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We're working our way through 
the Lord's Prayer, ever mindful 

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of our Lord to whom we're 
praying. 

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We have a loving Father who has 
adopted us out of his great 

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he is a powerful God full of 
wisdom. 

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So he's not only loving, but 
he's able. 

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And this is the one to whom we 
pray. 

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This is the one that we present 
our request to. 

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We notice that the Lord's Prayer
presents as 6 petitions, and the

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order is important. 
The first 3 are about God, about

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His name and His Kingdom and His
will. 

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And after we've prayed through 
this, we are in the proper heart

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position, the proper posture to 
present our requests to God. 

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We're now in the third of these 
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as we look at this particular 
request, praying against 

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temptation and evil. 
This is the second sermon out of

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three that I intend to spend 
just on this particular 

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petition. 
And last week we took the first 

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part, Lead us not into 
temptation. 

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And we talked about how we were 
praying for protection, 

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protection against all kinds of 
things. 

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Temptation may include trials 
and tests from God, temptations 

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arising from our own evil 
desires, temptations arising 

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from the culture around us, from
the world, temptations that come

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from the devil and his minions 
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We ask for the Lord to keep us 
even from entering into those at

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all on the prevention side, on 
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And we talked like that last 
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this week about how dangerous is
the spiritual life. 

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We have these terrible enemies 
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desires, the world and the 
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We not only need protection from
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need deliverance from them. 
Once we are within, we need 

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divine deliverance. 
And this morning we're going to 

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talk about this deliverance. 
It's funny, my, my family 

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recently has gone down an 
interesting rabbit trail 

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regarding prison breaks of all 
things prison breaks. 

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What's so compelling about 
prison breaks? 

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It all started with Mark Rober. 
Many of you know of his YouTube 

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channel is super smart engineer 
who designs obstacle courses for

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squirrels. 
I know it sounds crazy. 

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You can look it up. 
It's amazing. 

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You'll be transfixed and then 
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doing with my life? 
But Mark released a video which 

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is scientific geeky engineering 
deep dive on a historic escape 

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from Alcatraz, the Rock in San 
Francisco. 

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Super interesting. 
We're watching this. 

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We're geeking out. 
So interesting. 

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And then, of course, after that 
video is over, the algorithm has

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you and its clutches and start 
suggesting things. 

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Oh, they like prison breaks. 
They might like this one about 

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El Chapo and how he escaped 
twice, twice from maximum 

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security prisons down in Mexico 
with his tunneling goons busted 

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him out of there. 
Amazing, amazing. 

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And then our third, I guess we 
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our family descends down this 
this path. 

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We're geeking out right now over
something I hope is a little bit

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more refined, but we're geeking 
out right now over Alexander 

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Dumas masterpiece, The Count of 
Monte Cristo. 

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Amazing, amazing. 
What's so interesting about 

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prison breaks? 
Particularly interesting if 

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you're cheering for the one who 
needs to get out because he's 

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been incarcerated unjustly. 
We in the Bible are told amazing

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stories of deliverance over and 
over and over again, trapped 

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against all odds and released in
a nick of time by God's mighty 

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hand, by his agents of 
redemption. 

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It's a massive theme, and I 
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deliverance in the Bible. 
Entire denominations have become

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fixated maybe too much on the 
theme of deliverance, but we 

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would do well to consider that 
the Lord's Prayer teaches us to 

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beg God for deliverance. 
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today is that we are commanded 
and taught to pray for rescue. 

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We need divine deliverance. 
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this evil. 
And next week I'll talk more and

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unpack more about what evil 
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But for our purposes this 
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comes into our lives that that 
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faith in God, all manner of 
evil, and in this second part of

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the petition, deliver us from 
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temptation. 
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ourselves of the spiritual 
dangers that are against us, 

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these enemies, the world, the 
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Our text this morning that that 
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Now these things took place as 
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not desire evil as they did 
Paul's. 

