Secure in God's Love | Romans 8:31-39

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Michael Yeah.
You ever heard the phrase hide

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your kids, hide your wife?
If there's ever a time to do it,

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it's now.
Oh man, that that brings back so

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many memories.
We should we should.

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That should get recirculated if
you live in the tri-county area,

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specifically Berkeley County.
So I don't know how you first

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heard about it.
I actually had chess clubs that

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day.
Exciting.

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When I was actually up
interviewing for chess clubs.

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Regardless, I was.
So time, time now.

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We'll talk about this later.
I want to know what like an

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interview for chess club is
like.

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That sounds just exhilarating.
But not the time, not the place.

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Carry on.
You can ask Emerson Light,

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'cause he was one of the people
who who got interviewed.

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But yeah, I was up there and I
started getting texts like a

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train just hit a tank and I was
like a train hit a tank.

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Like that doesn't even make
sense.

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But it happened.
But it happened.

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So from all we can tell, a truck
driver went over the Liberty

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Hall intersection.
So if you're not in the, if

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you're, if you're one of our
listeners who's not in this

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area, whether it be Arkansas or
Florida or Maine or Nigeria.

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What's that one country?
Was it Zimbabwe or something?

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Zambia.
Yeah, Zambia.

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Yeah, one of those, if you are
not there, you can look up, you

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know, Liberty Hall intersection
of of Goose Creek Blvd.

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There's a trains and I guess the
the the hump over is just too

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high and he got high centered on
there and I don't know how long

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it was there.
And he happened to be carrying

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tanks like he was.
Carrying tanks.

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So yeah, we, I mean, I work on,
I don't know if I should say

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that we'll redact that.
No, but I live very close to a

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weapon station.
They have a weapon station and

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my day-to-day work may, may take
me there.

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And so, you know, there's, we
see, you know it's not.

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Totally.
It's not totally.

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Unusual to see some type of
military vehicle going by.

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But it is unusual.
To see one get hit by a train

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and it's out there, if you
haven't already seen it you

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should look at the video.
The turret of the tank like gets

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hit by the train like is it
spinning around?

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Because it's crazy because I
didn't realize when I first saw

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the video, I didn't realize a a
tank was being transported.

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I was like, what's going on?
Because it looks like the tank

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was like moving.
Like, like he was trying to

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shoot someone down.
Yeah, it does.

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And if that wasn't enough.
That wasn't enough.

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I, I would say I see a patient,
I see patients in hand to hand

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and I'm literally someone like
literally a quarter of a mile

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from the divine Redeemer school.
Like they're like kids like

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years ago went to the school or
grandkids or something, but not

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not a good year for Boeing.
We should, we should put some

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context if you know anything
about what's going on there.

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I my, I don't know how about
planes?

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A tail cone of AC17 fell from
the sky.

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Fell from the sky.
Off of a plane, into a plane and

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hit a school parking lot.
I mean, it's it's a big earth,

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so I'm glad it didn't hit anyone
or a vehicle.

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It's amazing.
But I I mean, I don't see how

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you could survive if it had
fallen on you.

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Man.
And that was it, right, Mike?

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No, actually that wasn't.
So.

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I don't know if it was, I think
it was later that evening or

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maybe just the very next day, a
semi turned over on the road

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that kind of parallels the
railroad tracks going up to

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Mum's corner.
And then yesterday I'm sitting

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there working on some stuff and
I hear from my phone and saw

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these tropical storm warnings.
I'm like, where did we get a

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tropical storm?
Out of nowhere, usually it's 8

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days in advance.
Like everyone freak out.

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It's like it's here, it's
coming.

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It's here.
There was one time, so Chloe was

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just born.
This would have been 2004, and

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we had been through tropical
storms before, and Tropical

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Storm Gaston was just hovering
out and like, we don't really

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know.
The steering winds are not very

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good, so we don't really have a
lot of stuff.

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And then it was like, oh, it's
gonna come on shore.

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OK.
Tropical storm comes on shore.

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And we were in our first house,
not our house right now.

