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Good morning. 
Everyone is a great day to be 

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here together to worship. 
And I'm looking forward to our 

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study this morning. 
We've already had a beautiful 

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song service where we've been 
able to teach one another in 

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Psalms and hymns and I hope 
together we can study a little 

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more specifically on a set of 
passages here and the end of 

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Galatians chapter 5 that we have
to finish out the chapter after 

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what Chris taught on last time. 
And I've given the, you could 

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give it any number of titles. 
I've titled this section keep in

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step. 
Up with the spirit. 

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Hopefully we'll see what we mean
by the time we get there toward 

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the end. 
Of this of this chapter. 

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So I like to continue to remind 
us of the theme. 

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Verse of this book, Chris 
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5:1 Stand Fast, therefore in the
Liberty by which Christ has made

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us free and do not be entangled 
again with the Yoke of bondage. 

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And just to remind us of the 
outline where we've been and 

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where we're going, we started 
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Paul's defense of his 
apostleship. 

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He talked about how his gospel 
came from God. 

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He had his gospel given From 
Jesus, and not for men, he 

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talked about his relationship 
with the apostles. 

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How Peter, and his early years 
as a Christian, his relationship

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with Peter and his early years 
as a Christian, we learned about

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the Jerusalem Council. 
And then what happened there 

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with James cephas and John where
they said, you're doing a great 

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job, keep on going. 
So they approved of his 

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ministry. 
We learned about how he had to 

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rebuke Peter and how that's give
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lesson on justification by 
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It's a big theme. 
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it's going to permeate our study
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Even though if you study the 
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you might not see it. 
The study today is definitely an

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extension of this idea of 
justification by faith. 

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We're going to cover today. 
The fruit of the spirit and this

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is in contrast to what many of 
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What happened if you leave the 
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And you go on to this, 
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Then what do you even do? 
Is it just going to be like, 

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loose living or are you just 
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And the the concept today, the 
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walking in faith, if you're 
walking with God's spirit inside

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of you, you're not gonna that's 
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If God is working in you, it 
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That is not, that is not sinful.
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And they don't have to be 
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with their faith as they 
transition from the Old Law to 

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the new and Paul defended that 
by giving five main arguments, 

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the Personal argument, the 
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sentimental, and the symbolic 
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And then finally we're getting 
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star us last week. 
Where we learned about this 

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Liberty is a liberty that 
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of circumcision and requiring 
that for salvation, it was a 

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liberty that fulfills the Old 
Law Paul didn't come, like Jesus

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said, he didn't come to destroy 
the Old Law, he came to fulfill 

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it. 
And we're going to jump into 

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Liberty, which is one led by the
spirit today and that's going to

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be our big Focus being led by 
the What that means. 

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Okay, let's let's start with 
where Chris was last week to get

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a running. 
Start last week, we read Stand 

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Fast therefore in the Liberty by
which Christ has made us free 

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and do not be entangled again 
with the Yoke of bondage. 

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Indeed, I Paul say to you that 
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Christ, will profit, you. 
Nothing. 

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Now remember, there was nothing 
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The act itself is not wrong. 
Timothy was later circumsized as

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a way to get, It in with the 
Jews and have some Credence with

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the Jews and have a little bit 
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So, it wasn't that act itself. 
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minute, what the problem was. 
And I testify again to every man

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who become circumcised that he 
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law. 
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Are they doing it to keep the 
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He says, you have become 
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and a stranger from Christ. 
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by the law. 
That's the problem with 

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circumcision. 
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justified by their works 
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Testament. 
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As I was studying this book and 
people's commentaries, they made

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it more confusing than it needed
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This law that he's mentioning 
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Yes, we can. 
We can be wrong and that we can 

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try to earn our salvation by 
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But he specifically saying that 
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pull from the Old Law, you're 
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These people, for we, through 
the spirit, eagerly wait for the

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hope of righteousness, through 
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righteousness, by faith, not by 
what we can do for ourselves and

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Propel ourselves into Heaven by 
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For in Christ Jesus, there's our
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uncircumcision avails anything 
that's not important he says, 

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but it's Faith working through 
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This is a key verse to keep in 
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read, the book of Galatians, 
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spirit of God has an outpouring 
from when within us as we as it 

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works in us. 
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love inside of us. 
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hindered you from obeying the 
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So this is interesting here as 
we're following this train of 

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thought into the section. 
I'm going to cover. 

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He's talking about, being them, 
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and then being hindered, is that
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So there's a key connection 
between faith and obedience that

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he's tying here. 
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just have faith and that's all. 
That's what people just tried to

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hammer. 
When I was reading after 

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commentators stuff A point. 
He says there's a link here 

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between that your faith and 
obedience and Truth, this 

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persuasion does not come from 
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Who calls? 
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A little leaven leavens, the 
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I have confidence in you in the 
Lord that you will have no other

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mind but he who troubles you 
shall bear his judgment, whoever

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he is. 
And I Brethren if I still preach

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circumcision, why do I still 
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Then the offense of the Cross 
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I could wish that those who 
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themselves. 
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For you Brethren have been 
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Only do not use Liberty as an 
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This is a crazy made a great 
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Last week if we have the freedom
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selfishly, we're knocking on the
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talking about later today. 
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opportunity for the flesh, 
that's a selfish ambition it's 

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not going to get us anywhere but
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for all the law is fulfilled in 
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Even this you shall love your 
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bite and devour one, another 
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One another. 
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We have to consider together 
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I say that after all, this has 
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defenses are made. 
After all these arguments, here 

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is the bottom line, walk in the 
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the lust of the flesh, okay? 
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spirit, walking is a Biblical 
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some steps. 
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When Jesus sitted seated at the 
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he Has finished his work. 
He has completed his work, but 

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we are told to stand up and to 
walk in the spirit, it takes 

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effort on our part. 
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but it's not all about us. 
That's kind of the point of this

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whole train of thought. 
We started is, it's not about 

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us, it's through the spirit in 
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We need to be proactive, some 
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that the best defense for our 
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The best defense is a good 
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Keeping keeping the other team 
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The field is to have a good 
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That's the, that's definitely 
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And you shall not fulfill the 
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So if we want to keep the lust 
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they're concerned about that. 
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they're concerned about people, 
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He says walk in the spirit and 
you're not going to have that 

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problem. 
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chapter, I started to get a 
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for the Jews, it would be a big 
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If everything you lived by was 
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all the structure, all the 
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Hey this morning I have to have 
this prayer and, and do this 

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sacrifice and do these things. 
And and these are my clothes. 

