Greg Robinson – Now We Believe- John’s Guide to Growing Our Faith – Class 1 – Will He Find Faith on the Earth?

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This is day one of the 2025
Idyllwild Bible School.

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Our first period teacher is
Brother Greg Robinson.

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His general subject is Now We
believe, John’s Guide to Growing

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our Faith.
Today’s topic.

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Will he find faith on the earth?
It’s an article for Michelle and

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I Michelle and I can do between
this speech.

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They actually did 20 years since
we read Idol Violence last time.

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That’s a long time since we’ve
been here titled that is now we

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believe John’s guide ignoring
our filth.

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I’m going to be using John then
as the basis of growing our

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faith this week and as title of
our class today our first class

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history will keep on faith on
the earth recognize this not

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spoke from John’s but with
John’s help.

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Our goal is to strengthen our
faith so that when the Son of

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man comes, he will indeed find
faith on the earth.

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So that’s what we’re that’s what
our goal is this week.

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So build our faith-based upon
our studies that begin this week

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in the gospel of John and
hopefully you did want as you I

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use the gospel of your own
studies as well.

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So you might be asking, what
does John after you with faith?

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What does John have to do with
belief?

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And the answer to that question
is the word John has involved a

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lot to you is that I would put
to you that John’s Gospel may be

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the best book in the Bible to
help us grow our faith because

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John is looking for actions
between Jesus and other people

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that come away from those
interactions with their faith.

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Happy Wednesday and the
conclusion of those

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interactions.
We frequently hear the phrase he

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believe they believe he
frequently come away with the

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understanding that they actually
came to the lead and Jesus.

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And one of the things that I
love about them is actually see

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those interactions.
What John does is he actually

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spends time with people.
He has conversations with

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people.
He says things to people that

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make them believe.
And if you’re like me, you beat

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those and you think, wow, you
don’t understand me.

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I don’t understand why that
person says that I would be or

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why the, the, the contest says
that they would be.

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And you have to go back and you
have to research it.

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You have to figure it out and
what ends up happening if you

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end up believing almost at the
same time that you’re seeing the

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person that you’re studying from
the and you have that same aha

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moment of belief that they met.
So I find that to be very

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satisfying as we’re looking at
the roster.

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So you might be saying, how do
we know that John wrote his box

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book to help us believe?
How do we know that that’s what

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they see for us.
Why did John praise his nose?

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Well, John actually tells you’re
going to reply to Saint John

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John.
John gives us his mission

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statement.
He gives us precise declaration

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of the purpose of his Gospel.
He gives us this by giving us

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the intention that he has the
writing.

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So John chapter between verse 30
who been served it says and many

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other signs truly did Jesus in
the presence of his examples,

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which are not the municipal but
thieves are written which he

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might believe that Jesus is the
Christ the Son of God and that

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believing he might have liked
his I I love that he gives us

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that I wish that in every book
of the Bible have a verse a

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sentence like that that tells us
what they’re after what they’re

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trying to accomplish what
they’re belong.

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I wish that they they happen
because that was so healthy and

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this is this is such an
incredibly powerful mission

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shape we have.
There’s really almost nothing

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else.
If you didn’t just figure it

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out.
There’s nothing else.

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Jesus is the Christ.
You have to believe that Jesus

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is the Christ, that he’s the
anointed.

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Now there were many people in
the Old Testament that were

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anointed.
There were kings, there were

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priests, there were prophets.
But Jesus is deed anointed.

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He is demon that Braves people
into God.

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And that’s what that was to say.
That’s what that phrase is

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saying.
And then the next one is even

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greater than that one.
He says he is deed Son of God.

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He’s born of the Holy Spirit.
The Son of God is God’s Son

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because he’s developed.
He’s developed the mind, and the

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Son is the Son because God has
given him.

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And John says what I want is for
people to believe that and

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believing that you might have
life.

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He’s talking here about life in
front of them, nobody’s name.

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So he’s showing us that if we
can believe life by that, Jesus

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telling us he’s going to sorry,
John is telling us he’s going to

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show us how Jesus worked with
the people, the Lord of God.

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Now I have a slide here which
gives us a picture of how

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frequent John actually uses this
word, the word belief.

