Hi, I'm Pastor
Floyd Bresee and I've been
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thinking, it seems
to me there'd be a lot
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more Christians, if
Christians were a lot
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more Christ like
let's pray about it.
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Lord, please speak
to us today, what you
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need most for us to
learn that will help us
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become more Christ
like Christians we pray
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in Jesus name.
Amen. Today I want to talk
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about
conquerors. We all want to be
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conquerors,
conquering, conquerors through
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Christ, let's leave
our Bibles open to Romans
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the 8th chapter
we're going to look at the
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last third of that
chapter and I will be
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using the new
international version.
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When celebrity
Anna Nicole Smith died,
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it fostered a huge
custody battle over
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her 5 month old
baby Dannielynn to whom
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would she belong,
where would she live,
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but have you
stopped to thinking that you
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are in the center of
an even bigger custody
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battle. The great
controversy we call it
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between Christ and
Satan. Custody over,
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to whom will you
belong, and where will
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you live for eternity.
In this great controversy,
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one of Satan's most
deceitful and diabolically
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successful tools. Is
what I would like to call
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the God blamer. There
is nothing Satan loves
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more than to hurt us
and get us to blame God
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for it. He loves to
bring us pain and get us to
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blame God for it,
and he loves to bring
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problems into our
lives and get us to blame
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God for it, and when
the world is suffering
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he wants us to
blame God for it, and the
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existence of evil he
hopes we'll blame God for
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it. All the miseries of
life the devil would love
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nothing more then
for us to blame God.
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One of life's most
important lessons we
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simply must not
confuse God with life.
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Our emphasis today
life isn't fair, but God is.
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Be very careful
about acquitting those two,
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life isn't fair, but
God is. It's certainly true
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that life isn't fair.
Life continually tries to
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beat us down. It's
just not fair that some
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grew up with abusive
parents and therefore
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spent a whole lifetime
planning it difficult to
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learn love. It's not
fair that some have to grow
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up in a single parent
home and not understand
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what a, God's
home was meant to be.
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It's not fair that
some inherit the genes for
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cancer or for
Arthritis. It's not fair that
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someone loses a
spouse and perhaps have to
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live alone all the
rest of their lives.
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Romans the 8th
chapter in the 35 verse.
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Notice that Paul
is really speaking
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biographically when
he says in verse 35,
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who shall separate us
from the love of Christ?
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Shall trouble or
hardship or persecution or
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famine or
nakedness or danger or sword,
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he knew exactly
what he was talking about
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when Paul talked
about these very things,
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because these were
things he endured trouble
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and hardship and
persecution because he
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was a mean man,
because he was a bad
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men? No, just
because he was trying to help
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people. Life simply is
not fair. Satan sees us as
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sheep to be
slaughtered, notice this in
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verse 36, Romans 8 and verse 36,
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as it is written;
"For your sake we face
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death all day long; we
are considered as sheep
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to be slaughtered."
Slaughtered, as sheep to
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be slaughtered. The
picture I get is of the
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slaughtering house
and here is the flock of
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sheep in the holding
pen and just out there
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is death's door and
the sheep are milling
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around and around
and around and around
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until death comes
and that's what life can
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be like, that's the
way Satan sees life.
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Satan sees us as
"Dead Meat" he sees us as
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sheep. Sheep are
presumed to be pretty
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stupid and easy to
fool. He sees us as
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conformance, like
sheep he thinks that if he
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can get the world to
do anything he can get
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even Christians
gradually to be doing it too.
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You heard of the
teacher who was drilling
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the farm boy Billy in
arithmetic and teacher
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said you have 10
sheep in the pen and one
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gets out, how many
sheep do you have left?
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And Belly said zero.
Teacher said, Billy you
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don't know you're arithmetic.
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Billy said teacher
you don't know your sheep,
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if one goes they're
all gone. That's the way
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the devil sees us,
he sees us as sheep,
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as conformance,
purely followers of
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whatever happens
to be closest by.
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Oh, what a
contrast. Always the devil
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sees us as sheep
to be slaughtered,
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God sees us so very differently.
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He sees us as
children to be loved.
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Notice the family
analogy in verse 29 of
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Romans 8 and
now notice verse 29,
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For those God
foreknew He also predestined
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to be conformed to
the likeness of his Son,
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that he might be
the firstborn among many
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bothers. Did you,
did you see the words
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there? The Son, the
first born, the brothers.
