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 We live in a confusing world, and I'm not talking about things like why people would want to eat asparagus or why little children refuse to take their afternoon naps when they give their left kidneys to have one when they hit their 30s.

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 I'm talking about more serious things than that. You see, our culture tells you, be yourself, be true to who you really are, don't change, be the authentic you, but be a better you.

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 You see, the US First Lady's signature campaign is called Be Best. Now, that could be anything. It can mean anything you want it to mean, and that's the point.

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 Be a better person and be the best at something. Work harder to be better and be the better you that you already are.

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 At the same time, you can see why there's a multi-billion dollar global industry that wants to help us to be a better you with all kinds of self-help advice, all manners of spirituality, to be more mature, more capable, more healthy, etc.

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 Which, ironically, is having someone else tell you how to change. It's all very confusing, because it is contradictory.

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 Do I need to change, do I need to change, or do I not?

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 And Paul writes here to the Colossian church about this very question, and he tells them, you have to change if you're a Christian.

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 But more than that, you are changed, because everything changes, because everything has changed, and that's not up for debate, but it's that why of the hell that we need to talk about.

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 What's the background here? Well, he's writing to this church in Colossae, and he's writing to encourage them, and commend them, and warn them.

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 Because there is some kind of heresy that they're being faced with, and that they're risking being drawn into, with false teachers telling them something, some kind of belief system, that we don't have all the detail of.

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 But it seemed to involve some kind of seeking of spiritual maturity, through more spiritually advanced people accessing higher powers of some kind, or things above, that they called it, through worshipping angels.

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 And at the same time, it seemed like they had all kinds of rules and procedures, things you had to do to become more mature.

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 You know, you can see in chapter 2, verses 21 to 22, he kind of uses their language, it seems, he says, don't handle, don't taste, don't touch.

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 So there's some kind of Jewish, syncretistic religion here going on.

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 But the point is, and we don't have all the details, it seems like it's some kind of philosophy or religion that says, if you do this and do that, if you eat the right foods and abstain from doing that, if you're more spiritual than the next person and have the right insight,

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 if you can gain access to the higher powers, then you will achieve true spirituality.

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 This kind of change will give you heaven on earth.

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 Does that sound familiar?

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 Now there are many ways you can respond to that.

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 The question is, what did Paul do here?

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 And interestingly, for two chapters before we get to this passage that we just read, he's extolled Jesus Christ.

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 See, the reason we don't know all the ins and outs of what this heresy involves is partly because Paul doesn't go blow by blow, point for point, and respond to it.

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 Which may be a good thing for us to remember when we engage with the culture around us.

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 But that's a sermon for another day.

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 See, he tells them, let me tell you about the one who is more excellent than any so-called wise philosophy.

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 The one who's done more excellent things than any good deeds.

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 And there's much there.

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 And we've got to remember, you know, he's writing to these people on parchment and scrolls that were expensive and scarce.

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 There wasn't a Xerox machine that you could run off a whole book with.

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 You had to make your words count.

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 And he's done this for two chapters before we get here, telling them about Jesus Christ and how excellent he is.

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 Let me just read you a bit from chapter 1.

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 There's a very well-known bit from verse 15.

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 He says, he's the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

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 For by him all things were created in heaven and on earth.

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 Visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities.

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 All things were created through him and for him.

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 And he is before all things.

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 And in him all things hold together.

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 And he is the head of the body, the church.

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 He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

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 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.

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 And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

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 How does Paul encourage the church in Colossal in this situation they face?

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 He exalts Christ.

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 He said, let's begin at the beginning.

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 Not at your situation.

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 Not the heretical philosophy of these false teachers.

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 Let's begin at Christ, the head of the body, the church.

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 If we're talking first principles for the best life, then let's start with the one who created and sustains all life.

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 And then he says in chapter 2, verse 20, just before the passages that we read, he says,

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 If you died with Christ in the things of this world, why do you think working on human understandings of how to be better will work?

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 They appear wise, but they're self-made religions, and they're useless in stopping the sinful nature that is your real problem.

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 Verse 23.

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 See, that's where we pick it up.

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 He says, if you've died with Christ, you're raised to life with him too.

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 And that changes everything.

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 The first thing that changes when we're raised to life with Christ, he says, is our perspective and our priorities.

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 He says, it's not some abstract philosophical or spiritual idea that we should think about.

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 It's a very concrete person that he wants us to focus about.

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 When he addresses this heresy, he says, yes, there are more things in the world that we see.

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 There are more important things in many ways, but the things above you're looking for is the one above.

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 In Colossians, in chapter 3, verse 1, if then you've been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is,

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 seated at the right hand of God.