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And it was crazy.
Like, I was like, Jill, get

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Chloe here, like, 'cause we had
these trees that were just

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swaying and then afterwards,
like, yeah, the National

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Hurricane Center upgraded that
to a category one hurricane as

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it was coming on shore.
Hopefully this one doesn't get

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that bad, but.
Yeah, it's just don't don't, you

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know, walk outside.
You got to check the news.

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So much is happening.
Berkeley County is kind of known

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for being a little bit a little
bit crazy.

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But this this weeks been
something else.

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Let's see what tomorrow brings,
you know?

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And it almost leaves you wanting
some security.

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Oh, I was going to say that too.
This is so great.

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Michael beat me to the punch,
but our the title of our sermon,

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Pastor Jill Preach is secure in
God's love and I don't he

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probably didn't know what was
going on with Berkeley County

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specifically, but man, they
needed to hear this message. 2

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residents right here and it
obviously applies to much more.

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So join us as we take this
sermon to the next level from

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the hearts of the Low Country in
South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
All right, secure in God's love.

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Romans 831 through 39 closing
out the chapter.

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What a chapter.
It was a great chapter, probably

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the climax of the of the book of
Romans, would you say?

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It just kind of keeps
crescendoing and crescendoing

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and crescendoing, huh?
Yeah, yeah.

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The we made some predictions two
or three sermon podcasts ago

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about how many sermons would we
we get through here.

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I think we got the initial one.
There's there therefore now no

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condemnation.
We got groanings, we got the

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Golden Chain and we're going to
close out with the security.

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So we got 4 sermons out of
chapter 8, so I think we're

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close.
Yeah, yeah, I think.

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We kind of nailed it because it
was after the therefore now no

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condemnation.
We said we probably got three

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more.
I feel vindicated.

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Yeah, yeah, called it.
And don't want to spoil the

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sermon, but maybe there was a
song thrown in here too.

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I, I know I was going to say
maybe put your bets on the table

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now whether, whether there's
going to be a song sung.

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I think you know which way to
bet.

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Yeah, the odds are, yeah, very
skewed in One Direction.

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And like Michael mentioned, and
I mentioned to the title,

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discernment secure in God's
love, we're coming right out of

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eight Romans 828 through 30.
This this great passage talk a

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lot about election.
But again, zooming back out,

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I'll just read 28 through 30 to
kind of tee us up for this.

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And we know that God causes all
things to work together for good

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to those who love God, to those
who are called according to his

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purpose.
For those who he foreknew, He

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also predestined to become
conformed to the image of His

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Son, so that he would be the
first born among many brethren.

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And these whom he predestined,
he also called.

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And these whom he called he also
justified.

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And these whom He justified, He
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A lot of truth in there.
And it's really, wow, we can

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have this assurance that God's
gonna work this for our good

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because we're secure from, from
eternity all the way across the

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spectrum.
We're we're in pretty good,

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pretty good shape.
Yeah, and and I like how, you

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know, we we know he's going to
bring it about and we talked

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about this last podcast, last,
you know, sermon podcast, how

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all those verbs are past tense
and I forgot it's a completed

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act.
I know we're still living

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through it and then Philippians
1/6 is a verse is also often

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gets quoted here for I'm
confident of this very thing

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that he who began a good work in
you will complete it or perfect

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it depending on your translation
until the day of Christ Jesus.

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So just assurances that what he
begun to do he's going to do.

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He's going to complete it and
he's going to use all those

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things that we experience for
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I I love all these passages.
These are great ones to memorize

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because you can, you know, pray
these to God.

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You can just take it to the bank
assurance, security, great words

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to just keep keep in our mind as
we work through the passage

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because today is going to
continue in that theme and build

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that confidence and even the way
the way it starts.

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God is if God is for us.
Yeah.

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I mean, who could be against us?
What?

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What can separate us?
All of these questions, all

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these things that Paul is going
to talk about, just go to show

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that we are secure in the love
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Yeah, and security is a huge
deal.

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And sometimes, you know, you you
talk about the founders of

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America, they'd say, you know,
those who would trade security,

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you know, their freedom away for
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They don't really deserve both.
But we, we enjoy security.

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We have car alarms.
What?

