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All right, my Bible in 365, 
brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at one of the greatest 
books in the Bible. 

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It is the Gospel account 
according to John. 

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And folks, I'm going to tell you
this is loaded now. 

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I'm just going to prepare you 
for this, OK? 

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Get ready for me to be a little 
emotional and a lot excited 

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because this is by far one of 
the most meaningful texts in the

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Bible. 
And boy do I love it. 

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I love the bridge that it 
creates. 

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I love the insights that it 
gives. 

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And I hope and I pray that you 
will be blown away with this 

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book because it is one of the 
books of books, if you know what

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I mean. 
I should say book of books. 

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I don't know. 
But anyway, you are going to 

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love this. 
Now I just want to simply say 

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this. 
If I am going to teach a Greek 

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class, which I've taught a few, 
I would start with the Gospel of

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John because it is probably some
of the most simple Greek that 

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you will find in the Bible. 
But understand the declarations 

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that you find are remarkable and
what John starts with here in 

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verse one of John chapter 1 is 
absolutely amazing and it sets a

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remarkable precedent. 
Now this is what he says and 

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it's important. 
OK, I want you to capture this 

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and if you are of Greek descent,
you'll understand. 

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And this clearly. 
He says enoche en ho logos, Caro

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logos, en prostanteo, guy theos 
en ho logos. 

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And what that basically means is
enoche, Eno logos, meaning in 

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the beginning was the word. 
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what it's actually talking about
is it's talking about the fact 

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that God has always been there. 
We're talking about Christ here,

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OK? 
He was always there. 

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He has never left. 
He was there from the very 

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beginning. 
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important. 
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Because John is not starting in 
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Many of the Gospel accounts will
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He is starting before creation, 
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He's starting before creation. 
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Because he is clearly 
communicating a very powerful 

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and important truth, and that is
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He's not created, OK. 
And when he talks about with God

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and was God, he speaks of a very
distinct personhood, and he also

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speaks of full deity. 
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question because a lot of people
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can somebody be God and be with 
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And that brings us to the next 
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and that is verse 14. 
Now we'll go there because the 

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answer is there. 
How he how he can be with God 

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and be God at the same time. 
Can he talk a little excited. 

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This is awesome stuff, but I do 
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anchor here, and this is 
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Jesus is not just a teacher or a
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OK. 
He is God himself, coequal, Co, 

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eternal with the Father. 
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important. 
Everything that follows must be 

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interpreted through this lens. 
John is setting the precedent of

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this. 
And if you miss this, you 

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completely misread the entire 
book. 

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And I know how many people like 
to read and I just butchered 

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that. 
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understand the fact that they 
want to wax philosophical, 

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right? 
But the reality of it is there 

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is a unique and powerful, 
distinctive declarative that's 

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being made, and it all sets the 
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Now that brings us to the 
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And it says, and the Word was 
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and we beheld His glory, the 
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the Father. 
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truth. 
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made flesh, keep this in mind. 
He came himself. 

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That's what it's talking about, 
that God himself came. 

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He dwelt amongst us. 
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this word, it would be the same 
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phrase tabernacled from. 
So the the tie here is beautiful

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because the picture is 
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It ties US directly to the 
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Tabernacle in the Old Testament,
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Remember this God here is not 
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He is personal. 
He's visible, He's knowable. 

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That's what the Bible says. 
And the glory of God is now 

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revealed in a person, right? 
Not a place, not the Tabernacle 

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anymore, not the temple. 
It's literally in the person of 

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Jesus Christ. 
Again, it sets another 

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precedent, and the precedent 
that is set is remarkable 

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because the rest of John reveals
to us who Jesus is by exactly 

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what he does. 
And that is a very, very 

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powerful thing. 
Every miracle is a revelation of

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his glory. 
Now, why am I saying that? 

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Because if you want to get close
to God, this is the book you 

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want to read. 
If you want to deepen your 

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relationship with Christ, this 
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This is the one you need to go 
to. 

