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 Well, it's very good to be with you this evening, and I bring you greetings from Trinity West

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! Church. They will be gathering about now and praying for us here, praying for you. So it's great to be able to express our partnership in the gospel in this way.

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 We're going to be in Galatians 5, the passage that was read earlier, and I think, I don't think it's controversial to say that we desperately, desperately need to hear the message

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 of the passage this evening. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, peace.

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 Well, in the developed world, we've never had so much at our disposal, and yet we've never been so restless. We're anxious.

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 Many of the traditional causes of anxiety, it's true to say, are in decline. Poverty, poor health, those kinds of things. But there are new triggers of fear and frustration all over the place.

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 Our culture's obsession with particular kind of success has created real problems. I read about a medical study recently. It was published in the 1990s,

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 and it said that it found that people who, quote, pursued money, looks, and status were more likely to be anxious and depressed.

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 The pursuit of money, looks, and status are the reasons that people in London get up in the morning.

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 And these things lead to anxiety. And they lead to anxiety because they're so fragile.

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 We get some and we're anxious for more. We lose some and we start to wobble.

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 We place our hopes in those things. Those things come and they go.

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 And so, well, that leads to skyrocketing of anti-anxiety medication, that kind of thing.

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 Over the last 30 years, it's gone through the roof, and the age that people are being medicated has gone down and down and down.

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 We're anxious. We're also angry. We've seen this on a large scale, haven't we, over the last while with the amount of protesting that there's been.

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 It seems that there's a protest in central London all the time.

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 And the news people are down there, and they say, why are you protesting?

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 And they say, injustice. Leadership that's really bad.

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 Where is this? Everywhere.

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 Why are you protesting? I don't know. I'm just really angry.

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 The general language in the media feels like it's desperately trying to stir up more conflict, doesn't it?

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 Politics has never been known for its kindness.

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 But the current tone, I think, in lots of places seems to have more spite now than ever before.

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 And then, of course, social media.

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 Well, social media doesn't just enable that spiteful and angry communication to be more widespread more quickly,

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 but there's something also about the format that seems to encourage it.

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 Maybe it's easier to say things on a keyboard that you wouldn't say to somebody face to face.

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 Look at chapter 5, verse 20. Galatians 5, verse 20.

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 I think Twitter's tagline.

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 Twitter's tagline.

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 You know, if it happens, it happens on Twitter.

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 Something like that. That was their tagline certainly a while ago.

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 But you could say, enmity, strife, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions.

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 When it happens, it happens on Twitter.

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 Of course, we see it on the small scale as well, don't we?

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 On the roads, in our homes, in our relationships.

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 Tempers are short.

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 Offense is taken easily.

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 Lots of us, it seems, are living life on the edge a lot of the time.

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 Then, just for good measure, throw in a pandemic.

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 And I think it seems things have gone to a completely new level.

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 We're anxious about our health,

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 and we're angry with people who don't wear masks.

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 We're anxious about our freedom,

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 and we're angry with people who do wear masks.

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 We're anxious about the future,

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 angry about the government's handling of everything,

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 anxious about everything, angry with everyone.

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 Anxiety and anger,

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 they've just gone to a new level, haven't they,

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 over the last couple of years in our culture.

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 If ever there was a time that we needed

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 the peace that the Spirit gives,

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 inner contentment and rest,

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 it's now.

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 And here it is.

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 A bit of context.

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 Remember,

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 John chapter 15,

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 Jesus calls His disciples to go and bear fruit.

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 He wants them to live lives that are fruitful.

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 And the call for fruitfulness comes just after He has promised to send the Holy Spirit.

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 So this frames what He means.

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 The sending of the Spirit is the means by which they will be enabled to live fruitful lives.

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 So Jesus is going to go to the cross.

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 He's going to die for the sin of the world.

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 Three days later, He's going to rise again to vindicate Himself as God's Son.

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 Death could not hold the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 And so as He is put to death, He then defeats death, puts death to death.

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 And then having completed His work, He says He's going to go back to the Father.

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 He's going to go back to heaven.

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 But when He does that, He doesn't just leave His people to fend for themselves.

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 We're not down here fending for ourselves.

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 He sends a Spirit who will live in us and enable us to be fruitful as He's called us to be.

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 The fruitful life flows from the work of His Spirit in us.

