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You're very welcome to today's 
Triumph Church podcast. 

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We pray that you enjoy the 
message. 

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So I've been, I've been talking 
and going through in the 1st 

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chapter of Ephesians, the Lord 
put on my heart just to roll 

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things back a little bit before 
we go on to some more in the 

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Ephesians prayer there. 
And specifically these verses, 

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verse 11 and verse 14 and verse 
18, all right? 

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And these verses specifically, 
the apostle Paul is revealing to

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us a very important fact, all 
right, that we have an 

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inheritance through Christ that 
amazing. 

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How many of you have ever 
received an inheritance? 

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It's an amazing thing to be able
to leave this world and be able 

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to give an inheritance to your 
children and grandchildren, 

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right? 
But we have an inheritance 

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through Christ, and it's 
absolutely amazing beyond 

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anything that we can really 
fathom. 

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That's so incredibly fantastic. 
Paul makes a tremendous effort 

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in this chapter really to 
articulate what it is and what 

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it is that we realize that 
Christ purchased with his blood 

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like this is this is a big deal 
so big of a deal that Christ was

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willing to sacrifice his life 
and shed his blood for this. 

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Now like what in verse 7 in 
Ephesians chapter 1 and and 

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verse 7, we're going to be 
focusing on on 11/14 and, and 18

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there. 
But in Ephesians chapter 1 and 

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verse 7 in the message 
paraphrase there, it says 

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because of the sacrifice of the 
Messiah, his blood poured out on

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the altar of the cross, we are 
free people. 

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Isn't that good news? 
Free of penalties and 

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punishment, punishments chalked 
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And we are not just barely free 
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Like absolutely free. 
What Christ did has caused you 

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to be absolutely free. 
This wasn't just some half 

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thought out plan like God was 
all in on this. 

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You have God the Father, you 
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God the Holy Spirit all in on 
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He didn't hold back and he 
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you. 
He paid for what Paul is 

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revealing here in Ephesians 
chapter one with his blood. 

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He was serious about this, 
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Like that's a serious deal. 
If someone asks you, you know, 

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well, OK, let's make this 
agreement together. 

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All right, but I I want you to 
sign that in blood. 

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You ever heard that before? 
Like, that's a serious deal, 

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isn't it? 
Jesus paid for this with his 

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blood, and he didn't only do it 
to do the bare minimum, right? 

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Sometimes we, we, we, we think 
that, you know, ah, sure, this 

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is enough. 
Like if, if, if Jesus only did 

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that, that that would be enough,
right? 

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But he went so much further. 
He didn't just do the bare 

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minimum. 
He went all out, spared 

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absolutely nothing and I don't 
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same God who obviously went out 
of his way in creation, right. 

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You ever been been down to 
Killarney in the springtime and 

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all the flowers are in bloom, 
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It's beautiful, it's amazing. 
Was these massive bushes just 

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full of flowers. 
There's trees and one of our 

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favorite places to to go is the 
Muck Cross House there. 

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And they have like a rolling 
lawn, you know, down the back 

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and they have these massive 
elaborate gardens and there's 

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all sorts of plants and 
vegetation and it goes down to 

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the, to the foot of a lake. 
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And you look at something like 
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OK, God went all out, right? 
Like is there anything more 

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beautiful? 
People do paintings of things 

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like that and we're like, oh, 
wow, that's a beautiful 

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painting, right? 
And we hang it on our wall. 

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I like that. 
But that's just a replica of 

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something that is so much better
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There's this lake that I, that 
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You know, where I grew up was in
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top W there in the Pacific 
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But where I grew up there is 
this, there is this lake, it was

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called Crater Lake and it's from
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up and over the, you know, 
thousands of years since it's 

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filled up with water And the, 
the water when you see it in 

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person is like this, this 
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It's hard to even describe it, 
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They put a, they put a buoy 
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to see how far down. 
You could still see that and it 

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went down several 100 feet and 
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the, the, the water is so clear 
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take a photo of it, but that 
photo just can't do it justice 

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because the color of the water 
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absolutely amazing, right? 
So if God went all out like in 

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creation just for grass and 
flowers, right? 

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And birds and a squirrel and 
whatever else, right? 

