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well thank you asher uh and shalom to

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everyone

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out there in global broadcast land

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it's good to see you it's good to be

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with you again

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and as usher mentioned we've started uh

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teaching a series on the book of

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ephesians last time for those of us

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those of you who are with us or you can

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go to youtube i think and find it

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i just talked about the first few verses

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and the three

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uh players constituents in the letter

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paul saul christ jesus the messiah

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and the saints and we talked about what

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those things mean

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today we're going to read verses 3

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through 10 we're going to look at them

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they are a meaty meaty

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section of scripture maybe one of the

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meatiest

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in all of the bible it's one of these

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passages that just sort of goes these

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sentences go on and on and each

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phrase is so full of truth and

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revelation

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you just kind of want to stop and pause

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and and dwell on it

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uh so let's uh first read it okay

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and i'm gonna just go through it and

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slowly trying to sort of uh

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savor each meaty uh word

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and i want you to space spa pay special

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attention to the verbs

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that uh the apostle paul uses here in

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again we're reading ephesians chapter 1

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through 10. blessed be the god

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and father of our lord yeshua the

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messiah who has blessed us with every

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spiritual blessing

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in the heavenly places in messiah just

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as he chose us in him before the

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foundation of the world

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that we should be holy and blameless

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before him in love

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excuse me holy and blameless before him

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in love he predestined us

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to adoption as sons through yeshua the

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messiah to himself

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according to the kind intention of his

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of the glory of his grace which he

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freely bestowed on us in the beloved

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the forgiveness of our trespasses

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which he lavished upon us lavished upon

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us in all wisdom and insight

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according to his kind intention which he

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that is the summing up of all things in

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wow uh

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did you pay attention to the verbs

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here's a list of them

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all seven of them he blessed us

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he chose us he predestined us

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and he has purposed everything he's done

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has done in us and for us is with

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a purpose and that purpose is to bring

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everything together

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everything what's everything everything

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places and everything on earth

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these verses if it's possible again

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there's so much revelation and so much

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i i would choose verse seven right this

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to the riches of his grace it's all

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i share with usher the excitement that

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and just remembering this grace the

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power of the resurrection all of the

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hope that we have

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of of a renewed body of living forever

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uh three things that we see here and how

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how we can apply them to our lives the

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first one is about the timing

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delight and his pleasure in his grace

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that he's lavished upon us and his plan

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of god's incredible plan and what that

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bit difficult for us to grasp because

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god exists in eternity

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things about astronomy and nasa uh

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spaceships and what's going on in mars

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and galaxy and the

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the numbers that they is 700 million

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miles in kilometers it takes months and

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light years it just makes you stop and

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how big how amazing god is and that

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he's as big and long and millions and

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he's beyond that right and from that

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place of beyond

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he has a plan and he chose us from the

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foundation of the world

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from before eternity on the other hand

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with a view it's a little bit difficult

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to an administration suitable to the

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letter he says it in galatians two in

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so there's things that god is it exists

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history and it's progressively it's

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working itself out we see the

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huge parts of his plan 2 000 years ago

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yeah uh and this whole this whole

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the times right is it something just old

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new uh is a question that we as jews

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israelis here as we share try to share

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or try to share we do share the gospel

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something we always have to think about

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is it new is it old is it

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samuel the prophets etcetera and then it

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to think about in this respect john 1 17

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for the law was given through moses

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in moses in the torah it's just law

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right that's not exactly true here's a

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one of moses's greatest uh experiences

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glory god says no one can see my face

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lord but you can't see my face

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the lord god compassionate and gracious

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transgression and sin yet he will by no

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truth but it seems to get overshadowed

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sin the disobedience of our people

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right and in the new testament we come

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trying he's almost

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he's running out of words in ephesians

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one to describe the incredible

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gift of god's grace in him through him

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certain sins will not inherit the

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much sin and so much

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to live in grace and truth and

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okay that's something we always have to

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talk about you know i was

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just yesterday talking with one of my

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orthodox jewish neighbors trying to

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share the gospel

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and i get this answer that i get many

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times which is like this he says

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well what do you make it sound like he

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said to me you make it sound like it's

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an

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ios upgrade like moses wasn't good

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enough the torah wasn't good enough now

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we need

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yeshua he says i i have the torah i have

