221: Steve Cheetham – Exhortation: The Image Of The Father

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Welcome to the good
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This is brother Brian.
This week’s talk is an

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excitation that was given by
Brother.

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Steve Cheatham at the Moorestown
New Jersey, Ecclesia just a few

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weeks ago, The eggs are it was
titled the image of the father

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and the focus is on how we are
all made in the image of the

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father.
But are we showing that to

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others?
Is that what we think of when we

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treat and interact with other
people?

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Is that what we see in ourselves
when we look in the mirror and

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truly examine ourselves?
Probably not but despite what we

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see in the mirror that is not
what we should be either

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glorifying or be tripped up by
That in order to maintain this

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image, we obviously need to
avoid sin and temptation but

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were plagued by poor
self-control.

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Thus, we acutely understand the
chasm that exists within all of

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us, there is a desire to do,
right?

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But the inability to fulfill it.
So as brother Steve says, Don’t

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let that though.
Keep you away from praying.

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Don’t let that stop you from
coming to meeting.

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Don’t let that make you think
that you are Unworthy of God’s

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image?
that by consistently meeting

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together and marching together
as the Apostle Paul alludes to

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We show God that we want to be a
part of him and that we wish to

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be seen as Jesus is viewed.
The mirror image of the father.

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P ends with a great reference
about our God.

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Is it becoming God and that how
by our weekly meeting together

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as an outward showing of a
desire to become a part of our

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God recognizing that we Are Made
In His Image?

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Even if what we feel we show is
tarnished or poor reflection.

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So as always, we hope this
strengthens your faith and

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brightens your day brother.
Steve Cheatham, the image of the

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father.
Good morning, everyone.

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I want to thank you personally
for your prayers on my behalf.

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It’s really nice to be here with
you and to actually be standing

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before you.
That is quite a blessing.

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So thank you.
I have a mirror here.

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And apparently it’s broken.
It’s not the glass.

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The problem is every time I look
into it.

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I see my own reflection and
that’s a problem.

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It’s not good.
It’s not the image that I want

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to see reflected especially
here, Sunday morning when we

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consider our Lord, which we’ve
just sung of.

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And before I go on, I just want
to thank our pianist for that

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last 10, which she’s been
learning all week, it really

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sums up what we’re going to be
talking about Christ, Our Glory,

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Christ in US.
So, we’re going to be talking

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about Reflections and images
this morning.

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And we’re going to start at a
very odd passage, its Genesis 9

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verse 6, and I’ll read it to
you, Genesis 9 verse 6.

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Whoso sheddeth man’s blood.
By man shall his blood be shed?

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For in the image of God made he
man.

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Now we would read over that very
quickly but think about what

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that verse is saying and what it
really is when you think about

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it, It’s the whole doctrine of
Christ’s teaching in the New

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Testament, of Jesus, and the
apostles.

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And this funny little verse in
Genesis 9.

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Do you think about it?
Jesus said, love your enemies.

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Love your neighbor as yourself.
Do good to all men.

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If a man strike you, when your
right cheek, give them your

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left, too.
Pray for them that despitefully

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use you whosoever compelled you
to go.

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A mile, go with him two.
Now, you might ask yourself if

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you heard the Lord teaching
this, well, why should I do good

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to these people?
They’re taking advantage of me.

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I don’t even like them.
What were you thinking some of

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the other teachings of the New
Testament of Our Lord, go sell

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all that you have and give to
the poor or when they’ll make us

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to Feast call the poor, the
maimed, the lame, and the Blind.

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And again, you might say, well,
why should I do this Lord?

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And Genesis 9 verse 6 is the
answer.

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It’s because all of them are
made in the image of God.

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Not just us here.
But those outside, we are all

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made in the image of the father.
And for that reason, alone, we

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treat all men with respect and
honor.

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Now, let me give you an example.
It might be a little silly but

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but it really illustrates it.
If you were to Google when your

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phone, how do you handle a flag
from the United States?

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Or how do you dispose?
Of United States flag, you would

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almost be shocked at how
detailed and extensive that list

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is for handling a piece of
cloth.