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Looking back and thinking about 
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Old Testament. 
Any kind of riffs on some of the

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stories in your Old Testament? 
Do not be idolaters as some of 

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as some of them were. 
As it is written that people sat

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down to eat and drink and rose 
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We must not indulge in sexual 
immorality as some of them did 

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and 23,000 fell in a single day.
We must not put Christ to the 

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test, as some of them did and 
were destroyed by serpents, nor 

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grumble, as some of them did and
were destroyed by the destroyer.

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Now these things happen to them 
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written down for our 
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That includes you and me, on 
whom the end of the ages has 

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come. 
Therefore, let anyone who thinks

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that he stands take heed lest he
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No temptation has overcome you. 
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God is faithful, and He will not
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ability. 
But with the temptation, He will

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also provide the way of escape, 
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it. 
Therefore, my beloved, flee from

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idolatry. 
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rescue from temptation, but then
this text teaches us that we 

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need to look for a way of 
escape. 

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You pray for rescue and then you
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Participate in His plan. 
There is a joke that I heard 

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years and years and years ago. 
It's called the Drowning Man. 

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You've probably heard it before 
too. 

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It's the kind that preachers 
like, which probably means it's 

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not that funny. 
A fellow was stuck on his 

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rooftop during a flood. 
He was praying to God for help. 

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Soon a man on a rowboat came by 
and the fellow shouted to the 

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man on the roof. 
Jump into my boat, I can save 

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you, the stranded fellow shouted
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No, it's OK. 
I'm praying to God and he's 

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going to save me. 
You know that where this is 

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going. 
So the rowboat went on. 

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Then a motorboat came by. 
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shouted, Jump in, I can save 
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To this the strain of man said, 
No thanks, I'm praying to God 

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that he is going to save me. 
I have faith. 

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So the motorboat went on. 
Then a helicopter came by and 

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the pilot shouted down. 
He must have had a tremendous 

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voice. 
Grab this rope and I will lift 

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you to safety. 
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replied, No thanks. 
I'm praying to God and he's 

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going to save me. 
I have faith. 

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So the helicopter reluctantly 
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Soon the water rose above the 
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He went to heaven. 
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discuss the whole situation with
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exclaimed, I had faith in you, 
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You let me drown. 
I don't understand why. 

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To this God replied, I sent you 
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helicopter. 
What more did you expect? 

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And the points well made. 
If you're going to pray for 

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rescue and he's providing a way 
of escape, then we must needs 

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participate in this plan. 
I have three ES for you to 

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concentrate on under this point.
The first is that we need to 

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engage. 
We need to engage the text for 

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this idea comes to us from 
Ephesians 6. 

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I'll just read verses 10 through
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It's famous. 
Many of you haven't memorized. 

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It has to do with the armor of 
God. 

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Finally, be strong in the Lord 
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might. 
Put on the whole armor of God, 

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that you may be able to stand 
against the schemes of the 

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devil. 
For we do not wrestle against 

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flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the authorities,

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against the cosmic powers, over 
this present darkness, against 

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the spiritual forces of evil in 
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Therefore take up the whole 
armour of God, that you may be 

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able to withstand in the evil 
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And having done all to stand 
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Stand, therefore, having 
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and having put on the 
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and as shoes for your feet, 
having put on the readiness 

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given by the gospel of peace in 
all circumstances, take up the 

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shield of faith, with which you 
can extinguish all the flaming 

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darts of the evil. 1 and take 
the helmet of salvation and the 

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sword of the Spirit, which is 
the Word of God. 

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Praying at all times. 
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praying, praying at all times in
the Spirit, with all prayer and 

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supplication to that end. 
Keep alert, and with 

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perseverance making 
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There is prayer again for all 
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We pray, but then we actively 
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rescue. 
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There are times when we wait on 
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is a prayerful waiting of 
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So not only are we to engage, 
sometimes the Bible just says in

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the words of Monty Python, run 
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And for this we have our second 
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Sometimes the right thing to do 
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As a a warrior with armor to 
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supposed to book it out of there
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Bible says this their key verse.
No temptation has overtaken you 

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that you that is not common to 
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God is faithful and he will not 
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ability, but with the temptation
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See it there the way of escape. 
And then he says down in verse 

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14, flee, run away, run away. 
Perhaps what comes to mind for 

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you is an awkward story in 
Genesis when Joseph, Prince of 

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Egypt, is being seduced by the 
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And he says to her, look, my 
masters withheld nothing from me

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except you. 
This is wrong. 