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And this this picture of this
graph is I think you’re going to

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find very surprising if we look
at all the New Testament books.

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So all the places in the New
Testament, we find the Greek

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word for believe, which one has
the word believe in the news?

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It’s John’s.
And it’s it’s by a massive

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amount that John talks about
leaving more than uses that

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word, the Greek word for indeed
more than any of the other books

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underneath destiny only asked is
supposed to you think about

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asking is about that process of
leading, expanding out beyond

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the word of the Lord.
But John focuses on the need for

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us to develop that belief and
helps people who actually look

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through that process.
Well, that’s that compared with

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the other process.
Well, it’s, it’s important here,

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I think for us to do just a
little bit of a study on the

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word faith and the word belief.
What we find is that the word

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believe and the word faith are
really from the same word.

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They really have the same idea
behind them.

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What is the verb?
That’s the believe.

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And that’s how they’re in the
first column.

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And the other one is the noun
form, which is in the second

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column.
And that one is usually

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translated as faith.
So if you’re thinking about

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faith, you’re thinking about
Hebrews 11, Hebrews 11.

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Now faith, that’s the noun form.
It’s the substance of things put

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forth the evidence of things not
seen John 20 verse 31, which is

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look at, but these things are
written that she might believe

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the verb that Jesus in the
Christ Son of God.

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And then believing there is
again the verb form.

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You might have Michael through
his name.

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So as you can see, John, who
uses the verb of his abuse

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gadget for faith is the mound.
He uses it to believe in his

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gospel.
That’s because he’s going to

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take us through the process, the
verb of believing, John, as you

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can see from this chart, if you
combine the the verb in and out

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those together, you’ll see that
John uses the idea of believing.

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That covers the idea of
believing five times more than

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anything ever gospel.
This is what John’s about.

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This is the idea that he might
John, if John is going to work

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hard through the gospel to bring
people to believe, the brave

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people have faith.
And that makes sense because

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he’s working for something in
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The Hebrews tells us it’s
impossible to have that He’s got

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that will happen.
So let’s go back to the 18 just

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for a second, unless we complete
the title of our classic thing.

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Nevertheless, Son of Man coming,
shall he find faith on?

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You know, I remember the person
being that person and I remember

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thinking of it in very general
terms.

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That would come in time when our
faith was challenged and that

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the faith was some people would
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But it seems like today, I don’t
know if it’s this way N Leisure

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and Virgin Unity, but it seems
like today we’re hearing about

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more and more people losing
their faith.

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You hear people say I don’t
believe.

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Sometimes we hear people say,
you know, I never did.

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And often we hear of young
people that decided not to

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become baptized because they
don’t keep.

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So they’re not joining me,
please.

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But I think they have the faith
of all of us.

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It’s being challenged in the
world.

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That would be the good thing.
So these words of Jesus have a

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real relevance to us.
Yeah, there’s a there’s a good

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side to it when you think about
the fact that this explaining

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thing indicates to us the
concern price is near.

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But that’s not what it’s also a
bad sign because it means that

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the bound is upon us.
The bound is here and we’ve got

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to do something about fighting
and so that’s our goal this week

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is to begin that study in John,
go through the first few

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chapters of John looking at how
John does that and to maybe give

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you excitement to continue on
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So we have to have this belief
so that we’re completely

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convinced and that Jesus the
Christ, the Son of God.

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Now I recommend this, we go
through this so how many times

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the word believe is found in the
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I recommend that as we go
through this that you kick out a

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pencil, a highlight or something
and you begin to highlight John

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all the times that you see this
blooming because you’re going to

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see it a lot and you’re going to
say, well, I never noticed that.

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Maybe some of you have, but
you’re going to think this is

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really cool how frequently John
mentions this.

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There’s also some other some
other ideas that you you’ll want

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to.
There’s the idea of testimony

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for testifying because John’s
going to bring information to

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us, the testimonies, John’s
going to bring witnesses in the

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testimony, very solemn this
morning in John the Baptist, the

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first witness that he brings in
to say that he’s son of God.

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And John says that.
So we’re going to look at then

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interactions and I’ll give you
an idea what we’re going to look

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at this week.
Then look tomorrow.