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 Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth,

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 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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 When Christ wears your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

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 He turns the tables on these false teachers.

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 Seek the things above, yes, affirming that there is more than just the things of this world,

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 using their own phrase, but what they should really seek is the one above.

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 The Christ who died, was raised from the dead, and is now seated at the right hand of God.

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 But there's more to it than that, even.

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 So you're now one with him.

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 You realise that?

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 You've been raised with Christ.

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 Your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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 When Christ, who is your life, appears, he says.

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 If you're a believer in Christ, that is true for you as well.

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 What is true for Christ is true for us.

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 Because he lives, we live.

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 Because he has his being in God, we have our being in God.

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 Your existence, he says, is hidden in God.

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 Safe, secure and untouchable by anyone.

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 And that's why Paul starts by explaining who Christ is.

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 And how we relate to him in his death and resurrection.

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 Your perspective and priorities change because of the supreme excellence of the Saviour who died for you

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 and now reigns at the right hand of the Father.

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 But it doesn't just stay with perspective and priorities in this passage.

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 This isn't some airy-fairy pie in the sky, head in the clouds change in perspective that he's talking about.

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 Exactly the opposite.

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 See, thinking upon Christ, he says,

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 Having our being centered on him and our life from him has a very real effect on our actions and attitude.

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 There is a dangerous line of thinking that Christians have to deal with more and more.

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 Which even creeps into the church, influenced and strengthened by the world around us.

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 It goes something like this.

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 He says,

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 If Christ accepts me as a sinner and loves me, I don't have to change how I live and what I do.

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 And yes, it's absolutely true that God accepts us how we are.

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 We can't ever bring anything to the table to be saved.

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 And praise the Lord, that is true.

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 Otherwise, none of us would be saved.

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 None of us would be here.

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 But the point Paul is making is that God doesn't want us to stay the way we are.

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 We should never fall for that lie.

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 And even if we tell that lie to ourselves, sometimes, maybe subtly,

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 not in this kind of over-explicit way,

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 but the things that we struggle with,

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 that niggling sin that we just can't seem to get rid of,

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 that can wait for another day.

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 I think that's possibly the way that it plays out for us.

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 And here's why it can't stay the way it is.

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 He says,

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 If we're united to Christ, as we've seen,

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 there's no way that can happen.

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 Notice the order that Paul does this in.

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 He says,

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 Since you've been raised with Christ,

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 He is your life.

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 And since your life is hidden,

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 is secure with Him in God already,

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 you will appear with Him in glory.

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 These things are past realities

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 that shape our present

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 and will continue for all eternity.

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 There is no way that we can stay the way we were

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 if we will be appearing with Christ in glory.

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 And he says,

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 Be on that path of change

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 to appear with Him in glory.

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 And then he says,

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 Now go and do these things.

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 Change because you have been changed.

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 Change is hard.

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 And it needs to be so fundamental,

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 so hard that Paul calls it

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 putting to death sin.

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 Notice how in verse 5

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 he goes for the most intimate

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 and most besetting,

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 most secret sins in our lives very often.

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 He says,

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 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you,

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 sexual immorality, impurity,

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 passions, evil desire,

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 and covetousness,

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 which is idolatry.

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 Now all of these have in common

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 that they're placing our needs,

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 our desires,

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 our idea of what we're owed and want

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 in place of focusing on Christ

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 as the one who gives us our very lives.

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 That's why he calls,

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 he sums it up with,

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 which is idolatry.

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 We're worshipping something else.

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 Ourselves.

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 And in verse 8 he goes on

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 and he says,

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 you know,

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 it's not just about

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 your kind of internal sins,

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 your internal things

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 that need to change.

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 This impacts our relationships

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 with one another.

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 And the external manifestation

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 of that focus on ourselves.

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 And he addresses all kinds of things

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 about speech to one another.

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 How we speak to and about one another.

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 But then in verse 12

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 is the positive command, isn't it?

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 Take off these things,

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 put to death these things,

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 and put on,

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 then,

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 as God's chosen ones,

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 holy and beloved,

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 compassionate hearts,

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 kindness,

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 humility,

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 meekness,

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 and patience.

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 Bearing with one another.

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 And if one has a complaint

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 against one another,

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 forgiving each other,

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 as the Lord has forgiven

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 you,

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 so you must also forgive.

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 Put off the old way

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 of doing things.

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 Because you've put off

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 the old self.

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 Put on the new person,

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 because in Christ

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 you are a new person.

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 Become in practice

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 what you are

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 in principle already.

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 You know,

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 I don't know if you've heard

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 people say sometimes,

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 dress for the job you want,

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 not the one you have.

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 You can't keep on dressing

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 like the intern

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 with the torn jeans

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 if you want to be the CEO.