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I wear today and this is how I 
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Nothing was governed. 
It was so much structure. 

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You take that away from 
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They're probably like, what are 
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Are you just gonna go off and 
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However, you want to live by the
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I mean, the structure was 
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some point. 
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That's so much because we didn't
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that. 
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transition, to the new law, the 
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rip away your structure and your
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The point is, you're still 
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spirit of God. 
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the spirit of God and his 
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gonna be okay. 
For the flesh, lusts against the

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spirit, and the spirit against 
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And these are contrary to one 
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the things that you wish. 
This is kind of a little little 

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what to expect as a Christian. 
Don't expect to just start our 

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walk and just think everything's
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made a decision. 
Here we go. 

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I'm just skipping through 
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He said know, there's going to 
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There is a war going on between 
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your spirit wants and in some 
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opportunity for us. 
God gave us an opportunity to 

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choose him over what we want in 
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God's not gonna have to worry 
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Are these people gonna gonna 
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had our chance here on Earth to 
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Are we going to follow what we 
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Or I'm going to follow? 
What God wants, what God teaches

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us and as us to be Both for our 
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got this war going on inside of 
us and that's why sometimes we 

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know what we really want out of 
ourselves out of life out of our

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faith. 
And that doesn't always happen 

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and this is why But if you are 
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under the law, okay? 
This law the law, we've been 

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talking about the whole time, 
there's the Old Testament law. 

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If we are led by the spirit, 
we're not under the law of 

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Moses, we're not bound to those 
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spirit of God. 
Another passage tells us that 

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that the laws are for those who 
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the people who need to be. 
Changed by the law, but the 

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point is not just to be under a 
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The point is to be led and by 
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Now he's also not saying that 
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I do not want to be free from 
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The law of Christ gives me 
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weaknesses. 
It frees me from the the rat 

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wheel I get in of my own 
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It gives me a way out of that. 
We're not subject to just any 

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law. 
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the law of Christ. 
The perfect law of Liberty is 

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called and another passage the 
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First 19. 
Now the works or the Deeds of 

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the flesh are evident which are 
adultery fornication. 

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Uncleanness lewdness idolatry 
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jealousies outbursts of Wrath 
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heresies, envyings murders 
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And the like I don't feel like I
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time on this section because he 
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of the flesh are obvious, you 
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What what it looks like when sin
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looks like when you want to do 
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that conflict inside, what am I 
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choose wrong. 
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When they be something in here, 
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usually know, we usually know 
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from when you see a child about 
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that look in their eye, you 
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age, when something is wrong and
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evident And he even says this is
he in a full last? 

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It's a full list, it's things 
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This isn't the full list. 
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a little Clarity here. 
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that's adultery and fornication.
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activity. 
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be any kind of moral 
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lustful, or impurity. 
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unrestricted lust, accessed draw
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sexual attention idolatry. 
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that comes before God anything 
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alternative God or put on the 
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A lot of times, you know, if you
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of Witchcraft, you know, trying 
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those things are not good for 
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on all this hatred. 
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disposition of the heart or it 
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both hatred is anything that is 
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spirit missed used and it's 
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the fruit of the spirit that 
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in one, see what others have 
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Outbursts of Wrath. 
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Selfish Ambitions, that's what 
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Last week, a little bit, he's 
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and these aspirations. 
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make money? 
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better better for myself, you 
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better life than I have. 
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the time, the kids just want the
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love. 
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parent and I've heard people who
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They never had I don't know, 
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ourselves, it's something that 
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hard and provide and not be 
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But there's a point where it, 
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easily guilty of trying to build
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As Ecclesiastes says, I'm going 
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new bigger barns to put the new 
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big barns The point is whatever 
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of God. 
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can help other people more. 
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kingdom and God's purpose more. 
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dissensions heresies, envyings 
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And the like, I'm going to put 
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second to compare the two, the 
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of the flesh. 
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which I tell you beforehand. 
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past that those who practice, 
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kingdom of God. 
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who have made mistakes and who 
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hurt the king of God. 
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He's saying those who make it a 
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things. 
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kingdom of God and this is 
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Like, why would anyone who wants
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Want God in their life? 
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presence of evil. 
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ahead. 
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they've told God they don't want
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with God in heaven? 
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hear the kingdom of God and 
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go into that, but the idea here,
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separate us from God. 
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God's spirit from living inside 
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keynote of this chapter, but the
fruit of the spirit is now, he's

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about to give a list of things 
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beautiful, that are really 
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To help you reset and just point
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needs to be when when you really
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And so he's going to give us a 
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wonderful traits that God 
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But before we get into that, I 
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fruit and the spirit. 
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acknowledge that, this is a 
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Simply test the spirit in our 
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We don't have to get into how 
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I don't know all that. 
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teaches God's, holy spirit, 
inspired the word and the word 

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teaches us and God's word lives 
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So however God's working in me, 
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Bible, it can't be separate from
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how he's chosen to work 
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that's not good enough, I need 
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Well may, we never undermine the
precious word that God has given

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us and that can live inside of 
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know it can't be separate from 
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word being what works in to us, 
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At all or shouldn't diminish. 
How awesome it is, that God 

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works in us, just because God, 
that's how God chooses to work 

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in. 
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than, you know, some someone 
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experience where God filled 
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I look down on that? 
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presence of God in our lives and
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of his family and living out his
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That's enough for me if God has 
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I don't ever want to downplay 
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So first of all, we need to know
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God wants to work in you and 
we're going to read it a little 

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bit. 
He has chosen you to work 

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through you. 
He could have chosen any way to 

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spread his gospel to make his 
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sent preachers. 
How shall they be? 