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What good did car alarms do?
I, I mean, I know they draw

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attention, yeah.
But I'm like, I'm always like,

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yeah, I'm always like shutting.
I'm trying to get away from you.

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Like they're so loud.
Oh, someone messed up their key

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fob again?
Yeah.

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Yeah.
Do you need help with that, Sir?

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It's like someone trying to
steal it.

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But you know, we do have car
alarms.

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It's true.
Home alarms.

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I maybe you don't want us to.
I don't.

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Want to say on?
The pot you don't want to say

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it.
Well, I'll say the my house has

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a home alarm and and the the
Hale house, we'll we'll get,

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we'll get some stickers at least
that say they have a home alarm.

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I won't say which which people
we know back in Arkansas, but

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they were huge into just putting
the stickers up because it that

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was the deterrent.
Like, yeah, they were

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everywhere, but they didn't
actually have an alarm.

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But you do have a dog.
Pretty ferocious.

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Sophie will get you.
I I wouldn't.

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She can't really move very fast.
She she'll kind of limp along.

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But I'll tell you what gets her.
She can't move like arthritis,

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terrible.
But man, if one of those boys

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steps away's pizza on the table,
she can like jump on the table.

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You're like, can you move or can
you not move?

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Like what's the deal?
Again, Kung Fu Panda, sorry for

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the reference.
Firearms, you know, maybe we

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have some firearms and all those
things are kind of us trying to

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guard against the, you know, the
condition of the world that we

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live in.
There's evil people out there.

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There's people want to do evil
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You know, even you know, we both
grew up Midwest S the southern

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Midwest.
We always were called the Mid

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South.
I feel like that's the thing, we

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don't look this up, but there
was like the weather, the Mid

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South weather.
Or whatever, you know, in the

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South.
Yeah.

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But you know, I mean, Memphis is
in the the hurricane.

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I mean, Hurricane alley, Tornado
Alley, right?

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Yeah, We had a lot of like
tornado.

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I never saw a tornado, never did
a lot of damage in Memphis.

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But there's a lot of time for
like, oh, time to get in the

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closet kind of thing.
And there's a couple like in

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like Jacks, places close by that
were devastating at times.

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Yeah, and same thing I I grew up
with my mom telling me about the

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the tornado in the 50s that took
down Bald Knob Cafeteria.

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Oh wow, yeah, during school I
think they.

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Actually weren't in school.
Yeah, that would be, yeah.

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So, you know, there's natural
disasters that we try to seek

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security from, too, whether it's
like a tornado shelter or we're

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leaving.
So security's a big thing.

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Ultimately, our ultimate
security, if you're a believer,

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is in God and His promises.
Absolutely.

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And the way Paul is going to
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8, like he does so well, he's
always, you know, bring up

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questions and answering them.
And and these are three

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questions that that he brings
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The first one is God is for us,
Who can be against us?

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The second one, who's gonna
bring, who will bring a charge

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against God's elect and who will
separate us from the love of

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Christ?
And I like, he's just kind of

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like, yeah, what's your answer?
Like if you know these, like,

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tell me.
Tell me who's gonna stop these

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things?
Yeah, yeah.

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Nobody.
Nobody, nobody, nobody.

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That's good.
Oh yeah, And Pastor Jill had

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like, the room chanting.
And it was.

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Great.
Yeah, and there's somebody.

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There's a song like that.
Nobody.

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Nobody.
Pastor shouldn't.

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Have a great time pastor, I
guess.

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There's not a hymn.
But another song.

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Missed opportunity, Yeah.
Well, let's start with that

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first one.
If God is for us, who can be

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against us?
Paul writes and verse 31.

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What then shall we say to these
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If God is for us, who is against
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He who did not spare his own
Son, but delivered Him over for

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us all, how will He not also
with Him freely give us all

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things?
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And so the first verse, what
what shall we say to these

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things?
These things is a golden chain.

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We just referenced predestined,
foreknown, called justified,

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glorified.
I mean, what do we say to those

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things?
Cause it it those things clearly

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demonstrate God is for us.
There's no one who can

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ultimately succeed in being
against us and you know it.