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And the whole reason is, it’s to
show respect to acknowledge what

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it represents.
How much more Our Father in

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heaven?
The one who made each one of us.

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Consider how this word images
used in Genesis?

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Somebody found three times.
Genesis 1:27.

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We all know.
So God created, man in his own

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image, in the image of God,
created him at the very start of

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creation.
God sets the standard, all of

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you are in my image.
And that’s to us, that was until

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an Adam and Eve what was going
on.

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That passage is written to the
readers.

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Genesis 5 verse 3, Adam bore a
son Seth and what’s different

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here, scripture points out, Seth
was in Adams image, not the

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image of the Lord.
And the last place in Genesis,

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the word images used is.
We’re told not to kill because

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all mankind is in the image of
the father And just a little

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footnote, just a little Thai
things in later.

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Why does Genesis 5 talk about
Seth being in Adams image and

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not the father’s image?
It’s because God’s image had

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become marred.
Seth inherited a disobedient

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nature from Adam.
Seth’s birth was the direct

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result of his brother, killing
his other brother Cain, rising

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up and killing Abel.
And why?

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Because able reflected the image
of God and Cain did not and so

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that you call it a broken
nature.

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A marred nature was handed down
to Seth.

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And then after all mankind had
been destroyed by the flood.

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Only righteous Abel only
righteous Noah and his small

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family of emerged from the ark
and it’s another new beginning.

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And so the principle is laid
down for a new generation.

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That you are all created in the
image of God.

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Now the issue the struggle I
think from the beginning is

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making our insides match, our
outsides, the clerk down in

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7-Eleven is in the image of God.
But I can’t speak for internally

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of his character and his being
and see.

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That’s why I don’t like the
mirror instead of reflecting the

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Son of God, instead of
reflecting the father, it still

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reflects me and that’s something
I Need to deal with as do you,

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and, and it really brings it to
Sunday morning, doesn’t it?

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Think about Paul’s words,
concerning the emblems before us

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and surprisingly, he picks up
this theme. 1st Corinthians,

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11:28.
But let a man examine himself

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and so let him eat of that bread
and drink of that cup.

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Kane forgot, whose image, he was
and because of that, only

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sorrowful followed.
But here this morning brothers

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and sisters, we think of the
image.

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We are to follow to have an us.
We think of the image we should

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be.
When we look at the emblems, the

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bread and the wine.
And it’s actually a bigger issue

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in the Brotherhood among
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In Colossians 1:15.
Speaking of Jesus.

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It speaks of who is the image of
the invisible?

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God, we’re going to get back to
the emblems in a moment.

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Who is the image?
Of the invisible.

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Now.
How can you make an image of

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something that’s invisible?
Isn’t that impossible?

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You think a dams talk a few
weeks ago where he is talking

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about?
His plans and the image.

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It is mind of building this
Podium and how he took something

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that was on paper until it’s
been realized it in a physical

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form which I’m standing behind.
How would an have done making

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this if his pattern was
invisible?

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It’s a tall order.
Isn’t it?

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Can you make an image of
something that’s invisible?

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It is impossible. if we were
trying to make an image, If we

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were trying to make a
representation and then fill it

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in shape, it sand, it paint it
stain it, and present it before

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you like the podium.
And see that desire to see the

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outward is the problem.
The Apostle Philip made the same

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mistake and John 14.
Verse 8, Philip says, Lord let

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us see the father and we have
need of nothing more.

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That’s not what Philip needed.
Philip needed to see the

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invisible, the real essence of
the father, not the physical.

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And Jesus said, have I been with
you so long and you haven’t seen

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it.
Right now, I’m looking at about

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50 faces.
All of you.

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Our representative of our
father, all of us were made in

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His image are young or old male,
female children, teens.

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Middle-aged seniors were all
here.

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And even those outside the wall
are made in the outward image of

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the father.
But we all know that doesn’t

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matter.
It’s what’s inside.

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It’s the invisible, which we
need to be seeking Greek says,

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the Greek word says that which
cannot be seen with your eyes,

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Philip thought seeing the
external was enough and it

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wasn’t So if I asked you then
now that we’re thinking of the

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n-word draw me a picture of
love.