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Lord willing to defend Daniel
has a conversation with Jesus

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and he’s convinced right away
that Jesus is the Son.

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And it’s really, as you’ll see
tomorrow, it’s really, it’s

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amazing because you read it and
you go, how did that happen so

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fast?
And I can really defend the real

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disciples at the bed.
And that Lord, will you meet

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tomorrow as well?
What do you see now?

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So we’re going to look at that
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See, there is a miracle that the
one being turns to wine, which

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brings the disciples to the
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But actually we’re going to look
at the people in Jerusalem.

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They rather Passover, they
sought Jesus miracles and they

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believed.
But what we’re going to see

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there is something missing.
And definitely we’re going to

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look then at Nicodemus.
We’re going to see the Nicodemus

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also have faith, but that there
was something missing in

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Nicodemus.
Now we’re going to look at the

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Samaritan 1 and she believes
when Jesus gets in her face and

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questions her sincerity, that
begins to to convince her to

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take a look at herself and to to
see whether or not she actually

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has the failure.
Tonight we’ll look at the

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nobleman.
Sorry.

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Then we’ll look at the nobleman
and his family.

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Then we’ll look at tonight the
filet man that the Bethesda pool

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for a little bit of time.
And then we’ll finish up on

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Friday building with this cycle
to Jesus.

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So we’re going to go through
these interactions that Jesus

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has with all of these people in
order to learn these things.

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Before we jump into this, let’s
finish a minute understanding

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what the GIMP of belief is.
So belief or faith would love

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those two together is the
ability to see something that

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has not yet happened as if it’s
reading Speaking of things in

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the future we think about and
that sounds like Hebrews Chapter

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11 was 1, doesn’t it?
Faith gives us the desire to out

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as if the future is happening
before our lives.

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So faith brings us to action.
If we have faith, things change

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in us.
We do things differently.

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Our life is going to be
different if we have faith and

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if we’re not changing, then you
should ask person, where is

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faith and do we have faith?
And faith comes from a changed

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way of thinking that comes from
the power.

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So that’s kind of a definition
that we came up with.

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We actually had a ICC session or
two on this a couple of weeks

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ago, and it was really helpful
to finding mistakes.

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Here’s a little bit more
technical one from westward

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states.
They apprehends as a real fact

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what is not revealed to the
census.

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It rests on that fact, acts upon
it, is upheld by it in the face

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of all that seems to contradict
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So.
So people will do things that

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you look at, and if you don’t
know their faith, you don’t

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understand what’s motivating
them to wonder why they’re

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doing.
Faith is real seeing sense.

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I love that it is real seeing.
That’s a division, actually.

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Now all of these definitions
have the idea of a person’s

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thinking being changed, their
vision being changed by

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something other than their
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Then what would that be?
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For us to have that sense, our
senses changed by something or

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for us, it’s the word of God.
It changes the way we see

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everything.
That’s what that’s what we’re

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going to see this so in the
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one way some some fairly
difficult persons to help that

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we had with this morning and
we’re going to follow this idea

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through as we’re going through
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I want you to think about Sean
sitting down and his mission

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here.
His mission is to bring people

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to believe that’s the the intent
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So he gives us an introduction
to that, describing for us how

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God has worked to do that in the
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It says in the beginning was the
word.

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The word was with God and the
word was, you know, the primary

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force in bringing about faith in
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And God says when I started, I
started the word and that’s how

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I reached out to people uses
this brief word logo.

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You should probably look at this
before very frequent we get

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stuck on this verse and the
verse that’s following you who

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they’re talking to people about
God.

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They want to talk to us about
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He uses the word Lotus dear.
It’s a word that has a deeper

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meaning than just words that as
we read this is words that

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express the mind of God.
These are are words that define

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for us the purpose of God.
So there’s much more to the

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words that have the powers of
great faith in us than just

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words.
And as we study the word, that

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becomes so clear to us that it’s
actually, and I love what John

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does.
He presents Jesus as the word

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made flesh.
So it’s like these words are

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actually standing in front of
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They’re actually standing there
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So it takes the the power of
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amps it up.
So it’s actually kind of a

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conversation which really moves
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thinking.
So next verse, verse 2 says the

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same was in the beginning with
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him.
So give an example of the power

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of God’s Word.
God’s word was there because God

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spoke the words about in the
beginning God created the earth

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and he spoke the words which
thought about the creation of

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the earth.
He says the same was in the

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beginning and all things were
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You’ll notice that that I put on
screen it’s instead of him and

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that it is God’s word.
Now, if you do a bit of research

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that you’ll find that if you go
into the brief or the word get

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or him as it’s there within the
E James or in the ESP, you’ll

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find that that word him does not
necessarily need to be

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translated as him.
Now, why would they translate it

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as him in our lives?
And most versions aren’t going

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to be this one.
Why would that be the case?

