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 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast.

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 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons.

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 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear

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 the latest message.

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 Thanks for listening.

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 If you've got your Bibles with you today, go ahead and open up to Galatians chapter 3.

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 As you turn there, what we're going to talk about today is family.

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 We're talking about family dynamics and family characteristics.

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 I don't think any of us can deny that the family that we come from, our biological family that

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 we come from, sets within us certain characteristics and certain traits that from time to time tend

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 to come out in us.

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 And so when we are surrounded by our family, largely that's when those characteristics

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 come out.

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 Let me give you an example.

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 So this weekend, we had a wedding that we attended, a wedding that I officiated, and it was for

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 my cousin's daughter.

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 And so we travel back into Augusta, and we're there at the wedding.

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 And our family, which is an extremely large family, and as I look around, I begin to notice

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 all of the family characteristics that come out in our family.

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 My family, we're loud, right?

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 There's a lot of us, and we're loud.

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 My family doesn't do a very good job of establishing boundaries of what is or isn't appropriate to

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 talk about, right?

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 It's kind of a null holds barred, all secrets are out there.

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 This is how we talk and interact with each other.

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 My family is also known for a characteristic of big hair, right?

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 And I'm not just talking about the ladies in my family either, right?

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 Like, this is who we are.

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 And when we gather around each other, even if we haven't seen each other in a while, those

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 characteristics tend to come out of us as we come back together, even if it's been a long

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 time since we've been around each other.

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 We're a lot of us.

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 We're loud.

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 We have big personalities.

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 And when you're new coming into that dynamic, sometimes it can feel a little bit uncomfortable.

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 It can feel a little bit awkward.

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 Let me ask a question to everyone in the room.

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 How many of you felt like you married in to a big, loud family, and it took some adjustments?

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 It's meant for you, right?

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 This is great.

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 Leave your hands up.

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 I want to look around and see.

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 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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 That is great.

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 That is wonderful.

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 Someone who married into a big, loud family was my wife, right?

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 She doesn't come from that.

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 That's not her family dynamic.

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 And the first time she met my family, she understood that this was different.

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 I'll never forget, Aaron and I had been out on a couple of dates.

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 I think you had been introduced to my parents, but never really in that interaction.

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 And so we were going to have her over to dinner at my parents' house.

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 And so being the guest, she got to go fix her plate first.

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 And in my mom's kitchen, I believe at that time was a rectangle or it was an oval table.

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 And my mom looked at her and she said, please fix your plate first and sit anywhere that you like.

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 So my wife went and she fixed her plate and she went and sat down and waited patiently as we all made our way to the table.

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 My dad, who was the second one to fix his plate, comes walking up to my wife and says, move, you're in my seat.

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 Now she stared at him, thinking, obviously this man's joking.

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 Obviously, this is the first time that I've met him.

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 He wouldn't say that to me.

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 And my dad just stood there and held his plate until she got up because she was in her seat.

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 And in spite of all of that, she stuck.

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 There was so much that she saw in me.

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 She said, that's worth it, right?

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 That's worth it.

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 But here's the remarkable thing that I've began to notice out of my wife.

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 For the first several family gatherings, as we would all get together, roughly, and I'm talking about immediate family,

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 like first cousins and aunts and uncles, as about 80 of us will gather together for holidays and for birthdays and events.

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 What I began to notice that would come out of my wife was a little bit of the family characteristics that we had, that her family doesn't have.

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 But she had to understand, no, no, no, when my dad says that, you have to tell him where he can go, right?

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 Like you've got to fight back with it, that the personality begins to come out and the characteristics that are there.

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 And it was like, but what in the world are you talking about with this?

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 As my family has individual characteristics of what we're known for, and as people who are around us, when you see us and you talk to us and you come to our family gatherings,

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 what you will see and what you will experience.

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 And even if you are around long enough and you continue to come back, and maybe even if you are brought into or you come into the family,

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 what you will notice that will happen is that some of those very same characteristics will come out in you.

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 What we're going to read in Galatians chapter 3 are these family dynamics and family characteristics that the body of Christ should be known for.

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 Not just our church, not just the church at Galatia, but the body of Christ as a whole, regardless of culture, regardless of context, regardless of setting,

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 that these should be the characteristics that spring forth from them, that cross denominational lines, that cross ethnic lines,

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 that when churches are centered in and rooted in and based off the belief of the biblical Jesus Christ,

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 that this is what should come forth in our lives.

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 And so you and I have the opportunity to look at these and honestly assess ourselves as individuals.

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 To assess ourselves as an individual body of Christ.

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 And to assess the whole, the whole body and say,

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 is this what is seen?

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 Are these the characteristics that we portray?

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 Is this what is naturally coming from us if we are a part of the family?

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 So let's start reading in Galatians 3, starting in verse 26.

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 Paul writes, he says,

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 For in Christ Jesus, you are all sons of God through faith.

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 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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 There is neither Jew nor Greek.

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 There is neither slave nor free.

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 There is no male and female.

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 For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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 And if you are in Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

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 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave.

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 Though he is the owner of everything.

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 But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.

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 In the same way also, when we were children, we're enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

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 But when the fullness of time had come,

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 God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law,

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 to redeem those who were under the law,

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 so that we might receive adoption as sons.

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 And because you are sons,

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 God has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, crying,

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 Abba, Father.

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 So you are no longer a slave, but a son.

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 And if a son, then an heir through God.

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 So Paul begins in the very first verse by establishing that this applies to believers.

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 He says, since we are now in Christ,

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 the embodiment of the church,

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 the basis of our faith,

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 that now since we are in Christ,

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 we have gained a spirit of obedience, right?

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 It's what we've been building up to,

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 that we are not saved by the law,

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 that we don't put our faith in the law,

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 that the law doesn't produce what we,

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 the Christ-like characteristics,

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 but we put our faith in Christ.

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 And through his spirit working in our lives,

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 what comes from us is this spirit of obedience

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 that we no longer have to,

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 but we desire to be obedient to what God's called us to

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 because of who he is and what he's done in us.

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 And so our obedience to Jesus is the overflow of the spirit of God inside of us

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 so that when I find myself in moments of obedience,

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 when I find myself desiring the love of the Lord,

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 that what that is coming from me is fruit,

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 and what comes from me is the spirit of God,

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 and I can celebrate the miracle that's happening as dead bones become alive.

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 And it's what we begin to see happening in our lives.

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 And so Paul begins to talk through these characteristics of who we are

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 now that we are in Christ.

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 And the first thing that he says is that he gives us a command

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 that we need to put on Christ.

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 And the imagery of what he is communicating to us

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 is that we are now clothed in Christ.

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 We are now, as in Christ, we are clothed in Christ.

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 Now, clothing is used a lot in the Bible.

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 And it's used a lot specifically to communicate something.

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 We first see clothing enter in in the early parts of Genesis

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 in the garden after sin entered the world,

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 and God gave it to Adam and Eve in the garden to cover their shame.

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 We see it on the teaching of the prodigal, right,

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 in the parable that Jesus taught,

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 that as the prodigal came back to the father,

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 what the father did was the first thing is he gives him the proper clothing

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 to establish his standing in the family.

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 While it isn't necessary clothing,

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 we see where Paul talks about putting on the armor of God, right,

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 the covering that will protect the believers every day.

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 And in Revelation 19, in the return of Christ,

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 the imagery is painted of him as he returns.

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 And of all of the things that could be described,

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 what we see is the robe that Christ is wearing,

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 the white robe that has been dipped in blood.

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 And clothing is an important part of what is going on in the Bible.

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 And every time that the clothing is described,

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 every time that it is given in these examples,

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 what we see what is being communicated

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 is the identity of the person who is wearing the clothes.

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 Clothing is always connected to the identity.

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 With Adam and Eve, the clothing is used because they've sinned.

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 With the prodigal, the clothing is used because he's returned.

