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In the name of the glorious 
Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

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Spirit, forever Amen. 
Glory be to the everlasting 

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mercies which. 
Sent you to us, O Christ, the 

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light of the world and the life 
of all. 

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Give us wisdom by your law and 
enlighten our impulses by your 

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knowledge. 
Sanctify our souls by Your 

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truth, and grant that we may be 
obedient to Your words and may 

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fulfil Your commandments at 
every hour, O You who enlightens

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the rational with the knowledge 
of Your greatness. 

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Do enlight O my. 
Lord, our thoughts that we may 

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meditate upon Your holy and 
divine Scriptures at all times, 

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O Lord of all, Father and Son 
and Holy Spirit. 

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Forever. 
Amen. 

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maybe even impossible for jigsaw
puzzles or the pieces of a 

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jigsaw puzzles to be put 
together without having the 

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actual picture. 
Very difficult and maybe even 

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impossible. 
It's also quite difficult and 

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maybe even impossible for man to
read the New Testament of the 

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Holy Scriptures and to have an 
understanding of what it is that

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Jesus is referring to. 
Why did he stand at the temple 

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and say he who is the first? 
Let him come to me why at that 

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time? 
But when you read the Old 

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Testament you see that there is 
a reason there is a fulfilment, 

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there is a type. 
Last program we spoke about 

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prototypes in the Old Testament 
with a type in the New 

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Testament, for example, not 
Moses. 

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Moses being a prototype of Jesus
Christ who led the Israelites 

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out of captivity to salvation, 
to life. 

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Jesus, praise and glory be to 
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sin, the captivity of sin, and 
gives new life and salvation. 

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Isaac, the Lamb of God, Isaac, 
which was going to be sacrificed

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according to God's commandments 
to Abraham, was a type of a 

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prototype of Jesus Christ, the 
lamb Abraham saw. 

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When God said don't touch the 
sun, don't touch, nothing's 

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good. 
Listen, if you even do this, 

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it's something that there's no 
benefit. 

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I'm just testing your faith to 
show the world, not that God 

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didn't know to show. 
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Well, if God knows always free 
will, the knowledge of God does 

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not determine our choices. 
Remember that God knowing I will

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or I won't, will not determine 
my choices because I have free 

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will. 
I have free will. 

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So God, he turns around and sees
a lamb. 

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That lamb was a prototype of 
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and in the Scriptures, he was 
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Jesus was crucified on the tree 
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Covenant, the old covenant, a 
prototype of Mary. 

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Go and read what was in the ark 
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what was in Mary's womb. 
What happened the the, the, the 

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steps Mary took where she went, 
how long she she stayed at all a

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type of the prototype Abraham 
and Mary. 

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We spoke last program. 
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counted to him as righteousness.
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We're going to speak about that.
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Mary, on the other hand, said to
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according to your word, Luke 138
both given a promise, both 

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believed the promise, didn't, 
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their weakness or their age or 
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No, let it be according to God's
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Yes, Abraham believed. 
Leave your family, leave your 

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livestock, leave all your 
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Yes, Lord. 
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Both became examples of obedient
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As for Christ being the 
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Abraham, God promised Abraham in
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not seeds, singular, not plural.
In your seed, Isaac, no, Jacob, 

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no. 
In your seed all nations shall 

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be blessed. 
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that seed as being the Messiah 
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And for us Christians, Paul 
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chapter 4, Galatians chapter 3, 
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too become Abraham's spiritual 
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Now, now again, I'm not saying 
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We are still living in the old 
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No, no, no, no. 
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to Abraham because that seed, 
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Abraham and all those who 
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God-given to Abraham became the 
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were made righteous. 
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fulfilled in the Lord Jesus 
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We believing in the Lord Jesus 
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of God, praise and glory be to 
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But having Abraham as a 
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Galatians 37, those who are of 
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the old faith, not the old 
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to Abraham fulfilled in the Lord
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received the New Covenant. 
Let's continue reading chapter 4