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No, she won't listen. 
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he runs away and she's holding 
his robe. 

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He just books it out of there. 
He just runs away. 

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This notion of running away or 
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Paul to his protege, the young 
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Look at second Timothy 222. 
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Flee. 
So flee. 

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Youthful passions. 
Some translations have lusts 

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there. 
So flee youthful lusts and 

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pursue righteousness, faith, 
love, and peace along with those

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who call on the Lord for a from 
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Not only is he supposed to flee 
youthful passions, but he's also

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supposed to flee stupid 
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What's a stupid conversation? 
Passion. 

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That doesn't sound very nice. 
Well, hang with me for a second,

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Paul says. 
Have nothing to do with foolish,

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ignorant controversies. 
You know that they breed 

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quarrels. 
So maybe I'm the only one, but I

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don't think I am. 
I'm sure many of you been in a 

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conversation where you just, you
weren't really sure if you 

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should engage because you knew 
that it probably had a chance of

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going the wrong way and becoming
unhinged. 

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And you went ahead and engaged 
and it went, it went totally off

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the tracks, off the rails. 
And like the hydra of Greek 

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mythology, that Serpentine beast
with the snake heads, you cut 

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one off and two more pop up in 
its head. 

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It breeds quarrels. 
Social media ground is just like

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their, their social. 
What did I just say? 

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Social media is like their 
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Madness, madness. 
Paul says you don't have to do 

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that. 
Better you don't do that better 

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you don't do that. 
Now you do have to engage. 

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You do have to have these 
conversations sometimes they're 

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not avoidable. 
And we're going to talk about 

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that some more. 
But in this text, he says don't 

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have anything to do with them. 
So Joseph escaped, Paul tells 

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Timothy to flee certain things 
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Lord Jesus sometimes just has 
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Have you ever noticed this? 
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compelling to me. 
Here's an example of Jesus just 

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kind of disappearing from a very
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says so they these, this angry 
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to stone him. 
They they pick up stones to 

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throw at him, but Jesus hid 
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temple. 
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There's another place where they
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and the text says that he just 
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Like, how does that even work? 
Is there like a look on his 

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face? 
He's like, he just walks right 

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through. 
He's unarmed and he just walks 

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right through. 
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have to bear up under something,
a difficult relationship that's 

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a chronic temptation, a 
contextual problem at work that 

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it. 
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different ways to walk with the 
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circumstances, in these 
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You can see it again in that key
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10/13. 
No temptation is overtaking you.

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That's not common to man Keep 
reading. 

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God is faithful. 
You will not let you be tempted 

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beyond your ability, but with 
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provide the way of escape. 
There it is that you may be able

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to endure it. 
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the escape here is an endurance 
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That's where most of us live 
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And again we can think of Joseph
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Yes, he fled Potiphar's wife, he
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the frying pan and into the fire
because she frames him and he 

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has to go to the dungeons for at
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12. 
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The text is ambiguous. 
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to endure an affliction that 
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man when he had Egypt at his 
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Sounds like Edmund, poor Joseph.
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think about Timothy again, 
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Again, you can think about Paul 
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a lot of these letters while 
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enduring underneath it. 
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the Lord's servant, you pastor, 
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kind to everyone, able to teach 
patiently enduring evil, 

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correcting his opponents with 
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God may perhaps grant them those
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that you're gently trying to 
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leading to a knowledge of the 
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And then he talks about them 
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their senses and escape from the
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captured by him to do his will. 
So Timothy, your endurance under

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this evil may be a means of 
escape to the people that are 

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putting that very same pressure 
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Can you hang in there and then 
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conversation? 
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Perhaps they'll come to their 
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snare. 
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we can think about Paul himself 
given affliction, said he begged

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God to take away, and God said 
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First Corinthians chapter 12, 
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It's Paul's testimony, part of 
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So to keep me, an apostle, from 
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having a big head. 
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greatness of the revelations, a 
thorn was given me in the flesh.