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 Paul's saying,

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 dress like the person

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 you already are.

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 Wear those attributes of God.

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 Kindness and humility,

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 patience,

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 like the person

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 united to Jesus,

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 that you are.

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 In Genesis 1

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 we read how God

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 makes people in his image.

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 And we know

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 what went wrong

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 with the four.

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 And here we have

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 this remarkable phrase

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 in verse 9.

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 Not verse 9.

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 Verse 10,

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 where it says,

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 you've put on the new self

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 which has been renewed

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 in knowledge

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 after the image

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 of its creator.

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 Isn't that staggering?

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 What went wrong

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 with the four

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 is being corrected

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 every day

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 in a Christian's life.

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 As we put off

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 this old self

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 and put on

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 the new self.

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 And it feels hard.

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 It doesn't feel that way

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 every day

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 when we battle

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 the sin,

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 when we lose

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 our temper again.

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 when we enjoy

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 that off joke

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 at work

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 slightly too much

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 or something like that.

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 But don't give up.

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 There is a finality

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 to this.

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 He says,

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 put off all of these things

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 once and for all

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 and once you've come

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 to faith in Christ,

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 sin never has

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 the same power over you

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 as it has before.

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 But there's an ongoing

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 nature to it too.

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 we must continue

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 putting off sin.

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 We must continue

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 seeking more and more

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 to be like Christ.

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 I don't know

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 if you saw

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 the HMS

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 Queen Elizabeth

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 on a new aircraft carrier

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 set sail for America

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 this week

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 on a kind of

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 main and Atlantic voyage.

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 It's a fantastic ship.

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 But when it needs

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 to turn around

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 it doesn't happen

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 in a moment.

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 It takes a while.

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 But when it starts

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 to turn

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 it turns.

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 And you don't want

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 to be a sailboat

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 that gets in the way

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 of that ship

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 turning.

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 And if you're sitting

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 here tonight

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 discouraged about

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 something that you're

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 struggling with

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 that you've been

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 struggling with

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 maybe for years

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 maybe all your life

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 some kind of sin

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 that maybe someone

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 doesn't even

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 someone else

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 doesn't even know about

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 take courage

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 from this.

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 Your change

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 to the person

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 that will appear

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 with Christ in glory

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 is more powerful

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 than that ship

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 turning around

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 and is done

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 by God himself.

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 You see

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 Paul is not

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 trying to rebuke

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 these Christians

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 in Colossae

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 and I'm not

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 I'm not trying

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 to do that

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 tonight either.

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 Take heart

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 and be encouraged.

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 God is doing

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 a great work

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 in you

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 but we will only

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 see the result

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 of finally

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 when he returns

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 in glory.

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 See here's how

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 John Owen

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 writes about it.

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 He says

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 set faith

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 at work

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 on Christ

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 for the killing

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 of thy sin.

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 His blood

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 is the great

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 sovereign remedy

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 for sin sick

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 souls.

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 Live in this

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 and thou

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 will die

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 a conqueror.

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 Yeah thou wilt.

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 Through the good

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 providence of God

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 live to see

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 thy lust dead

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 at thy feet.

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 We all look forward

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 to that.

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 But there's more

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 to it than

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 that needs to change

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 Paul says.

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 It's not just

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 our perspective

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 and priorities

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 or our actions

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 and attitudes

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 it's our very

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 identity

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 and ideology

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 that changes.

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 You see

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 in a few places

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 we've read some

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 pretty fundamental

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 things

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 about who

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 we should

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 think

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 we are.

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 In verse 4

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 he says

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 Christ who

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 is your

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 life?

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 Verse 9

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 put off the

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 old self.

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 Verse 10

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 you've put on

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 the new self.

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 And then

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 verse 11

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 here there is

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 not

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 Greek

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 and Jew

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 circumcised

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 and uncircumcised

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 barbarians

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 in the slave

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 free

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 but Christ

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 is all

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 and in all

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 and he's

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 talking about

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 the body

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 of Christ.

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 You see

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 it's so

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 fundamental

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 this change

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 that happens

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 when you

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 come to

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 faith in

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 Christ

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 when you're

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 united to

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 Christ by

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 faith.

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 That all

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 of these

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 human

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 distinctions

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 all of

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 these human

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 divisions

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 very often

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 that cause

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 so much

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 difficulty

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 and so much

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 discord

00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:45.700
 in the world

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 that we live

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 in fall

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 away.

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 He's covering

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 everything

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 Jew and

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 Gentile

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 those who

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 have the

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 promise of

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 Abraham

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 and those

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 who didn't

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 cultured

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 people and

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 uncultured

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 those who

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 are masters

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 and those

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 who serve

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 those with

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 social status

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 and those

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 who didn't

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 have any

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 social status

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 any value

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 in society.

