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Good morning. 
It's good to see everybody here 

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this morning, our announcements 
for the week. 

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There is no prayer lunch 
tomorrow here at the church. 

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There will be a prayer lunch a 
week from tomorrow, the 3rd of 

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August. 
And I don't know all the 

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details. 
I'm assuming there will be. 

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Chuck's going to cook, is that 
right Chuck? 

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OK, so now Tuesday night we do 
have prayer night here at the 

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church at 6:00. 
So we'll be glad to see about it

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here. 
Be be good to see about it. 

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Is there any announcement need 
to be brought to our church at 

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this time, Dan? 
Yes, Sir. 

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Yes, Sir. 
We're glad to do it. 

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Yes, Sir. 
That's what we're here for. 

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We're here to help. 
We, we really are. 

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We appreciate it. 
We, we, we appreciate the 

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opportunity. 
Does any other announcement need

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to be made to our church? 
We will continue with our 

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worship. 
Good morning. 

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If you will please take a hymnal
turn, hymn #289 Days of Elijah. 

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We're going to sing all the way 
through and ask you to do. 

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Please stand with me as we sing.
comes. 

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Amen. 
Be seated. 

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You did good. 
I know that one challenges y'all

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every time I do it. 
Y'all are getting good though. 

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I'm going to be reading out of 
Psalm 95 this morning. 

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Come, let us sing for joy to the
Lord. 

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Let us shout aloud to the rock 
of our salvation. 

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Let us come before him with 
Thanksgiving and extol him with 

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music, and so on. 
For the Lord is our great God, 

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the great King above all gods, 
and his hands are the depths of 

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the earth, and the mountain 
peaks belong to him. 

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The sea is his, and he made it, 
for his hands formed the dry 

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land. 
Come, let us bow down and 

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worship. 
Let us kneel before the Lord our

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Maker, for he is our God and we 
are his people for his pasture, 

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the flock under his care today 
if only you would hear his 

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voice, would you please pray 
with me? 

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Our most gracious heavenly 
Father, we're thankful to be in 

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this your house. 
We ask that you clear our minds 

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of early things and open our 
hearts the message that we will 

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receive. 
We ask that you give us the 

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strength to care that message to
those who come in contact with 

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we give you all the praise and 
the glory. 

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Talk to us by your Son, saying, 
Our Father, who art in heaven, 

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hallowed be thy name, Thy 
Kingdom come, Thy will be done 

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on earth as it is in heaven. 
Give us this day Our Daily 

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Bread, and forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors and 

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lead us not in temptation. 
But deliver us. 

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From evil, for thou is the 
Kingdom, the power, and the 

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glory forever. 
Amen. 

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If you would please take your 
hymnal once again, turn to hymn 

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#143. 
You are my All in all, and you 

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may remain seated as we sing. 
Amen. 

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As we pause to go the Lord in 
prayer this morning, I will say,

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Mr. Dan, it's always good to 
have you with us. 

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Know that we are continuing to 
lift you and Miss Patricia up 

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and that anything we can do, you
know that we we have that desire

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to do for you. 
I want you also to please 

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continue to remember Vicki Rod's
mom passed away and she is 

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heading out either today or 
tomorrow morning to Atlanta for 

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her funeral. 
So we pray for safety for her as

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as she travels and just just 
with that family got a lot going

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on. 
Anyone else prayer concerns Miss

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Leather Mae, good to see you 
back. 

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Yes, remember. 
Phillip. 

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And Jackie. 
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How to put her on this? 
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Dickey's wide. 
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Jan Caraway and right and having
treatments, OK. 

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Yes, Sir. 
Wonderful, wonderful news. 

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Yes, over 
in Louisiana. 

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OK, All right. 
Anyone else? 

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Before we go, Lord, in prayer, 
my. 

