Soli Deo Gloria

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Is it still October, Michael?
Still October.

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Yeah, we getting close to we
getting close to Halloween.

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Yeah, I think we're two days
away if I'm just doing this from

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my Envision calendar.
Is Halloween on Friday?

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It's on Thursday, or.
Friday, so this is either the

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29th you'll know you're
listening to it you you know

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what date it is we're recording
this a little bit in advance

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but.
And if you're following along,

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you know, we got one, one more
solo ahead of us to close out

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the series.
We've talked about scripture

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alone.
We've talked about, well, I'm,

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I'm trying to get the order we
went in right was the next one

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grace, grace alone and then
faith alone.

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And then last week, Christ alone
leaves only one sola to the

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glory of God alone.
You want to give us the fancy

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Latin?
Sola deo Gloria.

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Didn't it just roll off the?
Tongue so easily, Yeah.

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Reminds me of Bach, yeah.
Wrote a lot of music pieces and

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signed all of them to the glory
of God.

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Yeah.
I didn't know that.

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That's cool.
Yeah, that's great.

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So I guess if we're talking
about to the glory of God alone,

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it's good to know what glory is.
Right, that is good.

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So if we're thinking of glory,
cause 'cause you know, it's one

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of those words comes in talk
about Scripture a lot, but

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speaks of this magnificence,
this worth, this grandeur,

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majesty of God's many
perfections that we see.

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And that everything in this
life, everything we do should,

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should be to honor, glorify him
and for his glory alone.

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Not, not for our glory or
someone else's glory, but

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ultimately we do it for, for
God.

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And again, just like these other
solos, we see these throughout

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Scripture.
Most people could probably quote

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a verse or two at the top of
their head that talks about the

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glory of God.
So maybe we will go through some

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of these with you.
So where, where, where should we

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start, Michael?
Well, we're going to talk about,

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you know, how we could look at
the economic Trinity and how

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God's role in bringing salvation
is for his glory.

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You know, the Father draws,
Jesus is the one who died.

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Holy Spirit seals Holy Spirit.
What's it called when we

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actually become believers
regenerates us.

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So although, so in the sense you
know, even God, we can say it's

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all for God's glory, but we look
at the triune nature of God,

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like each one of the triune
members are receiving their own

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personal glory because of their
role that they play in

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salvation.
Yeah, I think that's a good way

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to think about it, where it's
like man to the triune God.

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It's not this just, you know,
amorphous force in the sky.

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But it's no, it's God the
Father, God the Son, God the

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Holy Spirit.
And you know, we talk a lot

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about theology on this podcast.
It's called take two theology,

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but it's all driving at God's
glory.

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It's not to nail down
everything, but it's made when

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you start unpacking these
things, it's like layer after

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layer, thread after thread,
everything points to to God in

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an amazing way.
And, and you can either, you

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know, glorify him with
everything in you, or you can

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just miss out on how how you
know you're living your life.

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Yeah.
So did you want to read some of

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these scriptures that you had
down here from the the Ligonier?

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Let's go ahead.
We can just, I feel like you,

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you got a lot of scriptures on
your side.

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We, we can, we can, we can jump
in with 2nd Corinthians 415.

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Yeah, sounds good.
You got it.

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I.
I got it if you don't have all.

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Right.
Yeah, that's good.

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All right, Second Corinthians
415 says for it is all for your

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sake, so that as grace extends
to more and more people, it may

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increase Thanksgiving to the
glory of God.

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I like that everything's for
your sake, so that as grace it

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just just glorifies God.
Lord that, that that's what

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we're called to do.
Yep, and the next one, you may

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have heard this verse, it keeps
coming up 'cause it's like it's

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such a foundational verse for
the topic of soteriology, the

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study of salvation.
Ephesians 28 and 9 says 4.

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By grace you have been saved
through faith and that not of

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yourselves.
It is a gift of God, not as a

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result of works so that no one
may boast.

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And that's like the key like the
at the end, no one's going to

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get to boast like all of those
things.

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You know, there was a note above
in our notes that was talking

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about, you know, it's only if
it's by faith alone, through

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grace alone in Christ alone that
it can be to God's glory alone.

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Because if I play a role in
this, then I get to, you know, I

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get to claim a small piece of
glory.

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It could be infinitesimal
compared to God's glory, but I

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get to claim some and and God's
gonna say there's no glory that

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you get to claim and there is
some famous theologian that says

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the only thing I contribute to
my salvation is the sin that

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required it was that our the
famous Prince of preachers that.

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I if I had to guess, I think
it's going farther back.

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I think it was a Puritan.
It might have been Jonathan

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Edwards.
That's what I want to say, so

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I'm going to say it.
Jonathan Edwards.

