Preach-A-Thon 2017 - Erickson Cabinta

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Please turn in your Bibles to Philippians chapter 2 verses 12 and 13 and as you turn there,
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I'm gonna go and give you a background to the book of Philippians and and Philippi Philippi was a
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Greek city or as a Greek village until Philip of Macedon Captured it from the
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Thracians in 360 BC Philip otherwise known as Alexander's Alexander greats father named the village after himself in 168
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BC the Romans captured Philippi and made it a port for their province of Macedonia in 42
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BC two Roman generals generals Anthony and Octavian marched to Philippi to avenge the murder of Julius Caesar and defeat the rebels
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Brutus and Cassius They settled many retired soldiers in the city
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Octavian became the new Roman Emperor Augustus and he made Philippi a
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Roman colony It became known as little Rome because its citizens spoke
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Latin were governed by Roman law and They enjoyed the same rights as though they were living in Rome Around 100 years later as Paul and his friends were intending to take the gospel to Asia Paul saw a vision and they set
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Paul saw a vision of a man from Macedonia begging him to go and help them
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Paul responded to the vision and they set sail for Macedonia. They arrived at Philippi on The Sabbath day they were seeking a place of prayer outside the city gates by a river and found a group of ladies a group of women gathered there one of the woman was
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Lydia and She was converted by God To believe in what what
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Paul was speaking? while at Philippi Paul and Silas were beaten up and put into prison for releasing a slave girl from from an evil spirit
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Her masters were enraged at them because she lost her ability to tell fortunes in prison
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God used their testimony to save the jailer and his family because they refused to escape when an earthquake threw open all the prison doors
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So the church at Philippi was established was first established with these believers
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Now Paul wrote this letter from prison it may have been during his house arrest as Luke spoke about it in the book of Acts Paul's theme for this letter is one of joy
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His happiness and security comes from knowing Jesus Christ It did not come from his circumstances whether he was in prison or whether people were preaching
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Christ out of selfish ambition Paul was concerned about the pride and quarrels that were spoiling the
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Christian fellowship At Philippi He reminds them of the example of Jesus and to be more like him in order to be united with one another in fellowship in faith and service
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He also warns them against false teachers trying to impose Jewish laws on them He uses himself as an example of an excellent
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Jew who found true righteousness not in himself but in Christ in Chapter 1
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Paul gives his greeting to the church He mentions how he thanks God for them in his prayer because of their partnership in the gospel
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He tells them that God has begun a good work in them and will bring it to completion
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His affections for this church body really shows in this epistle He tells them he sees a benefit to his imprisonment
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The advancement of the gospel to palace guards and other
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Christians in Rome Have been more encouraged to witness boldly Some of these
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Christians are preaching out of their own selfish and envy of Paul For Paul what matters is that Jesus is being proclaimed
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He feels as though it is a win -win situation for him for him living is
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Christ and dying is gain His desire is to be with Christ, but if God should allow him to survive this imprisonment
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It would be Fruitful work and to the benefit of the church Then he gives this charge to them
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Only let your matter of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ so that whether I come and see you or am absent
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I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit With one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel and not frightened in anything by your opponents
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Now he gives them this charge because there were some divisions among them with Christians complaining about other
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Christians Paul charged them to make their behavior to be worthy of the gospel
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He did not want their behavior to go back to what it was prior to the gospel
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He then gives Christ as an example of humility that the believers are to mimic
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Christ although he is God came down from heaven and Taking form taking the form of a slave.
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He became a man He humbled himself even more in obedience to God by dying on the cross for the sin of sinners
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Because of this God raised him up from the dead and exalted him in Light of this charge and the example of Christ we come to our passage in Philippians chapter 2 verses 12 and 13
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Therefore my beloved as you have always obeyed So now not only in my presence, but much more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling
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For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure
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The verb work out here means to carry out to a goal to carry to his ultimate conclusion
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The context here is not about justification or being saved
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It is about how saved people live out their salvation in the context of a believing community and before the world
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Paul wants Christians, especially the Philippian believers to carry out to outwork to the ultimate goal of their salvation
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Which is Christ likeness? They are to get on with this
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With this in mind here are three ways to work out your salvation First and It is suggested in the
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Greek. This is the first priority You are to work out your salvation by having an attitude of fear and trembling toward God Literally the translation means with fear and trembling your own salvation
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Work out now. What does fear and trembling mean?
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After considering this I believe it means having a sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God Paul uses this phrase in in three different Epistles first Corinthians 2 verses 3 2nd
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Corinthians 7 verses 15 and Ephesians 6 5 Peter O 'Brien in his commentary of this epistle wrote the following an examination of other texts in the
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Pauline corpus where Favos kite traumas appears suggests that the phrase has to do with an attitude of due reverence and awe in the presence of God a
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Godly fear of the believer in view of the final day It is not the slavish terror of the unbeliever.
