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We are in the book of First 
Peter before we get into our 

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reading this morning. 
Just a quick review for those 

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who have missed the start. 
If your visitor we haven't been 

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for a while the introduction is 
this that Peter is writing in 

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the early 60s ad and around 30 
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Resurrection. 
Ian and Peter. 

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The impetuous impulsive Brash 
fisherman is transformed and he 

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is now writing as an older man 
and a matured eyewitness with 

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advice and instruction for his 
audience. 

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And his sharing precious values 
that he has learned through 

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life, wisdom and insight for 
Christian Life and for Christian

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conduct, Now, there's many 
useful outlines that you have in

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your study Bibles but four 
sections, very helpful. 

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First of all, God's blessed 
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12, Gloria head for chosen 
Exiles, God's blessed people. 

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Secondly, God's holy people. 
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Christians in a watching world 
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and that's the section we're in 
today. 2:11 through 24 verse 19,

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where We are as Christians 
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while doing good and sick. 
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people chapter 5 faithful. 
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flocks. 
So, that's a bit of an overview.

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But every chapter of this book, 
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sufferings of Christ and you'll 
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chapter, chapter 1 verse 11, 
chapter 2 verse 21. 

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We read last week, 3:18 4 verse 
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chapters refer to the sufferings
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today on husbands and wives is 
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suffering. 
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There's no connection. 
I'm just letting just pointing 

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that out to you. 
So let's read together, shall we

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First Peter chapter 3. 
Verse 1 likewise wives, be 

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subject to your own husbands. 
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the word, they may be won 
without a word by the conduct of

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their wives. 
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And pure conduct, do not let 
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braiding of hair and the putting
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clothing you wear, but let your 
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Of the heart with the 
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and quiet Spirit, which in God's
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is how the holy women who hoped 
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by submitting to their own 
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Abraham calling him Lord, and 
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If you do good and do not fear 
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Likewise first seven husbands 
live with your wives in, an 

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understanding way showing honor 
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vessel, since they are is with 
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So that your prayers may not be 
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word to us. 
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is Peter's advice specifically 
for husbands and wives. 

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It's not speaking about men and 
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husband and wife relationship 
and will unpack these seven 

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verses as follows, firstly, a 
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changing cultures, and thirdly 
Timeless truths. 

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So before you say this morning 
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category of husband and wife and
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nothing to do with me, can I ask
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Have you ever noticed how much 
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Christian Behavior? 
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Society watches you? 
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Now, we have a neighbor who 
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occasionally, she'll text us 
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and sometimes we'll go. 
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seemed to be could caring 
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And then occasionally about 
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allow young people to drive 
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And round about us here. 
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and they're very kind to us very
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occasionally, they do send us 
messages and often the emails 

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will be things about noise or 
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projects or even about parking. 
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day by day and the widest scope 
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is this your life as a 
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Is been watched, it is on 
display and your choices your 

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responses, your attitudes, your 
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Your language is actually been 
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Your tax return. 
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Injustice, false accusation. 
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display to a watching world. 
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earlier on in the series, we are
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But literally we are, as it were
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and people are watching us very,
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And so, therefore, this later 
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is not just these seven verses 
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ambassador's handbook. 
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And in chapter 2, verse 11, 
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you or beseech you too. 
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keep your conduct among the 
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Honorable, So I want today to 
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to give you that thread the word
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verse 16, verse 15 as he who 
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holy in all your conduct 2:12. 
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Gentiles. 
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When they see you're respectful 
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Is he is not just little seven 
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it is a life in a watching 
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we are. 
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are strangers. 
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We are on a journey, we are as 
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citizens of Heaven, just passing
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have new conduct 
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focus. 
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phrases that confirm how special
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If you are a Believer, look at 
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You are a chosen people, a royal
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special position to Proclaim his
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So I hope that helps to as it 
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something much more significant 
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In general, your home, your 
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on display if you are a 
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Now, our reading today starts 
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and Peter has mentioned the area
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in the workplace and again uses 
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subjection in these verses and 
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the screen if we can, this is 
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Thank you. 
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instruction for Godly submissive
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of social context. 
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submission, the Greek word is 
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word to be a subordinate, to be 
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Authority. 
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you read this passage today, 
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Does it imply inferiority? 
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this modern world, in which we 
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gods revealed plan and purposes 
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application of the truth. 
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identify the immediate context. 
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All right, the context changing 
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But first of all the culture of 
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different today's modern world, 
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many cases, treated as 
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under law. 
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disposable. 
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culture. 
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and then subsequently if they 
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were as it were under the thumb.
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men and women who are finding 
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And Galatians, of course, 
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there is, neither male or 
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We Are All One in Christ and 
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may have been converted to Faith
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Christ. 
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unbelieving? 
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situations of Oppression in 
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I got into big trouble with 
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by describing a rare commodity 
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good form to say, a rare 
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course, character, but I wasn't 
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So we need to be very careful 
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Christ. 
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Marriage is God's design, and I 
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what Dan is red already. 
This morning is what a pause and

