Hello!
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My name is Shelley Quinn
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and I welcome you to
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"Exalting His Word"!
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I'm so glad that
you could join us.
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We've got a
wonderful program today
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about the Power of
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God's Promises
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and His pathway to blessing.
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First, I'd like to explain
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the theme verse
for this program.
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Is Psalm 138:2
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And that verse says that
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God exalts His name and His word
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above all things
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and that He exalts His word
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even above His name.
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Now, what does that mean?
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It means,
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that God finds nothing
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more important than His word.
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It means that
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God has promoted His word to
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the highest rank of importance
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and the highest place of praise.
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It means that God has
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given His word m ore power than
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any other force on earth.
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There is transforming power
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in the word of God.
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I know that
since this is what is
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most important to Him,
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His word,
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and since He
has granted His word
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the power to
accomplish all of His will,
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that you and I should re-examine
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our attitude about the Bible.
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Don't you think so?
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If we understand God's will
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and the plan that
He has for our lives,
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we will no longer suffer from
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the identity crisis.
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The word of God
reveals not only His plan
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but it also has
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the creative life giving power
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to work out His plan in us.
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God's word is
alive and it is active.
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And it is a source of power that
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you and I can plug into.
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Let me ask you,
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are you plugged in
to the power of God?
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Our life here on
earth is a training ground.
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A boot camp for eternity
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but as we're
trained for eternity,
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our experience here on earth
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can be filled with joy.
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And it can be filled with peace
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if we understand
God's plan for us.
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He wants us walking in
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the perfect law of liberty
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which can be defined as this...
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That you and I must recognize
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our absolute total dependence
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upon Jesus Christ
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to perform a work in us that
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empowers us to walk in
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the commandments of God.
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Our Lord said
apart from Him that
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we could do nothing.
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But God will
empower us to do everything
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He asks us to do.
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Depending on God's
power to work in us is
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the first great principle that
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will help us
overcome our identity crisis.
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Today we're going to examine
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the second great principle that
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works hand in glove
with the law of liberty.
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And that is understanding
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the transforming power of
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God's promises
at work within us.
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These two great truths combined,
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will cause us to
understand God's plan
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and who we become when
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we accept Christ as our Savior
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and we are included in Christ.
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Before we get into the word,
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let's go to the Lord in prayer
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and ask Him to send
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the Holy Spirit
to be our teacher.
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Heavenly Father,
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we come before you
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in the name of Jesus Christ.
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And we thank you
Father God for your word.
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And we thank you Father for
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the power of your promise.
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And I pray in the
Name of Jesus that
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the Holy Spirit will teach us
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the power of promise.
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I pray you will
send him just now,
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to anoint our ears
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and to open our hearts
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to receive your word.
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For your Glory
in Jesus Name, amen.
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In II Corinthians 12:9
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the Bible says,
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[text on screen]
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These are the words of the Lord.
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I chose the NIV Translation for
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this verse because
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it more accurately depicts
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the original Greek.
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The word power
there is "dunamis".
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It means the power...
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the dynamite power of God that
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keeps on working in us
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to complete the good work that
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God's begun in us
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and bring it to perfection.
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Christ never expected us to
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walk the narrow
road of salvation
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by our own power.
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I keep saying this
but it's so important!
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Apart from Christ
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we can do nothing
to save ourselves.
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We can't obey
God by our own power!
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Obedience is by grace.
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What do I mean by that?
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Well, we've got to
take a closer look at
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what grace really means.
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Most people would say
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it's the unmerited favor of God.
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But, what
exactly does that mean?
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Here's a simple but
profound definition that
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may change the way
you look at God's grace.
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Grace is the unmerited,
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undeserved favor or
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gifts of God.
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Let me repeat it this way.
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Grace is the undeserved
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unearned gifts of God.
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The two greatest
gifts of grace that
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God has bestowed on us is
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Christ in us.
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Our hope of glory
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and the power of
His indwelling spirit!
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No wonder Christ said that
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His grace was sufficient!
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He pours His life
giving power into us
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and perfects the good work that
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He has begun in us.
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This reminds me of
a verse in II Timothy
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and it's chapter one verse 12.
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Now, I'm gonna
try to speak it to you
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although it's hard
for me to speak this verse
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in a natural intonation.
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The scripture that
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this verse is
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-is also the refrain of
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one of my favorite songs that
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I remember often
singing in church
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when I was a child.
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Every time I read it,
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I'm actually
singing it in my heart.
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And it goes like this...
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"I know whom I have believed,
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"and am
persuaded that He is able,
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"to keep that
which I've committed
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"to Him until that day."
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Are you persuaded?
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Are you persuaded that
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Christ is able to save you?
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If we will learn to depend
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on His power to walk in
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the law of liberty.