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How shall I go if they're not 
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honor. 
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But the fruit of the spirit is 
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gentleness This and self-control
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of the spirit and when I was 
reading after commentators, they

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made it important distinction 
and that it is a singular 

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bouquet, you know? 
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like to be a long-suffering 
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Maybe I want to be a kind 
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long suffering because I don't 
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That's not how this this list 
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This list is what produces from 
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Is working inside of us. 
This isn't a checklist of things

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that I need to do to be a 
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It's, if God's really working 
through you, if God is really 

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inside of you, and as I'm making
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ball, this is important that he 
defends that God is working in 

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them still. 
And these ways if God is working

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in you, this is what it's going 
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God doesn't make lopsided 
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Who are loving but not faithful.
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Will not love me. 
This is a picture of what God 

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creates when he works in us. 
Now, before we get into each of 

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those character traits, I've 
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and and I think if you look at a
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if you look at a the ground 
you're tilling the fact that you

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can one day be outside and 
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That, that really isn't like the
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It's not doing much. 
But then the next day you walk 

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outside and then bam, you know, 
maybe maybe it takes a couple 

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more days or but, but the bloom 
and the growth of that fruit is.

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It seems like it comes out of 
nowhere. 

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I'm going to use the word magic 
flippantly but it, it seems like

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magic to me. 
It's just like it comes out of 

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nowhere. 
How did this stationary Bland 

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looking empty plant produce this
more? 

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Soul of goodness that you can 
just pluck off the vine sink, 

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your teeth into and that's just 
wonderful fruit fascinates me. 

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There's no, there's no one 
sitting there like kind of 

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working on that plant all day 
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God ordained fruit to grow from 
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plant that produces fruit. 
This looks fake to me. 

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It's just fascinating that this 
comes out of the end of a branch

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and blows my mind. 
And I think that's just because 

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God has a ordained or God taught
the plant, how to do it, and 

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it's God's work. 
I think that's interesting when 

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we consider the Fruit of the 
Spirit, When we, when God's word

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is working at us. 
This fruit is produced inside of

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us. 
And this is what God has 

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ordained to happen. 
When we are applying Godly 

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principles to our life, God will
create fruit seems like it came 

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out of nowhere. 
Not because that plant was just 

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incredible. 
And it was doing all this 

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toiling and spinning and weaving
and working. 

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But because when God ordained 
something to happen, there was a

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work of God and that plant and 
in our, in our lives, when we 

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have his Spirit living inside of
us, he has ordained for things 

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to happen that we could have 
never done on our own. 

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The spirit of God works in us 
and amazing ways. 

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Now, as I followed this analogy,
there's plenty of analogies in 

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the scripture for growing and in
the process of God working in us

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and the growing process and the 
ground gsu's. 

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Has a lot of Parables and 
analogies with growth. 

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And as I thought, about what we 
see in this process, I don't 

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want to make this study about 
our effort because it's not, 

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it's about what God does through
us. 

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But oftentimes what, you know, 
when I was working in the garden

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with my dad, this is the kind of
thing that I see. 

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As a, the person trying to grow 
things. 

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You're pulling weeds. 
You're shoveling your, maybe 

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your hoeing a lot. 
Maybe your school, Ruben cow 

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poop. 
You're scooping manure and 

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mixing it up in there. 
It's not a glamorous thing. 

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00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,200
The farmer or the tiller of the 
soil, does not have a glamorous 

449
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,400
work. 
The magic you might say is in 

450
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,800
the plant, it's in the god 
ordained creation. 

451
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,300
What God does in that plant. 
Maybe maybe the most glamorous 

452
00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:38,200
thing you do is you water that 
plant daily but this is a 

453
00:25:38,208 --> 00:25:42,600
picture of somebody that's 
growing fruit or growing things 

454
00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:46,300
and as I consider that you know 
this is this my dad's Garden. 

455
00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:51,100
So the most we ever did was we 
got this this whole Garden area.

456
00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:54,700
Looking good. 
We got it looking good for dirt 

457
00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:57,800
standards, I guess there wasn't 
a lot of problems in the way and

458
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,600
maybe you you made some trenches
that were just right for the 

459
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,400
plant. 
But that's pretty much if you 

460
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,500
are the person doing the work 
and planting, this is what you 

461
00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:09,000
see. 
It's not glamorous. 

462
00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:12,900
I think that's a perfect 
connection between God's fruit 

463
00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:19,000
of the spirit in us because it's
not about how great we can do 

464
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,100
things. 
It's about us doing the the weed

465
00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:23,500
pulling, and it's us doing the 
menial things. 

466
00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:27,000
That might sound seem 
frustrating and tiring. 

467
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,600
Maybe you find joy in that 
process. 

468
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,200
That's great. 
But it's not a Burris work. 

469
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,600
The same is true with the life 
of a Christian these things when

470
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,200
they're producing, you look 
wonderful but while you're doing

471
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,400
the work the effort and putting 
your life into it and pouring 

472
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,700
out yourself. 
It doesn't look glamorous It 

473
00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:49,500
doesn't feel glamorous all the 
time. 

474
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,800
But it will produce fruit that 
is beyond anything we could 

475
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,000
ever. 
Imagine I'm just doing x, y z 

476
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,700
and you know, that's what a lot 
of times people who are doing 

477
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,000
good. 
They just said, well, I was 

478
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,400
obviously doing XYZ, it wasn't 
that big of a deal, but it made 

479
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,700
a big difference to the people 
around them, who got to either 

480
00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:08,700
be the fruit themselves. 
Experience. 

481
00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:14,100
The fruit, appreciate the fruit 
that they produced, It might not

482
00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:18,700
always look glamorous but it's 
worthwhile and this is the idea 

483
00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:21,500
carried in First Corinthians 
chapter 3 that that it's not 

484
00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:25,700
about us. 
It's not about the our work in 

485
00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:28,300
the ground. 
It's about God, producing 

486
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:30,800
through these simple acts that 
we do. 

487
00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:33,800
He said what? 
Then is a policies, what would 

488
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:38,200
then is Paul who are we or just 
servants through whom you 

489
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,300
believe? 
I believe does the Lord assigned

490
00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:43,200
each? 
I plant it Planting you take the

491
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,100
plant and put it in the ground. 
It's not a complicated process 

492
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,600
Apollo's watered. 
Watering take the water and you 

493
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,500
put it on it, consistently 
maybe, but it's not complicated.

494
00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:58,700
It's not elaborate, but God gave
the growth. 