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 Now of course

00:19:09.940 --> 00:19:12.420
 all distinctions

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 between human

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 beings

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 all the rich

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 diversity

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 that God

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 created us

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 in

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 doesn't

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 immediately

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 disappear

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 and won't

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 disappear

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 and that's

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 a great

00:19:21.980 --> 00:19:22.200
 thing

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 but it

00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:23.039
 propels

00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:23.299
 into

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 insignificance

00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:25.620
 he's arguing

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 compared to

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 the very

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 source of

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 our new

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 lives

00:19:29.180 --> 00:19:31.100
 the very

00:19:31.100 --> 00:19:31.620
 core of

00:19:31.620 --> 00:19:32.279
 our identity

00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:34.079
 being a

00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:34.900
 new creation

00:19:34.900 --> 00:19:35.519
 in Christ

00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:37.579
 those things

00:19:37.579 --> 00:19:38.319
 don't define

00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:39.059
 us primarily

00:19:39.059 --> 00:19:41.480
 now you

00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:41.940
 may ask

00:19:41.940 --> 00:19:42.559
 why is

00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:42.860
 this all

00:19:42.860 --> 00:19:43.700
 that strange

00:19:43.700 --> 00:19:45.319
 even

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 if we

00:19:46.360 --> 00:19:46.819
 know the

00:19:46.819 --> 00:19:47.120
 culture

00:19:47.120 --> 00:19:47.940
 around us

00:19:47.940 --> 00:19:48.360
 get their

00:19:48.360 --> 00:19:48.740
 identity

00:19:48.740 --> 00:19:49.279
 from these

00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:49.700
 things

00:19:49.700 --> 00:19:50.080
 and what

00:19:50.080 --> 00:19:50.880
 people do

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 in a city

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 like London

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 one of the

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 primary

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 things

00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:54.980
 that defines

00:19:54.980 --> 00:19:55.340
 you

00:19:55.340 --> 00:19:56.880
 we know

00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.799
 mostly

00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:01.279
 that that's

00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:01.819
 not true

00:20:01.819 --> 00:20:04.120
 why does

00:20:04.120 --> 00:20:04.580
 Paul put

00:20:04.580 --> 00:20:04.960
 so much

00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:05.400
 emphasis

00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:06.100
 on it

00:20:06.100 --> 00:20:07.700
 you see

00:20:07.700 --> 00:20:08.140
 it's relevant

00:20:08.140 --> 00:20:08.720
 for us

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 I think

00:20:09.100 --> 00:20:09.840
 because he's

00:20:09.840 --> 00:20:10.600
 not writing

00:20:10.600 --> 00:20:11.559
 to a church

00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:12.519
 that is

00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:12.900
 struggling

00:20:12.900 --> 00:20:15.539
 they've not

00:20:15.539 --> 00:20:16.220
 bought into

00:20:16.220 --> 00:20:16.860
 this false

00:20:16.860 --> 00:20:17.400
 teaching

00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:18.220
 it wouldn't

00:20:18.220 --> 00:20:18.539
 seem

00:20:18.539 --> 00:20:21.099
 here's how

00:20:21.099 --> 00:20:21.659
 he describes

00:20:21.659 --> 00:20:22.019
 them in the

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 letter

00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:22.839
 in chapter

00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:23.339
 1 verse

00:20:23.339 --> 00:20:23.740
 4 he

00:20:23.740 --> 00:20:23.920
 says

00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:24.220
 we've

00:20:24.220 --> 00:20:24.619
 heard of

00:20:24.619 --> 00:20:24.779
 your

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 faith

00:20:25.299 --> 00:20:25.579
 in

00:20:25.579 --> 00:20:25.980
 Christ

00:20:25.980 --> 00:20:26.339
 Jesus

00:20:26.339 --> 00:20:26.799
 and of

00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:27.359
 the love

00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:27.740
 that you

00:20:27.740 --> 00:20:28.159
 have for

00:20:28.159 --> 00:20:28.460
 all the

00:20:28.460 --> 00:20:28.799
 saints

00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:30.200
 chapter 2

00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:30.639
 verse 5

00:20:30.639 --> 00:20:30.899
 he said

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 though I'm

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 absent in

00:20:31.940 --> 00:20:32.240
 body

00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:33.559
 yet I am

00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:33.920
 with you

00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:34.460
 in spirit

00:20:34.460 --> 00:20:35.599
 rejoicing to

00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:36.059
 see your

00:20:36.059 --> 00:20:36.899
 good order

00:20:36.899 --> 00:20:37.399
 and the

00:20:37.399 --> 00:20:38.159
 firmness of

00:20:38.159 --> 00:20:38.779
 your faith

00:20:38.779 --> 00:20:39.420
 in Christ

00:20:39.420 --> 00:20:42.019
 chapter 2

00:20:42.019 --> 00:20:42.399
 verse 8

00:20:42.399 --> 00:20:43.180
 see that no

00:20:43.180 --> 00:20:43.659
 one takes

