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1st Corinthians 13 this morning,
if you have your Bibles, turn 

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there and it won't be a long 
message because I covered half 

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of this book last week and we'll
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So First Corinthians 13 is not a
chapter just to read and hear 

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words. 
I'm thinking as I was studying 

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it today that this teaching in 
First Corinthians 13 about what 

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love is, you could put your name
in all these little definitions 

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of of what it is and find that 
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You have challenges of doing it 
or living it out, and this isn't

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something you can do in your own
strength. 

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This has to be done by the Holy 
Spirit and when you find that 

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you're a flawed and you're not 
able to love this way, don't 

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beat yourself up to say Lord, I 
want you to do this in me 

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because I can't do this apart 
from you, from you. 

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It's as though I speak with the 
tongues of men and of angels, 

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but have not love. 
I've become a sounding brass or 

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a clanging symbol. 
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prophecy and understand all 
mysteries and all knowledge, and

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though I have all faiths that I 
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not love, I am nothing. 
And though I bestow all my goods

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to feed the poor, and though I 
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have not love, it profits me 
nothing. 

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Love suffers long, so you can 
put your name in there. 

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Just quietly say to yourself and
to the Lord, I suffer long. 

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Love is kind. 
Love does not envy. 

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Love does not trade itself, is 
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rudely, does not seek its own, 
is not provoked, thinks no evil,

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does not rejoice in iniquity, 
but rejoices in the truth, bears

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all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, and endures 

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all things. 
Love never fails, but whether 

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there are prophecies, they will 
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Whether there are tongues, they 
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Whether there is knowledge, it 
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For we know in part and we 
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But when that which is perfect 
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part will be done away. 
When I was a child, I spoke as a

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child, I understood as a child, 
I thought as a child. 

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But when I became a man, I put 
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For now we see in a mere dimly, 
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Now I know in part, but then I 
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known and now abide Faith, hope,
love, these three. 

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But the greatest of these is 
love. 

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Father, we read this chapter 
understanding it's about your 

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love, your agape, your 
unconditional, undeserved love 

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that you give to each of us. 
And Father, I pray that you 

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would help us to read this 
periodically just to see how 

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much we are either not becoming 
more like you in our daily life,

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or we are encouraged 
understanding that you are 

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causing us to begin to to live 
our lives out this way, That we 

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actually do these things by the 
power of your Holy Spirit. 

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That we're not uptight, that 
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that we're loving, that we 
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And we do ourselves all the 
things that are all about you 

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and how you lived your life when
you were on the earth and how 

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you taught your apostles and 
your followers. 

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And so, Lord, please bless your 
people today. 

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Encourage us, do in US, Lord, 
what we're not capable of doing 

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in ourselves. 
For Lord, we want to be these 

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kind of people. 
And we just ask these things in 

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your name, Jesus, Amen. 
So some thoughts on this 

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chapter. 
Cindy and I read this when we 

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first got married because it 
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We were just young kids, 20 and 
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I had long hair, former hippie 
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to please my father-in-law. 
My wife had a mini skirt on. 

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It was surrealistic. 
As I look the pictures by my 

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bedside, I look at it and I 
think about all the years God's 

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taken us through hard times, 
challenging times, times we 

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regret, times that we look back 
and smile and this thank God for

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the experiences. 
But learning to live and be in 

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love with God is a process and a
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Proverbs 817 says I love those 
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me diligently will find me. 
I thought about that verse this 

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morning. 
The Lord loves us, but He really

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loves us when He knows we love 
Him back. 

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The Bible says we love Him 
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So the love relationship with 
God begins with Him loving you 

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and me. 
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Christ died for us. 
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much do I seek Him diligently? 
I try to every day to start my 

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day to seek Him. 
But some days are crazy, right? 

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You get up and you're so busy 
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that you find yourself taking 
off in your life without seeking

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Him, without asking him for 
direction, without asking him 

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for help. 
Maybe on the fly you do it. 

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But it's it's, it's a difference
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superficially seeking him. 
And sometimes we find ourselves 

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not sensing God's presence in 
our lives because we haven't 

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been taking time to spend 
seeking him. 