495
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,200
So neither, he who plants, nor 
he who Waters is anything but 

496
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,400
only God who gives the growth? 
May we have the attitude that if

497
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,000
we're going to be the fruits 
that we're going to talk about 

498
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,000
in just a second, we're gonna be
the long-suffering and goodness 

499
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000
we have to have this mentality 
that I'm gonna do that. 

500
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,900
Whatever is asked of me, I'm 
going to submit to that simple 

501
00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:22,500
role because of what God can 
produce through it. 

502
00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:26,500
I think there's a wonderful 
parallel in John 15. 

503
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,200
This, this is a fascinating kind
of speech. 

504
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,800
Jesus gives toward the end of 
his life. 

505
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,900
Jesus says, I am the True Vine 
and my father is the 

506
00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:40,400
vinedresser. 
Every branch in me that does not

507
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,300
bear fruit. 
He takes away, so we're supposed

508
00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:45,600
to be bearing fruit. 
Okay. 

509
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,500
And every branch that bears 
fruit, he prunes so, even if 

510
00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:56,500
you're doing God's Will and your
You're producing fruit, God's 

511
00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:59,500
going to prune us and shape us 
and mold us maybe in some ways 

512
00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:01,400
that require cutting and 
trimming. 

513
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,100
Are we ready this week to be 
pruned? 

514
00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:10,400
Are we ready to be trimmed and 
changed even when it might clip 

515
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,200
us and hurt us. 
Why that it that that vine May 

516
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,600
bear more fruit or that bridge 
May bear more fruit. 

517
00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:23,100
You are already clean because of
the word, which I have spoken to

518
00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:27,700
you abide in me. 
And I, in you as the branch 

519
00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:31,200
cannot bear fruit of itself, 
unless it abides in the vine. 

520
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,000
So, neither can you unless you 
abide in me? 

521
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,900
So, if you need a picture, the 
vine, if you see a big row, 

522
00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:40,500
there's a lot of grapes here in 
Bakersfield. 

523
00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:43,900
You see that that row that 
structure that set up for the 

524
00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:46,400
vine to grow across. 
You get a thicker Vine coming 

525
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,900
through and then off of that 
vine you You have to have a 

526
00:29:49,908 --> 00:29:53,400
branch come out that will then 
spring out fruit. 

527
00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:56,700
The fruit doesn't grow directly 
from the vine, not to it's 

528
00:29:56,700 --> 00:29:59,700
interesting. 
God has ordained a process where

529
00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:04,800
it needs branches to grow the 
fruit and in the church in our 

530
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,800
lives, Jesus doesn't just shoot 
fruit out of himself. 

531
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,700
He wants to work it through us. 
He wants to work fruit through 

532
00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:14,600
you. 
And if it's not you, then who's 

533
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,500
it going to be? 
God wants you to be one of these

534
00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:21,500
branches out here. 
And if you look at invite it 

535
00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:23,700
could be amazing. 
How much that one little Branch 

536
00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:26,500
can hold how much fruit can come
off of one little branch. 

537
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,500
I'm the vine Jew says, you are 
the branches. 

538
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,200
He who abides in me and I in him
Bears, much fruit. 

539
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,700
That's how it's going to be. 
He says, if you live, if you 

540
00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:47,600
stay in me, And I work through 
you, you will bear much fruit 

541
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,000
for without me. 
You can do nothing. 

542
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,500
I am an extension of Jesus 
himself. 

543
00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:02,900
I'm extension of Jesus himself. 
If you abide in me and my words 

544
00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:04,900
abide in you. 
So here we go again with the 

545
00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:07,400
holy spirit that how the spirit 
might work, we know it can't be 

546
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,800
without the words. 
If my words abide in you you 

547
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,200
will ask what you desire and it 
shall be done for you by this. 

548
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,300
My father is glorified that you 
bear much fruit. 

549
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,300
So you will be my disciples. 
These things I have spoken to 

550
00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:24,900
you. 
That my joy May remain in you 

551
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:29,500
and that your joy may be full. 
He spoken all these things about

552
00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:33,200
how he wants to work in us and 
have fruit in us and us be 

553
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,100
filled with his word. 
And that's going to in turn. 

554
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,200
Be what helps give us joy in our
life. 

555
00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:43,100
What helps? 
Keep us full in our life and 

556
00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:47,500
filled up is by serving and 
filling with God, and his ways 

557
00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:49,900
and his fruit. 
This is my commandment that you 

558
00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:52,600
love one. 
Another, as I have loved, you 

559
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,300
greater love has no one than 
this, than to lay down, one's 

560
00:31:56,300 --> 00:31:59,100
life for his friends, you are my
friends. 

561
00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:02,600
If you do whatever I command 
you, I think it's interesting. 

562
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,500
I've always read this, like, 
yeah, Jesus is the one who laid 

563
00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:08,200
down his life for us his 
friends, but I think in that 

564
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,000
there's a there's a call to lay 
down our life to be his friend 

565
00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:19,000
to lay down our life for him. 
Another reference in the Bible. 

566
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,900
There's the concept is fruit, is
referenced throughout the 

567
00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:24,000
scriptures. 
In Matthew 3, verse 8, Jesus 

568
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,800
says, to produce fruit in 
keeping with repentance. 

569
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:30,500
So fruit is basically what comes
out from the inside. 

570
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,900
Hebrews 13 verse 15, therefore 
by him. 

571
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,300
Let us continually offer the 
sacrifice of praise to God. 

572
00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:39,600
That is the fruit of our lips 
giving, thanks to his name. 

573
00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:42,000
There's another passage, I 
didn't include here. 

574
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:48,300
Where basically the giving was a
Fruit of the disciple or you 

575
00:32:48,308 --> 00:32:51,400
have God's followers of the 
disciples that when we give back

576
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,200
to God. 
That is a fruit of our faith 

577
00:32:55,300 --> 00:33:01,400
fruit is simply what comes from 
within and the fruit of God's 

578
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:06,100
work Works in us know so 
remembering what fruit is fruit 

579
00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:10,400
is a product that comes from 
within our role in it as we have

580
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,900
to be submissive, we have to be 
in the vine and let the vine 

581
00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:18,900
live in us to have fruit to 
Fruit, but where it truly comes 

582
00:33:18,900 --> 00:33:22,800
from is from God. 
And this is in contrast to the 

583
00:33:22,808 --> 00:33:24,700
Old Testament law. 
They were trying to hold on to 

584
00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:28,000
that law that they wanted to 
make the fruit themselves, but 

585
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,900
God gives the increase. 
God is the one who brings fruit,

586
00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:35,600
when he works inside of us, not 
the other way around. 