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Ex brother-in-law. 
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mention him yet Trista and 
Chris's dad, Jason Dean was in a

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car accident and pretty serious 
car accident was thrown from the

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vehicle and they did have to end
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it's got some more surgeries 
upcoming, but is in university 

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and they were able to see him 
and in as good a spirits as he 

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can be in under the 
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But do Please remember him. 
All right, I know y'all are 

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fanning out there. 
Air conditioner on this side is 

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out, so I'll try to be as 
concise as I can today, but 

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hopefully it won't get too much 
warmer than it is. 

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All right, let's pray. 
Our Heavenly Fathers, we pause 

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to give thanks for our time 
together this morning to worship

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you, Lord, to acknowledge you 
once again as the one true and 

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living God. 
Lord, the Creator of the 

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universe, the the Sustainer of 
life, the Heavenly Father who 

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who gave his one and only Son as
a sacrifice for our sins. 

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How thankful we are. 
And Lord, today we simply ask 

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that you are with us as we 
worship Lord, that we are able 

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to let the world around us fade 
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and that we focus totally on our
relationship with you. 

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Lord, we ask for mercy. 
Lord, we ask for, for your 

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healing hand upon those that 
we've mentioned who, who have 

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had accidents, who are facing 
treatments, Lord, and we, we 

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just pray that, that, that we 
can minister in those situations

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as best that we can, Lord, But 
we know that we can pray and we 

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will certainly do that. 
We pray Lord, as we give of our 

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ties and offerings, as we have 
an opportunity to come to the 

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table to remember the sacrifice 
that was made for us. 

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And Lord then as we look into 
your word that your Holy Spirit 

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is with us and Lord, that we 
allow your Spirit to move within

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us and to change us, Lord, to 
encourage us, Lord, and maybe 

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sometimes to convict us of those
things that we need to get rid 

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of or change in our lives. 
We do want to give you all the 

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glory and all the honor Lord. 
And then to send your sons Jesus

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name I pray, Amen. 
Bullshit. 

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May these ties be used for your 
glory and honor. 

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It's in your holy name we pray. 
Amen. 

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Our communion hymn this morning 
is hymn #476 in the Garden. 

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We're going to sing the 1st and 
2nd stanzas. 

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This morning as we come to the 
table and we have the invitation

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of our Lord and Savior Jesus 
Christ himself. 

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When I asked you about that last
hymn that we sing, how often 

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this week has we, have we 
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Have we taken the time to try to
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Father? 
Have we stopped and taking the 

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time to acknowledge that even in
the midst of all the chaos 

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that's going on in our life, He 
is there with us. 

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He desires for us to come and 
commune with him. 

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So today as we come to the 
table, I pray that we can we can

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truly come here and commune with
our Savior. 

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We can truly commune with our 
our, our Father and that we once

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again take in the magnitude of 
what he did on the cross for 

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each of us and the willingness 
that he had when he went. 

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He wouldn't go kicking and 
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He went willingly and lovingly 
and how thankful we we are for 

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that. 
Let's pray. 

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Lord, praise to the Heavenly 
Father. 

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We're thankful this part of our 
service. 

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We do understand this only by 
your invitation that we're 

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allowed to be Lord. 
And may we take this bread 

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humbly, confessing our sins and 
understanding that represents 

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the broken body of Christ as He 
gave His life and gives us all 

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sins. 
It's in Christ's name, we pray. 

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Jesus, we do come around this 
table remembering you and what 

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you did for us. 
We come acknowledging that we 

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are not worthy of what you did, 
but you did it because you loved

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us that much. 
We come celebrating the fact 

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that we have a Holy Spirit that 
can guide us and correct us and 

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bring us to You. 
We thank you for the opportunity

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to come here, share the elements
that we do today, bless us as we

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protect, renew us in our 
understanding of why you love us

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and how much you love us that we
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today. 
In Jesus name I pray. 

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Amen. 
The Lord Jesus, on the night he 

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was betrayed, took bread and we 
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He broke it and said, this is my
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Do this in remembrance of me. 
In the same way, after supper he

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took the cup, saying this cup is
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Do this whenever you drink it in
remembrance of me. 