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And he said, if we spend time 
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And there's nothing better than 
having the presence of God in 

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your life and experiencing that.
The thing you come to church for

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isn't to just get information. 
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And I'm praying to God, help us 
find you today. 

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And the challenges of life in 
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the struggles and the things we 
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temptations, the setbacks, the 
failings, whatever it might be, 

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that we might come here and find
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God is with us and he'll never 
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He's not like an earthly father 
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He's never disappointed because 
he knows the way we are and, and

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he expects our failings, but he 
doesn't leave us in our 

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feelings. 
He comes to our rescue to bring 

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us out of the feelings and out 
of the mistakes and out of the 

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mock at times we find ourselves 
in to restore us into that 

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relationship with Him of love. 
The apostle John tells us in the

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14th chapter about what the key 
is in regard to this love 

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relationship. 
And these are the words in your 

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Bible, the red letter. 
This is actually Jesus actually 

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speaking. 
He says, if you love me, keep my

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commandments. 
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And I think this responsibility 
I have to keep and do work 

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harder. 
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want to like keep his 
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I didn't want to obey him. 
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do. 
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place and at times in my journey
is learning to be a follower of 

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Jesus Christ. 
I found that I was disobedient 

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and yet he still loved me and he
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But that deep relationship that 
can be established and developed

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with God is this internal desire
that Lord, I really want to 

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follow you because I love you, 
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I want to follow you because I'm
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And if you love some and you 
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them or betray them, He says, 
then knowing when he tells us we

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have to endeavor to keep his 
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will pray the Father, and he 
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that he may abide with you 
forever, the spirit of truth. 

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And the world can't receive 
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knows him. 
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with you and will be in you. 
I will not leave you orphans. 

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I will come to you. 
Isn't that cool how God does 

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that? 
He tells us like this heavy 

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thing, if you love me, keep my 
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And then right away he realizes 
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without a helper, right? 
The Holy Spirit, that's his 

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grace. 
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to do this work of obedience in 
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be obedient. 
So the whole Bible is full of 

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teachings on this love 
relationship that the Father 

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desires to have with us. 
And my wife tells me, and we've 

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been married a long time, the 
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times that we can just talk 
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It's not the stuff that I can 
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It's it's deeper. 
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It's communicating your heart to
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heart. 
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same kind of love relationship 
to God is tender and precious to

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Him. 
When you pour your heart out to 

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Him and want to talk to Him and 
share your dreams and your 

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desires and the longings you 
have and the vision that He's 

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given you as a family, for your 
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your kids, your grandkids, 
everyone that enters into your 

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life, your workers, your 
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This this love relationship. 
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is to watch the people I know 
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my family and then you guys. 
Watching how God uses you to 

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love people unconditionally. 
Seeing you forgive people for 

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things that most people would 
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anybody for. 
I watched Erica Kirk last Sunday

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in her short eulogy on what her 
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And this woman was so empty of 
herself and so full of the grace

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of God that she was able just to
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everyone. 
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her husband. 
She forgave him. 

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Now, maybe some of us would come
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conclusion down the road in our 
life, but this is just a few 

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days after her husband was taken
from her through that violent, 

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senseless killing. 
I listened to testimonies of 

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people that serve in government,
Not all of them, but a lot of 

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them that spoke from their heart
about their love for Jesus 

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Christ and their love for their 
country and their love for their

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fellow man. 
That's rare, isn't it? 

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You don't hear that in media, 
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Hollywood, and usually you don't
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people you run with or you work 
with in Galatians and Ephesians.

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We learned these things when we 
went to Bible college many years

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ago, and we're still trying to, 
you know, submit and yield to 

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the reality of these verses. 
Ephesians 518. 

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It uses the illustration of 
alcohol and spiritual life, and 

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there's nothing wrong with 
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there's something wrong when 
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Because when they have too much 
to drink, what are they 

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controlled by? 
The alcohol, right? 