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Draw me a picture of Julie.
I asked my Sunday school

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students.
Can you draw me a picture of

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glory and mercy, you can’t,
they’re abstract Concepts, but

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what you can do to illustrate it
is, you can illustrate love a

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picture that shows love, it,
shows this affects it shows,

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love in action, or Mercy or
kindness or goodness.

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We can show the effects of it.
You can’t draw a concept.

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Depth.
So how do we see it?

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John 14, verse 9, Jesus said, as
we kind of alluded to he that

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hath seen me set this to Phillip
hath.

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Seen the father wasn’t the
outward, but the heart, the

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soul, the spirit, Jesus
represented, the father. and so

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now when we go back to the
emblems that passage, I read

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earlier, Let a man examine
himself.

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And let him eat of that bread
and drink of that cup.

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You know, that little passage
has caused more problems.

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Because you might be feeling at
this morning, you come here this

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morning and you’ve examined
yourself and you really feel

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unworthy.
Some brothers and sisters stop

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coming to meeting because they
can’t examine themselves

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honestly.
And live with it to live with

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that image that they see.
And they actually stay away from

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the bread and the wine they stay
away from other brothers and

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sisters who were trying to be
like the father and that’s a

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problem.
Now, I’ve Heard lots of

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explanations of that, let a man
examine himself, but I’m going

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to suggest to you, the easiest,
Is right there in Corinthians.

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If we just let Corinthians
interpret Corinthians and second

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Corinthians 13, verse 5, we read
Examine yourselves.

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Whether ye be in the faith.
Prove your own selves know ye

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not that your own selves, how
that Jesus Christ is in.

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You see at the table of the
Lord, This is where we

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acknowledge.
This is where we desire is.

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We’ve just some, even our
opening hymn filled thou, my

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heart O Lord, with praise.
This is where we acknowledge our

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failings, and we pray for the
Lord to fill us.

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This is where we recognize that
Jesus is working in us that he

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wants to work in us and to be in
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This is where we Show brothers
and sisters that we want to be

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part of that, glorious body.
You know, despite the week you

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may have had whether it was good
or bad.

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The bottom line is you’re here
because you want to renew your

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commitment.
You desire to stay in the body

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of Our Lord.
Being here is the proof.

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So, Paul to the Ephesians says,
Be ye renewed in the spirit of

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your mind and, and the key word
there is the word, renewed.

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It implies something that
slipping something that needs to

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be strengthened something that
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And here’s where we identify
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And try to deal with it in the
week to come.

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Here’s the crooks when we’ve had
a bad week, we may not feel like

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we can break bread and that’s
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Galatians 5:17 and listen
carefully.

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We’re going to come back to this
verse this is from Weymouth

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translation Galatians 5:17.
For the craving of our lower

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nature, or opposed to those of
the spirit. and the Cravings of

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the spirit or opposed to those
of the lower nature because

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these Are antagonistic to each
other.

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We all understand Cravings,
right?

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Could be as simple as wanting,
another potato chip.

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We know that Cravings like
gravity can pull us.

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If we allow it away from the
father, Cravings can pull us

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away from the body, the path
that were walking on.

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And so as we talk about our week
in our failings or need to try

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again, I’d like to share a
secret with you.

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A true secret and maybe it’ll be
a little eye-opening for you.

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None of us.
None of us have the

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self-control.
We wish we had.

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We think we should have None of
us.

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You look around.
I brothers and sisters who you

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think are strong?
And they don’t have the

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self-control.
They wish they had, I don’t You

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know, in a study that I just
read, it’s been shown that

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almost everyone.
And I just got to put the almost

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in there, but I’m going to say,
Everyone has the same level of

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self-control which in the end is
very poor.

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We probably can thank Adam for
that.

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We all have the same level of
self-control, but here’s the

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difference in their studies.
When they tested people, who

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said they had strong
self-control, they were good at

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not giving into something.
Here’s the difference, those

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people who thought they had good
self-control what they really

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found was it wasn’t self-control
but they were good at staying

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away from the desires.
That’s what they were good at.

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They were good at avoiding
things that would lead them to

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give in and that’s why they
thought they had good

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self-control when they put all
the strong people who thought

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they have self-control and all
the people like me who have weak

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self control in the same room.
Studied them.

