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We are once again in our Rooted 
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So last time on the Rooted 
series we had Prit come and talk

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about being rerouted, being 
pruned and being renewed. 

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This time we're going to be 
talking about now being clothed 

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in the character of Christ. 
So the title for the message 

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today is what is the title of 
the message? 

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What is the title of the 
message? 

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I forget the title of the 
message. 

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Is that it revealing Christ in 
US, Revealing Christ in US. 

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Let's just take a moment to 
pray. 

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Heavenly Father, thank you for 
this time. 

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Thank you that we can come 
together and freely worship you 

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in spirit and in truth. 
Lord Father, I pray that 

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whatever I speak today will just
be downloaded from you and it 

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will be a tremendous blessing to
your people. 

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Help us, Lord, we need your 
help. 

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Jesus name, Amen. 
Amen. 

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So as I was saying last time, 
Pritt was speaking about how we 

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are to take off certain things, 
take off certain ways of living,

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and we are to be re rooted into 
the right soil, which is Christ.

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So this morning we're going to 
take it from Colossians. 

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We've been in the book of 
Colossians for, for a while now 

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and it's been rich, rich 
teaching. 

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I really do encourage you guys 
to, to go back and, and look at 

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the message, the messages. 
And so we're in Colossians 

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chapter 3 and we're going to 
start it from verse 12 going 

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down to verse 17. 
And so it reads. 

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Therefore, as God's chosen 
people, holy and dearly loved, 

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clothed yourself with 
compassion, kindness, humility, 

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gentleness, and patience. 
Bear with each other and forgive

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one another. 
If any of you has a grievance 

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against someone, forgive as the 
Lord forgave you. 

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And over all these virtues put 
on love, which binds them all 

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together in perfect unity. 
Let the peace of Christ rule in 

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your heart, since as members of 
1 body you were called to peace 

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and be thankful. 
Let the message of Christ dwell 

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among you richly as you teach 
and admonish one another with 

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all wisdom through psalms, 
hymns, and songs from the 

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Spirit, singing to God with 
gratitude in your heart. 

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And whatever you do, whether in 
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name of the Lord Jesus, giving 
thanks to God the Father through

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Him. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
So much rich stuff that is that 

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is in here. 
And I pray I'm going to be able 

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to cover as much as I can do. 
So as we can see in this in this

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part of the Scripture, it talks 
a lot about being clothed in the

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character of Christ. 
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we must have in mind even before
we do anything at all is that we

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must know that we are chosen and
loved by God as the Scripture 

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said in in verse 12. 
Therefore, as God's chosen 

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people, holy and dearly loved. 
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Notice it doesn't say. 
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better, fix up and be sharp 
about it. 

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No, it doesn't say anything like
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You see the Scripture says here,
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people, chosen holy, dearly 
loved people. 

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See, this is the amazing thing 
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You know, in the world 
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basically earn it. 
You have to earn your place. 

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You have to look for the 
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But that's the difference 
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The in the Kingdom we don't put 
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earn God's love. 
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already loved. 
I mean, think about it, before 

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Jesus did anything, when he was 
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Holy Spirit came like a dove on 
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And then there was a voice 
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in whom I am well pleased. 
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before he did anything at all, 
before he did any work, before 

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he performed any miracle, before
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heaven that he is dearly loved 
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And sometimes it's hard for us, 
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culture that we live in, where 
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for your position and your place
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sometimes you get that saying of
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you know? 
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works mentality. 
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with gods, you don't get that 
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affections. 
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with it. 
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know before you do anything at 
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So what we see is that identity 
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Identity comes before 
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And so it's very important that 
we, we, we start from this 

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position in life. 
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So #2 this is where we start to 
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character. 
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after that it says clothe 
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kindness, humility, gentleness, 
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See, clothing is important. 
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Everybody here is clothed. 
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intentionally chose what we were
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Might have had a couple of 
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I want to listen, put this one 
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And so we clothe ourselves 
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wear, you know, and different 
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environments. 
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specific kind of uniform that 
you work, you have for work or 