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 With the armor of God is because in our limitations,

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 it's what we need for a spiritual survival on a day-to-day basis.

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 And in Revelation 19, it's Christ who fought the battle

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 and he won the victory.

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 It's Christ in his purity,

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 but dipped in blood through the struggle and what he's gained.

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 So what does it mean for you and I to be clothed in Christ?

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 What is the imagery that is being pressed forward?

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 Well, the first thing that we can understand to be clothed in Christ,

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 it means that our identity has changed.

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 Think of the clothing of Christ of being like a uniform.

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 That when people see you in the uniform,

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 they now know who you are

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 and they now know what you do

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 because your identity is in that.

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 Paul here connects it to them with baptism.

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 Just as you've been baptized in Christ,

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 now put on Christ.

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 Be clothed in him.

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 You know, for many of the people that Paul wrote to,

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 for many people even still all over the world,

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 baptism in itself can be a death sentence

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 because it's not just simply about an act of obedience

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 that's done into a church,

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 but it's an act of breaking away from what you were before

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 so now you're identified in this now.

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 And so Paul says,

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 just as you were baptized,

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 just as you were brought out

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 and you are now identified as new,

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 so too put on Christ

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 so that he is your uniform,

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 so that he is your identity,

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 so that when people see you,

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 this is what they see.

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 But also that when we put on Christ,

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 the imagery that we begin to understand

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 is that we experience closeness.

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 I want to be honest with you.

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 Nothing right now is closer to me

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 than the clothes that I'm wearing.

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 Just as the shirt,

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 nothing is between this sleeve and my skin.

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 It rests on it.

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 There's the form fit that is there

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 that it rests on me.

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 And so too is the imagery

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 that just as our clothing is the closest to us,

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 now that we've put on Christ,

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 now that we are in him,

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 there's a closeness that rests on us in Christ.

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 There's the intimacy that this gives us,

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 that there is nothing,

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 nothing that can come in between us and him

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 as this rests on me.

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 So too is he.

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 And so we take that

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 and begin to think through that in our lives.

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 The power and the importance

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 of the closeness of Christ,

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 that nothing comes between,

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 nothing can be closer than.

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 Why?

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 Because it's who we are.

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 And then lastly,

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 as we understand the clothing,

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 what it means to be clothed in Christ,

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 and you celebrate this,

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 we're fully covered.

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 We're fully covered.

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 That when you see me,

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 what you see are my clothes.

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 You don't see what's underneath.

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 You don't see who I am.

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 Instead, you see the clothes that I've put on.

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 So that when we are clothed in Christ,

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 what is seen in us by God is fully Christ.

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 And what is seen in us by man

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 is the portrait of Christ

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 that we are painting with our lives.

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 The testimony of our actions of who we are.

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 So Paul says,

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 every single day,

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 if we're going to be a part of the family,

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 if this is who we are,

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 if this should come out from us,

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 then in every single aspect,

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 we put on Christ.

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 Our identity,

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 our closeness,

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 fully covered by him.

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 But he continues on.

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 Look back at verse 28.

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 He says,

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 there is neither Jew nor Greek.

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 There is neither slave nor free.

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 There is no male and female.

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 For you all,

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 for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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 What Paul moves to here

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 in a church that is fighting against division

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 is he communicates them

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 that a family characteristic is unity.

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 And that what happens is you and I,

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 that we are unified in Christ.

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 Now Paul attacks some issues in the culture then,

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 which I would argue are issues in our culture

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 and in our churches today.

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 The first thing he says

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 is there's neither Jew nor Greek.

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 He attacks the race and the culture barrier.

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 He comes back and says,

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 there is neither slave nor free.

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 He attacks the socioeconomic barrier.

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 And he says there is no male or female.

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 And he attacks the gender barrier that is there.

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 Now this has to be something

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 that within ourselves begins to rest.

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 That within ourselves,

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 we truly begin to evaluate

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 where we are as individuals

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 as we comprise the body of believers

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 within the church.

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 Because where we are in these categories

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 is the reflective of the body

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 of all of us together.

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 Friday I got a call from a pastor.

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 And we talked about some things

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 that were going on in his church.

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 And he said,

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 Bo, he said,

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 I wish that God would call me to leave,

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 but he won't.

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 Your church is dwindling and declining.

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 They're not a church in our area.

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 They're down to about 25 people.

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 And he said,

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 I've hit the point

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 where I don't know what to do

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 because the people want to know

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 what we can do to grow.

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 But when God brings us growth,

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 when he brings us life,

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 they run against it.

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 I said,

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 well, explain to me what's going on.

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 He said,

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 last year we started an Awana program

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 to reach our community around us.

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 He said,

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 and God blessed it.

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 He said,

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 Bo, we're a church of 25 people.

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 And we had 100 kids on average

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 coming to Awanas.

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 And I sat down at the end of the first year

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 and I was so excited about where we could go

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 and so excited about how we could move forward.

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 And he said,

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 we had 10 workers

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 who were there every single week for Awanas.

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 And I looked at them and I said,

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 all right,

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 it's been a great year.

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 Here's what God's done.

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 Who's coming back with me?

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 He said,

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 one person stood and raised their hand

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 and he said,

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 I'm not coming back.

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 And he said,

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 I'm sorry,

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 but why?

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 And before he could tell the reason why,

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 seven others raised their hand

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 and said,

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 we're not coming back either.

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 The pastor said,

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 I don't understand.

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 Could you explain to me

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 why you were deciding

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 to no longer be a part of something

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 that God is obviously blessing?

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 And he said,

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 well,

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 I began to weep when they told me.

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 He said,

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 the answer to the reason

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 why they weren't coming back

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 is they said to me,

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 there's too many black kids here.

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 And he said,

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 I just wish God would remove me,

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 but he won't,

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 but he won't,

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 but he won't.

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 There's no unity in Christ.

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 There's neither Jew nor Greek,

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 slave nor free,

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 male nor female.

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 When God establishes Christ,

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 what he's establishing within us

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 is a new humanity.

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 A new humanity.

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 Verse 28 literally means

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 that you are all one person in Christ.

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 There is now no longer any difference,

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 but we are one in him.

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 And what begins,

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 what resonates within us,

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 what we have to come to

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 is we must acknowledge

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 that our relationship to one another,

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 my relationship to you,

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 your relationship to me,

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 and your relationships amongst each other

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 are no longer based in anything else,

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 but are solely based in

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 our relationship with Christ.

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 So that when it comes to salvation,

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 that there is no difference among us.

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 But the Bible teaches,

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 whether you are black,

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 whether you are white,

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 whether you are wealthy,

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 whether you are poor,

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 whether you are male,

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 or whether you are female,

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 is that we all under the law

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 are equal and we're guilty.

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 And that we all under Christ

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 are equal and we've been set free.

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 This is why Paul was so adamant in Galatians.

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 Because what he's fighting against,

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 what he's pushing toward,

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 is the Judaizers there saying,

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 no, no, no, no, no.

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 There is Christ,

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 but there's still Jew

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 and there's still Greek.

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 There's still the difference.

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 And the gospel doesn't ring true

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 in that situation.

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 And this has been working

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 in my heart this week.

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 That when I look out

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 and I see,

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 if I take myself

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 and I compare to a minority

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 in the church,

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 while our skin,

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 our culture,

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 our past experiences,

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 and oftentimes our opportunities

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 may be different,

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 our desperate need for Jesus

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 and our salvation in Him

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 is the same.

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 Me compared to someone

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 in a lower tax bracket

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 or someone in a higher tax bracket

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 means that our finances,

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 the homes we live in,

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 the schools we send our kids to,

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 the clothes we wear

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 may all be different,

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 but our desperate need for Jesus

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 and our salvation in Him

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 is the same.

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 When I look at someone

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 of the opposite sex,

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 while in our world

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 oftentimes our opportunities

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 are different,

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 our perspectives

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 are different,

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 our understanding

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 and our roles

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 may be different,

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 our desperate need

00:22:29.280 --> 00:22:29.860
 for Jesus

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 and our salvation

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 in Him

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 is the same.