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Being confident of
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this very thing that
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He who began a good work in you
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will carry it on to completion
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until the day of Christ Jesus.
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Then, praise God,
we'll understand that
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salvation is all about Him.
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It's not up to us!
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All God asks of us is
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permission to work in us.
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Daily we must choose
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to give Him permission
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by coming to Him in surrender.
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We want to surrender
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control of our lives to him
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and walk in
cooperation with His spirit.
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This wonderful law
of liberty will keep us
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walking in obedience.
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We'll recognize
God's commandments
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as His law of love.
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Ten wonderful promises that
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He will empower us to do!
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The joy of our salvation
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will be restored as we learn
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to depend totally on His power
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to work within us.
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With minds that are steadfastly
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fixed on God,
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we'll walk in perfect peace.
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He frees us from condemnation.
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In Romans 8:1 the Bible says...
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[text on screen]
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Oh how I pray that
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God is working in you even now
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what He is also working in me!
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Through the
understanding of His plan.
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The perfect law of
freedom keeps me looking
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into the word of God
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to learn who I
am in Christ Jesus.
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By faith I accept what
God has to say about me.
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By grace I am who God says I am.
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Even if I don't
see the evidence yet!
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I will do as He does.
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And I will call things that
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are not yet tangible or
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evident to my senses
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as though they already existed.
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I want you to
experience this because
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it WILL restore the
joy of your salvation!
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Empowered by grace
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and through our faith in Him,
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we can put His
word into practice
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and be blessed according to
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the promise of James 1:25
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that says...
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"But he who looks into
the perfect law of liberty,
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"and continues in it
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"and is not a forgetful hearer,
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"but a doer of the work.
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"This one will be blessed
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"in what he does."
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Jesus said,
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I am the way
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and the truth
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and the light.
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Jesus promises a way out of
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our identity crisis.
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In Him is life
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and that life is
the light of all men.
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Christ the living word
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is the only way out of darkness.
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to heal us and deliver us from
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our destructive behavior.
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The word of God is life to us
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bringing truth that
has power to change!
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And as His word
enters into our hearts
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it sheds His
light of understanding
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into the darkness
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and confusion
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and it shows us the way out!
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Putting His word into practice
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brings great blessings!
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And it brings great blessings
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and it trains us for
the eternal inheritance that
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we've been promised.
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You know,
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we have been promised
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the mind of Christ.
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In I Corinthians
2:16 Paul says that
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we've been given
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the mind of Christ.
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And the Bible is
the mind of Christ.
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The more we put
God's word into our heart,
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the more we'll operate
by the power of His mind.
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Why would we want to walk in
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our limited understanding when
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it is so pitifully inadequate.
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We have His great wisdom
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right here that
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we can learn to lean on.
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The authority of God's word.
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In Isaiah 46:10 God says that
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I know the end
from the beginning
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and I make it known from
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ancient times what
is going to happen.
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And He says my
purpose will stand
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and I will do all that I please!
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the power of promise is this...
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[information on screen]
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That's Jeremiah 1:12
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God's overall
purposes will stand firm.
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God's watching over
His word to perform it
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and He will not let
His plan be defeated.
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In fact, the Bible tells us that
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He regards all things as if
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Even though they
may not yet be revealed
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to the physical
senses of humanity.
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If this study is
of interest to you,
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-And I hope it is...
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Then you might want to consider
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the following announcement...
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Stay tuned!
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We'll be right back!
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If this dynamic series
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is making a difference
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in your life,
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then you should know
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about a special study guide
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written by Shelley Quinn.
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Exalting His Word with
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Life Affirmations From Scripture
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is an in depth
study of the word of God.
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Please send
your love gifts to...
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God offers us new
life through Christ!
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A glorious life here,
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right now
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and then forever!
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Still He has made
us agents of free will
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and the Lord will not force us
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to accept his gifts.
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Instead we must
give Him permission
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to work in our lives.
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He intervenes by invitation.
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Invite Him in.
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Ephesians 1:11 says that
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He works all things
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according to the wisdom of
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His plan for your life.
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Now how do we know God's will?
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His plan for our lives?
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We can know the
end from the beginning!
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Because it is written
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and in the Bible it says this...
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[text on screen]
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God's will for us is that
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we be separated
from worldly evil.
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That we be sons and daughters
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who partake of
His divine nature.
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That we be Holy.
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Can we achieve this?
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No way!
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But can He achieve this?
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Yes!
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If we'll only let Him
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have His way with us,
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He will do an
incredible work in our lives!
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God's plan is to conform us to
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the very nature of His son.
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Through the
life of Jesus Christ,
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He plans to restore
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and establish
humanity to the creation
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He originally intended.