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Because most people believe in
the tribute, right?

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And so they’re trying to
underline that idea.

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But that’s not necessary.
That’s not required.

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That’s not even suggested, you
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So we have to do the word of God
and all things were made by it,

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by God’s word, and without it
was not anything made that was

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made.
But here’s God’s word, His

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power.
Everything that he did then was

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by His word.
Now, if we think about this

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moving back into the Old
Testament, what we find is that

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in the Old Testament, God
inspired the writers of the Old

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Testament.
With God, this word of life

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inspired them with his word.
He inspired the prophets, He

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inspired James, He inspired all
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When when Moses asked to see
God’s glory, what did God show

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him?
Words.

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But God’s glory was expressed in
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That’s what he showed you.
He showed him his glory.

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So come to verse 4, It says in
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Life was not life’s men.
Here’s something beautiful,

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special without the words of
scripture came from an immortal.

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Isaiah 40 says that because of
that, the words of God

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themselves are immortal.
He says all flesh is grass, but

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the word of our God shall stand
forever.

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So the word of God is itself
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God’s word contains life.
God’s word is the source of what

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you’re telling us.
God’s word shows us God’s mind

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and in US learning God’s mind
and us developing the mind and

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developing character, I would
father we can have life as well.

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And that development is belief,
isn’t it?

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That’s just talking of.
So John tells us that in the

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word us life doesn’t stop there.
He says that that life was the

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light of men, that life was the
light of men.

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That word itself contained
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It gives understanding.
It’s it’s the light which

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contains eternal life.
The whole bone and eternal life

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became a light and the
understanding of it became a

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light man.
The people that believed in the

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living God had the opportunity
then to have your own life.

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They saw everything.
They believed in a completely

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different world.
You could say that they saw

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everything in a completely
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They ever use the black light.
You ever turned all the lights

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out in the room or something,
The dark room and you turned on

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the black light.
When you see, you see things

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differently than you had ever
seen there before in your room,

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right?
You see all those white things

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that are in your room.
You can all the lid that’s on

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the carpet.
You see that light up in the

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room and you can see this.
That’s what faith it’s like for

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us.
It’s like turning on that black

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light and all of a sudden we can
see.

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Maybe we can see the angels in
this world, we can see God

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working.
We can see those sins that are

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actually in the process of God
working to bring us to life.

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Selling it said that
understanding and then believing

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in eternal life is the light.
Then if we believe, if we can

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believe those things, so he saw
it, that’s what God was after.

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That’s what God was.
But if we don’t believe, we’re

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in darkness and we can’t see
very much of anything at all.

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See just what we see with the
senses.

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What God’s abandoned was to
bring people to money.

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That’s what Hebrews 11 is
leveling up.

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So let’s find we can talk about
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Let’s go to Hebrews Chapter 11
and see if you can see John’s

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ideas here coming from Hebrews
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Faith is the substance or the
confidence that things vote for.

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It’s the evidence of things not
seen.

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Yeah, we get it.
That makes the most sense.

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It’s things we can see because
we believe, which we wouldn’t

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have been able to see without
that need.

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That belief came from the word
of God.

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We wouldn’t have had any, any
vision at all, any ability to

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see it at all without our
understanding of the word of

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God, he says.
Now faith is a substitute for

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confidence that they vote for
the evidence of things not seen

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that visibility came from my
father.

