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 I've stolen the lectern Bible, don't tell anyone.

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 As I say, we're going to do things perhaps a little bit differently today

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 intense, but what a great thing to do during June.

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 Just pick up the book of Romans because we're not able to kind of preach verse by verse through it.

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 But as you, the more familiar you are with it, the more you'll see where the Apostle Paul is going,

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 where he's coming from, and ultimately how we can know more of God through it.

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 And I'm going to begin just by, in some sense, doing a little bit of a recap from last week.

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 If you were here last week, don't worry, I'm not going to go into all the details, it's okay.

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 But the book of Romans starts off with a big picture of humanity.

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 And it presents to us God's plan for salvation, his plan to save us through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 But as we pointed out last week, it starts off in a bad place

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 because he points out the disorder in our world and in our lives.

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 And as we noted last week, we are all caught up in this sort of downward spiral.

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 Whereas God made creation to be good, this disorder is taking us back into chaos.

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 And so we find ourselves both to often be victims of that disorder.

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 You know, we are harmed, we are hurt by those around us and by the systems and the failures.

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 But also, if we're honest, we also begin to contribute to those downward spirals and to others.

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 We become part of the culture.

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 And the fact is, when Paul points out some of the stuff that is not part of God's plan,

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 some of us will go, really?

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 Because we're so caught up in the way just things are, in the culture that surrounds us.

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 And Paul goes on to say that for those Gentiles he was talking to,

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 so those who are not of Jewish ethnicity,

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 he says, you know, they know what is right because God's made us to be that.

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 And yet we have been caught up in this spiral of godlessness.

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 And then he turns to those who have the Jewish law.

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 And these laws, he says, they give you clear standards.

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 But they don't do anything for you.

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 All they do is they prove that you're lawbreakers.

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 We actually see the things that God is pointing out.

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 And that's part of his argument here.

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 And as he starts writing and goes through to the third chapter,

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 what we now call the third chapter of Romans,

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 it's quite clear that there is no way out of this spiral of godlessness and wickedness.

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 Whether we are Gentile or whether we are Jew,

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 we are all under what he calls the power of sin.

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 Let me just read before we come to confession.

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 Chapter 3, verses 10 to 12.

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 It is written,

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 And then verse 23,

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 And a little bit as we ended up last week,

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 I think as we begin this,

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 there's an opportunity just to recognise

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 where we play our part in that picture of disorder.

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 And before we come to confess our sins,

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 just a moment to consider our own part in that picture.

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 Now at this point,

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 normally the minister would stand up and declare God's forgiveness.

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 But instead of me doing that,

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 what I'd like to do is I'd let the Bible talk.

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 So I'm going to invite Margaret to come now

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 and just read the reading that's set for today,

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 which is Romans 5, verses 1 to 11.

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 Romans 5, verses 1 to 11.

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 Entitled, Peace and Hope.

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 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith,

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 we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 through whom we have gained access by faith

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 into this grace in which we now stand.

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 And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

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 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings,

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 because we know that suffering produces perseverance,

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 perseverance character, and character hope.

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 And hope does not put us to shame,

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 because God's love has been poured out into our hearts

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 through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

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 You see, at just the right time,

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 when we were still powerless,

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 Christ died for the ungodly.

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 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person,

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 though for a good person,

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 someone might possibly dare to die.

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 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this.

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 While we were still sinners,

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 Christ died for us.

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 Since we have now been justified by his blood,

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 how much more should we be saved

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 from God's wrath through him?

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 For if, while we were God's enemies,

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 we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son,

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 how much more, having been reconciled,

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 shall we be saved through his life?

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 Not only is this so,

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 but we also boast in God

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 through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 through whom we have now received reconciliation.

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 This is the word of the Lord.

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 Thanks be to God.

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 Amazing verses.

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 Some big words.

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 These glorious verses from chapter 5 of Romans.

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 Because in it contains the good news of Jesus.

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 And I just want to take us through it again, really.

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 Unpacking it.

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 I'm not trying to do anything clever today.

