direction around. I
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  Speaker 2: go back to this verse and I remember, I remember
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  Speaker 2: those very very early growing days as a Christian peace with.
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  Speaker 3: God, and this peace.
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  Speaker 2: Allows us to enter a whole new territory. Watch closely,
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  Speaker 2: here's another of those benefits through whom also we have
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  Speaker 2: obtained our introduction by faith into grace.
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  Speaker 3: There it is. Now, let me help you appreciate this.
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  Speaker 3: See the word introduction. It's the word for access in Greek.
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  Speaker 2: Think of a big gate that opens up the territory
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  Speaker 2: and The whole acreage in front of you is marked grace.
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  Speaker 2: Remember Alice in her world became wonderland as she moved
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  Speaker 2: from the old reality and stuff of her boring life
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  Speaker 2: into this whirlwind of fantasy. This isn't fantasy, but in
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  Speaker 2: the same way in reality the gate opens, it opens up,
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  Speaker 2: and we read we have this introduction by faith into
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  Speaker 2: the territory of grace.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go too quickly here in which we stand love,
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  Speaker 3: that we stand in it.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't a quick visit that we thank God for
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  Speaker 2: it and we move back into works. It isn't a
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  Speaker 2: delightful discovery and then things change. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: It's a place in which we stand. Every child of God,
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  Speaker 2: when born again, enters into because of faith in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the territory of grace that becomes our acreag. It is
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  Speaker 2: the place of our habitation. Stought puts it like this.
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  Speaker 2: Pras ago gay is the Greek word that has a
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  Speaker 2: certain touch of formality about it. That's the word translated introduction.
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  Speaker 2: Although it is uncertain whether the imagery is of a
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  Speaker 2: person being brought into God's sanctuary to worship or into
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  Speaker 2: a king's audience chamber to be presented to him.
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  Speaker 3: The point is we have.
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  Speaker 2: Taken our stand firmly in or on this grace into
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  Speaker 2: which we have been introduced. Justified believers enjoy a blessing
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  Speaker 2: far greater than a periodic approach to God or an
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  Speaker 2: occasional audience with the King. We are privileged to live
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  Speaker 2: in the temple, to live in the Palace. Our relationship
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  Speaker 2: with God into which justification has brought us is not
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  Speaker 2: sporatic but continuous. It's not precarious but secure. We do
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  Speaker 2: not fall in and out of grace like courtiers who
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  Speaker 2: may find themselves in and out of favor with their sovereign,
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  Speaker 2: or politicians with the public. No, we stand in it,
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  Speaker 2: for that is the nature of grace. Nothing can separate
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  Speaker 2: us from God's love. Before we get under way, we
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  Speaker 2: immediately have met the great truth of the peace of God,
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  Speaker 2: the peace with God, and then grace, opening the door
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  Speaker 2: to a whole world that's ours to claim. And in
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  Speaker 2: that we stand, and not surprisingly in diverse Two we exalt.
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  Speaker 2: So the third benefit is joy. We don't use the
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  Speaker 2: word exalt much these days. We have the word exalt,
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  Speaker 2: but this is with a you exalt. Hard to find
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  Speaker 2: an English word that can handle the Greek term. The
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  Speaker 2: best I can come up is jubilation. We jubilate, we
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  Speaker 2: explode in a triumphant joy within our being. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: the passage introduces now three levels of rejoicing. The first
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  Speaker 2: is a more shallow, the second is deeper in. The
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  Speaker 2: third is the deepest. I get that from all three
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  Speaker 2: uses of exalt. Look for yourself verse two. We exalt
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  Speaker 2: in hope of the glory of God. That's one first level.
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  Speaker 2: Not only this, we also exult in our tribulation. That's
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  Speaker 2: the second level that takes us down through verse eight.
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  Speaker 2: And then look at verse eleven. Not only this, but
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  Speaker 2: we exalt in God himself.
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  Speaker 3: That's the third level.
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  Speaker 2: First we exult in hope, Second, we exalt in tribulation.
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  Speaker 2: Third we exalt in God himself. Let's look first at
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  Speaker 2: hope verse two. In this territory of grace in which
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  Speaker 2: we stand, we have triumphant joy in hope of the
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  Speaker 2: glory of God.
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: We have hope that we are being fashioned and formed
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  Speaker 2: into Christ's image. When we get to Romans eight, we
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  Speaker 2: will read that we have been predestined to be conformed
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  Speaker 2: to the image of God's son Christ. That is our
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  Speaker 2: hope to be like unto Christ, like unto God himself,
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  Speaker 2: which is his glory. Think of it this way. We
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  Speaker 2: can live about forty days without food. We can survive
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  Speaker 2: about eight days without water, four minutes without air before
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  Speaker 2: damage occurs, and not long after that before we die,
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  Speaker 2: but only a few seconds without hope. Take away hope
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  Speaker 2: and you tumble. That's happened to some of you recently.
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  Speaker 2: You had your heart set on something and it didn't occur,
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  Speaker 2: and you've tumbled as a result of the loss of hope.
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  Speaker 2: Recently I read about our forefathers in Jamestown who were
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  Speaker 2: there for that bitter winter which was so discouraging, and
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  Speaker 2: their hope was draining away. As they were burying one
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  Speaker 2: loved one after another, several a handful of them decided
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  Speaker 2: to go back to their homeland in England. They got
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  Speaker 2: on board ship, and as it began to sail out
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  Speaker 2: of the harbor. Into the harbor came a Frenchman named Delaware.
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  Speaker 2: As he arrived, he had fresh food and fresh goods
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  Speaker 2: and fresh lives with fresh faces of fresh hope. They
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  Speaker 2: were cheering as they came into the harbor. They'd come
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  Speaker 2: to the New Land. Those who were on the old
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  Speaker 2: ship leaving without hope, suddenly had a resurgence of hope,
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  Speaker 2: and they had the skill return around and bring him
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  Speaker 2: right back into the harbor. What was the difference, hope hope.
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  Speaker 2: One of the reasons that the delights just get better
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  Speaker 2: and better is that your hope in Christ becomes increasingly
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  Speaker 2: more significant. You realize, as years past that Christ has
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  Speaker 2: been at work, that He had his hand in life
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  Speaker 2: and in that circumstance, and that hope reminded you that
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  Speaker 2: you are being shaped and fashioned into the image of
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  Speaker 2: God's son Jesus. So we jubilate in hope. The second
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  Speaker 2: is a little more difficult to grasp because it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: come naturally. Hope naturally would make you jubilate, but tribulation.
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  Speaker 2: Look at verse three. Not only this, but we also
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  Speaker 3: Flipsis is a little hard to say. Flipsis is the
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  Speaker 2: adjusting to a new lifestyle, pressure that comes from people's expectations,
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  Speaker 2: pressure that builds up and brings us to an end
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  Speaker 2: of ourselves. But he says there can be jubilation and tribulation.
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