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Putting a pause on the colossian
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So today we'll put a pause on 
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In March, will have a series 
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Jesus money and your heart. 
And we're going to explore some 

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of the affections of our heart 
with the stuff of Earth with 

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Jesus, and then we'll be right 
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It's incredible Easter is April 
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towards that. 
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attention to this idea of do, 
not let anyone judge you. 

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And then the second idea is do 
not let anyone judge you by what

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you eat or drink, or with regard
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moon celebration, or a Sabbath 
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These are a shadow of the things
that were to come the reality. 

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However, is found in Christ. 
Do not let anyone who Delights 

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in false humility and the 
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You such a person also goes into
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have seen. 
They are puffed up with idle 

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Notions by their unspiritual 
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They have lost connection with 
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body supported and held together
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grows as God. 
Causes it to grow since you died

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with Christ to the elemental, 
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Why as though you still belong 
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its rules? 
Do not handle, do not taste, do 

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not touch these rules which have
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destined to perish with use are 
based on merely human commands 

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and teachings such regulations 
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He'd have an appearance of 
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worship their false humility and
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body. 
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sustained. 
Restraining sensual Indulgence, 

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Now we need to remember that the
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people in Christ and then 
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work and power of God in their 
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life worthy of God. 
Do you remember the prayer and 

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Colossians one that we have been
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Some of you have continued in 
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You know, that prayer thing that
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I'm still praying it and it's 
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Paul had been praying that they 
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Lord and please him in every way
bearing fruit in every good work

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growing in the knowledge of God 
being strengthened with all 

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power. 
So that they have endurance and 

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patience and then, giving joyful
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Thanksgiving. 
He says, this is should be what 

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happens to a person. 
Who is in Christ that being in 

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Christ, actually yields Andres 
produces this kind of effect in 

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our lives. 
Now I think that for many of us,

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there's three kinds of searches 
that that helped us get taken up

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by those who judge, Defraud. 
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the world. 
The first is that we really have

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a search for acceptance. 
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We want to be acceptable. 
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look for experiences. 
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about go and have an experience,
go to university, so that you 

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have an experience, learn 
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life for yourself, right? 
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sometimes even as people of 
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Looking, for an experience with 
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That's good. 
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danger zone for us and the third
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search for goodness we're having
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acceptable person and our 
generation and are setting in 

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the academy and in our 
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vision of what a morally 
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And we're looking for that as 
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around to the other thing that a
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accepted. 
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I mean, it's Jesus says, there's
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That there's a way of life and 
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and celebrated. 
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verse 14, Paul says, do not let 
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Now, that word judge it's most 
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the idea of condemnation. 
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And notice what he says, don't 
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to what you eat or drink or with
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a new moon celebration, or a 
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He's saying, look, you followers
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the pointing finger. 
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Try it point the finger a 
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Don't condemn anyone else. 
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listen you're going to 
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of Judgment of condemnation 
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says, well why aren't you doing 
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I mean, Jesus experienced this 
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else? 
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Because people pointed at him 
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And you hang out with Sinners. 
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Baptist? 
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an s-1, who retreated? 
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was always fasting. 
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John pointed the finger at John 
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harsh on himself and look at 
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It's our fear of judgment that 
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Jesus in our lives. 
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something, we're worried about 
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others rather than the Applause 
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that's been settled in Christ. 
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they're surrounded in a setting 
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festivals and experiences and 
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that they're often associated 
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The Sabbath is associated with 
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festivals of New Moon and new 
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sense of God's hand in creation 
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It's alasdair mcteer, who's a 
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philosopher whose well known for
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And he says, I cannot answer the
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What ought I to do? 
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question of which story am I 
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I'll read it again. 
Its proper English. 

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He was very very grammatically. 
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Catch it. 
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What ought I to do? 
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question of which story am I a 
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part of? 
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stories are meant to connect you
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part of. my friend, who, Became 
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returned to Taiwan and faced the
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And all of the ritual practices 
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death of one, who was not a 
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confrontation for her. 
What story am I a part of? 

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What story am I living? 
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rituals. creates a conflict and 
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pointing finger because I know 
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For some of you you're like I 
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My family is completely 
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They just point the finger 
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Because now I'm the one who 
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Christmas or meaning in lit, for
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Easter, or meaning in Pentecost,
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and having a Sabbath rest that 
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Don't let the fear of 
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calling of the Lord. 
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defraud or disqualified, I think
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doesn't it verse 13? 
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Thank you. 
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in false humility and the 
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You such a person goes into 
great detail about what they 

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have seen. 
They are puffed up with idle 

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Notions by their unspiritual 
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This word here of disqualified 
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idea of to defraud someone to 
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And so, in a sense Paula saying,
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spiritual experience and their 
great vision and dream and sense

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of what they have had cheat you 
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Jesus. 
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spiritual experience. 
TQ out of knowing and connecting

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to Jesus Christ himself. 
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worshipped, but apparently, 
there were some kind of folk 

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religion or folk setting here, 
that uplifted, the work of 

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angels such that they were 
worshiping them. 

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Right. 
So this this is a hard bridge to

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cross, but we do have those who 
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experience. 
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missing out. 
And so we can become susceptible

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at times to being cheated. 
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shaped life. 
In our pursuit of spiritual 

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experience. 
So we just have to be careful 

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with it. 
Do you know, we read the passage

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from Acts chapter 10. 
We're both Cornelius. 