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 And in Galatians chapter 5, the Apostle Paul outlines what it looks like.

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 The fruit of the Spirit.

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 Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

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 It is a beautiful list of qualities.

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 Whatever you believe about the world, whether you're a Christian or whether you're not,

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 these are qualities that you admire.

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 They're qualities that you admire in others,

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 and they are qualities that you wish you had more of in your own life.

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 I don't care what you say.

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 We, all of us, whatever we believe, wish that we embody these things more than we do.

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 And they're available to us in Christ.

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 And as we think about peace this evening,

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 I chose that because I just think it's particularly relevant.

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 Of course, they're all relevant, these elements,

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 these aspects of the one fruit of the Spirit's work in our lives,

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 but is it not true that peace is just particularly pressing on us?

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 And when we think about it, we know that we can't create it in our own strength.

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 The sales of Valium show that.

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 But Paul tells us, he says that when the Spirit of God is at work in your life,

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 peace is something you should expect to see.

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 So how is it possible?

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 Well, let's begin.

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 It starts by him creating peace with God.

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 Point number one, peace with God.

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 The human heart is naturally at war with God.

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 Now, you might say to yourself, that sounds a bit extreme.

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 Don't be daft.

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 I'm not at war with God.

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 I just don't bother with Him that much.

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 Maybe you're not a Christian, and you say to yourself,

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 all right, I'm looking into this Christian thing,

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 but I'm not at war with God.

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 I just don't have time for Him in my life.

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 He doesn't fit there.

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 But it doesn't work like that.

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 It doesn't work like that because of who God is.

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 The God of the Bible is Lord.

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 He is King of the cosmos.

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 He holds the whole world in His hands.

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 He controls it, and He owns all of us,

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 and He owns the right to our devotion and worship.

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 And so it is right that we acknowledge Him as that.

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 As those He has made, He owns us.

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 So when we don't acknowledge Him,

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 when we don't give Him the devotion that He deserves,

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 however politely we refuse to do that,

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 however passive our rejection of Him is,

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 we put ourselves at odds with Him.

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 This is how we're born.

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 We don't need to choose to do it.

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 We do it by birth.

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 And so the Bible uses words to describe the relationship

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 that we have with God by definition of being born

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 or our relationship to Him.

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 It's not a relationship we have.

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 Our relationship to Him,

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 words like alienation,

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 words like hostility.

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 And all of our problems start here.

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 It's like the builder getting the foundation wrong

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 on the structure that he's building,

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 even slightly off.

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 The problem is at the source.

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 And when the problem is at the source,

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 it means that the whole thing then that is built on that

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 is out of kilter.

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 That's us when it comes to living lives marked by peace.

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 Discord at source means discord in other areas of life

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 is inevitable.

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 One ancient theologian says this,

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 we are not at peace with others

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 because we are not at peace with ourselves.

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 And we are not at peace with ourselves

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 because we're not at peace with God.

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 So we need to get the foundation right.

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 How do you get the foundation right?

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 Well, it only comes about through faith in Jesus Christ.

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 Romans 5 verse 1,

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 therefore, since you have been justified by faith,

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 we have peace with God

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 through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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 When we put our faith in Jesus,

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 when we hand over the control of our lives to Him,

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 all of the hostility between us and our Maker ceases.

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 It works like this.

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 All of the anger God feels, quite rightly,

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 at the way that we have lived in His world on our terms.

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 And all of the penalty that our sin requires,

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 that anger and the penalty,

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 it all falls on Jesus at the cross.

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 When we see Him being nailed up in our place for us,

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 even though He had done nothing wrong,

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 we see a man going there, as I say, for us.

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 He's doing that for us.

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 And when He does that,

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 justice is done.

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 All of God's anger

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 that needed to be poured out on sin

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 because God is perfectly holy,

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 it needed to go somewhere

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 and it went on Him in our place.

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 So justice is done

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 and God's anger is turned away.

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 You put your faith in Jesus Christ.

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 What that means is

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 that your punishment was taken in Him.

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 Your penalty was paid in Him.

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 And so hostilities between you and God cease.

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 The cup of God's anger

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 that we rightly deserved

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 was drained to the dregs by Jesus.

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 And so there is now none left for us.

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 It is the wonder of the gospel.

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 We are reconciled

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 and we have peace.

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 Peace with God.

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 What that means,

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 instead of Him being opposed to us,

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 He is now for us.