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And the alcohol then causes 
problems in homes and drunk 

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driving and abuse and all kind 
of terrible things when it's not

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managed properly and maturely. 
But Paul used an illustration 

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that all the people could 
understand because most people 

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at one time or another have been
drunk and they knew what they 

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would act like if they were 
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She says don't be drunk with 
wine where it's an excess, but 

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be filled with the Holy Spirit. 
And if we're believers, we know 

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the difference between 2 
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When we're filled with the Holy 
Spirit, it's all about God first

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and everyone else 2nd. 
It's no longer about me or you. 

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It's about this self selfless 
kind of love that impacts the 

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rest of the world. 
Someone once said people don't 

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care how much you know until 
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And if there's no mention of 
caring or loving others or 

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illustration of laying your life
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else. 
And everything in the Bible is 

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this words and messages, and we 
come to worship and we just 

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leave empty if we haven't 
allowed these words to penetrate

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our lives and to change us. 
Whenever we seek God with this 

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depth of diligence, we begin to 
cultivate a deep love for God. 

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We're actively and earnestly 
seeking God's wisdom and 

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presence in our lives. 
And we trust then that this 

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diligently search will be 
rewarded with God's presence and

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blessing. 
And it's a fact that if we seek 

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the Lord and love him this way 
and seek him diligently will 

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find him. 
Like the U2 song says, you know,

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I still haven't found what I'm 
looking for. 

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You won't find what you're 
looking for until you find your 

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searches made complete in the 
one that you were created to 

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follow and to know, and that's 
Jesus Christ. 

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And then the book of Galatians 
talks about the the fruit of the

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Spirit and the works of the 
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And when we were young 
Christians, we memorize these 

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things, these chapters, Cindy 
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And it says in verse 16 of 
chapter 5, I say, then walk in 

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the Spirit, and you shall not 
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It's a command. 
The, the, the Greek tense in 

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that statement is that this is 
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So there's this battle between 
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nature that we have that we've 
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born again. 
They're contrary to one another.

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So you can't do the things that 
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about that in Romans 7. 
Why do I do what I know I 

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shouldn't do? 
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that I really want to do? 
That that conflict, that power 

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of the flesh and the Spirit, but
it only can be overcome through 

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the power of the Holy Spirit. 
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and journal and hold, have 
accountability partners, all 

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that kind of stuff. 
Nothing's going to work until 

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you're under the power of the 
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law. 
The law would be like, do this, 

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don't do this. 
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and, and you find that if you've
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you've broken them. 
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That's why we needed Jesus 
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could fulfill the law 100% and 
give us his forgiveness and 

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righteousness because he knows 
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And so he, he tells us then that
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I'm under the compulsions of my 
human fallen nature, they're 

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going to be very clear. 
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of different sins. 
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marriage, fornication, 
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sorcery, hatred, contentions, 
jealousy, outbursts of wrath, 

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selfish ambitions, dissensions, 
heresies, envy, murders, 

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drunkenness, revelries and the 
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Of which I tell you beforehand, 
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Kingdom of God. 
So you read that and you say, 

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well, you know, in my life I did
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Well, that's why the cross is 
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And to give us new life and, 
and, and Jesus, he cleanses us 

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from our sin through his blood. 
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remember our sins no more. 
Isn't that awesome? 

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I remember mine, but he says, 
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So why are you remembering? 
I don't know. 

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I'm a knucklehead. 
Lord, help me to think on the 

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positive things that you've 
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that I've done. 
Mercy, forgiveness, freedom, 

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grace. 
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times maybe not deep in the dive
at a flesh anymore of doing like

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the big bad ones, we think, but 
like you're flipping out an 

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outbursts of wrath, yelling at 
someone just flipping out right.

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You ever do that? 
Anybody ever flip out and yell 

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at someone? 
Raise your hand, every one of 

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us. 
We still don't. 

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Thanks, Dan. 
Dan's helping Jessica admit it, 

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right? 
So he raises their hand for her.

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But you know, we, we, we just do
that, right? 

