Book of Romans - Ch. 5, Vs. 1-6 (08/29/2004)

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David, not Brother David, but David, we have a word in this first verse in the 5th chapter, and it is therefore.

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Tell me, why is therefore, therefore? 5 .1.

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Romans. Yes, why did they use that word?

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John? Alright.

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What do we call that part of speech, Brother David? Joy? Well, then it's come in, he can tell us.

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5th chapter of Romans, verse 1. What is, what part of grammar is the therefore?

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Means what? Means what?

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Well, Dave, I guess you'll have to answer. Russell?

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What? Alright. Therefore, or since, or because.

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Alright. Being justified by faith.

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So he stated the conditions. We are justified by faith.

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Now, Joy, did I perform some duty that caused the

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Lord to justify me? You hesitated, and I don't like that.

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Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our

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Lord Jesus Christ. Brother David, turn to Hebrews 12 .2,

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if you will, please, and read that for us. Is said.

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Now, is this passive or active, John? Alright.

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It is passive. Now, Dennis, what does it mean, passive?

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Well, you're a little bit off. Russell, what does passive mean?

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Alright. It was done for one time, that's right, but it was done to us.

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To us. Now, Brother David, why is that important in this verse?

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That's exactly right.

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The Heavenly Father, the Almighty God, invited Jesus to come set down because of what he had accomplished while on earth.

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Now, the word have goes back up to our verse. We have peace through God our

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Father. The word have, what does it represent to us,

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John? Alright.

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Present perfect tense. We have it. We're not going to get it.

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We have it right now. Of course, we've always had it, but we didn't know it.

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Now, peace, we have peace.

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The peace that he's speaking of is to live in harmony.

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Harmony. What is harmony, Russell? Alright. Joy, what is a harmonizing note on the piano?

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Well, it feels peaceful.

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It's pleasant to the ear. Now, Brother David, do you feel peaceful inside?

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Yes. Alright.

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Yes. Paul, back there. Paul, are you always trying to change things in order to feel peaceful?

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That's right. You do not work from the outside in, but from the inside out.

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Things cannot make you peaceful. Accumulating lots of money or property or businesses or whatever, that cannot make you peaceful.

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You have to conquer that fact. You have to understand that the peace is coming from within me that makes me peaceful.

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If you win that battle, everything will suddenly be alright.

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Now, peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Through our Lord Jesus Christ. What's that mean,

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Russell? Is that it?

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Alright. We have peace through our

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Lord Jesus Christ. That says a whole lot. Through our

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Lord. John, that means that I belong to him. I cannot answer for you.

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You have to answer for yourself. Do you belong to him? Our Lord.

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It is a company word. Not my

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Lord, but our Lord. It puts me as high as you and you as high as me.

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And it is through not the Christ, but Jesus Christ. Why is that important,

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Brother David? That's exactly right.

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Christ didn't die, but Jesus did. Second verse.

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By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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By whom? John, by whom?

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Who's he talking about? Jesus Christ. By whom also we have access by faith.

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Access. John, tell me what does access mean?

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If you experience an access to someone, what has to take place?

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Alright, Russell. Have to have a third party.

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Now, why say that? Well, I thought

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I had access to the Heavenly Father just to go to the Heavenly Father. Alright.

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By whom? So he's narrowed it down. By Jesus. We have access and it is by faith.

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It has to be by faith while we are yet in this life. It cannot be any other way.

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You do not have access. Well, access means that there is a third party involved.

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And the third party knows the person to whom you're seeking access and knows you.

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Jesus fills that bill. He knows the

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Heavenly Father and he knows you. So he introduces you to the

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Heavenly Father. You cannot get to him any other way. Then he used the word stand.

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By access into this grace wherein we stand.

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Is that passive or active?

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Alright. Is it present or past? Is it perfect or imperfect?

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It is a present, perfect, active verb. We stand.

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Right now I stand in the presence of the

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Almighty God through Jesus the Christ. Now, rejoice.

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Is it present? Is it passive or active? Is it imperfect or perfect?

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Rejoice. Joy, since you answered the other one, tell me this.

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Is it present or passive? Is it imperfect or perfect?

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Is it passive or active? Well, rejoice is present, passive and imperfect.

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No, you got the first. What do we mean by imperfect?

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Alright. It is like you had a blackboard and you're putting a dot on it and another dot and another dot and another dot and another dot.

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Continually rejoicing. It means that we do, we do, we do, we do, we do until it becomes as you back off and look at it, one solid line.

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You're doing all of the time. Yes. That's right.

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But if you hadn't had the key, could you get access? You have to do something.

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Either the key, break a window or something. That's the third party.

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Good try. You're thinking.

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Three. And not only so, but we glory in the tribulations also.

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Now, Dave, this seems a little bit odd to me. We glory in tribulation.

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Knowing the tribulation worketh patience. Now, we not only glory, we enjoy the glory of God.

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It is present, passive. It is done to me.

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Not only so, but we enjoy the glory of God in tribulations.

