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Well, good morning everybody 
again. 

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Good to see everyone here. 
This morning once again. 

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Obviously, I'm not called. 
So if you want to and you 

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bulletins you can keep the last 
name Jones because that's right.

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Kyle has a good last name but if
you want to, you can scratch 

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scratch out Kyle and put James 
and this morning. 

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We're To be going over different
text as well. 

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We're going to be in the book of
Ephesians chapter number 4 and 

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we're going to be going over 
verses 17 through 32. 

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I want to try to Endeavor to 
teach something this morning. 

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Message, I've entitled give no 
opportunity. 

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You give no opportunity here in 
the book of Ephesians chapter 4.

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We start out talking about the 
unity in Christ, Unity of the 

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body in Christ. 
That we are admonished to walk 

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worthy of the calling that God 
has called us by. 

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He goes on in verse 11 and tells
us that God has placed people in

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the body of Christ to teach to 
prepare people for the works 

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that God has for us to do that, 
the task that he has forced to 

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do and he places people in 
Authority inside the church to, 

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so that we all can become 
Mature. 

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The scripture says, and then in 
verse 17, to 32 we get into kind

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of like How is this, how is this
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It's kind of divided into two 
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Verses 17 through 26, is going 
to be dealing with our inward 

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self. 
Inside is the Inside Job verses 

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28 to 32 is, is how because of 
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How is that going to manifest on
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In verse 27 is the hinge verse 
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together. 
Verse 27 says this, And given no

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opportunity to the devil. 
That's why we're going to be 

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talking about this morning 
before we. 

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Before we read, I want to. 
I want to pray once again for 

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our for our service and our time
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Father, I praise you. 
I magnify you. 

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I thank you for the opportunity 
that we have to be here. 

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I thank you for your word, 
father. 

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I ask that you just be with us 
today. 

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Be with me today. 
As I as I as I speak, Holy 

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Spirit, I ask that you lead this
time now. 

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That she will lead us goddess 
into the truth. 

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Of this word of your word. 
Let your name be glorified in 

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this place. 
Amen. 

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Okay. 
Ephesians 4 verse 17 through 32.

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It says, now this I say and 
testify in the Lord that you 

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must no longer walk as the 
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their minds. 
They are darkened in their 

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understanding, alienated from 
the truth of God because of the 

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ignorance that is in them, due 
to their hardness of Hearts, 

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they have been cut Calais, they 
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given it themselves up to 
sensuality greedy to practice 

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every kind of impurity. 
But that is not the way you 

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learned Christ. 
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that you have heard about him 
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Him as the truth is, in Jesus to
put off your old self, which 

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belongs to your Foreigner, 
former manner of life and is 

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corrupt through deceitful 
desires, and to be renewed in 

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the spirit of your minds. 
And to put on the new self 

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created after the likeness of 
God in true, righteousness and 

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Holiness there for having put 
away falsehood. 

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Let each one of you speak the 
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We are members one of another. 
Be angry and do not sin. 

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Do not let the sun go down on 
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opportunity to the devil. 
Let the thief no longer steal 

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but rather let him labor doing 
honest work with his own hands 

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so that he may have something to
share with anyone in need let no

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corrupting talk come out of your
mouth, but only such as is good 

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for building up as fits the 
occasion, that it may give Grace

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to those who hear. 
And do not grieve the holy 

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spirit of God by whom you were 
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redemption. 
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anger and clamor and slander be 
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Mal. 
Malice be kind to one another 

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tender-hearted forgiving one 
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Christ. 
Forgave you okay, let's let's 

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begin. 
We're just going to go verse by 

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verse. 
There's a lot a lot in these 

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verses we're just going to do a 
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morning. 
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weeks to really dig dig deep the
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But the first thing that Paul 
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in verse 17 is that you must no 
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no longer walk as they do and he
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minds and that word futility 
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And appropriateness and not just
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It's, it's Based in perverseness
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or won't evict Vigor and that 
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having mental strength that they
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of their minds. 
That they don't have the mental 

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strength to do, or to live out 
the Christian Life and neither 

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do we. that's why we have to 
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you compare that to what Paul 
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Timothy chapter 1 verse 7. 
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a spirit of power love and a 
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So instead of having a mind that
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To give no opportunity to the 
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We have been given the mental 
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and have self control. 
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spirit. 
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1:7. 
We've not been given a spirit of

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fear but of power love and sound
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And why, why are the Gentiles 
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minds Verse 18? 
They are darkened in their 

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understanding alienated from the
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ignorance that is in them due to
their Hardness of Heart this 

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word darkened. 
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of the Mind. 
The blinding of the Mind. 

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Second Corinthians 4:4 says this
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world has blinded the minds of 
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from seeing the light of the 
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who is the image of God. 
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darkness of their mind is 
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from the truth and because of 
this, it leads us into verse 19.