587
00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:39,200
The fruit of the spirit is love.
First of all, that word. 

588
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,100
Love comes from the word Agape. 
Not store G and the Greek, there

589
00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:45,900
is a bunch of words for love, 
not storage you, which is 

590
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,500
Affection, maybe something. 
You had for your family, not 

591
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:51,600
arrows, which was a passionate, 
love, not philia, which was a 

592
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,300
friendship and a mutual, maybe 
respect. 

593
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:59,100
It's not that Agape was 
unconditional and Selfless Love.

594
00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:01,400
And I've heard that a million 
times but I needed to hear it 

595
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,300
again this week. 
Maybe sometimes. 

596
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:10,500
Maybe sometimes we get too 
caught up in needing to feel a 

597
00:34:10,507 --> 00:34:12,699
connection with somebody to do 
something for them. 

598
00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:18,100
Instead of just showing that 
Selfless Love to one another and

599
00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:20,600
whatever comes from it will 
come, maybe we will have more 

600
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,600
affection for them but God 
requires a Selfless Love. 

601
00:34:25,699 --> 00:34:28,000
That's what God's spirit 
produces in knee. 

602
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,600
If it is really working in me. 
Next is Joy. 

603
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,199
The fruit of the spirit is joy, 
joy in the true. 

604
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:40,000
Good stuff of life. 
Not in this sinful Pleasures 

605
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,500
that are here today. 
Gone tomorrow not in the things 

606
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:44,699
that will really tarnish our 
lives. 

607
00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:48,900
In the end in the good stuff, in
the things that are pure and 

608
00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:52,900
lovely and admirable. 
The Bible says in all those 

609
00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:57,100
things, we will have true Joy. 
In the right stuff and art, art 

610
00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:01,100
enjoyment has to be shifted. 
All of these character traits. 

611
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:03,800
Take time, it's not just going 
to happen over time. 

612
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,100
In one day that you just have 
joy and all these things that 

613
00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:09,700
God has for us. 
It's, we're gonna have joy both 

614
00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:12,600
on the inside, I believe, and it
will come out on the inside on 

615
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:17,500
the outside, we're going to have
joy for others, as a 

616
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:21,700
selflessness, as part of what 
our interests are turning to the

617
00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:23,900
needs of others and having joy 
for them. 

618
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,900
And having Joy with others, the 
Bible teaches us that we should 

619
00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:32,600
mourn with those who mourn and 
and have joy with those and 

620
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,900
rejoice. 
With those who Rejoice ink will 

621
00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:40,800
learn to have joy with others 
and for And we're going to have 

622
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:45,200
that spiritual reality that 
teaches us joy, no matter what 

623
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,700
our circumstances are, because 
we have our spiritual life, 

624
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,200
right? 
John 15, verse 11 or remind you 

625
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,400
that. 
He said these things, I have 

626
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,900
spoken to you. 
That my joy May remain in you 

627
00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:03,400
and your joy may be full. 
Next is peace, I believe will 

628
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,800
have peace with God, knowing 
that we are right with him that 

629
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,000
we are not perfect, but we're 
doing our best and we are going 

630
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,900
to keep just starting again. 
Each day, we're going to start 

631
00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:18,500
over today. 
I'm going to try and use the 

632
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:20,700
right terminology. 
I'm going to submit my life to 

633
00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:22,800
him today and I'm going to 
follow him. 

634
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,300
And I have peace with God 
because of that knowing that I'm

635
00:36:25,308 --> 00:36:28,500
not living in contrary to him 
I'm going to have peace with 

636
00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:30,800
others. 
I'm not going to have conflicts 

637
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,200
in. 
Wars that we learned about in 

638
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,200
the, the Deeds of the flesh. 
I'm gonna have peace ultimately 

639
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:39,600
to with self because of all that
and this takes time, it's not 

640
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:40,600
all. 
Just like it happens. 

641
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,800
One day. 
This is what God's fruit grows. 

642
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,800
Are God's. 
Spirit grows within us. 

643
00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:50,000
The next is long-suffering, I 
did hours and hours of study on 

644
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,200
this word it comes from too. 
Complicated Greek words, long 

645
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,900
and suffering. we gotta be ready
for that, like, we talked about,

646
00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:02,600
tilling the ground, We need to 
be ready for that and expect it.

647
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,100
Kindness and goodness. 
Now, I put these two here 

648
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:09,600
together because and 
commentators were discussing 

649
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,100
then, there are saying, well, 
it's kind of hard to distinguish

650
00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:16,700
the two, but one of them said, 
maybe just maybe kindness is 

651
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:20,300
more of a disposition of the 
heart and goodness is maybe the 

652
00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:22,500
action side of it. 
I don't know. 

653
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,200
It makes sense to me though, 
that maybe some people have an 

654
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,200
easier time, having a kind 
disposition. 

655
00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:32,400
But maybe they need to work on 
showing goodness and actually 

656
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,700
coming through and showing 
goodness and being active. 

657
00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:38,800
Other people may have an easier 
time showing goodness through 

658
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,400
action, but maybe their 
disposition is in this kind, I 

659
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,800
don't know, maybe we all have a 
specific need there. 

660
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:49,200
That can be that the spirit 
works on through Us in different

661
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:55,000
ways faithfulness. 
Through all the changes that 

662
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,600
life brings in all the things 
that change you know, some 

663
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,400
people say more things change in
life that stay the same 

664
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:06,800
faithfulness is important. 
And as a I'm understanding more 

665
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,100
and more the importance of this 
because it's one thing to have 

666
00:38:10,100 --> 00:38:12,600
all all your effort poured into 
one day. 

667
00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:15,200
But then what about tomorrow? 
We've got to be faithful and 

668
00:38:15,207 --> 00:38:21,500
consistent in our effort and 
then our And who we are and what

669
00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:25,300
God is doing in US gentleness. 
I never saw a herd a more 

670
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:28,500
perfect definition of gentleness
and strength control. 