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For whenever you eat this bread 
and drink this cup, you proclaim

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the Lord's death until he comes.
All right, this morning as we 

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look into God's Word, we're 
going to start in Hebrews 

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Chapter 11 and verse 1, and I 
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here. 
So last week we were in Hebrews 

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chapter 10 and I asked you the 
question, is God's love 

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unconditional? 
And we had some good, some good 

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discussion about that. 
And while we were having these 

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discussions, after I'd finished 
the service and we were talking,

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I had someone asked me, they, 
they said to me, well, I know 

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that you said that in the New 
Testament we come to faith 

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through Christ. 
But what about in the Old 

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Testament when Jesus was not 
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How did they come to know God 
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with him? 
So this is Hebrews Chapter 11 

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and verse one. 
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Now faith is confidence in what 
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what we do not see. 
This is what the ancients were 

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commended for. 
By faith we understand that the 

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universe was formed at God's 
command, so that what is seen 

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was not made out of what was 
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By faith, Abel brought God a 
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By faith he was commended as 
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his offerings, and by faith Abel
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dead. 
By faith, Enoch was taken from 

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this life so that he did not 
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He cannot be found because God 
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before before he was taken, he 
was commended as one who pleased

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God, verse 6 says. 
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impossible to please God because
anyone who comes to him must 

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believe that he exists and that 
he rewards those who earnestly 

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seek him. 
Now we can keep going on and on 

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through this chapter. 
It is it is the the, the chapter

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of faith, the the chapter of the
heroes of faith of as he as he 

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lists them from Noah to Abraham 
and on and on he goes about how 

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those who had not seen God 
personally, but they experienced

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God and through faith did 
exactly what God had called them

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to do. 
So in the Old Testament, it was 

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simply by faith, just like it is
for us in the New Testament. 

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We cannot come to a relationship
with Christ without faith. 

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We go to Ephesians chapter 2 and
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It says this for it is by grace.
Excuse me, for it is by grace 

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you have been saved through 
faith, and this is not from 

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yourselves. 
It is the gift of God, not by 

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work, so that no one can boast. 
For we are God's handiwork, 

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created in Christ Jesus to do 
good works which God prepared in

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advance for us to do this 
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As you're thinking about the 
concept of faith, as you're 

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thinking about our part of the 
process of receiving salvation, 

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we, we have such a small 
insignificant part, yet it's so 

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very important. 
We go back and we talk about 

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God's love and, and how God 
loved us and gave his one and 

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only son for us and that we know
what love is because God is 

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love. 
He gave us the example of what 

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love looks like and the only way
that we could be able to express

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love at all is because God gave 
us what love is when we're 

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talking about our faith. 
It's it in verse a says for it 

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is by grace you have been saved.
Grace, unmerited favor 

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Definition of grace unmerited 
favor We all have God's grace 

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available to us. 
We all have that unmerited favor

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that we did not deserve 
salvation. 

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We deserve death, we deserve 
punishment, we deserve 

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destruction for our sin and how 
it had separated us from God. 

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But through His Son, Jesus 
Christ, He gave us a way to be 

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saved. 
And by grace, that unmerited 

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favor that He placed upon each 
of us, that we can respond to 

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that grace, and we do that 
through faith. 

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That's all we have to do. 
God did all the rest. 

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God provided the sacrifice. 
God is love. 

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God created this world. 
He knew that we were going to 

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sin. 
He provided a way to escape the 

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consequences of that sin. 
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about God is a holy God. 
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is a holy God. 
He will not, cannot be in the 

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presence of sin. 
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through his Son Jesus Christ. 
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are saved through faith. 
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yourselves. 
It is the gift of God, not by 

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work, so that no one can boast. 
How often do we think about our 

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lives and we think about maybe 
the past week that we've lived 

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and we think about, you know, I 
had a pretty good week last 

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week. 
I did so and so and this, this, 

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this, this, I did these things 
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It was, I had a good week. 
It is hard for us not to measure

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our lives by the things that we 
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I heard a saying and I don't 
know who who it was and I should

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remember these things better 
because I need to give credit 

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where credit is due. 
I can tell you it was not I who 

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came up with this, but this was 
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Every St. has a past and every 
center has a future. 