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We do it. 
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Don't condemn to say, Lord, 
forgive me and fill me with your

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spirits. 
And next time I'm going to be 

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cool and I may be calm and I may
be collected and I'm going to be

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under your control. 
So you still sin and that's why 

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there's repentance and 
confession before the Lord to 

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keep short accounts, get things 
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But if we are doing this 
habitually and we could care 

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less, it's obvious we're not 
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We need a Savior. 
We need to get born again so 

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that our nature then begins to 
change into God's plan and not 

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our own. 
And then he says the fruit of 

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the Spirit and this correlates 
this First Corinthians 13 If 

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you're under the control of the 
Holy Spirit, the fruit of the 

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Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, 
long-suffering. 

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That's patience, kindness, 
goodness, faithfulness, 

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gentleness and self-control. 
If you're, if you're honest and 

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you're a clear thinker, who 
wouldn't want to have that kind 

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of life, right? 
To be that way as much as 

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possible in our lives. 
I mean, that's like the 

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ultimate, that's like the, the 
goal of, of human existence to 

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have that kind of demeanor and 
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So you can live that way and, 
and be that way in business and 

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neighbors and families and 
marriage of kids and craziness 

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stuff and just have that 
gentleness and that 

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self-control. 
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And those who are Christ have 
crucified the flesh with its 

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passions and desires. 
If we live in the Spirit, let us

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also walk in the Spirit. 
Let us not become conceited, 

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provoking one another and 
envying one another. 

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So we go back to First 
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things there. 
Love suffering long, that's 

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long-suffering, that's the fruit
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Love doesn't act like a big 
shot. 

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It's not all about you or me. 
It's not puffed up and 

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braggadocious. 
Does not behave rudely, does not

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seek its own, has not provoked, 
Thinks no evil, does not rejoice

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in sin, but rejoices in the 
truth. 

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Bears all things, believes all 
things, hopes all things, 

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endures all things. 
So what happens is someone has a

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failing or someone stumbles or 
someone falls, and the human 

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nature is, did you hear what 
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Right. 
And then we begin to tell 

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everybody about something that 
we have no business spreading 

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around about someone. 
If we really love someone. 

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The Bible says love covers a 
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You want to cover the person's 
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You want to protect their 
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You don't want to destroy them 
publicly. 

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Now you might have to talk to 
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how to get out of the mess they 
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else's dirty laundry or problems
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I loved how Jesus dealt with 
that woman caught in the act of 

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adultery. 
Everybody knew about it because 

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of how people would talk about 
things and they wanted to accuse

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her and they wanted to throw 
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And the way Jesus responded to 
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long-suffering and love. 
He always behaved this way. 

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He always acted this way. 
He said you who are without sin,

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let him cast the first stone. 
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They put their stones down and 
they walked away because who 

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were they to condemn someone 
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Love never fails. 
No matter what happens in your 

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life or mine, God will never 
stop loving you. 

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Everybody else might turn away 
from you, reject you, badmouth 

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you, slander you, but at the end
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there with His arms. 
Come to me, all you labour and 

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are heavy laden and I will give 
you rest. 

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Learn from me for I am meek and 
lowly of heart. 

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You will find rest for your 
souls when you feel everybody's 

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betrayed you, abandoned you, 
There's no one that depends on 

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you, no one trusts you anymore. 
No one believes in you anymore. 

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The Lord never stops believing 
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Isn't that awesome? 
That's the God we serve. 

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That's the Jesus who saved us. 
And He's the one that wants us 

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to tell everyone about who he 
really is, not who they might 

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think he is because of hypocrisy
and self righteousness and 

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legalism and judgmentalism. 
That's not the gospel he talks 

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about the giftings. 
And the giftings are still here 

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today. 
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One day when he comes, they 
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You won't have to put up with 
inferior preaching from men like

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me or anybody else. 
We try to do the best we can 

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with whatever God's given us a 
gift and that's it. 

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Like, you know, that's all, 
that's all I got right. 