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it i keep shabbat

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i love god everything's fine

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how to answer that i don't have time to

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go into but it's like

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what he's saying is i've got the old

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i've got the grace and truth he's got

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some of it

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it's there but it's not enough

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let's go on to the second theme here in

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ephesians

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uh chapter one which is god's

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love his delight in us

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okay this is especially clear in verses

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six through nine

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okay which we read i'll read them again

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it's just i just want to read these

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verses over and over again to the praise

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of the glory of his grace which he

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freely

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bestowed on us in the beloved

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in him we have redemption through his

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blood the forgiveness of our trespasses

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according

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to the riches of his grace which he

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lavished upon us

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in all wisdom he made known the mystery

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with his

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kind intention all these words of god's

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kindness

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his grace his delight in us

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you know our good friend mike bickle

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over there at ihop

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in kansas city ihop means the

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international house of

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prayer right well we all love to pray

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and it's important to pray

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but you know if you just keep on praying

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and interceding and asking

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and supplicating praying praying praying

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you're going to get pretty tired

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and he teaches everyone who enters into

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the ihop system has to go through his

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teaching

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on the song of songs on how much

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god loves us in him in christ jesus in

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yeshua

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he delights in us he's happy with us

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he's

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when you look when he looks down on you

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now through his son he's not going like

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this

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he's smiling he's receiving us

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and this is so important for us you see

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it in these

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paul's emphasis in ephesians 1. it's

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grace

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he's done it he's chosen us before the

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foundation he's lavished upon us

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he's blessed us with every spiritual

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blessing in the heavenly places

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and now when he looks we were covered

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like the blood of the lamb on the

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on the lintels and the doorposts of the

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israelites during the exodus

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that blood covers us and it's not just

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that the death is past passes over us

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it's not just that he's saved us from

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death

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he's poured out his love into our hearts

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by the holy spirit romans 5.

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amen i'm sure you're all saying amen and

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i'm reminding you of something you know

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but i'll tell you it's not easy to stay

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in this place

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of god's delight and his love for us

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i know this and i'm learning it as a

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parent

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you know i'm a godly parent a godly

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father i know the proverbs and the

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scriptures about raising up my

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my children in the in fear and

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instruction of the lord and all that

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and i'm i'm pretty strict sometimes

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i'm pretty good at pointing out what my

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kids do wrong

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but i'm learning i have to constantly

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remember

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to express my love for them

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that i delight in them it doesn't matter

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what they do they're my children

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and that god is happy with him in yeshua

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that we can come to him we can be

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forgiven

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god loves us i love you i'm delighted

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i'm

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happy i'm smiling at you i don't know

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how many of you out there are parents

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but if you

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if you are and you have a few kids you

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know the challenge

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but that's how our god is and we're to

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be imitators

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of him and just close this uh this

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portion here with a verse from uh psalm

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147

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verses 10 and 11. he god

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does not delight in the strength of the

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horse

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nor does he take pleasure in the legs of

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a man

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the lord favors who wrote say

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delights in those who fear him those who

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wait

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for his loving kindness god loves the

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horses

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he made them their strength don't get me

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wrong he

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that excites him too and the legs of a

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man our strength

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our ability to get things done he likes

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that too but that's not where

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he's looking people who don't know god

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have a lot of strength and they can get

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a lot of things done with horses and

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with their own legs and arms and we see

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examples of that all over the world

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all throughout history people who don't

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know god don't need god can still

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accomplish a lot of things

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but god delights in those who look up to

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him

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who are waiting expectantly for him who

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delight in his grace and his loving

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kindness

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and he responds he loves us he loved us

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first

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and we can stay and bask in that love

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so we talked about the timing right and

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when we're in that timing

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we can also be renewed as usher spoke

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about we can be constantly renewed

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and get a sense of god's timing in our

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lives and in what's happening in the

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world

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and his secondly we spoke about his

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delight last i want to talk about his

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plan

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his significant the significance that

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his plan

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gives us in this life verses nine and

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ten

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he made known to us the mystery of his

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will according to his kind intention

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which he purposed in him with a view to

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an administration

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suitable to the fullness of times that

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is the summing up of all things

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in christ jesus things in heaven and

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things upon the earth in him

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also we have attained an inheritance