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 So that when it comes

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 to the need

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 of the gospel,

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 when it comes

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 to the freedom

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 that we've experienced

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 through the gospel,

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 that there is no race,

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 there is no social status,

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 there is no gender

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 because we have been made

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 one in Christ.

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 And if the church

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 doesn't reflect that,

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 nothing will.

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 I read an author

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 and he said this,

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 the kind of equality

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 Paul has in mind

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 is not the kind

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 that obliterates

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 every racial,

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 social,

00:23:05.800 --> 00:23:07.180
 or sexual distinction.

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 when it comes

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 to Christ,

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 we do not cease

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 to be white

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 or black bosses

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 or employees

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 or men

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 and women.

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 But with regard

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 to our physical

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 and social identity,

00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:20.960
 we continue

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 to be

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 what we have

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 always been

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 only now

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 we are what

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 we are in Christ.

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 I recognize

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 there's a difference

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 between my wife

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 and I.

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 I understand

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 that there's

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 a difference

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 with many of you

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 who are out here

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 who are minorities

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 and myself.

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 I understand

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 that there are

00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:42.940
 differences

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 in the battles

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 and in the work life

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 and in all

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 of the different things

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 that establish

00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:49.880
 our socioeconomic world

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 between the different

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 people in here.

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 but that in Christ,

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 in Christ,

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 we are one.

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 And this is what

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 comes to this importance

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 of where Paul

00:24:02.860 --> 00:24:03.940
 began in this

00:24:03.940 --> 00:24:04.860
 and where he will

00:24:04.860 --> 00:24:05.380
 conclude

00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:07.480
 is because in him

00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:08.980
 we are all heirs

00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:10.120
 in Christ.

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 Chapter 3,

00:24:12.460 --> 00:24:13.340
 verse 26.

00:24:14.540 --> 00:24:15.300
 I want to draw

00:24:15.300 --> 00:24:15.820
 a distinction

00:24:15.820 --> 00:24:16.500
 of a word

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 that he uses.

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 He says,

00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:20.320
 we are all

00:24:20.320 --> 00:24:21.640
 sons of God.

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 Jump down

00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:23.500
 to chapter 4,

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 verse 6.

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 Because you are

00:24:25.520 --> 00:24:26.480
 sons.

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 Verse 7.

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 So you are

00:24:29.740 --> 00:24:30.360
 no longer

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 a slave

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 but a son.

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 And if a son,

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 then an heir

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 through God.

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 So what in the world

00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:39.120
 is happening here?

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 Is Paul only

00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:42.120
 speaking to men?

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 Has he forgotten

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 about the women?

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 And that's not

00:24:45.580 --> 00:24:46.220
 the case at all.

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 What Paul is doing

00:24:47.800 --> 00:24:48.500
 is he's speaking

00:24:48.500 --> 00:24:48.980
 to something

00:24:48.980 --> 00:24:49.600
 that culturally

00:24:49.600 --> 00:24:50.540
 they would understand.

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 And it's the

00:24:51.600 --> 00:24:52.240
 concept

00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:53.340
 of sonship.

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 It's the concept

00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:56.040
 of sonship.

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 In the Bible,

00:24:57.040 --> 00:24:57.680
 let's establish

00:24:57.680 --> 00:24:58.340
 some things.

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 All people

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 are made

00:25:01.180 --> 00:25:02.000
 in the image

00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:02.420
 of God.

00:25:03.280 --> 00:25:04.700
 In Acts chapter 17,

00:25:04.980 --> 00:25:06.280
 Paul establishes

00:25:06.280 --> 00:25:07.180
 that all

00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:08.100
 of mankind,

00:25:08.600 --> 00:25:09.420
 every man,

00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:10.340
 every woman,

00:25:10.660 --> 00:25:11.860
 and every child

00:25:11.860 --> 00:25:12.880
 is considered

00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:13.860
 a child of God.

00:25:14.380 --> 00:25:15.820
 But in Scripture,

00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:18.660
 only the saved

00:25:18.660 --> 00:25:20.340
 are his sons

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 are his sons

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 because only

00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:23.460
 sons gain

00:25:23.460 --> 00:25:24.240
 inheritance.

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 You see,

00:25:25.520 --> 00:25:26.280
 Paul isn't trying

00:25:26.280 --> 00:25:27.080
 to correct

00:25:27.080 --> 00:25:28.360
 a social norm

00:25:28.360 --> 00:25:29.040
 or aspect

00:25:29.040 --> 00:25:29.760
 that's there.

00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:31.060
 But what Paul

00:25:31.060 --> 00:25:31.460
 is doing

00:25:31.460 --> 00:25:32.220
 is he's speaking

00:25:32.220 --> 00:25:32.840
 to something

00:25:32.840 --> 00:25:33.440
 that would have

00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:34.140
 been understood

00:25:34.140 --> 00:25:35.600
 by every man,

00:25:35.740 --> 00:25:35.940
 woman,

00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:36.560
 and child

00:25:36.560 --> 00:25:37.680
 who would read

00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:38.480
 this as he

00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:39.820
 pens this letter.

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 that in the

00:25:40.700 --> 00:25:41.100
 ancient

00:25:41.100 --> 00:25:42.240
 Middle East

00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:42.840
 culture

00:25:42.840 --> 00:25:44.380
 dictated

00:25:44.380 --> 00:25:45.580
 that only

00:25:45.580 --> 00:25:46.360
 sons

00:25:46.360 --> 00:25:47.340
 gain

00:25:47.340 --> 00:25:48.300
 inheritance.

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 And so what

00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:50.400
 Paul is doing

00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:50.760
 here,

00:25:51.060 --> 00:25:51.340
 he's saying

00:25:51.340 --> 00:25:52.140
 there's a wonderful

00:25:52.140 --> 00:25:53.240
 beauty of a

00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:53.920
 transformation

00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:55.260
 of what takes

00:25:55.260 --> 00:25:56.140
 place when

00:25:56.140 --> 00:25:56.840
 someone is

00:25:56.840 --> 00:25:57.780
 in Christ,

00:25:58.240 --> 00:25:59.240
 that being

00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:00.080
 in him

00:26:00.080 --> 00:26:00.840
 a full

00:26:00.840 --> 00:26:01.500
 transformation

00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:02.680
 happens.

00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:03.860
 Jews and

00:26:03.860 --> 00:26:04.280
 Greeks,

00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:05.920
 slave and

00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:06.340
 free,

00:26:07.140 --> 00:26:07.900
 men and

00:26:07.900 --> 00:26:08.200
 women,

00:26:08.740 --> 00:26:09.080
 that in

00:26:09.080 --> 00:26:09.720
 only the

00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:10.340
 power of

00:26:10.340 --> 00:26:10.760
 Christ,

00:26:10.860 --> 00:26:11.320
 of what

00:26:11.320 --> 00:26:12.000
 Christ can

00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:12.360
 do,

00:26:12.580 --> 00:26:13.180
 that those

00:26:13.180 --> 00:26:13.500
 who are

00:26:13.500 --> 00:26:14.060
 in him

00:26:14.060 --> 00:26:15.040
 drop all

00:26:15.040 --> 00:26:15.420
 of that

00:26:15.420 --> 00:26:16.200
 and become

00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:16.840
 sons,

00:26:17.140 --> 00:26:17.800
 everyone

00:26:17.800 --> 00:26:19.160
 equal to

00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:20.100
 gain the

00:26:20.100 --> 00:26:20.760
 inheritance

00:26:20.760 --> 00:26:21.760
 of what

00:26:21.760 --> 00:26:22.680
 is possible

00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:23.520
 to them

00:26:23.520 --> 00:26:24.220
 through

00:26:24.220 --> 00:26:25.020
 God.