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But Jesus, he has it all. 
And when he comes and preaches, 

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it's going to be awesome. 
Whether there's prophecies, they

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will fail. 
Whether there are tongues, they 

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will cease. 
Whether is knowledge, it will 

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vanish away. 
For we know in part and we 

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prophecy in part right now we're
doing the best we can with the 

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light that we have been given by
God to teach the Word of God and

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to follow the Word of God. 
But when that is which is 

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perfect has come, and that's 
Jesus, when he comes second 

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coming, then that which is in 
part will be done away. 

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Then won't need, there won't be 
any need for anything else but 

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Him. 
When I was a child, I spoke as a

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child, remember? 
I had like this nostalgic thing 

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couple days ago. 
I was working, I'm driving back,

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and the way the sun was setting 
that day just reminded me of 

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what it was like when I was a 
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So I grew up in Irwin. 
So I drove down through the 

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streets of Irwin and remembered 
things the way they were when I 

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was a kid. 
Isley's was there, Murphy's 5 

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and 10 was there. 
I remember going down into the 

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five and 10 and when The Beatles
came out, I, they had those 40 

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fives and and they had those 
little paper sleeves. 

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If you remember, and I want to 
hold your hand was the, the, 

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the, the big song that was on Ed
Sullivan. 

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It started The Beatles career 
and I forget the other one. 

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She loves me or something is on.
Well, I, I looked around and I 

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put two of those in one one 
thing. 

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That was the kind of kid I was, 
you know, So I got 2 for the 

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price of 1 I stole, right? 
I remembered that. 

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I remembered walking down an 
Irwin and acting like a big 

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shot, smoking my first 
cigarette. 

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I remember going to the dance at
the Methodist Church and I, like

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all these flashbacks, came back.
I remember going down to the 

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Irwin playground and it used to 
be packed on their kids playing 

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basketball, tennis. 
I don't know where the kids are 

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anymore. 
They're playing video games or 

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something. 
I don't know. 

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But we were down there playing 
until it got dark. 

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And I remember as a kid, vaguely
3 years old, for whenever I was 

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old enough to begin to walk 
around, I had this like 

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adventurous spirit. 
So when my mom put me in for the

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nap, I didn't want to take the 
nap. 

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So I figured out a way to lift 
the bedroom window up, climb out

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and get on the railing. 
And I had these pajamas on. 

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I had these feet in, you know, 
didn't have any shoes. 

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And I'd walk. 
I saw this alley going down to 

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the Irwin playground. 
And it, it just drew me. 

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It was sun was on. 
It looked like the yellow brick 

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road, right? 
And I just walked down there and

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I went down there and my poor 
Mama came out. 

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Oh my gosh, where is it? 
And she would come down and she 

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knew I was down there and she'd 
have a hair brush and she'd be 

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beating my beat my butt the 
whole way up with me on her 

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shoulder beating me. 
And I don't you ever do that 

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again. 
Well, I, I still have that 

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wanderlust kind of. 
That's why I like sails. 

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I can be in different places at 
different times whenever I'm 

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meeting new people, meeting new 
things, different experiences. 

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That's that's what floats my 
boat. 

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But when I was a child, though, 
I thought about all those things

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that I did as a child. 
I thought as a child, but when I

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became a man, I put away 
childish things. 

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And I'm still trying to put away
some of the childish things 

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because I'm still a kid at heart
in a lot of ways. 

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And I know, like, I'd like to 
have a good time and have fun 

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too, you know? 
But there's certain things that,

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you know, I do differently now I
think differently. 

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And maturity begins to develop 
in our lives as God grows us in 

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his grace. 
But he says, for now, we've seen

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a mirror dimly. 
So back then they had these 

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bronze mirrors. 
They didn't have these like 

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clear crystal mirrors like we 
have now. 

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Maybe they would be better, 
especially as you get older, if 

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you had a bronze mirror, you 
couldn't see the wrinkles, 

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right? 
And say, well, I still look 

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pretty good at whatever age, but
that's the type of mirrors they 

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had. 
So when they, when he said this,

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Paul, he, he talked about the, 
the ability or the lack of 

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ability to be able to see 
clearly. 

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But then he said one day we'll 
be able to see face to face. 