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God is a heavenly
parent, we are His
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children. Boy gets
a new bat and a ball,
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now don't bat your
ball in the backyard
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and take it up to
the playing field,
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but do not bat your
ball in the backyard and
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the boy disobeys and
the ball comes through
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the windows. Now
what's a good parent do?
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Let me tell you some
things that good parent
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doesn't do. A good
parent doesn't stop
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loving the boy and
when you have goofed
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and when you have
disobey God doesn't
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stop loving you,
because God is a good parent.
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A second thing,
good parent doesn't do is
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remove the
consequences. You see a
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lot of our prayers
I've seen God to remove
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the consequences
for the mistakes and
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the disobedience. A
good parent does not
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remove the
consequences. Now some
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things that a
good parent does do,
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he uses the
experience to teach the boy
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a lesson and God
doesn't stop loving us
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when we have done
things that are wrong.
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He doesn't reject
us, He doesn't take away
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the consequences
either, but He tires to
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use the difficult
things in life to teach us
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lessons, another
thing that a good parent
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does. He hurts with
the child who is hurting.
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And so the boy he
gets a job, raking leaves
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for there
neighbors and he rakes and he
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rakes and he
works, and he works,
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and he comes home with blisters.
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Mother say that'll,
that'll teach you right.
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We told you had
to pay for the window
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and now see what
a mess you're in.
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Oh no, what's a
mother do and she get
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some sap and she
finds some way to dress
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those wounds. You
see when we're hurt,
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God hurts with us.
Queen Victoria visited a
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grieving commoner.
The poor lady had lost
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her baby and
Victoria having had some
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serious losses in
her background also felt
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for this grieving
woman and she actually went,
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went with all of her
entourage to see that
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mother and, and
after the commotion had
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quieted down and
Victoria had gone.
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Then there was of
course all gathered
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around, now what
she said, what she said.
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And that grieving mother said,
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she said nothing, she
just laid her hands over
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mine and we wept together.
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Now when you're
hurt, God hurts too,
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God hurts with you.
I would like to quote
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for you just two
sentences from Malcolm
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Muggeridge. He wrote
a wonderfully thought
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provoking
statement and see if it means
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as much to you
as it is meant to me
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Muggeridge said,
"Contrary to what might
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be expected, I
look back on experiences
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that at the time
seemed especially desolating
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and painful, with
particular satisfaction."
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What? Things that are
desolating and painful,
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satisfaction, he
continues; "Indeed,
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I can say with
complete truthfulness that
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everything I have learned in my
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seventy-five
years in this world,
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everything that
was truly, has truly
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enhanced and enlightened my
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experience has been
through affliction and
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not through
happiness." And we want so much
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to be spared
affection. Muggeridge says,
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that is the way that
we learn. A scientist
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was studying moths
and this little moth was
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trying to make its
way out of the cocoon and
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the hole was much
too small and it was
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thrashing about and
it was unable to come
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out and the scientist
felt sorry for that poor
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little moth, so he
took his scissor and he
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clipped off the end
of the cocoon and sure
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enough the moth came easily out.
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But he didn't learn
until later that all of
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that thrashing
around was what drove the
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fluid from the body
of the moth to the wings
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and because he was
let out without that
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struggle, his body
was always large and he
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never did get
wings that would fly.
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You see by depriving
the moth of struggle,
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he had prepared
that moth to fail,
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by depriving
that moth of struggle,
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he had deprived that
moth of the ability to
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fly. Now don't blame
God for what the devil
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does, please don't
confuse God with life.
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Verses 33 and 34,
who will bring any charge
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against those
whom God has chosen?
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It is God who
justifies. Who is he that
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condemns? Christ
Jesus, who died more
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than that, who was
raised in life, is at the
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right hand of God
and is also interceding
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for us. Now it's a
little backward logic and
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Christ does not
condemn, God does not
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condemn He is saying
and that leaves Satan,
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he's, Satan is
called you know the accuser.
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God does not
condemn, as a matter of fact
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the gospel could
very well be summarized in
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just four words, God
is for us, and when life
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seem difficult and
you think you're out there
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on the battlefield
of the great controversy
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all by yourself, God
is for us. We must grow
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beyond a contract
relationship with God to
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a trusting
relationship here, you're taking
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on a new job and
you tell your boss,
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I'll work for you so
long as the pay is good
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and the work is not
too hard, but if the pay
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is not good and the
work is hard I'll quit.