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when you have special occasions 
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wedding. 
You might, you know, if you're a

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guy, you might wear a suit or, 
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dress, whatever you want to 
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But as I said, different clothes
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know, we, we don't, we don't 
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gym. 
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clothes to, to work unless you 
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But but you get what I'm saying.
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So clothes communicate identity.
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believers who have already taken
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ways and have now intentionally 
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on a daily basis. 
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just about what God removes from
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It's also about how he perfectly
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And so now we're going to look 
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Paul talks about here. 
So starting off with compassion.

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Now I want to look at this in 
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the word in the original 
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here. 
And forgive me if I butcher this

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Greek word, but the word there 
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Splaconum. 
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because it also means mercy, it 
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But it also is where we get the 
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Now, if you know what a spleen 
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but but one of the major things 
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acts as a filter. 
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blood, our blood flow. 
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everything that comes in, 
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the bad stuff. 
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technical terms today. 
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stuff, bad stuff, negative, that
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So all the good and bad stuff 
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then it acts as a filter for any
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he was moved with compassion 
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because in a lot of the 
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people that that according to 
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not be around him, people that 
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people that were living in sin. 
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came and he was able to flow in 
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And that is so important for us 
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this world you're going to have 
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We're able to filter out the, 
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pleasant parts of life, but 
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and the grace of God. 
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filters everything out for 
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for good, literally means to be 
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The the word humility here it 
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in terms of being humble, but 
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of mind. 
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want to give our our own 
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react to whatever people are 
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enables us to think before we 
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are speaking to people who are 
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And gentleness with that is 
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strength here. 
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somebody that is Uber strong 
like I, I'm a Marvel and marvel 

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fan. 
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Marvel fans here. 
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where they picture everybody 
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there's this comic where you see
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Hulk here, you just look at me, 
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And he's literally holding those
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where, you know, they make like 
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and stuff. 
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collection of these things. 
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strong person holding these 
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And it's the picture of strength
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that you could say something to 
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really hurt them. 
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you know, if, why, if, if they 
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right now, you know, I could 
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themselves. 
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you remember, yes, you may have 
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these types of things, but you 
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And it's so important on a daily
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things and then we have 
patience, which ultimately is 

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cheerful and hopeful endurance 
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It's so important to hold on to 
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It really helps to produce hope 
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So when we are transformed by 
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our new identity in Christ, 
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able to love others, to be able 
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appear to be that lovable, to be
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Amen. 
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people because as the verse 13 
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are to bear with one another. 
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bearing with one another. 
It's, it's, it's the idea of 

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when you see somebody struggling
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trying to lift it up with all 
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to them and hold it up. 
You, you are there to help them.

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Oh, that's a tough one there. 
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Love is so important. 
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choose. 
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You see, the world will say, put
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benefits your life. 
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Cut off difficult people 
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But Jesus doesn't do that, does 
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Jesus moves towards the broken 
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Jesus moves towards the people 
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Jesus moves towards the people 
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that nobody wants to go near 
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He moves towards them. 
He moves towards the leper. 

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He moves towards the woman at 
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He moves towards Zacchaeus. 
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when they fail and He 
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And it's so important for us 
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in forgiveness. 
Forgiveness is the evidence of 

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rootedness, as it says, forgiven
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You see, like I said, I know 
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But forgiveness is not 
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Forgiveness is not calling evil 
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even instant trust and 
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What forgiveness is is refusing 
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heart. 
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surrendering revenge when you 
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you're surrendering it to the 
Lord and then given the people 

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over to God. 
It is tough, but the Lord is 

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there with us and He holds us up
to be able to walk in these 

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things and overall the virtues, 
which is love. 