00:26:26.020 --> 00:26:26.520
 It's the

00:26:26.520 --> 00:26:26.920
 transformation

00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:27.380
 of what

00:26:27.380 --> 00:26:27.860
 happens.

00:26:29.060 --> 00:26:29.340
 And so I

00:26:29.340 --> 00:26:29.740
 look at my

00:26:29.740 --> 00:26:31.100
 daughter and

00:26:31.100 --> 00:26:31.600
 I can tell

00:26:31.600 --> 00:26:32.720
 her through

00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:33.180
 the power

00:26:33.180 --> 00:26:33.900
 of Christ

00:26:33.900 --> 00:26:34.860
 that you

00:26:34.860 --> 00:26:35.640
 ingain

00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:36.720
 a sonship,

00:26:37.280 --> 00:26:38.260
 you ingain

00:26:38.260 --> 00:26:39.400
 an inheritance

00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:41.060
 in him.

00:26:42.420 --> 00:26:42.960
 That I

00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:43.380
 can look at

00:26:43.380 --> 00:26:43.720
 someone of

00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:44.040
 a different

00:26:44.040 --> 00:26:45.620
 race and

00:26:45.620 --> 00:26:45.880
 say the

00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:46.420
 transformation

00:26:46.420 --> 00:26:47.020
 of what

00:26:47.020 --> 00:26:48.200
 happens is

00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:48.580
 you become

00:26:48.580 --> 00:26:49.760
 a son of

00:26:49.760 --> 00:26:50.320
 Christ.

00:26:50.560 --> 00:26:51.460
 In him

00:26:51.460 --> 00:26:52.520
 you become,

00:26:52.820 --> 00:26:53.440
 you gain

00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:54.480
 the inheritance.

00:26:55.840 --> 00:26:56.660
 You gain

00:26:56.660 --> 00:26:57.380
 these.

00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:57.940
 We are

00:26:57.940 --> 00:26:58.560
 adopted

00:26:58.560 --> 00:27:00.080
 into the

00:27:00.080 --> 00:27:00.480
 family.

00:27:01.580 --> 00:27:01.780
 And so

00:27:01.780 --> 00:27:02.320
 Paul goes

00:27:02.320 --> 00:27:02.740
 on to

00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:03.600
 explain the

00:27:03.600 --> 00:27:04.280
 dynamic of

00:27:04.280 --> 00:27:04.580
 what this

00:27:04.580 --> 00:27:05.180
 looks like.

00:27:05.660 --> 00:27:06.100
 And he

00:27:06.100 --> 00:27:06.520
 says in

00:27:06.520 --> 00:27:07.260
 chapter 4

00:27:07.260 --> 00:27:08.320
 that there's

00:27:08.320 --> 00:27:08.860
 a time in

00:27:08.860 --> 00:27:09.560
 a child's

00:27:09.560 --> 00:27:10.820
 life before

00:27:10.820 --> 00:27:11.240
 he'll gain

00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:11.920
 an inheritance

00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:12.800
 where he's

00:27:12.800 --> 00:27:13.240
 actually in

00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:13.680
 the same

00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:14.640
 standing as

00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:15.520
 the slave.

00:27:16.040 --> 00:27:16.360
 And as

00:27:16.360 --> 00:27:16.840
 long as

00:27:16.840 --> 00:27:17.340
 the child

00:27:17.340 --> 00:27:17.800
 is the

00:27:17.800 --> 00:27:18.140
 minor,

00:27:18.360 --> 00:27:18.680
 he's

00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:19.460
 treated the

00:27:19.460 --> 00:27:20.140
 same way.

00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:20.900
 But there

00:27:20.900 --> 00:27:21.640
 comes a

00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:22.200
 point in

00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:22.980
 time which

00:27:22.980 --> 00:27:23.740
 is designated

00:27:23.740 --> 00:27:24.640
 by the

00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:25.400
 father that

00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:26.520
 he experiences

00:27:26.520 --> 00:27:27.620
 the benefits

00:27:27.620 --> 00:27:28.500
 of inheritance

00:27:28.500 --> 00:27:30.340
 even before

00:27:30.340 --> 00:27:31.540
 the inheritance

00:27:31.540 --> 00:27:32.560
 is his.

00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:33.740
 That there's

00:27:33.740 --> 00:27:34.320
 a point

00:27:34.320 --> 00:27:34.860
 before it's

00:27:34.860 --> 00:27:35.760
 fully handed

00:27:35.760 --> 00:27:36.680
 over that

00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:37.380
 we begin to

00:27:37.380 --> 00:27:38.600
 experience this.

00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:39.420
 And he says

00:27:39.420 --> 00:27:40.320
 that it happens.

00:27:40.600 --> 00:27:41.160
 It happens

00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:41.480
 through the

00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:42.100
 power of

00:27:42.100 --> 00:27:42.700
 what God's

00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:42.980
 doing.

00:27:43.380 --> 00:27:43.760
 That first

00:27:43.760 --> 00:27:44.200
 that God

00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:44.720
 sent the

00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:45.140
 son to

00:27:45.140 --> 00:27:45.760
 make the

00:27:45.760 --> 00:27:46.260
 way for

00:27:46.260 --> 00:27:46.520
 it to

00:27:46.520 --> 00:27:47.420
 be possible.

00:27:47.760 --> 00:27:48.020
 Painting

00:27:48.020 --> 00:27:48.460
 all the

00:27:48.460 --> 00:27:48.920
 way back

00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:49.160
 to what

00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:49.720
 Paul's

00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:50.260
 continually

00:27:50.260 --> 00:27:50.920
 reminding

00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:51.540
 on of

00:27:51.540 --> 00:27:52.160
 the gospel

00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:52.600
 that what

00:27:52.600 --> 00:27:53.120
 is needed

00:27:53.120 --> 00:27:53.620
 to be

00:27:53.620 --> 00:27:53.980
 saved.

00:27:54.180 --> 00:27:54.400
 That it

00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:54.920
 is through

00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:55.500
 Jesus

00:27:55.500 --> 00:27:56.280
 and through

00:27:56.280 --> 00:27:56.740
 Christ

00:27:56.740 --> 00:27:57.340
 alone that

00:27:57.340 --> 00:27:57.800
 salvation

00:27:57.800 --> 00:27:58.300
 happens.

00:27:58.560 --> 00:27:58.800
 But then

00:27:58.800 --> 00:27:59.160
 he says

00:27:59.160 --> 00:27:59.720
 that something

00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:00.360
 remarkable

00:28:00.360 --> 00:28:01.260
 happens is

00:28:01.260 --> 00:28:01.620
 that not

00:28:01.620 --> 00:28:02.160
 only made

00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:02.720
 possible

00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:03.360
 through the

00:28:03.360 --> 00:28:03.880
 relationship

00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:04.300
 with the

00:28:04.300 --> 00:28:04.860
 son but

00:28:04.860 --> 00:28:05.160
 that he

00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:06.120
 sends the

00:28:06.120 --> 00:28:07.040
 spirit to

00:28:07.040 --> 00:28:07.940
 indwell in

00:28:07.940 --> 00:28:08.840
 the lives

00:28:08.840 --> 00:28:09.200
 of the

00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:09.640
 believers.

00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:10.160
 And what

00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:10.720
 the spirit

00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:11.320
 is doing

00:28:11.320 --> 00:28:11.940
 is he's

00:28:11.940 --> 00:28:12.800
 speaking into

00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:13.420
 the heart

00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:13.900
 of the

00:28:13.900 --> 00:28:14.440
 individual

00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:16.040
 two special

00:28:16.040 --> 00:28:16.880
 words.

00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:18.320
 Abba

00:28:18.320 --> 00:28:19.720
 father.

00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:21.740
 Abba

00:28:21.740 --> 00:28:22.840
 father.