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That they have become callous 
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sensuality greedy to practice 
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The word callous here means to 
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grief. 
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ceasing to feel conviction. 
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although they knew God. 
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give thanks to him, but they 
can't, but they became futile in

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their thinking and their foolish
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So we're seeing just in these 
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pattern and the pattern is is 
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Right up here in our minds verse
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minds, they don't have the 
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capacity, their understanding 
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verse 8, and in verse 19, they 
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They have become where it 
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gods, Should no longer even 
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And there's a pattern of their 
thinking their thought life When

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it comes to given no opportunity
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ends right here in our in our 
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It's a mental battle. 
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say, Inside Job. if you ever set
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about, If you ever caught 
yourself, one of the things I've

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said this before, but one of the
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my whole life is self talk, that
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Worst Enemy just, you know, I 
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need the enemy. 
I don't need the devil, my own 

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mind. 
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on worthless. 
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And you know, so you know, over 
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to combat that. 
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100%? 
No, I still struggle with that 

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that Tom's, but, but it's an 
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We we give we give opportunity 
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the devil based on our own 
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what we allow ourselves to 
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verse 20, but that is not the 
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Assuming that you have heard 
about him and we're taught in 

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him and the that in him is very 
important in this scripture as 

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the truth is in Jesus. 
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Christ and his only because of 
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heart. a new mind and a new 
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but on one another His only in 
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So assuming that you have heard 
about him where we're taught in 

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him. 
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What are you thinking about? 
What are you learning? 

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What are you giving yourself to?
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Get into digging deep here. 

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It says to put off your own 
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former manner of life. 
And his corrupt through 

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deceitful desires. 
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and I want you to look at this 
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These are verbs. 
These are action words is the 

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something that we are told to do
This is dealing with. 

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Thus the sanctification of the 
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We become unit, we become unity 
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Now he's telling them, this is 
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we're seeing the all this inside
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Sanctification in US, Matthew 
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off the old man. 
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and dispositions of the Soul. 
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There must be sanctification. 
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corruption of its faculties. 
It grows daily worse and worse 

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and tends to destruction. 
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are deceitful lust, they 
promised me an happiness but 

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render them miserable and if not
so dude and mortified betray 

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them into destruction. 
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Will lead us into destruction, 
based on what we allow ourselves

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to think. 
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ponder on and what we allow 
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In verse 23 it says and to be 
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mind. we must renovate or reform
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is our rational Soul, which 
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thoughts The faculties of 
perceiving understanding to feel

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to judge. 
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mental capacities that the 
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have because their minds are 
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So it says, if we are children 
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So why? 
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Amen. 
When we, when we are saved, we 

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were told that the holy spirit 
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God In the, teach us into all 
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So instead of having a futile 
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mind, we can have mine on that 
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Our decisions, our thoughts, our
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our perceptions on the Holy 
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24, it says, and to put on the 
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likeness of God in true 
righteousness. 

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Righteousness and holiness. 
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that is recently made or fresh, 
or unused unprecedented or 

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uncommon. 
Matthew Henry goes on and says 

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about the new man. 
He says, by the new man is meant

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the new nature, the new creature
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principal, even regenerating 
Grace, enabling a man to lead a 

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new life that life of 
righteousness and Holiness which

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Christianity requires So we are 
to take off, put off, cast off 

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the old man, the old way of 
thinking and bring on a new way 

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of thinking a new man and we do 
that by renewing our mind. 

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Book of Romans chapter 8 verses 
5 through 8 says this for those 

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who live according to the flesh,
set their minds on the things of

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the flesh. 
But those who live, according to

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the spirit set their minds on 
the things of the spirit, For to

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set the mind on the flesh is 
death, but to set the mind on 

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the spirit is life and peace. 
For the mind that is set on the 

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flesh is hostile to God. 
For it does not submit to God's 

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law. 
Indeed. 

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It cannot. 
That's some that's direct and to

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the point, those who are in the 
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Corinthians chapter 2 verses 12 
through. 16 says this. 