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you know i don't know if you've ever

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been in a dead

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end job or if you know what i'm talking

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about but there's nothing

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more depressing in this life than

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getting up and going to some kind of

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work eight nine ten hours a day and

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toiling

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in something that you really don't enjoy

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doing

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that doesn't bring significance that you

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don't think you're doing

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something that that is meaningful in

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this life you feel like you're just

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spinning your wheels

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like you're treading water i remember

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when i built my house in downtown

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jerusalem i had different work crews

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chinese romanians arabs volunteers

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and you know they would do stuff

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sometimes

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and i'd come home at the end of the day

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and i'd look at it and i saw it was

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it was done wrong and i'd say to them

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guys take it apart start over

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now i was paying them by the hour

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right okay they got to work a little bit

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more but their faces went like this

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they hated that i hate it too there's

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nothing worse

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than doing something then having to do

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it over again because you did it wrong

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and you feel like you wasted your time

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well god's plan

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what paul is speaking about here in

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ephesians

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when we're in him

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we walk in significance

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everything we do has meaning listen to

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what he says

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what he writes a few verses later in

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chapter chapter 2 verse 10

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we are his workmanship created

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in messiah yeshua for good works

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which god prepared beforehand that we

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should walk in them wow brothers and

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sisters

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when we we have the privilege of serving

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god

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whether it's in ministry whether it's in

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different kinds of work

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as parents if we serve him if we

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dedicate our lives to him

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it brings significance we have that love

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you know i've

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some of the books that i've read i

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forget which one it is but one

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christian and he was a christian

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counselor he said the two

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greatest needs of every human being are

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love

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and significance love he delights

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in us we need to stay in that place and

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to know how much god

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loves us he chose us he blessed us he

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predestined us

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he's lavished all these things upon it

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and he continues

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to do that we we just bask in it but

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we don't just sit there all day we can't

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just stay like this we're made to work

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we're made to do things

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and he's laid out things for us to do

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good works for us to walk in

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and that brings significance our lives

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are not empty

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we don't have to be depressed we don't

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have to think why

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why am i here why do i have to keep on

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wasting my time doing these things

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we don't have to have a mid-life crisis

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like a lot of my friends i'm 53 i'm

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finding a lot of my friends who i grew

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up with are going through this kind of

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crisis at this age because they've spent

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20 25 years just

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investing and achieving and all this

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stuff and now they're starting to get

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old and going

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what does it all mean what did i do

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where is it

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and they're starting to feel depressed

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and get sick but

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i won't go into that so my brothers and

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sisters

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amazing grace the riches of his grace of

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his love

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think about it stay there delight in him

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he delights in you if you're in jesus

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this is the foundation

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this is salvation by grace we've got to

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wake up

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and think about this we got to think

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about it all through the day and go to

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sleep with it that hits

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it's about him his plan for us

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he loves us

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i'm going to read one more verse from

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paul and then pray

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and we'll go back to our worship team

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this is second timothy

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chapter 1 verses 9 through 11.

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god who has saved us and called us with

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a holy calling

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not according to our works but according

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to his own purpose and grace

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which was granted us in messiah yeshua

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from

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all eternity but now has been revealed

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by the

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appearing of our savior messiah yeshua

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who abolished death and brought life

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and immortality to light through

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the gospel wow lord we thank you

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for these words

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and i think about the apostle paul who

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when he was writing these things

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i don't know how much he was aware of

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the fact that he was writing holy

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scripture he was writing letters

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to his beloved congregations and

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churches

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but lord he was so inspired

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by the gospel by this love

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by god's timing by the privilege of

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living

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at this time and lord we want to also be

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excited the fullness of time continues

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it's being constantly

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renewed we're living in the fullness of

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time

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every day as we get closer and closer as

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we move into

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the end times as we get closer to the

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fullness the fullness of the fullness

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when yeshua returns lord help my

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brothers and sisters help me

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lord to stay in that in your delight

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and your love to remember that you

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don't first delight in our strength and

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the strength of horses and cars and

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iphones and technology and things like

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that you delight

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in us and we want to delight in you

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lord thank you that you are have a plan

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and you've laid out good works for each

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one of us lord help us to help us to

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desire

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and to focus to walk in those things and

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nothing else

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yeshua amen