671
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,400
Gentle, this is not weakness, we
would describe a mother 

672
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,800
alligator carrying her baby's, 
not his week because she's 

673
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,800
carrying her babies. 
We would describe her as gentle 

674
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,900
because she has the strength to 
carry them and yet she doesn't 

675
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:42,500
crush them and kill them. 
She's gentle. 

676
00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:48,100
And don't ever let anyone tell 
you that you are weak. 

677
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:52,300
If you don't stand up for 
yourself, whatever that means in

678
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:56,200
different context, but if you're
a kind to people and you don't 

679
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,200
lash out, you don't have 
outbursts of Wrath as stated in 

680
00:38:59,207 --> 00:39:02,400
the Deeds of the Flesh and 
self-control. 

681
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,900
That's the last fruit of the 
spirit pretty self-explanatory. 

682
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,500
I felt a lot of pressure trying 
to prepare this to find just the

683
00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:11,700
right way to say. 
I love it but I think the 

684
00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:15,300
perfect part of this is it's not
about What I would say it's 

685
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:19,000
about God's spirit working in 
you, I'm not going to be able to

686
00:39:19,008 --> 00:39:20,600
say anything that's really going
to make all this. 

687
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:25,200
Just click if God's really 
working in my life, this will 

688
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,500
happen if God's really working 
in your life. 

689
00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:33,000
This will happen. 
Against such, there is no law. 

690
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:34,500
Okay, I think this is where it 
ties. 

691
00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,700
In the context, he's talking 
about the old loss, which he's 

692
00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:40,400
saying there's no law. 
There's no Old Testament that 

693
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,800
would prevent you from being 
this right then? 

694
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,600
Why are you rebelling, instant, 
why are you going back to the 

695
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,300
Old Law? 
Everything I just said is 

696
00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:52,000
goodness that no Old Testament 
or new testament or law out in 

697
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,900
the world or governing body 
would ever say anything against 

698
00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:58,600
these wonderful traits, there is
no law against these things. 

699
00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:03,500
And so one of the best things 
that that helped me this week is

700
00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:06,400
these passages were working on 
me. 

701
00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:11,900
Is I noticed as I looked at any 
one of these let's say 

702
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,400
jealousies okay. 
If I look at jealousy, These 

703
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,800
can't coexist. 
It's like oil and water. 

704
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,300
If I have jealousy in my heart, 
I'm not going to be a piece. 

705
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,600
I will never be at peace until 
because there's always something

706
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,700
else that someone has that I 
might want or want to become or 

707
00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:32,200
someone else is better at than 
the person. 

708
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,300
I thought I wanted it from. 
I'm never gonna have peace. 

709
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,100
I'm never gonna be able to love 
them because I'm concerned about

710
00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:42,700
what they have or what. 
What am I get? 

711
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,500
I'm not going to have joy 
because Joy doesn't come from 

712
00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:47,600
achieving things or getting 
things. 

713
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,900
I'm not going to be long 
suffering because I'm going to 

714
00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:52,700
be frustrated all the time. 
I'm not going to be kind to my 

715
00:40:52,700 --> 00:40:55,600
disposition or my actions. 
I'm not going to be faithful 

716
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,900
because I'm always working about
getting something for me. 

717
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,400
I'm not going to have 
self-control or gentleness 

718
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,900
because you'll live a frustrated
life. 

719
00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:09,800
If you're jealous If I'm selfish
and if I've selfish Ambitions, 

720
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,400
how can I possibly be faithful 
to things that matter if I'm 

721
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,200
seeking my own? 
If I am committing adultery or 

722
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,400
fornication? 
How can I possibly love the 

723
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,300
person that I'm sending with or 
the person who I should be 

724
00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:26,000
faithful to? 
How could I have joy in any of 

725
00:41:26,008 --> 00:41:28,400
my relationships? 
If I'm unfaithful and always 

726
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,500
looking turning around, trying 
to protect my secrets? 

727
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,500
How could I ever have peace with
might with others with God or 

728
00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:38,100
myself? 
How could Hi be suffering along 

729
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,100
with those that I have a bond 
with. 

730
00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:44,100
If I'm unfaithful in a 
relationship, I'm not going to 

731
00:41:44,107 --> 00:41:47,900
be stick to it. 
I'm going to lash out if I'm not

732
00:41:47,900 --> 00:41:51,000
faithful. 
You can go through all of these,

733
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:52,900
you could say, if I'm 
long-suffering. 

734
00:41:54,100 --> 00:41:58,500
I'm not going to turn to other 
places for my Pleasures. 

735
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,700
I'm going to rely on what God 
has given me and have 

736
00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:03,400
faithfulness in my heart for 
that. 

737
00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:07,500
And gratitude, I'm not going to 
seek for pleasure other places. 

738
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,400
I'm going to be faithful to God 
and not to other Idols. 

739
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,000
I'm not going to seek for power 
anywhere else. 

740
00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:18,300
I'm not going to hate others 
because I'm willing to suffer in

741
00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:22,200
myself rather than to have a 
hatred for somebody else. 

742
00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:25,600
I'm not going to be contentious 
or jealous because it's not 

743
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,400
about me. 
I'm not going to burst out 

744
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:33,200
because I'm taking the mental 
disposition and I'm setting my 

745
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,900
feet in the ground that I'm 
going to stick through the 

746
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:39,100
suffering and not expect to have
things easy. 

747
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,500
And go on and on these two can't
exist and I encourage you to 

748
00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:46,300
find something. 
Maybe you struggle with on this 

749
00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:49,400
list. 
It was very helpful for me and 

750
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,800
replace it. 
With these difficult but 

751
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,700
wonderful Concepts. 
Not because you need to try so 

752
00:42:55,700 --> 00:42:58,400
hard to make it happen. 
But going to see in just a 

753
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,500
minute because this is a 
syndrome, you can have when you 

754
00:43:01,508 --> 00:43:03,500
read this list. 
Oh no, I can't do all that on 

755
00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:04,800
the worst. 
I'll never become all that. 

756
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:06,200
And today I have to do 
everything where I do. 