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read. 
Read a couple of verses from The

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Book of Genesis. 
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2:18. 
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said it is not good that the man
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I will make him a helper fit for
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Verse 23. 
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is bone of my bones and Flesh of
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She shall be called woman. 
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Whoa, man. 
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woman because she was taken out 
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Therefore a man shall leave his 
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fast to his wife and they shall 
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Marriage is God's precious 
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It is companionship, it is 
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differences in the roles and 
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and wives the term Partners in 
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used husbands and wives not 
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It's a treasured title husbands 
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It is between man and woman. 
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children will phone and they 
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to talk to mum and that's very 
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And that's very good too, and so
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relationship. 
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Harmony is precious, it's sacred
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facto, it's not temporary, it's 
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not cheap. 
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Before you buy It's for Keeps. 
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model, it's not negotiable and 
it's a precious precious picture

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of God's love Christ. 
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died. 
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context, in this culture, Peters
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for the audience of the day. 
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and valuing women, it is not 
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promoting equality and to prove 
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where it talks about the fact, 
their husbands and wives 

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sharing, Heirs together of the 
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Thank you for the verses. 
That's very good. 

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And so, it is addressing the 
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wife. 
It's showing honor and respect 

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and consideration and it is 
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No wonder in this context. 
Marriage is so much under attack

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in the world today because Satan
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Does not like to see this 
expressed in a Godly way between

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husband and wife. 
Until we come today to Timeless 

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truths. 
We have a watching World 

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watching what we do and say, 
what she know, attitudes and 

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behavior. 
We have a changing culture and 

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then we come to this passage and
say, well what are the Timeless 

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truths that we can gain for 
today's living? 

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I'll bring you three truths from
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And all have three outcomes, 
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In a sense, all of these truths 
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They're not, they're not what 
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counterintuitive. 
Should I say? 

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Number one is this, the victory 
of the unspoken word We find 

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that in verse 1, the victory of 
the unspoken word is he's their 

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wives be subject to your own 
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They may be won without a word. 
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marriage and in Christian 
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silent. 
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The unspoken word. 
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value of Love In Action. 
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louder than words and Love Is A 
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Peter exhorts wives to show 
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the outcome of the unspoken 
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May even result in the salvation
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What a victory that would be if 
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Witness Unspoken. 
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Results. 
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And a victory 1. 
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of the unspoken word and we need
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Secondly a Timeless truth from 
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the scripture again is found in 
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Again the value of unseen Beauty
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quiet spirit. 
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In a character is more important
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We need to be very careful in a 
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Scripture is very clear here 
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external, much of adornment is 
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two purposes for a dormant one, 
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It's not health-related. 
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the word cosmetic or the phrase 
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It makes an impression For 
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And so, Peter is saying here 
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Julie and that was often a show 
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excess Peter's, not saying here 
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After all, we brush our hair, we
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to an interview. 
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wear dull clothes and to look 
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more precious and Lasting. 
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This is an inner beauty that 
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way. 
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is fleeting The writer in first,
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this world is passing away. 
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Value, that is often overlooked 
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Man looks on the outward 
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heart and the outcome of unseen 
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Is this verse 4, it is seen by 
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him. 
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that? 
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joy to his heart. 
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to. in verse five and six, he 
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beautiful meekness and modesty 
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hope in God, In Genesis Chapter 
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master or owner and that is a 
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husband-wife relationship based 
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harsh rules and fear. 
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word. 
The value of unseen Beauty. 

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Thirdly the virtue of mutual 
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Now again I've deliberately used
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the reading today, there is the 
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husbands and marriage is a 
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And the exaltation is for 
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going to get into a discussion 
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what that might mean. 
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verse 7, that husbands are 
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and an understanding and 
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struggle or a issue of control. 
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used for honor and verse 7 
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and dignity and godly husbands 
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treasure to be cared for and 
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Some 31 problems that he one 
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And excellent wife, who can 
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She is far more precious than 
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Her husband has full confidence 
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value. 
Peter, urges husband's believing

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husbands to acknowledge and 
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recognize their giftings, and 
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A weaker vessel, May Express, 
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differences, but does not in any
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her capabilities, or her 
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As we've seen already, she is a 
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And so there is an aspect of 
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is a Godly, prayerful home 
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is exalted and as we all know, a
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in summary today, Christian 
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watching World marriage is 
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Holy design regardless of 
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marriage models submission and 
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wife. 
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Let me close today with a true 
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To just bring to your hearts. 
The thought of submission. 