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How much more do you think that 
he would go all out for you, 

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right? 
Have you ever read in Ephesians 

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chapter 3 verse 18 and 20? 
Let's look at this is another 

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one of the apostle Paul's 
prayers in the book of Ephesians

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and verse 18. 
He says may you be able to 

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comprehend with all the Saints 
what is the width and the length

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and the depth and the height and
verse 19 to know the love of 

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Christ, which passes knowledge 
that you may be filled with all 

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the fullness of God and in verse
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Now to him who is able to do 
exceedingly abundantly above all

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that we ask or think according 
to the power that works in US. 

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Oh my, my goodness. 
Hello. 

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According to the fullness of the
power, it says that works in US.

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Who do you have living on the 
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It's no wonder the Bible says 
greater is he who is in you 

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right than he who is in the 
world. 

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This world has nothing on God 
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There is no power on the face of
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powerful than God. 
The devil tried, didn't work out

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too well for him. 
He got kicked out of heaven. 

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Some of his followers, angels 
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God, tried well, they got kicked
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There is no power that's greater
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And you have that the fullness 
of God, right? 

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Did did I read that correctly? 
Maybe I, maybe I, I read that. 

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Where where was that? 
What scripture was that in? 

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So there we go, verse 19 at the 
very end there that you may be 

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filled with all the fullness of 
God. 

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Not a little bit. 
That's just a, a, a little 

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partial amount. 
Like it says fullness. 

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And what does fullness mean? 
If I, if if you ask for a cup of

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water and you want it filled to 
full and I just pour a little 

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bit in there, like are you going
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Right. 
I said fill it to full. 

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Pastor Brad, can you do that? 
Sure, right. 

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Fill it all the way to the top. 
Well, that's what Paul is saying

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here, that we may be filled with
all the fullness of God. 

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God didn't hold back from you, 
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What he accomplished through 
Christ's sacrifice is so much 

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more than empty religion. 
Salvation is God adopting sons 

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and daughters. 
Isn't that amazing? 

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The purpose of this was to adopt
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just the forgiveness of your 
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That's an amazing part of that, 
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But our sin was in the way of 
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So God had to take care of the 
sin issue so that He could adopt

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us into His family. 
That was the purpose of this, so

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that you could be in the family 
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Isn't that amazing? 
That's just the introduction. 

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The first point is that we've 
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Christ. 
We're going to look at Ephesians

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chapter 1 and verse 11. 
Ephesians 111 says in him we 

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also have obtained an 
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according to the purpose of him 
who works all things according 

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to the counsel of his will. 
And notice here the apostle Paul

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says in him, right, your 
inheritance is not found in your

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effort. 
It's not found in your merit, 

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your morality, being part of any
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It's found in him in a 
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All right, and an inheritance 
isn't a wage, it's not something

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you can earn. 
It's something that is given to 

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you freely by the grace of God. 
It's something given and then 

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received. 
Paul doesn't say that we will 

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receive an inheritance, right? 
It's important that we pay 

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attention to the wording. 
God is very intentional in what 

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He's commuting, communicating to
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And He says that we have 
obtained an inheritance, meaning

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you have it now, right? 
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It was settled at Jesus 
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And this inheritance wasn't 
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The apostle Paul says that it 
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It was predetermined. 
It was decided beforehand. 

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God had decided to give each of 
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comprehend it as the apostle 
Paul praise that we looked at 

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last week, by the Spirit of 
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Like we can't even understand it
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God has to reveal it to us 
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immense. 
It's hard for us in our human 

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reasoning to understand what God
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done, because it's so much 
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us. 
Like we'd be like, Oh, like I 

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said, sure that like I'm fine 
with just this Lord. 

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Like if if this is just the 
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happy with that. 
I don't need anything else from 

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you, Lord, Like I'm cool with 
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thank you very much, right? 
But God wants to do so much more

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and He did so much more. 
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that He actually did, man, every
day, thank you, Lord. 

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I just give you all the praise 
and all the glory and all the 

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honor because of the amazing 
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through Christ. 
It's amazing. 

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The second thing I want to look 
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We're just going to read the the
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then go into 14. 
It's that the Holy Spirit 

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guarantees our inheritance. 
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At the end of verse 13, it says 
that you were sealed with the 

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Holy Spirit of promise. 
And then in verse 14, who is the

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guarantee of our inheritance and
tell the redemption of the 

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purchased possession to the 
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Now, when we talk about the Holy
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talk about him like he's God's 
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Like, like he's the lesser 
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You have God the Father, God the
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Spirit. 
You know, you have God. 