00:20:43.659 --> 00:20:44.180
 you captive

00:20:44.180 --> 00:20:45.279
 by philosophy

00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:45.779
 and empty

00:20:45.779 --> 00:20:46.200
 deceit

00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:46.759
 according to

00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:47.480
 human tradition

00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:48.500
 according to

00:20:48.500 --> 00:20:49.000
 the elemental

00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:49.740
 spirits of

00:20:49.740 --> 00:20:50.160
 the world

00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:50.880
 and not

00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:51.440
 according to

00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:51.779
 Christ

00:20:51.779 --> 00:20:52.799
 implication being

00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:53.380
 they've not

00:20:53.380 --> 00:20:53.960
 been taken

00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:54.620
 captive by

00:20:54.620 --> 00:20:55.180
 these things

00:20:55.180 --> 00:20:55.519
 yet

00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:56.560
 and even

00:20:56.560 --> 00:20:56.920
 just in

00:20:56.920 --> 00:20:57.380
 this passage

00:20:57.380 --> 00:20:57.680
 that we

00:20:57.680 --> 00:20:57.980
 read

00:20:57.980 --> 00:20:59.140
 they have

00:20:59.140 --> 00:20:59.620
 God's

00:20:59.620 --> 00:21:00.980
 chosen ones

00:21:00.980 --> 00:21:02.299
 holy and

00:21:02.299 --> 00:21:02.799
 beloved

00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:04.100
 and let's not

00:21:04.100 --> 00:21:04.640
 forget those

00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:05.299
 words spoken

00:21:05.299 --> 00:21:05.759
 of Christ

00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:06.060
 in the

00:21:06.060 --> 00:21:06.660
 New Testament

00:21:06.660 --> 00:21:07.860
 and Israel

00:21:07.860 --> 00:21:08.320
 in the Old

00:21:08.320 --> 00:21:08.700
 Testament

00:21:08.700 --> 00:21:09.820
 so that's a

00:21:09.820 --> 00:21:10.519
 good reference

00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:10.940
 from the

00:21:10.940 --> 00:21:11.759
 apostle Paul

00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:12.519
 for a

00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:12.940
 church

00:21:12.940 --> 00:21:14.119
 if a

00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:14.460
 church

00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:15.119
 got a

00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:15.319
 letter

00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:15.660
 from

00:21:15.660 --> 00:21:16.079
 Paul

00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:17.480
 giving them

00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:18.119
 an appraisal

00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:18.700
 this is about

00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:19.079
 as good

00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:19.539
 as you can

00:21:19.539 --> 00:21:20.140
 expect

00:21:20.140 --> 00:21:21.400
 this is not

00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:21.660
 as good

00:21:21.660 --> 00:21:21.960
 as they

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 come

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 this isn't

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 the

00:21:24.299 --> 00:21:24.879
 Corinthian

00:21:24.879 --> 00:21:25.359
 church

00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:25.740
 or the

00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:26.240
 Galatian

00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:26.660
 church

00:21:26.660 --> 00:21:27.480
 where Paul

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 is very

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 direct

00:21:28.720 --> 00:21:29.940
 in addressing

00:21:29.940 --> 00:21:30.619
 their

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 immorality

00:21:31.339 --> 00:21:31.740
 their

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 divisions

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 or even

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 their

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 downright

00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:34.000
 racism

00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.059
 we need

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 to be

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 reminded

00:21:39.140 --> 00:21:39.759
 of this

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 ourselves

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 because

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 day to

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 day

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 it's very

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 easy to

00:21:42.460 --> 00:21:42.940
 be influenced

00:21:42.940 --> 00:21:43.259
 by the

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 world

00:21:43.420 --> 00:21:44.099
 around us

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 in our

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 thinking

00:21:45.019 --> 00:21:45.379
 about

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 who

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 we

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 are

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 just

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 like

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 this

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 commended

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 church

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 in Colossum

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 needed to

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 be

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 reminded

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 of this

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 and were

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 at risk

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 of finding

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 their identity

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 in something

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 the exclusivity

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 of this

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 spiritual realm

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 that they were