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Oftentimes this word in the
Greek gets translated if but it

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you could translate it since
since God is for us, who can be

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against this and and nobody can
actually be there.

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I I love like a test where one
answer is good for multiple

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questions.
This is great.

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Just nobody, nobody, nobody.
That's that's what, what you

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just want to keep.
Keep in mind what this passage

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is not saying is that nobody's
going to try anything.

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You're going to have an easy
life.

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It's going to be no problem.
No, no, no, it's a no.

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No one's going to be successful.
Maybe ultimately, but doesn't

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mean there can be some barriers
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opposition in life now.
Yeah, and you know, you can

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compare kind of some of this to
Psalm 2 starts off like, why are

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the nations in their uproar and
the people's advising a vain

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things?
The kings of the earth take

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their stand and the rulers take
their counsel against the Lord

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and against his anointed,
saying, let us tear their

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fetters apart and castaway the
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In contrast, he who sits in the
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Lord scoffs at him.
Then he will speak to them in

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his anger and terrifying them in
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So it's like there's no
comparison between, you know,

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God and and his power and all
the nations gathering up

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together you can just laugh at.
That absolutely and if you've

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been listening to these sermon
recaps or Pastor Jill's sermon

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at all, you're off often hear
greater the lesser or lesser to

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the greater.
I think most of them we talk

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lesser to the greater with our
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This is a great example of a
greater to the lesson.

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If if God did not spare his own
Son of greatest importance,

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greatest value, greatest
treasure, then we can rest

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assured that he'll free at least
give us give us all things.

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If he gave up everything there,
he'll take care of us as well.

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Yeah, and, and he introduced
this quote.

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It's pretty good, pretty
memorable.

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If God gave his best, then he's
good for the rest.

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Man, I need to get on my slogan
game 'cause that's that's

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catchy.
That's.

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Good.
Yeah, and another quote from

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Octavius Winslow, who delivered
up Jesus to die.

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Not Judas for money, not Pilot
for fear, not the Jews for envy,

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but the Father for love for us.
So another just a good way of

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saying really what these verses
are saying that God gave his

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greatest treasure up to us.
If he's going to give that to

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us, what, what else would he
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Brings us to our second
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Who will bring a charge against
God's elects?

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And we know we talked about
election at length last time

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that that the elect, if you just
look back a couple of verses are

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those who he foreknown, the ones
that were predestined, the ones

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that are called just by
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So if you are a Christian, if
you are in Christ, you're part

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of the elect.
Yeah, yeah.

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And so the question is who can
bring a charge against us?

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And I like this cause Joel's
saying like there's no lawyer

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that can bring a charge, the
best lawyer.

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And, and here's the crazy thing,
they can say true things against

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us.
Yeah, that is crazy.

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Evil things against us and they
won't stick.

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It's almost well, you know,
they're they're making maybe a

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famous trial in our in my
childhood at least I guess, you

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know, with great lawyers and you
know, you're going to get off

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and this time we get off fairly
because of Christ's payment for

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us.
Great.

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It all kind of rest on that
sacrifice of Christ raised on

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our behalf.
No one can condemn.

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If you're looking for, you know,
passages to talk about Christ as

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our high priest or the perfect
sacrifice, you just should camp

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out in Hebrews 5 through 7
Chapter 9.

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You can always pick every other
chapter in Hebrews.

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Who's going to talk about this.
If you do the math, Hebrews 1011

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through 15 goes.
Every priest stands daily

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ministering and offering time
after time the same sacrifices

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which can never take away sins.
But he, Christ, having offered

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one sacrifice for sins for all
time, sat down at the right hand

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of God, waiting from that time
onward until his enemies be made

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a footstool for his feet.
For by one offering he has

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perfected for all time those who
are sanctified.

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And the Holy Spirit also
testifies to us.

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For after that saying, and I'm
going to keep going 16 through

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18.
This is the covenant that I will

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make with them after those days,
says the Lord, I will put my

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laws upon their heart and on
their mind.

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I'll write them.
He then says, And their sins and

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their lawless deeds.
I will remember no more now

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where there's forgiveness of
these things, there is no longer

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any offering for sin.
A lot of words, a lot packed in

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there, a lot of good news in
there.