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of the Epistle of the Saint Paul
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We'll pick it up from verse 13 
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For the promise to Abraham and 
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inherit the world was not made 
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righteousness of his faith is a 
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his message. 
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means of the law, then faith 
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promise made no effect. 
Just because someone does 

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something good when they see 
someone that's stuck on the road

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and they help them change their 
tires, but that person does not 

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accept the Lord Jesus Christ as 
his or her Saviour and does not 

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believe in God, that doesn't 
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the faith, faith is nothing 
then, well, let's all forget 

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about faith. 
Let's all go out and do good 

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things. 
The promise made of no effect 

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for the law. 
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The law causes provocation, for 
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no transgression. 
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briefly. 
Therefore it is by faith that we

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will be justified by grace, so 
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to all his posterity, and only 
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also to Him. 
Sorry not only to him of the of 

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the Law, but also to Him He is, 
who is of the faith of Abraham, 

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who is the father of us all. 
As it is written, I have made 

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you a father of many peoples in 
the presence of the God in whom 

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you have believed, who quickens 
the dead, and who invites those 

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who are not yet in being, as 
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not born yet. 
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in hope that he might become the
father of many peoples. 

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As it is written, so shall your 
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His faith never weakens, even 
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when he was 100 years old and 
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He did not doubt the promise of 
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his faith strengthened him and 
he gave glory to God. 

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He felt assured that what God 
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to fulfill. 
Therefore, his faith was 

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reckoned to him for 
righteousness. 

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That his faith was reckoned for 
righteousness was not written 

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for his sake only. 
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We have a part of this, but for 
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also who believe in him who 
raised our Lord Jesus Christ 

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from the dead, who was delivered
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that he might justify us. 
Let's briefly go through this. 

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There's some repetition there. 
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not given through the law. 
We we've discussed this, but 

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through his faith promising what
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not only that you're going to 
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going to now talk about Sarah, 
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Abraham the airship of the 
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You're going to be an heir of 
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to the Mosaic law. 
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Why the law wasn't even given 
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Abraham was found righteous. 
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If so, if it was according to 
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would have been meaningless as 
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And then he goes on to say, 
listen, the Lord, the law 

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reveals transgression and brings
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You're driving on a road and 
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Let me let me do it again. 
Let me give it to you again. 

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Let me share it with you again. 
You're driving on a on a road. 

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There are no speed signs 
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Now I'm not sure, but I, I, I'm,
I'm certain of this. 

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In Sydney there is a law that 
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you're permitted to drive up to 
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signs. 
But if there are St. lights, you

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drive another particular speed 
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So when there is no signs, there
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nothing wrong. 
You're driving. 

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The police officer cannot tell 
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Well, this is Milo. 
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again, thank you, come again. 
You can't just impose a law 

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according to your understanding.
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scriptures too. 
There is a law on interpreting 

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scriptures. 
Not everyone is permitted to 

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interpret scriptures, right? 
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when one says, I feel I think, 
no, no, no, give me the law. 

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Give me the law of the 
interpretation of the 

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scriptures, which is in the 
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Went on a tangent. 
I know. 

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Let's come back again. 
So when the sign goes up and you

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break the and you drive your own
speed, then you are breaking the

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law. 
That's why I think it's in the 

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book of Ecclesiastes. 
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God didn't create evil. 
God didn't create immorality. 

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God didn't create drunkenness. 
No, when the law came, the evil 

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means the punishment came as 
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For the written law is the 
worker of wrath, for where there

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is no written law, neither is 
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law. 
So the law came to show people 

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what they're doing wrong. 
You know, there's so many laws, 

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hygienic laws, how to go and I'm
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relieve yourself as we do 
according to the, the anatomy of

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the body. 
What do you need to do after 

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you've done it? 
These are all Levitical laws. 

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These are all, you know, laws 
for man to, to be made right to,

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to what is it to, to, to help 
mankind to take care of the kind

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of of mankind right to then know
what is wrong and what is right.

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And then Paul says that Abraham 
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So those who believed also, they
became the children of Abraham 

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in that promise, the children of
the promise through Abraham. 