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 able to

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 access

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 it's not

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 even that

00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:05.639
 our identity

00:22:05.639 --> 00:22:06.500
 primarily can

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 come from

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 being members

00:22:07.700 --> 00:22:08.399
 of IPC

00:22:08.399 --> 00:22:08.779
 healing

00:22:08.779 --> 00:22:10.839
 but it

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 must be

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 that we're

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 members of

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 the body

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 of this

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 one living

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 saviour

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 reigning

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 and ruling

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 over all

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 things

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 at the

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 right hand

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 of the

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 father

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 the head

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 of this

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 body

00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:21.819
 Jesus

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 Christ

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 here's

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 we've seen

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 our perspective

00:22:25.220 --> 00:22:26.019
 and priorities

00:22:26.019 --> 00:22:27.500
 our actions

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 and attitudes

00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:29.160
 and our

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 identity

00:22:29.639 --> 00:22:30.379
 and ideology

00:22:30.379 --> 00:22:31.119
 change

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 when we're

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 raised to

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 life with

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 Christ

00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:34.539
 but of

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 all of

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 these things

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 I think

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 the last

00:22:36.780 --> 00:22:37.360
 one is

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 maybe the

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 most

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 difficult

00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:40.660
 and our

00:22:40.660 --> 00:22:41.120
 identity

00:22:41.120 --> 00:22:41.840
 and ideology

00:22:41.840 --> 00:22:43.000
 influence so

00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:43.480
 much of

00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:44.080
 what we do

00:22:44.080 --> 00:22:44.540
 on a day

00:22:44.540 --> 00:22:44.960
 to day

00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:45.800
 basis

00:22:45.800 --> 00:22:47.000
 our actions

00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:47.940
 unthinkingly

00:22:47.940 --> 00:22:48.720
 even flows

00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:49.160
 from those

00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:49.540
 things

00:22:49.540 --> 00:22:52.940
 so that

00:22:52.940 --> 00:22:53.480
 church in

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 Colossal

00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:54.140
 with a

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 glowing report

00:22:55.120 --> 00:22:56.020
 from Paul

00:22:56.020 --> 00:22:56.840
 needs to

00:22:56.840 --> 00:22:57.340
 hear this

00:22:57.340 --> 00:22:58.560
 maybe we

00:22:58.560 --> 00:22:58.920
 need to be

00:22:58.920 --> 00:22:59.480
 reminded of

00:22:59.480 --> 00:22:59.880
 our common

00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:00.560
 identity in

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 Christ as

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 well

00:23:01.340 --> 00:23:03.360
 here's a

00:23:03.360 --> 00:23:03.820
 question

00:23:03.819 --> 00:23:05.240
 when you're

00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:05.559
 asked to

00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:06.079
 describe

00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:06.679
 yourself

00:23:06.679 --> 00:23:07.740
 to someone

00:23:07.740 --> 00:23:08.980
 what is

00:23:08.980 --> 00:23:09.539
 the first

00:23:09.539 --> 00:23:10.019
 thing that

00:23:10.019 --> 00:23:10.559
 comes to

00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:11.039
 mind

00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:13.079
 is it

00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:13.439
 that you're

00:23:13.439 --> 00:23:13.980
 a redeemed

00:23:13.980 --> 00:23:14.639
 saved

00:23:14.639 --> 00:23:16.039
 child of

00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:16.419
 God

00:23:16.419 --> 00:23:18.500
 united to

00:23:18.500 --> 00:23:18.779
 Christ

00:23:18.779 --> 00:23:19.439
 by faith

00:23:19.439 --> 00:23:22.679
 I don't

00:23:22.679 --> 00:23:23.179
 think I

00:23:23.179 --> 00:23:23.980
 would always

00:23:23.980 --> 00:23:24.679
 start off

00:23:24.679 --> 00:23:25.119
 with that

00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:25.839
 if I had

00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:26.159
 to write

00:23:26.159 --> 00:23:26.519
 a short

00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:27.000
 blurb

00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:27.720
 about

00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:28.259
 myself

00:23:28.259 --> 00:23:29.700
 and it

00:23:29.700 --> 00:23:29.960
 can be

00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:30.240
 subtle

00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:31.759
 it can be

00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:31.960