00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:24.320
 And that

00:28:24.320 --> 00:28:24.680
 as the

00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:25.460
 spirit does

00:28:25.460 --> 00:28:26.900
 that we

00:28:26.900 --> 00:28:27.320
 you and

00:28:27.320 --> 00:28:27.940
 I get to

00:28:27.940 --> 00:28:28.600
 experience

00:28:28.600 --> 00:28:30.180
 here is

00:28:30.180 --> 00:28:30.760
 the beautiful

00:28:30.760 --> 00:28:32.240
 picture of

00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:32.940
 living in

00:28:32.940 --> 00:28:33.660
 the inheritance

00:28:33.660 --> 00:28:34.800
 that God

00:28:34.800 --> 00:28:35.140
 has given

00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:35.460
 us.

00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:36.580
 So what

00:28:36.580 --> 00:28:36.780
 in the

00:28:36.780 --> 00:28:37.140
 world does

00:28:37.140 --> 00:28:37.540
 that mean?

00:28:38.080 --> 00:28:38.560
 What does

00:28:38.560 --> 00:28:39.080
 it mean that

00:28:39.080 --> 00:28:39.660
 the spirit

00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:40.540
 is living

00:28:40.540 --> 00:28:41.500
 in us

00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:43.160
 crying out

00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:43.920
 Abba

00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:44.440
 father?

00:28:45.280 --> 00:28:45.580
 Well the

00:28:45.580 --> 00:28:46.280
 word Abba

00:28:46.280 --> 00:28:48.260
 describes the

00:28:48.260 --> 00:28:48.900
 relationship

00:28:48.900 --> 00:28:50.140
 that a

00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:51.060
 child has

00:28:51.060 --> 00:28:52.100
 with his

00:28:52.100 --> 00:28:52.360
 or her

00:28:52.360 --> 00:28:52.740
 father.

00:28:53.300 --> 00:28:53.620
 It

00:28:53.620 --> 00:28:54.380
 describes a

00:28:54.380 --> 00:28:55.020
 closeness

00:28:55.020 --> 00:28:55.960
 of what's

00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:56.300
 there.

00:28:56.800 --> 00:28:57.120
 It

00:28:57.120 --> 00:28:58.080
 describes

00:28:58.080 --> 00:28:59.260
 an intimacy

00:28:59.260 --> 00:29:00.400
 that can

00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:01.120
 only be

00:29:01.120 --> 00:29:02.020
 experienced

00:29:02.020 --> 00:29:03.500
 and that

00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:04.380
 is the

00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:04.820
 inheritance

00:29:04.820 --> 00:29:05.660
 that we

00:29:05.660 --> 00:29:06.220
 have now.

00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:09.100
 My

00:29:09.100 --> 00:29:09.740
 daughter has

00:29:09.740 --> 00:29:10.420
 always been

00:29:10.420 --> 00:29:11.340
 scared of

00:29:11.340 --> 00:29:11.700
 storms.

00:29:12.360 --> 00:29:12.760
 Always.

00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:14.340
 She still

00:29:14.340 --> 00:29:14.840
 is a little

00:29:14.840 --> 00:29:15.480
 scared of

00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:16.860
 storms but

00:29:16.860 --> 00:29:17.400
 what really

00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:17.880
 gets her

00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:18.800
 she tries

00:29:18.800 --> 00:29:19.160
 to act

00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:19.580
 tough and

00:29:19.580 --> 00:29:20.140
 she's always

00:29:20.140 --> 00:29:20.660
 tried to

00:29:20.660 --> 00:29:21.280
 act tough

00:29:21.280 --> 00:29:22.360
 is the

00:29:22.360 --> 00:29:22.660
 thunder.