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So Abraham is the father of all 
believers, making them coheirs 

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with him in the promise. 
So whoever believed, whoever 

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believed as Abraham believed in 
what God had promised becomes an

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heir of that promise, just as we
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Now the promise has been 
fulfilled again. 

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Yet Abraham is our spiritual 
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That's why when when the church 
began in the book of the Acts of

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the Apostles and we've discussed
that the apostles and the people

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who had believed in the Lord 
Jesus Christ would still go to 

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the temple and celebrate that 
liturgy of how they would come 

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and proceed the procession that 
they would bring out the the 

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Torah and they would read and 
they would be covered and 

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someone would read and one would
interpret. 

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They would still do that. 
So today when you come to the 

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Church of the East and you see 
and you look around the temple 

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and the and the vestments and 
you say quite somatic. 

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Yes, we won't deny that. 
What's the problem with being 

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quite, oh, that was abolished. 
Find me in the Bible where it 

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has been abolished. 
Nowhere in the Scriptures do you

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find Jesus, say I have 
abolished. 

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No, the promise has been 
fulfilled. 

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But we continue that tradition, 
that somatic tradition, we 

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continue, you know, and this, 
this can go in so many ways, but

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let's keep it, keep it intact. 
The the promise has been 

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fulfilled and we are heirs of 
God, not Abraham. 

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Now we are heirs of God, our 
heavenly father. 

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Abraham is our spiritual father,
God is our heavenly father. 

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We are heirs of God. 
We are adopted as God's 

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children. 
We are coheirs with Jesus 

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Christ. 
The fulfilment of the promise to

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Abraham that means we inherit 
eternal life in the Kingdom of 

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God. 
Abraham and those who believed 

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or not Abraham, but those 
descendants who believed and 

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continue to believe entered the 
promised land today. 

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Jesus will not take us to a 
promised land that is on earth. 

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No, no, no, He will not take us 
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No, no, no, no. 
The Lord will take us to the 

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eternal promised land we are in.
We are. 

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We have inherited eternity with 
the eternal, living Lord Jesus 

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Christ. 
Eternal life in the Kingdom of 

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God, Resurrection and 
glorification, fellowship with 

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God, participation in God's 
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Do you see what you have? 
Do you see what you have? 

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Stop. 
Stop. 

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No, no, no, no. 
Let's stop. 

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Let's stop. 
All right, anything just posting

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those TikTok pictures and those 
TikTok videos of dancing to a 

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song where there's there's just 
foul the filthy words and you 

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think that those poses on the 
social media, this is you. 

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That's your value that's your 
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Well, reality check, a spiritual
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My dear sister, my dear brother,
you are heirs with Jesus Christ.

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You have eternal life in the 
Kingdom of heaven. 

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You have participation. 
You shit. 

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Listen to this, You share in the
eternity of the Lord Jesus 

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Christ. 
If we continue, by the way, when

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Abraham believed and his faith 
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righteousness, he didn't stop 
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No, he continued. 
He would still offer the 

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sacrifices, right? 
He would still celebrate the 

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Feast of the Booths. 
They would still eat kosher 

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food. 
They would still uphold the law,

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right? 
So, hey, today, why does it make

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a difference that once you 
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anything else? 
Well, that's just, I'm sorry to 

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say that's hogwash. 
That's not true. 

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That's not that's not biblical, 
but going back again, we are 

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heirs through Jesus Christ of 
what we have awaiting us if we 

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continue Ephesians chapter 2 
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I love it if we continue in the 
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righteousness comes from our 
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We spoke about this last 
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Then we see that Abraham's faith
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happened, that when he believed 
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him again, there was another 
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He and Sarah were far beyond 
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He didn't look at his 
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he was. 
They were both beyond child 

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childbearing age. 
Abraham trusted God's promise. 

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Sarai chuckled. 
Yeah, whatever. 

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I'm going to be impregnated. 
No, Sarai. 

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Sarai chuckled. 
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become the father of many 
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And yeah, yeah, Abraham was 100 
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Yeah, you know how it happened. 
It wasn't like the birth of 

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Jesus Christ. 
No, there was seed. 