 subtle

00:23:31.960 --> 00:23:32.379
 even at

00:23:32.379 --> 00:23:32.779
 church

00:23:32.779 --> 00:23:35.279
 how easy

00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:35.940
 is it to

00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:36.579
 only speak

00:23:36.579 --> 00:23:36.879
 to the

00:23:36.879 --> 00:23:37.279
 people we

00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:37.559
 know

00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:39.440
 the people

00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:39.859
 we know

00:23:39.859 --> 00:23:40.220
 we've got

00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:40.720
 something in

00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:40.940
 common

00:23:40.940 --> 00:23:41.579
 with

00:23:41.579 --> 00:23:45.279
 put on

00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:45.619
 the old

00:23:45.619 --> 00:23:45.960
 self

00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:46.500
 Paul says

00:23:46.500 --> 00:23:47.039
 put on

00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:47.660
 the new

00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:48.079
 self

00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:50.079
 and that

00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:50.480
 happens

00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:50.920
 he tells

00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:51.299
 us in

00:23:51.299 --> 00:23:52.000
 verse 15

00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.359
 by letting

00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:53.940
 the peace

00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:54.539
 of Christ

00:23:54.539 --> 00:23:55.200
 rule in

00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:56.220
 your hearts

00:23:56.220 --> 00:23:56.740
 to which

00:23:56.740 --> 00:23:57.240
 indeed you

00:23:57.240 --> 00:23:57.639
 were called

00:23:57.639 --> 00:23:58.000
 in one

00:23:58.000 --> 00:23:58.259
 body

00:23:58.259 --> 00:23:58.700
 and be

00:23:58.700 --> 00:23:59.139
 thankful

00:23:59.140 --> 00:24:01.060
 and let

00:24:01.060 --> 00:24:01.460
 the word

00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:01.920
 of Christ

00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:02.440
 dwell in

00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:03.160
 you richly

00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:03.800
 teaching and

00:24:03.800 --> 00:24:04.340
 admonishing

00:24:04.340 --> 00:24:05.060
 one another

00:24:05.060 --> 00:24:06.020
 in all

00:24:06.020 --> 00:24:06.520
 wisdom

00:24:06.520 --> 00:24:07.240
 singing

00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:07.840
 psalms

00:24:07.840 --> 00:24:08.420
 hymns

00:24:08.420 --> 00:24:09.440
 and spiritual

00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:09.900
 songs

00:24:09.900 --> 00:24:10.160
 with

00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:10.860
 thankfulness

00:24:10.860 --> 00:24:11.300
 in your

00:24:11.300 --> 00:24:11.660
 hearts

00:24:11.660 --> 00:24:12.200
 to God

00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:16.240
 isn't it

00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:17.059
 spectacular

00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:19.400
 that even

00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:20.120
 when Paul

00:24:20.120 --> 00:24:21.500
 calls us

00:24:21.500 --> 00:24:23.480
 to actively

00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:24.519
 work towards

00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:24.940
 Christ

00:24:24.940 --> 00:24:25.700
 likeness

00:24:25.700 --> 00:24:27.980
 where

00:24:27.980 --> 00:24:29.019
 Christ's

00:24:29.019 --> 00:24:29.299
 image

00:24:29.299 --> 00:24:29.860
 supersedes

00:24:29.860 --> 00:24:30.279
 our own

00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:30.580
 that

00:24:30.580 --> 00:24:31.640
 Christ's

00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:31.960
 word

00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:32.559
 does the

00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:32.960
 work

00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:34.580
 isn't

00:24:34.580 --> 00:24:34.880
 that

00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:36.180
 grace

00:24:36.180 --> 00:24:36.580
 upon

00:24:36.580 --> 00:24:37.140
 grace

00:24:37.140 --> 00:24:39.640
 see we

00:24:39.640 --> 00:24:40.080
 can do

00:24:40.080 --> 00:24:40.580
 this work

00:24:40.580 --> 00:24:41.200
 because he

00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:41.680
 does the

00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:42.020
 work

00:24:42.020 --> 00:24:43.700
 but we

00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:44.060
 need each

00:24:44.060 --> 00:24:44.420
 other to

00:24:44.420 --> 00:24:45.080
 do this

00:24:45.080 --> 00:24:47.040
 the church

00:24:47.040 --> 00:24:48.400
 this church

00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:50.540
 every Sunday

00:24:50.540 --> 00:24:51.160
 when we're

00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:51.820
 together here

00:24:51.820 --> 00:24:52.380
 models

00:24:52.380 --> 00:24:53.680
 this very

00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:54.460
 new humanity

00:24:54.460 --> 00:24:54.840
 that he's

00:24:54.840 --> 00:24:55.520
 talking about

00:24:55.520 --> 00:24:57.900
 and in this

00:24:57.900 --> 00:24:58.200
 church

00:24:58.200 --> 00:24:58.700
 in this very

00:24:58.700 --> 00:24:59.000
 church

00:24:59.000 --> 00:24:59.320
 we have

00:24:59.320 --> 00:24:59.700
 English

00:24:59.700 --> 00:25:00.040
 people

00:25:00.040 --> 00:25:00.460
 Welsh

00:25:00.460 --> 00:25:00.820
 people

00:25:00.820 --> 00:25:01.360
 Americans

00:25:01.360 --> 00:25:01.980
 Iranians

00:25:01.980 --> 00:25:02.759
 Canadiens

00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:04.140
 South

00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:04.640
 Africans

00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:06.540
 and and

00:25:06.540 --> 00:25:07.000
 and

00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:08.400
 if I give

00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:08.700
 a number

00:25:08.700 --> 00:25:09.140
 of how many

00:25:09.140 --> 00:25:09.839
 nationalities

00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:10.160
 we have

00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:10.539
 I probably

00:25:10.539 --> 00:25:10.859
 have it

00:25:10.859 --> 00:25:11.160
 wrong

00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:13.140