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 It's not just that in creating that peace

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 that there's this sort of neutral situation.

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 He's just no longer annoyed with us.

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 It's not like that at all.

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 It's not just that.

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 It's that He is for us.

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 He is positively toward us in Christ.

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 Instead of Him leaving us

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 to make the best of life that we can,

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 His Spirit now lives in us and helps us.

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 And so we're not doing it on our own.

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 Instead of seeing the struggles of this life

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 as meaningless,

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 He is working even those for our good.

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 And instead of uncertainty about the future,

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 God is keeping us for glory.

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 You can see why peace with God

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 is the foundation from which

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 all other peace will flow.

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 When you know that the King of the cosmos

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 is on your side,

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 whatever is going on in your life,

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 knowing that He's on your side,

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 it changes how you view your circumstances.

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 You no longer receive the struggles of life

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 as the outcome of some faceless force

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 that's just working its situation out in life.

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 The world is just sort of spinning away

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 and it's all a bit meaningless.

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 You no longer see it like that.

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 You see it as the God of all the earth

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 working out His purposes

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 even when you can't see what's going on,

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 but you know that He's for you.

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 You know that ultimately He is for you.

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 And so those circumstances

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 take on a new situation

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 when the King of kings

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 calls you His friend.

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 And He does that for all of us in Christ.

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 Changes how you experience

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 absolutely everything.

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 The Holy Spirit

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 brings Christ to us

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 and He gives us peace with God.

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 That's the point, the first point.

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 But from here,

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 He then creates what we might call

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 the peace of God.

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 Having given us peace with God,

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 He gives us peace of God.

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 You see, before He returned to the Father,

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 Jesus promised to send His Spirit.

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 And in that section in John 14,

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 He says this to His disciples.

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 He says,

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 Peace I give you.

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 My peace I leave with you.

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 So the same peace

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 that characterized Jesus' earthly life

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 is what the Spirit gives

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 to those who trust Him.

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 Just as Jesus' inner life

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 was one of contentment

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 and confidence in His Father,

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 you can't read the Gospels

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 but not be drawn to the fact

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 that Jesus seems to meet

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 all of the adversity of His life

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 with an acceptance and a peace.

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 Even the hardest experience in the garden,

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 He can submit Himself

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 to the Father's will.

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 Just as He only brought conflict

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 with others

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 when it was right

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 and good to do so.

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 And He managed to do that

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 without sin

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 in dependence on the Spirit.

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 So this peace,

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 that composure,

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 that poise

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 is what the Spirit creates

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 in the life of the believer.

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 Can you believe this?

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 Does this describe your experience?

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 In the last few days,

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 does that describe your life

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 in the last few days?

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 If you're anything like me,

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 it doesn't.

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 We struggle with inner conflict

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 and turmoil.

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 And when those things take hold of us,

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 when the inner conflict

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 and turmoil take hold,

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 it always overflows

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 into our relationships with others

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 and creates turmoil

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 and conflict there.

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 So we need to pursue

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 what makes for peace.

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 So how do we do that?

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 Let's start within ourselves.

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 Well,

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 when we get this peace

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 that the Spirit gives,

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 we need to remind ourselves

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 of what God has done for us.

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 And we need to pray

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 and trust ourselves

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 to His fatherly care.

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 There you go.

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 Easy, right?

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 Say your prayers.

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 Trust God.

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 Do that,

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 you just glide through life unmoved.

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 Easy peasy.

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 Trust God.

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 You never miss a beat.

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 No, that's not how it works, is it?

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 It's never that simple.

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 Life is hard.

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 The battle to trust God

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 in that hard life

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 is real.

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 It's interesting.

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 When I think about this,

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 I'm always surprised

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 by how things often go down.

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 You see,

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 when a big crisis hits,

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 and the big things come,

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 that's actually

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 when I expect people

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 to get scared

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 and kind of fall apart

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 a little bit.

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 But actually,

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 that's often

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 when they turn to the Lord

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 and they find

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 and experience

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 His grace

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 and their lives

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 are marked by peace.

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 It's very often the case

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 in the big crises

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 that people's lives

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 tend to display

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 a peace that you think,

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 my goodness,

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 how can that work

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 with such hardship going on

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 and yet your life

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 is much more together?