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They all failed.
They all had poor self-control.

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The difference is knowing to
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I find that powerful.
And so, whatever my issues were

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last week, if I just take the
biggest one in, start dealing

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with it, start avoiding
situations, where that happens,

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I might appear to have good
self-control but I know better.

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I’m just avoiding the sin when I
tell that story, I think about

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Lloyd who was way ahead of his
time and he told a story of mrs.

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Got rocks.
I’m just going to tell it to

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you.
Briefly because it just

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illustrates it better than I
can.

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She was a very wealthy Widow and
she needed a driver and she had

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three candidates and She
interviewed all three.

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And at the end of each interview
with the three candidate, she

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asked him.
This question.

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I know a lot of, you know, the
story, but she said up on

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Cemetery Ridge.
How close can you get your tires

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to the edge, obviously, without
going off?

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The first man said I can get my
tires rate on the white line and

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write it all the way around that
curve with no problem.

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This is gotrocks.
So she thanked him asked all the

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normal questions to the second
and finish with that.

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Same question up on Cemetery,
Ridge.

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How close can you get your tires
to the edge without going over

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because I can get half the tire
off the edge with?

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No trouble mrs.
Got rocks.

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So she thanked him, third
candidate, all the normal

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questions in the interview and
finally, she ended it with up on

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Cemetery Ridge.
How close can you get your tires

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to the edge without going over?
And the answer was, I’ve never

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tried.
Who do you think got the job

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said, Uncle Bob?
It’s the one who avoided it.

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How simple lesson that is to
keep us with God’s image intact

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in US?
Avoid the Temptations.

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That’s what self-control really
is.

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So if you’ve struggled last
week, Don’t beat yourself up.

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The simplest way forward is to
identify your Temptations, and

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then take them on one at a time.
Learn the best way to avoid it,

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you know, an alcoholic learns,
when he’s recovering you go

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home, a different route, you
will avoid the bar.

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You avoid the friends that bring
you to the bar, whatever it is

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that gets you into drinking
again.

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You just avoid it.
Some people move.

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Some people have changed jobs
because they want to avoid a

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Temptation that they think is
destructive.

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How much more should we?
So this morning, we talked about

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self-control and our need to
recalibrate fix the things that

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have been slipping. but let’s
get back to that verse in

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Galatians and I’m going to read
it now from the King James Think

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about what he’s telling us.
Galatians 5:17 for the flesh,

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lusteth against the spirit, and
the spirit against the flesh.

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So, let’s talk about desires and
Cravings.

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Once more, you either think of
yourself or you think of someone

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else who’s in the midst of
really craving something,

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whether it’s a potato chip, or
whether it’s alcohol or

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something else, a substance that
they’re addicted to get that

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image in your mind of somebody
who’s craving something.

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All right, so just give that a
minute.

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Think about how strong that
craving is.

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You have it in your mind, you’re
ready?

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The power of that craving.
We just read is the same power

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that God, craves you.
That same craving, somebody has

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for a substance is the same.
Craving says Paul to the

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Galatians that the father has
towards you to bring you here to

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save you, to fill you with his
glory, that same almost

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desperate craving for you.
Is what Paul says, the father

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has towards us.
How could we not want to be part

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of his body?
What are reason to avoid

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Temptation and our own
weaknesses.

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The father wants you.
So badly says, Paul, he’s

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craving you so when you sin
knowing that don’t you think

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that if you pray to the father
to help remove the first

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Temptation you’re dealing with
That he’s not going to help.

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I’ll do anything to save you.
Put it to him in prayer again

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and again.
All the things that trip us up

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that make us slip that need
recalibration and our spiritual

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Minds.
Put to the father in prayer.

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And he will answer you and when
he starts helping you do your

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best to avoid going back work
with the father because he’s

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they’re working with you.
The more we fill our image with

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God’s character.
The better, our decisions down

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the road will be, we will become
more like him.

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We will think more like him.
Talking about a mirror.