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Oh, then you have God the son. 
He came to the, to the earth, 

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sacrificed his life. 
And then you have the Holy 

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Spirit, right? 
The Holy Spirit plays in such an

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important part of everything 
that God does. 

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You know, when Jesus, when Jesus
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he, he was resurrected, appeared
to, you know, the, the disciples

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and well over 500 different 
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And then they saw him ascend to 
heaven, right? 

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In Ephesians chapter 2, it says 
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right hand of the Father in 
heavenly places, right? 

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We're going to get to that in a 
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So Jesus is up in heaven with 
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Well, who's here on the earth 
now doing the work of God the 

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Father and God the Son. 
It's God the Holy Spirit, right?

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God the Holy Spirit is so much 
more than than just our 

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comforter in our in our 
director. 

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Like he's involved in every 
single aspect of my life of your

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life and every believer on the 
face of the planet. 

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He's busy, right? 
Important part of the Godhead. 

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But Paul is saying that that the
Holy Spirit was sent in part to 

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be the guarantee, right? 
You have God the Father sent God

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the Son, and then God the Holy 
Spirit was sent to be that 

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guarantee and do the work of the
ministry of God in this earth. 

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So you have all hands on deck. 
All the parts of the Godhead 

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were involved in our salvation 
and involved in our inheritance.

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Paul calls him the guarantee. 
Well, what does the word 

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guarantee mean? 
And the Greek here it means a 

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security, a deposit, a down 
payment, a binding legal pledge.

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Meaning that this isn't 
reversible, right? 

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Like it's a done thing, can't be
reneged on. 

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In other words, God put his own 
spirit inside of you as proof of

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your inheritance in Christ that 
he will not renege on that 

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promise. 
You have his guarantee. 

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Then we have the the the third 
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little more time on on this. 
The last point of what our 

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inheritance entails. 
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verse 18, the apostle Paul says 
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understanding being enlightened,
that you may know what is the 

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hope of his calling and what are
the riches of the glory of his 

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inheritance in the Saints. 
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would have spiritual wisdom and 
revelation, that the eyes of our

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understanding would be 
enlightened, that we would know 

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what this inheritance entails. 
You know, if someone leaves you 

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an inheritance, you know that 
you, you have, you know, a 

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solicitor may contact you or 
something. 

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You would have what would be 
known as like the, the reading 

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of the will and you would find 
out what it is that is in this 

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inheritance. 
What did someone leave you? 

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Well, the apostle Paul is saying
that that God is revealing to us

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what it is that has been left to
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And it's important that we know 
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you don't know about it. 
You can't spend money that you 

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don't have, right? 
So you need to know, you need to

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know who God is. 
You need to know who you are in 

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Christ, and you need to know 
what that means, right? 

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Paul's using a lot of legal 
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Ephesians. 
And when we read the Bible, it's

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always important that we read 
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And a lot of what the Apostle 
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in Ephesians, you need to 
understand it in historical 

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context, because the Apostle 
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who lived in the Roman Empire. 
So every, everything that he's 

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saying, it isn't just something 
that in scriptural, we know what

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adopted means today, right? 
But when the Bible says that 

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you've been adopted into God's 
family, he's, he's saying that 

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to people who lived in the Roman
Empire, right? 

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It means something a little 
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simple adoption may be today. 
We need to understand the 

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historical context. 
So we're going to look at that. 

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In the Roman Empire, adoption 
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transfer of fatherhood. 
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authority of the new father. 
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completely terminated. 
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witnessed, and it was binding. 
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Sounds kind of similar to 
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But there's an amazing point 
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concerning our adoption into 
God's family. 

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You might remember when, when 
Jesus was confronting religious 

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leaders in in John chapter 8 and
verse 44. 

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We're not going to turn there, 
but you can write it down and 

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look, look at that story later. 
But Jesus said that they 

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couldn't understand what it was 
that he was saying because they 

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were of their father. 
The devil is talking to 

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religious leaders here, right? 
I keep saying you guys, you 

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religious leaders can't 
understand what it is that I'm 

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saying because you're of your 
father, the devil. 

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Well, that alone is probably a 
good reason for them to not like

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him and seek to stone him, 
right? 

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I could you say anything a 
little more insulting to the 

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religious leaders than saying 
your father's the devil, right? 

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But that's what he said to them,
didn't he? 

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But the point that he's making 
is that anyone who's outside of 

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the salvation of Jesus isn't of 
God, right? 