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Yeah, yeah.
And and just to reiterate, we

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are guilty.
That guilt has been separated

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from us.
And it's like if God has stamped

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you justified, there's no other,
you know who, who can argue with

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God there.
There is no one that can do

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that.
Nobody, nobody.

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Last question, did you you do
the Awana growing up?

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I feel like this was always, I
always like memorize this verse

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in Awana Awana.
Hit our church after.

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So I was a little bit around it.
I think the, the, the Awana got

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popular probably when you were
going through 'cause I'm, I'm,

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I'm, I think a couple.
Years old, couple years.

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Yeah, Yeah.
Good.

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Well, this last, this last verse
or this last passage that it was

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like something we always hit in
Awana.

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But who will separate us from
the love of Christ?

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Paul goes on to say, well,
tribulation or distress or

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persecution or famine or
nakedness or peril or sword,

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just as it's written for your
sake, we are being put to death.

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All the day long.
We were considered as sheep to

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be slaughtered.
But in all these things we

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overwhelmingly conquer through
him who loved us.

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And the point is that suffering
will exist.

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We just talked about that.
Not that, not not that long ago

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that suffering's gonna happen,
but we can conquer in in this

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way.
Yeah, and he says in all these

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things referencing tribulation,
distress, persecution, famine,

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nakedness, peril, sword.
And he kind of moves, you know,

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kind of the bigger down to some
of the more specifics and we can

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overwhelmingly conquer in that.
I just thought I might read what

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Paul said about his own
troubles.

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So this is I.
I don't know that he had written

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this yet when he had written
Romans, but at the end of Second

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Corinthians he says he's talking
about, you know, he's defending

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his apostleship.
This is Second Corinthians

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11/22.
He says, are they Hebrews?

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So am I.
Are they Israelites?

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So am I?
Are they descendants of Abraham?

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So am I?
Are they servants of Christ?

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I speak as if insane.
I'm more in, I'm more so in far

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more laborers and far more
imprisonments, beaten times

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without number, often in danger
of death.

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Five times I received from the
Jews 39 lashes.

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Three times I was beaten with
rods.

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Once I was stoned, three times I
was shipwrecked.

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A night and a day I was spent in
the deep.

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I have been on frequent journeys
and dangers from rivers, dangers

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from robbers, dangers from my
countrymen, dangers from the

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Gentiles, dangers in the cities,
dangers in the wilderness,

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dangers on the sea, dangers
among false brethren.

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I have been in labor and
hardship, through many sleepless

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nights, in hunger and thirst,
often without food, in cold and

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exposure.
That's like.

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That's a mouthful.
Wow, what a my.

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Life's been easy.
Yeah, yeah.

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By comparison, all of our lives
have been easy.

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And yet Paul can say and all
this and he can have this faith.

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We're going to more than conquer
because of the sacrifice for us.

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Wow, kind of talking about this.
This term conquer comes from

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this Greek word.
I always love just butchering

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the Greek but hyper nokeo.
Yeah, we would say.

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Hyper, he's at.
Yeah, I.

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Think the Y is Y gets pronounced
with an O with this, yeah.

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But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the the quote he used to

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describe that, this word, it
describes one who is super

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victorious, who wins more than
an ordinary victory, and who is

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overpowering and achieving
abundant victory.

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It describes a lopsided victory
in which the enemy or opponent

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is completely routed.
This is not the language of

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conceit, but of confidence in
Christ.

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Christ love conquered death
because of His love.

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We all can be more than
conquerors through Him.

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Had a couple college football
games recently where the team,

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one team was a a Hooper and
Akaya a little, a little, yeah.

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It was like, like I, I think
volunteers recently like beat

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someone like in the 60s or 70s
at 0 Razorbacks beat did that,

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you know?
Man, did that.

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Did it happen with the Patriots?
Did they do that last week?

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It was a very close game with
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All right, let's go on.
Well, Paul kind of keeps

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building this up.
In verse 38 he'll write, for I'm

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convinced, another one of these
great lists that covers the

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gamut, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor

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principalities, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor

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powers, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other created thing,

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will be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in

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Christ Jesus our Lord.
Yeah, and we should see this

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fact of us being overwhelming
conquerors.