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Think of what Paul wrote to the
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Its first Corinthians, 13:12
Paul’s talking about a mirror

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and think about what he’s
saying, First Corinthians 13:12

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for now we see in a mirror
Darkly, but then face to face,

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You see what Paul is saying?
He’s saying his mirrors just as

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clouded his mind just as broken,
it’s dark.

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All I see is me.
Not the father.

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And that’s all Paul saw.
His mirror was dark, it was not

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a clear reflection.
Paul struggled with the things

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were struggling with. but he
tells us how to overcome and

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Paul followed his own advice.
Paul said, we need to be led by

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the spirit.
And in Galatians 5:25, he says,

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we need to walk in the spirit.
And and here’s the other thing,

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we all together, our images of
the father, But Galatians says,

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not only do we walk as
individuals to the kingdom that

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word, walk means to be drawn up
into a line together.

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Paul saying we are all marching
following the spirit together.

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Never think you’re alone.
We are all marching together.

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Says Galatians 5:25.
We’re not alone.

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We bear each other’s burdens.
We lift each other up because we

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are all walking to the kingdom
together.

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And that’s why we need to be
here.

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You know, I spent weeks at home
watching this And it’s not the

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same as being here in person.
It just isn’t when you’re here,

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you truly feel like you’re
walking together.

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You’re listening to each other,
you’re strengthening each other,

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just by being here, just by
talking about a week behind and

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the week that’s coming up. and
if we’re walking in the spirit,

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we’re making progress.
We’re moving forward.

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We are all moving forward
together, leaving or

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difficulties behind.
And finally, I want to give you

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one more help.
You’re all familiar with the

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proverb as a man thinketh in his
heart.

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So is he?
I read a lot and science has

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just proven that.
What Solomon said is true as a

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man thinketh in his heart.
So is he?

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There’s a study can.
Sorry, I’m showing I like to

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read a lot.
The study was entitled words can

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change your brain by dr.
Andrew Newberg.

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Words like love peace.
Happiness.

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When you use those words
yourself, when you say those

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words yourself, you actually
trigger the brain to take you

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down that path.
Your brain, really loose

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releases chemicals, that
support, that mindset, that

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support the words you’re using
and just the opposite.

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When you use negative words that
the fear section of your brain,

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I won’t bother pronouncing it.
Because I can’t but the fear

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centers then triggered and the
chemicals that support fear and

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stress are released in your
body.

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Just by the words, you were
saying happy words and they’ve

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looked at the blood and the
chemicals are released to

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support it nervous.
Calm fearful words and your body

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goes that direction.
Isn’t it amazing?

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As a man thinketh in his heart.
So is he?

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What words are you filling your
brain with?

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whether you say them or you’re
watching on the screen and it

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says, if you were there, Are you
saying words that will lead you

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to the kingdom to the mindset of
Our Lord?

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Are you filling your image with
that?

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Are you filling up with things?
That draw us away.

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I would love for us all to start
tomorrow morning with these

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words.
I can do all things through

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Christ, Jesus, who strengthens
me.

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And so brothers and sisters the
table before us reminds us that

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we’re all part of Jesus.
Our brothers and sisters and our

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young people sitting around you
this morning, should remind you

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that you’re not alone.
That each one of us are in it

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together.
The people outside the Wolves

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here who bear, God’s image?
Should remind us that they need

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help.
That they need to reflect not

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themselves, but the father and
we can start breathing those

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words into them.
Brothers and sisters.

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When you come here this morning,
it shows your commitment to

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belong to Jesus body.
It shows your need to share the

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emblems to fill yourself as it
were symbolically with our Lord.

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This morning.
You should remember that none of

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us are good enough.
That we all fail, but we all

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need to press on and not give
up. and maybe the last lesson

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that I find the most important
is Your heavenly father, truly

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wants you to be part of him.
Not with him, but to share his

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nature and to share that, with
his Immortal sun, he will

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forgive you anything.
If you just put it to him, You

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know, I when I finish this, I
thought of the words of brother

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galette brother, Dennis galette
and he said, in a little

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passage, our God is a becoming
God.

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And that’s actually what the
name of the Lord means.

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I will be in whom I will be God
is growing, he’s becoming more

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bread and the wine we showed him
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