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 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith.

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 What does it mean to be justified?

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 It means to be declared right.

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 A voice that says,

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 good.

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 You have been made right in God's eyes.

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 How has that happened?

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 It's through faith.

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 Faith.

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 In Hebrews 11,

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 the writer defines faith as being

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 confidence in what we hope for

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 and assurance about what we do not see.

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 It's a great definition of faith.

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 It's about trust.

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 It's about belief.

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 It's about claiming that thing

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 that God has sort of declared or done in heaven

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 and bringing it into our own lives

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 by the gift of faith.

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 So it's about trust.

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 It's about belief.

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 That is the way we access all of God's riches here for us.

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 And so if we've been justified through faith,

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 what do we have?

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 We have peace with God.

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 So whereas before we were enemies

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 caught in this spiral of godlessness,

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 contributing to his anger

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 about what was going wrong in the world,

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 we are no longer enemies.

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 And not that.

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 It's not just a ceasing of enmity.

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 No.

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 We are connected.

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 We are given fullness.

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 The biblical word shalom is ours

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 as we are justified by faith.

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 As we stand before God himself,

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 our holy God,

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 we now have peace with.

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 And then it says,

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 And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

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 That is what we are now able to do.

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 We are able to boast in the hope of the glory of God.

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 What is that?

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 Well,

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 I spoke a couple of times now

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 about God's kingdom,

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 about the fact that God's kingdom

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 is where God reigns and rules.

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 And we experience that kingdom

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 both now,

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 but not fully.

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 Now,

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 but not yet.

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 Because when we come to know Jesus

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 and we stand in that peace

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 that he has made for us,

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 we ourselves are born again.

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 It's like we become a new creation.

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 And that's just like a first taste

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 of what we are hoping for,

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 which is when this whole world is renewed,

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 where as Jesus returns,

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 the whole creation

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 becomes what it really should be,

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 where all the wrongs are righted,

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 the tears are wiped away.

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 But more than that,

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 like a resurrection,

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 our bodies,

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 the creation around us

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 will cease to creak and crack,

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 but will give glory to God

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 because God is fully present with us.

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 Just as the presence of God

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 came into the tabernacle of the temple,

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 we await the day

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 when the whole creation

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 is going to be full of God's glory.

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 We meet him face to face.

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 We're fully made

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 for what we're made for.

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 And that's the hope we have.

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 And so we boast in that hope

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 because we know it's going to happen.

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 That's what we're looking forward to.

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 Hope is one of these words

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 that sometimes we think of.

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 It's like sort of wishful thinking.

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 Not in the Bible.

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 Hope is the hook

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 that we have for the future.

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 And the more we know about what's coming,

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 the more we can boast in it

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 and glory in it.

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 And that hope is the glory of God,

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 his presence fully amongst us,

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 God coming home, as it were,

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 into our world.

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 But remarkably,

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 it's not just a sort of future thing.

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 that Paul says we're going to experience.

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 He says,

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 I'll cover the next verses in a little bit,

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 but it says,

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 and hope does not put us to shame

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 because God's love

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 has been poured out into our hearts

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 through the Holy Spirit

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 who has been given to us.

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 So that future,

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 wow,

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 of God being present fully,

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 his glory flowing everywhere,

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 we can taste a bit of that

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 because of the Holy Spirit.

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 It becomes like a down payment,

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 a deposit of that future

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 that is to come.

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 And by his Holy Spirit,

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 that love,

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 that presence

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 comes into our lives.

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 That is good news.

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 And that glory

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 means that we are glorious

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 because we become temples

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 of God's spirit,

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 his very presence with us,

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 a meeting point

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 of humanity

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 and God.

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 That's us.

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 If we believe in Jesus,

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 if we are justified by faith

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 and stand in peace

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 with him.

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 Now,

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 that is essentially

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 the Christian good news.

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 So if you're new to that,

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 I hope that's clear.

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 I hope I've explained

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 some of these jargon words

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 that we sometimes use.

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 For many of us,

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 that's not a new message.