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I'm not totally right.
Fact checked us, see if that's

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it.
So I'm going to skip to Romans

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11 if you're want to hang out in
Ephesians for your verses.

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And you know, we're walking
through the sermon series,

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chapters 9 through 11, and
there's two great passages that

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speak to the glory of God.
Paul gets them talking about all

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this stuff on God's sovereignty,
how he's going to use Israel.

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It's confusing.
There's there's some mystery

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there.
We can't systematize everything.

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And where Paul ends up is that
he says, Oh, the depth of the

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riches and wisdom and knowledge
of God, how unsearchable are his

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judgments, and how inscrutable
his ways.

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For who has known the mind of
the Lord, or who has been his

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counselor, or who has given a
gift to him that he might be

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repaid?
The answer to all those is no

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one, and he ends.
For from him and through him and

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to him are all things.
To him be glory forever.

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Amen.
That's good.

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In First Corinthians, we'll come
back to Ephesians just a little

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bit.
First Corinthians chapter 1, you

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know, Paul is kind of talking to
these guys who have started to

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follow.
I'm from Paul, I'm a Paul.

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Oh, well, you're a Paul apostle.
Well, I'm from Jesus and there's

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all these divisions.
He's like, no, it's all we're

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all following Jesus.
It's all you know, our

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salvation.
And he ends toward the end of

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chapter 1, verse 26 says for for
consider your calling, brethren,

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that there were not many wise
according to the flesh, not many

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mighty, not many noble.
But God has chosen the foolish

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things of the world to shame the
wise.

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And God has chosen the weak
things of the world to shame the

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things which are strong and the
base things of the world and the

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despise God has chosen the
things that are not so that he

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may nullify the things that are
so that no man may boast before

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God.
But by his doing you are in

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Christ Jesus, who became to us
wisdom from God, and

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righteousness, and
sanctification and redemption,

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so that just at is as it is
written.

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Let him who boasts boast in the
Lord.

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Yeah, no, no one can boast in
themselves.

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And and Paul is like quoting
from the Old Testament there.

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It's like he's pulling us from
all of Scripture in that Romans

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passage.
He's quoting from the Old

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Testament in Romans 9, this
controversial passage at times

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verses 22 through 23, Speaking
of God's sovereignty.

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Paul writes, what if God,
desiring to show his wrath and

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to make known as power has
endured with much patience

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vessels of wrath prepared for
destruction and and why has he

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done all this verse 23 in order
to make known the riches of his

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glory for vessels of mercy which
he has prepared beforehand for

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glory that everything God's
doing everything is really to

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point, point people to him and
show his worth and his value and

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his glory.
Yeah, we don't have this verse

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down, but there's somewhere in
Isaiah where God says I'm not

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going to share my glory.
Yeah, I don't share it with

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anyone else, It's my glory.
Ephesians chapter 1 four through

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6 says, just as He chose us in
Him before the foundation of the

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world, that we would be holy and
blameless before Him in love, He

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predestined us to adoption as
sons through Jesus Christ to

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Himself, according to the kind
intention of His will, to the

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praise of the glory of His
grace, which He freely bestowed

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on us in the Beloved.
And then further down, verses 11

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In Him also we have obtained an
inheritance, having been

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predestined according to His
purpose, who works all things

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after the counsel of His will,
to the end, that we who are were

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the first to hope in Christ,
would be to the praise of His

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glory.
Man, what, what a great sola to

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end on that.
All of these like all of these

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just points to glorifying God
that if you follow these

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correctly, you, you can't stand
there and say I look at me, I'm

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so smart, I'm so great, I'm so
righteous, or you've missed the

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boat several times along the
way.

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The score of God alone.
And we didn't say this, but this

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would be the final cause, ah.
Good.

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Yeah, Yeah.
So the end, the purpose, so

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final as in the tellos, So the
end of all of this salvation.

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I mean, there are some smaller
causes, like it's for our good,

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but it's ultimately for God's
glory.

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Oh, I like, I like that a lot.
It's good to think about these

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solas how it how you know if you
meditate on these really, really

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encapture so much of of the
gospel and thinking in that in

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that context, like you have this
other religion that just missed

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all these.
Things.

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You know what I mean?
Yeah.

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And I think I like where you're
going.

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Like spend some time today,
tomorrow on, on these things.

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You know, you can be thinking
back.

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You know God's word that he gave
to us so that we could come to

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know him through his grace, by
faith and his Son for his glory.

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And really, if you're thinking
on that, you should prepare your

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heart for thankfulness.
Thankfulness is right around the

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corner, right?
So you're thinking about

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Thanksgiving.
That's great.

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That is our series on the souls.
That's our take.

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