Hi and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer.
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Before we begin to read
today from the book of Acts,
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let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, thank You
for sending us Your Word
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to be a light to our feet and
to guide us as we make our way
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through our days, and hopefully,
serve you better each day.
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Thank You for the testimony of
the life of your servant Paul,
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and may we be able to say, like
Paul, that we belong to You,
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and we serve You
with all our hearts.
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We love You, Jesus.
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Amen.
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Again, I'm reading
today from the book of Acts.
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It's the King James Version.
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And when we left off last time
Paul is sailing with a group
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of men, and
they're caught in a storm.
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But God has revealed to
Paul that everyone on the ship
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will be safe, but the
ship itself will be lost.
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The men take heart at this,
and they eat, and they lighten
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the ship; throwing the
rest of the wheat overboard.
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We're picking
up now in verse 39.
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And when it was day,
they knew not the land:
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but they discovered a
certain creek with a shore,
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into the which they were
minded, if it were possible,
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to thrust in the ship.
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And when they had taken up
the anchors, they committed
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themselves unto the sea,
and loosed the rudder bands,
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and hoisted up the
mainsail to the wind,
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and made toward shore.
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And falling into a
place where two seas met,
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they ran the ship aground;
and the forepart stuck fast,
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and remained unmoveable,
but the hinder part was broken
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with the violence of the waves.
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And the soldiers' counsel
was to kill the prisoners,
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lest any of them
should swim out, and escape.
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But the centurion,
willing to save Paul,
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kept them from their purpose;
and commanded that they which
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could swim should cast
themselves first into the sea,
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and get to land: and
the rest, some on boards,
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and some on broken
pieces of the ship.
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And so it came to
pass, that they escaped
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all safe to land.
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Reading now from the book of
Acts in the King James Version,
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chapter 28.
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And when they were escaped,
then they knew that the island
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was called Melita.
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And the barbarous people
showed us no little kindness:
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for they kindled a fire,
and received us every one,
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because of the present
rain, and because of the cold.
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And when Paul had
gathered a bundle of sticks,
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and laid them on the fire, there
came a viper out of the heat,
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and fastened on his hand.
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And when the barbarians saw the
venomous beast hang on his hand,
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they said among themselves,
No doubt this man is a murderer,
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whom, thou he hath escaped
the sea, yet vengeance suffereth
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not to live.
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And he shook off the beast
into the fire, and felt no harm.
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Howbeit they looked
when he should have swollen,
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or fallen down dead suddenly:
but after they had looked
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a great while, and
saw no harm come to him,
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they changed their minds,
and said that he was a god.
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In the same quarters were
possessions of the chief man
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of the island, whose name
was Publius; who received us,
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and lodged us
three days courteously.
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And it came to pass, that
the father of Publius lay sick
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of a fever and of a bloody
flux: to whom Paul entered in,
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and prayed, and laid his
hands on him, and healed him.
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So when this was done,
others also, which had diseases
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in the island, came, and
were healed: who also honored us
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with many honors; and when
we departed, they laded us with
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such things as were necessary.
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And after three
months we departed in a ship
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of Alexandria, which
had wintered in the isle,
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whose sign was
Castor and Pollux.
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And landing at Syracuse,
we tarried there three days.
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And from thence we fetched a
compass, and came to Rhegium:
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and after one day the
south wind blew, and we came
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the next day to Puteoli:
where we found brethren,
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and were desired to
tarry with them seven days:
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and so we went toward Rome.
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And from thence, when
the brethren heard of us,
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they came to meet us
as far as Appii forum,
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and the three
taverns; whom when Paul saw,
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he thanked God,
and took courage.
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And when we came to
Rome, the centurion delivered
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the prisoners to the
captain of the guard:
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but Paul was suffered to
dwell by himself with a soldier
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that kept him.
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And it came to pass,
that after three days
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Paul called the
chief of the Jews together:
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and when they were come
together, he said unto them,
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Men and brethren, though I
have committed nothing against
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the people, or customs of
our fathers, yet was I delivered
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prisoner from Jerusalem
into the hands of the Romans.
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Who, when they had examined
me, would have let me go,
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because there was no
cause of death in me.
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But when the Jews spake against
it, I was constrained to appeal
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unto Caesar; not that I had
aught to accuse my nation of.
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For this cause therefore have
I called for you, to see you,
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and to speak with you: because
that for the hope of Israel
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I am bound with this chain.
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And they said unto him, We
neither received letters out of
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Judea concerning thee, neither
any of the brethren that came
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showed or spake
any harm of thee.
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But we desire to hear
of thee what thou thinkest:
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for as concerning this
sect, we know that everywhere
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it is spoken against.
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And when they had appointed
him a day, there came many
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to him into his lodging; to
whom he expounded and testified
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the kingdom of God, persuading
them concerning Jesus,
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both out of the law of
Moses, and out of the prophets,
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from morning till evening.
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And some believed the
things which were spoken,
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and some believed not.
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And when they agreed not
among themselves, they departed,
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after that Paul had spoken one
word, Well spake the Holy Ghost
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by Isaiah the prophet
unto our fathers, saying,
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Go unto this people, and
say, Hearing ye shall hear,
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and shall not understand;
and seeing ye shall see,
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and not perceive: for the heart
of this people is waxed gross,
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and their ears are dull of
hearing, and their eyes have
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they closed; lest they
should see with their eyes,
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and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart,
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and should be converted,
and I should heal them.