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 It's perhaps one

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 we need to revisit

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 more often in our hearts.

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 But many of us

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 will be a bit stuck

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 because our experience

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 of life

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 is not of the glory

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 and the wonders

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 and the peace.

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 It's actually one

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 which you might characterize

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 by suffering.

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 We're still at the whim

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 of that downward spiral

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 where we experience

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 illness,

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 death,

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 death

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 and harm.

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 And

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 I think

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 when Paul is writing

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 to these Christians

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 in Rome

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 who would be no different

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 to you and me

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 and experience

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 the rough and tumbles

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 of life,

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 in fact you might say

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 that they're probably

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 under more pressure

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 as a super minority group

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 in a Roman empire

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 which wasn't really up

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 for subversive movements

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 like Christianity.

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 Suffering was

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 part of

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 their experience.

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 Often for their faith,

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 but for other reasons

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 as well.

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 And when we're caught

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 what feels like

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 in that downward spiral

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 we're like,

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 well what difference

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 does that make?

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 I don't feel any different.

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 You might feel a bit different.

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 You might have a sense

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 of hope

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 which does make

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 a big difference

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 but day to day

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 I'm still facing

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 death

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 and difficult things.

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 and it prevents us

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 doesn't it

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 having that hope

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 it begins to fade

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 it gets foggy

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 because

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 the day to day life

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 kind of cuts in on it

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 and starts to

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 dim our vision

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 of what it's about

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 our experience

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 is perhaps

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 more difficult

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 and we start to wonder

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 don't we

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 whether God is good.