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When we receive
Christ as our Savior,
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we have a
spiritual union to Him.
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Listen to what
the word of God says
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in I Corinthians 6:17.
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It says that
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He who is joined in the Lord
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is one spirit with Him.
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And in I Corinthians 1:30
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the Bible says...
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That God includes us
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or positions us
spiritually in Christ.
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And we're also told that
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every single
promise of God belongs to us
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if we are abiding in Christ.
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God works out all
of the circumstances of
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our life for
our eternal benefit.
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To help conform us to
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the image of Christ.
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Our destiny is to
become like Jesus.
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We must look into His word
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and get into His promises
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to see a new
vision of who we are.
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The new identity
that we assume in Christ.
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To partake of His divine nature,
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we must partake of His promises
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and make them ours.
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Let's examine
what the Bible says.
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The wonderful news as
found in II Peter 1:3,4.
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Now, let's unpack
all the promise that's
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in those few scriptures.
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God has already equipped us with
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everything that we
need to do His will.
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His spirit and His word
supply the divine power.
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And because of
His loving character
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and His righteousness,
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God has vowed to do for us that
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which we can not
do for ourselves.
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The creative power
of God is in His word.
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God's promises
empower us to escape evil.
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That's what that
scripture just said!
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But more precious than that
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His promises
bring new life in us.
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And cause us to absorb
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the divine
nature of Jesus Christ!
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Hallelujah!
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You know, we've heard it said.
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"Know the truth and the
truth shall set you free."
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Amen?
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Well, not so fast!
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But you think...
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Now wait a minute!
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That's scripture!
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Yes, it's scripture.
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But it's taken out of context.
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We can't read
that verse that's found
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in John 8:31
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without including
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the rest of
Christ's instructions.
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And in the other verse it says,
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"if you abide in His word,
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"then we will be His disciples."
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His disciplined followers.
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And then you will know the truth
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and the truth will set us free.
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Simple
acquaintance with His word
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does us little good.
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The blessing comes
from the knowledge we gain
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through living in His truths.
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The knowing game
through experiencing God
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in our daily lives.
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God's love is unconditional but
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his promises are not.
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They are based on
obedience to His will.
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Which is the only
pathway to blessing.
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Consider this
verse from Hebrews 10:36.
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[text on screen]
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What does the Bible say?
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After we have
done the will of God
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we'll receive the promise.
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That's why it's
important to abide
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or live in God's truth.
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When we choose to walk
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according to His instruction,
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are we willing to
conduct our lives for His glory?
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If we do,
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we'll escape evil.
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If our practice is
to live in His word,
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we'll partake of an
ever increasing measure of
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His divine nature.
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The Holy Spirit
will lead us from
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one level of His
glory to the next.
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I get so excited when
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I talk about his glorious truth!
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I just want to shout
it form the roof top!
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Just pause to consider this.
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All that we have to do
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to overcome evil is
depend on God's power
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to live in His word.
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He has vowed to give us
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the divine nature of Christ
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as we live in His promises.
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It's not us performing His word.
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It is God
fulfilling His word in us.
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By the power of His Holy Spirit.
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How much simpler
could he have made
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His plan for our lives?
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We can stop grieving God.
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WE can quit quenching
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and resisting the Holy Spirit.
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We can be emptied
of our old sin nature.
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Just a little more each day
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as we're trained for our
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glorious eternal inheritance.
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By simply choosing to obey,
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we can tap into
the power that is
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a greater supply of
the Holy Spirit that
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Paul referred to
in Philippians 1:19
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The more we obey
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the more God gives
us the Holy Spirit.
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And the more that
we become like Jesus.
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We'll focus on
this on a later program.
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But for now, just
pause and consider
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what the Bible
says in Acts 5:32.
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[text on screen]
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My heart breaks
when I talk to Christians
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who feel
defeated and discouraged
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and unworthy!
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It doesn't have to be that way!
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If they only
knew their identity!
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And if they only knew
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who they were in Jesus Christ!
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So few of us walk in
the abundant life that
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He wants to give us.
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Right here and now because
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we don't understand
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the privilege of obedience.
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Our all loving,
00:23:06.07\00:23:07.04
all powerful
Father God wants to do
00:23:07.05\00:23:10.88
much more than we ever imagined.
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He is willing to
do all things in us
00:23:14.80\00:23:18.85
for us and through us.
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It's critical we
know who we are in Christ.
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There's only one
way to accomplish this.
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We learn our identity in Him by
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living in God's promises.
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It comes by
experiencing a relationship of
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absolute dependence
on God and His word.
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God wants His slumbering church
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the members of Christ's body
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to wake up
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and walk in true union
00:23:50.13\00:23:52.55
with the living word.
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It's time to abide in His word!