 there are

00:25:13.140 --> 00:25:13.460
 many

00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:14.640
 we've got

00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:15.220
 families and

00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:15.859
 single people

00:25:15.859 --> 00:25:16.299
 old and

00:25:16.299 --> 00:25:16.559
 young

00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:17.240
 wealthy and

00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:17.819
 not wealthy

00:25:17.819 --> 00:25:18.200
 people

00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:19.039
 powerful people

00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:19.519
 and struggling

00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:20.000
 people

00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:21.700
 every Sunday

00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:22.359
 we model

00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:22.819
 the fact

00:25:22.819 --> 00:25:23.640
 here together

00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:24.099
 that we're

00:25:24.099 --> 00:25:24.559
 putting on

00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:24.960
 that old

00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:25.299
 self

00:25:25.299 --> 00:25:25.759
 and putting

00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:26.140
 on the

00:25:26.140 --> 00:25:26.700
 new self

00:25:26.700 --> 00:25:29.519
 and change

00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:30.240
 is hard

00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:31.640
 fundamental

00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:32.559
 hard change

00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:33.259
 is very

00:25:33.259 --> 00:25:33.819
 hard

00:25:33.819 --> 00:25:35.059
 identity

00:25:35.059 --> 00:25:35.799
 change

00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:36.519
 is incredibly

00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:36.980
 hard

00:25:36.980 --> 00:25:37.900
 identity

00:25:37.900 --> 00:25:38.359
 theft

00:25:38.359 --> 00:25:38.759
 it seems

00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:39.059
 it's much

00:25:39.059 --> 00:25:39.400
 easier

00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:41.900
 but this

00:25:41.900 --> 00:25:42.279
 is how

00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:43.000
 we manage

00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:43.619
 to change

00:25:43.619 --> 00:25:44.099
 in such

00:25:44.099 --> 00:25:44.440
 a way

00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:44.759
 that we

00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:44.960
 do

00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:45.680
 everything

00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:46.819
 we do

00:25:46.819 --> 00:25:48.359
 as Paul

00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:48.839
 calls us

00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:49.099
 to do

00:25:49.099 --> 00:25:49.279
 whether

00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:50.039
 word or

00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:50.319
 deed

00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:51.139
 for Christ

00:25:51.139 --> 00:25:53.579
 by Christ's

00:25:53.579 --> 00:25:54.019
 own word

00:25:54.019 --> 00:25:54.900
 changing us

00:25:54.900 --> 00:25:56.220
 by being

00:25:56.220 --> 00:25:56.859
 encouraged

00:25:56.859 --> 00:25:58.000
 through our

00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:58.700
 singing

00:25:58.700 --> 00:25:59.379
 together

00:25:59.379 --> 00:26:00.660
 singing

00:26:00.660 --> 00:26:01.119
 psalms

00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:01.440
 hymns

00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:01.920
 and spiritual

00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:02.480
 songs

00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:03.579
 and teaching

00:26:03.579 --> 00:26:04.279
 and admonishment

00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:05.019
 and encouraging

00:26:05.019 --> 00:26:05.579
 each other

00:26:05.579 --> 00:26:06.119
 to remember

00:26:06.119 --> 00:26:06.700
 what he's

00:26:06.700 --> 00:26:07.000
 done

00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:07.480
 for

00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:08.720
 and in

00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:09.599
 and through

00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:10.139
 us

00:26:10.139 --> 00:26:12.200
 every Sunday

00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:14.379
 how often

00:26:14.379 --> 00:26:14.920
 do we think

00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:15.379
 about it

00:26:15.379 --> 00:26:15.879
 like that

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 when we

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 get up

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 to sing

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 there's

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 much more

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 going on

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 there

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 than singing

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 words

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 of the page

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 let us

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 keep

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 encouraging

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 and admonishing

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 one another

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 to put on

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 that new

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 self

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 day after

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 day

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 doing

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 everything

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 for Christ

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 and looking

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 forward to

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 appearing

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 with him

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 in glory

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 amen