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We have too many
contract Christians who
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say I'll serve God
so long as he pays well,
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and so long as life
doesn't get too hard,
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but if it doesn't
pay and if life gets hard
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I'll quit. We need
to go beyond that kind
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of a contract
Christianity to a mature
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trusting Christianity
that says some how God
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and I together can
make something good
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come out of even
this. God is not responsible
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for sin we are not
just our ancestors not
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just Adam and Eve,
we also have chosen
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self-centeredness
which is simply another
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term for sin, probably
happened already to you
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today, but couldn't
or not, an omnipotent
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God stop this
suffering, of course he could.
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He can do everything
this, this self-centered
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living. I want
to give two answers,
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first of all why
doesn't God stop suffering,
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number one is
because his omissions limits
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his omnipotence.
That's his wisdom overcomes
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his overwhelming
power he knows that in
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order to have a
world of love he cannot
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force obedience, his omissions,
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his wisdom
limits his omnipotence,
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his power. Love
requires the right to choose,
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even when the choice is wrong.
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Even when the choice
means the death of his
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own son and so the
second reason why God
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has not stopped it,
please understand he's
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in the process, God is
going to stop suffering,
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he sent his son so he
could stop and he will
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stop and as soon as
everyone has had the
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opportunity to choose the son.
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Meanwhile although,
although I don't believe
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our loving God causes
trail. I do believe that
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he uses it. When
I was a boy I had a
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mother who loved me very much,
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she loved me so
much that she made a
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birthday cake
for me from scratch,
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now you can tell that
it was a long time ago.
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I watched as she
put in some good things,
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she put in some
sugar, and she put in some
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butter, but then she
put in some things that
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were not so appetizing,
she added some flour,
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some raw eggs, and
some baking powder.
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I learned however to trust her,
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because I found
out that when she mixed
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all of these things
together just right my
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birthday cake
turned out just right.
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God brings some
good things, so the devil
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brings in life,
brings some bad things,
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but God takes
those things and he mixes
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them together and we
just trust His mixing
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our lives will turn
out right. Life isn't fair,
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but God is. We
conqueror life through Christ.
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Our sermon title
comes from verse 37,
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No in all these
things we are more than
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conquerors
through him who loved us.
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We conquered
through Christ, how do we
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conquer through
Christ? Well first of all,
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we conquer through
Christ by following his
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example, Jesus is our example,
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verse 29 please,
verse 29, for those God
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foreknew He also
predestined to be
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conformed to the
likeness of His Son,
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that he might be
the firstborn among many
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bothers. Did you get
the family analogy there
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again, Jesus is the
firstborn, he's our big
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brother, I had two
of those. I had two big
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brothers and I
learned to watch my big
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brothers, and I
had trouble getting the
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spoon from the bowl
up to my mouth until
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I learned how
my brothers did it,
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and I learned
from my brothers and I,
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one of the toughest
things I ever had to do
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is learn to tie
shoes and I learned from my
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brothers. I learned
how ride a bike from my
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brothers. I learned
by watching my brothers
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and you will learn
your way through trial by
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watching your big
brother. Jesus is your
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big brother and He
surely had plenty of trial.
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He was conceived out of wedlock,
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the tradition church hated Him.
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His own church
leaders disappointed him.
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The Romans
crucified him, Gethsemane
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of course was his
toughest trial of all,
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but even there he
trusted, he trusted the
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Father's will more than his own.
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And so by following
Jesus example we can
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succeed, be
conquerors, Jesus is our
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intercessor is
another way that we are
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conquerors through
Christ. Look at verse 34
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once more, who
is he that condemns?
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Christ Jesus, who
died more than that,
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who was raised to
life is at the right hand
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of God and is also
interceding for us.
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Christ intercedes for
us, He waits to forgive
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us I have here a $20
bill, fairly good looking
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$20 bill as $20
bills go, would you be
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interested, do you
see any value in this $20
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bill. Well if so,
what if I would kind of do
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this to it, now
would you see a value in my
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$20 bill? Or what if I
would throw it on floor
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and I would stomp on
it and I would put it
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in the grim and all
the filth and all the dirt
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then would you find
value in my $20 bill?