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Now, I know this is an unusual 
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will help just over 60 years ago
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My father was involved in a very
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accident in North India. 
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this with the church family, so 
please bear with me. 

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I'll give you a bit of detail. 
My father was part of a wave of 

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post-war Pioneer Mission work 
and there's many others here. 

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In the room who have been on the
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to that stage of life. 
He left in the air, as a single 

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man in 1952, and he served there
as a missionary, over 30 years. 

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He first met his wife to be my 
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He met her at a small Brethren 
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India. 
She had been saved from Hinduism

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as a young medical student at 
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family, were supportive of her 
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subsequent baptism with death 
threats, and let alone her 

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marriage to a European a 
missionary. 

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The day of the accident was like
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My father was on his motorbike 
going out to a remote Village to

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give out the reason why gospel 
tracts and for Matt Simonton and

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Dan the make of the motorbike. 
It was a British BSA Bantam bike

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about 150 cc. 
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As a pillion passenger was an 
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And older, man who also worked 
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Major, John David. 
He was a dear man with a 

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grown-up family of eight. 
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seldom seen and protective 
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much has changed. 
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quite narrow, the paving is 
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chaotic, and the rules of travel
Behavior, are very primitive and

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there many accidents. 
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truck drivers play chicken with 
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So, you know, you try and stay 
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drive and the other one comes 
towards you, and it's whoever 

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blinks first. 
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So, playing chicken with ongoing
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details of the accident are 
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But what we do know is that an 
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smashed into my father and major
David? 

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And they were knocked off the 
motorbike, both bleeding heavily

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and my father. 
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seriously hurt and they were 
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Sadly on the way. 
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Later in childhood, we were told
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were, I am going to heaven. 
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guilty and went to prison for 18
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And by God's mercy, my father 
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went on to have many more Vespa 
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And also two more children by 
God's grace. 

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Incredibly God used the tragedy 
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and restore contact and 
relationship even though none 

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turn from Hinduism to accept 
Christ. you might be wondering 

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why I'm telling you this story 
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first Peter, Well, about 40 
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drive And my father was my 
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Number one don't speed. 
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And to this day I wonder if 
those driving tips were a legacy

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of that sad day on the Indian 
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Don't speed and keep left. 
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with submission on that day. 
My father tried to yield his 

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space, to give away, even though
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You see my friends? 
There are times we have to wear 

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give way merge like a zip. 
Let others go first. 

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Yield to others even in 
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Let them go. 
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unbelieving spouse in the home. 
Maybe you haven't troubled a 

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troubled past, where you have 
been hurt where you've had to 

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deal with, fractured 
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God, and to one another is 
paradoxically, an act of great 

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courage. 
It's a liberating thing. 

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It is strength, not weakness, 
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with God and His grace Today, I 
pray that God will help us to be

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faithful in the challenging area
of submission to Authority. 

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In the workplace at home, even 
in the face of Injustice and 

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false accusation, trust God with
the outcomes and as we do. 

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So let us always remember the 
perfect example of submission, 

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the Lord Jesus. 
Who submitted and sacrificed 

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himself for us. 
He committed. 

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No sin. 
Neither was deceit. 

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Found in his mouth when he was 
reviled. 

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He did not revile in return. 
When he suffered, he did not 

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threaten. 
May that be the example and may 

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our homes be a wonderful witness
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His perfect design and may it be
Harmony and a blessing to others

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as we respect and love one. 
Another let's pray. 

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Father, we give thanks for your 
perfect plan. 

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The fact that you have provided 
for us in so many ways that you 

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have instructed us and these 
words written. 

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So long ago are not out of date,
their truth are still very 

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valuable and very, very precious
and very relevant pray that you 

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will help us in this area of 
submission. 

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We pray that you'll bless each 
home represented here, he's 

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marriage. 
We pray for faithfulness, we 

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pray. 
Pray for integrity, we pay for 

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truth and we pray for a very 
positive witness to one another 

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especially Lord. 
We pray that you help us to be 

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faithful to you and that we will
be following in our lord. 

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Jesus steps that we will keep 
his example before us the one 

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who, when he was suffered, he 
did not threaten. 

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He did not retaliate, but he 
gave himself to the accusers and

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he was faithful even unto death.
Thank you for your love to us. 

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Lord, thank you that you're 
providing for us and that you 

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are continuing to teach us 
through these words and we pray 

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that your bliss and receive the 
glory and honor. 

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In these words. 
And this message, pray this in 

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Jesus name,