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Look what he says, a messenger 
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me from becoming conceited. 3 
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I plead with the Lord about 
that, about this, that it should

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leave me. 
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sufficient for you, for my power
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Therefore I will boast all the 
more gladly of my weaknesses, so

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that the power of Christ may 
rest upon me. 

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For the sake of Christ, then, 
I'm content with weaknesses, 

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insults, hardships, 
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For when I am weak, then I am 
strong. 

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You may beg God to take that 
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you, My grace is sufficient. 
Your recourse, then, is to walk 

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with Him through that affliction
as well as you can, giving glory

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to God as you do. 
To bear up under this is an 

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endurance given to you by the 
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that you may bear up under this 
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circumstance. 
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Joseph and Timothy and Paul, we 
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Lord Himself, can't we? 
His endurance Hebrews 12/2 

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looking to Jesus, the founder 
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The Who, for the joy that was 
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There's that word endured the 
cross, despising the shame, and 

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is seated at the right hand of 
the throne of God. 

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I don't know what you're going 
through, whether you're supposed

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to take a stand or you're 
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you're supposed to bear up under
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But we pray all along, deliver 
me, deliver me, help me to be 

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holy, help me to represent you 
well. 

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And should I even die from this 
trial, I have a bright hope and 

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future with you. 
Praise God. 

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Praise God. 
The Lord is obviously the most 

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compelling example of all of 
them for the greatest prison 

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break of all time. 
It's not from the rock, or from 

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a prison down in Mexico, or an 
island prison off the coast of 

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France, but from a Rolling Stone
tomb all those years ago on 

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Easter morning, he broke the 
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He walked out of there and that 
jailbird 3 at last is our divine

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rescuer, which gives us 
tremendous hope when we pray to 

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him. 
Deliver me that he can do. 

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He escaped from death. 
One of my most favorite hymns of

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all time actually has a 
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You know there's a jailbreak 
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It's fantastic. 
Charles Wesley, I love you. 

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I can't wait to meet you 
someday. 

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Deidre has instructions. 
If I croak this, you're going to

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have to sing this one. 
Brighton, take note. 

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You're younger than me. 
This could be your job. 

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Listen now, long my imprisoned 
spirit lay fast, bound in sin 

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and nature's night. 
I think it's really exciting 

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because Jesus comes in and 
there's like, like beams of 

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light shooting out of his eyes. 
It's super weird and super fun. 

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Ready, thine? 
He's talking about Jesus. 

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Thine eye diffused A quickening 
ray. 

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Quickening means resurrecting 
ray. 

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Thine eye diffused A quickening 
ray. 

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I woke. 
The dungeon flamed with light. 

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My chains fell off. 
My heart was free. 

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I rose, went forth and followed 
thee. 

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Free at last. 
Free at last. 

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And many of us can resonate with
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And we know what it's like to 
sting this hymn and think about 

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our pardon in the gospel being 
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But many of our experience has 
been even in the Christian life 

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of, of a bondage to sin, 
besetting sins that are 

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entrapping and super hard to 
escape. 

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And we're so tired of repenting 
over and over again, yet again 

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for that thing that I just 
cannot kick, I cannot get rid 

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of. 
Maybe they're addictions, a 

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toxic persons that pull us away 
from the Lord. 

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And we wonder, does the gospel 
have the kind of power that the 

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preachers talk about and the 
people sing about? 

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Because here I am again, 
entrapped, enslaved. 

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It's a common, common story, 
probably the usual testimony. 