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Yes, because you
know what a $20 bill is
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worth, and though
the world has stomped
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on you, though you
have been ground into
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the dirt of this
world, Jesus still seems,
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well sees values in
you, whether the rest of
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the world does or
not. Jesus knows your
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value and He waits
to forgive and intercede
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for you. And then
Jesus love is unfailing
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how do we
conquerors through Christ,
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through his unfailing
love, verses 38 and 39,
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For I am convinced
that neither death nor
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life, neither angels
nor demons, neither the
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present nor the
future, nor any powers,
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neither height nor
depth, not any thing else
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and all creation will
be able to separate us
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from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus
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our Lord. Jesus
love is unfailing.
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Our text talks
about the height of
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prosperity or the
depths of trail and
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discouragement.
Nothing can separate you
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from the love of
God, you can separate
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yourself by
choosing not to follow him,
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but you can't make
him stop loving you.
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Regardless of
where you've been or what
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you've done or what
you're going through
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right now. Your
heavenly Father and
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your big brother
love you. His love remains
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constant. Little
girl loved her pretty new
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doll and when the
family got in the car to go
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to the supermarket
if they had forgotten
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the doll they had
to go back, because she
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loved her pretty
doll, and when they got to
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supermarket. She
ought to be left in the car,
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no she had go into
the supermarket too,
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because she
loved her pretty doll,
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and when the little
girl go went to bed at
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night she wasn't
ready to sleep until she
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had that pretty
doll by her side.
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She played and
played with her pretty doll
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until. In the
kitchen one day, she was
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playing house and
she puts her baby to bed
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in a cupboard she
thought, but to the little
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girl the oven
looked an awful lot like a
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cupboard and the
mother turned on the
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oven later on and
there was a peculiar odor
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and, and finally she
traced it to the oven
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and there it was
that poor little misshapen
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doll one hand was
totally melded off.
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The eyes were all
sunken back in her head.
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The body was looked
all, all sunken in and
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the head was
misshaped. But the little
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girl still loved that
disfigured doll and when
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they went any place.
They had to take that
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disfigured doll,
because disfigured as
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she was. She still
loved that little doll and
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God is that way
disfigured as you maybe
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He still loves you.
And then in another way
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we conquer through
Christ, is that he turns
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bad into good now
we're gonna read the
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text that we read
very often, but notice
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this text is
conditional on our loving Him
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enough to trust
Him in all things,
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its verse 28, And
we know that in all
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things God works
for good of those who
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love Him who have
been called according to
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His purpose. Notice
those operative words
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things work for
good to those who love
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Him who are called
according to His purpose,
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those who trust Him.
An Athlete is training
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for the
Olympics under her couch.
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Olympic speed
skating event, and the
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athlete complaints
that coach I don't see
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your purpose in
making me start off a line
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this way and the
coach replies trust me and
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then the athlete
says, but do I have to do
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all things, why
couldn't I take this turn my
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way and then the
coach says, no trust me
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and the athlete says
I've been out for six
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hours. I've gone
around this over and over
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and over and
over a hundred time,
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my feet are
blistered and I ache all over
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and the coach says, do it again,
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trust me and
because she trusts her coach
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and because she's
willing to bear the pain
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she becomes an
Olympic champion and if
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you and I will trust
the coach and be wiling
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to bear with his help
the pain that life brings,
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we too can be
conquerors. We conquer
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through Christ, our
example in trial our
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intercessor when we
fail, He loves us no
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matter what we do,
and if we trust Him when
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things seem to go
bad He will turn them
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into good. Life
isn't fair, but God is.
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The Bible says, he
will wipe every tear from
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their eyes, but
this is only at the end,
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this is a
description of the beginning of
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heaven. In another
words the inference is
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that we're going
to have some tears
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between now and
heaven, all are going
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to have some tears until then.
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And you can
conquerors through Christ.
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When I was just
a grade schooler,
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I went to school, to
a small school and we
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had a small
playground where we chose up
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and played softball
almost every recess and
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I always if I had the
chance to be captain I
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always knew whom I
was going to choose
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first. It was my big
brother Harve, because
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my big brother Harve
could hit that ball over
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the tallest tree
way out in center field.
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I knew that if I
could just chose Harve I
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knew that I could
win. The Lord Jesus is
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your big brother, you
can know if you choose
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him you can win.
Loving Father, we thank you
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for the promise we
have of wining through
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Jesus. We trust you
to mix the good with
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bad and make of us
something that you want
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us to be and
something that the world
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can use, thank you
in Jesus name. Amen.
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Thank you for tuning
in, I pray that as you
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go to back to your
life you will have totally
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and absolutely
chosen Christ as your big
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brother, put Him on your side,
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because with Him you can win.
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May God bless.
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