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Plant His promises
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and allow God to bring
His word to life in us!
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God will reward
those who earnestly
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seek Him in faith.
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The promises of God
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are ushered into
existence by faith!
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In the John 11:40
00:24:12.23\00:24:14.05
Jesus said,
00:24:14.10\00:24:15.92
"Did I not say to you
00:24:15.97\00:24:17.85
"that if you would believe
00:24:17.90\00:24:20.08
you would see the glory of God?"
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Are you ready to live
00:24:22.90\00:24:25.68
in absolute dependence upon
00:24:25.73\00:24:26.70
the transforming power
of the spirit and his word?
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The seed of the
miracle is in God's word.
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Miracles from God
will follow our faith
00:24:33.67\00:24:37.02
when we overcome
our identity crisis.
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God will be able to
trust us with his power
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just as He did with Moses
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and Joshua
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and Peter.
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Well, I hope
that you're beginning
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to see today that
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there is power
in God's promises.
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It is the power to bring us
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and cause us to absorb
00:25:03.17\00:25:06.15
the divine nature of Christ.
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If we'll just get His
promises into our hearts
00:25:08.20\00:25:11.55
speak them over our lives
00:25:11.60\00:25:14.82
and except God's testimony about
00:25:14.87\00:25:17.88
who we are in Christ.
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God will honor our faith
00:25:20.20\00:25:22.35
and He will bring up
those promises to life in us.
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I think that if we
could just understand
00:25:27.97\00:25:30.55
these two principles to overcome
00:25:30.60\00:25:32.82
our identity crisis
00:25:32.87\00:25:34.62
the law of Liberty which means
00:25:34.67\00:25:36.72
we walk in
absolute total dependence
00:25:36.77\00:25:40.48
on Jesus Christ
00:25:40.53\00:25:41.82
to do a work in us
00:25:41.87\00:25:43.48
to empower us to
walk in obedience
00:25:43.53\00:25:45.65
to God's Commandments.
00:25:45.70\00:25:47.25
And then if we would understand
00:25:47.30\00:25:50.05
the power of God's promises that
00:25:50.10\00:25:53.12
we are who God says we are.
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And if we'll we
just take that to heart
00:25:54.93\00:25:58.05
and believe it
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God will watch over
His word to perform it!
00:25:59.23\00:26:02.95
He wants us to
come to Him in faith.
00:26:03.00\00:26:07.02
He doesn't want
us to be doubting
00:26:07.07\00:26:10.25
and disbelieving
what He says to us.
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His promises are
solemn vows to us.
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And when we get God's
promises into our heart
00:26:19.97\00:26:22.85
and you know,
00:26:22.90\00:26:23.87
every commandment
of God is a promise of
00:26:23.88\00:26:26.45
something that God
will empower us to do.
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When we get those into our heart
00:26:30.30\00:26:32.88
God will do something that
00:26:32.93\00:26:35.98
we've never experienced before.
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Well our time together
00:26:39.30\00:26:40.75
certainly passes by quickly!
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I hope that you are allowing
00:26:43.30\00:26:46.42
the Holy Spirit to
00:26:46.47\00:26:47.44
teach you how to depend
00:26:47.45\00:26:49.25
totally on God.
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For the power to
walk in obedience to him.
00:26:50.63\00:26:54.58
I hope that you're
encouraged to know that
00:26:54.63\00:26:58.32
God watches over
His word to perform it.
00:26:58.37\00:27:02.38
That means there's a
power in the promises of God.
00:27:02.43\00:27:07.88
He will perform his vows in you
00:27:07.93\00:27:10.62
if you'll just
cooperate with Him.
00:27:10.67\00:27:12.92
He will transform your life!
00:27:12.97\00:27:16.08
Please join us next time
00:27:16.13\00:27:17.98
as we start our
study on planting
00:27:18.03\00:27:21.88
God's promises for
00:27:21.93\00:27:23.75
a harvest of blessings.
00:27:23.80\00:27:25.25
I think you'll
really enjoyed this study.
00:27:25.30\00:27:27.75
May God multiply his mercy,
00:27:27.80\00:27:31.18
love,
00:27:31.23\00:27:32.20
and grace to you.
00:27:32.21\00:27:33.48
And watch over his word
00:27:33.53\00:27:34.58
to perform it in your life
00:27:34.63\00:27:36.45
as you cooperate with him.
00:27:36.50\00:27:38.42
Please remember to
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spend your time making that
00:27:40.20\00:27:43.25
which is most important to God
00:27:43.30\00:27:46.02
the very thing that is also
00:27:46.07\00:27:49.15
most important to you.
00:27:49.20\00:27:52.05
"Exalting His Word"
00:27:52.10\00:27:54.32
above all things!
00:27:54.37\00:27:57.28