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 and I think

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 Paul has

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 folk like us

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 in mind

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 as he's writing

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 these glorious truths

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 because

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 he talks about

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 suffering

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 and as we're

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 called to boast

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 in the hope

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 of the glory of God

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 as we hold up

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 that vision

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 for what God

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 has got for us

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 his presence

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 coming to be

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 with us

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 and we taste that

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 in the Holy Spirit

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 he says this

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 not only so

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 but we also

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 glory

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 we sort of boast

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 in our sufferings

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 because we know

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 that suffering

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 produces perseverance

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 perseverance

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 character

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 and character

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 hope

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 and

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 he acknowledges

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 that suffering

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 is difficult

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 and

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 he's wondering

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 you know

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 what it means

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 well he's saying

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 well no

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 it has meaning

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 the fact that we suffer

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 and there's this

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 tension between

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 the hope

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 that we're longing

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 for

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 our future

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 destination

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 as it were

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 and our own

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 experience

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 shows us

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 really that

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 suffering has

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 meaning

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 and that it

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 actually is

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 working

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 something

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 that will bring

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 more hope

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 into our lives

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 because he's

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 working us

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 changing our

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 character

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 changing our

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 outlook

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 and it means

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 that suffering

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 is not meaningless

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 so if you live

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 without the idea

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 of a God

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 and a future

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 hope

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 suffering is

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 very difficult

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 because it

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 becomes sort

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 of meaningless

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 it's just

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 I'm just here

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 accidentally

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 and I'm just

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 experiencing all

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 this stuff

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 whereas Paul

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 is not shy

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 to pull out

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 that future

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 hope

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 and say

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 look

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 look at that

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 and even

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 what you're

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 going through

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 is working

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 to achieve

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 that

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 God is

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 working in

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 you to

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 build those

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 things

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 and you

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 will

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 become

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 stronger

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 and you

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 will know

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 more of

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 God's grace

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 in your life

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 as a result

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 and so

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 if you're

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 in that

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 position

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 you're thinking

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 life's

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 hard

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 and this

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 future glory

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 feels a long

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 way off

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 he encourages

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 us to do

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 two things

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 I think

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 and that

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 as I said

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 to look forward

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 is one angle

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 he also encourages

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 us to look

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 back

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 because if we're

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 feeling like

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 God's not

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 for us

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 we need

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 to go to

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 a place

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 where we

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 know

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 God

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 is for

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 us

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 and that's

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 why he

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 points us

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 back

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 to the cross

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 of Jesus

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 I'll just

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 read verses

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 6 and 8

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 it says

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 you see

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 at just

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 the right

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 time

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 when we

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 were still

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 powerless

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 Christ

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 died

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 for the

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 ungodly

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 very rarely

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 will anyone

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 die for

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 a righteous

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 person

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 though maybe

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 for a good

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 person

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 someone might

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 possibly

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 dare to

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 die

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 but God

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 demonstrates

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 his love

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 for us

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 in this

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 while we

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 were still

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 sinners

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 Christ

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 died

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 for us

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 so he

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 wants us

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 to remember

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 that if we

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 feel there's

00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:42.759
 a tension

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 between our

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 suffering

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 and what's

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 ahead for

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 us

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 just think

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 about how

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 much of

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 a tension

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 how much

00:16:47.379 --> 00:16:47.560
 of a

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 divide

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 there is

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 between

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 the holy

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 God

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 and us

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 who are

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 caught in

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 that downward

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 spiral

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 and even

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 then

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 even undeserving

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 he came

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 in the person

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 of Jesus

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 to die

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 for us

00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:02.420
 that's how

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 big his

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 love is

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 for us

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 that's how

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 all embracing

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 his love

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 is

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 and then

00:17:08.600 --> 00:17:09.000
 his logic

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 goes well

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 if that's

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 so

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 if he did

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 that for

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 us

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 then how

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 much

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 more

00:17:14.019 --> 00:17:14.319
 will

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 his

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 saving

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 work

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 be

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 effective

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 and be

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 applied

00:17:17.059 --> 00:17:17.939
 to us

00:17:17.939 --> 00:17:18.460
 who have

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 faith

00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:19.819
 in him

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 I'll just

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 read the

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 last verse

00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:21.519
 since we

00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:21.939
 now have

00:17:21.939 --> 00:17:22.639
 been justified

00:17:22.639 --> 00:17:23.399
 by his

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 blood

00:17:23.679 --> 00:17:23.980
 Jesus'

