Hello and welcome
to His Words are Life
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and thank you
for coming apart with me today
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to read the beautiful
word of God. Before we start
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Let's pray together. Dear Jesus,
thank you for putting in us
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the desire to know you
more. And the good work that
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You've begun in each of
our lives to your glory,
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please finish that
work. Please don't let us go.
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But keep us drawing ever closer
to You and walking more and more
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like You every day.
Thank You for loving us.
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We love you so much. Amen.
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Reading today from the
King James version and this is
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First Corinthians - we're almost
finished with this Epistle.
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This is the sign off of
Paul, and we're reading from
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the King James version. This is
chapter 16 starting with v. 19.
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The churches of Asia
salute you. Aquilla and Pricilla
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salute you much in
the Lord, with the church
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that is in their house.
All the brethren greet you
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Greet ye one
another with a holy kiss.
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The salutation of me,
Paul, with mine own hand.
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If any man love not
the Lord Jesus Christ,
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Let him be Anathema
Maranatha. The grace of our Lord
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Jesus Christ be with
you. My love be with you all
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in Christ Jesus. Amen.
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Now we're moving on to the
second letter to the Corinthians
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chapter one. this is
the King James version.
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Paul, and apostle of
Jesus Christ by the will of God,
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and Timothy our brother,
unto the church of God which is
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at Corinth, with all the
saints which are in all Achaia.
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Grace be to you and
peace from God our Father,
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and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Blessed be God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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the Father of mercies,
and the God of all comfort;
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who comforteth us in all our
tribulation, that we may be able
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to comfort them which are
in any trouble, by the comfort
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wherewith we
ourselves are comforted of God.
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For as the sufferings of Christ
abound in us, so our consolation
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also aboundeth by Christ. And
whether we be afflicted, it is
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for your consolation and
salvation, which is effectual
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in the enduring of the same
sufferings which we also suffer:
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or whether we be comforted,
it is for your consolation
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and salvation. And our hope of
you is steadfast, knowing that
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as ye are partakers of the
sufferings, so shall ye be also
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of the consolation. For we would
not brethren, have you ignorant
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of our trouble which came to
us in Asia, that we were pressed
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out of measure, above strength,
insomuch that we despaired even
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of life: But we had the
sentence of death in ourselves,
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that we should not
trust in ourselves, but in God
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which raiseth the dead: Who
delivered us from so great a
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death and doth deliver: in
whom we trust that he will yet
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deliver us; Ye also helping
together by prayer for us,
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that for the gift bestowed upon
us by the means of many persons
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thanks may be given by many on
our behalf. For our rejoicing is
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this, the testimony of our
conscience, that in simplicity
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and godly sincerity, not with
fleshly wisdom, but by the grace
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of God, we have had our
conversation in the world,
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and more abundantly to
you-ward. For we write none
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other things unto you, than
what ye read or acknowledge;
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and I trust ye shall
acknowledge even to the end.
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As also ye have acknowledged
us in part, that we are your
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rejoicing, even as ye
also are ours in the day
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of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
in this confidence, I was minded
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to come unto you before, that
ye might have a second benefit;
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And to pass by you into
Macedonia, and to come again
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out of Macedonia unto you, and
of you to be brought on my way
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toward Judea. When I
therefore was thus minded,
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did I use lightness? or
the things that I purpose,
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do I purpose according to the
flesh, that with me there should
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be yea yea, and nay nay? But
as God is true, our word toward
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you is not yea and nay. For
the Son of God, Jesus Christ,
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who was preached among you
by us, even by me and Silvanus
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and Timotheus, was not yea
and nay, but in him was yea.
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For all the promises of God
in him are yea, and in him Amen,
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unto the gory of God by
us. Now he which stablisheth us
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with you in Christ, and
hath anointed us, is God;
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Who hath also sealed us, and
given the earnest of the Spirit
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in our hearts.. Moreover I call
God for a record upon my soul,
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that to spare you I
came not as yet unto Corinth.
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But for that we have dominion
over your faith, but are helpers
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of your joy: for
by faith ye stand.
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We are reading Paul's letter,
2 Corinthians chapter two.
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But I determined this with
myself, that I would not come
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again unto you with heaviness.
But if I make you sorry,
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who is he then that maketh me
glad, but the same which is made
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sorry by me? And I wrote this
same unto you, lest, when I came
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I should have sorrow from
them of whom I ought to rejoice;
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having confidence in you
all, that my joy is the joy
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of you all. For out of much
affliction and anguish of heart
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I wrote unto you with many
tears; not that ye should be
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grieved, but that ye might
know the love which I have more
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abundantly unto you. But
if any have caused grief,
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he hath not grieved me, but in
part: that I may not overcharge
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you all. Sufficient to
such a man is this punishment,
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which was inflicted of many.
So that contrariwise ye ought
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rather to forgive him, and
comfort him, lest perhaps such
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a one should be swallowed
up with overmuch sorrow.
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Wherefore I beseech you that ye
would confirm your love toward
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him. For to this end also
did I write, that I might know
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the proof of you, whether
ye be obedient in all things.
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To whom ye forgive any thing,
I forgive also: for if I forgive
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any thing, to whom I forgave
it, for your sakes forgave I it
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in the person of Christ; lest
Satan should get an advantage
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of us: for we are not
ignorant of his devices.
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Furthermore, when I
came to Troas to preach
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Christ's gospel, and a door was
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opened unto me of the Lord,
I had no rest in my spirit,
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because I found not Titus, my
brother: but taking my leave of
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them, I went from
thence unto Macedonia.