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 Because it's actually

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 the fairly trivial

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 or the mundane things

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 that seem to unsettle us,

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 like the never-ending

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 to-do list

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 or something

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 that someone said

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 or did

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 that we chew over

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 in our mind

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 that gets under our skin

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 and into our hearts

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 and unsettles us

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 and robs us of peace.

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 The big things come,

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 and it's as if we think,

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 I can't do anything else

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 but turn to the Lord

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 and depend on Him

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 and He brings this peace

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 that He promises.

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 It's when

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 that little thing

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 just gets in

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 and niggles us.

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 Most likely,

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 it's in that situation

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 that we get upset

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 and our peace vanishes.

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 Maybe someone has wronged you

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 and you allow resentment

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 to fester.

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 Or maybe they haven't wronged you

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 but you just think

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 that they're getting

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 a better deal in life

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 and so you're envious.

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 You just can't seem

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 to let that grudge

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 with that person go.

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 Say,

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 it's the principle.

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 This is a matter

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 of right and wrong.

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 And all of that anger,

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 there's just no peace.

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 Peace evaporates.

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 Might be true

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 that it's a principle.

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 Might be true

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 that it's an issue

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 of right and wrong.

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 Not suggesting

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 that we overlook injustice.

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 I'm not suggesting

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 that for a moment.

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 But when we think

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 like that,

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 it steals our peace.

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 We're restless,

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 anxious,

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 or angry

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 because we don't believe

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 that our Heavenly Father

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 cares for us

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 and we don't trust

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 that He can take

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 care of things.

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 See,

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 we can affirm

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 the right theology.

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 Yes,

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 God loves me.

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 Jesus died

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 to reconcile me

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 to Him.

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 The Spirit lives in me.

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 He is working

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 all of the circumstances

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 of life together

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 for good.

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 I am secure

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 in His hand

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 and I'm absolutely

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 rock-solid certain

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 that He will get me

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 safely to glory.

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 I will sign up

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 to that statement

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 of faith in blood.

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 But,

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 and it's that but,

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 that's where our unbelief

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 slips in

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 and creates the discord.

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 The same God

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 who knows

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 the number of hairs

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 on your head,

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 who holds the whole world

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 in His hands,

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 knows what He's doing

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 in your life.

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 And it's when you trust Him,

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 and I mean trust Him

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 with your life

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 and your struggles,

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 your temptations,

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 your doubts and fears,

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 your sin,

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 when you thank Him

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 for your blessings

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 and His kindness

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 in your life.

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 and you trust Him.

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 So,

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 you trust Him

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 with the reality

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 of your experience,

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 not just bringing

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 some bland

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 and generic prayers

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 that you think

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 in the moment

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 sound Christian.

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 Oh,

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 Father God,

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 thank You

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 for everything

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 that I have

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 and all of life

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 and all that stuff,

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 etc.

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 Amen.

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 No,

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 going over

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 all of the reality

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 of your experience

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 with Him,

00:19:31.859 --> 00:19:34.059
 it is when you do that,

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 when you submit

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 those things

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 to Him,

00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:39.319
 that your heart

00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:40.019
 and your mind

00:19:40.019 --> 00:19:40.899
 will experience

00:19:40.899 --> 00:19:41.539
 the peace

00:19:41.539 --> 00:19:43.139
 that the Spirit brings.

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 That's what the Apostle Paul

00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:45.699
 tells us

00:19:45.699 --> 00:19:46.679
 in Philippians 4,

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 isn't it?

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 Rejoice in the Lord always.

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 He's in prison.

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 Rejoice.

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 I say it again,

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 rejoice.

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 People are making

00:19:56.779 --> 00:19:57.559
 his life miserable

00:19:57.559 --> 00:19:58.180
 down the road.

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 People who are supposed

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 to be his brothers

00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:00.539
 in the Lord,

00:20:00.819 --> 00:20:01.839
 fellow gospel partners,

00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:03.099
 they're stirring up

00:20:03.099 --> 00:20:04.059
 difficulty for him.

00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:05.380
 And I say it again,

00:20:05.460 --> 00:20:05.839
 rejoice.

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 Let your reason

00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:09.259
 must be known

00:20:09.259 --> 00:20:09.839
 to everyone.

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 The Lord is at hand.