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They're of the Father, the 
devil. 

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There's only two families. 
There's God's family, and then 

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there's the devil's family. 
You belong to one or the other. 

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That's just how it is. 
There is no other family, just 

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those two families. 
God said in Deuteronomy chapter 

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30 and verse 19, He said that I 
have set before you life and 

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death, blessing and cursing, but
choose life that both you and 

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your descendants may live. 
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Essentially he's saying choose 
which family you want to live 

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in. 
Do you want to choose the family

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that's blessing and life, or do 
you want to choose the family 

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that's death and cursing, right?
And some people, they're a 

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little thick in the head and 
they're not really sure. 

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So God goes on to say, well, 
choose the family of life. 

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OK, in case you're not sure, in 
case you're like, oh, I don't 

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know. 
I should probably flip a coin 

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and and see like choose life. 
It should be an easy choice, 

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right? 
We know John 1010 and the 

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amplified version, it says the 
thief comes only to steal, to 

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kill and to destroy. 
That's the devil, right? 

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He comes in order to steal, to 
kill and destroy. 

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But Jesus says, I have come that
they may have life, may enjoy 

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life and have it in abundance. 
God always goes above and 

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beyond. 
He doesn't shortchange us, 

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right? 
He doesn't just go halfway. 

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He says when you give, I'll give
back to you. 

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And what does he go on to say? 
I'll give back to you. 

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Press down, shaken together and 
running over, right? 

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God does everything in 
abundance. 

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Well, how come I don't see that 
in my life? 

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It's probably because you're 
limiting him from doing that. 

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Before he can fill that cup up, 
you're pulling it away. 

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That's enough, Lord, right? 
And how do we do that? 

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We can do that through our 
words. 

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We can do that what we what we 
believe, right? 

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We can either go all in with God
and have that above and beyond, 

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right? 
Anything that we can comprehend 

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or imagine that pressed down, 
shaken together and running over

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in our life. 
Or we can choose just to have 

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1/2 full glass. 
That's up to us. 

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He'll give us whatever we allow 
Him to give us, you know, But 

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He's standing there with that 
picture. 

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Come on. 
Like, just believe me for that. 

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Just trust me for that. 
Just have enough faith for that.

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I'm just waiting. 
Come on, right? 

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He's waiting on us. 
He wants to give it to overflow.

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But when God adopts you, your 
former father, the devil, don't 

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be offended. 
And his inheritance, sin, death,

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and destruction now has no legal
claim on you. 

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You've been adopted, right? 
You're in God's family now. 

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The devil now has no legal claim
on your life. 

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Here's some more historical 
context of adoption in the Roman

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Empire. 
The old life was legally erased.

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Under Roman law, adoption meant 
total discontinuity of the past.

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That means that all former debts
were canceled. 

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Isn't that cool, man? 
I'd like that. 

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Just in my regular life. 
Hey, I don't know anything on my

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credit card. 
Yeah, all right. 

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All prior legal obligations were
nullified. 

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The person's previous identity 
no longer existed in the law. 

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What does that mean? 
This is why the Apostle Paul 

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repeatedly uses language like 
old man and new man, the old you

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to used to be that no longer 
exists, been legally wiped out 

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by the blood of Jesus. 
Right now you put on the new 

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man. 
Read in Ephesians chapter 4. 

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Read in Colossians chapter 3. 
Read in Romans chapter 6. 

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Paul also uses language like you
died right in Colossians chapter

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2. 
In Colossians chapter 3 he talks

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about you died with Christ. 
The old you because you've been 

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adopted into God's family, a new
life. 

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The old is completely different.
When the apostle Paul in Two 

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Corinthians 517 says that you 
are a new creation, old things 

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have passed away right? 
Because legally, they no longer 

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exist. 
You are a new creation. 

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All things are new. 
Why? 

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Because you've been adopted into
God's family. 

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So when the devil tries to bring
condemnation to you, tries to 

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bring up your past, right, he's 
bringing that up of someone who 

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no longer exists anymore. 
Isn't that good news? 

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You are a new creation. 
All things have become new 

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legally. 
Jesus paid for it with his 

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blood. 
That's how serious he was about 

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this. 
These are not metaphors of self 

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improvement, but these are legal
descriptions of adoption and the

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Roman Empire. 
The adopted person received full

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inheritance rights. 
An adopted person became a full 

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heir equal to the biological 
children. 