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There was, you know, Abraham and
Sarai had a sexual relationship.

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Oh, how can a hundred 100 year 
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Yeah. 
See, you're thinking biology 

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now. 
You're thinking physics. 

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You're thinking the physicality 
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You're thinking how can a man? 
Of course a man can't, cannot. 

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God can. 
This is a lesson. 

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What can you not do? 
Well, you know it's hard for me 

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to fast for 40 days. 
Of course it's hard for you to 

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fast for 40 days. 
But God can help you and 

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strengthen you just believing in
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Believe in the promise of Jesus 
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Ask and it shall be given to 
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This is what we need to ask for.
Lord. 

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I'm having so much difficulties.
Lord, I don't know whether it's 

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my complacency, it's my comfort,
it's my foolishness. 

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When time comes for the Great 
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Yeah, we have. 
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year to go. 
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land, for example. 
Pray about it. 

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Pray. 
Ask. 

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And it should be given to you. 
Not that it should be open to 

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you. 
Search and you should find. 

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Just like Abraham did. 
Believe in the power of God. 

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Believe when someone asks you to
do something in the church. 

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Ohio. 
You. 

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No. 
No, I can't do this. 

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Of course you can't do this. 
I can't do this. 

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Stephen Can't manage or or 
produce the podcast and double 

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edged. 
So no, no, we can't. 

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We're weak, we're foolish. 
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God does. 
God has promised he did not 

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focus Abraham, didn't focus on 
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Sarah's barrenness, right? 
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remains steadfast, fully 
convince yourself God can 

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accomplish whatever he wants, 
whatever he promises in my life,

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God can accomplish it regardless
of what it is, what 

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circumstance. 
God can accomplish this, and 

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because of this faith that was 
credited to Abraham as 

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righteousness, we Christians 
today sharing that statement, it

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is also accredited to us. 
That wasn't written only for 

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Abraham, but also for all 
believers in the promise of God 

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that there will be a seed, and 
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that seed has come and that seed
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that seed has fulfilled all the 
salvific plan of Jesus, of God 

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in Jesus Christ his Son. 
We are also believing in that we

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are made right. 
We are made righteous. 

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We have been saved from the 
Mosaic Law, from the original 

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sin. 
We have been saved. 

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We have a new life in Jesus 
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Again, saved does not mean 
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No, saved from the old, brought 
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So righteousness is accredited 
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today and stop now, listen very 
carefully. 

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We just say it in passing. 
We say this in passing. 

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Righteousness accredited to 
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God who raised Jesus Christ from
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Saint Paul says that God, that 
God, those who don't believe 

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that Jesus Christ was raised 
from the day by by by God, are 

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believing in a false God. 
Jesus said I am the door to the 

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flock. 
I am the door. 

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All others are liars and they're
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And I will say it again, 
regardless of what colour the 

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cassock is, it could be white, 
it could be red, it could be 

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black, it could be purple, 
whatever polka dots, whatever 

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whoever teaches and tells you 
and claims that it is not only 

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through Jesus Christ 
subliminally to you know, get 

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likes and to be loved by the 
world, we know where the world's

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going. 
Don't believe, do not hear, do 

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not listen. 
It is only through Jesus 

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believing Jesus Christ. 
Don't believe in man, believe, 

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don't even believe in me, 
believe in Jesus Christ. 

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He claimed this. 
So righteousness is credited to 

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all those who believe in God who
raised Jesus Christ from the 

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dead. 
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Saint Paul writes it 
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Christ was delivered up because 
of our sins, not Muhammad, not 

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Buddha, not Bhagwan Rajneesh. 
No, no, no, no, they don't even 

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claim it. 
No other no other faith, not 

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Moses, not Elijah, not Abraham, 
no other faith out there claims 

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that their leader was delivered 
up because of our sins. 

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No, actually they claim that 
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Jesus died for them as well. 
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They chose to mislead people. 
Christ was delivered up because 

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of our sins and was raised for 
our justification. 