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For by it’s faith stalking right
here the elder obtained a good

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report ESP says for by it people
the old received their

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commendation.
So because of old people could

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see by faith God wanted to give
them from the life they saw that

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they believed and God Christ
their name so that they could

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vote the faith by the chapter of
the faith, every answer to verse

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13, verse 11.
It says these all died faith not

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having received the promises and
you do having your life is God

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and promised it to them.
But it was promised that they

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will lead they it says having
seen them afar off, they lead in

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those states.
They could see the light of the

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light of belief which came from
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You know, there’s a there’s a
progression in them.

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So they’re persuaded of them.
So they go from from seeing to

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to to now being persuaded, being
convinced of them and then next

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and they embrace them.
What does it mean to embrace?

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So they got to a point they,
they, they put their arms

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around, they embraced and they
crapped forward, right?

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Because their belief was so
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Those promises to them were as
if they weren’t.

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I mean, that gave you the
ability to change their life.

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It says they confess that they
strangers and pilgrims.

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There were people that weren’t
concerned about this one.

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We’re seeing some people that
are studying this week and

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people that really weren’t
concerned about us.

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And they went on to bigger and
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First John chapter 1 OK, so this
is the epistle of John now

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chapter 1 Chow and we’re going
to see this idea that John

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expands it in his epistle.
First John chapter one in verse

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one, it says that which was from
the beginning which we have

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heard something like John on the
scene in the beginning was word

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God’s plans for eternal life.
They heard it in God’s Word, and

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then John says, which we have
seen without eyes, which we have

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looked upon and then flashed
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That sounds like this sense of
downplaying Eurism.

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So why does John make that
change for something that was

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seen in the future that they can
only see with faith?

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Why does he change that here?
He’s changing that because he’s

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talking about which he’s this is
the man that was finally given

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eternal life.
This is the life that that that

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everybody was looking for.
This is the the life of life.

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John 71 And he says concerning
the word of life, he says verse

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2, he says, and the life was
made manifest.

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So the life was was made
manifest and we have seen it

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talking about what Jesus wants
and we testified to him and we

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proclaimed to the eternal.
So here’s John.

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He’s ready one of the last posts
of the Bible.

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He’s one of the last people
around that’s actually seen an

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immortal man, a man that he
spent three years with probably

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maybe more.
And he’s now seeing this man as

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an important there’s some wits
of that.

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I see him touching him.
I I’m telling you, he’s been one

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time and so the promises that
God made about that are coming

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dreams, he says, which was with
the father and was made

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manifest.
So we have this incredible

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sequence that John gives us in
first few 1st and John leaves

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chapter one.
The first few verses he talks

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about the fact that God started
out trying to help people

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believe with His word.
He sent his word, He sent His

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word to all those people, all
those different ways to people

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to try to get them beat and he
met with some success, but later

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on to summon them up.
There was really an obstacle to

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God’s there was an almost
universal problem that God’s

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plan to bring to evil and that
was that most people remained in

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Congress.
Most people didn’t see for what

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they didn’t develop fate that
was in the system.

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They never thought about it from
them, but it did change their

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they didn’t change them in any
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So John von plus 5 back in the
Gospel of John says in the light

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shineth in the darkness.
Here’s God where shining is home

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of eternal life.
It’s in the darkness.

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What did the darkness see?
The darkness, the darkness

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didn’t see.
Hold on picture God working hard

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to get people to see generation
after generation generation from

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your vestment sending his life
giving word from all these

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people.
But most people, those people

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don’t grab hold of that thing.
That is almost a perfect summary

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of the old lesson John is
writing his father that say, but

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guess what, there’s more to the
story.

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That’s what we’re going to see
to speak.

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You look at verse 10.
It says God was in the book.

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It was made by his word.
Verse 11 says he came to his own

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in Israel.
He worked with Israel his own

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Muslim.
I have why did this save in

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darkness.
Certainly Second Corinthians

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shepherd, second Corinthians
shepherd or gives us the reason

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why that couldn’t happen, didn’t
happen for people.

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Paul’s talking about the same
thing.

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He’s talking about the gospel.
What’s the gospel?

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It’s the good news of Kingdom of
God, good news of eternal month.

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So Second Corinthians chapter 4
verse 3, it says, but if our

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gospel be his, they say to those
it is same topic, same thing.

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He explains why the gospel is
the next verse.