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Be it known therefore unto
you, that the salvation of God
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is sent unto the Gentiles,
and that they will hear it.
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And when he had said
these words, the Jews departed,
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and had great
reasoning among themselves.
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And Paul dwelt two whole
years in his own hired house,
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and received all that came in
unto him, preaching the kingdom
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of God, and teaching
those things which concern
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the Lord Jesus
Christ, with all confidence,
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no man forbidding him.
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We're reading today
from the King James Version,
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and we just completed the book
of Acts, and we're now beginning
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the book of Romans, chapter 1.
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Paul, a servant of Jesus
Christ, called to be an apostle,
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separated unto the gospel
of God, (which he had promised
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afore by his prophets
in the holy Scriptures,)
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concerning his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord, which was made of the
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seed of David according to
the flesh; and declared to be
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the Son of God with power,
according to the Spirit of
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holiness, by the
resurrection from the dead:
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by whom we have
received grace and apostleship,
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for obedience to the faith
among all nations, for his name:
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among whom are ye also
the called of Jesus Christ:
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to all that be in Rome, beloved
of God, called to be saints:
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Grace to you and
peace from God our Father,
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and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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First, I thank my God through
Jesus Christ for you all,
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that your faith is spoken
of throughout the whole world.
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For God is my witness,
whom I serve with my spirit
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in the gospel of his Son, that
without ceasing I make mention
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of you always in my
prayers; making request,
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if by any means now at length I
might have a prosperous journey
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by the will of
God to come unto you.
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For I long to see you,
that I may impart unto you
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some spiritual gift, to
the end ye may be established;
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that is, that I may be comforted
together with you by the mutual
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faith both of you and me.
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Now I would not have
you ignorant, brethren,
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that oftentimes I
purposed to come unto you,
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that I might
have some fruit among
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you also, even as
among other Gentiles.
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I am debtor both to the
Greeks, and to the Barbarians;
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both to the wise,
and to the unwise.
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So, as much as in me is, I
am ready to preach the gospel
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to you that are at Rome also.
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For I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ:
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for it is the power of God
unto salvation to every one that
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believeth; to the Jew
first, and also to the Greek.
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For therein is the righteousness
of God revealed from faith
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to faith: as it is written,
The just shall live by faith.
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For the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against all
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ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men, who hold the truth
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in unrighteousness; because
that which may be known of God
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is manifest in them; for
God hath showed it unto them.
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For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world
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are clearly seen, being
understood by the things
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that are made, even his
eternal power and Godhead;
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so that they are without excuse:
because that, when they knew
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God, they glorified him not
as God, neither were thankful;
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but became vain in their
imaginations, and their foolish
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heart was darkened.
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Professing themselves to
be wise, they became fools,
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And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image
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made like to
corruptible man, and to birds,
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and four-footed
beasts, and creeping things.
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Wherefore God also
gave them up to uncleanness,
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through the lusts of their own
hearts, to dishonor their own
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bodies between themselves:
who changed the truth of God
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into a lie, and worshiped and
served the creature more than
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the Creator, who
is blessed for ever.
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Amen.
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For this cause God gave
them up unto vile affections:
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for even their women did
change the natural use into that
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which is against nature:
and likewise also the men,
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leaving the natural use of
the woman, burned in their lust
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one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly,
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and receiving in themselves
that recompense of their error
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which was meet.
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And even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge,
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God gave them over
to a reprobate mind,
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to do those things
which are not convenient;
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being filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication,
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wickedness, covetousness
maliciousness; full of envy,
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murder, debate,
deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters,
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inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents,
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without understanding,
covenant breakers,
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without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful:
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who, knowing the judgment of
God, that they which commit such
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things are worthy of
death, not only do the same,
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but have pleasure
in them that do them.
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We're reading from
the King James Version
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the book of Romans, chapter 2.
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Therefore thou art inexcusable,
O man, whosoever thou art
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that judgest: for
wherein thou judgest another,
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thou condemnest thyself;
for thou that judgest doest
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the same things.
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But we are sure that the
judgment of God is according
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to truth against them
which commit such things.
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And thinkest thou this, O man,
that judgest them which do such
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things, and doest the
same, that thou shalt escape
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the judgment of God?
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Or despisest thou the riches
of his goodness and forbearance
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and long-suffering; not
knowing that the goodness of God
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leadeth thee to repentance?
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But after thy hardness and
impenitent heart treasurest up
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unto thyself wrath against
the day of wrath and revelation
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of the righteous
judgment of God; who will render
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to every man according to his
deeds: to them who by patient
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continuance in well-doing
seek for glory and honor
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and immortality, eternal
life: but unto them that are
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contentious, and do not obey the
truth, but obey unrighteousness,
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indignation and wrath,
tribulation and anguish,
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upon every soul of man that
doeth evil; of the Jew first,
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and also of the Gentile;
but glory, honor, and peace,
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to every man that
worketh good; to the Jew first,
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and also to the
Gentile: for there is no respect
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of persons with God.
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For as many as have sinned
without law shall also perish
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without law; and as many
as have sinned in the law
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shall be judged by the law;
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