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Now we have received not the 
spirit of the world but the 

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spirit who is from God, that we 
might understand the things 

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freely given us by God, and we 
impart, this in words, not 

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things of the spirit of God for 
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futile mind. 
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them, that's his dark, his 
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for a mind that is being led and
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So that's what's going on. 
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Apostle Paul is saying this is 
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It's how we judge based on our 
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Timothy 1:7 For God. 
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but of power and love and 
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we look back here in Ephesians 
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therefore, Have him put away 
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Let each one of you speak the 
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a lie and not just any lie alive
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Perverse and deceitful precepts.
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morning and Sunday School. 
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That there is, it's always 
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A little twisting, we read about
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God, this morning dealing with 
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The devil started that way, and 
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it, we think it first Then it 
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Well, what we're instructed to 
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Recognize if there are ungodly 
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Of God's grace and the voice of 
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Sunday school. 
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Why it was so important to know 
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therefore since we are 
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11, talking about different ones
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believed God and was faithful to
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since we have all these people 
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aside every weight and the sin, 
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us run with endurance. 
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There's things that we need to 
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takes too much time. 
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God knows you don't need to be 
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We need to lay down that. 
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But for whatever reason, God is 
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things down? 
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are sinful, we have to lay those
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those negative thoughts, those 
erroneous thoughts those, those 

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thoughts that that don't line up
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things down. 
Allow the Holy Spirit to renew 

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our minds so that we can 
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Romans 8 that if we're led by 
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death. 
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And it leads to life and peace. 
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sin. 
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on your anger and verse 27 and 
give no opportunity to the 

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devil. 
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Grant of One's Own Accord. 
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It's an action. 
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we don't Grant opportunity And 
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this morning. 
Don't give opportunity Don't 

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give opportunity. 
Give no opportunity to the 

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devil. 
Give no opportunity to your own 

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mind. 
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verses 14 and 15. 
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is drawn away and enticed by his
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It's not anybody else's evil 
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It's because of my evil desires.
If I leave my rightful place and

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get distracted, it's because I 
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for all of us. 
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we grant that, we grant that 
opportunity, the the phrase no 

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opportunity. 
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any place or don't give the 
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It means any portion or space 
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place. 
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chapter 10, verses 3 through 6. 
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called strongholds strongholds 
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strongholds of Godly thoughts. 
It's an inhabited place. 

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It's a protected place. 
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Of wrong thoughts and wrong, 
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hold us back from. 
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to really live in that Christian
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sanctification process to 
happen, the way God intended, it

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intends for us, And it all 
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Right there in our mind. 
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We allow the spirit to lead us. 
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To give no opportunity. 
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about what we think about. 
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any negative. 
Self-talk don't listen to any, 

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you know, any outward, 
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anything, but we choose to live 
a life. 

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Trying to live after the spirit.
Then we're going to see outward 

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outward change. 
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we see here in the rest of these
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It says let the thief no longer 
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doing honest work with his own 
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something to share with anyone 
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Let no corrupting talk come out 
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is For building up as fits the 
occasion, that it may give Grace

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to those who hear this phrase. 
Corrupting talk, means anything 

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that's rotten. 
Putrefied Of poor quality unfit 

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for use or worthless. 
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that life and death are in the 
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We can we can either choose to 
Speak Life. 

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Or we can choose to speak death.
We can either choose to tear our

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own selves down or two lifts our
own selves up. 

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And the same thought we can. 
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down or we can choose to lift 
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our words, Let no corrupting 
talk that. 

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Nothing that's that's rotten or 
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Come out of your mouth. 
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that it may give Grace to those 
who hear it. 

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Verse 30 and do not grieve the 
holy spirit of God by whom you 

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were sealed for the day of 
redemption. 

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You ever think about that, that 
we have the ability to grieve 

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the Holy Spirit to make him sad 
to cause cause them to grieve. 

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To effect with sadness. 
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commune, he wants to to have 
fellowship with us. 

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Second Corinthians 13:14, I 
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We have the love, love of God, 
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the communion of the Holy 
Spirit. 

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Holy Spirit wants to commute, he
wants to Fellowship. 

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He wants to lead us into all 
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It's up to us whether or not we 
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verse 31. 
Let all bitterness and wrath and

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anger and clamor and slander be 
put away from you along with all

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malice and this is all outward 
outward signs. 

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Bitterness means extreme 
wickedness. 

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Wrath means a boiling anger. 
Just you ever ever know, or be 

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around someone that you can just
Tell that they're always angry. 

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There's just something that's 
like you can sense it underneath

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the surface like at any moment, 
they're just going to explode. 

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That's why it means. 
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disposition of anger. 
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of their disposition in any 
moment. 

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They're just going to explode 
and you know it if you have the 

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unfortunate to have to you know 
be around people like that 

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especially a lot. 
You can find yourselves like 

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saying goes walking on 
eggshells, not wanting to set 

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them off and that's no way to 
live. 

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Him. 
And People don't want to be 

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around people like that. 
Amen. 

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Slander. away from you along 
with all malice, and this word, 

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malice means the desire to see 
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enjoyment of watching them, 
watching them feel pain, That's 

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what our own mind can lead to 
because our mind can be hostile 

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to God if we allow it to be. 
Verse 32 be kind to one another 

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tender-hearted forgiving one 
another as God in Christ. 

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Forgave you The word kind. 
Is going right against 

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everything. 
In verse 31, it means fit for 

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use or used for virtuous, are 
having a pleasant demeanor. 