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And what we have to think about 
is the incremental nature, the 

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bit by bit aspect of the way the
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Sometimes. 
Sometimes it's not 

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instantaneous. 
Sometimes it's like those 

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assiduous little diggers, 
digging bit by bits, day by day,

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with the Lord's help, tunneling 
through all of the rock to get 

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out of there. 
There are a lot of surprises in 

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nursing school. 
I had no idea what I was getting

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into. 
Sign up for nursing. 

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That sounds good. 
Lots of surprises. 

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I won't regale you Some of them 
unpleasant, some of them 

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surprisingly interesting and 
pleasant. 

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One of the things that surprised
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turned out to like a lot because
I found it super compelling, was

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in my mental health nursing 
class because we were required 

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to attend an A a meeting 
Alcoholics Anonymous. 

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I was super nervous. 
I didn't know what this meant. 

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I'd never been to anything like 
this before. 

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And I they get to this Community
Center and there's just this 

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blue haze outside the Community 
Center because these addicts are

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just trying to take one day at a
time and they're fighting their 

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worst demon 1st and it's not 
cigarettes. 

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So you get into this, this 
Community Center, there's 

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probably a couple 100 people in 
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It was a big meeting. 
Huge. 

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And I was, I was amazed at the 
the steady, courageous vigilance

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of people taking one day at a 
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And I was surprised and 
compelled to how churchy some of

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the things were about the 
meeting. 

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There were testimonies of, of 
addiction, testimonies of 

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sobriety one day at a time. 
I learned all kinds of things. 

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They've got a, a token system 
because you have to take one day

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at a time and sometimes that's 
all you got. 

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They give you a physical 
representation, says one day 

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sober. 
Here's your coin. 

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Stick it in your pocket. 
You feeling tempted, get out and

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hold it for a minute. 
Run away. 

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Do whatever you need to do. 
Call your sponsor. 

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Two days sober, three days 
sober, one week sober, one month

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sober. 
Finally one year sober. 

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They're not supposed to think 
about all the years and years 

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and years one day at a time. 
So much of the Christian life, 

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particularly when we're dealing 
with besetting sins, is just 

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like that, scraping to get out 
of cell with Jesus. 

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Deliver me from evil one day at 
a time, with a courage to do 

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really hard things that have 
tempted you and have made you 

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fall before radical surgeries 
against things that you really 

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like. 
Maybe it's the Internet. 

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Suddenly we thought we would die
if we didn't have the Internet. 

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I remember life before the 
Internet. 

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I know that's kind of like 
saying I'm 100 years old. 

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We have to kind of hit rock 
bottom and beg God as we are 

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taught to do in the Lord's 
Prayer. 

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Deliver me. 
And for some, it will be quick 

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and rapid. 
For most of us, it'll be a slow 

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and steady work over days and 
years and decades. 

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So I'm so blessed by folks who 
have taught me that courage, who

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struggles far harder than 
anything that I have faced. 

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For the Lord Jesus Christ is 
free as a bird, and he will make

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us free too. 
That's the power of the gospel 

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to change lives. 
So to conclude, friends, we need

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protection from going into evil,
but when we're in it, we need 

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divine rescue from evil. 
So we cry out to God for help 

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and we look for a way of escape,
whether that means literally 

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running away or engaging or 
enduring with Christ. 

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We've been concluding the 
service this series by praying 

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together as a church, the Lord's
Prayer. 

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If you don't know it, that's OK.
I'm going to say it out loud. 

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When we get to the the line 
where we don't know which word 

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to use, sins or deaths or 
trespasses, we're going to say 

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trespasses. 
So will you pray with me, my 

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friends, our Father, who art in 
heaven, hallowed be thy name, 

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thy Kingdom come, Thy will be 
done on earth as it is in 

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heaven. 
Give us this day Our Daily 

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Bread, and forgive us our 
trespasses as we forgive those 

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who trespass against us. 
Lead us not into temptation, but

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deliver us from evil, For thine 
is the Kingdom, and the power 

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and the glory forever. 
Amen.