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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Second Corinthians six We are workers together with God, so we beg you don't let the grace that you receive from God be for nothing.
- 0:14SPEAKER_00: God says I heard you at the right time and I gave you help on the day of salvation Isaiah forty nine verse eight.
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: I tell you that the right time is now.
- 0:30SPEAKER_00: The day of salvation is now.
- 0:34SPEAKER_00: We don't want people to find anything wrong with our work, so we do nothing that will be a problem to others, but in every way we show that we are servants of God.
- 0:51SPEAKER_00: We never give up even though we face troubles, difficulties, and problems of every kind.
- 0:58SPEAKER_00: We are beaten and thrown into prison.
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: People get upset at us and fight against us.
- 1:06SPEAKER_00: We work hard and sometimes we get no sleep or food.
- 1:12SPEAKER_00: We show that we are God's servants by our pure lives, by our understanding, by our patience and by our kindness.
- 1:25SPEAKER_00: We show it by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love, by speaking the truth, and by depending on God's power.
- 1:36SPEAKER_00: This right way of living has prepared us to defend ourselves against every kind of attack.
- 1:44SPEAKER_00: Some people honor us, but others shame us.
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: Some people say good things about us, but others say bad things.
- 1:54SPEAKER_00: Some people say we are liars, but we speak the truth.
- 2:00SPEAKER_00: To some people we are not known, but we are well known.
- 2:06SPEAKER_00: We seem to be dying, but look, we continue to live.
- 2:11SPEAKER_00: We are punished, but we are not killed.
- 2:15SPEAKER_00: We have much sadness, but we are always rejoicing.
- 2:21SPEAKER_00: We are poor, but we are making many people rich in faith.
- 2:27SPEAKER_00: We have nothing, but really we have everything.
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: We have spoken freely to you people in Corinth.
- 2:36SPEAKER_00: We have opened our hearts to you.
- 2:39SPEAKER_00: Our feelings of love for you have not stopped.
- 2:43SPEAKER_00: It is you who have stopped your feelings of love for us.
- 2:48SPEAKER_00: I speak to you as if you were my children.
- 2:52SPEAKER_00: Do the same as we have done.
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: Open your hearts also.
- 2:58SPEAKER_00: We are God's temple.
- 3:01SPEAKER_00: You are not the same as those who don't believe, so don't join yourselves to them.
- 3:08SPEAKER_00: Good and evil don't belong together.
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: Light and darkness cannot share the same room.
- 3:16SPEAKER_00: How can there be any unity between Christ and the devil?
- 3:22SPEAKER_00: What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: God's temple cannot have anything to do with idols, and we are the temple of the living God.
- 3:37SPEAKER_00: As God said, I will live with them and walk with them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- 3:46SPEAKER_00: Leviticus twenty six eleven and twelve.
- 3:51SPEAKER_00: So come away from those people and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord.
- 3:58SPEAKER_00: Don't touch anything that is not clean, and I will accept you.
- 4:04SPEAKER_00: Isaiah fifty two verse eleven.
- 4:08SPEAKER_00: I will be your father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord all powerful, second Samuel seven fourteen and seven verse eight.