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 blood

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 how much

00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:26.099
 more

00:17:26.099 --> 00:17:27.099
 shall we

00:17:27.099 --> 00:17:27.639
 be saved

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 from God's

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 wrath

00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:28.939
 through him

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 for if

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 while we

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 were God's

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 enemies

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 we were

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 reconciled to

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 him through

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 the death

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 of his

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 son

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 how much

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 more

00:17:35.179 --> 00:17:36.299
 having been

00:17:36.299 --> 00:17:37.139
 reconciled

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 shall we

00:17:38.220 --> 00:17:39.139
 be saved

00:17:39.139 --> 00:17:40.039
 through his

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 life

00:17:40.500 --> 00:17:41.839
 not only

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 is this

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 so

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 but we

00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:43.619
 also boast

00:17:43.619 --> 00:17:44.819
 in God

00:17:44.819 --> 00:17:45.740
 through our

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 Lord Jesus

00:17:46.220 --> 00:17:46.720
 Christ

00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:47.319
 through whom

00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:47.599
 we have

00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:48.480
 now received

00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:49.579
 reconciliation

00:17:49.579 --> 00:17:50.980
 see if our

00:17:50.980 --> 00:17:51.440
 lives are

00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:52.240
 immersed in

00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:52.599
 Jesus

00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:54.980
 his story

00:17:54.980 --> 00:17:55.819
 becomes

00:17:55.819 --> 00:17:56.420
 ours

00:17:56.420 --> 00:17:57.900
 and if we

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 think about

00:17:58.259 --> 00:17:59.440
 his sufferings

00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.559
 as he was

00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:02.059
 betrayed

00:18:02.059 --> 00:18:03.420
 tortured

00:18:03.420 --> 00:18:05.240
 and killed

00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:07.620
 if that's

00:18:07.620 --> 00:18:08.400
 his story

00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:08.759
 and how

00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:09.500
 that led

00:18:09.500 --> 00:18:10.059
 to

00:18:10.059 --> 00:18:10.680
 resurrection

00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.599
 and to

00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:13.079
 the

00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:13.620
 reconciliation

00:18:13.620 --> 00:18:14.279
 of the

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 whole of

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 creation

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 back to

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 God

00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:17.799
 well

00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:18.380
 don't you

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 think God

00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:19.359
 can use

00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:20.160
 our smaller

00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:20.940
 sufferings

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 our challenges

00:18:21.779 --> 00:18:22.599
 our difficulties

00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:23.900
 as part of

00:18:23.900 --> 00:18:24.440
 his plan

00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:25.160
 for salvation

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 there's

00:18:26.980 --> 00:18:27.660
 nothing

00:18:27.660 --> 00:18:28.420
 wasted

00:18:28.420 --> 00:18:29.400
 in God's

00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:29.779
 economy

00:18:29.779 --> 00:18:30.680
 so if

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 you

00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:31.440
 your family

00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:31.880
 are going

00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:32.559
 through all

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 sorts of

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 rubbish

00:18:33.579 --> 00:18:34.220
 right now

00:18:34.220 --> 00:18:35.759
 Paul wants

00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:36.140
 to assure

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 you

00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:36.660
 the Holy

00:18:36.660 --> 00:18:36.940
 Spirit

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 wants to

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 assure

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 you

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 that there

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 is nothing

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 that God

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 will not

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 use

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 to actually

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 ultimately

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 bring about

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 a brighter

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 hope

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 for you

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 and for

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 this world

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 because as

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 we look

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 to him

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 as we look

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 back to

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 what Jesus

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 did for

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 us

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 and we

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 have him

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 set for

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 us

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 even as

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 we boast

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 in him

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 it's amazing

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 Paul uses

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 that word

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 several times

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 in the passage

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 you know when

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 you boast

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 of something

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 you just can't

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 stop talking

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 about hey

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 look

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 have you seen

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 this

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 it's great

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 if we boast

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 it encourages

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 us to put

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 him front

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 and centre

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 as we

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 do that

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 hope

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 grows

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 peace

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 settles

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 and love

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 flows

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 hope

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 grows

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 peace

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 settles

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 and love

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 flows

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 peace

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 so again

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 just take

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 a moment

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 to recognise

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 where you're

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 at with

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 this

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 in a moment

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 we'll sing

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 a song

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 which

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 again

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 in some

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 sense

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 retells

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 the story

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 of what

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 Jesus

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 has done

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 for us

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 and if

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 we believe

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 that

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 if we cling

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 on to that

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 if we put

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 our confidence

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 confidence

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 in what

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 Jesus

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 has done

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 for

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 we will

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 trust

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 that by

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 his Holy

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 Spirit

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 God is

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 growing hope

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 bringing

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 greater peace

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 into our

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 lives

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 and that

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 love

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 which may

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 feel like a

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 trickle at the

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 moment from

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 God

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 will flow

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 and overflow

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 flow

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 so I'm just

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 going to

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 pause

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 and allow

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 the Holy

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 Spirit

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 some space

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 to say

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 what he

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 needs to

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 say to

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 you

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 to bring

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 home

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 this gospel

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 this good

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 news

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 into your

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 life

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 Lord Jesus

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 if you

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 died for

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 us

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 if you

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 were willing

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 to get

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 to that

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 length

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 whilst we

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 were still

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 sinners

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 whilst we

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 were still

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 throwing up

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 the muck

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 and destruction

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 of

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 godlessness

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 and wickedness

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 if you were

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 willing to

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 die for us

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 then

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 how much

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 more

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 will you

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 continue

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 to use

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 every part

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 of our

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 lives

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 for your

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 glory

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 help us

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 to cling

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 on by

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 faith

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 to trust

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 in what

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 you've

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 done

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 for us

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 to be

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 confident

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 that we

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 now stand

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 before you

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 god

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 father god

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 full peace

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 we want to

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 receive

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 once again

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 that

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 fullness

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 from you

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 you pour

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 out your

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 love into

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 our hearts

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 we pray

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 amen