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And Peter had had a spiritual 
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They had had a vision. 
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given instructions. 
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them, they even invited others 
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It was their spiritual 
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intersection in their lives. 
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experience that the Spirit came 
and they spoke in tongues and it

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became a sign to Peter and his 
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them that God was not playing 
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But now, there is nothing that 
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follower and believer of Jesus 
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you're missing out on really 
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Be careful of that of where the 
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others have been treated. 
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on and off for you. 
When they do that, they will 

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cheat you. 
Defraud you from your true 

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inheritance in Christ. 
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his completed work We can talk 
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thing here is that they were in 
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godliness. 
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that as well but he was not in 
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they needed to do to get God's 
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He was in search of it as a 
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knowing him that may seem very 
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difference. 
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He says, since you died with 
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spiritual forces of the world. 
Why is, though you still belong 

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to the world? 
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Do not handle, do not taste, do 
not touch these rules which have

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to do with things that are all 
destined to perish with use are 

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based on merely human commands. 
Teachings, such regulations. 

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Indeed have an appearance of 
wisdom with their self-imposed 

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worship their false humility and
their harsh treatment of the 

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body. 
But they lack any value in 

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restraining sensual Indulgence. 
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how do you actually become a 
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life? 
And the story that we're a part 

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of? 
In Christ says, there is one 

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good person who has lived a good
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And now his life is in US Christ
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How is this life in, you going 
to become an outward expression,

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will it become an outward 
expression by Developing a list 

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of rules for your life. 
Do not touch, do not eat, do not

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handle. 
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No evil speak. 
No evil. 

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Is it a rule based life? 
That brings you into the 

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fullness of Jesus. 
We're not sure are we, we're not

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sure, we're not sure. 
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I just that person just needs 
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But maybe they need more of the 
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Maybe we need, I need more of 
the Redeemer in my life, not 

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more rules in my life, but 
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rules is that when you live your
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what they make? 
You focus on Don't eat that 

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chocolate cake. 
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My mom would make a cake, and I 
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icing and it's a flat cake. 
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It's like this giant iced 
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Oh my goodness. 
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No don't touch that cake. 
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Touch that cake. 
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about the losses, the loss, 
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A provocateur. 
Of the desires that were here in

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that we actually became aware 
that we actually are sinners and

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are in need of a true and 
genuine Grace that we needed a 

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savior. 
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not going to be provoked and 
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list of don'ts and should haves 
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It's actually going to be 
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By gazing on Jesus. 
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because of the response of 
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put off the old nature and put 
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next seven. 
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The order matters here and it is
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life of church, such that we 
begin to be bound up with rules 

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rather than released and freed 
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This is the invitation of Jesus.
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self-designed. 
Religiosity, ourself Divine 

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religiosity. 
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Do something. 
Do something to get God to like,

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you more do something to get God
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Do something to make yourself 
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But it's Our Redeemer who says 
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It's done. 
It's finished. 

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And that's the invitation is to 
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To have a gospel shaped. 
Life means that we come down 

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into the reality of Who We Are. 
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say, forgive me. 
Forgive me, Lord. 

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It Is by spiritual disciplines 
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heart with that movement of 
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life in this body. 
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Jesus. 
Who died on a cross was buried 

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for us but was raised again. 
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This is the movement of Christ. 
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in Christianity, it is this we 
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the life of Jesus can be poured 
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Paul says, since you have been 
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Christ since you died with 
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Christ. 
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We come down to reality. 
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about kneeling kneeling, is one 
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come down and say, oh, I'm 
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I align my life with you. 
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you would give me do you know, 
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move in our lives, the danger 
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is, we're like the thief who 
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the parent. 
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It happened in Oregon in 2021. 
There was a mother who pulled up

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to a store and she just jumped 
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in a hurry and ran into the 
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meantime, a thief saw her car, 
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thought no one was in it. 
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He drove away with her 
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seat. 
Yeah, she came out, he wasn't 

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there, her child was gone, the 
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The thief recognized at some 
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There is someone in this car 
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came back and found the mother 
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And he rolled down the window 
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being such a terrible parent. 
You're such a terrible parent. 

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Why did you leave the car 
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the car? 
I want you to get your child out

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of the car and then proceeded to
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be a better parent. 
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car. 
Friends, we are in danger of 

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this kind of thing that Paul 
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Fellowship, instead of lifting 
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Christ in our own lives and 
coming down and being humble 

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about how. 
We also need a lesson, not just 

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in parenting, but personhood. 
We're like the thief, lecturing 

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someone who made a mistake in a 
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Instead of the thief, who was 
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said, oh, Jesus today. 
Remember me? 

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Let's pray together. 
Heavenly Father. 

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We know that lectures just 
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lives. 
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your grace, in our life. if we 
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Lord's Supper, That you would 
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And that you took up flesh so 
that you might accomplish for 

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us. 
But we could never do for 

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ourselves that you would find 
the remedy for sin that you 

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would find the Redemption from 
the powers of death and of 

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Darkness. 
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Although Jesus would you give us
a sense of honesty is a 

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fellowship with you that we 
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you. 
But instead, we would be 

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connected to you our head, our 
Lord, the one who is Lord of all

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your gave his life for us. 
So as we come to this fur, we 

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pray that you would give us 
humility and honesty. 

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The confidence of being accepted
by you, the confidence of your 

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goodness in our lives and trust 
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In that mix, you will bring 
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forgiveness and of Grace. 
And we ask this in your name. 

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Amen. 
But stand together and those 

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helping with the Lord,