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Let's go into chapter 5 as well 
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Therefore, being justified by 
faith, let us have peace with 

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God through our Lord again. 
Again, peace with God through 

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our Lord Jesus Christ. 
There's no peace with God unless

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it be through our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

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Peace with God. 
That means restoring one more 

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time the friendship that 
humanity lost through Adam's 

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disobedience in the garden, 
Adam's, Adam's disobedience, and

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the friendship was broken 
between man and God who restored

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it. 
Jesus Christ, the second Adam 

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again in the garden as well. 
So he's saying that faith, 

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having this faith being 
justified by faith, believing 

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now today for the Christians 
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Romans, right? 
They were Gentiles. 

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But let's let's put it for our 
Christians today, having this 

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faith now that believing in 
Jesus Christ to be the fulfiller

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of the promise and believing to 
in Jesus Christ to be the only 

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way to God to have a 
relationship with God. 

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Let us have peace with God 
through our Lord Jesus God. 

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Let us remain that friendship, 
keep that relationship 

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friendship. 
We should not fall out with one 

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another, you and God, because of
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No, no, no. 
That's what he's saying to the 

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Romans, you and I. 
Let's not fall out with God 

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because of our understanding of 
our interpretation or of our 

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immorality and and evil desires.
Let us not be enemies of God. 

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We should stop sinning. 
We should not go back to the way

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we used to live, for that is 
making war with God. 

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If you don't have a relationship
with God, you're at war with 

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God. 
You're the enemy of God. 

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You are the enemy of God, not 
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So listen to me. 
Listen, listen if it's the first

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time you're you've been 
introduced to these podcasts and

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you're listening. 
If you don't have a relationship

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with God, you've been living a 
life of your own understanding 

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and your own philosophy, you're 
at war with God. 

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God is not your enemy. 
God loves you. 

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You became the enemy of God. 
If you were and you have repent 

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and you go back again and sin, 
you become at war with God 

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again, that friendship is only 
through Jesus Christ and you can

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always restore that friendship 
with Jesus, with God, always the

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restoration, reconciliation of 
the friendship with our heavenly

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Father, God the creator of 
heaven and earth, who can only 

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be known through Jesus Christ. 
Everyone say Amen, honk your 

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horns, beep your horns, do 
whatever you want to do, jump it

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home and go yes, Amen and then 
startle the people in the in 

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your family only through that 
relationship with Jesus Christ 

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you can always restore that 
relationship. 

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How many times 70 * 7 come back 
to the Lord, come back and ask 

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and ask and ask Lord, I forgive 
me for I became your enemy one 

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more Time Lord forgive me. 
We have chance in one of the 

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praise anthems of the funeral 
rite of the Assyrian Church of 

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these it's the the rite of the 
funeral of women, the second 

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Mutwa, the second setting 
sitting in the hymns in the in 

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the praise hymn we say Abraham 
will not refresh those who are 

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burning and and the judge will 
not forgive those who have not 

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repented. 
It is time to repent, go back 

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and reconcile with God one more 
time through Him, Jesus Christ. 

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Through Him we have been brought
by faith into the grace wherein 

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we stand and are proud in the 
hope of the glory of God. 

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Because of this faith in the 
Lord Jesus Christ, and only 

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through Jesus Christ we have 
that access into the grace. 

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Now what is grace is what God 
has done, what God fulfilled, 

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what God brought to to being in 
Jesus Christ, which is 

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forgiveness, repentance, 
salvation and new life with the 

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Lord Jesus Christ until he 
returns and the Kingdom of 

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heaven. 
We we through him, we enter this

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new covenant through Christ who 
is now acting as a mediator. 

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Paul says we have one mediator 
between God. 

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This is salvation for salvation.
This is what Paul is saying for 

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salvation. 
There is one mediator between 

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God and mankind, and that is 
Jesus Christ. 

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That is the grace that we have 
access to. 

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Look at what Saint John 
Chrysostom comments on this 

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being counted worthy of the 
knowledge of God be This is 

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grace being counted worthy of 
the knowledge of God, being 

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moved to abandon error, coming 
to the knowledge of the truth, 

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obtaining all the blessings 
which come through baptism. 