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Now I know in part. 
So we know a little bit about a 

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lot of things and not a lot of 
things about little things, but 

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we know some things. 
And he says, I know in part, but

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then I shall know just as I'm 
also known. 

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So one day we'll see Jesus face 
to face and he's not going to 

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bring up a bunch of junk that's 
already been died for and 

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cleansed and forgiven. 
He'll talk to us about our 

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effectiveness or lack of it, 
maybe in regard to his calling 

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on our lives that I really live 
fully for what He created me 

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for. 
And that's the purpose of 

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church, to help us all like sort
of get on track to be reminded 

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of what the big picture is 
because it's really about him 

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and becoming more like him and 
living for him. 

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Career success, all these things
are all fine, but the most 

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important thing is that one day 
when all that stuff's behind us,

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it'll just be us and him. 
And if we live as fully as we 

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could by his grace for him, 
we'll hear those wonderful 

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words. 
Well done, good and faithful 

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servant, enter into the joy of 
the Lord. 

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And may we help each other stay 
on track and keep pressing in 

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deeper and deeper to Jesus is 
like Cason said this morning, he

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has this desire to press deeper 
into Jesus. 

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May that all be our desires to 
and now abide faith, hope and 

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love these three. 
But the greatest of these is 

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love. 
The worship team can come 

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forward. 
Love is what makes life worth 

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living. 
To be loved by someone, there's 

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nothing like it. 
To be loved by God is far 

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superior than any human. 
Love can be given to us. 

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Love sets us free. 
I think stings lyrics. 

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One of my favorite musicians. 
He still doesn't know the Lord, 

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but boy he can write good music.
If you love someone, set them 

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free. 
Jesus proved us to us, He loves 

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us, He set us free. 
He said you shall know the truth

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and the truth shall make you 
free. 

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Amen. 
Nothing better than being free, 

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is it? 
When I got saved, the night I 

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got saved, I didn't know all the
theology, I didn't know all the 

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verses, but I knew I met Jesus 
and on my way to the Community 

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College, I had a Volkswagen, a 
pale powder blue Volkswagen with

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a sunroof, and I had The Who on 
full blast. 

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I am free. 
I am free, and my hair and 

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freedom is thus a taste of 
reality. 

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Jesus has set us free, and whom 
the sun is set free is free 

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indeed. 
Let's prepare our hearts for the

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supper. 
Lord, we are grateful for this 

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special day you've given us for 
your servant case and Harold, 

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who will now begin to take the 
steps into the path that his 

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Father has walked now for eight 
years and I've worked, walked in

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for 30 years. 
Lord, we do pray for him today 

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and other men, young men that 
will be raised up in this church

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in days ahead to help lead it. 
You would protect him, keep his 

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heart free, keep it joyful, keep
it full of your Holy Spirit. 

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And if you do, he will one day 
finish well as his dad and I 

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desire to do. 
And along with George and John, 

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thank you for everybody you 
brought here today. 

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Thank you for those on the 
YouTube and the Facebook and 

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Grace FM Lord, who are tuned in.
We pray, O God, your blessing of

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First Corinthians 13 upon all 
our lives, that we would love 

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others like you have loved us 
for You said by this people will

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know we're your followers, your 
disciples, by the love we have 

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for one another. 
Thank you for the love in this 

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church and the lives of these 
people, and may we just grow 

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deeper in it. 
Now we celebrate once again, 

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Lord, as we do every week, and 
remembering what you've done for

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us. 
On the night to Jesus, it's 

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betrayed. 
He took the bread in his hands 

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and he broke it, and he gave 
thanks, and he said, Take, eat, 

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this is my body which is given 
for you. 

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Eat this in remembrance of me. 
The same manner in it evening he

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took the cup, and he said, This 
cup is a new covenant, My blood,

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which is shed for the 
forgiveness of sins of many. 

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Drink this in remembrance of me,
for as often as you eat this 

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bread and you drink this cup, he
show forth the Lord's death till

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he comes again. 
Amen. 

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God bless you guys, love you, 
have a great week.