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It's not on us, it's not our
trust in us, but our trust in

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Christ for his love for us, for
the Father's love for us.

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Joel was, you know, saying all
these things and I just started

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typing this and I was like, oh,
this could be a quote from a

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book.
So I'm going to attribute myself

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here.
So this is a quote from MMM

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Mott.
It should be M Harrison Mott.

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That's what, you know, when you
get famous, you drop, you know,

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you know, Yeah.
It says when we turn our focus

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from God to ourselves, we are
shifting our gaze from the exact

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thing that provides the security
that we so desperately want to

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the thing ourselves that is
least able to bring that

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security about.
It's good.

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Put that on AT shirt.
Get a bumper sticker at that.

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MHM Harrison Mott.
I like it and pastor Joel

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references Peter and him
asserting you know Christ.

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I I'll never deny you in
Christ's response.

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Simon Simon, behold, Satan has
demanded permission to sift you

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like we, but I pray for you that
your faith may not fail and you

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when once you've turned against
strengthen your brothers.

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But he said to him, Lord with
you, I'm ready to go to prison

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and to death.
And he said, I say to you,

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Peter, the rooster will not crow
today until you have denied

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three times that you know me.
Probably something most

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Christians are familiar with
this account.

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Yeah.
And Peter falls.

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He's trusting himself.
He falls.

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The good news is Peter is still
more than a conqueror even

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through this.
And he's restored, he's

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commissioned and he's sent out
to be, you know, one of the

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apostles to to preach the good
news.

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Probably had more people come to
saving knowledge under him in a

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single setting than than any
other person.

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Potentially.
I I don't.

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Potentially, Yeah, there's that,
that.

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That's good.
Now we're at the part of our

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show where we start warming up
the vocal cords.

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Yeah, we.
And this is a classic.

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I remember singing this.
Frequently this song.

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Oh man, maybe.
I, I, you know, I was glad Chris

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was there because like, if, if
he called on me to, to help with

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this, I'd been like, you got
this one on your own, Joel.

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That was pretty bold, he was.
Like Chris, he's like, help me

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out, Chris.
It's great classic We I sing

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this girl.
I cannot sing very well, but I

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remember this him very well.
We are more than conquerors.

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I'm not gonna not gonna sing it,
but it's good.

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So I'll read it.
We are more than conquerors

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through him who loved us so.
The Christ who dwells within us

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is the greatest power we know He
will fight beside us though the

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enemy is great.
Who can stand against us?

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He's the captain of our faith, I
want to say.

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Who can send against the
forgotten force the city of

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light song?
Then we will conquer, never

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fear.
So let the battle rage.

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He has promised to be near until
the end of the age.

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We are more than conquerors
through him who loved us so.

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The Christ who dwells within us
is the greatest power we know.

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Wow.
And and we just read verses 38

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and 39.
What's what's worth pointing out

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is this list that he does that
he just spans the gamut, you

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know, death, life, angels,
principalities, things in the

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past, things right now, things
coming forward, all these

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things.
No creative creature, he's

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trying to say.
Nobody, nothing ain't.

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Nothing.
And you know, and if if if

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you're in Christ's hands and the
Father's hands over that, I

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think that's the picture we see
in John 10.

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And then Ephesians 1 is going to
say we've been sealed with the

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Holy Spirit as a down posit, you
know, as a a a a surety payment.

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What's the other word?
We earnest payment That's.

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Good when?
You buy a house.

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I mean, it's like how much more
comforting all three persons of

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the Trinity are holding us and
keeping us in this salvation.

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It's not us.
You know, there are places in

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the Bible that will tell the
Christian like you need to

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persevere, you need to buck up,
you need to stand firm, you

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know, work out your salvation
with fear and trembling.

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These, one, that's not our
passage today, but two, these

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passages I think are the are the
ones that we interpret those in

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light of this 'cause this is the
overarching thing that yes,

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we're called to do that, but we
do that because we're being held

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in place by God.
I think that that's a good

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analogy.
Pastor Joel brings up his

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granddaughter who's, you know,
clings to mom and that if

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someone tried to take this
little girl from her mom, this

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little 2 year old wouldn't be
safe because she can grip so

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tightly to her mom.
She'd be safe because her mom,

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Hannah ain't going to let her go
or get taken.