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Nor is it an attitude oriented solely? towards humans so at 2nd
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Corinthians 7 Verse 15 the fear and trembling with which the Corinthians received
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Titus is not simply respect shown to a person But also and preeminently the trepidation with which they greeted
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Paul's envoy soon after the Apostle acting as Christ's representative
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Had taken them to task in his severe letter in Ephesians 6 verse 5
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Slaves are exhorted to submit to their own earthly masters with fear and trembling as though it is to Christ an
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Expression that is in verse 4 is completed by as to the Lord and not to men finally on his first visit to Corinth Paul states that he came in weakness and fear and With much trembling having been expelled from one
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Macedonian city after another Some have interpreted this of Paul's fear of failure after a rather disastrous showing in Athens Instead it points to the sense of awesome
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Responsibility Paul felt as he arrived to this notorious city of Corinth to preach the gospel of the
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Lord Jesus Christ the conjunction of the phrase in Weakness supports this for the
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Apostles aware that humanly speaking the gospel is sheer madness That God has chosen for himself weak and despise of the world the weak and despise of the world and that he works through such frail human instruments to achieve his glorious purposes
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This godly fear sometimes set within the context of an account to be rendered on the final day although in Paul it does not refer to the slavish terror of the unbeliever as we have seen of special importance is
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The as we have seen of special importance is the fact that in both the Septuagint which is the
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Greek Old Testament and And Paul's phobos chi traumas is the appropriate response to God's mighty acts
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This points this point comes out clearly and explicitly in Philippians 2 verses 12 and 13
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The readers are to fulfill the injunction to work out their own salvation with the utmost seriousness
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Precisely because God is mightily at work in their midst God is mightily at work in their midst
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So they are to work out their salvation with an out of attitude of awe and reverence in the presence of God How can we apply this to our lives?
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well in in chat in verse 14 He tells them do all things without grumbling or questioning
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What is the immediate application is this is to stop complaining? Stop complaining about other believers knowing that God is at work in them too, and you are truly complaining against God Stop complaining about your circumstances
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Because God is at work in you and you are truly complaining about God against God How do you work out your salvation?
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First you are to work out your salvation by having an attitude of fear and trembling toward God Second you are to work out your salvation by knowing
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God is at work in you You know that the Christian religion is the only religion
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I know and have studied Where God is intimately involved in his people
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So much so that Peter wrote the following His divine power has granted us all things that pertain to life and godliness
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Through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence
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By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature
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God has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness God has granted to us precious and very great promises
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God has given us his spirit to dwell in us God is on his people's side
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He actively works on their behalf This is astounding in Verse 13 explains why the
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Philippians are to work out their salvation. It is because God is empowering is empowering them
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They are to work out their salvation But they are they are to work out their salvation, but they are able to do so Because God himself is that is that work in them?
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What is God working in them? He's working in them two things both to will and to work
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First God supplies the resolve and determination to obey He gives us a mind transformed by his spirit
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Second God supplies the power to carry out his will This reminds me of the
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New Covenant that is found in Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 11 In Ezekiel 11 the
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Lord said therefore say thus says the Lord. I will gather you from the people's
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He's here he's talking about Israel I will gather you from the people's and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel and When they come there, they will remove from it.
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All is the testable things and all its abominations and Note here what
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God is doing for his people. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and Give them a heart of flesh
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That they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules And obey them and they shall be my people and I will be their
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God Before we were saved.
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We did not have a heart for God We did not understand him.
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We did not seek him. We were dead in our trespasses and sins
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Sorry following the course of this world following the devil
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Then God arrested us Transforming our minds So that as the gospel was presented to us
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We obeyed and believed Again, so God affects two things in us
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First he gives us new desires that prompts us to new behavior But having these new desires are not enough
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For Paul once wrote for a delight in the law of God in my inner being
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But I see my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive To the law of sin that dwells of my members
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Wretched man that I am who will deliver me from this body of death Then Paul goes on to the next chapter and wrote
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For the law of spirit of life as set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death
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God gives us also his Holy Spirit to empower us to act out these new desires an
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Application for this I know this is somewhat ethereal But walk in the spirit
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Let God's world let God's Word dwell in you richly This means read your
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Bible and let it transform your mind more and more giving you more new desires Then act out on those desires
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With determination knowing that God is working in you The Christian life is not a passive life, but an active one this is why we have all these images from the epistles of running the race of War and battle as being a soldier against sin
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Attack your Goliath knowing that God is with you in The context of the
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Philippian believers the Goliath was complaining about other believers and not getting along with them
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Therefore destroying the unity and fellowship. How do you work out your salvation?
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First you are to work out your salvation by having an attitude of fear and trembling towards God Second you are to work out your salvation by knowing
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God is is that work in you? Finally third you have to work out your salvation knowing it is for God's good pleasure
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God works in his people precisely as God works in his people precisely because it pleases him to do so Gordon Gordon fee puts it in this way
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God's pleasure is pure love So what he does for the sake of his good pleasure is by that very fact also on behalf of those he loves after all it delights
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God to delight in his people an Application for this is that knowing that God is this way doesn't it motivate you to please him?
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Just like pleasing your own dad doesn't it motivate you to work out your salvation to its goal as In the language of the
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Hebrews, let us lay aside every weight and sin, which of playing so closely And let us run with endurance the race that is set before us
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Looking to Jesus the founder and perfecter of our faith it is the most ungrateful thing knowing
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God has done all these great things for you and delights in doing so and Be passive and sin against him
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Shouldn't it motivate us to please him? How do you work out your salvation?
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First you are to work out your salvation By having an attitude of fear and trembling towards God Second you are to work out your salvation by knowing
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God is is at work in you Third you are to work out your salvation knowing it is for God's good pleasure
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Now if you're here today and God is not your Lord and Savior what
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I just preached is far from you God does not delight in you. You don't have these promises in Fact God is your enemy and you are on your way to hell
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To experience his wrath against against you and for your sins, which you delight in The good news is it does not have to be this way the good news is
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God Has provided for your sins to be forgiven true faith in Jesus Christ as Paul wrote for I delivered to you of as a first importance what
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I also receive That Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures
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That he was buried that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures
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God commands you to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. I implore you
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Obey, let's pray. Thank you
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Lord for this time in your word Thank you that we have so great a salvation made urge us and work in us
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To to work out to the goal of that salvation Which is
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Christ likeness Help us Lord To be more like Christ to our wives
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Help us Lord to be more like Christ to our kids help us
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Lord to be more like Christ to our workers Help us Lord to be more like Christ to our fellow believers in Jesus name we pray.