00:29:24.040 --> 00:29:24.520
 And so I'll

00:29:24.520 --> 00:29:25.500
 kind of miss

00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:26.360
 these days a

00:29:26.360 --> 00:29:26.800
 little bit

00:29:26.800 --> 00:29:27.700
 but when

00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:27.960
 she was

00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:28.160
 real

00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:28.500
 little

00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:29.560
 laying in

00:29:29.560 --> 00:29:29.780
 bed

00:29:29.780 --> 00:29:30.160
 South

00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:30.720
 Carolina

00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:31.400
 early

00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:32.240
 springtime

00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:32.780
 you hear

00:29:32.780 --> 00:29:33.300
 the rain

00:29:33.300 --> 00:29:33.780
 start to

00:29:33.780 --> 00:29:34.420
 come and

00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:34.700
 then you

00:29:34.700 --> 00:29:35.280
 start to

00:29:35.280 --> 00:29:35.940
 see the

00:29:35.940 --> 00:29:36.460
 pops of

00:29:36.460 --> 00:29:36.860
 lightning

00:29:36.860 --> 00:29:38.100
 and then

00:29:38.100 --> 00:29:38.780
 the lightning

00:29:38.780 --> 00:29:39.580
 gets closer

00:29:39.580 --> 00:29:40.240
 and closer

00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:40.860
 and closer

00:29:40.860 --> 00:29:41.800
 and the

00:29:41.800 --> 00:29:42.100
 house that

00:29:42.100 --> 00:29:42.500
 we lived

00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:43.120
 in before

00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:43.580
 the house

00:29:43.580 --> 00:29:43.980
 we live

00:29:43.980 --> 00:29:44.440
 in now

00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:44.900
 we had

00:29:44.900 --> 00:29:45.920
 really old

00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:46.460
 windows

00:29:46.460 --> 00:29:47.620
 and when

00:29:47.620 --> 00:29:48.040
 the lightning

00:29:48.040 --> 00:29:48.420
 would get

00:29:48.420 --> 00:29:49.200
 really close

00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:49.560
 and the

00:29:49.560 --> 00:29:50.060
 thunder

00:29:50.060 --> 00:29:50.700
 would get

00:29:50.700 --> 00:29:51.100
 really

00:29:51.100 --> 00:29:51.780
 strong

00:29:51.780 --> 00:29:52.460
 eventually

00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:53.140
 you would

00:29:53.140 --> 00:29:53.380
 hear

00:29:53.380 --> 00:29:53.660
 and the

00:29:53.660 --> 00:29:54.240
 whole house

00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:54.820
 would shake

00:29:54.820 --> 00:29:55.760
 but especially

00:29:55.760 --> 00:29:56.720
 the windows

00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:57.640
 would rattle

00:29:57.640 --> 00:29:59.220
 and I never

00:29:59.220 --> 00:29:59.900
 forget you

00:29:59.900 --> 00:30:00.440
 could always

00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:01.120
 time it

00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:02.360
 the closer

00:30:02.360 --> 00:30:02.820
 and the

00:30:02.820 --> 00:30:03.440
 closer it

00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:03.760
 got

00:30:03.760 --> 00:30:05.140
 finally

00:30:05.140 --> 00:30:06.280
 there'd be

00:30:06.280 --> 00:30:06.580
 the big

00:30:06.580 --> 00:30:06.780
 one

00:30:06.780 --> 00:30:08.220
 and it

00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:08.440
 didn't

00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:08.860
 matter

00:30:08.860 --> 00:30:09.840
 if it

00:30:09.840 --> 00:30:10.500
 was nine

00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:10.820
 o'clock

00:30:10.820 --> 00:30:11.320
 at night

00:30:11.320 --> 00:30:11.940
 or three

00:30:11.940 --> 00:30:12.320
 o'clock

00:30:12.320 --> 00:30:12.560
 in the

00:30:12.560 --> 00:30:12.820
 morning

00:30:12.820 --> 00:30:13.860
 when the

00:30:13.860 --> 00:30:14.340
 big one

00:30:14.340 --> 00:30:14.660
 hit

00:30:14.660 --> 00:30:15.880
 you'd

00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:16.080
 hear

00:30:16.080 --> 00:30:20.420
 and then

00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:20.720
 she'd

00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:21.120
 jump

00:30:21.120 --> 00:30:22.560
 in the

00:30:22.560 --> 00:30:22.980
 bed

00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:23.940
 with me

00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:25.780
 and she'd

00:30:25.780 --> 00:30:26.220
 grab my

00:30:26.220 --> 00:30:26.660
 arm

00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:28.280
 and she'd

00:30:28.280 --> 00:30:28.680
 wrap it

00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:29.280
 around her

00:30:29.280 --> 00:30:30.560
 why

00:30:30.560 --> 00:30:32.160
 why

00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:33.660
 because in

00:30:33.660 --> 00:30:34.120
 her moment

00:30:34.120 --> 00:30:34.680
 of struggle

00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:36.060
 in her

00:30:36.060 --> 00:30:36.460
 moment

00:30:36.460 --> 00:30:37.680
 of pain

00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:38.820
 in her

00:30:38.820 --> 00:30:39.260
 moment

00:30:39.260 --> 00:30:40.260
 of fear

00:30:40.260 --> 00:30:41.520
 what she

00:30:41.520 --> 00:30:41.960
 needed

00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:42.720
 from her

00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:43.100
 daddy

00:30:43.100 --> 00:30:44.780
 was affection

00:30:44.780 --> 00:30:46.140
 the closeness

00:30:46.140 --> 00:30:46.920
 of my touch

00:30:46.920 --> 00:30:48.440
 and the

00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:48.940
 trust

00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:50.300
 that everything

00:30:50.300 --> 00:30:50.720
 would be

00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:51.080
 okay

00:30:51.080 --> 00:30:53.200
 you know

00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:53.520
 this

00:30:53.520 --> 00:30:54.940
 I can't

00:30:54.940 --> 00:30:55.440
 stop the

00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:55.780
 lightning

00:30:55.780 --> 00:30:57.600
 I can't

00:30:57.600 --> 00:30:57.940
 make it

00:30:57.940 --> 00:30:58.460
 go away

00:30:58.460 --> 00:31:00.080
 I can't

00:31:00.080 --> 00:31:00.700
 quiet it

00:31:00.700 --> 00:31:01.140
 down

00:31:01.140 --> 00:31:02.800
 but there

00:31:02.800 --> 00:31:03.400
 was enough

00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:03.700
 of a

00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:04.160
 relationship

00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:04.540
 with her

00:31:04.540 --> 00:31:04.880
 father

00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:06.160
 that when

00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:06.920
 that situation

00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:07.480
 happened

00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:09.080
 I'm what

00:31:09.080 --> 00:31:09.660
 she wanted

00:31:09.660 --> 00:31:10.900
 and you

00:31:10.900 --> 00:31:11.220
 could even

00:31:11.220 --> 00:31:11.620
 argue

00:31:11.620 --> 00:31:12.820
 that I'm

00:31:12.820 --> 00:31:13.160
 what she

00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:13.500
 needed

00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:14.940
 when the

00:31:14.940 --> 00:31:15.760
 spirit cries

00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:16.140
 out

00:31:16.140 --> 00:31:16.780
 Abba

00:31:16.780 --> 00:31:17.120
 father

00:31:17.120 --> 00:31:18.280
 in the

00:31:18.280 --> 00:31:18.600
 original

00:31:18.600 --> 00:31:19.060
 language

00:31:19.060 --> 00:31:19.380
 there's

00:31:19.380 --> 00:31:19.660
 two

00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:20.180
 words

00:31:20.180 --> 00:31:20.660
 that

00:31:20.660 --> 00:31:20.840
 that

00:31:20.840 --> 00:31:21.560
 communicates

00:31:21.560 --> 00:31:22.680
 an

00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:23.200
 affection

00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:24.460
 and a

00:31:24.460 --> 00:31:24.920
 trust

00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:26.400
 so that

00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:27.140
 the spirit

00:31:27.140 --> 00:31:27.800
 residing

00:31:27.800 --> 00:31:28.540
 in us

00:31:28.540 --> 00:31:29.980
 cries out

00:31:29.980 --> 00:31:30.740
 God

00:31:30.740 --> 00:31:31.440
 I love

00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:31.740
 you

00:31:31.740 --> 00:31:32.380
 and I

00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:33.260
 desperately

00:31:33.260 --> 00:31:34.280
 desperately

00:31:34.280 --> 00:31:35.080
 need

00:31:35.080 --> 00:31:35.320
 you

00:31:35.320 --> 00:31:36.640
 and here's

00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:36.840
 what's

00:31:36.840 --> 00:31:37.300
 remarkable

00:31:37.300 --> 00:31:38.920
 he is

00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:39.380
 the one

00:31:39.380 --> 00:31:40.040
 that

00:31:40.040 --> 00:31:40.440
 quiets

00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:40.920
 the storm

00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:42.420