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What does that mean? 
I'm about ready to blow up up 

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here. 
I got angrily, like, so excited.

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Like, what does that mean? 
Like full inheritance, right? 

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Oh, man, come on. 
What's an interesting fact is, 

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is that adoption, like these 
days is more, you know, like 

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younger people, children, you 
know, or, or youth or something 

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along on those lines. 
Back in those days, in the Roman

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times, it was adults, right? 
How many of us are adults? 

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And what's interesting about 
that is, is you were adopted not

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as not as not as children. 
It's a, it's a little different.

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You were adopted into a family 
because you were taking on that 

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status of that family, right? 
You were taking on the 

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responsibility of that family, 
the inheritance of that family, 

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representation of the Father's 
name in that family, because 

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you're now a child of that 
family, right? 

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Well, you've been adopted into 
the family of God, who's your 

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heavenly Father. 
You take on that status, that 

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responsibility in the family, 
the inheritance, the 

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representation. 
The apostle Paul says that we 

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are ambassadors for Christ, 
right? 

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We're taking on the 
representation of our Father 

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with the adoption, the person 
that immediately carries the 

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family name, the family honor, 
the family authority. 

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Come on and get this. 
Adoption was irrevocable. 

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Roman adoption was permanent. 
The devil can't take away your 

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salvation. 
The devil can't take away your 

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inheritance. 
You can give it away right, but 

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the devil cannot take it away 
from you. 

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It is irrevocable. 
You have a legal right to it by 

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the blood of Christ. 
And check this out, a biological

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son could be disowned, but an 
adopted son could not. 

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So when we look in Scripture and
we say, ah, we're just an 

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adopted child into God's family,
you know, You know, when you 

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understand what adoption into 
God's family actually means, 

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that means that God will never, 
ever discard you. 

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He can't legally discard you. 
That's good news. 

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That's security, right? 
The Holy Spirit was sent to be 

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that guarantee. 
Guarantee that God will never, 

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ever, ever take away any of this
inheritance from you. 

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Because He's a good father, 
isn't he? 

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His will is always what? 
Good and pleasing and perfect, 

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right? 
You, His thoughts towards you 

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are only ever good and pleasing 
and perfect. 

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Are you beginning to see the 
immensity of what the Apostle 

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Paul was praying for you and 
revealing to the Ephesians 

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church and to all believers here
like this is huge. 

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He's revealing the immensity of 
God's will for you that you've 

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been adopted into God's family. 
And I want to end this morning 

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with this bombshell found in 
Romans chapter 8 and verse 17. 

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If you're a religious person, 
this may make you a little 

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angry, but don't be angry at me 
because this is scripture, all 

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right? 
It's in the Bible. 

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Romans chapter 8 and verse 17 
says, And since we are his 

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children, we are his heirs. 
In fact, together with Christ, 

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we are heirs of God's glory and 
the new King James Version. 

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It says that we are joint heirs 
with Christ in Ephesians chapter

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2. 
It's going to go on say and 

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we're going to get into a couple
weeks that that we're seated 

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together with Christ in heavenly
places. 

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That's because we're joint heirs
with Christ. 

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Well, what does that mean? 
You know, mate, when we read 

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that sometimes it may be like, 
oh, well, that's that's a cool 

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fact. 
We're joint heirs with Christ, 

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right. 
But when we have an 

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understanding of what that 
actually, actually means in 

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context of what the apostle Paul
is revealing here in Ephesians 

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chapter one, that we've been 
adopted into God's family, that 

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we have an inheritance in God 
through Christ, right? 

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And that it didn't just stop 
with the forgiveness of our 

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sins, right? 
It encompasses everything in our

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lives, every part When Scripture
says that by Christ's stripes we

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are healed right, What does it 
mean by that? 

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I guess he just like, you know, 
dangling, you know, you ever go 

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to the zoo and have like a 
banana? 

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You have like the the gorilla 
behind the glass and you just 

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dangle a dangle a banana in 
front of the gorilla and he gets

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angry right And he like hits the
hits the glass and he can't get 

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that banana. 
You're just taunting him. 

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Is that what God is doing to us 
saying by Christ's stripes that 

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we're healed. 
He's just dangling a banana in 

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front of us, but we can't 
actually take possession of 

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that. 
How cruel is that the kind of 

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God that you serve? 
No, when He says that I will 

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supply all your need according 
to His riches and glory through 

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Christ Jesus, what is he saying?
He's saying that that's from our

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inheritance. 
He will provide for all of our 

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need. 
Why? 