757
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,800
I even start, I can't go back 
and fix everything. 

758
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:09,800
I'm overwhelmed. 
A lot of times people read a 

759
00:43:09,808 --> 00:43:11,500
list like that and that's how 
they feel. 

760
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,200
Pause. 
It's not the point. 

761
00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:18,200
This is a positive reset. 
Take from this. 

762
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,200
I have a vision of what I want 
to be. 

763
00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:25,200
Number two, the best is ahead. 
That's the Hope in all of this 

764
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:30,000
is that I can have more joy than
I ever thought I can have love 

765
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,900
and peace in my life that I are 
thought. 

766
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,400
Because maybe there's things in 
your I haven't uncovered yet. 

767
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,200
That tells me the best is ahead 
and that I can look forward to 

768
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,600
my life, becoming better and 
more refined. 

769
00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:46,800
And number and this one here 
guys, it's God's spirit in me. 

770
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:52,200
I don't have to have this 
reaction when it's God's spirit 

771
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,200
working in me that's going to be
the theme. 

772
00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:58,100
There's a passage. 
It says, do not quench the 

773
00:43:58,100 --> 00:44:01,500
spirit. 
Instead of Welcome him in. 

774
00:44:02,900 --> 00:44:05,800
And John 14, verse 22. 
Judah said to him, Lord, how is 

775
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,100
it that you will manifest 
yourself yourself to us and not 

776
00:44:09,100 --> 00:44:11,200
to the world? 
Jesus answered and said to him, 

777
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,800
if anyone loves me, he will keep
my word. 

778
00:44:14,500 --> 00:44:17,000
And my father will love him, and
we will come to him and make our

779
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,900
home with him. 
Welcome, Jesus, in, there's 

780
00:44:20,900 --> 00:44:23,700
moments every day where you 
where you look and you're like, 

781
00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:27,000
I know I'm making about to make 
a decision that's kind of a good

782
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:32,800
or bad or helpful or negative. 
Don't quench the spirit when 

783
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,300
God's spirit is teaching our 
heart and making our conscience 

784
00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:39,900
aware. 
Don't quench that allow God's 

785
00:44:39,900 --> 00:44:43,600
word to work in US. 
And welcome him. 

786
00:44:45,100 --> 00:44:50,200
Welcoming him in, will help make
all these things grow out out 

787
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:55,500
from us. 
One of the key takeaways is 

788
00:44:55,500 --> 00:45:00,700
moments make this happen being 
intentional with preparation and

789
00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:03,700
went to regroup if we're going 
to make this these kind of 

790
00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:07,000
changes in our life if we're 
going to start with God at the 

791
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,900
focus and let God work within us
and welcomed him and I think it 

792
00:45:10,900 --> 00:45:14,300
starts the start of our day to 
start with purpose and goals. 

793
00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:17,800
What is my purpose here today? 
And what are my goals today? 

794
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,300
What do I want to be one of my 
setting? 

795
00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:24,000
My heart toward inmates to, it 
may involve taking Taking time 

796
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,200
to pause, there may be times 
where you have to regroup and 

797
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,300
baseball. 
You call a timeout, the coach 

798
00:45:29,300 --> 00:45:32,000
comes out not because he has a 
lot of discussion to make, but 

799
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,700
he wants to do what's called, 
stop the bleeding. 

800
00:45:34,300 --> 00:45:35,500
Okay? 
Let's just talk, our coach 

801
00:45:35,500 --> 00:45:38,600
usually came out said a joke, 
caught us, all reset. 

802
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,800
Okay. 
Now let's proceed. 

803
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,100
Maybe for us that comes back to 
refocusing on our goals. 

804
00:45:45,100 --> 00:45:47,300
Okay, what-what am I what was my
goal today? 

805
00:45:47,300 --> 00:45:49,000
I started with. 
Am I doing that? 

806
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,900
Okay, let's reset. 
So take time. 

807
00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:55,200
To pause and refocus. 
Jesus often went alone to pray 

808
00:45:56,100 --> 00:45:59,600
and at the end of our day, may 
be time to reflect evaluate. 

809
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:06,500
How do I do today and then move 
on It doesn't happen in a moment

810
00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:10,400
but moments, make it moments, 
make this Who You Are. 

811
00:46:11,500 --> 00:46:13,900
Moments make this who you are, 
but it's not going to happen in 

812
00:46:13,900 --> 00:46:16,200
a moment for the good or for the
bad. 

813
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,600
You're not going to become all 
these things in a moment and 

814
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,300
you're not going to lose all 
this character in a moment. 

815
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,500
We need to be filled with the 
spirit of God. 

816
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:29,200
Paul said, I do not account 
myself to have apprehended. 

817
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:30,900
I always thought that was like 
reprimanded. 

818
00:46:30,900 --> 00:46:33,900
I don't know what I thought that
word meant, but the word 

819
00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:36,500
apprehended, I'd learn Spanish, 
which is I put in there is to 

820
00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:38,500
learn. 
Paul said, I did it. 

821
00:46:38,900 --> 00:46:41,300
I don't kill myself to have 
already learned. 

822
00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:43,000
I'm learning this in the 
process. 

823
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,900
This becoming more and more 
perfected by God. 

824
00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:48,800
But one thing I do forgetting 
those things which are behind 

825
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,800
and reaching forward to those 
things, which are ahead. 

826
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,700
I press toward the goal for the 
prize of the upward call and 

827
00:46:54,700 --> 00:46:57,100
Christ Jesus have it. 
Learned it yet. 

828
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,300
I'm just going to keep on trying
starting new day. 

829
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,300
Purpose and goals. 
Refocus recommit evaluate 

830
00:47:05,300 --> 00:47:09,300
myself. 
Finally closing out this chapter

831
00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:13,900
and those who belong to Christ 
have crucified, the flesh with 

832
00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:17,700
its passions and desires. 
Now, that doesn't mean that 

833
00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:19,500
there's no longer flesh inside 
of us. 

834
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,200
It's a commitment, I've 
crucified, the flesh. 

835
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,200
Meaning, I've made a commitment 
to walk away from that. 

836
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,800
I may make mistakes, but my 
commitment May stand, I have a 

837
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,400
commitment to crucify the flesh.
Verse 25. 