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Every St. has a past and every 
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The love of God is such that we 
look at people down the road who

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have accepted Christ as Savior 
and have grown in their 

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relationship with Him, and we 
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how kind they are, how are they 
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others. 
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know, she, he, she's just a St. 
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Let us never forget that all of 
those Saints, those that we hold

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in the highest of esteem for how
they have lived their life after

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accepting Christ as Savior, they
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They fell short. 
They were a Sinner themselves 

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and they needed a savior. 
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Savior Jesus Christ. 
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about those sinners, those that 
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no hope. 
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things time after time after 
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It doesn't matter how many times
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to help, how many times we 
encourage, we lose hope, we give

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up. 
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on this earth, they can still 
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They can still have the 
opportunity to receive Christ as

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Savior, just as you and I have. 
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process of being sanctified, of 
becoming who God desires for us 

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to be. 
We haven't just accepted that 

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gift of salvation and we just 
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No, we want to become more like 
Christ because that's what it is

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to have Christ living within us.
God desires for us to become 

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more and more like Christ. 
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So every St. has a past. 
Every Sinner has a future. 

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All of that is only because of 
the grace of our Lord and Savior

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Jesus Christ, how He expressed 
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That we can't work for it. 
That we can't earn it. 

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That we don't deserve it, but he
loved us anyway and he went and 

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he finishes up with this for we 
are God's handiwork created in 

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Christ Jesus to do good works 
which God prepared in advance 

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for us to do. 
When you see the lives of those 

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who have grown in their 
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you and you see in them, boy, 
that's, that's a, that's an 

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attribute or that's something 
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attain that I, I would like to, 
to move towards in my 

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relationship with the Lord, that
I would be more patient, that I 

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would be more kind, that I would
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We go back and all those things 
are, are, are fruit of the 

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spirit, Lovejoy, peace, 
patience, kindness, goodness, 

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faithfulness, gentleness and 
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When we live by the Spirit, when
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we see less and less of that old
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and we see more and more of the 
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and through us. 
So I go back to that hymn that 

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we sang in the garden, a 
favorite for for many. 

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I've told you all that was one 
of my grandmother's absolute 

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favorites. 
I don't like it. 

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It's it's always slow. 
It always seems to just go and 

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go and go. 
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the reasons I don't like it and 
I just listen to those words and

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I bring those concepts of 
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And he walks with me and he 
talks with me and he tells me 

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that I am his own. 
And the joy we share as we tarry

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there, none other has ever 
known. 

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That's powerful words. 
It's a powerful concept. 

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I wish they'd just done a better
job with the tune. 

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But that concept of knowing that
God desires to walk with you and

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with me, to commune with us on a
daily basis, He gave His one and

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only Son. 
He gave us grace. 

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He gave us mercy. 
He withheld what we should have 

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gotten. 
He withheld those things because

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of a relationship that we have 
with Christ, and he loved us 

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enough to send his Son. 
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have faith in the Creator God. 
We have faith that Jesus did 

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come to this earth, that He did 
die on the cross, that He did 

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rise again from the dead, that 
He did ascend back to heaven and

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is waiting at the right hand of 
God right now for Him, for the 

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Father to call us home. 
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up, I'm going to go to verse 39.
These were all commended for 

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their faith, yet none of them 
received what had been promised 

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since God had planned something 
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together with us would they be 
made perfect and listen to this 

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it says starting in chapter 12. 
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surrounded by such a great cloud
of witnesses talking about all 