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Because we are an adopted child 
of God. 

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He is our heavenly Father. 
And what heavenly Father isn't 

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going to give their children 
good gifts? 

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What kind of what kind of father
isn't going to provide for their

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children? 
Not a good father, right? 

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But we serve a good Father whose
will for us is only ever good 

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and pleasing and perfect. 
Scripture says that all things 

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He'll work all things to our 
good. 

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All things work to the good for 
those who love them. 

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Well, do you love God, right? 
Oh, wow. 

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OK, well, let's just close our 
Bibles. 

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We'll just say right there, 
maybe I need to do an altar call

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this morning. 
Right? 

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And pray for all of you. 
We'll have a laying on the hands

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of service here, you know, maybe
get some of you saved. 

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How many of you love God? 
A few more hands. 

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Oh, good. 
I thought I was in the wrong 

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church this morning. 
If you love God, Scripture says 

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that He will turn all things to 
your good meaning to your 

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benefit, right? 
That doesn't mean you're not 

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going to go through trials and 
tribulations. 

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Jesus said himself that we're 
going to experience trials and 

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tribulations in this life, 
right? 

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But He's going to, if we will 
walk with him, put our faith and

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trust in Him, and continue with 
him. 

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He promises us that He's going 
to turn all those things that 

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the devil's trying to come into 
our lives to steal, to kill and 

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cause destruction, that He's 
going to turn those things and 

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work them out towards our good. 
Hey, man, we serve a good God. 

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You're adopted children of God. 
You have an inheritance in 

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Christ. 
You have the Spirit of God 

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living on the inside as a 
guarantee of that man. 

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You're in a good position, 
right? 

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You're seated in a good 
position. 

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And we should be so thankful for
everything that God is doing in 

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our lives, Amen. 
This is because we sit secure as

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His children. 
That's so amazing. 

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You look back for some of us, 
like me, it's a little bit 

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farther back than than maybe 
some of you like when you were a

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child. 
But how many cares, How many 

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burdens did you shoulder when 
you were little? 

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You didn't care about anything. 
You didn't have a have a thought

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about anything. 
Most of us, because we had 

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parents that took care of us, we
didn't have to think about those

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things because they thought 
about those things, right? 

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When we're a child of God, we 
have such security. 

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The Bible says seek ye first the
Kingdom of God and his 

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righteousness, and he'll take 
care of all your need. 

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He goes. 
Jesus talks about in that 

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chapter, you know, look at like 
the birds of the air, the 

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flowers of the field, right? 
If God can take care of those 

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things, don't you think that he 
can take care of you? 

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Don't worry about tomorrow. 
You know, speak God's word over 

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tomorrow, pray over tomorrow, 
but don't worry about it. 

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Worry never accomplishes 
anything except a bad night's 

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sleep, but faith, trust in God, 
and leaning into your 

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inheritance, that'll give you a 
good night's sleep, won't it? 

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Amen. 
Well, let's pray. 

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Dear heavenly Father. 
Lord, I'm so thankful for what 

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you've done for all of us, Lord,
sending your Son Jesus to die 

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upon the cross, sending the Holy
Spirit as the guarantee of our 

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salvation of our inheritance 
through him. 

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Lord, I'm so thankful for what 
you're doing in each and every 

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life here. 
Lord, 2026 is going to be an 

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amazing, amazing, amazing year 
for those who put their trust in

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you, Lord, for those who put 
your their faith in you, Father,

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'cause you're our a good Father,
good and pleasing and perfect, 

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Lord. 
And I just thank you, Lord, that

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you help us walk out this year 
in faith and in diligence to 

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you, Lord, diligent to your 
word, diligent to to hear your 

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voice and follow it and be 
obedient to it. 

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Lord, I thank you for your 
goodness in our lives, your 

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mercy in our lives, your grace 
in our lives, your favor upon us

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that surrounds us like a shield.
Lord, Father, I thank you for 

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your health in our lives. 
Thank you that you provide all 

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of our need. 
Lord, whatever it is that we 

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have need of, that you provided 
according to your riches and 

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glory and that inheritance that 
you've given us through Christ 

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Jesus, so thankful for it. 
Lord, we just give you all the 

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praise and all the glory and all
the honor in Jesus name. 

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Thank you for listening to the 
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