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And it's it's a good another
lesser to the greater example

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that God's holding on to to us
and we can rest assured.

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And then I don't I'll tell you
what, man footprints in the

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sands.
What a what a clap.

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I just gets mileage.
Like, I mean, it's like man.

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Whoever wrote that around for
forever.

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When was that written?
I don't know.

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I remember being a little kid
and in our bathroom growing up,

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there was like this little
wooden thing that had it on

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there.
And that thing was old and I'm

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old now, so I don't know.
We should probably look it up,

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but it's it's.
Like it's like such a classic.

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I feel like it's in ingrained in
culture.

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Like everyone, everyone had that
either in like we didn't have it

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in our house, but my
grandparents did.

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Like there's always there was
someone's house.

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You saw that in somewhere.
I think it was probably pivotal

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for Joel's generation.
I, I think for our generation,

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it's become kind of, well,
we've, I've seen it memed and

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stuff.
So it's become a little bit

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trite, but I'll read it while
you're looking it up, just in

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case.
There's a listener out there in

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Zimbabwe who hasn't heard
footprints in the sand, it says.

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One night I dreamed I was
walking along the beach with the

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Lord.
Scenes from my life flashed

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across the sky.
In each I noticed footprints in

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the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of

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footprints, other times there
was only one.

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During the low periods of my
life, I could see only one set

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of footprints.
So I said, You promised me,

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Lord, that you would walk with
me always.

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Why then, when I needed you
most, have you not been there

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for me?
The Lord replied.

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The times when you have seen
only one set of footprints, my

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child, is when I carried you.
Got a lot of news.

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I've been in this last 20
seconds.

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I've been on Wikipedia.
It is drama.

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Feel like I don't want to take
one from the sermon but it is

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disputed. 3 people take credit
for it and there's there's not a

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lot.
Of I probably wrote it when I

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was younger and I.
Don't know it.

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Someone says that they wrote it
when they were when they were

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six years old in 1963.
Someone else said no, actually I

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wrote it in 1936, but I it
didn't come to light until later

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on and then someone else threw
their hat in there.

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I think once 1970 hit, it was
pretty like pretty prominent,

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pretty popular and so.
Unknown.

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Unknown we're sorry that there's
no resolution, but all that to

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say that that's like what a good
what a good picture of, you

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know, being cared.
I think that that demonstrates,

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I think, and it's like it
resonates with so many people

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because it's you you feel that,
you know, in in life that great

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sermon in the books didn't have
did he have we have formal

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application on these?
I don't remember him and we

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closed over and so I and and I
didn't grab a a sheet of notes.

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I don't know if you did, but so
maybe there was on there, but I

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mean application we could
probably come up with.

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I bet we.
I bet we.

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Could, you know, during the
tough times where we're looking

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to, not to us, to God, this is
something that we should be

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joyous about and wanting to
share with others.

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Like we should have this
confidence that others don't

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have.
You know, I've said it before,

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you know, I think it's a strong
quote.

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You know, if you're a believer,
if you're in Christ, this is the

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worst it gets.
It doesn't get any worse than

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this.
And if you're not a believer,

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this is the best it gets 'cause
it's really downhill after this.

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And that's that's kind of the
two paths that are there.

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No, that that's a great way to
close it out.

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It's just man, it's it's
probably worthwhile to go back

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read Romans 8 cause like all
these things happen together.

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It's insane.
So next time.

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Next.
Time.

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Women's nine, yeah.
I don't think we start, does it

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start immediately with some of
the more Calvinistic stuff where

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we have a little bit of?
We might, we might have a sermon

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to to get us, get us out of the
woods a little bit.

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Talk a little bit about Israel
and and adoptions as sons and

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the law and you know, yeah, so
like to see how much how much we

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take in the next sermon.
Well, thanks everyone.

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Hanging there, hanging in there
with us.

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That is our take.
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