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those that he has just listed in
those in that in that chapter 

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before the heroes of faith and 
the, and the, the faithfulness 

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that they had to God in all of 
those terrible circumstances and

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unknown circumstances, they 
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Therefore, since we are 
surrounded by such a great cloud

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of witnesses, let us throw off 
everything that hinders in the 

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sin that so easily entangles, 
and let us run with perseverance

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the race marked out for us, 
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the 

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pioneer and perfector of our 
faith for the joy set before 

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him. 
He endured the cross scorning at

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shame and sat down at the right 
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Consider Him who endured such 
opposition from sinners so that 

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you will not grow weary and lose
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I hope today that your faith 
continues to grow, that you are 

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looking more and more forward to
the time when you leave this 

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earth and you were called home 
and that you experienced all 

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that God has promised to those 
in the Heroes of Faith chapter, 

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but He has also promised to us 
they will not experience 

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anything that we will not 
experience as great as they are 

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all of the great things that 
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Our relationship with Jesus 
Christ places us in that very 

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same category with them. 
Maybe one day someone when you 

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leave this earth, they they will
look and they say that was one 

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of my heroes. 
I looked up to them that the way

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that they live their life here 
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Maybe you will be a hero of 
faith to someone, but when we 

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get to heaven, we're all going 
to be together. 

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We are all going to experience 
all that God has planned for us.

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And it will not disappoint the 
faith that we have here on this 

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earth that as I said, I hope 
that it is continuing to grow, 

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that you don't doubt what God is
doing, that he is still in 

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control, that He is still 
working in this world. 

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Don't think that he has given 
up, that he has lost heart, that

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he has thrown up his hands. 
We are told over and over how 

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patient God is and that it is 
His desire that all men should 

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be saved. 
That's God's heart that goes 

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back to that love that He has 
for us. 

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But we have one thing that we 
have to do. 

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We have to put our faith in Him 
and in nothing else. 

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No one else, not our 
accomplishments, not our works, 

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not our family, not our job, not
what we have attained here on 

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this earth financially. 
We don't get to take a single 

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bit of that with us, but the 
things that we do in the name of

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Jesus, those things will be 
stored up for us in heaven. 

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They will not be corrupted. 
They will not be tarnished. 

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They are waiting for us. 
All we have to do is live by 

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faith. 
Let's pray, Heavenly Father, 

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this morning. 
I pray that we once again 

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acknowledge the absolute need 
that we have for a relationship 

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with you and Lord, that we give 
thanks that you provided the 

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sacrifice through Jesus that we 
can have that relationship. 

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What sin had separated us from 
Christ, came and redeemed us and

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brought us back into your 
presence, even to the point of 

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that we can step into the very 
throne room of God and we can do

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it boldly and with confidence 
because our righteousness comes 

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not from what we have done, but 
our righteousness comes from the

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perfect Son of God. 
Lord, we simply ask today that 

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you give us the strength to live
by faith, that you encourage us,

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that you walk with us, that you 
commune with us, and that you 

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grow us into who you desire for 
us to be. 

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And that we share the love of 
Christ with others in a mighty 

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way, not only through our words,
but through our actions. 

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And they see Christ in US. 
It's in Jesus name I pray, Amen.

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Hymn of invitation this morning 
is hymn #433. 

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I surrender all. 
We don't surrender part, We 

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don't surrender some, but we are
going to surrender all. 

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Let's stand and sing the 1st 2 
verses. 

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Let's pray. 
Heavenly Father, we do thank you

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for your son Jesus Christ. 
Lord, we thank you that you 

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loved us enough to send him, 
that he came willingly. 

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And Lord, we simply pray and ask
today that we will humble 

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ourselves before the Almighty 
God, before our Savior Jesus 

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Christ, and that we allow the 
Spirit to move within us and 

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that we can and are willing to 
surrender everything to the one 

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who gave us all. 
Since Jesus name I pray, Amen.