 he is

00:31:42.420 --> 00:31:43.240
 the one

00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:44.160
 that controls

00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:45.040
 the wind

00:31:45.040 --> 00:31:45.660
 and the rain

00:31:45.660 --> 00:31:46.740
 he is

00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:47.280
 the one

00:31:47.280 --> 00:31:47.660
 whose

00:31:47.660 --> 00:31:48.440
 affection

00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:49.380
 is perfect

00:31:49.380 --> 00:31:50.100
 and he

00:31:50.100 --> 00:31:50.460
 is

00:31:50.460 --> 00:31:51.320
 the one

00:31:51.320 --> 00:31:51.840
 whose

00:31:51.840 --> 00:31:52.640
 trust

00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:53.300
 he will

00:31:53.300 --> 00:31:53.540
 never

00:31:53.540 --> 00:31:53.940
 break

00:31:53.940 --> 00:31:55.500
 time

00:31:55.500 --> 00:31:56.760
 and time

00:31:56.760 --> 00:31:57.600
 again

00:31:57.600 --> 00:31:58.940
 and we

00:31:58.940 --> 00:31:59.480
 experience

00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:00.000
 that

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:01.560
 because we've

00:32:01.560 --> 00:32:02.600
 been adopted

00:32:02.600 --> 00:32:03.800
 because we

00:32:03.800 --> 00:32:04.420
 are heirs

00:32:04.420 --> 00:32:05.420
 because we

00:32:05.420 --> 00:32:05.820
 are brought

00:32:05.820 --> 00:32:06.920
 into the

00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:07.280
 family

00:32:07.280 --> 00:32:08.160
 would you

00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:08.460
 pray with

00:32:08.460 --> 00:32:08.980
 me

00:32:08.980 --> 00:32:13.040
 God we

00:32:13.040 --> 00:32:13.360
 come to

00:32:13.360 --> 00:32:13.660
 you this

00:32:13.660 --> 00:32:13.940
 morning

00:32:13.940 --> 00:32:17.220
 God

00:32:17.220 --> 00:32:17.780
 seeing

00:32:17.780 --> 00:32:18.900
 the

00:32:18.900 --> 00:32:19.660
 characteristics

00:32:19.660 --> 00:32:22.200
 understanding

00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:23.200
 what the

00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:23.680
 family

00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:25.000
 looks like

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:27.580
 Lord I

00:32:27.580 --> 00:32:28.200
 pray for

00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:28.700
 us

00:32:28.700 --> 00:32:29.720
 as a

00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:29.980
 body

00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:30.160
 of

00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:30.580
 believers

00:32:30.580 --> 00:32:32.800
 that in

00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:33.280
 every single

00:32:33.280 --> 00:32:33.680
 moment

00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:33.980
 that in

00:32:33.980 --> 00:32:34.840
 every single

00:32:34.840 --> 00:32:35.200
 day

00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:35.500
 that in

00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:35.980
 every single

00:32:35.980 --> 00:32:36.500
 aspect

00:32:36.500 --> 00:32:37.200
 of our

00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:37.620
 life

00:32:37.620 --> 00:32:38.100
 that we

00:32:38.100 --> 00:32:38.700
 would put

00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:39.560
 on

00:32:39.560 --> 00:32:40.400
 Christ

00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:41.840
 that when

00:32:41.840 --> 00:32:42.160
 people

00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:42.800
 see us

00:32:42.800 --> 00:32:43.200
 that that's

00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:43.460
 what they

00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:43.960
 would see

00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:44.760
 that we

00:32:44.760 --> 00:32:45.420
 would experience

00:32:45.420 --> 00:32:46.200
 a closeness

00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:46.660
 that we

00:32:46.660 --> 00:32:47.360
 can't obtain

00:32:47.360 --> 00:32:47.820
 on our

00:32:47.820 --> 00:32:48.160
 own

00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:49.400
 but is

00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:50.240
 found in

00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:50.860
 putting

00:32:50.860 --> 00:32:51.560
 you

00:32:51.560 --> 00:32:52.160
 on

00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:53.340
 that nothing

00:32:53.340 --> 00:32:53.760
 would be

00:32:53.760 --> 00:32:54.180
 closer

00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:55.320
 no person

00:32:55.320 --> 00:32:55.660
 would be

00:32:55.660 --> 00:32:55.980
 closer

00:32:55.980 --> 00:32:56.940
 no circumstance

00:32:56.940 --> 00:32:57.520
 would be

00:32:57.520 --> 00:32:57.840
 closer

00:32:57.840 --> 00:32:58.420
 but that

00:32:58.420 --> 00:32:58.920
 Lord

00:32:58.920 --> 00:32:59.820
 that we

00:32:59.820 --> 00:33:00.300
 would be

00:33:00.300 --> 00:33:00.900
 clothed

00:33:00.900 --> 00:33:01.560
 in you

00:33:01.560 --> 00:33:03.200
 Lord I

00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:04.000
 pray for

00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:04.600
 a unity

00:33:04.600 --> 00:33:05.380
 in Christ

00:33:05.380 --> 00:33:06.760
 that we

00:33:06.760 --> 00:33:07.380
 recognize

00:33:07.380 --> 00:33:08.660
 that the

00:33:08.660 --> 00:33:09.340
 beauty of

00:33:09.340 --> 00:33:09.820
 the local

00:33:09.820 --> 00:33:10.340
 body

00:33:10.340 --> 00:33:11.220
 is that

00:33:11.220 --> 00:33:11.700
 there is

00:33:11.700 --> 00:33:12.300
 diversity

00:33:12.300 --> 00:33:13.600
 Lord may

00:33:13.600 --> 00:33:14.320
 we never

00:33:14.320 --> 00:33:14.960
 all be

00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:15.600
 the same

00:33:15.600 --> 00:33:16.660
 may we

00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:17.520
 never fight

00:33:17.520 --> 00:33:18.540
 for everyone

00:33:18.540 --> 00:33:19.040
 to have the

00:33:19.040 --> 00:33:19.840
 same background

00:33:19.840 --> 00:33:20.760
 or everyone

00:33:20.760 --> 00:33:21.260
 to have the

00:33:21.260 --> 00:33:21.880
 same skin

00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:22.300
 color

00:33:22.300 --> 00:33:22.820
 or Lord

00:33:22.820 --> 00:33:23.220
 everyone

00:33:23.220 --> 00:33:23.680
 to speak

00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:24.120
 the same

00:33:24.120 --> 00:33:24.720
 language

00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:25.220
 but Lord

00:33:25.220 --> 00:33:25.540
 may we

00:33:25.540 --> 00:33:26.100
 always

00:33:26.100 --> 00:33:26.800
 strive

00:33:26.800 --> 00:33:27.320
 for

00:33:27.320 --> 00:33:28.080
 diversity

00:33:28.080 --> 00:33:28.560
 because

00:33:28.560 --> 00:33:29.160
 diversity

00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:29.580
 in the

00:33:29.580 --> 00:33:29.900
 local

00:33:29.900 --> 00:33:30.280
 body

00:33:30.280 --> 00:33:30.780
 is the

00:33:30.780 --> 00:33:31.280
 reflection

00:33:31.280 --> 00:33:31.900
 of the

00:33:31.900 --> 00:33:32.460
 diversity

00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:32.940
 Lord

00:33:32.940 --> 00:33:33.320
 in your

00:33:33.320 --> 00:33:33.600
 church

00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:33.900
 as a

00:33:33.900 --> 00:33:34.180
 whole

00:33:34.180 --> 00:33:35.840
 but could

00:33:35.840 --> 00:33:36.040
 we

00:33:36.040 --> 00:33:36.620
 acknowledge

00:33:36.620 --> 00:33:37.020
 Lord

00:33:37.020 --> 00:33:37.500
 could we

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:37.980
 work

00:33:37.980 --> 00:33:38.300
 toward

00:33:38.300 --> 00:33:38.780
 could we

00:33:38.780 --> 00:33:39.420
 understand

00:33:39.420 --> 00:33:41.260
 that in

00:33:41.260 --> 00:33:41.900
 Christ

00:33:41.900 --> 00:33:44.100
 in

00:33:44.100 --> 00:33:44.700
 Christ

00:33:44.700 --> 00:33:46.820
 there is

00:33:46.820 --> 00:33:47.320
 the same

00:33:47.320 --> 00:33:47.920
 standing

00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:50.400
 regardless

00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:50.800
 of our

00:33:50.800 --> 00:33:51.280
 race

00:33:51.280 --> 00:33:52.560
 regardless

00:33:52.560 --> 00:33:52.940
 of our

00:33:52.940 --> 00:33:53.460
 culture

00:33:53.460 --> 00:33:55.360
 regardless

00:33:55.360 --> 00:33:55.680
 of our

00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:55.940
 bank

00:33:55.940 --> 00:33:56.440
 account

00:33:56.440 --> 00:33:57.780
 regardless

00:33:57.780 --> 00:33:58.120
 of our

00:33:58.120 --> 00:33:58.680
 job

00:33:58.680 --> 00:33:59.200
 or our

00:33:59.200 --> 00:33:59.840
 education

00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:05.020
 or that

00:34:05.020 --> 00:34:05.140
 we

00:34:05.140 --> 00:34:05.280
 could

00:34:05.280 --> 00:34:05.680
 see

00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:07.840
 that

00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:08.040
 in

00:34:08.040 --> 00:34:08.620
 Christ

00:34:08.620 --> 00:34:11.280
 there is

00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:11.840
 unity

00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:13.420
 amongst

00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:13.620
 the

00:34:13.620 --> 00:34:14.120
 genders