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Now thanks be unto God, which
always causeth us to triumph
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in Christ, and maketh manifest
the savour of his knowledge
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by us in every place. For we
are unto God a sweet savour of
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Christ, in them that are
saved, and in them that perish:
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To the one we are the
savour of death unto death;
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and unto the other the
savour of life unto life.
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And who is
sufficient for these things?
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For we are not as many,
which corrupt the word of God:
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but as of
sincerity, but as of God,
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in the sight of
God speak we in Christ.
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We are reading from
the book of 2 Corinthians,
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the King James version. We are
starting now with chapter three.
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Do we begin again to
commend ourselves? or need we,
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as some others,
epistles of commendation to you,
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or letters of commendation from
you? Ye are our epistle written
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in our hearts,
known and read of all men:
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Forasmuch as ye are manifestly
declared to be the epistle
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of Christ ministered by
us, written not with ink,
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but with the
Spirit of the living God;
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not in tables of stone, but
in fleshy tables of the heart.
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And such trust have we
through Christ to God-ward:
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Not that we are sufficient of
ourselves to think any thing as
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of ourselves; but our
sufficiency is of God;
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Who also hath made us able
ministers of the new testament;
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not of the letter, but of the
Spirit: for the letter killeth,
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but the spirit giveth life. But
if the ministration of death,
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written and engraven
in stones, was glorious,
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so that the children of Israel
could not steadfastly behold the
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face of Moses for the
glory of his countenance;
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which glory was to be done away.
How shall not the ministration
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of the spirit
be rather glorious?
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For if the ministration
of condemnation be glory
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much more doth the ministration
of righteousness exceed in glory
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For even that which was
made glorious had no glory
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in this respect, by reason
of the glory that excelleth.
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For if that which is
done away was glorious,
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much more that which
remaineth is glorious.
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seeing then that we have such
hope, we use treat plainness
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of speech: and not as Moses,
which put a veil over his face,
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that the children of Israel
could not steadfastly look
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to the end of that
which is abolished:
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But their minds were blinded:
for until this day remaineth
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the same veil untaken away in
the reading of the old testament
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which veil is
done away in Christ.
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But even unto this
day, when Moses is read,
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the veil is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall
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turn to the Lord, the
veil shall be taken away.
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Now the Lord is that Spirit:
and where the Spirit of the Lord
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is, there is liberty.
But we all, with open face
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beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord,
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are changed into the same
image from glory to glory,
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even as by the
Spirit of the Lord.
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Reading 2
Corinthians, chapter four.
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Therefore seeing
we have this ministry,
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as we have received
mercy, we faint not;
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But have renounced the
hidden things of dishonesty,
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not walking in craftiness,
nor handling the word of God
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deceitfully; but by
manifestation of the truth
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commending ourselves
to every man's conscience
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in the sight of God.
But if our gospel be hid,
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it is hid to them that are lost:
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In whom the god of this world
hath blinded the minds of them
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which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel
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of Christ who is the image
of God, should shine unto them.
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For we preach not ourselves,
but Christ Jesus the Lord;
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and ourselves your
servants for Jesus' sake.
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For God, who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness,
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hath shined in our hearts, to
give the light of the knowledge
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of the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ.
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But we have this
treasure in earthen vessels,
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that the excellency of the power
may be of God, and not of us.
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We are troubled on every
side, yet not distressed.
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We are perplexed,
but not in despair;
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Persecuted, but not forsaken;
cast down, but not destroyed;
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Always bearing about in the body
the dying of the Lord Jesus,
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that the life also of
Jesus might be made manifest
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in our body. For we which live
are always delivered unto death
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for Jesus sake, that the
life also of Jesus might be made
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manifest in our mortal flesh.
So then death worketh in us,
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but life in you. We
having the same spirit of faith,
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according as it is
written, I believed,
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and therefore have I
spoken; we also believe,
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and therefore speak; knowing
that he which raised up the Lord
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Jesus shall raise
up us also by Jesus,
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and shall present us with you.
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For all things are for you
sakes, that the abundant grace
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might through the thanksgiving
of many redound to the glory
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of God. For which
cause we faint not;
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but though our outward man
perish, yet the inward man is
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renewed day by day.
For our light affliction,
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which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more
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exceeding and
eternal weight of glory;
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while we look not at
the things which are seen,
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but at the things
which are not seen:
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for the things which
are seen are temporal;
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but the things which
are not seen are eternal.
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Picking up again now with
chapter 5 of 2 Corinthians.
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For we know that if our
earthly house of this tabernacle
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were dissolved, we
have a building of God,
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an house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.
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For in this we groan, earnestly
desiring to be clothed upon
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with our house
which is from heaven:
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If so be that being clothed
we shall not be found naked.
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For we that are in
this tabernacle do groan,
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being burdened: not for
that we would be unclothed,
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but clothed upon, that
mortality might be swallowed up
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of life. Now he that hath
wrought us for the selfsame
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thing is God, who
also hath given unto us
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the earnest of the Spirit.
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Therefore we are
always confident,
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knowing that whilst we
are at home in the body,
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we are absent from the
Lord: For we walk by faith,
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not by sight: We are
confident, I say, and willing
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rather to be absent from
the body, and to be present
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with the Lord. Wherefore we
labor, that, whether present
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or absent, we may be accepted
of him. For we must all appear
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before the judgment seat
of Christ; that every one
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may receive the
things done in his body,
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according to that he hath
done, whether it be good or bad.
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Thank you for
being with us today.
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