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 Do not be anxious

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 about anything,

00:20:12.539 --> 00:20:13.140
 but in everything,

00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:14.700
 by prayer and supplication,

00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:15.400
 with thanksgiving,

00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:16.120
 let your requests

00:20:16.120 --> 00:20:17.220
 be made known to God

00:20:17.220 --> 00:20:20.279
 and the peace of God,

00:20:20.759 --> 00:20:22.500
 which surpasses

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 all understanding.

00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:28.259
 Your life is a real struggle,

00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:29.500
 really difficult,

00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:31.259
 and yet there is this peace,

00:20:31.380 --> 00:20:33.359
 this settled inner contentment

00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:34.339
 that God is on his throne

00:20:34.339 --> 00:20:35.339
 and he knows what he's doing.

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 That surpasses understanding.

00:20:37.980 --> 00:20:39.099
 You can't work that out

00:20:39.099 --> 00:20:40.039
 according to the flesh.

00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:41.680
 You can't explain that

00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:42.620
 in human terms.

00:20:43.460 --> 00:20:44.099
 The peace of God

00:20:44.099 --> 00:20:44.819
 that surpasses

00:20:44.819 --> 00:20:45.519
 all understanding

00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:46.740
 will guard your hearts

00:20:46.740 --> 00:20:47.240
 and minds

00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:48.579
 in Christ Jesus.

00:20:48.579 --> 00:20:49.480
 Do you notice Paul

00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:50.120
 doesn't say,

00:20:50.819 --> 00:20:51.799
 go and be at peace?

00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:55.960
 Peace is the fruit

00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:57.000
 of other things.

00:20:58.319 --> 00:20:59.559
 So he says,

00:21:00.579 --> 00:21:01.359
 pursue joy,

00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:03.319
 trust the Lord,

00:21:04.099 --> 00:21:04.960
 bring everything,

00:21:05.059 --> 00:21:05.960
 everything to Him

00:21:05.960 --> 00:21:06.440
 in prayer,

00:21:07.619 --> 00:21:08.779
 and thankful,

00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:09.599
 be thankful.

00:21:11.940 --> 00:21:13.000
 So there you go.

00:21:15.019 --> 00:21:15.940
 Pursue joy,

00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:16.680
 trust the Lord,

00:21:16.879 --> 00:21:17.619
 bring everything to Him

00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:17.879
 in prayer,

00:21:17.940 --> 00:21:18.460
 and be thankful,

00:21:18.460 --> 00:21:20.400
 and peace will follow.

00:21:22.420 --> 00:21:23.240
 Jerry Bridges,

00:21:23.539 --> 00:21:24.440
 in his little book,

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 The Fruitful Life,

00:21:25.900 --> 00:21:26.480
 says this,

00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:27.440
 the great antidote

00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:28.120
 to anxiety

00:21:28.120 --> 00:21:29.140
 is to come to God

00:21:29.140 --> 00:21:29.579
 in prayer.

00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:30.779
 We are to pray

00:21:30.779 --> 00:21:31.380
 about everything.

00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:32.779
 Nothing is too big

00:21:32.779 --> 00:21:33.460
 for Him to handle

00:21:33.460 --> 00:21:34.400
 and nothing is too small

00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:35.340
 to escape His attention.

00:21:37.700 --> 00:21:38.759
 So you only say that

00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:39.480
 if you know

00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:40.539
 the God

00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:42.380
 who holds your life

00:21:42.380 --> 00:21:42.980
 in His hands.

00:21:43.579 --> 00:21:44.420
 Because if you know Him,

00:21:44.460 --> 00:21:44.920
 you know

00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:46.039
 that nothing is too big

00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:46.620
 for Him to handle

00:21:46.619 --> 00:21:47.519
 and you know

00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:48.739
 that nothing is too small

00:21:48.739 --> 00:21:49.699
 to escape His attention.

00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:52.219
 He is the God

00:21:52.219 --> 00:21:53.819
 of the big things

00:21:53.819 --> 00:21:54.659
 and He is the God

00:21:54.659 --> 00:21:55.179
 of the intimately

00:21:55.179 --> 00:21:56.119
 personal things.

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 The thing that is promised

00:22:00.219 --> 00:22:01.199
 when we trust ourselves

00:22:01.199 --> 00:22:02.039
 to God in prayer,

00:22:02.219 --> 00:22:03.199
 especially in times

00:22:03.199 --> 00:22:03.659
 of trouble,

00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:05.459
 isn't an end

00:22:05.459 --> 00:22:06.139
 to those trials,

00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:08.579
 but peace in the midst.