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Instead of having 2 m of of 
anger or or you know, knowing 

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that someone's going to explode.
Anytime this person that's kind,

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they have a pleasant demeanor. 
You want to be around someone 

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like that. 
We want people to be around us. 

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How else are we going to lead 
people to Christ? 

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Hey, man. 
If we're always angry or we're 

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always, something's always upset
in this people. 

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You know. 
I don't want what you got. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Tender-hearted forgiving one, 
another. 

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Compassionate. 
This word forgiving is not just 

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the basic forgiving. 
It means being agreeable, 

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graciously to restore one 
another. 

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And we see this played out in 
community. 

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We see it played out here 
together. 

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We see it played out in home 
groups. 

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We see it played out as we 
interact because see, it's 

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played out in community as we 
grow in faith in Jesus and love 

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for one another, amen. 
This is how it's played out. 

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That. 
As we allow ourselves or we 

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allow our minds to be renewed. 
We allow ourselves to be 

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directed by Godly thoughts. 
Allow ourselves to be led by the

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spirit that wants to lead us 
into all truth that wants to 

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lead us in the peace and truth. 
Then that's going to come out. 

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It's going to be the outward 
manifestations. 

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So all this inner stuff, if we 
if we can get this right. 

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And the outward is going to be 
the Overflow of that. 

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It's going to be the side effect
of that. 

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So, how do we do that? 
We have to line our thoughts up.

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With the spirit. 
However, the spirit is leading, 

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we do that by how reading our 
word praying being among other 

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believers. 
We're told him in the Old 

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Testament. 
The iron sharpens iron being 

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around fellow Christians being 
in that Community with one 

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another, it builds us up. 
We build one another up. 

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When when one is suffering, we 
all suffer. 

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When one would Joyce's we all 
Rejoice. 

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We grow we especially in the 
community of homegroups, you get

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a time to know people better. 
You get it, you get it. 

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You get time to, to live out 
their pains live out, their Joys

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live out, their hardships and 
together. 

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We, we come together and we we 
love on one another. 

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You mean it's true? 
We we eat, we eat together. 

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We talk together. 
We cry together and we love 

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together. 
And that is, that is a beautiful

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thing. 
Want to read one or one of the 

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verse to you to you this morning
it's found in Ephesians 3 verse 

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20 says, now to him, who is able
to do far more abundantly than 

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all we ask or think? 
According to the power at work 

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within us, God wants to do far 
more than we could ever imagine 

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in our lives. 
He wants us to live that truly 

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Abundant Life that he spoke 
about in John 10:10. 

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But that can never happen until 
we allow ourselves to be humbled

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by the Holy Spirit, to realize 
that I can't do this on my own. 

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That's the futility of the mind.
We don't have the mental 

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strength to do this on our own. 
We have to have the leadership 

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of the Holy Spirit to walk out 
this Christian Life. 

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He does it by changing its on 
the inside. 

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And then the outward comes. 
Hey man. 

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Let's stand this morning. 
Worship team can come if you 

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want. 
Again, I just want to encourage 

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you this morning too. 
How have a habit of think of 

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think thinking about what you 
think about? 

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Think about what you thinking 
about. 

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Because lots of times we can get
so busy in our day, we have 

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hundreds and hundreds of 
thoughts that come in and out of

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our minds every day. 
Most of the time, we don't 

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really pay attention to them. 
But if we build a habit of of 

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paying attention here in our own
self, talk those thoughts that 

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come in those random thoughts. 
I said, it's not always the 

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devil, it's not always our 
enemy. 

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It's sometimes, it's store mine 
because our mind or its, or our 

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mind apart from God, is 
deceitful. but if we take that 

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practice, we study our word. 
We pray and have that 

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relationship with Jesus. 
We get in community with one 

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another. 
One another encourages us to 

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grow in little bit by little 
bit, the holy spirit's going to 

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change us. 
And then we will be able to walk

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out. 
And look more and more like 

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Christ every day in our lives. 
Amen. 

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Let's pray. 
Father, I Praise You. 

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Magnify you I thank you for your
word. 

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Holy Spirit. 
I thank you for your 

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companionship. 
I thank you. 

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That you are a comforter. 
You are the one who walks 

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alongside. 
I ask that you lead us. 

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You got us. 
Help us to recognize our own 

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thought patterns our own 
thoughts. 

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Erroneous thoughts that we 
believe and let us change those 

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Holy Spirit. 
Help us through allow you to do 

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the work it inside of us. 
Father, That will lead us. 

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To having those outward 
manifestations of what a true 

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Christian should look like how 
we interact with people how we 

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treat people, how we treat 
ourselves either. 

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Lead us goddess directors. 
May we always be changing. 

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More and more into the image of 
Christ. 

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Amen.