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Now, David, Brother David, did you bring the tribulations on yourself?

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What does this tribulation do for you? Well, it's a powerful instrument for increasing our happiness and peace.

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Tribulation. Yes. Yes. That's right.

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That's right. Tribulation is a powerful instrument for increasing our happiness and peace.

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An experience that tests one's endurance, patience, or faith.

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It tests. Now, Dennis, who's going to read the test?

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John? Russell? That's it.

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God is not in doubt. God doesn't have to test you to see if you've passed.

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He has to test you for you to see if you've passed. Does everyone understand?

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Anyone that doesn't understand? Anyone that does understand?

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Well, they do, but they got a wrong scoreboard. Yes.

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You can't go by their score, but you can go by yours.

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See, Dennis, we know what's right and wrong. Believe it or not, we know.

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I know what's right for me. I know what's wrong for me. If I do something wrong,

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I immediately know it. Now, the word worketh.

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Now, why, let's see, tribulations worketh patience.

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The word worketh, or work, what does that do to this sentence?

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What does it supply? What is the work?

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John? Fred? No, not necessarily.

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Well, what? All right, so we have render now, opposite of work.

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Work and render about the same, but what is it doing,

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Brother David? It supplies the occasion.

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Now, this can be mental, physical, effort or activity directs toward the production or accomplishments of something.

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Now, unfortunately, if you should happen to belong to the Church of Christ, which

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I don't think any of you do, they're taught that work is not mental.

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You have to do something before you work. Is that true or not,

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John? No. Give me an example,

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David, of mental work.

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Mental, M -E -N -T -A -L. What? All right.

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You're working in your mind, aren't you? And that's work. It's the expenditure of energy.

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Patience, the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint.

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Patience emphasizes calmness, self -control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay.

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Patrick Henry once said, it is the mental duty of all to practice

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Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.

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Patrick Henry. Now, what is the experience?

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Let me back up to the verse, and we don't have experience in that verse.

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Yes, patience, experience, and experience hope. Patience, experience, and experience hope.

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What is the experience? All right.

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Truth by trial. You cannot experience for someone else.

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Is that true, Brother David? Yes. It has to be for you.

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That's right. Yes. Now, the use of the word hope.

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What do we as Christians hope for, Dennis? Hope. All right.

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You touched on it, the last part that you said. What is our hope,

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John, that we will experience eternal life with him?

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That's basically our hope. If you run everything down, that's what you hope for.

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Yes. That's right.

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It's knowledge as far as you're capable of understanding knowledge now.

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There's still the hope because you have not experienced it yet. Turn to Ephesians 1 .11,

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please. And David, read that for me, Brother David. Boy, we quit right there.

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We have an inheritance. We have obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.

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Now, Dennis, how much does that leave out?

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John, are there things in this world that are not after the counsel of his own will?

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Well, we certainly do not understand.

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I wouldn't claim to understand how a baby is taken after but a few minutes of life, or how an old man has to suffer and suffer and suffer.

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I don't understand that. But I do know that it is according to his will.

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Therefore, I can because he did.

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And patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the

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Holy Ghost which is given unto us. The word ashamed means reluctance through fear of humiliation or shame.

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Now, you will not have shame, fear of being humiliated.

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That doesn't play a part. You are unshamed.

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The love, we love him. Well, let's look at this word love.

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Because the love of God is shed abroad. Joy, whose love is it?

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Alright. You love Fred. Is it with the same love?

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Alright. John, why is it that I cannot love my wife with that same love?

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Alright. Alright. Brother David, this godly love came from where?

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From where? Alright.

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It is impossible for us to originate that kind of love.

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Now, I love my wife with all of my heart. Yes. That was a false.

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I love my wife with all of my heart as much as I can, all that's possible, more every day.

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But I cannot love her with the same love that originated from God.

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That's on a higher level. It is impossible for us to originate the kind of love that God requires.

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Therefore, he is the author of it. It came from him.

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The word shed, present and passive. Russell, since it is passive, did we have anything to do with it?

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No. We have nothing to do with having this love.

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It is shed. David, what does shed mean to you besides a lean -to on the back of the garage?

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Katie, tell me what he said. Alright.

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Alright. Now, it is shed abroad.

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Joy, do I have anything with acquiring this love? No. Why don't

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I accept it? That's right.

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We only receive this kind of love and he has shed it abroad in our hearts.

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The work that we do is not ours. Brother David, the work that you do, why isn't it yours?

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That's a good answer. This is the way

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God's will is worked in this life. We're always praying, do the

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Lord's will. Well, how do you do the Lord's will? The way it is.

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That's right. It's all of him. For him. To him.

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And if our motive is right, it will ultimately be for us too. Eventually.

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Well, let's stop here. Well, let me say this.

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Quit trying to be a Christian and be one. So many people go through life trying to do right, trying to be a

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Christian. You'll try to come to church. That's not it. Just be one.

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Yes. And I don't understand.

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Well, as I grow older, I never want to be as old as I'm going to get.

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Yes. Russell, dismiss this please.