00:22:12.459 --> 00:22:12.979
 You say,

00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:13.739
 oh, it sounds great.

00:22:13.740 --> 00:22:17.059
 Easy for you to say.

00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:18.480
 It's not like that for me.

00:22:19.460 --> 00:22:20.640
 I have actually been praying

00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:21.960
 about X situation

00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:22.620
 for years

00:22:22.620 --> 00:22:24.420
 and I'm still agitated,

00:22:24.539 --> 00:22:25.099
 I'm still anxious

00:22:25.099 --> 00:22:25.960
 and I'm still angry.

00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:27.839
 Well,

00:22:28.420 --> 00:22:30.420
 remember that we're talking

00:22:30.420 --> 00:22:31.480
 about the fruit of the Spirit.

00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:34.519
 He's the one

00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:35.519
 who works it

00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:36.440
 in our lives.

00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:38.660
 So ask Him directly,

00:22:39.339 --> 00:22:39.900
 Lord, please,

00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:41.059
 give me this peace.

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 Please.

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 Please.

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 Make it possible

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 for me to get through

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 the day today

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 without worrying

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 or getting angry

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 or whatever

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 the situation is

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 that you're worried about

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 and push on in prayer

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 until He answers.

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 Well, that's peace

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 with ourselves.

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 How does this work out

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 in our relationships

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 with others?

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 Secondly,

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 we have strife

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 in our relationships

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 for all the same reasons.

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 When we don't get

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 what we want,

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 whether that's respect

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 or love

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 or appreciation,

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 when other people

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 don't treat us

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 the way that we want

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 to be treated,

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 we get anxious or angry,

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 we just get bent out of shape

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 in some way

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 and peace seems

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 to evaporate.

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 But if you know

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 that that person,

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 that relational difficulty

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 that you have

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 and the way that person

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 is treating you

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 and making you feel,

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 if you know

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 that whatever they think

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 of you,

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 God loves you,

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 that the Lord

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 of all the earth

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 is for you,

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 that He has shown this

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 by sending His precious Son

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 to die for you,

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 what does the opinion

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 of someone else matter?

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 If that person

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 is treating you badly,

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 if that person

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 is making your life difficult,

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 when you know

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 that God has given you

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 His Spirit

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 to help you endure

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 and He is working

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 this suffering

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 for some good end,

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 you can trust Him.

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 You can.

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 I think sometimes

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 we think,

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 oh no,

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 I can't do that

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 and you're right,

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 you can't do it

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 in your own strength.

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 But in the power

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 of the Spirit,

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 you can trust Him.

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 Even when that person

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 has sinned against you

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 in some way,

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 in the gospel,

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 you have the resources

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 to forgive

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 and not retaliate.

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 and to rest

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 in the goodness of God.

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 Because that is what

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 Jesus did

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 when He was so badly treated.

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 Remember,

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 Jesus is the man

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 of the Spirit,

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 the same Spirit

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 who is at work in you.

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 Jesus loved His enemies,

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 prayed for His persecutors

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 and do you remember,

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 quoted from John 14 earlier,

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 He says,

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 Peace I give you,

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 my peace I leave with you.

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 So even in conflict,

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 even in struggles,

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 even in relational tension,

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 you can know

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 the peace of Christ.

00:25:06.940 --> 00:25:07.420
 Of course,

00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:08.540
 we should see this play out

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 in,

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 well,

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 most of all

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 in the context

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 of the church.

00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:15.380
 Churches can get

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 into conflict.

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 This happens anywhere

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 where sinners

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 are brought together.

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 That's why Paul says

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 in Romans 12,

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 as far as it depends on you,

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 live at peace with everyone.

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 Romans 14,

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 he says,

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 make every effort

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 to do what leads to peace.

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 And the reason

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 that he can say this

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 is because of

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 the Spirit's work.

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 When you appreciate

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 that in Christ

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 you have been adopted

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 into the same family,

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 share the same Heavenly Father,

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 and participate

00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:40.400
 in the same Spirit,

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 you can be wronged.

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 You can forgive

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 because love covers

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 a multitude of sins.

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 And you can even admit

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 that you were wrong.

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 The church of Jesus Christ

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 is the one place

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 on earth

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 where discord

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 can be meaningfully dealt with

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 and where relational peace

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 can be a real thing.