00:34:14.120 --> 00:34:17.780
 Lord

00:34:17.780 --> 00:34:17.940
 that

00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:18.160
 my

00:34:18.160 --> 00:34:18.640
 wife

00:34:18.640 --> 00:34:19.920
 should

00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:20.080
 be

00:34:20.080 --> 00:34:20.480
 treated

00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:21.840
 by

00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:22.300
 me

00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:27.520
 as the

00:34:27.520 --> 00:34:27.920
 person

00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:28.120
 who

00:34:28.120 --> 00:34:28.260
 she

00:34:28.260 --> 00:34:28.540
 is

00:34:28.540 --> 00:34:28.680
 in

00:34:28.680 --> 00:34:28.980
 you

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:37.320
 Lord

00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:42.920
 where we

00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:43.460
 have a

00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:44.000
 tendency

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.620
 where we

00:34:46.620 --> 00:34:47.720
 have a

00:34:47.720 --> 00:34:48.540
 bent of

00:34:48.540 --> 00:34:49.120
 our heart

00:34:49.120 --> 00:34:49.480
 that is

00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:49.920
 sinful

00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.760
 to long

00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:53.220
 to make

00:34:53.220 --> 00:34:53.800
 things want

00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:54.160
 to look

00:34:54.160 --> 00:34:54.900
 like us

00:34:54.900 --> 00:34:56.820
 Lord

00:34:56.820 --> 00:34:57.140
 could you

00:34:57.140 --> 00:34:57.540
 break us

00:34:57.540 --> 00:34:58.060
 from that

00:34:58.060 --> 00:35:00.140
 Lord

00:35:00.140 --> 00:35:00.580
 set us

00:35:00.580 --> 00:35:00.900
 free

00:35:00.900 --> 00:35:01.520
 from that

00:35:01.520 --> 00:35:04.040
 Lord

00:35:04.040 --> 00:35:04.300
 for the

00:35:04.300 --> 00:35:04.600
 friend of

00:35:04.600 --> 00:35:04.860
 mine

00:35:04.860 --> 00:35:05.120
 at the

00:35:05.120 --> 00:35:05.360
 church

00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:05.720
 that he's

00:35:05.720 --> 00:35:05.980
 at

00:35:05.980 --> 00:35:08.260
 Lord

00:35:08.260 --> 00:35:08.640
 I thank

00:35:08.640 --> 00:35:08.880
 you

00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:10.700
 for the

00:35:10.700 --> 00:35:11.200
 strength

00:35:11.200 --> 00:35:11.500
 of his

00:35:11.500 --> 00:35:11.920
 call

00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:13.960
 Lord

00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:14.300
 I pray

00:35:14.300 --> 00:35:14.700
 for his

00:35:14.700 --> 00:35:15.200
 church

00:35:15.200 --> 00:35:17.580
 Lord

00:35:17.580 --> 00:35:18.020
 I pray

00:35:18.020 --> 00:35:18.360
 that the

00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:18.640
 people

00:35:18.640 --> 00:35:19.160
 who think

00:35:19.160 --> 00:35:19.520
 what they

00:35:19.520 --> 00:35:19.920
 think

00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.420
 Lord

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:21.780
 I pray

00:35:21.780 --> 00:35:22.220
 that right

00:35:22.220 --> 00:35:22.580
 now

00:35:22.580 --> 00:35:23.000
 what would

00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:23.420
 happen

00:35:23.420 --> 00:35:25.860
 is not

00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:26.260
 a change

00:35:26.260 --> 00:35:26.540
 in a

00:35:26.540 --> 00:35:26.860
 mindset

00:35:26.860 --> 00:35:27.240
 but a

00:35:27.240 --> 00:35:27.420
 change

00:35:27.420 --> 00:35:27.660
 in their

00:35:27.660 --> 00:35:28.100
 heart

00:35:28.100 --> 00:35:29.420
 Lord

00:35:29.420 --> 00:35:29.700
 that they

00:35:29.700 --> 00:35:30.040
 would be

00:35:30.040 --> 00:35:30.580
 saved

00:35:30.580 --> 00:35:32.240
 first and

00:35:32.240 --> 00:35:32.760
 foremost

00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:34.220
 Lord

00:35:34.220 --> 00:35:34.700
 and from

00:35:34.700 --> 00:35:35.160
 that you

00:35:35.160 --> 00:35:35.880
 would renew

00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:38.600
 the evil

00:35:38.600 --> 00:35:39.500
 pit of

00:35:39.500 --> 00:35:40.080
 racism

00:35:40.080 --> 00:35:41.620
 that indwells

00:35:41.620 --> 00:35:42.140
 in them

00:35:42.140 --> 00:35:44.660
 Lord

00:35:44.660 --> 00:35:45.120
 that comes

00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:45.520
 straight

00:35:45.520 --> 00:35:46.080
 from hell

00:35:46.080 --> 00:35:49.160
 that divides

00:35:49.160 --> 00:35:50.380
 that defeats

00:35:50.380 --> 00:35:51.460
 and that

00:35:51.460 --> 00:35:51.960
 slanders

00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:52.380
 the name

00:35:52.380 --> 00:35:53.020
 of Christ

00:35:53.020 --> 00:35:55.940
 set them

00:35:55.940 --> 00:35:56.300
 free

00:35:56.300 --> 00:36:00.160
 Lord I pray

00:36:00.160 --> 00:36:00.520
 that this

00:36:00.520 --> 00:36:00.920
 morning

00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:03.300
 that we

00:36:03.300 --> 00:36:03.740
 would live

00:36:03.740 --> 00:36:04.460
 like heirs

00:36:04.460 --> 00:36:07.340
 we would

00:36:07.340 --> 00:36:08.160
 cry out

00:36:08.160 --> 00:36:09.500
 what the

00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:09.900
 spirit

00:36:09.900 --> 00:36:10.720
 claims in

00:36:10.720 --> 00:36:11.380
 our heart

00:36:11.380 --> 00:36:12.900
 Abba

00:36:12.900 --> 00:36:13.280
 Father

00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:15.240
 our

00:36:15.240 --> 00:36:15.920
 affection

00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:17.160
 is found

00:36:17.160 --> 00:36:17.660
 in you

00:36:17.660 --> 00:36:18.700
 that our

00:36:18.700 --> 00:36:19.280
 trust

00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:20.260
 is found

00:36:20.260 --> 00:36:20.820
 in you

00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:22.160
 and that

00:36:22.160 --> 00:36:22.560
 no matter

00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:23.840
 what life

00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:24.640
 brings at

00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:25.100
 us

00:36:25.100 --> 00:36:26.380
 no matter

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 what

00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:27.660
 circumstances

00:36:27.660 --> 00:36:28.460
 come

00:36:28.460 --> 00:36:30.720
 that as a

00:36:30.720 --> 00:36:31.300
 little girl

00:36:31.300 --> 00:36:32.060
 runs to her

00:36:32.060 --> 00:36:33.020
 earthly father

00:36:33.020 --> 00:36:33.920
 so too

00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:34.700
 can we

00:36:34.700 --> 00:36:35.100
 as the

00:36:35.100 --> 00:36:35.680
 children of

00:36:35.680 --> 00:36:36.060
 God

00:36:36.060 --> 00:36:36.960
 run to

00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:37.340
 him

00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:38.020
 and Lord

00:36:38.020 --> 00:36:38.660
 you wrap

00:36:38.660 --> 00:36:39.360
 your arms

00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:40.440
 around us

00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:40.880
 Lord

00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:42.080
 you calm

00:36:42.080 --> 00:36:42.940
 the storm

00:36:42.940 --> 00:36:43.420
 Lord

00:36:43.420 --> 00:36:43.940
 sometimes

00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:44.500
 you let

00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:44.980
 the storm

00:36:44.980 --> 00:36:45.720
 keep going

00:36:45.720 --> 00:36:46.300
 but your

00:36:46.300 --> 00:36:46.820
 arms are

00:36:46.820 --> 00:36:47.260
 right there

00:36:47.260 --> 00:36:47.720
 with us

00:36:47.720 --> 00:36:48.140
 and we're

00:36:48.140 --> 00:36:48.880
 not strong

00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:49.360
 because of

00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:49.940
 who we

00:36:49.940 --> 00:36:50.240
 are

00:36:50.240 --> 00:36:50.540
 Lord

00:36:50.540 --> 00:36:50.720
 we're

00:36:50.720 --> 00:36:51.160
 strong

00:36:51.160 --> 00:36:51.420
 because

00:36:51.420 --> 00:36:51.580
 the

00:36:51.580 --> 00:36:51.880
 Abba

00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:52.240
 Father

00:36:52.240 --> 00:36:52.800
 is there

00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:53.560
 with us

00:36:53.560 --> 00:36:57.720
 Lord

00:36:57.720 --> 00:36:57.960
 we can

00:36:57.960 --> 00:36:58.300
 live in

00:36:58.300 --> 00:36:59.000
 boldness

00:36:59.000 --> 00:36:59.920
 for that

00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:01.940
 Jesus

00:37:01.940 --> 00:37:02.480
 we thank

00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:02.700
 you

00:37:02.700 --> 00:37:03.760
 we love

00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:04.080
 you

00:37:04.080 --> 00:37:05.140
 we praise

00:37:05.140 --> 00:37:05.420
 you

00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:06.720
 it's in your name

00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:07.160
 we pray

00:37:07.160 --> 00:37:08.060
 amen

00:37:08.060 --> 00:37:24.980
 thanks again

00:37:24.980 --> 00:37:25.480
 for listening

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