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Now. 
There's another incredible verse

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here and this verse is really 
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Verse 17, by the way, they're 
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focus on these verse one, verse 
14, verse 17, Look what verse 17

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says. 
It says for the law was given by

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Moses, but notice what it says. 
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Jesus Christ. 
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when it's translated correctly 
is it says the law was given by 

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Moses. 
Grace and truth realized in the 

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law through Jesus Christ. 
So that's important because what

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that reminds us of is the law is
not bad. 

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The law is the precedent center.
It carries A distinctions. 

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We learned that very on very 
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Genesis. 
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It it it it literally defines 
what righteousness is and it 

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shows God's perfect standard. 
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It can't save anybody. 
That's the critical portion 

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here. 
So through Moses, the law was 

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given, but through Jesus we see 
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I said grace. 
Wow, that's crazy. 

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Through Jesus, grace and truth 
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So it's pretty amazing. 
By the way, I'm not going to 

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like edit any of this out. 
This is like, I'm keeping it 

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real here. 
OK, So what does that mean? 

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Well, it's very important we 
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It means grace is not opposed to
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It means that grace and truth 
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person of Christ. 
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himself, our Messiah, He 
fulfills the law and literally 

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provides what the law could 
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Why? 
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heaven, you can't commit a sin. 
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perfectly. 
We can't do that, but Jesus did,

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and through his fulfillment of 
the law, we get to wear His robe

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of righteousness. 
We get credit for the salvation.

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We get credit. 
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the credit that we get from the 
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You didn't have to do anything 
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gift, except simply trust Him. 
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gets set here yet again. 
John throughout the Gospel 

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account will continually show 
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He's going to continually show 
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you. 
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religious systems, they can't 
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with Christ through putting your
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And John even tells us this. 
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purposes in John chapter 20, he 
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the Son of God and to lead 
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God, to experience life as a 
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So this is how chapter one sets 
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It establishes the authority 
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Jesus is God. 
It establishes accessibility by 

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telling us, hey, he became man, 
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explaining how grace and truth 
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his very life. 
Everything that follows at this 

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point shows us His deity. 
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It reveals His authority. 
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John expose the condition of the
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Jesus does that. 
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the most important. 
And this is what I'm looking 

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forward to doing, I've been 
looking forward to since I 

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started this video. 
And that's to tell you where it 

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all lands, why it actually means
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Why? 
Because God came. 

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He literally came to this earth.
It's not some philosophy. 

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It's not some religion. 
It's it's, it's God inserting 

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himself into human history. 
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how big that is. 
He came, He's knowable, He dwelt

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among us. 
He revealed himself with 

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clarity. 
But perhaps the most remarkable 

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aspect of this is that we have a
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What is the opportunity? 
The opportunity is to know Him 

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personally. 
The opportunity is to walk with 

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Him daily. 
The opportunity is to experience

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what the revelation of grace and
truth truly is in reality, not 

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theory through Christ. 
But here's the warning, and this

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is important. 
You can't stay neutral. 

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John forces a decision. 
Make no mistake, it's very 

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clear. 
You either believe or you 

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reject. 
That brings us to a call to 

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action. 
And most of you have already 

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done this. 
Thank you, Jesus. 

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Don't ignore what God has made 
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Don't reduce Jesus to anything 
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Respond to Him as the Lord of 
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Why? 
Because so much is at stake. 

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If you're a believer in Jesus 
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faith and trust in Him and 
you're watching this video, 

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which most of you are, you have 
an opportunity to deepen the 

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riches of the relationship that 
you have with Him, to grow the 

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wealth that He has available to 
you, to seek him in a new way 

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and experience Him with a 
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No man can explain. 
That's the challenge. 

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We've been living in an 
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I never thought in a million 
years I would see a precious 

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widow suffer the way Erica has 
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I've been mind blown by the 
cesspool of nonsense that has 

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just surfaced in the social 
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But I realized something. 
All of that is a result of 

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people who claim Christ but 
never, ever set the precedent 

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that John chapter 1 establishes.
So now is the time. 

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Let's set that precedent and 
watch God do great things. 

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Why? 
Because let me just explain 

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this. 
Everything is at stake, even 

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amazing God. 
Let's watch Him do amazing 

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things. 
I love you guys. 

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God bless you. 
I'm proud of the reading that 

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you're doing. 
Can't wait to see you at the 

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next Q&A. 
Keep fighting a good fight.