838
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,600
I'm reading from the ESV. 
Now, if we live by the spirit, 

839
00:47:36,100 --> 00:47:38,600
let us also keep in step with 
the spirit. 

840
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:45,800
This translation says, And this 
this gives a connotation of, of,

841
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,600
like a runner or maybe if you're
walking, if you're doing speed 

842
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,600
walking, whatever your gig is, 
if you're keeping in step with 

843
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:56,900
someone, that's for Pace. 
And I think that's a wonderful 

844
00:47:56,900 --> 00:48:00,500
picture that we're not going to 
the Holy. 

845
00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:02,900
See, the spirit isn't going to 
teach us and say, oh, I'm all 

846
00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:03,800
the way up here. 
You're nowhere. 

847
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:09,000
Close the Spirit guides us. 
We keep step with what we can 

848
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:10,500
see. 
We need to do today. 

849
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,300
We keep step with. 
Okay, what do I see today is an 

850
00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:19,500
area, I should be better or an 
opportunity to be better and you

851
00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:23,400
keep in step with that and the 
spirit will work on the word 

852
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,800
will work on our lives and teach
us. 

853
00:48:27,900 --> 00:48:31,300
Along the way, keep in step, 
with what we're being. 

854
00:48:31,900 --> 00:48:34,100
What is being asked of us what 
our conscience is. 

855
00:48:34,100 --> 00:48:37,300
Convicting us up today and where
we can be better today. 

856
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:44,600
And if you've ever been done, 
much running Runners really rely

857
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:46,900
on, somebody else to help them 
set their Pace. 

858
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,800
When I was in high school, it 
was Spencer Hagar. 

859
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:51,900
He was really the only one who 
can set a pace for me. 

860
00:48:52,300 --> 00:48:55,200
He and our baseball 
conditioning, he was the fastest

861
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:59,700
guy, he was the longest legs and
he could really run every race. 

862
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,000
I was just staring at his feet 
trying to keep up with them 

863
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,700
every time we ran our mile or 
two mile. 

864
00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:08,600
I was staring at his feet trying
to track stride for stride with 

865
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,700
him. 
That's the concept track stride 

866
00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:14,000
for stride. 
Stay focused on what the on what

867
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:18,300
the word teaches us and what we 
need to be focused on, and 

868
00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:21,900
that's a wonderful concept. 
If you run a long Marathon, they

869
00:49:21,900 --> 00:49:26,700
have designated pacemakers Who 
come out and run, maybe a mile 

870
00:49:26,700 --> 00:49:33,400
with you to set your pace. 
Say, hey, so, and so you come 

871
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:38,000
out here and Run Run MI 15 with 
me, just to make sure my pace is

872
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,600
on track because Slowly start to
just kind of lollygag if there's

873
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,500
not somebody they're setting my 
pace. 

874
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,400
So maybe I call a Sal Chris and 
Terry and said hey you guys are 

875
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,900
my mile Pace Setters for this 
Marathon going to run and they 

876
00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:52,100
would go out there. 
They'd meet me and I would track

877
00:49:52,100 --> 00:49:56,900
my Pace with them. 
I thought this picture was I 

878
00:49:56,900 --> 00:50:01,300
just happen to run across this 
was even better than I kind of 

879
00:50:01,308 --> 00:50:05,200
imagine it. 
There's the paralympic races and

880
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:10,700
they have a Pacesetter. that is 
tied to them, literally And this

881
00:50:10,700 --> 00:50:14,500
Pacesetter guides them, they 
help them keep up their speed 

882
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:15,800
but they also keep them on 
track. 

883
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:20,300
This guy on the right is the 
pace Setter and the guide for 

884
00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:24,500
the paralympic runner and I 
thought that was a perfect 

885
00:50:24,500 --> 00:50:28,300
picture of our Christian Life. 
Sometimes we are blind. 

886
00:50:29,300 --> 00:50:31,700
Sometimes we cannot see where 
we're going, sometimes. 

887
00:50:31,700 --> 00:50:34,000
We don't know where we need to 
be. 

888
00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:39,600
But God's word, the spirit of 
God can live in us and direct us

889
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,400
and we can keep Pace with that 
with what he's asking of us 

890
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,600
today. 
If we live in the spirit, let us

891
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,400
also keep in step with the 
spirit. 

892
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,200
Let us not become conceited 
provoking one, another envying, 

893
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:57,100
one, another And that is the end
of the chapter. 

894
00:50:58,300 --> 00:51:01,600
And finally, a call to action. 
Jesus said in John 15, no longer

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do I call you servants. 
For a servant, does not know 

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what his master is doing, but I 
have called you friends for all 

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things that I heard from my 
father. 

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I have made known to you. 
You did not choose me, but I 

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chose you and appointed you that
you should go and bear fruit. 

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And that you, your fruit should 
remain. 

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I'll stop there. 
I think that's enough. 

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God has called us to bear fruit,
God has called us to action. 

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Got us called us and appointed 
us, for a, for a life that is 

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better than we can ever. 
Imagine. 

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When his Spirit truly works in 
us, they didn't have to be 

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afraid in the old test going 
from the Old Testament, because 

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it was still God working in 
them. 

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Just maybe not in a way, they 
had imagined. 

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If you have not started this 
walk and become filled with the 

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spirit through what God teaches 
you can start today. 

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You can be added to, by of 
Christ. 

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When you believe, when you 
repent, is, I'm going to turn 

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and crucify the Flesh and commit
my life and repent of our past 

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life confess that Jesus Christ. 
Is the Son of God, the source of

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our saving grace, and the source
of our salvation, and be 

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baptized to be contacted with 
the blood of Christ to be joined

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to him and walk a life of faith.
And if you've already done that 

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but you have may be straight or 
you want to get back on the 

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right track. 
We're here as a family to 

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support. 
However, you may need in this 

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process while we stand while we 
sing We thank you for listening 

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to our podcast, put on by the 
Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.

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Road in Bakersfield, if you 
would like any additional 

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information or you would like to
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correspondence, course by mail. 
Please email us at info at True 

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Bakersfield.com. 

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Our service times are on Sundays
at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 

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Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 
Please make plans to join us. 

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We would love for you to be our 
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