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That is the grace that we have 
not merely to receive 

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forgiveness of sins, but 
countless and additional 

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benefits as well as baptism, 
absolution. 

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These are sacraments, the Holy 
Eucharist, all extending from 

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the gracious Sacrament. 
The 1st and most important 

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sacrament of the one Holy, 
Apostolic and Catholic, 

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Catholic, meaning Universal 
Church, is that extend all these

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sacraments. 
All these gifts extend from the 

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one Sacrament that is the 
priesthood versus 3 and four. 

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And not only so, but we also 
glory in our tribulations, 

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knowing that tribulations 
perfect practice in US and 

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sorry, patience and patience, 
experience and experience. 

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Hope all these things. 
I'm going now. 

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Now Saint Paul is bursting out 
bubble. 

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Hallelujah, praise God, yes, 
Hallelujah. 

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Life is going to be so beautiful
rose. 

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It's going to be pebbled pebbles
of roses along the way. 

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It's going to be so smooth. 
I will never worry. 

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I will never be, you know, 
heartbroken. 

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I will never suffer. 
No, no, no. 

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All these are through 
afflictions. 

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Why, why, why is it selfish to 
ask God to give us a life that 

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is annoyed and evolved from void
and null and void from all 

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afflictions life? 
Because Jesus was afflicted for 

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this life. 
Jesus was afflicted and and 

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suffered for that grace to be 
provided for you and I. 

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So the grace that we receive is 
through afflictions, and 

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afflictions are not a sign of 
God's abandonment. 

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No, no, no, no. 
It doesn't mean God's not there 

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or why am I heartbroken? 
God's left me. 

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No, God is there. 
If you're a little bit 

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attentive, especially especially
you see when people come in and 

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console you and, you know, 
express their consults, that is 

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God. 
That is, that is a work that God

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has commanded us to do. 
So it's not a sign of God that 

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has abandoned us, but God's 
will, God's knowledge, and God's

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plan through affliction to 
produce what Paul says in US. 

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Patience, steadfast endurance, 
that patient produces, tested 

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character, our spiritual 
maturity, the strength in the 

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hope. 
Our hope is more strengthened 

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through these afflictions that 
we go through when we are at 

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peace with the Lord Jesus Christ
or we have reconciled with God 

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through Jesus Christ. 
And lastly, verse 5. 

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And hope causes no one to be 
ashamed because the love of God 

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is poured into our hearts by the
Holy Spirit which is given to 

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us. 
From where? 

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Where did you receive the Holy 
Spirit? 

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Yes, in Holy Baptism. 
No, no, when I believe that is 

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the Holy Spirit. 
OK, let me give you this 

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example. 
Stephen. 

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No. 
Was it Philip? 

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Philip went to Samaria. 
Philip baptized people in the 

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name of the father of the son of
the Holy Spirit. 

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Philip. 
Philip was one of the chosen 7. 

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But then we read that Samaria 
had received the faith and were 

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baptized, but didn't receive the
Holy Spirit. 

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They believed, but then Simon 
and the disciples had to go and 

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lay their hands on them. 
When did the Holy Spirit ascend 

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on Jesus Christ? 
When he was coming towards John?

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No, no, no, after he was 
baptized. 

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So too we when when we are 
baptized, the Holy Spirit we 

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received by the laying on of the
hand of the priest or the 

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efficient of the baptism. 
This hope cannot fail us, 

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beloved. 
That's what Saint Paul is 

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saying. 
It rests on God's promise, not 

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man, not man. 
God promised us. 

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God promised that we if we 
continue steadfast in far in in 

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faith in our tribulations 
through Jesus Christ and those 

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deeds that were for ordained for
us according to Ephesians 2 

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chapter 10, if we remain a life 
of repentance, then we have the 

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promise of eternal life. 
Psalm chapter 146 verse three. 

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Do not trust a Prince or upon a 
Son of man, for there is no 

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salvation in his hand, only 
through Jesus Christ, and that 

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is the New Covenant salvation 
and promise that we have 

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received, praising glory be to 
His name now, and that all times

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and forever. 
Amen. 

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