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He says in whom the God of this
world has blinded the minds of

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them, which will be Paul says
there’s something he calls the

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God of this world which has
completely blinded people left

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people in darkness has the
ability right now to erode those

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people that have erode that
faith that they continues.

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They believe not bless the light
of the glorious gospel of Christ

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because the huge God should
shine.

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So what is it What is it that
sought God’s word for

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accomplishing what it could have
been called the new investment.

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Why aren’t there 100 Hebrews 11
chapters.

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Why are they so people?
Because the God of this world,

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in those sins, what would you
say is the God of this world?

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What would you say for the gods
this will get if they’re

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covered?
Yes, absolutely.

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Yeah, Ourselves.
Ourselves, absolutely.

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I’ve got a list here.
I’ll throw them up, print them

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up here as we go.
And this is not extensive, it’s

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not complete this list, but this
gives us an idea of what slots

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they put in it.
And we want to block all those

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people.
Faith, people’s faith in the

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openness, ambition, coward, well
position, family, sexual

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desires, social beliefs,
science.

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This is the challenge that we
face is overcoming the gods of

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this world.
So here we are.

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We’re a group of people that
have come to Bible school and

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our hope is our intent is to
increase our faith.

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Our lives would be would be so
much more wonderful.

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We didn’t have war.
We all do greetings.

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And yet we have the gods of this
world that stand right in the

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way of that ambition, that door
God of the God of this book.

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Let’s go back to John.
Sorry, Gentle 1.

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You’re turning that up a little.
Just talk a little bit about

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school.
One of the things that I’ve

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noticed in in my life in trying
to to develop one thing, it

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comes from the word of God, from
the question about one of the

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things that I’ve noticed that
I’ve spent time trying to build

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my faith and I’ve spent time in
the word of God and I’ve noticed

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that nothing was changing.
Somebody experienced that you’re

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actually reading the word,
you’re studying the word and

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maybe it’s not having an impact
on me.

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I experienced that and I felt
that and most times when I felt

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that what I realized they said
that this that we just still on

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the screen.
The fact this was from standing

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in front of my All right, so
let’s go back to John.

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We’re looking at verse 11 now.
Well, it says he that has gone

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came through his own.
His own received him not but as

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many as received him.
There was somebody there that he

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got work.
There were some that were

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blinded to them.
He gave power to become the sons

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of the dead, gave them out to
live for him.

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The word for art, I believe, he
says even to them they believe

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Christine.
He describes the process he

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says, which were born not of
blood nor the will of the flesh

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nor the will of God that they
were born born of his living

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word being planted into their
mouths when they believed began

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to bring about changing them.
These people became a part of a

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completely new creation.
These people were born again to

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a new friend and so upon living
family that ultimately lives.

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It’s astonishingly.
Then the next chapter begins the

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chapter that we’re going to
focus on.

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That’s John’s introduction.
Then John tells us in verse 14

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and the word God said his son
and God’s son lived up to and

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God’s son showed us God son
wealthy among us and we begin at

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the yell is the glory as a field
we become with grace more than

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we begin looking at the word gay
flesh and we’re going to look at

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this conversation and we’re
going to watch Nathaniel have a

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conversation with the word gay
flesh while he was thinking

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about the word and we’re going
to see almost an instantaneous

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change on on the thing the news
that Jesus all right, so

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takeaways for our class today.
Our small God’s plan is the same

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thing.
That’s his intent.

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That’s what he wants to do.
That’s what Jesus came to help

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us with.
He gave us His word to help

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accomplish this.
They give us a son.

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They help us.
I’m kiss.

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But there’s a challenge.
But for most the gods of this

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world have walked the faith
necessarily or salvation.

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That’s the challenge we all
face.

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That’s what the Old Testament
story is, most faceless

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challenge.
Our challenge is to strengthen

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our thing to overcome.
All right, I have one word for

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you.
So what I’d like you to do the

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next day or two is if you would
come up to me and tell me about

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a certain passage or a certain
character of the Bible that has

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really helped you to develop.
You maybe can tell me why that

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is.
Just going to kind of make a

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list of some of those people and
I’ll share that in my class.

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This way he would do that and
help you to put that list

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together.
Very helpful to me and give us

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an opportunity to have something
to to talk about and all we can

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do.
So thank you very much.