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 So,

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 don't withdraw.

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 Peace isn't the same thing

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 as indifference

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 or coolness

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 or distance.

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 Those things are often

00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:09.460
 a cover.

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 Our hearts are churned up,

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 full of resentment,

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 but we can put on a front

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 of coolness

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 or detachment.

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 judgment.

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 Peace is what follows

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 forgiveness

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 and reconciliation.

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 So,

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 the fruit

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 of the Spirit

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 in your life

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 will be seen

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 when you pursue

00:26:29.460 --> 00:26:30.639
 peace in relationships

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 with others.

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 If there is discord

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 between you

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 and someone else,

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 especially in the church,

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 take the initiative

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 to put things right.

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 Whether you have

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 been the one

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 who is wronged

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 or the one

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 who was wronging

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 the other person,

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 it doesn't matter.

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 Pursue peace.

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 Unresolved conflict

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 is toxic.

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 It's like cancer

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 and just like cancer,

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 the longer it is left

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 untreated,

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 the worse it gets.

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 The best time

00:26:54.740 --> 00:26:55.519
 to pursue peace

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 with others

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 is now.

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 Friends,

00:27:00.939 --> 00:27:01.299
 our world

00:27:01.299 --> 00:27:01.779
 is anxious

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 and angry

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 and we often

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 follow their lead

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 if we're honest.

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 What Galatians 5

00:27:08.959 --> 00:27:09.519
 tells us

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 is that we don't

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 need to.

00:27:13.459 --> 00:27:14.279
 A while ago

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 down in

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 Shepherd's Bush,

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 I was walking

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 along Uxbridge Road

00:27:17.379 --> 00:27:18.119
 down there

00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:19.199
 and there was a gentleman

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 coming the other way

00:27:20.599 --> 00:27:21.479
 wearing a t-shirt

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 that said on it,

00:27:23.699 --> 00:27:24.699
 no Jesus,

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 no peace.

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 peace.

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 K-N-O-W.

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 You know Jesus,

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 you'll know peace.

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 That's the message

00:27:32.579 --> 00:27:33.079
 this evening.

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 If you know Jesus,

00:27:35.139 --> 00:27:35.679
 His Spirit

00:27:35.679 --> 00:27:36.460
 brings us peace

00:27:36.460 --> 00:27:37.000
 with God

00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:38.099
 and He gives us

00:27:38.099 --> 00:27:38.639
 the peace

00:27:38.639 --> 00:27:39.359
 of God.

00:27:41.579 --> 00:27:42.679
 But the genius,

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 the absolute genius

00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:45.179
 who designed

00:27:45.179 --> 00:27:45.859
 this garment

00:27:45.859 --> 00:27:47.679
 had more to say.

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 In a simple

00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:51.899
 but very clever move,

00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:53.220
 the designer

00:27:53.220 --> 00:27:53.899
 of this t-shirt,

00:27:54.099 --> 00:27:55.339
 he doubled his message.

00:27:55.460 --> 00:27:55.799
 You see,

00:27:56.919 --> 00:27:58.859
 the N-O

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 in both words,

00:28:00.700 --> 00:28:01.599
 K-N-O-W.

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 The N-O

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 in both words

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 was a different color.

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 Clever boy.

00:28:09.319 --> 00:28:10.039
 What that meant

00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:11.159
 was that at the same time

00:28:11.159 --> 00:28:11.740
 as holding out

00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:12.619
 the hope of peace

00:28:12.619 --> 00:28:13.019
 in Christ,

00:28:13.099 --> 00:28:14.119
 if you know Christ,

00:28:14.379 --> 00:28:15.200
 you know peace,

00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:17.000
 he held out the warning.

00:28:18.059 --> 00:28:18.819
 Know Christ,

00:28:19.179 --> 00:28:19.799
 know peace.

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 Absolute genius.

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 Jesus really is

00:28:25.740 --> 00:28:26.680
 the answer.

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 The Spirit

00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:28.759
 at work

00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:29.879
 in our lives

00:28:29.879 --> 00:28:31.579
 offers you

00:28:31.579 --> 00:28:33.259
 peace.

00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:34.799
 He gives it to you

00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:35.960
 as a gift in Christ.

00:28:36.879 --> 00:28:37.899
 He really is the answer.

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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