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Love is so important. 
It's it's like the the very bind

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of a book which holds everything
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The love is love is not just one
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It is the virtue that holds 
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Without love, kindness becomes 
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Without love, truth becomes 
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And without love, service 
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See, love never fails. 
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period of time when we actually 
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day, Love Actually was the right
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At the end of the day, I should 
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You know, hindsight is 2020, but
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Amen #3 We are ruled by peace. 
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it and it says that the that in 
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our hearts. 
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idea of a referee or an umpire. 
You know, there was a massive 

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game that happened last night 
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some major decisions there. 
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My apologies for all the the 
Gunners. 

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My wife is looking at me funny 
like you. 

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You were not apologetic. 
Yes, last yesterday. 

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Like get in there. 
Sorry, let me get back into. 

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I need some water. 
What's that talking about? 

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Referees. 
Yes, referees. 

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Peace as well. 
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decision in our lives. 
Letting peace be the umpire. 

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So I ask you, what is making the
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Is it anxiety? 
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Could it be the culture and 
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final call? 
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past that is making the final 
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Well, the Lord is encouraging us
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Christ, be the deciding voice. 
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peace. 
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the word peace in the original 
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It's a picture of something that
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And this reflects in regards to 
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that peace must be the major 
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See, peace doesn't just mean 
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Peace means to face the 
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As much as it is possible for us
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peace with each other because 
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this. 
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middle, and you and whoever you 
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challenge with, Jesus is 
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We might not see eye to eye all 
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that we give up on each other. 
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peaceful church. 
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Amen. 
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worship. 
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about. 
Let the word of Christ dwell in 

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you richly, richly, not 
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See, it's good. 
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quotes and different, different 
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things that that you know are 
good for encouraging and 

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uplifting. 
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you and not just information 
stored in your head, but when it

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starts to change your 
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opinions on life, that's when 
you we become saturated with the

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with the word of God. 
Deep roots need to be saturated 

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in you know, when you think of a
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whenever there's hot water 
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the tea bag comes out. 
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that whatever is in US is going 
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Let it be the word of God 
dwelling in US richly that flows

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out under pressure when when it 
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let the word of Christ come out.
Let it be your perspective. 

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Let it be your opinion. 
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challenging thought or when 
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opinion, be bold enough to say, 
well, here's what I think. 

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Well, have you looked at it this
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Well, I don't actually see it 
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Maybe we should do it like this.
Let it flood out. 

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Let the flavour flood out. 
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the is it PG tips and all them 
kind of things, Yeah, let the 

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flavor flood out. 
Forgive me for the accent. 

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Sorry it's so important. 
And worship. 

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Oh, worship. 
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teaching and admonishing one 
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That word wisdom means clarity 
for direction. 

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Clarity for direction with all 
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songs of the Spirit. 
This is what we did this 

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morning. 
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praying for, praying for our, 
for our young people who are 

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going out into the world for 
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That is awesome. 
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anything else, but they're 
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faith, Amen. 
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was such an encouragement as 
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And so we, we do that through 
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through spiritual songs. 
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not just about something that 
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Worship. 
Worship roots us into the truth 

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that God wants to communicate to
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So as a challenge, what's going 
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week? 
Let the Word and let the worship

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of the Lord, let the truth that 
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week. 
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do, let's do it all on to the 
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And see, Paul finishes off here 
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because when we do all things on
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everything. 
It's not just our spiritual 

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life, but it's our everyday 
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Paul ends by removing the sacred
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See, Jesus is not just Lord of 
of church attendance, worship 

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songs, and Sunday mornings. 
He is Lord over our 

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conversations, over our 
parenting, over our 

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relationships, over our work 
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everything, our private 
thoughts, our social media, and 

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our conflicts. 
He is Lord over all. 

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And so a rooted life is not just
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It's an everyday surrendered 
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So as Psalm 34 verse 8 says, oh,
taste and see that the Lord is 

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good through the fruit that we 
produce. 

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We can be those that give out 
that fruit so that people can 

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truly taste and see that God is 
good. 

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He is good. 
Let us show the world how good 

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he really is. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
Let's go. 

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Thank you, Lord.